Latest / Scary Stories Hub / October Evenings Where Fear Arrived Early

Transcript

October Evenings Where Fear Arrived Early · Scary Stories Hub

• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Fall had just started, and around here the weather becomes
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: cool and breezy, and in my opinion, it's the best
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: type of weather. It's definitely my favorite season, and last
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: year it was no different. Around early October, I went
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: out and bought some Halloween decorations before work one day,
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: planning to set them up outside once I got home.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Due to a coworker calling off, though, I had to
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: stay late and didn't get out until seven, I drove
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: home as quickly as I could and started getting to work.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: It was kind of dark out, but with my outdoor
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: lights on it wasn't too bad. I started with setting
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: up the orange lights on my bushes, and as I did,
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: some guy came around the side of my house. He
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: startled me, just walking up without saying a word. I
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: found it kind of rude, so I made sure to
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: tell him off. Hey, you're on my property. Can you leave?
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: The guy looked at me with a straight face and
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: said sure thing, and started wandering down to the road.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: He looked forty with short brown hair, and the way
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: he was acting was almost like he was homeless or something.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: He had no care in the world and seemed to
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: have no direction. I continued with setting up the lights,
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: but I couldn't help but notice that the man never
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: really left. He was on the other side of the road,
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: wandering around, and several times I even caught him looking
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: over at me. It was really creepy, and I ended
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: up just going inside after finishing the lights. I had
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: no idea who this guy was or what he was
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: doing by my house. I tried to tell myself it
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: was just some harmless, homeless man with no sense of boundaries,
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: and went on with my night. I made dinner and
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: went up to my room to watch some TV in bed.
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: As I was upstairs, I heard something below me. It
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: sounded like something slowly sliding on the ground. I paused
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: the TV, but I couldn't hear it anymore. On any
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: normal day, I probably wouldn't even check it out, But
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: having seen that guy earlier, I just had a weird feeling,
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: so I got up and walked downstairs. Strangely, I noticed
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: right away that all the lights were off, which I
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: could have sworn I didn't turn off yet. I walked
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: a little further and into the hallway, flicking on the
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: overhead light, then stopping to listen again. It was still quiet, however,
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: there was a low ambient noise. It was wind howling
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: through the rooms. I moved up to the back of
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: the house, where I could now see the sliding back
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: door was wide open. I felt my stomach tighten, knowing
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: that's exactly what I heard from upstairs, someone slowly opening
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: the back door. At this point, I wasn't sure if
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: I should just run out of the house or run
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: back upstairs to get my phone. The answer is probably
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: obvious now, but in the moment it was hard to
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: think straight. I wasn't even sure if someone had actually
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: entered my home or not. I felt my adrenaline pumping
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: as I called out, Hello, who's there. I walked up
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: to the door and looked outside quickly, not seeing anyone.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: I then turned back around and somehow I managed to
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: spot the fame outline of a person standing in the
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: other room, completely covered by darkness. I let out a
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: literal gasp when I saw them, and by doing that,
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: I think I unintentionally showed them that their cover was blown,
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: because immediately after he came running at me, I only
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: saw him in the light for a fraction of a
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: second before running out the door, but I was sure
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: it was the same man I saw outside. As I
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: ran through my backyard, I could hear his footsteps catching
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: up behind me. I ran up to the closest house
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: and started banging on the door, screaming for help. Luckily,
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: they opened up somewhat quickly, and as I entered their home,
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: the man stood in their front yard and just stared
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: me down. We called the cops, but the guy had
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: run off. It's pretty clear that while I was at
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: work that day, the man had broken the lock on
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: my door. Then during the night he tried to sneak
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: inside my home. Had I not heard the door opening
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: or not noticed him hiding in the dark, who knows
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: what he would have done that night. My family owns
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: a huge plot of land full of trees, and on
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: the edge of the property they built a cabin. Compared
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: to the main house, it feels a lot more closed
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: off in the woods. This year, I took a trip
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: up there around the end of October to see my
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: parents and siblings. With the house being full, I volunteered
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: to stay at the cabin for the few days I
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: was there. This was the first day I arrived on
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: the property. There wasn't a driveable road to get to
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: the cabin at the main house. All I had was
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: a light backpack with my stuff, and I was only
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: really planning on sleeping at the cabin, so I didn't
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: bother making a trip there just to drop my bag off.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: Around five, we had what I guess was a small party,
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: as it was the first time in a while that
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: all of us were together. We had some food and
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: drinks and shared updates on our lives. It was a
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: good time, but it definitely wore out my energy. After
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: a few hours, I told them I was going to
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: head out to the cabin for the night and get
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: ready for bed, so I threw my backpack on and
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: left through the back door. The trail to get there
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: was very thin. It was about a ten minute walk.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought about the dark though. There were
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: no lights or anything along the trail, so I had
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: to put on my phone light just to see where
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: I was stepping. A little ways down, I randomly heard
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: a stick snap behind me. I turned and looked at
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: the path, but my phone light was awful and barely
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: lit up anything. I figured it was nothing and kept walking.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: Only a couple seconds later, though I heard it again.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: It was like as soon as I started walking. Something
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: behind me started walking too, like I was being followed.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: Who's out there, Alex, I know it's you, Not funny bro,
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: I called out, hoping it was just my brother being annoying.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: I knew if it was him, though, he would have
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: been cracking up by now. I felt really uneasy as
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: the suspense of not being able to see anything really
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: started getting to me. I kept walking, moving faster now.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: I heard leaves crunch several times as I continued making
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: my way to the cabin, though I didn't turn around,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: knowing I wouldn't see anything anyway. I hoped it was
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: just my mind playing tricks on me. Maybe I drank
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: a little too much. Whatever it was, I didn't want
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: to be out in the woods any longer, so I
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: hurried and finally made it to the cabin. I unlocked
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: the door and got in, locking it behind me. After
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: tossing my bag on the floor, I rubbed my face
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: out of stress of whatever I just experienced, and just
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: then a subtle sound came from the other side of
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: the door. It was someone turning the knob and trying
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: to open it, and right after they figured out it
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: was locked, they banged on it. Not just knocks, like
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: full on hitting the door. I almost fell over just
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: from the jump scare of it. They kept banging on
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: the door, though, and with nothing else to do, I
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: walked up and looked out the thin window on the
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: side of the door to see who it was. When
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: I did, I saw a man wearing a dark jacket
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: and heavy boots that I did I've never seen before
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: in my life. I only looked for a moment before
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: his eyes shot over at me. They were full of rage,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: and he immediately followed up by pounding on the window.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Then out of nowhere, a voice yelled from the woods.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: The man paused, then sprinted in the opposite direction. About
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: thirty seconds later, I checked out the window and saw
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: my brother Alex running up to the cabin. I guess
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: he happened to see the guy come up behind me
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: as I started walking to the cabin, and after asking
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: my parents if they knew him, he immediately came running
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: for me. To this day, we've never seen him again
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: and don't know what he was doing out in the
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: woods on our property or why he was stalking me
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: That night. Still scares the hell out of me to
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: think about. Though it was finally fall, which for me
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: meant camping season. The forests around here turned yellow and orange,
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: and the air is crisp and clean, with a slight breeze.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: I really don't know why more people don't go outside
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: around this time, but I'm not complaining about having the
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: trails to myself. This year, I went on a familiar
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: trail with a campsite that was always empty. It was
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: right in the middle of the forest, and usually it
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: wasn't all that special, but with the fall colored trees,
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: it was amazing. When I got there, I unpacked and
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: went right away to gather some sticks for the campfire.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: It was around four, so I had a good three
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: hours before sunset. I was walking around the area picking
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: up the driest sticks I could find, and at one
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: point I looked up and instantly froze. There was a
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: man standing among the trees, maybe thirty feet from me.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: He was just watching me and had a creepy dead stare.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: The man was fairly tall, with a flannel coat and jeans.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: I waved, but he just backed up and walked away.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: He seemed to just go off further into the forest
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: in a direction I'd never gone but assumed was just
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: more trees. I don't know what else he could have
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: been doing out here other than camping, so seeing him
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: just walking around was kind of unsettling. I made sure
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: to keep watch around the campsite for the next little while.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: With all the leaves blowing around, it was impossible to
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: hear anything, so it didn't make for the most comfortable
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: rest of the evening. Inevitably, though, the sun went down,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: I got the fire going, and what I was hoping
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: to be a peaceful night became unsettling and creepy as
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: the forest grew darker. At least I had the fire
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: lighting up the area around me, and although I knew
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: it was most likely that the man I saw wasn't
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: up to anything, I still had a bad feeling about it.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I couldn't help but constantly look in all directions and
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: sometimes feel like I could see a shadow of a
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: person standing just outside of my camp, but it was
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: almost pitch black, so I couldn't tell for sure. After
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: an hour, the night got colder than I expected, so
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: I moved inside my tent and bundled up in my
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: sleeping bag. The campfire slowly fizzled out over the next
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes, and I was able to calm down enough
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: to fall asleep. I don't think I was asleep for long, though,
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: I woke up very quickly, like my eyes just snapped open.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: I stayed laying down for a second, not sure if
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: I'd woken up to something or or if I just happened
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: to wake up. All I could hear were the leaves
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: blowing into the side of my tent and the trees
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: calmly swaying around me. But then it was like my
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: hearing just suddenly picked up on the very specific pattern
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: of leaves crunching one after the other. Someone was walking
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: around outside my tent. I sat up and felt the
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: horror sadden as I started to panic in my head.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: All I could think about was how vulnerable I was
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: sitting inside this tent with no way to see what
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: was going on or defend myself. So I did what
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: I felt like was my only option. I quickly grabbed
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: in my bag, unzipped the tent, and ran out. When
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: I did, I came face to face with a man.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: He was standing not even five feet from the opening
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: of the tent, and I knew he was the same
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: person from earlier by seeing his dead empty stare. The
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: most unsettling thing about it, though, is the guy didn't
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: even flinch. He just stood there and stared at me
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: before I turned and booked it into the woods. I
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: didn't know where the hell I was going, but I
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: knew I had to get out of there again. It
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: was pitch black and the wind, along with the crunching
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: leaves under my feet, made it nearly impossible to hear,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: so I honestly can't say if he chased me or not.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Something was definitely on my side that night, though, because
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: I happened to stumble across a part of the trail
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: that I recognized even in the dark. From there, I
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: followed it back to the road. I never went back
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: from my tent, as I was absolutely terrified of that
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: part of the forest. Now, maybe I'm overreacting, but I
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: really think that that man was going to take my
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: life that night. It's just a gut feeling. I guess
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: either way, I'll never be camping out in those woods again.