Something was off about this guy..

Hello. Long time lurker on Reddit, specifically this thread. This isn’t my main account, due to privacy issues I will be posting on this secondary one. I forgot about this instance until recently and it may not be the “creepiest” or most “suspenseful” event to happen, but it definitely sparked concern at the time. Also, sorry if my writing isn’t the best I am on mobile.

This happened almost fifteen years ago when I was seven. My best friend’s mom would babysit my brother and I before and after school. My mom would usually drop us off at her house around 6am, she would make us breakfast, and the three of us would walk to our elementary that was less than ten minutes away. For preface, we would walk through an adjacent neighborhood, through this small wooded area that had an enclosed bridge, and that led us to the back of our elementary. The elementary sits back in a long tree line that runs about half a mile North and another mile South.

Anyways, we’re about to get to the turn where we walk into the tree line to the bridge and this guy comes cruising down the street. At first I don’t even think we noticed him considering how young we were, but right when he’s about ten feet away from us he slows down to virtually zero mph. There was nothing that stood out about his appearance either. He was middle age, white male, very generic? Well, we all stare at the car and start walking super slowly. If we stop he would stop, if we walk he would slowly go. During this whole ordeal he has a blank expression on his face. Not anger, no smirk, just this sinister deadness almost. This went on for probably five minutes because we were too scared he’d jump out of the car if we turned our backs on him and I was mainly scared for my little brother.

Finally, he speeds off and we run the rest of the way to school. Immediately go to the principals office and at this point we are bawling. We gave them our version of the story, his description, and whatever else a seven year old is actually capable of giving. They take action by calling the cops and our parents. The cops come and we explain where it happened and the story again. Then our parents ended up taking us out of school. From then on, we weren’t allowed to walk to school anymore and our babysitter would take us.

The reason this ended up being so creepy is because apparently there had been reports around that time of a guy who would sit under the bridge we walked over right by the school and watch people. They didn’t know if he was homeless or if it was this other guy who we encountered. They never caught the guy and we never saw him again.

Whether this was a more sinister encounter than we thought or he was just bored? We will never know. I do know how bizarre it was though. Who stares at children that intently while driving by? He even turned his head around as he was driving. By his chance of luck, no other cars drove by during this whole situation. But weirdo driver, let’s not ever meet again.