Standing at more than six feet tall, this young man certainly doesn’t seem like an easy target. He enjoys taking walks alone at night in his neighborhood, and since he lives in a very wealthy, residential place, he’s never considered it to be anything but safe.
Where he lives, there’s a trail you can walk down that’s located within eyesight of every home in the area.
One night, he was out walking the trail a few years ago, and he was in his teens at the time. He was dressed in an oversized hoodie, as he felt it made him look more intimidating.
Not long into his journey that evening, he picked up on someone walking a couple of hundred feet behind him.
He knew this was strange, as it was 10 p.m. and nobody really was out and about at such a late hour.
Initially, he reassured himself by saying it’s a public place, and this person perhaps had the same idea as him and wanted to get a little fresh air.
“I continued on for roughly five to ten minutes or so before looking behind me once more, only to find the same person still trailing me,” he explained.
“Keep in mind, at this point, I’d gone through a few turns by now on the trail, meaning it was becoming more and more unlikely that this person just so happened to be going to the same location.”
“I decided to take odd paths and directions, turning off into gravel and weirder, more roundabout side areas, and they still followed me. By the time I was reaching the apex of my journey, passing by the local park, they were maybe less than sixty feet behind me, a distance they could easily have covered in seconds.”
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He picked up his phone and tried to call his family to alert them about the stranger. He knew exactly what to do in this situation, as he had looked into it in the past.
Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to place the call, as his phone had been newly gifted to him, and the service hadn’t been correctly set up.
So, although he was dialing in a panic, he couldn’t get any of the calls to go through. He made a quick decision to pretend as if that wasn’t the case, and he started talking like his mom had picked up.
He very loudly stated his location while describing the person trailing him, even though it was difficult to see them since their face was covered.
When he turned once more to take a look at the person behind him, they had vanished into thin air.
“Weeks later, my mom told me that a police officer had come into her work and warned about abductions that had been happening in our area, specifically for child trafficking and organ trade,” he added.
“I count myself as very lucky, and whenever I leave the house now, I am very aware, only doing so during the day..”
“There was a point later on in that neighborhood that a car clearly followed me, turning around into a cul-de-sac where there was no logical reason for them to be except for me, but this was the most obvious example of attempted [kidnapping].”
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