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This. Content may not be suitable

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for all audiences. Listener discretion

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advised. I

0:12

wish I could have figured out what that

0:14

was all about, but during every interaction me

0:16

my brother had with him that day and

0:18

night he never spoke a word. Pretty

0:21

fucking creepy. Like

0:24

some nights that watched and

0:26

followed feeling is more like

0:29

a burning hatred directed towards

0:31

my existence. like being stopped

0:33

by an enemy or predator.

0:37

We ended up calling the police to report

0:39

this guy, but they kind of, point blank

0:41

said they wouldn't really do anything unless we

0:43

got hurt. From

0:46

Killer Podcasts True Tales

0:49

of Horror, bizarre happenings,

0:51

unexplainable events. This

0:54

is just. Hello

1:18

and welcome back to the podcast.

1:20

This week we're bringing new three

1:22

true stories that will frighten and

1:24

disturb. So sit back, listen close,

1:27

and dive into the whore. Our

1:30

first story was narrated by the

1:32

talented Gregory James and comes to

1:35

us from Reddit user fan dog

1:37

Nineteen Eighty Nine, a strange visitor

1:39

at two am. Quip.

1:43

Bit of backstory: Me thirty two years old,

1:45

my brother, twenty eight years old, and or

1:48

disabled mom all live together in a trailer

1:50

about thirty minutes from Nashville. I was wary

1:52

about moving there for the stereotypes you may

1:54

hear about trailer parks, but luckily we've had

1:57

zero issues in the ten years we've been

1:59

here. Grenade Neighbors well kept yards.

2:01

You get the idea. So.

2:04

About a week ago, we are finally

2:06

putting up our Christmas tree, drinking probably

2:08

too much beer, listening to Christmas music,

2:10

and the Christmas spirit was in full

2:12

swing. During. Our random banter

2:14

my brother says oh yes I simply by

2:16

forgot to tell you. Earlier

2:18

today at work, the owner had to

2:20

kick out some guy who was acting

2:22

super creepy. My. Brother works as

2:24

a stocker at a local family or market

2:26

about a mile from our home. He went

2:28

on and tell me that this younger looking

2:30

guy was pacing the aisles, sometimes standing still

2:32

for like minutes at a time and not

2:35

responding when the owner would ask if needed

2:37

help finding something. After about twenty minutes

2:39

it is. The owner asked him to please

2:41

leave because he was scaring the customers. Ends

2:43

without a word he just left. We.

2:46

Continue or good time hanging ornaments drinking.

2:48

Getting our mom involves is with the

2:50

ornaments nut the drinking of course and

2:53

all is good. We. Wrap up

2:55

around ten thirty pm, help our mom to bed

2:57

from a wheelchair and decide we might as well

2:59

finish off the ton of beer we have left

3:01

and admirer. Death Doubt Free. At

3:04

eleven thirty we decided to go out on the front

3:06

porch to share cigarette as we usually do when we

3:08

tied on a good buzz. My. Brother

3:10

opens the door and almost

3:12

immediately closest. I ask

3:14

what's up. He says. Holy

3:17

Shit. The guy I was telling you

3:19

about to like Michael Myers walk down

3:21

the street past our house. I

3:24

thought that was pretty strange, but wasn't

3:26

super concerned. We waited for

3:28

a few minutes and then when I smoked

3:30

as usual before going back inside. My brother

3:32

and I aren't troublemakers and all, but I'm

3:34

pretty confident in our ability to defend ourselves

3:36

if we had to. At this

3:39

point visa just thoughts and the back of

3:41

my mind know after all hadn't seen this

3:43

guy yet. Fast forward

3:45

to about two am. were more than drunk

3:47

enough to go ahead and call it a

3:49

night after one more sick. My brother opens

3:52

the door and within seconds I hear him

3:54

say what, whoa, hey man, you got a

3:56

buddy what's up you good. I'm

3:59

in the kitchen at the. time, but quickly decided that

4:01

this did not sound right. And I rushed over to

4:03

the door. What I see

4:05

when I get to the open door is a

4:07

younger man standing on our deck about three feet

4:09

from our front door. He's pretty

4:11

tall, about six four. And I noticed

4:13

he looks a lot like Adam Driver,

4:15

which was a detail my brother jokingly

4:18

mentioned earlier during tree time. I'm

4:20

realizing for the first time, this

4:22

must be the guy he's been talking about. One

4:25

thing my brother must have not gotten close enough

4:27

to notice that worked though was this

4:30

guy's eyes. I'm

4:32

not exaggerating when I say I've never seen

4:34

anything like it. His body

4:36

language wasn't super menacing, but his

4:39

eyes were the strangest combination of

4:41

wide eyed bewilderment and fury like

4:43

us opening our front door confused

4:45

him and also made him very,

4:48

very angry. I joined

4:50

my brother and explaining to him that it's late and

4:52

he should head home. After what I'd

4:54

say was about 30 seconds of staring.

4:57

He just walked off without a word.

5:00

I peeked out of the blinds to make sure he

5:02

really left and saw nothing. We

5:04

both tried to laugh it off saying things like,

5:06

well, it was pretty weird, huh? But

5:09

it took a while for my adrenaline to taper off.

5:12

The thing I kept thinking to myself that

5:14

was bothering me was those 30 seconds

5:16

to me. It felt like he

5:19

was the one deciding what the next move would be.

5:22

But what that could have been, I have

5:24

no idea. I also didn't love

5:26

that my brother said that when he opened the

5:28

door, he was already standing

5:30

there. So for how

5:32

long? We calm down

5:34

watching YouTube videos and after another 30 minutes

5:37

or so I say to my brother, okay,

5:39

man, let's just go to bed. I'll

5:41

take one more look outside to be safe. I

5:44

felt like it wasn't really necessary, but

5:46

I opened the door and he's back again.

5:50

The streetlights are spaced very far apart in our

5:52

trailer park, but at the edge of our driveway

5:55

there I see his silhouette probably 50

5:57

feet away again, just staring.

6:00

And our front door. I. Feel

6:02

I should mention that he's not. They're testing

6:04

on the phone with someone. He's just. They

6:07

are. I feel bad

6:09

in hindsight because I'm sure this poor

6:11

guy definitely has mental health issues, but

6:13

between being drunk and exhausted and the

6:16

look he gave us earlier, I was

6:18

over it. I finally put

6:20

some place in my voice and said hey man.

6:23

You kids are in our driveway been

6:25

creepy dude. Just please leave a really

6:27

don't want to the cops on use

6:29

of don't make me. This

6:32

seem to work. His demeanor didn't

6:34

change at all, but the worst cops seemed

6:36

to do the trick. He turned around and

6:38

walked away. I hope we

6:40

handled it well. I understand and empathize

6:43

with people with mental health problems and

6:45

have friends and family who unfortunately suffer

6:47

from those things. However, I

6:49

still can't shake the feeling that something

6:51

bad could have happened that night. He

6:54

didn't finals leave our ports earlier that night

6:56

until I showed up to the door, essentially

6:58

making him out numbered. And even then he

7:00

still came back after. I

7:03

hope he's okay out there. We haven't

7:05

seen him since. I also hope

7:07

not calling the police wasn't a bad

7:09

choice. Next.

7:14

We hear a story from Reddit

7:17

user toast Head narrated by Seats

7:19

Are Brazil. We're. Nearly driven

7:21

mad by the spirits of the

7:23

dead. For.

7:26

Context. I am highly skeptical,

7:28

but no stranger to the

7:30

paranormal, I'm the type that

7:32

police demons exist, but most

7:34

ghost stories are overreactions, have

7:36

easily explained phenomena, or simply

7:38

holsters. About three months ago

7:40

I started working security for

7:42

hotel that was built back

7:44

in the nineteen twenties by

7:46

a major hotel chain, has

7:48

changed hands multiple times and

7:51

is now owned by one

7:53

of the biggest hotel chains.

7:55

I'm not saying which so the company can

7:57

sue me. Now. From what I've

8:00

been, the old paranormal activity is not

8:02

a common occurrence in the hotel. But.

8:05

Some years back to Make a

8:07

Wish Foundation started sending some children

8:09

here. Because. Well, it's

8:11

a major resort at one of the

8:14

most popular beaches and east coast. Why

8:16

wouldn't they. However, the

8:18

hotel was not informed of this

8:20

and didn't realize what was happening

8:22

until several children died in their

8:25

rooms over the course of a

8:27

few weeks. Supposedly on why is

8:29

it nice you can hear children

8:31

playing with a ball in the

8:34

North Tower ballrooms at night. For

8:36

years guests complained of children playing

8:38

ball loudly next to their rooms,

8:40

even and when security would check.

8:43

There. Would be no one there. This

8:45

has not happened in a while,

8:47

but going into the story you

8:49

should understand that my opinion on

8:52

the cause of what I've seen

8:54

may be warped by being told

8:56

the story. Now. Average

8:58

shifts. We do a floor check. Especially

9:00

a night shift when I work. At.

9:03

First, I never noticed anything

9:05

strange. I did a little

9:07

creeped out by the point of the floors

9:10

at night, but nothing supernatural. The.

9:12

Hotel has to separate towers separated

9:14

by a restaurant and sleeping area

9:16

that connects them. About

9:19

a month into the job and

9:21

suddenly I started feeling like something

9:23

was following me on my floor

9:25

checks especially in the south tower

9:28

which is the biggest and tallest

9:30

and where I understand both jumpers

9:32

jews because all the rooms facing

9:34

the ocean, that sliding glass doors

9:37

with a short railing and front

9:39

and you can put the rest

9:41

together from there. Anyway,

9:44

It got really bad in

9:46

October. Maybe the spooky season

9:48

had an effect on me,

9:51

but this feeling of being

9:53

watched and followed never went

9:55

away. As the weeks have

9:57

gone on, I started seeing

9:59

distorted. This is in windows as

10:01

I passed by. The

10:03

point: I'm no longer looked at them. The

10:06

floor pattern sometimes reflects on the glass

10:09

and the mind could easily make a

10:11

face with the pattern, but some of

10:13

these faces were up further on the

10:16

glass where it is wouldn't have been

10:18

possible. When. I focus up

10:20

there. Sometimes I can almost hear whispers

10:22

in the back of my mind. Urging

10:26

me to commit suicide or lambasting

10:28

the for the mistakes of made

10:30

or even telling me and securities

10:33

I have about myself. I've never

10:35

told anyone about. And.

10:37

The last few weeks some strange

10:39

physical and auditory phenomena have occurred.

10:42

Part. Of what we do on floor

10:44

attacks as closed doors we find open.

10:47

And. Some of the doors late

10:49

be have been more difficult to

10:52

close. One. In particular I

10:54

had to use all my strength

10:56

to slam shut the ice machines

10:58

and each floor sometimes make a

11:00

banking noise while an operation so

11:02

I use of the attribute any

11:05

noise I hear from the ending

11:07

area to that but sometimes it's

11:09

almost as sounded like something was

11:11

rummaging in the garbage cans and

11:13

when I go to investigate I

11:15

told my kids so they wouldn't

11:17

jingle and case it was a

11:19

person. And as soon

11:21

as I do, the rummaging

11:23

noise will stop. On a

11:25

couple of occasions I felt

11:28

what I can only describe

11:30

as hands hatching me while

11:32

closing certain doors. Sometimes just

11:34

a tickle. And other times

11:36

a brush against the back of my

11:38

hand. And even a ceiling

11:40

like someone on the other side of the

11:42

door is pulling it in the opposite direction.

11:46

I. Now dread the floor

11:48

checks, especially after three am.

11:51

I'm not trying to make the

11:53

seeing scarier than it is, but

11:55

these things intensify the closer it

11:57

gets to that. our whatever the

12:00

are. They aren't friendly and I

12:02

think they know like is sensitive.

12:04

The really don't like that. I

12:06

can sense that. You're

12:12

listening to Disturbed. Will be

12:15

right back. Welcome

12:24

Nexus. Finally

12:27

we have a story from

12:30

Reddit user Flowers Flowers to

12:32

Hinted telling us a terrifying

12:34

experience with a arranged man

12:36

marrying by Elizabeth See. This.

12:43

Happens in Twenty Twenty One. So still

12:45

in the midst of cool that I

12:47

totally forgot about this happening until I

12:49

found a similar story. Essentially,

12:51

two years ago, during covered nineteen, a

12:53

group of my friends and I wanted

12:55

to all live with each other while

12:57

we were doing remote learning at University.

13:00

We. Go to a very popular school in

13:02

California. As a group of

13:04

girls living together during cove it does

13:07

we spent most nights watching movies, drinking

13:09

wine, and hanging out altogether. To.

13:11

Give some context to the layout of

13:13

our house. We lived in a massive

13:16

house that was divided into three different.

13:18

Apartments. Which. Is our

13:20

apartment specifically because it was at the

13:22

very back of the house, which made

13:24

us all feel safer since we wouldn't

13:27

have the normal riffraff of thing right

13:29

on the streets where anyone could easily

13:31

see or decide to do anything sketchy.

13:34

Not that we really thought it was an issue. But.

13:36

It made all five girls living in

13:39

the house feel safer, especially since we

13:41

were now all away from our families.

13:44

And. Terms of: inside We have four

13:46

bedrooms upstairs and one bedroom right

13:48

next to the open concept Kittens

13:50

Last Living Room. The. Ground floor

13:52

bedroom faces are tiny parking lot, three cars

13:54

and a tiny garden while a kitchen and

13:57

living room face a little side the only

13:59

way that runs along the side of the

14:01

house and leads to our front door. So

14:03

it was a pretty big apartment. Some.

14:06

Foreshadowing, Since we got the apartment

14:08

in the middle of Covert Nineteen,

14:10

we hadn't furnish it properly and

14:12

did not have any curtains or

14:14

blinds. The only thing that separates

14:17

the window from the outside is

14:19

a pretty flimsy bug screen. In

14:22

the weeks leading up to the incident, my

14:24

friend who is the one living in the

14:26

bedroom on the first floor was complaining to

14:28

the other four of us that if we

14:30

wanted to bring anyone over we needed to

14:32

be at the door to grab them so

14:34

that they don't single and try the locked

14:36

door every time. Apparently. Should

14:38

always hear footsteps right outside her window

14:41

which they start. Little parking lot at

14:43

the back of the house and would

14:45

hear someone tried to open the front

14:47

door or tried to open a window.

14:49

Looking. Back on it. Now, I don't really

14:51

understand how we weren't as freaked out when

14:53

she told us this. I think

14:56

we just had such a false sense of security

14:58

since we had so many people in the house.

15:00

we lived in the very back of the house

15:02

and we did have boys coming in and out

15:04

of our house at night. So. I

15:06

guess it just wasn't unusual to hear

15:08

footsteps. Or at least we just

15:10

kept blaming each other's hookups for not following

15:13

the rules of staying outside until we opened

15:15

the door for them. Anyways,

15:17

my friends' complaints died down and

15:19

we'll kind of forgot about any

15:21

issues that happened. With. Constantly got

15:24

into fights in the house us because we were

15:26

all cooped up inside all the time so things

15:28

that are said really just come and go. This

15:31

was until the day that the incident

15:33

happened and it was honestly the scariest

15:35

thing that has probably ever happened to

15:37

me. All five of us,

15:40

plus two boyfriends were all sitting in

15:42

the living room for a Harry Potter

15:44

movie marathon. We. Have three

15:46

couches that are all placed and they

15:48

use seep configuration and a city tiny

15:51

Tv we were able to buy for

15:53

a hundred and fifty dollars at Best

15:55

Buy. So. It was a tight squeeze for

15:57

all of us. But. it felt so safe

15:59

being around so many people, especially

16:02

two huge guys. For

16:04

some more pretexts for our marathon, we all

16:06

thought it would be kind of cute to

16:08

make Harry Potter themed treats. We

16:10

made cupcakes and filled them with different colors for

16:12

all the houses, one of my

16:15

other friends made a sparkly cocktail, and we were

16:17

just kind of having fun with it. We

16:19

had all of our lights turned off because

16:21

as you know, the Harry Potter films are

16:23

filmed with a lot of darkness, and with

16:25

such a crappy TV, it was genuinely hard

16:27

to see what was going on at some

16:30

points. At this point, we were

16:32

really enjoying the film until one

16:34

of my friends says to pause the TV.

16:37

She said that she has been hearing some crunches

16:39

and footsteps for the past 30 minutes. This

16:43

was my bad entirely, but I told her

16:45

to stop scaring all of us because we

16:48

have the other two apartments in the house

16:50

who occasionally walk by our front door after

16:52

they have parked, so it wasn't

16:54

anything to be scared about. We

16:57

continue watching the movie and suddenly

16:59

we hear giggling. It

17:01

was a short burst and then dead

17:03

silent. We were all dead silent.

17:06

It was almost like we couldn't believe we

17:08

heard something so close by. We

17:10

literally turned off the TV at this point

17:13

because it was just really unnerving. And

17:16

then there it was again. Whoever

17:18

it was was literally right outside

17:20

of our door giggling. It

17:22

didn't sound like a child's giggle. It

17:25

was more like someone imitating a child's giggle,

17:27

which really freaked us all out. We

17:30

went to my bedroom window which was above the front

17:32

door so that we could see if

17:34

anyone was outside. As expected,

17:36

no one was outside. No

17:38

one was in the alleyway. So the

17:40

boys decided they would just check outside our

17:42

house in the parking lot and see if

17:44

they could find anything. I think

17:46

they were spooked too but didn't want to admit

17:48

it. The boys end up

17:51

coming back and said they couldn't find anything

17:53

weird or unusual. And it

17:55

was probably just our next door neighbors because they

17:57

were throwing a little kickback. So we

17:59

probably probably just heard some weird echo. Maybe

18:02

it's the false sense of security, but we were

18:04

pretty satisfied with that answer. If

18:06

the boys weren't even that freaked out, why would we be?

18:10

So, we decided to turn the TV back

18:12

on, make some more popcorn, and just chill.

18:15

Once again, maybe it's just stupidity or feeling

18:17

like nobody could hurt us with such a

18:20

big group, but we opened one of

18:22

the kitchen windows for some air after one of

18:24

my friends burnt the popcorn. The

18:26

kitchen window we opened was on the very

18:28

far end of the kitchen, and was the

18:30

furthest window away from us, so

18:33

it felt better knowing that even if something

18:35

were to happen, at least we had some

18:37

distance. Anyways, as

18:39

it happened previously, we heard another

18:42

giggle. This one

18:44

sounded almost strangled, almost

18:46

like it was really forced out. We

18:49

looked towards the open window and saw nothing. One

18:52

of the boys decided to shout, shut the

18:54

fuck up, for some comic relief, I guess.

18:58

I think it made us feel better to think that

19:00

it was just the house next door's party. We

19:03

unpaused the movie, and not

19:05

even seconds after unpausing, do

19:07

we hear another giggle. And

19:10

this time, when we look over, we

19:12

see some guy's face pressed against

19:15

the fucking bug screen while he

19:17

continues to open and close his mouth,

19:19

as if he is trying to chomp down on

19:21

the screen. His eyes were

19:24

wide open, and just staring at all

19:26

of us, as he kept

19:28

chomping. Holy shit, it

19:30

was chaos. Literally

19:33

survival instincts went straight out the window for

19:35

some of us, because while the boys ran

19:37

to the window and tried to shut and

19:40

lock it, everyone else was

19:42

screaming or running upstairs or locking

19:44

themselves into bedrooms. This

19:46

is the part that I cannot recount since I

19:48

ran upstairs, but according to the

19:50

boys, after they were able to shut the window

19:53

and grab one of our kitchen knives, the

19:55

guide just continued to press his face

19:57

against the window, making the same chomping

20:00

motion while not blinking and

20:02

he stayed like that until suddenly

20:05

he whipped his head back and

20:07

literally disappeared into the darkness. We

20:10

ended up calling the police to report this guy

20:12

but they kind of point blank said they wouldn't

20:14

really do anything unless we got hurt but

20:17

that they would definitely file a report about it for

20:19

any future issues that could be called in. But

20:22

that night we all decided to buy blinds

20:24

for downstairs and we called some of our

20:26

dads to help us install proper locks on

20:29

the front door and all of the bottom

20:31

floor windows. So I guess all

20:33

in all nothing bad happened. There

20:36

are a lot of people who overdose and

20:38

do heavy drugs around campus so

20:40

it was most likely a result of someone who took

20:42

too much of something but it

20:44

was definitely scary since we didn't actually

20:46

know if his intentions were to come

20:48

inside. Disturbed

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own true horror story at

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Disturbed podcast.com. Music

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by Epidemic Sound and Carl Casey

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at White Fat Honor. Our

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producers are Noah Fouts and Elizabeth Flood.

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Our audio engineer is Nathan Corso, executive

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producers Frigid Coin and Gerardo

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Orlena. Until next

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time, stay safe out there.

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