30 Times People Had Extremely Bizarre Encounters With Utter Strangers

Absolutely true story.

I was on break sitting on a bench outside the mall. A guy in fatigues storms out, screaming.

He turns, looks at me, " f**k you! I could kill you with one hand! That would teach them! I'm a veteran! A f*****g veteran, I fought for them, they won't cash my f*****g check. It's a government check. .. WTF who are they?"

And he got really close and noone helped. He kept yelling and threatening to kill me and if I tried to answer he told me to shut up, if I didn't answer he said, " WELL? WELL?" I just frozen to the spot. But I don't know why I didn't cry.

Finally, after 10 minutes he says, " WHY AREN'T YOU CRYING?? CRY. CRY."

A guy finally came over and said " Dude. What is your problem?"

When I finally escaped I went in the bathroom and cry vomitted.

One time when I was 17 years old, I was walking into the city I lived on the outskirts of. Some man stopped me and asked if he could touch my skin cause it looked really soft.

Wanting to avoid any kind of aggression if I said no to him, I said yes.

He stroked the skin on my forearm and made a face and sound that I can only describe now from the perspective of being 31 years old as a ‘jizzing in his pants’ reaction.

Once he’d stroked my arm once, he said thank you and walked away.

When I told my mum later on she was fuming and couldn’t believe I said yes. I told her why, and it wasn’t until a family friend (who was there when I was telling my mum) agreed with me and explained further that my mum understood I made the most rational choice.

Weird as f**k.

When I was a kid, this guy in his late 30's or so passed me by and asked for directions someplace. I told him, he said thanks, crossed the street and I continued on my way. A few seconds later I heard a noise like something whizzing past me--I turned around and he was shooting at me with a BB gun from across the street.

I was on a downtown A train in NYC one quiet afternoon and a young woman in her 30s got on when it stopped at 34th Street. She looked at me and said, “You’re a Virgo. Am I right?”

Before I could answer she added, “Of course I’m right. I’m never wrong.” She just smiled and got off at West 4th Street.

I am a Virgo.

A Travis Bickle-like guy walked up to me in a bookshop and complained that David Hasselhoff was taller than people think and that it was wrong that some people think he's not that tall. He was outraged. He had many supporting arguments to his main thesis.

When I was 19-20 years old delivering pizzas a customer opened her door, asked me inside, and asked me to look at her remodeled bathroom. She was insistent I come inside. I humored her because I wanted her to pay for the food so I could leave. She cornered me in the bathroom and tried to kiss me. She stank like booze and cigarettes. I noped out of there quickly.

I met the self-proclaimed devil once. I was going through some stuff, and there he was at the mall. He knew my name and the name of the guy I was with. I shook his hand, and it felt electric. I strongly believe it was actually him.

Around 20 years ago, my friends and I were hanging out at one of our friends' apartments in a small town in Maine. It was in the middle of a very cold winter. A few friends and I left our mutual friends' place at around midnight to go to my roommate's car to start getting people home. Anyway, on the way to the car, I rounded the corner of a Chinese restaurant, and on the sidewalk, there was a man standing perfectly still. He had a tall, 'dunce cap'-shaped hat on, but it was purple and had reflective gold stars painted on it like a wizard hat or something. I remember stopping as soon as I saw him, as he was, like, five feet in front of me where I rounded the corner. I can't remember what I said, but he never moved an inch, nor said a word. So, we just walked by and went to the car. We dropped a couple people off, hung around at their apartment for a couple hours, then took off to bring ourselves home. We had to drive back through town where this individual had been standing on the sidewalk, and wouldn't you know it, that dude was still standing there, perfectly still, in the freezing cold, in the same spot he had been a couple hours earlier. We coined him the time wizard, theorizing that he hadn't moved because he was phasing out of our time, and his transition from our time to another time just took a long time. IDK, it was bizarre.

My friends and I went to a gas station to buy cigarettes circa 3 AM on a weekday, we were around 19. One of them went inside and the rest remained in the gas filling zone. Suddenly a car parks and guys come out of it crying for help. He was saying that his girlfriend was possessed and pointed to the car. In the companion seat was this girl trembling and like in a trance. We tried to ignore him, then he went over her and scream "please come back" and things like that. Then he asked us for help again. We and the gas station guy were speechless. One of our friends told him 'Look, it is not our problem and there is nothing we can do'. The guy kept screaming, jumped in his car and left at full speed god knows where.

We stood there without knowing what the f**k did just happen. The funniest thing is that one of my friends was so scared in the middle of it that he made the sign of the cross over him lol.

Woman approached me on the street while I had stopped at a bench to roll a cigarette. As she is asking me to spare a cigarette, she pulls her tights down to adjust(?) them. She wasn't wearing anything else over or below them, while telling me why she has no cigarettes. No hesitation or pause from her, all she wanted to do was adjust them, she didn't even *look* unhinged in any way, everything on display.