We almost got taken.
She was walking with me in a stroller, down her suburban neighborhood street.
It had been slipping from brush to brush looking for an opening.
Daniella Urdinlaz
So glad for her intuition and the strangers help!
One day driving to work i smell burnt rubber.
There was a semi next to me so I sped up to get ahead of him.
I called the accident in to 911 and then watched the news and papers the rest of the day.
Thankfully no fatalities but it was nasty.
I would have been right in the middle of it all.
I find out my hotel is only about 15 minutes away (wow a four-hour wait???)
So I call an uber.
He says hes glad I called him instead of waiting for the next bus.
Nobody found her until the station opened up again the next day.
Now I always travel with pepper spray.
I was 8 and she was either 10 or had just turned 11.
My sister and I were playing outside when I saw this weird van pull around the corner.
Everything except the windshield was tinted.
We made it inside and locked the door.
The van was found, along with the clothes the daughter had been wearing.
Her body was found in the wetlands a few months later.
Within 15 minutes half my roof was gone.
Apparently the storm was a derecho, which Id not even heard of before that.
Pretty sure they werent looking to go for a hike.
So I turned the whole pile to be cock eyed so it wouldnt be dead on.
On the way home we hit construction.
We stopped at the giant flashing traffic light, the guy behind us didnt.
We got rear ended by an SUV doing 60+.
I instantly had that same flash of panic and looked over at my GF.
She was fine, I look down, Im fine.
xxkoloblicinxx
Im a little bitch
Im 19.
Buying weed with a friend.
We go to some seedy apartment in the Bronx with a third guy.
Third guy wasnt really my friend, kinda like a childhood bully.
These are our dealers.
Im uncomfortable as hell.
One of the crackheads tells me to stop being such a little bitch.
Third guy chimes in and says if Im going to be a little bitch I can leave.
Friend comes with me.
Days later we find out the crackheads jumped the third guy.
Took his wallet and phone.
Beat him up pretty bad.
Needed his jaw wired for a few months.
Im a little bitch, but I still have my phone and teeth.
A couple of people booked it but they just told us to turn down the music.
I will always regret shutting up because they called me whiny and paranoid.
I started noticing a guy sitting in his car in the park, watching us run.
My bf thought I was being paranoid about it all.
One morning, it was really, really foggy out.
Instead of going forward, I stopped and started walked backwards, towards my house.
I noped out of there and went home.
I never jogged there again.
I reported it to the police (my bfs step dad insisted) but they didnt seem to care.
She was beaten, raped, and left there naked.
They never caught him.
Random dude looked at me and I felt flayed alive, nothing in his eyes but malice.
I grabbed my friends hand, said loudly WE ARE LEAVING, NOW.
Honey_Society
Creepy truck
I was about 11 or 12 years old, at a neighbors house.
A truck drove up our street, slower than usual but not suspiciously slow.
Still, I felt my gut sink for some reason I didnt understand.
A couple minutes later, it passed by again.
And then again after another few minutes, though not quite as slow this time.
She dove behind a bush, and I crouched behind an old car parked in their driveway.
We just kept our eyes locked and tried to stay as still and quiet as possible.
We probably should have screamed, but I think we were both too scared.
The person eventually got in their car and took off.
itshannchii
Decided to have a look at a culvert (covered stream) that I hadnt been down before.
If that ladder had been ten metres further, we might not have made it.
If wed have slipped?
When we got out, it was raining gently.
Nobody knew where we were, what was happening, or how to find us.
Im really glad I got that bus!
Hazie144
Almost robbed
Lived in a rough place and have been robbed many times before.
Usually a bunch of guys asking for spare change then threatening for your wallet.
See a bunch of dodgy looking guys you could tell were up to no good.
I instantly get the feeling but rather than run and have them chase me.
I walked straight to them with a bit of a crazed look and asked them for spare change.
When they said no I insisted.
They left us alone.
Im not a big or threatening guy by any means.
I was having a good time and suddenly I felt that get the fuck out of here.
The next morning as I passed by the place I was playing previously, the entire wall had collapsed!
I connect with dispatch and report a possible robbery.
EDIT: lots of people asking what Yoo-Hoo is.
Its a drink in the US that tastes like watery chocolate milk.
But shut up its delicious.
I currently drive a 2020 Subaru and it has the same thing, only its called StarLink.
We are both short, petite girls and were very clearly in need of a place to stay.
We missed our first ferry out of Barcelona so we had to take the next one.
We navigated the sketchy streets by the Termini train station and finally found our hostel.
The check-in lobby was in a small dingy room that appeared to be a closet.
Desperate, we agreed.
He took us downstairs back to the alleyway where we were greeted by a large man in dirty clothing.
They spoke to each other in a language other than English/Italian and led us outside.
We walked down a couple alleyways until we got to an unmarked door on the side of a building.
One of the men made a phone call, again speaking in a different language.
We walked down the stairs into the sunken room which was lit by black lights.
At this point it was me, my friend, and three large men.
The reception was a dirty room containing a couch with some dirty sheets laid over it.
They told us the rooms were in the basement and to follow them.
At this point I lost it and my friend and I pushed past the men and scrambled back upstairs.
The men kept shouting at us that the rooms were downstairs but the scenario seemed way too wild.
We found the hostel online, but it was very clear that this wasnt where they brought us.
We were definitely in some weird black-lit, dirty basement.
We thought for sure that we were going to get kidnapped and sold into the sex trade that night.
Two men look at me and the passenger asks, Hey, do you need a ride somewhere?
I lie and say no thanks because Im expecting one in a moment.
They said alright and drove off.
I ran into a tiny parking lot to my right and hid behind an outdoor vending machine.
Moments later, the two men pulled into the lot and circled it, clearly looking for me.
When they couldnt find me, they drove away.
I waited a few moments until I decided to call an Uber.
