i have that creepy "someone is watching me" feeling

[Ava]

i was downstairs alone and the downstairs area of our house has many many windows. i kept getting that creepy "someone is watching me" feeling, and i rarely get paranoid like that.

:scared:

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1. Watch "When a Stranger Calls" and the 1968 "Night of the Living Dead"

[Ava]

2. i'm actually not joking

i'm seriously pretty freaked out, lol. i hardly ever get spooked like this, and the only thing i watched tonight was top chef.

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4. BOO!

Did that help get it out of your system?

[Ava]

6. no, that just made me giggle

:P

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8. Maybe this will help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkT7A3jegBc

[Mollis]

18. After I watched When A Stranger Calls...

it made me not want to babysit houses with lots of big windows...

[darkstar]

3. that can be an awful feeling

would it help you more to keep your mind occupied with a chat here or to get out of the house for a bit?

[Ava]

5. i really need to go to bed

i have to go into work early in the morning.. i can't sleep though :rofl:

i hate this feeling! it's so rare that i get it. i don't know why i have it tonight.. no reason i should. i was in the kitchen where we have several windows and glass doors to the back terrace and pool area and all of the sudden i got this really creepy feeling that someone was watching me from outside. :scared:

i'm down there alone all the time since i'm a night owl, so i'm not sure what the deal is tonight :shrug:

[Drunken Irishman]

7. I've had that feeling.

It's most likely in your mind and the more you think about it, the more convinced you are it's actually happening.

A few years ago, I was walking home from a friend's. It was late spring, so very warm outside and the sun had already gone down. As I was walking down this deserted residential street, I noticed a car turn down one of the streets in front of me and then a minute later, passed behind me on another street, flipped around and stopped on the other side of the road. The driver never got out and that really freaked me out.

Nothing happened, though. I kept looking back the further I got away from the car and eventually reached a busy street.

I'm guessing the person was searching for a house, found it and was probably waiting outside for someone to come out.

[Ava]

10. i once got the feeling in a grocery store about a guy who kept getting on every aisle i was on

so i started going to random parts of the store and he kept popping up. freaked the hell out of me. i started to walk out and he started following me, that's when i really got freaked out. i made a call to a friend and had them stay on the phone with me while i walked to my car. the guy followed out into the parking lot and then kind of just wandered around while i was getting into my car. as i was driving off i noticed him going back into the store. freaked me out.

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Wow, you just totally reminded me of something that happened a couple summers ago.

Maybe it was last summer, I don't know.

Anyway, I was at a park by my house running, had just finished up and decided to leave. When I was driving out, I stopped off at some bathrooms to get a drink of water because I was fairly thirsty from the run. It's a pretty busy bathroom and there were a lot of cars in the parking lot. I didn't go in, since the fountain was outside. Anyway, I drank some water and then got back into my car. I noticed a guy start his car the second I was pulling out, but didn't think much of it. I pull out onto the park street and begin slowly winding around toward the exit and he's right behind me.

Again, I thought nothing of it because there is only one way out. So I get up to the major street the park exits onto and I turn right at the light and so does he. But my flag isn't raised, since there are only three ways to go from there (straight, down a residential street, left/right onto the busy road).

So I drive down this street and up toward the next light and turn right, so does he. At this point, I'm starting to get a bit nervous, because now he's followed every move I've made. Driving down this road toward my house, I realize if on the off chance he is following me, I don't want him to know where I live, so I decide to turn down another residential street and sure enough, I turn down it and so does he. Now I'm panicked, so I quickly pull to the side at the last second and he passes me by. Thankfully there was some traffic, so I wasn't completely alone on the street. Once he turns down another street, I flip around and get back on the main road I was just one. As I'm driving down the street, I notice him in the other lane and he passes me. So I flip up another street, again not wanting him to see where I live and I take that all the way up to the next major street and then back down to the street my street is on and I don't see him again.

It was freaky. I have no doubt in my mind he was following me. Especially after I turned onto that last street and parked, only to see him on the other street again heading back toward the park.

Not sure what he wanted, but it freaked me out.

[Orrex]

22. You really need to find a new grocery store

The bag boy was pevvy but understandable; stalking a woman from aisle to aisle to parking lot is just creepy.

[Ava]

27. that was another grocery store

apparently creeps hang out at the grocery stores.. and i also apparenty attract creeps :rofl:

[SallyMander]

9. Have you been listening to Rockwell again?

:D

:hug:

[Ava]

11. har har har

:P

[ghostsofgiants]

23. I wonder if she's afraid to wash her hair?

She might open her eyes and find someone standing there!

[arcadian]

13. You just described my entire childhood.

I was always afraid of the dark when I was a kid. So much so that it affected my sleeping habits. I still get creeped out sometimes in certain scenarios at night. I have to have the doors closed and locked if I'm home by myself. Sucks really, I have always had that feeling that somebody is lurking just beyond the light cast from the house. And I visualize faces in the windows and creepy, witchy women peering up at me from the side of the bed.

[kentauros]

14. Invest in a studio-photography strobe light.

Remember the ending of "Rear Window"? :P

[DarkTirade]

15. Are you wearing purple?

People love to look at purple.

[Pierre.Suave]

16. Is there a Piggly Wiggly nearby?

:P

[XemaSab]

17. I hate that feeling

My mom did not believe in curtains while I was growing up, so that was a fact of life for me. :scared:

[Critters2]

19. That's the money you could save with Geico.

And yes, it is creepy.

[Ava]

..

:spray:

[Ava]

28. dupe

[Robeson]

20. Well, you are a liberal living in Alabama.....

...I'm surprised they haven't ran you out of the state, yet...;-)

[kentauros]

21. Stay away from the shower...

[Jamastiene]

24. Oops, was that you?

:P

[murielm99]

25. Do you have a dog?

I live in the country, and sometimes get that feeling. I have a dog that barks at anything that is out of the ordinary. It helps.

[Crabby Appleton]

26. Always trust your gut feelings

almost always right.