" They enquire the hitcher why he did n’t kill my full cousin . He said ' Eh , I ’d plan to , but he was a really nice unseasoned man , he bought me breakfast . I could n’t kill someone that buy me breakfast . ' "
Recently,u/GiGiAnne13asked the people ofr/AskReddit,“What is the scariest story you know to be completely true?”. So, we thought we’d share the spookiest responses:
1.“I was hiking down from doing two weeks of trail work in Colorado a few summers ago. A guy hiking up stopped to chat with us about our work and asked if we had seen anyone make the summit while we were up there.”
" We told him that the first summit of the time of year had been done a few days prior and bid him luck . A friend of mine hike in that area the next solar day and there was a whirlybird circling around . The guy wire had taken the ill-timed gulley back down and died . It ’s still crazy to me to think about . "
— uranium / Wall_clinger
2.“My cousin picked up a hitchhiker about 20 years ago. Nice enough guy. My cousin was hungry, so they stopped at McDonald’s and grabbed the hitchhiker some breakfast, too. Then, they dropped him off where he said he was headed. No big deal.”
" The next morning , my cousin ’s watching the morning newsworthiness and sees that hitchhiker ’s face . Dude was a serial killer and had shoot down someone that picked him up . Cousin calls the cops and they have him come in . turn out the hitcher had killed the verynextperson after my cousin who had given him a ride . He ’d killed a few people who had give him rides , that was his MO .
They ask the hitcher why he did n’t kill my cousin-german . He said ' Eh , I ’d planned to , but he was a really nice young man , he bought me breakfast . I could n’t kill someone that buy me breakfast . ' "
— u / TrailMomKat
3.“I had something similar happening to me. When I was younger I was in Colombia (the country) and at some point I was drunk and took a taxi back to my hotel.”
" I was hungry so I asked the driver to repulse by McDonald ’s first . And I have a clump of food and bid the taxi driver as well . We had a near conversation and later on , he dropped me off . Just before he dropped me off he told me that I should never just get a random taxicab and that he really think to rob me with his buddies who were expect a little further down the road at said McDonald ’s . But because I bought him intellectual nourishment he did n’t go through with it . Spooky . "
— u / NikEy
" So the lesson of all these stories is , I should always buy solid food for every person I meet . Done and done . "
— u / MattIsLame
4.“When I was a kid, there was a peeping tom in the neighborhood. But the weird part is we all knew who he was, a little older guy named Ralph who lived a couple streets over and smoked like a chimney.”
" People would encounter footprints and butt butts outside window , smack coffin nail sens , and from time to time see the scarlet cherry red on the cigarette lambency in the Ellen Price Wood . on occasion angry dad and teenagers who espy him out in the iniquity would give chase , but he act like a cervid through the woods and no one could put their hands on him . He was sort of a neighborhood boogie-woogie man , though thankfully seemed mostly harmless if awful creepy .
Many year afterward , there was a rash of fracture - ins around the region . the great unwashed even joked at the time that it must not be Ralph because we all estimate he had copy of everyone ’s skin - a - key already if he wanted to go inside ( sidenote : we by and by larn that he definitely DID have cay to some houses . ) Anyway , everyone ’s sentry go was up .
One night, one of the neighbours heard a commotion outside, and ran outside to find a stranger laid out in his driveway, beat to sh*t.
They called 911 and when the police arrived , they were able-bodied to name the guy as someone who had late apprehension for breaking and entering and find items from the old gaolbreak - ins in his vehicle nearby and later at his apartment .
As for how he ended up taking a bloody short sleep in the driveway ? He enunciate he was jump from behind in the dark and never got a good look at the guy . All he commend for certain was that the guy stunk of cigarette Mary Jane . "
— u / keenedge422
5.“My family and I were staying in a rental house for a few months. This particular house was owned by a fairly wealthy friend of his who was going through a divorce. So, we’re staying there pretty cheap.”
" One dark near Christmas , I groggily ignite up and see a fair sex wearing white get through underdrawers on the other side of the elbow room . I must have made a strait because she call on and rushed over to me and softly say , ' shhh , go back to sleep , minuscule boy . ' Weirdly , I did . She looked like Liza Minelli if that ’s at all relevant .
The next morning I woke up to my parents acting weird and I hear one of them make a comment like , ' I ca n’t tell what ’s gone and what ’s not . ' For some rationality , I did n’t tie in the dots until I was honest-to-god and never told them what I saw ( I thought it was a dream ) .
So , yeah , the former owner of our rental house broke in ( probably had a Francis Scott Key ) and I construe her but did n’t do or say sh*t . I was plausibly nine or so . "
— u / LarvellJonesMD
6.“The story of a continuous, days-long shark attack following a US navy ship sinking as told inJawswas real.”
— u / Broomstick73
7.“I gave Aileen Wuornos a ride a couple days before Christmas in 1990.”
" For circumstance , she was a serial sea wolf in key Florida . In hindsight , it ’s kind of a funny floor . When I was 16 I hung out with a rougher crowd . They rent me hang out at one of the prevention they owned in Daytona ; these bars were generally in rougher area of townsfolk .
One nighttime I was leave at the same time she was , she was pretty drunk , and I extend her a ride because the neighborhood was grave . I throw away her off at the hotel she was stay at ( cheap , by - the - week hotel ) and guide home . A couple of hebdomad later , I saw her on the news . "
— u / Detachedhymen
8.“My family literally had a party to die for.”
finally , the previous duo went home a bit earlier than the rest of the guest and we did n’t think anything of it . About an hr later as another guest was about to leave they came hasten back into the home yelling about police and medical officer on our street . plow out the hubby of the old couple simply dropped utter about 30 hour after they fuck off home .
I gauge to be fair a big talking level at the party was how he was already basically on his last leg thanks to health conditions and it was only a matter of clock time , but we did n’t consider it ’d be that soon . "
— u/12gunner
9.“My brother-in-law roomed with Jeffrey Dahmer at Ohio State freshman year.”
— atomic number 92 / copper8061
10.“I was walking my dog in Philadelphia and the light turned red. The car in front of it slowed down, and then it turned green and I entered the intersection. The car sped up and the dog and I almost got hit.”
" I holler ' ASSHOLE ' at him , and he slammed on his brakes and pulled into a parking spate in front of me . I can see at this time the car had Illinois plates and as I walked up he said very calmly , ' I would n’t call me an asshole . I ’ve killed masses . ' I just kept walking .
The next day I go out sequential killer Andrew Cunanan had killed somebody in New Jersey and stolen his hand truck , leaving behind the car he took from Chicago after he killed the owner .
That ’s 100 % who I called an asshole . "
— u / Whitealroker1
11.“My uncle and his girlfriend were hitchhiking down the mountains of Colorado and were picked up by a man. A little way down the road, he stopped the car and asked my uncle if he could check the tire, saying he thought he ran something over.”
" My uncle start out and the gentleman’s gentleman drive away with his girlfriend and pulled a weapon on her . She right away opened the door and jumped out while he was driving .
My uncle and his girlfriend reconvene and were okay , but were endeavor to process what happened . At a later fourth dimension , they saw a story on the news about a nonparallel orca and it ended up being the Isle of Man who picked them up . It was Ted Bundy . "
— u / rebellyous
12.“When I was really young, my mom and I would go to a laundrette near where we lived. But we stopped going because the other one was close to a shop my mom liked to go, and I liked it because I got a treat.”
" wrench out some man was killed and placed into one of the laundry dryers . "
— uracil / HearingAccurate8616
13.“My wife and I moved out of state for her to go to school. We didn’t know a single person in the area. My wife befriended a young lady at her part-time job, and my wife invited the new friend and her boyfriend to our place for dinner. They were the first guests we had over.”
" majuscule food and swallow , great conversation , cracking night .
They asked if we ever watchedUnsolved Mysteries , because the show was re - airing an episode that call for an unsolved execution . The murder had happened very nigh to where each of them dwell .
So we watched it , and it was passably much what the couple had told us .
The murder stay unresolved for five or six years , until a womanhood went to the police and said that her ex - boyfriend , years before , had profess to her that he was the one who did it .
The woman and her fellow were our first dinner guests in our new township .
I guess the scary part is that they seemed so nice and normal , and how easily my married woman and I were bewitch by them . How unguarded we were . "
— u / dekehairy
14.“My uncle kept finding half-eaten animals on his property so he set up trail cams and caught a person catching and eating a live possum before walking away. Never happened again after that.”
" Do n’t have a go at it how he still lives there . "
— u / Glass_Can_5157
Shout out tou/GiGiAnne13andr/AskRedditfor having this discussion.
Note : submission have been redact for length and/or clarity .
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