True Scary Horror Story: Read a Scary Story for Camping
What is the best true scary horror story?
A young man was working at a gas station in the fall. It was around the time that he needed to start closing up, so it was dark outside already. It was cold and dark, and he just wanted to lock up and finish his night so he could go home. Sometimes there were two employees working, if there were supply trucks coming in. On this night there was no supply truck, so it was only the young man. He locked the front doors to the gas station and went over to the carwash portion of the business. He closed up this area and headed back to the main shop portion of the gas station. He went back in to finish counting all of the money and complete everything he needed to do for the night. There was no one around when he went out to close up the car wash portion, and there were only a few cars passing by on the road every once in a while, due to the time of night it was. However, when the young man looked up from his task, he saw someone standing outside of the window to the shop. It was a man, and he was looking at the young employee of the gas station, so he definitely knew he was still there. The worker noticed the man as a local, but the man was a well-known addict and drug user.
This man is known also for the trouble causing to citizens and businesses alike. He even did some time in prison for violent offenses at one point. This, of course, made it off-putting to the young employee that this was the person looking through the window at him late at night. The person working that night actually admits to being scared at this point. They said that they just tried to keep their head down in hopes that the man would just leave if they ignored them. The man didn’t try to talk to the employee or knock on the door or anything like that. He just stood still in one spot and stared at the young worker from outside. The young man went to the back room to change into his own clothes and got ready to leave out the back door. The back door that he was used to using didn’t have a window so he could see what was going on on the other side of the door. He said he held his keys in his hand so he could try to fend off anyone with bad intentions, and he opened the door just a little bit in order to see what was going on outside. He was relieved to find that the man was not waiting for him on the other side of the door.
Since the man wasn’t waiting on the other side of the door, the young employee ran to his car. He was still scared even though the man wasn’t right there waiting. Unfortunately, he parked on the other side of the parking lot to provide more space for customers to park during business hours. Usually, employees park in a designated space, however, the young man usually doesn’t park in that space. If the man was waiting for him, he most likely wouldn’t have known where he parked anyways. The young worker got all the way to his car and sat inside. He collected himself for a second because he was so worked up from running and being so scared.
The whole ride home the young man made sure to keep a close watch on the rearview mirror in order to see if anyone was following him home. Finally, the young man made it all the way home safe and sound.
So relieved to have escaped such a scary situation, the young man relaxed with a hot shower and got ready for bed. As he was getting ready to lie down for sleep he reflected on what had happened and how we planned to handle the situation if anything like that ever came up again. He said to himself “I will call my boss or the police next time. If anything like that happens again I will make sure I am safe instead of just running to my car and chancing it”. He was satisfied with this inner dialogue and found enough relaxation to drift off to sleep.
After about 2 days had passed after the incident, it came up at work what had happened a couple of days before. He let his boss know that there had been a local drug-addicted man standing outside of the window staring at him during closing hours. This seemed to worry the boss, and he let the young employee know that shortly after that the man went on a drug-fueled spree of stabbing victims until he was caught and held down during his third attempt. He had done hard drugs and hallucinated to the point where he thought he was fighting creatures. These creatures, however, were normal everyday human beings that just so happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time… One person ended up in a critical condition in the ICU as a result of the attacks. One person had minor injuries. The first person that got attacked by the man though, succumbed to their injuries and passed away. The third person to be attacked was only lucky enough to make it out with minor injuries due to the fact that there were a few other people nearby and a security guard for the plaza that was able to help fend off and hold down the attacker.
This news shocked and scared the young worker even more. He had thought it was only a close encounter with a man that he had seen multiple times at a weird time of night and scary to him for some odd reason. He would have never guessed that the man could very well have been planning on stabbing him because he was hallucinating and thought he was a creature.
So far, this is the best scary story heard by Chelsidermy. The account was given by the actual person involved in the scenario, and it was truly terrifying from the beginning to the end. The ending is especially terrifying as you learn that the man looking through the window that night ended up murdering someone that very same night. The fact that he was hallucinating and seeing things that weren’t really there and there was no way to stop him or talk sense to him other than physical force is horrifying, because he had a knife and was using it. The only way that he was stopped in the end was due to there being several people around at the time and they were able to collectively aid in bringing him down and holding him there. The cops were able to get there in time to take him in after the citizens and security guard did their part in making sure his drug-fueled rampage was put to an end.
Do you know any true stories that are more horrifying and scarier than this one? Think about what you would have done in the same situation, and what the outcome may have been for you if you did that. Would you have done the same thing that the young man in this story did, or would you have called the police? Maybe you would have confronted the man. If you chose to confront the man and you didn’t have your own self-defense weapon or something, you may have been on the receiving end of a pointy stabby stab. That’s what we in the business call a real uhoh.
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