"It wasn't the message that was creepy. It was the details. I got a friend request and a message on FB from some dude with a car as his profile pic.
The message was just something like, "Hey, remember me?" I didn't and had to be like, who are you? It turned out it was this dude from a Chinese restaurant near my house. He remembered my name from my debit card and searched me out." -Reddit user Snickerdoodleydoo
"At about 11 pm, a family friend texts me this: (as accurately as I remember) "Look, I thought I could do it. I can't. It's been six months since it happened, and nobody even cares anymore. He's just a kid.
I do not want to be any further involved, ask someone else." About 30 seconds later, "Oh, sorry, that was just a mistake. I meant to send that to my brother. We're just messing around." I don't know, man." -Reddit user breastsofmen
"A random number texted me saying, "I'm outside, open the door," late at night when I was at home.
Turns out they just texted the wrong number but freaked me out nonetheless." -Reddit user Zarique Filcon
"I got a text from a wrong number, and all it said was, “He won’t be bothering you anymore, I took care of it." -Reddit user Krytres
"A man ten years older than me sent me a long message declaring his undying love for me, said he was going to leave his wife and kids for me, how he couldn't stop thinking of me, and he wanted to be with me forever and how he'd divorce her so we could be together...I was 18 and barely said a few words to him." -Reddit user sweetpoison02
"There was this guy on social media who kept saying, "Happy birthday, May." He keeps sending photos of himself, and this has been going on for a week until I blocked him. I'm a dude anyway, and I don't know who May is." -Reddit user rockmono
"One of my neighbors messaged me asking if I had recently been on the elevator. Because he could smell it. Said I was clearly ovulating, very fertile, and that triggered his male senses.
There are like 60 apartments in my building. But he was right. Creeped me out." -Reddit user EglantineXXX
"Text message From my stalker: "I didn't know your store was open today." It was Dec. 26.
Most of the stores in the mall where I work were closed due to extended holidays for employees. That was the first time I realized my stalker knew where I worked and that he was there on that day just walking by the store." -Reddit user (deleted)
"Coordinates and the words "It's here. Come find it." I looked it up on google maps.
It was a lot way the hell north of the city. Needless to say, I never found out what "it" was." -Reddit user (deleted)
"Here on Reddit. Someone sent me a message that was simply...
My name. That was a fearful moment." -Reddit user BloodBride
"Literally yesterday, I wanted to create an Instagram account, and I saw that my email is already taken. I reset the password, log in and find an empty profile.
A few seconds after that, I got a message from a friend I haven't spoken to in a while, just saying: "Wanna learn how to hack?" I'm still scared." -Reddit user DzonjoJebac
"Someone I had no mutual friends with who lived in a city I’ve never lived in messaged me late at night. He asked if I was the one they were drinking with last night.
I never left the house that night." -Reddit user sitah
"The "quiet guy" at the school I went to left a whole load of people voicemail messages of him reading Wikipedia pages for famous battles.
I got the Battle of Vienna." -Reddit user Conelly90
"I'm watching you." At my work? Weird number?
Called it, and it was one of those fake numbers." -Reddit user oh_sneezeus
"This guy I barely knew from my high school texted me one night: “Hey!
Which bedroom window is yours?” -Reddit user Texas_OT