People who are pretty sure they've encountered a serial killer, what happened?

Travelling out of state for a vacation with my kids, at a gas station, this one guy starts trying

to talk to my young daughter. I immediately got between them, but not before my daughter

blurted out exactly where we were going and how long we'd be there. I suddenly felt sick with

worry. Something about the guy scared me. I just knew

there was going to be a problem. I hustled the kids back to the car and waited to drive away

out of fear he might follow us. I didn't see him come out, so eventually I drove off, but I was

paranoid about it afterwards. Two days later, I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound

of someone banging aggressively on our door. He was screaming that he was there with the security for the complex and that there

was an intruder seen in the area, so I was required by law to open the door. Obviously,

I didn't fall for that. He started swearing and threatening me. Then he just stopped. Suddenly,

something spooked him, and he turned and bolted.

He'd been standing kind of off to the side and reaching over to bang on the door in a way where I couldn't see his face. When he moved, I saw it. It was the guy from the gas station. He had

followed us through two states. The actual security of the complex drove around but never found him.

There was a broken gate next to the condo that they said he got in through.

It scares me so badly when I think about how I was on high alert and still didn't notice him until he was on my doorstep.

I ended the trip early and never saw or heard anything else, but my daughter had nightmares about him breaking into our home for years.

I was camping with a group of friends and exploring some rock climbing cliffs.

The instructions for how to get there weren't great, and we ended up down a road with a farmer

stopping us from going any further.

Something didn't feel right about the whole encounter, pretending not to know about any

landmarks despite clearly being a local, and really insisting that we didn't drive down the road

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