"We Stood There In Shock And Horror": People Are Sharing Their Most "Unsettling" Experiences With Someone, And I'm Scared To Go Outside Now

Warning: This station contains mentions of unit and intersexual abuse.

If your gut is ever telling you that thing is disconnected oregon not right, it's astir apt champion to perceive — and these stories beryllium it. Recently, Redditor u/Brilliant_Ad_3661 asked those successful the Reddit assemblage to stock who the astir "disturbing" idiosyncratic they've met has been, and it's shocking:

1. "An ICU diligent of excavation who was recovering from surgery. I was making tiny talk, and helium gleefully told maine the communicative of however he, successful a bout of roadworthy rage, ran down a motorcyclist and near them for dormant connected a tiny state road successful our state. He told maine with this zero remorse — casually, arsenic if it was nothing."

2. "A antheral utilized to travel maine location from schoolhouse erstwhile I was 15. He made my tegument crawl, and I ever made definite I was ne'er location alone, due to the fact that helium would beryllium waiting astatine the autobus halt nary substance what clip I passed it. He'd conscionable basal determination until I walked past, and past he'd intimately locomotion down maine each the mode home, occasionally calling maine beauteous oregon asking if helium could instrumentality maine out. Thank deity for my mates being other protective, due to the fact that erstwhile I was 18, helium was convicted of the execution of a 17-year-old miss he'd been seeing, who, erstwhile I saw her representation successful the paper, was eerily similar-looking to me."

—tattoodetective

3. "I had 2 roommates successful college. I wasn't peculiarly adjacent to either of them, but we came from the aforesaid town. One of them had a younger brother, and she asked maine if helium could walk the nighttime connected our sofa for a nighttime oregon two. It wasn't great, but I didn't complain. I can't explicate it, but helium was truthful creepy. There was a deadness to his eyes, and helium hardly spoke. I was precise gladsome erstwhile helium was gone. A fewer years later, I recovered retired however creepy helium truly was. Apparently, his parents kicked him retired due to the fact that helium had been stealing from them, but helium came backmost and made a hiding spot successful the store and would enactment there. I conjecture helium cleared it up during the day, due to the fact that they had nary thought however agelong helium was doing that."

"Anyway, helium broke into the location adjacent door. A elemental burglary would beryllium atrocious enough, but no. He hung retired for hours and waited for the pistillate homeowner to travel home. He murdered her with an axe. He was captured not agelong aft and drove distant successful her car. He was executed a fewer years later. The full communicative wasn't truly a surprise. He was the astir evil idiosyncratic I've ever been adjacent to, and I knew thing was disconnected astir him agelong earlier it happened."

—Expensive-Signal8623

4. "Unfortunately, my younger brother. He's astatine the bottommost of the tube of inceldom, and helium harasses radical connected the net to the constituent of being connected the receiving extremity of aggregate lawsuits for defamation and harassment."

5. "My ex-stepmother. There isn't capable abstraction to explicate completely, but she was (and I presume inactive is) wholly detached from reality. She believes that, isolated from her, her daughter, and her grandkids, radical are conscionable things to beryllium utilized for her betterment. When my dada died (he was nary prince, either), she offered to SELL america his ashes. We haven't had immoderate interaction with her since then, contempt her sending threatening emails trying to extort much wealth from us. We conscionable walk it each to the police, grateful that she lives successful different country. The astir disturbing thing, though? In her community, she is considered to beryllium an implicit paragon of virtuousness — a pillar of the church. In reality, she is an evil ammunition of a person."

—Dizzy-Silver-4678

6. "I had a first-line supervisor portion successful the army. He made my beingness and different women's lives hell. He'd often proposition the pistillate soldiers of our portion for intersexual favors; helium was ace manipulative and a liar, and helium was beloved by astir of the men I was stationed with (I was successful a mostly antheral unit). It was truly atrocious and made my tegument crawl. Fast-forward, and a fewer years later, helium became a Green Beret. In 2013, helium was tried and convicted of kidnapping, forcible sodomy, and intersexual assault. He received a dishonorable discharge and was sentenced to 10 years. A petition was started to trim his sentence, and it succeeded. A wide dropped the kidnapping charge, and helium was released aft 1 year."

—Legitimate-Article50

7. "This 1 feline I met astatine a screenwriting course. In our archetypal league arsenic a group, radical had gathered, but nary 1 was speaking. So, being somewhat outgoing connected occasion, I initiated a light-hearted radical introduction, and radical picked up and joined successful happily. There was 1 guy, though, who felt disconnected the full time. Before 1 session, I caught him talking to different subordinate astir each the hard drugs he'd done and his connections to convulsive gangs successful America. And immoderate clip helium contributed to people ideas, helium ever spoke astir his emotion for 'body horror' — the much depraved the amended — and the sick ideas helium had for fearfulness films."

"After astir 7 classes, helium erupted astatine the teacher for nary reason, threatening her and telling her what helium thought astir her, etc. A fewer of america tried calming him down, but helium was seeing reddish and stormed out. They banned him and refunded him each his wealth due to the fact that helium seemed similar specified a threat. I person nary uncertainty that helium was not a good man, and helium was really precise dangerous."

—TheCornerGoblin

8. "I knew idiosyncratic who told a radical of america that whenever helium saw animals connected the road, he'd deliberately effort to deed them due to the fact that helium thought it was similar a crippled of whack-a-mole."

9. "I've met a clump of disturbing people, but the worst 1 was this miss successful precocious schoolhouse and assemblage who masqueraded arsenic my friend. She wholly lacked empathy and did everything she could to destruct maine (and damn adjacent succeeded). It's not the ones who are evidently unhinged that are the astir dangerous; it's the ones who tin grin and look similar the astir fantastic radical you should truly ticker retired for."

—Due-Mouse-9330

10. "In the wayback machine, a person and I utilized to bent retired with a mates of blistery guys who ran the section liquor store. Occasionally, 1 of the guys would bring his brother, who'd enactment successful the country and wouldn't speech oregon socialize. It ever creeped maine out. Well, respective years later, the member killed his woman and her family, sparing lone his children."

—wrongseeds

11. "There was a coworker astatine my aged occupation who utilized to cod people's hairsbreadth from their desks. He said it was for creation projects. I inactive deliberation astir that sometimes."

12. "There was a fashionable feline astatine my precocious schoolhouse who ever seemed precise bully and friendly. Eventually, it came retired that helium was a serial rapist who would allegedly ticker necrophilia videos connected the acheronian web."

—CascadeLimeade

13. "I privation I didn't cognize this, but I knew a antheral who crap connected someone's windshield. He was bragging astir a miss who wouldn't springiness him the clip of day, truthful successful retaliation, helium pooped connected her car windshield. He did it earlier schoolhouse truthful that helium could spot her reaction. He thought it was hilarious, portion we each stood determination successful shock, disbelief, and horror."

—thepeacock87

14. "I cognize a feline who was calved into generational wealth. He was wholly dissociated from reality. His parent provided him a live-in servant who did each the cooking, cleaning, and a lion's stock of raising 2 tiny children. She lived successful his location for implicit 3 years earlier helium recovered retired she was really a slave. He thought that erstwhile his parent had talented him the assistance that she was being paid a salary. He was distraught to larn that she ne'er near the location due to the fact that she was a slave. After 3 years."

—Affectionate-Arm-602

15. "I met a chill feline astatine a party. My person and I were like, 'Yeah, we should bent retired with him and our different friend, they'd astir apt get along.' Nothing came of it, but a mates of years later, we recovered retired that the feline had moved and murdered his roommate and acceptable the location connected fire. He seemed similar a wholly mean guy."

16. Lastly: "Many, galore years ago, I dated a guy, and we would play small games, which progressive him tying maine up with ropes. One time, helium near the country and came backmost with a cattle prod. He touched maine with it, and I broke retired of the ropes and told him to ne'er bash that again. That was really the past clip I saw him, and we'd been friends for astir 3 years. He called maine a mates of months aboriginal from jail. I accepted the call, and helium told maine that he'd accidentally killed a pistillate that helium was seeing. I didn't inquire immoderate details, I conscionable felt precise lucky."

—username_ysatis

Well...I volition present beryllium adjacent much cautious whenever I permission my house. Who's the astir disturbing idiosyncratic you've ever met? Let america cognize successful the comments, oregon you tin anonymously taxable your communicative utilizing the signifier below.

Note: Some submissions person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.

The National Alliance connected Mental Illness helpline is 1-800-950-6264 (NAMI) and provides accusation and referral services; GoodTherapy.org is an relation of intelligence wellness professionals from much than 25 countries who enactment efforts to trim harm successful therapy.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize has experienced intersexual assault, you tin telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-HOPE, which routes the caller to their nearest intersexual battle work provider. You tin besides hunt for your section halfway here.