vta;3423794 said:
That gave me the creeps...
Reminded me of when we (Sister, brother and I) were kids. My mom worked nights and we had the fortress to ourselves. One night, of all nights us watching the Exorcist on cable, my sister screams.
I nearly crap and jump up, look at the door and through the window, see the outer door singing shut. My brother runs to it and holds, not knowing the guy was going the other way. Some guy was staring in at us when my sister saw him.
My mother came home and it never came to anything, just us scared witless. Oddly back then there really was not much to fear it seemed. As kid's we roamed endlessly, everywhere and had no fear. Summer nights we were out. Even after that.
It seemed the whole town was crawling with our neighbors and no one feared a damned thing. I can't imagine allowing my daughter that same kind of freedom without being worried about her.
Yikes.
I dont know how old you are, but I did the exact same thing. I basically was always within a half mile of my house till I was 17 but, still in the summer my friends and I were out running around all the time.
I have two kids. I can not imagine this scenario having any remote chance of happening with them.
When I was a teenager when I was 12 I started going out on halloween with my friends. Halloween was a big deal. there were a ton of kids in my area and we had this odd tradition of spraying each other with shaving cream..(by burning the tip of standard Bic old school can of shaving cream it will shoot out far) throwing eggs at each other and other assorted nonsense.
There used to be stories of kids being abducted and devil worshippers etc....yet every year we still went out!!!!
anyway. I have about 4 experiences with weird people outside houses.
I used to stand on the corner and catch the bus with my same friend from the house and a girl up the street. One friday night in the winter I was at my buddys house playing the gensis and it was about 10:30 or so and we see a bunch of police cars go by.
So being nosey as we were, we went out front and saw it up the street 1 block...two cop cars, they were there about an hour and then left. I went home and we didnt think anything of it.
So monday we were standing on the corner and the girl up the street comes out and starts telling us this wild story.
On friday night she was babysitting for the lady across the street who had two small kids. Apparently the kids rooms were on the back end of the house and they were both sleeping. She kept hearing a creaking noise and didnt know what it was. she didnt want to wake the kids up so she didnt go in there rooms.
so finally she had enough and went to one of the kids windows. Now in the backyard of this house is a brush area and then the train tracks and then more woods on the other side.
So she peaks out the window and there is a guy in a ski mask holding a big knife, swinging on the kids swing set...right outside there bedroom...
She went nuts and started screaming waking the kids up and called 911 with the phone in the kitchen, when she went to the back of the house again to see if he was there and the swing was still going and she couldnt see him.
So she really was scared and her parents were out also so she couldnt call them, so she called her nieghbor that lived next door to her, a 60 something year old woman who came outside and saw the guy near the driveway and then he ran down the street to the tracks.
the police got there fast, but showed up like a minute to late and that guy was never found either....Freaking weird.
by the way this was like 90 or 91, so It has not relationship to the other!
again sorry for rambling.
