3 Terrifying TRUE Night Out Stories — Transcript

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1. 0:13Last year, when all my friends [music]
2. 0:15were home from college for the summer,
3. 0:17we decided to go out and party as much
4. 0:19as we could, especially since some of
5. 0:21them were moving away for good after
6. 0:23that summer.
7. 0:24All of us were old enough to go out and
8. 0:26drink legally by then. So, most nights
9. 0:28we just hit up the local bars until they
10. 0:30closed.
11. 0:31One specific weekend, while a big group
12. 0:33of us was out, my parents just happened
13. 0:36to be out of town.
14. 0:37Instead of staying out until 2:00 or
15. 0:393:00 in the morning, I suggested that we
16. 0:41go back to my parents' place to continue
17. 0:42the party.
18. 0:44Everyone loved the idea.
19. 0:46I told everyone that they could drink as
20. 0:47much as they wanted as long as they
21. 0:49crashed at my place, which everyone
22. 0:51agreed to.
23. 0:52We went back to the house around 11:30
24. 0:54that night.
25. 0:55I suspected a decent amount of people,
26. 0:57but was surprised at just how many
27. 0:59people showed up.
28. 1:01My parents had a huge house, and the
29. 1:02closest neighbors were at the end of the
30. 1:04street. So, usually we could be as loud
31. 1:06as we wanted without being disruptive.
32. 1:09They also had a pool, which usually got
33. 1:11my friends excited.
34. 1:13I started looking around at all the
35. 1:14people, and I noticed that there were
36. 1:15several of them I didn't recognize.
37. 1:18When I asked one of my friends who all
38. 1:19these people [music] were, they just
39. 1:21gave me the generic friend of a friend
40. 1:22response.
41. 1:24At first, it didn't seem so weird.
42. 1:27Most of the strangers that I didn't
43. 1:28recognize were surrounded by people that
44. 1:30I did recognize.
45. 1:32They were joking around and being an
46. 1:33active part of conversations.
47. 1:36At 2:00 in the morning, a bunch of the
48. 1:37people at the house decided to jump into
49. 1:39the pool.
50. 1:40There must have been 15 people in the
51. 1:42pool.
52. 1:43I didn't jump in because I was sitting
53. 1:45on the deck with my girlfriend just
54. 1:46talking.
55. 1:48While I was listening to her talk, I
56. 1:50noticed that there was a strange guy
57. 1:51standing in the living room of the house
58. 1:53looking out the window at the pool.
59. 1:55He had a red cup in his hand just like a
60. 1:57lot of other people did.
61. 1:59Something about this guy was off,
62. 2:00though.
63. 2:01He looked older than us. Not like old
64. 2:04man old, but definitely older than his
65. 2:06early 20s.
66. 2:07My girlfriend could tell I was
67. 2:08distracted and asked me what was wrong.
68. 2:11I asked her if she knew who that guy
69. 2:13was, and she told me she didn't.
70. 2:15She said our friend Shane may know who
71. 2:17it is.
72. 2:18I stood up on the deck trying to locate
73. 2:20Shane.
74. 2:21While I was standing there scanning
75. 2:23everyone in the pool,
76. 2:24my girlfriend said the same thing I did.
77. 2:27She thought the guy seemed a little off,
78. 2:28also.
79. 2:30I didn't have to look very far for
80. 2:31Shane, because he ended up walking onto
81. 2:33the deck right at that moment.
82. 2:35I asked him about the weird guy in the
83. 2:36living room, and he didn't know who it
84. 2:38was, either.
85. 2:40He said he was pretty sure that he came
86. 2:41in with Dustin's cousin.
87. 2:43Of course, Dustin's cousin was also
88. 2:45someone I didn't know very well.
89. 2:47I was going to ask Dustin about this
90. 2:49guy,
91. 2:50but Shane informed me that Dustin, as
92. 2:52well as his cousin, had left already,
93. 2:54since neither one of them had been
94. 2:55drinking.
95. 2:56I figured that was just my luck.
96. 2:59I ended up confronting the strange man
97. 3:01and asked him what his name was.
98. 3:03He just stared at me with a blank
99. 3:04expression.
100. 3:06It was like I asked him an impossible
101. 3:08question.
102. 3:09Then, he started to make this weird
103. 3:11humming sound.
104. 3:12I thought the guy was about to overheat
105. 3:14from the question.
106. 3:16I took the red cup from his hand and
107. 3:17told him to sit on the couch.
108. 3:20I honestly thought that this guy just
109. 3:21had entirely too much to drink.
110. 3:24I figured I would let him sleep here,
111. 3:25since there was no way I was letting
112. 3:27this guy into a car.
113. 3:29I had to basically force the guy to sit
114. 3:31on the couch, and when he did, he just
115. 3:33continued staring in front of him.
116. 3:36It was probably the weirdest interaction
117. 3:37I've ever had in my entire life.
118. 3:40Once he was on the couch, I went back to
119. 3:42Shane and my girlfriend, and I told them
120. 3:44that I was going to hurt Dustin tomorrow
121. 3:46for leaving the strange dude at my
122. 3:47house.
123. 3:49I tried calling and texting Dustin, but
124. 3:51he didn't answer.
125. 3:53For the next couple of hours, people
126. 3:55continued to party a little bit, but
127. 3:56eventually they all started to fade.
128. 3:59During that time, I would look over to
129. 4:01the couch and the strange man was still
130. 4:02just sitting there staring at nothing.
131. 4:06I started to suspect that this guy might
132. 4:07have been partying with something else.
133. 4:10At 4:00 in the morning, almost everyone
134. 4:12was asleep.
135. 4:13My girlfriend went to bed about 30
136. 4:15minutes prior.
137. 4:16When I went into the living room, there
138. 4:18were about seven people asleep on the
139. 4:20couches and floor,
140. 4:21but the strange guy was gone.
141. 4:23I asked one of my friends in the living
142. 4:25room who was still awake if he saw the
143. 4:26strange guy,
144. 4:28and he said that he saw him leave about
145. 4:2920 minutes ago.
146. 4:31I was upset that he left in the
147. 4:32condition he was in, but deep down I was
148. 4:35just happy he wasn't in my house
149. 4:36anymore.
150. 4:38I got into my bed next to my girlfriend
151. 4:39and I fell asleep almost instantly.
152. 4:42I had that strange sensation when you're
153. 4:44sleeping and you feel like someone is
154. 4:46watching you.
155. 4:48I'm not sure of the exact time, but it
156. 4:50was still dark in my room when the
157. 4:51sensation woke me up.
158. 4:53I basically sat up in bed quickly, and
159. 4:55when I did, I saw someone leaving my
160. 4:57room.
161. 4:58I thought it was my girlfriend going to
162. 5:00the bathroom
163. 5:01until I went to lie back down and saw
164. 5:03that my girlfriend was next to me, still
165. 5:05asleep.
166. 5:06I jumped out of bed.
167. 5:08I was terrified and honestly a little
168. 5:10confused.
169. 5:11The only thing that came to mind was
170. 5:13that one of my friends had to be drunk
171. 5:15and probably accidentally wandered into
172. 5:17my bedroom.
173. 5:18I went downstairs and I could hear a
174. 5:20weird noise.
175. 5:22It sounded like someone was digging for
176. 5:23something in a drawer or cabinet.
177. 5:26I passed through the living room where I
178. 5:27saw a bunch of my friends still asleep.
179. 5:29Next to the living room is the kitchen
180. 5:31where I expected to see one of my messed
181. 5:33up friends, but nobody was in there.
182. 5:36Down the hall that's off of the kitchen,
183. 5:38I saw light coming from the room on the
184. 5:40right.
185. 5:41That's my dad's office.
186. 5:43I snuck down the hall and hid behind a
187. 5:44giant plant that's outside my office.
188. 5:47In that room was the strange guy from
189. 5:49before, and he was rummaging through all
190. 5:52my dad's [music] desk drawers.
191. 5:54Part of me wanted to confront this guy
192. 5:55and act like a hero,
193. 5:57but for some reason I was terrified.
194. 5:59I could see his face from where I was
195. 6:01hiding, and he still had [music] that
196. 6:03expressionless look on his face as he
197. 6:04was going through all the desk drawers.
198. 6:07I didn't want him to see me,
199. 6:09so before he left the office, I snuck
200. 6:11back down the hall and into the kitchen.
201. 6:14Before I could make it to the stairs,
202. 6:16I heard him coming down the hall.
203. 6:18I didn't want this guy to know I was
204. 6:19awake, so I basically grabbed a blanket
205. 6:21from one of my sleeping friends, and I
206. 6:23dove onto the ground in the living room
207. 6:25and pretended like I was asleep.
208. 6:27I heard the guy walk into the living
209. 6:29room, and he just stood there.
210. 6:31I could hear him breathing.
211. 6:33He probably [music] stood there for 5
212. 6:35minutes, which felt like an eternity.
213. 6:38Every once in a while, [music] when he
214. 6:39was standing there, he would make that
215. 6:41weird noise he was making before.
216. 6:43After those 5 minutes, he went back into
217. 6:46the kitchen.
218. 6:47Just like in the office, I could hear
219. 6:49him going through one of the drawers.
220. 6:51He wasn't in the kitchen very long.
221. 6:54Before I knew it, he was back in the
222. 6:55living room, and it sounded like he was
223. 6:57stomping over in my direction.
224. 7:00I felt useless.
225. 7:01It felt like he was charging at me.
226. 7:04I didn't know what to do.
227. 7:06He was practically standing over me, and
228. 7:07then he grabbed [music] the sliding
229. 7:09door, which I didn't even realize I was
230. 7:10lying right next to.
231. 7:12He walked outside and closed the door.
232. 7:15I waited a good 15 minutes before I got
233. 7:18up and locked the door.
234. 7:19I ran back to the front door,
235. 7:22and I made sure I locked that as well.
236. 7:24As soon as the doors were locked, I went
237. 7:26to the office to see if this guy had
238. 7:27stolen anything.
239. 7:29I spent a while going through
240. 7:30everything, and I couldn't tell if
241. 7:32anything was stolen.
242. 7:34To me, it looked like everything was
243. 7:35still there.
244. 7:36When I went into the kitchen, it didn't
245. 7:38look like anything was out of place,
246. 7:41until I noticed one of the knives from
247. 7:42my dad's knife set was missing.
248. 7:45I looked everywhere for the knife and I
249. 7:46couldn't find it anywhere.
250. 7:48I didn't sleep the rest of that night.
251. 7:51I was on edge that this weird guy was
252. 7:52going to come back.
253. 7:54The next morning, I asked every one of
254. 7:56my friends if they knew who that guy was
255. 7:57and nobody did.
256. 7:59When I finally talked to Dustin and
257. 8:01asked him about the guy, he had no idea
258. 8:03who he was either.
259. 8:05I asked if his cousin knew him and
260. 8:07Dustin told me that the guy was being
261. 8:09weird and he was freaking them out.
262. 8:11He kept following Dustin's cousin around
263. 8:13but not saying anything.
264. 8:15He was just acting like a super creep,
265. 8:18which is why they ended up suddenly
266. 8:19leaving and not saying goodbye.
267. 8:21Thankfully, I never saw the guy again.
268. 8:24I truly have no idea who he was.
269. 8:27He just showed up at the house and
270. 8:28started acting like a creep.
271. 8:30He had to be the one who took the knife
272. 8:32and I don't even want to begin to think
273. 8:33why.
274. 8:35The more I've reflected on that night, I
275. 8:37was able to confirm that it was
276. 8:38definitely the creepy guy I saw leaving
277. 8:40my bedroom when I woke up.
278. 8:42I have no idea what he wanted and I
279. 8:44think that's what freaks me out so much
280. 8:45about this story.
281. 8:57Several years back, one of my best
282. 8:59friends, Riley, worked here in town as
283. 9:01something called a location manager
284. 9:03or location producer.
285. 9:06What that means is that he would scout
286. 9:07local areas for directors who would be
287. 9:09shooting movies here.
288. 9:11At the time, our small town was trying
289. 9:13[music] to entice filmmakers to come
290. 9:15here and shoot movies for cheap.
291. 9:17During that time, some no-name director
292. 9:19wanted to come here and shoot a horror
293. 9:21movie since the area looked like every
294. 9:23location from every Stephen King novel.
295. 9:26When the director came to visit the
296. 9:27town, Riley took him all around and
297. 9:29showed him this one house, which,
298. 9:31according to local lore,
299. 9:33is supposed to be cursed or haunted.
300. 9:36Of course, nobody from this actually
301. 9:38believed that, but it was fun that our
302. 9:40town had its own little Amityville
303. 9:42Horror campfire tale.
304. 9:44When the director found out, he became
305. 9:46obsessed with this house and practically
306. 9:48insisted on filming some of his scenes
307. 9:50in there.
308. 9:51Riley wasn't as much of a skeptic as
309. 9:53most of us are,
310. 9:54so he was a little uneasy about trying
311. 9:56to get access to the house,
312. 9:58but ultimately, he didn't want to let
313. 9:59the director down.
314. 10:01So, the next day, Riley tracked down
315. 10:03whoever owned the property and asked him
316. 10:04if they could use the house for several
317. 10:06scenes they wanted to film.
318. 10:08Riley said the owner [music] was some
319. 10:09creepy old guy who smelled like death.
320. 10:12According to Riley,
321. 10:14this guy gave him a really bad feeling.
322. 10:17Riley was sure that the guy was going to
323. 10:18put up a fight about using the house,
324. 10:20but he said he agreed to let them use it
325. 10:22with almost no fight back.
326. 10:25The director was pumped and they
327. 10:26continued to work on the pre-production
328. 10:28of the film.
329. 10:29That night, a few of the locals who were
330. 10:31working on the pre-production aspects of
331. 10:32the film decided to take Riley out to
332. 10:34celebrate.
333. 10:36Apparently, this was the last location
334. 10:38they needed to lock down before setting
335. 10:39up a schedule to record.
336. 10:42He didn't want to go alone, so he
337. 10:43dragged me with him.
338. 10:45Those film crew people sure knew how to
339. 10:47party.
340. 10:48We started hopping from bar to bar and
341. 10:50we were feeling good.
342. 10:52There was a woman there with us
343. 10:53partying.
344. 10:54I don't know if she was a producer or
345. 10:56what her role on the film was.
346. 10:59All I know is that she was working on
347. 11:00the film in some capacity.
348. 11:03Anyway, I was starting to vibe with her
349. 11:04throughout the night.
350. 11:06Her name was Jade.
351. 11:08A little after 1:00 in the morning, Jade
352. 11:10suggested [music] to the group of us,
353. 11:11which at this point was six people, that
354. 11:14we go to the allegedly haunted house and
355. 11:15check it out.
356. 11:17Riley immediately shot it down.
357. 11:19Since I didn't have anything to lose and
358. 11:21I was trying to impress this girl,
359. 11:24I basically teamed up with her and tried
360. 11:25to get the group on board with the idea.
361. 11:28When everyone else got on board, Riley
362. 11:30finally caved in and agreed to join us.
363. 11:33Jade said that we would have the perfect
364. 11:34excuse if we got caught.
365. 11:36We could just say that we were doing
366. 11:38some pre-production work at night and
367. 11:39knowing that the house is abandoned, we
368. 11:41figured it would be less disruptive to
369. 11:43the neighborhood doing it then.
370. 11:45It sounded great to me, but that's not
371. 11:47how this type of situation works.
372. 11:49We would still need approval from the
373. 11:51owner to enter the property and Riley
374. 11:53was worried that if we got caught, we
375. 11:55would lose permission [music] to use the
376. 11:56house.
377. 11:58It was a tense drive to the house.
378. 12:00I could tell Riley was upset and I felt
379. 12:02like a jerk that I didn't back him up.
380. 12:05When we got there, I came to my senses
381. 12:07for a brief moment and tried to get the
382. 12:09group to reconsider going into the
383. 12:10house.
384. 12:12Jade started to call me a coward in a
385. 12:13flirtatious way
386. 12:15and my efforts to get them to reconsider
387. 12:17evaporated right away.
388. 12:19One of the guys tried to open the door
389. 12:21and surprisingly, it was unlocked.
390. 12:24The six of us walked in quietly.
391. 12:26It was extremely cold in there.
392. 12:28It wasn't exactly warm from outside, but
393. 12:30it was noticeably colder inside the
394. 12:32house for some reason.
395. 12:34Everyone we were with looked fascinated,
396. 12:36like they were looking at buried
397. 12:37treasure, except for Riley who looked
398. 12:40like he was going to be sick.
399. 12:42He kept complaining about the smell, but
400. 12:43none of us smelled anything.
401. 12:46We didn't walk very far.
402. 12:47The front door led to mostly empty
403. 12:49living room.
404. 12:51We were all still standing in that room
405. 12:52just using our phones as a flashlight
406. 12:55when we heard movement coming from
407. 12:56upstairs.
408. 12:57I'm well aware that houses like this
409. 12:59make all sorts of crazy noises since
410. 13:01everything is wooden and old, but this
411. 13:03noise we heard upstairs was unmistakably
412. 13:05footsteps.
413. 13:07It was clearly the pattering of steps
414. 13:08going from one side of the room to the
415. 13:10other.
416. 13:11We all stood completely still.
417. 13:13Jade insisted that we check it out.
418. 13:16Riley put his foot down and he said he
419. 13:17was leaving.
420. 13:19The other guys in the group also didn't
421. 13:20want any part of a confrontation, so
422. 13:22they all went outside with Riley.
423. 13:24Unfortunately, I couldn't let Jade go
424. 13:26upstairs alone.
425. 13:28Even though I wanted nothing to do with
426. 13:30whoever may be running around up there.
427. 13:32We quietly snuck up the stairs,
428. 13:34>> [music]
429. 13:34>> which were in the back of the house.
430. 13:36Right next to the stairs was a door.
431. 13:38I tried to open it just to see what was
432. 13:40behind it, and it was locked.
433. 13:42I found it incredibly weird that this
434. 13:44door was locked, but the front door was
435. 13:46open.
436. 13:47When Jade started to go upstairs, I
437. 13:49followed closely behind her.
438. 13:52I noticed when we were on the stairs
439. 13:53that the footsteps had stopped.
440. 13:55We were tiptoeing as quietly as we
441. 13:57could.
442. 13:58When we got upstairs, it was eerily
443. 14:00quiet up there.
444. 14:02No sounds at all.
445. 14:04We took a few steps forward down the
446. 14:05hall, and I expected that at any moment
447. 14:08someone was going to run at me. But
448. 14:09nothing ever happened.
449. 14:11I was starting to think that this woman,
450. 14:13Jade, whom I just met, had some kind of
451. 14:16death wish because she decided to shout
452. 14:18into the darkness if anybody was there.
453. 14:20I almost fainted when she did this, but
454. 14:23no response.
455. 14:24We looked in all the rooms upstairs, and
456. 14:26there wasn't anybody in any of the
457. 14:27rooms.
458. 14:28I won't lie, I was freaked out.
459. 14:31We clearly heard movement upstairs, but
460. 14:33there was clearly nobody up there.
461. 14:35We started going downstairs, and Jade
462. 14:37made a joke about how she was sad that
463. 14:39we didn't get to see a ghost.
464. 14:41When we got to the first floor,
465. 14:43the door that was next [music] to the
466. 14:44staircase that had just been locked a
467. 14:46few minutes ago
468. 14:47was now randomly opened.
469. 14:50I don't just mean unlocked, I mean the
470. 14:52door was legitimately wide open.
471. 14:54I looked at the open door and noticed
472. 14:56that it led to a pitch black basement.
473. 14:59Jade looked terrified for the first time
474. 15:00[music] since we entered the house.
475. 15:02Instead of being scared, I was starting
476. 15:04to think that this was a practical joke.
477. 15:07It just seemed so unbelievable.
478. 15:09I attempted to go into the basement, and
479. 15:11Jade grabbed my hand and begged me not
480. 15:13to.
481. 15:14I admit I was being ignorant here.
482. 15:17I was blatantly ignoring her because I
483. 15:18was sure I was being messed with.
484. 15:21I went downstairs, and it was even
485. 15:23colder down there than the rest of the
486. 15:24house,
487. 15:25which made sense to me since this was
488. 15:27the basement after all.
489. 15:29It was so dark down there and it smelled
490. 15:31horrible.
491. 15:33I figured the smell was some kind of
492. 15:34backed up sewage.
493. 15:36I was trying to use my cell phone
494. 15:37flashlight, but it was barely doing
495. 15:39anything.
496. 15:41As I was whipping my phone around the
497. 15:42room, I thought I saw something move
498. 15:44near some boxes on the floor.
499. 15:46It made me jump just out of sheer shock,
500. 15:49but I instantly decided in my head that
501. 15:51it was just the shadows from my
502. 15:52flashlight that freaked me out.
503. 15:54I started walking over to the boxes to
504. 15:56investigate [music] it myself.
505. 15:58While I was walking over, I started to
506. 16:00think about the possibility of someone
507. 16:02being over there,
508. 16:03maybe a homeless person, and I didn't
509. 16:05want any trouble.
510. 16:07I know homeless people can be harmless,
511. 16:08but where I live, they're usually
512. 16:10dangerous and I was not equipped in any
513. 16:12way to defend myself. [music]
514. 16:14When I was a few feet away from the
515. 16:15boxes, I clearly saw a shadow get up
516. 16:18from behind the boxes and run over to
517. 16:19the other side of the room.
518. 16:21He was so fast and so dark that I
519. 16:23couldn't see anything or make out any
520. 16:25details besides [music] just the shadow
521. 16:27from my phone light.
522. 16:29I felt the wind hit me in the face when
523. 16:30he rushed by me.
524. 16:32I had no idea [music] what this was and
525. 16:34I didn't want to find out.
526. 16:35I ran over to the stairs and I announced
527. 16:37to whatever was down there that I was
528. 16:39leaving and that I was sorry for
529. 16:40intruding.
530. 16:42Just before turning and running up the
531. 16:43stairs,
532. 16:45I heard a whisper from the basement say
533. 16:46to me,
534. 16:47"Don't leave just yet."
535. 16:49I paused for a second and then freaked
536. 16:51out and ran out of the basement.
537. 16:53Jade was still standing there at the top
538. 16:55of the stairs.
539. 16:56She heard the whisper as well and was
540. 16:58hysterical.
541. 17:00We ran out of the house and Riley was
542. 17:01[music] still outside with the other
543. 17:03guys.
544. 17:04We got into the car and started driving
545. 17:06away.
546. 17:07I told them what happened and they
547. 17:09looked terrified.
548. 17:11I still wasn't sure if somehow these
549. 17:12guys were messing with me.
550. 17:14However, the way they were all acting
551. 17:16made me feel like they weren't messing
552. 17:18with me.
553. 17:19Joker not, this night messed up Riley.
554. 17:22He didn't want anything [music] to do
555. 17:23with that house.
556. 17:24The next day, he called the director and
557. 17:26told them that he couldn't film there
558. 17:27for safety reasons.
559. 17:29He made up some excuse about the house
560. 17:31just not being safe to film. And the
561. 17:33cast and crew could get hurt working
562. 17:34inside there.
563. 17:36The director was upset, but gave up
564. 17:38fighting after a while.
565. 17:40When Riley told the owner of the
566. 17:41property that they weren't shooting
567. 17:42there anymore, the man just left and
568. 17:44thanked Riley [music] for his
569. 17:45consideration.
570. 17:47A few months later, the project fell
571. 17:49through and they didn't even shoot that
572. 17:50specific movie here.
573. 17:52Apparently, the director wanted a
574. 17:54ridiculous amount of money to fund the
575. 17:55movie.
576. 17:56And it just wasn't possible.
577. 17:58Whenever I relive that night, I still
578. 18:01can't believe what I witnessed.
579. 18:03It doesn't make any sense to me. Part of
580. 18:05me still feels like it had to be a
581. 18:06prank, but what would be the point of
582. 18:08continuing the joke all these years
583. 18:10later?
584. 18:11I saw the fear in all of their eyes and
585. 18:13that wasn't fake.
586. 18:15I don't know that I fully believe the
587. 18:17house is haunted, but something is for
588. 18:18sure not right in that house.
589. 18:20And I'll be happy never going back and
590. 18:22finding out for sure.
591. 18:36Some people in this world are just
592. 18:38messed up.
593. 18:39I never realized just how crazy some
594. 18:41people can be until one night I had a
595. 18:43horrifying encounter I will never
596. 18:45forget.
597. 18:46One of my best friends was getting
598. 18:48married and his best man literally paid
599. 18:50for all of us groomsmen to travel to
600. 18:51Cape Cod.
601. 18:53Usually, I would be annoyed to have to
602. 18:55spend a lot of money to travel for a
603. 18:56bachelor party. But I wasn't going to
604. 18:58complain about basically a free trip
605. 19:00with my boys.
606. 19:01The entire trip was going to be three
607. 19:03overnights, which is excessive for a
608. 19:05bachelor party in my opinion, but it was
609. 19:07still cool.
610. 19:08We spent the days on the beach and at
611. 19:10night we would go out and drink at some
612. 19:12of the bars.
613. 19:14We especially liked this one bar that
614. 19:15was right on the water.
615. 19:17The first night out, I met a girl named
616. 19:19Britney.
617. 19:20She was a local girl, and we hit it off
618. 19:22right away.
619. 19:23The next day, we were texting the whole
620. 19:25time.
621. 19:26That night, we all went out again.
622. 19:28My friends wanted to find a different
623. 19:30bar, but I decided to stay at the one
624. 19:32from the night before, so I could hang
625. 19:33out with Britney.
626. 19:34>> [music]
627. 19:35>> In my defense, he insisted that I hang
628. 19:37out with her.
629. 19:38So, that's exactly what I did.
630. 19:40We spent a couple of hours at the bar
631. 19:41having some drinks and just talking and
632. 19:43getting to know each other.
633. 19:45Once we were feeling really good from
634. 19:47the beverages we'd consumed, she asked
635. 19:49if I wanted to go for a walk on the
636. 19:50beach.
637. 19:51I thought this would be a great way for
638. 19:53the two of us to get some alone time, so
639. 19:55without hesitation, I was ready for our
640. 19:57beach walk.
641. 19:58We walked for a while.
642. 20:00For the first big chunk of the walk, we
643. 20:02were walking on what I assumed was a
644. 20:03private beach because there were houses
645. 20:05that backed up against the beach.
646. 20:07She told me that we were okay walking
647. 20:09here, and who knows, maybe we were.
648. 20:12We eventually walked far enough that
649. 20:14there were no more houses.
650. 20:16We were traversing rocks.
651. 20:17It was dark enough that it was kind of
652. 20:19hard to see where we were going.
653. 20:21I didn't care about any of that.
654. 20:23What I cared about was that it finally
655. 20:25seemed like we were completely alone.
656. 20:27I was mentally preparing to make a move
657. 20:29when I noticed Britney making a weird
658. 20:31face as she looked off into the distance
659. 20:33a little bit.
660. 20:34I asked what she was looking at, and she
661. 20:36pointed at a rock cluster that was about
662. 20:3820 ft away from where we were standing.
663. 20:41With a confused voice, she asked if I
664. 20:43could see that guy standing over there.
665. 20:46I was squinting and trying to focus my
666. 20:47eyes in the dark, and I didn't see
667. 20:49anything.
668. 20:51I asked her where she saw this guy.
669. 20:53She doubled down and pointed even
670. 20:55harder.
671. 20:56She kept saying that it's right there.
672. 20:59And she was almost annoyed that I
673. 21:00couldn't see what she was talking about.
674. 21:02I finally saw what I thought she was
675. 21:04talking about.
676. 21:05I I her it was just a rock, hoping that
677. 21:08I could get her attention back.
678. 21:10However, she couldn't [music] let it go.
679. 21:12She was adamant that it was a person.
680. 21:15It was just way too dark out there to
681. 21:17tell for sure.
682. 21:18She said that she was going to move in
683. 21:19closer to get a better look and to prove
684. 21:21to me that [music] it was a person.
685. 21:23As I was telling her that it was clearly
686. 21:25a rock, I saw the figure move.
687. 21:28I stopped her from moving forward and
688. 21:30admitted that I thought she may be
689. 21:31right.
690. 21:32We were only about 10 ft away now and I
691. 21:34could clearly see that it was a person.
692. 21:36He almost looked like he was partially
693. 21:38kneeling on the rock.
694. 21:40As my eyes were getting more used to the
695. 21:42darkness, I was able to clearly see that
696. 21:45he was wearing a worn-out maroon-colored
697. 21:46hat.
698. 21:48I felt like an idiot that I couldn't
699. 21:49tell whether it was a person before
700. 21:50getting this close.
701. 21:52I quietly leaned over to Brittany and
702. 21:54told her that we should probably leave
703. 21:56just in case.
704. 21:57She agreed.
705. 21:58>> [music]
706. 21:58>> We quietly retreated off the rocks and
707. 22:00started heading back the way we came.
708. 22:03I didn't realize it right away, but
709. 22:04after a few minutes of walking, I
710. 22:06noticed that the man we saw was
711. 22:08following us.
712. 22:09He was a good distance behind us, but it
713. 22:11was him for sure.
714. 22:13We could see the same maroon hat.
715. 22:16Brittany looked a little nervous and I
716. 22:17tried to tell her that it was nothing to
717. 22:19worry about. He's probably just walking
718. 22:21in the same direction as us.
719. 22:23She didn't agree. She told me that
720. 22:25random guys like this don't just [music]
721. 22:27walk on this specific part of the beach
722. 22:29at this hour of night.
723. 22:31I thought she was overreacting
724. 22:33until I looked back again.
725. 22:35And now the guy was moving toward us
726. 22:36with a little more zip in his step.
727. 22:38Brittany started to freak out and I was
728. 22:40scared myself now.
729. 22:42I suggested that we run and she agreed.
730. 22:45We were moving fast and when I turned
731. 22:47around, the man in the maroon hat was
732. 22:49now also sprinting like we were.
733. 22:51There was no denying it this time.
734. 22:53This guy was running after us.
735. 22:56We eventually got to the part of the
736. 22:57beach where the houses were.
737. 22:59I told Brittany to trust me and I
738. 23:01grabbed her hand and we ran to the
739. 23:02backyard of one of the houses.
740. 23:04We jumped the fence and instead of
741. 23:06running down the road, we got on the
742. 23:07ground and hid under the Jeep that was
743. 23:09in the driveway.
744. 23:11Britney was holding her hand over her
745. 23:12mouth and I was just trying to keep my
746. 23:14composure.
747. 23:15I was freaking out on the inside.
748. 23:17[music]
749. 23:18I was hoping that the man wouldn't chase
750. 23:19us off the beach.
751. 23:21Unfortunately, that hope didn't get me
752. 23:23anywhere.
753. 23:24While we were under the Jeep, I saw the
754. 23:26man walk down the driveway.
755. 23:28I could see his feet.
756. 23:30They were bloody and dirty.
757. 23:32They were a foot or two away from my
758. 23:34head.
759. 23:35The scariest part was that the man
760. 23:36wasn't running anymore.
761. 23:38It was like he knew we were hiding.
762. 23:41We just stayed completely still so
763. 23:43hopefully the man wouldn't have any idea
764. 23:44where we were.
765. 23:46Maybe the strangest part of this
766. 23:47encounter wasn't the man or the
767. 23:49disgusting feet,
768. 23:51but it was the noise the man was making.
769. 23:53He was making a clicking sound with his
770. 23:55tongue.
771. 23:56While he was walking by, I noticed that
772. 23:58he was carrying something shiny in
773. 24:00[music] his hand.
774. 24:01I know this is going to sound crazy, but
775. 24:03I swear that this guy had a machete.
776. 24:06He was holding it and it was swinging on
777. 24:08the side of his leg.
778. 24:10If not that, [music] then it was a very
779. 24:11large knife.
780. 24:13It took a while, but he finally passed
781. 24:15the Jeep.
782. 24:16I could see him slowly walking down the
783. 24:18street.
784. 24:19When he was several houses down, I
785. 24:21gestured to Britney to shimmy out from
786. 24:23under the Jeep and quietly head back to
787. 24:24the beach.
788. 24:25We did just that and once we were back
789. 24:28on the beach, we sprinted all the way
790. 24:30back to where we started.
791. 24:32Every minute I looked back expecting to
792. 24:33see the maroon hat running after us, but
793. 24:36he never came back.
794. 24:38When we got back to the bar, we were
795. 24:39both still on edge from the strange man
796. 24:41on the beach.
797. 24:42We called an Uber and went back to the
798. 24:44Airbnb where my friends were hanging
799. 24:46out.
800. 24:47The guys were creeped out and I didn't
801. 24:48blame them.
802. 24:50Britney and I were basically still
803. 24:51shaking.
804. 24:53That was the first time I had ever had a
805. 24:55a encounter and I hope it's the last.
806. 24:58I'm lucky to have left this physically
807. 24:59unharmed.
808. 25:01Wherever that man is today, I hope he's
809. 25:03not still terrorizing people on the
810. 25:04beach.
811. 25:07>> [music]