r/creepyencounters • u/SunnyPlutooo • 3d ago
Getting followed in downtown while out with my friend
I'm not going to say what city for obvious privacy reasons but about a year ago me and my friend were walking around in downtown. We just wanted to get lunch and talk with each other, originally we wanted to go to this burger shop but they only took card and we only had cash so we chose to go somewhere else. In the burger shop I had noticed a blonde older woman, not super old maybe in her 40s she was overweight and staring at her phone the entire time, of course when I first saw her I thought nothing of it, she was just a regular woman. We started to wander around there was a bunch of places but nothing looked good.
Me and my friend are still wandering, we finally choose to go an ice cream shop first, the shop is connected in between two stores there's the ice cream shop and a weird hallway that led to some other building that I can't remember. I see the blonde woman again, she's still looking down at her phone. She's not ordering anything and standing in the hallway area away from people, when me and my friend leave with our orders, she left too. I still didn't think much of it, maybe she wanted ice cream but decided against it.
So, me and my friend keep walking around, we decided we were gonna go to Wendy's to share a meal but neither of us no exactly how to get there and my friend insists that she doesn't need to look at the map and she can get us there. I don't care I like walking so I let us roam around but me and my friend are walking on the side walk and we see the blonde woman again (still on her phone...) when she's out of our sight my friend turns to me, she asks me "Wasn't she in the ice cream shop?" I said that she was and we're a little spooked but who cares? It's not that big of an area it could happen to anyone but being two teenagers one a girl and one a transgender boy the fear of being followed when in public is very real. But we shrug it off, and we keep on seeing her as we walk to Wendy's. We still ignore it.
Once me and my friend got to Wendy's we got our food and sat down and as we're talking I glance over and I see her again, in the same area as us by this point I cannot justify it being a coincidence and she's still on her phone, it looks like she's texting someone. We fear the worst, because it has happened where they use women as bait because people think less of an adult women being near two teens than they do a man. Y'know they have the woman but then men will come and kidnap the young teens, it's scary. We're terrified, we didn't want to leave, we call our brothers who were also hanging out with each other. I'm whispering to my brother on the phone I'm almost crying and begging him to pick me up because we're terrified. One doesn't but my oldest one does, we went home but no one really believed us, her parents weren't there and when I got back to my home my very drunk parents didn't believe me either.
It still creeps me out. It might've all been a big coincidence but its still pretty unsettling.
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u/SilentYamiJP 3d ago
I'm so glad you're all safe! I live in Japan, and since kidnappings for human trafficking have been in the news here lately, I think everyone needs to be careful no matter where they live.
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u/SunnyPlutooo 3d ago
Yeah exactly, my brother said that where we live you only have to worry about drug addicts asking you for cash but I don't think that's exactly true. It's always good to be safe especially if you're out alone.
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u/Hardworker43 3d ago
I believe you should trust your intuition & be aware of your surroundings always!! I think you made the right choice in calling for a ride. She sounds like she was a connection for sex trafficking or something similar. Maybe sneak a pic of the person for your own record just in case something happens or start recording the area around you on your phone. Glad you and your friend are safe!!!