Stuff like this stopped scaring me much a while ago so I was fine about reading this thread all the way through at night, but just now my friend who lives on my road asked if we could go for a late night walk/talk and I agreed, and girl as I was waiting for him on the dark, cold, misty road at close to midnight under the eerie orange street lamps I was hearing rustles and seeing stuff in the corner of my eye everywhere
Anyways I haven't got any super scary really but I'll write what I do have.
I remember when I was little I was walking along the canal with my dad and my friend (who was a family friends daughter and the family was staying so my dad took us out for the day) we must have been about 5-7 at the time. So anyway this dodgy looking couple, like a rough-looking man and a fat lady were walking past us in the opposite direction, and I SWEAR I heard the woman say "let's just grab them as we walk past" now let me tell you I clung tight to my dad and give that bitch the biggest DEATH GLARE you can imagine. They were looking at me all the time as they passed but didn't do anything. I was a wreck for the rest of the day and at one point when my friend was in the bathroom my dad asked me what was wrong and I told him, he said he was going to call the police but then I suddenly got really scared I had heard what they said wrong and that I might get in trouble with the police (my poor 6 y.o brain) so I was like "actually don't worry I don't think they said that" but it had me shook for a while.
This one happened literally the other night, me and my friends had been at a club and afterwards they wanted to get the night bus, but that's hella expensive so I decided to walk, it's like an hour walk total but I've done it many times, I just put in earphones loud and drunk-stride my way home, it can be fun plus it kinda sobers me before I get home. It's just a straight route along a main road, all of which is going through a nice part of a nice city, so I've never been worried. about 20 mins from the city centre I walked passed a bus stop with 3 guys waiting there, purely coincidentally I locked eyes with one of them for like a second and then looked away, carried on strutting down the road. Then I clocked the guys were following me, the guy stopped me and said "hey, what was that back there? why did you look at me?" he was really aggressive and it felt more like picking a fight for the sake of it, now I'm 6ft2 and can be reasonably intimidating when I need to be but there were 3 of them and they weren't happy. I was also stupidly holding my iPhone in my hand at that exact second. I just kinda calmly said (or slurred) "Oh sorry man I thought you were someone I kneww" (It's better not to let people like that know you're scared but not to get cocky either) he seemed kinda taken aback by that and I put my earphones in and started walking about I could tell they were talking and were starting to follow me again but I had reached a corner (not a side road I would usually go down but not a huge diversion) and my athletics training came back cause damn I SPRINTED for a good 200m.