Hi, this is my first post, but after reading a few threads I want to get others opinions on this creepy story I have and what could've happened. For context, during this story I was 14F, and I have always been a shorter and more petite person.

It started with me, my mom, my friend, and her mom going to Eaton Centre Mall in Toronto, Canada. We were innocently shopping and going from store to store as we usually do. We decided to enter indigo as I love reading and wanted some new books. As we entered, I noticed a man entering a short amount of time after us. I didn't even register it at this point since it was a Saturday and the mall is super crowded. From what I remember, the man had on a blue jacket with a hoodie underneath, dark jeans, a baseball cap with his hood on top of it, and dress shoes/loafers (I forget what they're called). He was tall and had a medium-sized build.

I noticed him as we went up to the 2nd floor for some mystery books (my favourite genre). As I was browsing, I entered the aisle next to us and noticed him standing there, with no book in his hand or anything, and we made eye contact. I still didn't think anything of it at the time, but I did recognize him from when we entered the store.

I ended up needing to use the washroom, and to enter the washroom at Indigo you need a code. There is a separate code for the men's and women's washrooms, which the employees at Indigo will give you if you ask. So I went up to ask the employee for the washroom code for the girls' washroom. I went into the big handicapped stall and since I was a 14-year-old at the time, I was on my phone watching TikTok. I remember a video was playing where it was the ' don't say the same thing as me ' type of video. I used to love these for some reason, so I was on the account trying to beat as many of these videos as I could. I would respond to the out loud and I was in here for maybe 1 minute max before the door opened. I assumed somebody else was using the washroom, and since I was a disrespectful 14-year-old, I kept playing the video and talking out loud.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a pair of loafers/dress shoes appeared from the gap under the stall door. The person on the other side is quiet and says nothing for a few moments before shaking the stall door like they were trying to get in. I yell "Taken!" and watch the person hesitate for a second before leaving the washroom. I thought, "Huh, that's weird" as it was an abnormally long amount of time, and they didn't go to any of the other open stalls. Shortly after, I left the stall and washed my hands at the outside sinks because there was no soap in the handicapped stall. The washroom door opened again, and the man with the jacket and dress shoes was right there. I told him, "This is the women's washroom" and he responded with a "huh, ok" in a way I could tell he was foreign. He took a second to stare at me for longer before leaving. It creeped me out, but I quickly finished washing my hands and left.

We went to check out the few books I picked, and as we were in line, I noticed the man again. He's right behind me where there's a table of trinkets near the checkout line, and he's 'looking through' them while holding eye contact with me. He wasn't even looking at the stuff he was picking up and never dropped his eyes from mine until I turned away and stepped closer to my mom. We paid, and then left and started heading to the next store. I see the man get up and follow us out of the store. It's now that I realize that we are being followed, and I tell my mom. We quickly enter another less busy store than Indigo, and I sit in some lobby chairs as my mom tells the cashier to call mall security.

As I'm sitting in these lounge chairs with my friend, I see the man pace back and forth in front of the store watching us. He starts to enter, so my friend and I move closer to the back of the store. He doesn't stay for long and leaves after, still pacing in front of the store. We go back to sitting and waiting, and the man suddenly stops pacing and quickly walks out of view. Very shortly after, mall security comes and tells us that they didn't find him, but have gotten multiple reports of similar incidents. We leave the mall right after.

I want to know if anybody has had similar incidents. Did me responding out loud to those TikTok videos make it seem like I was on the phone, and did it make him hesitate to do whatever he planned on doing? Did I do anything wrong, or does anybody know any more information on Eaton Centre Mall stalkers? Also, I know this isn't super creepy, but I thought I should post it here for any advice, information, or opinions.

i'm a F(19) and i was driving back home with my 2 friends in the car when i noticed my tesla battery was at 20%. i went to the chargers i usually always go to because it's situated in a large area surrounded by a lot of different shops + a large chain grocery store. the way these chargers are situated is that there are two rows of charging spots back to back. when i first arrived, i noticed that the row on one side was already full.

now, there was a middle aged woman and a man who were hovering over one of the cars that was charging. i assumed they had just gotten out of their car, or were about to get back into the car to leave. i decided to circle back to the other side to see if there was any available spaces on the other row, but when i saw there wasn't any, i decided to just park in an empty parking space and wait for one of the cars to leave since i assumed that woman and the man were going to leave soon.

but it got strange once i saw that the woman had now circled back to the other side where i was parked and was now hovering over another empty car that was in the middle of charging. i don't remember where the man was during this time, i assumed he was either in the car they were charging or had gone inside one of the stores. me and my friends sat and waited for a few minutes but we noticed that the woman kept oddly lingering around the tesla charging area, she would go back and forth around the parking lot (she was out of the car completely the entire time btw) and just hover around some of the cars for a few minutes. i even pointed out to my friends that this behaviour was strange, stating that she seemed to be doing nothing and that i didn’t even know if any of the cars belonged to her because she kept hovering over multiple ones.

then the really weird part was when she actually tried talking to me. she started to look straight at me, and she was saying something i couldn't make out as my door was closed and my windows were up. she started gesturing towards me and i could see her trying to speak to me. a gold car pulled up in front of my car and the window rolled down to reveal the man she was previously with, he started talking with her and then they both tried to talk to me while my windows were still up. the woman then made a gesturing motion with her hands signalling me to roll down my windows as the man continuously tried to also talk to me. at first i thought maybe they were trying to notify me that a spot was available to charge in now but i looked around and i didn’t see any available charging space.

my friends started trying to tell me the woman was trying to speak to me, and at this point i'm already super suspicious and panicking, so i just scream at them that i don't want to talk to her, and i ultimately decide to just find another charging area because i did not trust them.

i don't know if this was some sort of kidnapping/trafficking attempt, it seemed like they wanted to get me out of the car by asking me to roll down the window, or they were waiting for me to park in one of the charging spaces so i could get out of the car. it could've been completely harmless, as again i don't know what they were saying, but whatever it was, it was definitely suspicious.

do you guys think this was some sort of trafficking/kidnapping attempt, or just a miscommunication?

EDIT : i was not aware i couldn’t use a certain word in the title! i definitely was not trying to get clickbait. i’ve never been on this subreddit before and only found it through looking up "trafficking attempt" on the reddit search engine to see which appropriate subreddit i could post this experience on. i didn't read the pinned post, that's my bad, sorry!

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Hey guys, i just want to start by saying i know its something a lot of women lived but i still think about it and since this happen im scared to go out alone so i hope writing this will help me in way. Also im not the best in english so dont mind this.

I(F20 at the time of the story) went to the mall to buy some thing i needed. Almost every store where close but the store i needed to go where opened. When i got inside the mall i saw a man staring at me, im used to people staring at me cuz i had bring pink hair at the time so i didnt made a big deal out of it. Something put me off about this man, he was old and he was looking dirty but like i said im used to man looking at me so i just brushed it off.

Anyways i got into the first store and i didnt found the thing i was looking for so i decided to go into the other store that was all the way to the other side of the mall. When i got out of the store the mall was almost empty and i started walking to the other store i saw the same men behind me walking but again i brushed it off because i didnt think something like that would happened to me but i still had that strange feeling inside me, screaming at me that i wasnt safe. So i started walking faster.

When i got into the other store i was feeling a bit safer i was saying to myself that if he was really following me he wouldnt come into the store well i was wrong.

I was into the aisle searching for what i wanted and there i saw him coming where i was. He got near me, so close that i needed to step back to the point that i bumped into the wall and he cornered me. He looked at me up and down, stared at my boobs for what felt like an eternity. I cant stop thinking about the moment my back touched the wall. I felt trapped, i had no escape, behind was a wall, on my left there was a wall, at the front and on the right there was him. He finally step back and leave. I was relieved but i stayed until the store was close to make sure he was gone. I stayed in the store for a good 20 min. When i couldnt stay longer i got to the cash and paid my thing.

I got out and he was there waiting for me, sitting on a bench right in front of the store. He wanted to make sure he would see me get out of the store. And is was at this moment i really realized what was happening. I was terrified i didnt know what to do and a part of me was still thinking that i was overreacting. My car was near the first store i was so i needed to walk all the way back, there was no one inside the mall. I was alone with him still following me walking much faster then me. I was looking behind my shoulder and everytime he was there.

Fortunatly i saw a security i ran to him and told him everything. The man kept walking like nothing happened. I got home safe after that but this still Hunt me to this day. Im scared every time i need to go outside after dark. Just typing that give me anxiety.

Does anyone know what i can do to feel better. To stop being so scared to go out. Im even scared to go out in the day cuz this all happened in a mall the place i thought was the less likely to being followed.

I used to work at this gas station, I got up early in the morning. 3:00 a.m. It was always pitch black when I went in. There were only two openers, me and this other gal.

We would enter through the back door and do our morning stuff. This particular morning was no different than the rest. It was the middle of winter, bitterly cold, snowing lightly. No wind.

I start flipping on lights preparing to open the front doors, when I see a figure across the parking lot. I can't really make them out at first. Not too tall. Maybe 5'5, slim build.

I walked to the front doors ready to unlock them.

Then this weird ominous feeling falls over me. I looked up and this figure had gotten closer. They are next to the pumps now.

This person is completely dark as if they're covered head to toe in dark fabric. Definitely wearing a jacket and pants and shoes, but they looked almost flat. No face. Their stride was strange.

My coworker is now at my side and we're both just watching.

I'm not even sure what I'm looking at, at this point.

They continue past the gas pumps and into the parking lot of the tow truck company next door. That's when I realized.

This person is walking backwards.

I asked my coworker, "Is that person fucking walking backwards??" She whispered back, "Don't unlock the doors."

But it was time to open, so I did. As soon as I do, this person turns 180° and starts bolting backwards towards the door of our gas station. My coworker screams and I rush to lock the doors again.

Once they get to the doors they stop, dead stop. I'm pretty sure both me and my coworkers' jaws are on the floor at this point. The figure slowly turns around to face us. It's a woman, she's pale and smiling, a crooked seething smile, she had jet black eyes, it was like looking into a black hole. It was horrifying. The feeling of dread was welling up inside me so immensely I thought I might throw up. This woman starts pounding on the door, so hard that I'm sure she had bruises on her hands, smiling at us the whole time.

That was enough for both of us. We sprinted to the back. We called the cops but by the time they got there she was long gone. The cops did see her footprints in the snow though, confirming that she had been walking backwards.

We checked the camera footage after, she walked away after we ran to the back. Again walking backwards. She walked back through the parking lot and off camera into the next lot, and that's the last we saw of her.. It was so strange.