What Is The Creepiest Thing That Has Ever Happened To You?

[Parche]

:shrug: :shrug: :hi:

[TZ]

1. I was sixteen and leaving the orthodontists office

I was walking home. It was broad daylight and near a busy road but..this creepy guy started following me..Suffice it to say, by the time I got close to home I ran as fast as I could to try to lose him in the housing development and slammed and locked the door..and got the phone just in case cause I was home alone.....:scared:

[noonwitch]

22. When I was about 12, the ice cream man followed me around once

I was riding my bike around the neighborhood, as 12 year olds tend to do. First, he pulled up and asked me if I wanted to buy any ice cream, and I told him I didn't have any money. He said that was okay (which told me something was wrong), and I said I wasn't hungry. I rode off and he followed me until I met up with my friends.

[MorningGlow]

2. Creepy as in scary, or icky?

My first thought was icky, and that would be having my ass groped in a crowded car in the London Tube. ICK ICK ICK. (And was it one of the cute guys nearby? OF COURSE NOT. It was the nasty short dude in a stereotypical raincoat.) I say again: ICK ICK ICK.

[tyedyeto]

47. I had my ass pinched at a Lake Tahoe casino a number of years ago....

I took that as a compliment at the time. I had no idea who did the pinching.

[MorningGlow]

72. Yes, that would be a compliment

My high school Italian teacher took groups of students to Italy every couple of years (I never went). The girls would always get pinched when they were in the piazzas, and she would just laugh and say to take it as a compliment and not get all upset about it (and this teacher was a NUN!)

But this dude... :scared: It was more of a squeezy massage and went on WAY too long, although it probably was only a couple of seconds (the subway car was jam-packed--I couldn't move--although I managed to lurch through the crowd pretty quickly, startling everyone around me!)

[TrogL]

3. Wierd doctor's visit

When I was about 12, I was having a bit of breast enlargement.

The doctor felt them once and said it was just a hormone inbalance caused by puberty and they'd go away (which they did).

Then he felt them again, and again and again...

[zanne]

29. I had one of those doctor's visits, too.

I was 14. Extremely creepy.

[grannylib]

39. I was 12. Doc was later removed from the group practice and moved

away from our little town after one of his many victims finally sued.
I felt bad for his kids; went to school with them, and they were of course indignant and totally in defense of their dad.

[zanne]

76. Mine was a shrink.

He was new in town. He had to leave town pretty quickly, too.

[HEyHEY]

4. Hedges' late night phonecalls

[tigereye]

53. never mind

I never get any drunken midnight calls...


:cry:


but then again, I don't make em anymore, either! :boring:

[fizzgig]

5. here's a condensened version

i was in glasgow for a night about six years ago. i was out just wandering around and finally settled at a pub about mid-evening. an older (maybe middle aged) couple asks if they can share my table, he leaves shortly after and she proceeds to buy me five or six pints (i was already a few pints in).

when it comes time to head back to the hostel, i'm positive i know where i'm going...but then i get lost. i'm drunk, it's raining, i lost a contact and couldn't see...well shit x(

i get a pack of smokes and smoke for a bit to clear my head. when i'd gotten myself back together, i start walking (i hope) to the hostel. after a few minutes i hear footsteps behind me. i tense a bit and start paying hyper attention to what is going on, but it turned out to just be a guy who wanted to bum a cigarette. *whew* i give him one and keep walking, but he keeps walking with me and the following exchange happens (i swear on anything you want that i am not making this up):

him: come have sex with me
me: uhm...no thanks (start walking a bit more briskly)
him: no, no. come have sex with me
me: no
him: my roommates are gone, there is no one at my apartment. come have sex with me
me: no

(now, at this point, i'm walking at a rather brisk pace and am starting to get a bit scared)
he then stops, grabs me and tries to kiss me. i push him back and scream at him 'i don't like men!' and he shrugs and walks away.

i can laugh about it no, but it freaked the holy shit out of me when it happened.

[DarkTirade]

10. And that right there is why the gods made the knee at just the right level to hit the crotch

at close range.

[fizzgig]

13. i am still amazed i was able to keep cool during that interaction

the hostel was only a few blocks away and i promptly made a 45 minute phone call to my sister...on her cell phone...daddy was not too pleased about that bill :rofl:

[DarkTirade]

14. One would hope he'd be happier that you were ABLE to make that call right then.

:hug:

[fizzgig]

15. he was

after he got the $5,000 phone bill down to about $450 :P

[Schema Thing]

74. Except there are Dubliners reading this who think that story is sweet

and romantic.

Fortunately, they think it would be just that much more romantic if the story ended with a knee to the crotch.


:P

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. sorry, my bad.

wrong category.

[TZ]

8. uh wow!

I would put that in the outright terrifying category!:o

[pink-o]

7. It happened when I was 2 years old--51 years ago!

I was born in Baltimore, and my parents and 3 year old sister were waiting at Baltimore/Washington airport for my grandparents to land. (on a prop plane from Vancouver! It probably took 4 days) Since there was no National Airport at the time, all the politicians landed at BWI, so while we were waiting, here comes the Secret Service, telling everyone to get out of the way, Vice President coming thru. Well, the press was there in droves, and actual flash bulbs were popping cuz that's all we had, and when the VP came thru, he saw two little babies and decided it was a perfect photo op. So the VP comes over to me and my sister, picks us up and kisses us, then goes on his way.

Okay, people who know your history. It was 1957. Quick, tell me who was the Vice Prez...?

You got it in one! Fuckin' NIXON!!!!

Luckily I have no memory of it, prolly cuz I repressed it very deeply! But I can tell ya, in the 53 years I've been on this earth, nothing creepier has ever happened than being kissed by Nixon.:puke: :puke:

[madinmaryland]

16. You got kissed by Nixon??

:rofl:

:hi:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. As a lifeguard, my dad once reprimanded Spiro Agnew...

...for swimming under the diving board.

This was before he was VP and only a Baltimore County executive. And also the president of the swim club.

After my dad blew his whistle, his supervisor ran over and yelled, "You can't do that! Don't you know who that is? That's Spiro Agnew, the president of this swim club!"

[murielm99]

50. Oh no. I am so sorry.

[tigereye]

56. you win!

:rofl:

great story!

[pink-o]

77. Oh, the best is my Republican father decided to refresh my repressed memory

...in 1972 when I was going to sit-ins against the Vietnam war. I had an "Impeach Nixon" sticker on my first car (a Chevy Biscayne station wagon--eight miles to the gallon and fit my entire high school junior class) and Dear old Dad chose that point in my life to tell me the story.

I was in the shower for about 2 days after I heard it!

[SarahB]

61. Alexander Haig made a pass at my mom

early 80's in the airport.... ewwww! :puke:

[ashling]

67. I got stuck in Al Haig's driveway in the snow

I used to deliver the Sunday Morning New York Times in Northern Va (McLean) and I was turning around in his driveway and got stuck

[NewJeffCT]

9. Election night in November of 2000

and the subsequent SCotUS ruling on Bush v Gore.

[DarkTirade]

11. I was gonna go with the giant cockroach on my foot one...

but I think I might have to go with yours.

[BlueIris]

60. That *was* a bad night.

There was definitely a creepy vibe in the air.

[Breeze54]

12. Having an escaped murderer picked up by the police

outside the convenience store I was working at part-time at night. :scared:

A man kept peeking in the window at me while I was cleaning up

and so, I got creeped out and called the police. Good thing!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. When I was living in Japan as a student

My apartment had sliding doors opening onto a tiny terrace that was about three feet off ground level with a little carousel-like rack for hanging up laundry. I did some washing one day and hung it out, and since the weather was bright and sunny, I forgot about it, being busy with other things.

A few days later, there was a knock on the door. A very embarrassed-looking teenage boy stood there, staring at the ground, with a stern older man standing behind him.

"I've brought back your underwear," he said.

I had forgotten about the laundry on the rack, so I was confused. "Did I leave it at the laundromat? How did you know it was mine?"

He didn't answer, just took a deep breath and pushed the stack of underwear into my hand. "Don't worry," he mumbled "My dad made me wash them afterwards." Then he ran off, with the stern older man behind him.

That's when it all came together. Nooooo! I ran to look at the terrace, and sure enough, the rest of the items were there, but the underwear was gone.

I never wore it again and eventually threw it out.

[NewJeffCT]

23. ew

that is creepy.

[KitchenWitch]

18. about 24 years ago I was set up on a blind date with this guy.

Date was OK, I decided the guy was not my type and nothing more ever came of it. About a year later, same guy was arrested for killing his girlfriend in the basement of the house he lived in and then setting the house on fire to try and hide the fact that he killed his girlfriend.

[TZ]

24. geezus

I would have had nightmares had I heard about something like that from a person I went out with...:scared:

[KitchenWitch]

25. I was pretty freaked for a long while after I heard it.

[tyedyeto]

49. OMG!!!`You win. n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. It didn't really happen TO me, but it was creepy nonetheless.

So when I was in law school, I was looking for a law firm to clerk for in the summer. I was at the auto shop getting my car serviced and I struck up a conversation with the girl next to me. When I said I was looking to clerk in a law firm, she told me her mom worked in a law firm in the area and I should look there.

So I print up my resume and go over to the office building where the firm was located.

When I get there, I notice a lot of news trucks in the parking lot. I'm thinking it might be some sort of convention or public speaker at the hotel convention center next door. So I don't think much of it.

I go up to the second floor where the law firm is located and hand in my resume to the receptionist. The receptionist sort of looks at me funny, but thanks me. And I head on back home.

I turn on the news later that day and it turns out that morning at that very law firm there had been a heated dispute of two siblings over a will, and the brother had shot the sister in the law office, then fled back home and shot himself.

The crazyiest thing was I saw no police tape or detectives in or around the office. And that the office was completely operational on a day where someone had been murdered in the office. And that the receptionist didn't bother to clue me in as to what had happened.

Needless to say, I did not clerk at that firm over the summer.

[pitohui]

21. creepy in what way?

there is creepy/stalkerish, which i won't discuss because my stalker was life threatening and the story of my being stalked is not getting put out there for others to smirk at and get off on

there is creepy/eerie/mysterious and given the right encouragement, i might share a ghost story or supernatural event for your viewing pleasure

[davsand]

26. My neighbor offered to help me carry in my groceries.

This guy lived two doors down and was an older man--kinda slight and very soft-spoken. I had a bunch of bags and thanked him profusely. We get to my door and I thank him again and ask him if he'd like a glass of Iced Tea. He says yes please and we go inside.

We are sitting at my kitchen table chatting and he tells me that he was born in the hospital that is visible thru my living room window. Tells me he grew up in the neighborhood we live in. Tells me he lived there for years until he moved away. I ask where he'd moved to and he tells me New Orleans. I say something to the effect that I really love New Orleans, and he tells me he worked in the clubs there for years as a Female Impersonator. I say something about that must have been a really interesting job and he says he would have never quit except he had to.

I ask why he "had to" quit, and he says he went to jail. STUPID me, I say "Oh?" and he elaborates--he went to jail for rape. I'm starting to get a little weirded out and he continues by telling me that he got lucky because the "old lady" had a heart attack while he was doing the rape and he didn't get charged for murder...


He skipped out shortly after that and they put all his stuff out on the street. There were several pairs of handcuffs, S&M mags and a few whips in a pile next to the dumpster.





Laura

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Last summer I was walking down the road and a truck slowed and pulled up next to me...

And the middle-aged man in the truck asked me if I wantedd to "have some fun."
*shudder*

[huskerlaw]

28. Here you go...

When I was about 13, I was hanging out at the pool with my best friend and her mom and this guy started hitting on me. He was quite a bit older and I was quite a bit stupid and more than a little bit flattered since he was older and really cute. I knew my friend's mom would freak out if she saw us talking, so I tried (not very hard) to make him go away, but he convinced me to meet him outside the girl's locker room (by the parking lot) so we could "talk". I went (duh!) and we talked for a bit, but then he stole my towel (leaving me standing there in a bikini) and started trying to make out with me.

I was dumb, but I wasn't THAT dumb, so I started trying to make excuses to leave. He wasn't really letting me, but then my friend came and pulled me into the girl's locker room.

A few weeks later, he was arrested...for raping some girls in a van in the swimming pool parking lot.

:scared:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

30. A girlfriend and I were leaving a club...

very late after seeing the Flaming Groovies -- our car was in a deserted, supermarket parking lot across the street from the club. Once we got in the car, some sick fuck comes running out of the nearby bushes and starts to pull on the passenger side door handle while masterbaiting against the window with his other hand. :mad: I got the car moving as quickly as I could -- in fact, I hit him with the front fender as I was reversing -- just sorry I wasn't able to do a little dick damage in the process. I was 19 when that happened.

[Z_I_Peevey]

31. So many varieties of creepy to choose from....

but I'll have to go with the fellow who kept trying to pick me up in the Memphis bus terminal in 1973. I was finally rescued by a kindly driver who came over and sat with me in the coffee shop until the guy gave up and left.

[XemaSab]

32. Creepy, creepy, creepy landlord when I was 16

We sued him for sexual harassment, and during the deposition it came out that his wife had divorced him for molesting his kids. :scared:

[lost-in-nj]

33. In high school

we had a rotating schedule which meant if you had a study period you could leave early when it fell as the last class of the day. I would go and sit on a bus with a bunch
of friends and talk. One guy was real nice and kinda hitting on me and we would get into our own conversations, my school was right next door to town hall and the police station and he would say how all the cops know him and that they are his friend. We decided that maybe we could go to the movies or something in the next week or so.
Well we never went because it just so happened that he got arrested the next day for murdering a woman on his paper route the week before!!!!

It was a big mystery here because well, murders did not happen in our white bread neighborhood.... pretty violent, lots of stabs with a knife....
He ended up going to Greystone, a mental facility here in NJ.... last I heard he was still there or in another one but he never got out.....


:hi:

lost

[NoGOPZone]

34. I got a PM from Agent Mike

:D

[BlueIris]

35. Probably the time I answered the knock on the door at midnight,

thinking one of my roommates was locked out, and was "greeted" instead by a guy in a scary ski-mask playing with himself. So, that or the fact that I screamed—really loudly—and neither one of my roommates (one of whom was my boyfriend at the time) came out to see what was wrong is the creepiest thing I've ever experienced.

[tigereye]

58. that happened to me once when all my housemates were out years ago

I looked out the window at the sink and saw a guy with his stuff on display. It was very scary - I grabbed a big kitchen knife and rammed it into the window - and he took off.

Called the police and they never showed, but one of my friends came by instead.



Seems like this kind of thing is disturblingly common. :(

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

36. Flasher.

A guy unzipped and waved his weenie at me as I was walking through downtown Minneapolis one morning on my way to work. It was gross but also kind of funny because he was, shall we say, unimpressive. I laughed at him.

[Iris]

40. me, too! Actually, I was backing out in a parking lot and a guy came from around the side of the

building, which startled me, but the rest was like you described. I actually laughed!

[SoxFan]

42. I'm going to guess that this wasn't in February

Exposing that region to the elements in Minneapolis in winter could have dire consequences!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. It was in the summer.

But there was an incident one February years ago (early '80s) where a lawyer I knew slightly went totally crazy at the courthouse and took off all his clothes and ran down the street, buck nekkid, through the snow. I did not see this, which was just as well.

[SoxFan]

45. Frankly, I can relate

I've had days in court where that where that seemed like the best possible option...

[1gobluedem]

37. Creepy phone call

I was just out of college and living in an apartment with a roommate. We split the utilities; the phone was in my name, electricity in hers, etc. One night the phone rang and a guy asked for me as Ms. 1gobluedem and told me that he'd met me a few days ago in the parking lot of the apartment complex and I'd given him my number and started asking me all kinds of questions about exactly where my apartment was located, mentioning how I'd told him how traffic from the major street nearby kept me awake at night (my apt was nowhere near the major street). I told him I couldn't possibly have met him because I would never introduce myself as Ms. 1gobluedem nor would I have given him any specifics about where my apartment was. He got really agitated and kept saying "Why are you pretending we never met? Why? Why?" I finally hung up on him and it dawned on me that he must have been going through the phone book looking for last name, first initial (the way my phone was listed), figuring they were women and trying this stuff out on them hoping someone would be confused enough to tell him exactly where they lived.

It really freaked me out. I reported it to the police but there wasn't anything they could do of course. Thankfully he never called again.

[LucyParsons]

38. Probably being molested and sexually harassed by a relative from age 4-17.

Yeah, that.

[amitten]

46. I'm really sorry about that. That is terrible. n/t

[LucyParsons]

54. Not as terrible as being kissed by Richard Nixon

No, seriously.

[SoxFan]

41. I stood within 6 feet of George W. Bush

Iowa State University, 2000. Shrub and Bill Bradley held campaign rallies in the same building an hour apart. I probably would have shaken his hand if not for the fact that Bush suddenly noticed that Bob Kerrey was standing next to me, at which point he got that classic "WTF" look and vapor locked.

[LucyParsons]

43. Yeah, me, too

and, actually - that's creepier.

(I was a tour guide at the Texas Capitol and Governor's Mansion from 1998-2001).

:scared:

[amitten]

48. First off, JESUS CHRIST there are way too many pervs out there!

I'm actually amazed and sickened that so many women have such horrible stories of near-rape, etc. WTF?

Second of all, my "creepiest" thing is when a group of 3 teenage boys drove up to my house when I was about 8 (I was in the front yard). They kept trying to coax me into the car, and when I wouldn't, one of them started to get out to come get me.

I ran inside and locked the door. It was very scary--I could tell they weren't just teasing me.

[LucyParsons]

70. I think this comes with the territory of being a woman. Wake up.

No offense.

Sophia is right in The Colored Purple, "A girl child just ain't safe in a world full of men."

[MountainLaurel]

82. What she said n/t

[amitten]

86. I'm awake. It's just upsetting to read about so much of this in one

sitting.

[Phillycat]

83. Are you really?

Do you have many women friends? Have you not noticed that many of them have stories of either rape or molestation or both?

The statistics are under-represented. I know that most women go through something like this in their lifetime. Many won't talk about it. And who can blame them?

[amitten]

85. I've had friends that were molested but none that were raped, or

even close to it. I don't think it's a "common" occurrence to be raped or almost raped. I'm surprised and dismayed so many women here have had that experience.

[LeftyMom]

51. When I was a teenager and went in for my first pelvic, the nurse practioner felt me up

and said that my breasts were "nice" in a very non-medical tone. I know the difference between a breast exam and second base, and this was not the dispassionate voice of a professional doing a routine exam.

Sadly, because the hospital didn't allow male peds to do gyn exams or minors to see a real gyno, she probably spent most of the day doing gyn exams on vulnerable teenage girls. The bummer was that my real doctor was an absolute prince of a guy, and I'd have rather gone to him anyhow.

[Left Is Write]

52. I would say the time when I was 13 and the father of two children I babysat for...

tried to molest me (yes, I escaped physically unscathed).

There were worse things that have happened, but I think that one tops the creepiness factor.

[NNadir]

55. My brother married the girl my wife used to baby sit.

We are estranged, and for 8 years he was married to this woman and I didn't know about it.

He embezzled lots of money from my wife's ex-neighbors father (this is an old story) and that's how we found out.

The funny thing is that they met each other on the opposite side of the country from where my wife and her neighbor grew up.

[tyedyeto]

57. Back in the late 70's, I met a guy who had Charlie Manson eyes

Freaked me out totally but never saw him again. A good omen for meto never see him again, but who knows, maybe not for others later on. Still gives me the chills when I look back to that day.

[Aristus]

59. When I was six or so, our regular babysitter had to beg off an assignment

and recommended her younger brother instead. Well, while Mom and Dad were out for the evening, he let me and my brother (who was four at the time) run around naked, and asked if we wanted to play with his handcuffs. Weird enough, all right.

A few years later, we learned that he'd been picked up for child molestation.

:scared:

Dodged a bullet, there...

[SarahB]

62. Robbed at gunpoint when I was 18.

At a little store in Glastonbury, CT (anyone who knows this area knows Glastonbury is a fairly "upscale" community). Nothing horrible happened, but it was enough.

That and probably when I was going through my divorce four years ago finding a personal ad of my ex (then husband) saying he was a "widower". That pretty much fucking creeped me out.

[BlueIris]

64. ..."a widower." Holy crap! I think that even beats out being kissed by Tricky Dick.

Although LeftyMom's post is pretty bad, too.

[Wetzelbill]

63. I had a stalker once

She had to be completely off her rocker to stalk me in the first place.

[khashka]

65. Ok but everyone will think I'm crazy

In my last apartment I'd get this feeling of evil and look up and their would be a man (suit, arms crossed) leaning against the kitchen door watching me. He never did anything, I just had a feeling of pure, absolute evil. Never showed up in the new place....I kinda miss him.

Khash.

[FloridaJudy]

66. Two near rapes

When I was twelve and walking home from school, some older teen grabbed my arm and tried to pull me into an alley. I screamed my fool head off, and must have startled him, because he settled for snarling obscenities at me.

When I was in my late twenties, I woke up one night to find some naked guy trying to smother me. I dithered something about my husband coming home any moment (actually he was in Europe). I guess the thought of dealing with some outraged guy scared the creep away. I had extra strong locks installed and I slept at a girlfriend's place for the two weeks before my SO came home.

Some days I'm so glad I never had girl children.

[lizziegrace]

71. one near rape for me

I was waiting tables at a restaurant when I was 18 and one of the cooks cornered me in a basement storeroom. In 1979, I didn't talk about it and if I did, no one would have believed *me*.

[China_cat]

68. Waiting for a city bus in Oakland (CA) to get to work

some guy came up to me, pulled my shoe off and started kissing my foot. Never saw the guy before and was definitely not the type I would have associated with. He was creepy without the foot stuff.

[JCMach1]

69. When I was about 10, I had a RAT jump on me when family

was trying to get it out of the house...

[Inchworm]

73. The list is long

I am a target for creepy. Hmm.. perhaps subconsciously I seek it out :D

:hi:

[RebelOne]

75. When I found a dead body in the ocean when I was a child.

When I was about 5, I lived on Miami Beach. My mother and I were on the beach and she saw what she thought was a ball in the ocean. She told me to go out and get it. Well, when I reached for the "ball," it was attached to a body. Later, we found out it was a Russian sailor who jumped ship. Guess he couldn't swim too good.

[Thirtieschild]

78. 14 years old, walking home from school

Man in car stopped, asked for directions, then asked where he could find some "nookie". Had no idea what he was talking about until he showed me.

[annonymous]

79. Two outlaw bikers chased me into a ditch

They wanted to rape me but I managed to get away from them. I also had a creep follow me in his car while I was walking home while in high school. I also had a creep flash me. I attracted perverts like a magnet when I was younger.

[otherlander]

80. When I was 16 and that guy in Manhattan started following me

and asking me all these wierd questions about myself. I lost him after about 2 blocks.

[timtom]

81. In 1967 I attended Merritt College in Oakland CA

On the first day of Political Science class, I got to talking with the dude sitting next to me. As I had just gotten out of the Marine Corps and he had just gotten out of the Navy, we chatted a bit after class.

The next day, the instructor started talking about social behavior in America. He talked for about 10 minutes and said something like, "And we don't often get to know people we meet in daily life. For example, Mr. Brown (that was me) what do you know about Mr. Jones?" I noticed for the first time that he was absent. The instructor went on to say, "Did you know that he was arrested yesterday for bank robbery? And he named you as someone who could provide an alibi."

I was told the FBI would be contacting me, but they never did.

Pretty spooky, kids!

[Neoma]

84. You mean I can only choose one thing?