31 Scary Situations People Have Been in With a Stranger

While the concept of stranger danger is largely rooted in paranoia, there’s a bit of truth to the fact that weirdos lurk everywhere. For example, one Redditor was walking down the street in Vancouver when a stranger “vigorously” tried to sell them a water bottle full of blood. Meanwhile, another Redditor was heading home late at night when a man popped up out of nowhere and started making sounds from Silence of the Lambs at her. There’s no other way of interpreting those situations — they’re creepy as hell! 

Other Redditors have recalled the times a stranger gave them the heebie-jeebies, and there are way too many near-kidnappings happening on a daily basis.