All right, fear thy roommates scary story. In June of twenty nineteen, an ad was posted on Craigswood Craig's List for a room available for rent and a single family home in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. The ad wasn't for a whole house rental. Rather, the man who posted the ad was looking to be roommates with somebody, meaning they would share the living space, including the kitchen. That is what the ad said. It said in further details, thirty five year old male looking to rent out. So one of my empty bedrooms and my four bedroom one family house. It's just me living here currently. The other two rooms are currently being used as storage, but depending on how much space you need, I could consider allowing you to use one extra spare room with storage. That then goes on to list all the futures inside the house, including maintenance. It even goes on to note in all capitals that no pets or no smokers were allowed, which could lead some to believe the person behind the listing is a clean person, halfway trusting person. Possibly definitely a plus if you neither if you don't have either one of those. A few days after this ad was posted. A regular twenty five year old named James came across the listing desperate for a place of his own and to move out of his parents' house. For nine hundred dollars a month, he thought it could be a good deal, depending on the homeowner, of course. James contacted the owner through the number provided on the ad and they had a five minute phone call and set up a time and date for James to view the house. On a Tuesday after work, James stopped by the house, which was exactly how it looked in all the photos. The owner was waiting on the front porch. He introduced himself as Todd. He had to be at least thirty five years old anyways. Todd gave James a walk around the house, like you would if you were viewing any department orhouse for the first time. The house was a modest size, nothing fancy or anything like that, but clean. For the price was very spacious. James noted that there were no wood floors. There was all carp even the living room and bedrooms. After the showing, Todd discussed with James the ground rules, which were mostly normal most of them. The one that stood out to James was the rule of having a sleep time by twelve o'clock midnight during the week. Since James works full times, he didn't see this as much of an inconvenience, just rather unusual rule to have for grown adults having a roommate, but he chalked it up to Todd also working nine to five and not wanting to be woken up by noises late at night. A week later, James moved in, which given that the bedroom was already furnished, it was an easy quick process. Todd would be in the living room most of the time watching TV, or he was in the living room most of the time watching TV or just reading the paper. He didn't go out much. He would try to talk to James anytime he was in the kitchen making food, which, to be honest, got a little bit old pretty fast according to James. He says he wanted to be left alone and just wanted to eat in peace, but never had the luxury of doing that. One work night, James woke up thirsty, so he went to fill up a cup of water down in the kitchen. Once in the kitchen, he noticed red stains on the carpet leading to the basement. You know, the basement door was in the kitchen, pretty common. He quietly opened the basement door and found the red stains led down the carpeted stairs. Todd's voice came from behind him in the kitchen, which was led up by a small night light. He saw Todd was sitting on in the kitchen on one of the kitchen chairs, and he said in a raspy voice, don't go down there. Todd said the stains on the carpet were wine stains. James didn't ask any questions. He just filled up his cup with water and went back upstairs. From this moment onward, James wasn't one hundred percent comfortable in the house and was now suspicious of his landlord slash roommate's behavior. One day, after work, Todd was at home, so James decided to take a look at take a look in his bedroom. His bedroom being Todd's bedroom lands. The door was locked, but it was easily unlockable with his fingernail, so that's what he did. Entering the room. Once inside, James immediately found two of his shirts and strangely, his under armoured water bottle and a basket of clothes James took his three belongings and left the room. When he left the room, he locked the door back with his fingernail. He planned on taking a personal day from work and evacuating the place early the next day without mentioning anything to Todd. After all, there was no leaves or security deposits, so he could leave pretty easily. He did some packing that night, and he had a hard time sleeping because his mind was racing. At some point, while he was lying there awake trying to sleep, his door creaked open. It was past midnight when this happened. Since he was lying on his back, he simply opened his eyes to see Todd standing in the doorway. The dim light from the hallway night light was eliminating his face and body in an unsettling way, possibly not even aware that James was awake or not. James wasn't sure if Todd was aware, but Todd stepped into the room slightly and said, I know you went into my room. I told you my room is off limits for now on. Also, I don't want you going into the basement. If this happens again, there's going to be a big problem. He then got angry and slammed the door, and James heard him stomping back down the hallway to his room. He then slammed the door as well to his room. Once he got in there, James said that Todd sounded drunk, and he was saying this because he was slurring his words and his voice was raspier than usual. James started packing up the rest of his thanks first thing. The next morning, he blocked Todd's phone number and temporarily and moved back into his parents' house. A couple of days later, he received a voicemail from a summer random number that sounded all garbled. There's just a lot of breathing, weird mouth sounds either side of the phone. James said he's confident that the stains on the carpet weren't whine. They look more like bloodstains. Whether this Todd guy was hiding something or not will remain a mystery. Yeah, I think it was a good move to get out of there. Run side run. That sounded like a really real story. Well, you've kind of you know, you've dealt with if you throughout life, you deal with like really confrontational people, so you can kind of get that feeling what's going on with this guy stepping in your room and just kind of shouting or whatever, saying, you know, dug in my room. That was just it's weird. But I think the creepy part is he went in his room and he found some of his stuff. Yeah, like why does he have my stuff in here? Like your water bottle and some of your shirts? So obviously he's going through your room. Yeah, he keeps basically threatening you not to go in his room. Then he adds the basement to it after he sees these red wine stas. According to the landlord roommate, I see the thing. The part of the story that makes it seem so real is the opening the door lock with the figure. Now, oh yeah, my door lock does that? Like I could open it up with my fire now from the outside on my bedroom door, so like, you know, I don't have a key to it, but we lock it. Anyone could just go up to click it with your finger now and turn it over to the internet. You see so many Craigslist stuff over the years. Obviously Craigslist isn't relevant really anymore, but so many horror stories come from Craigslist, and this is another one. You want to move out. This guy wants to move out his parent's house. He sees this ad online, right, He's like, hey, this is the perfect opportunity. Is cheap, the house is nice. There were some weird rules though, right, like bedtimes and stuff, which isn't really typical. But I guess if you want to go to your parents' house is bad enough, you've gotta go along with it. I don't know. Yeah, And I guess if you grew up with certain types of parents, you might be like, well, yeah, okay, this is normal. I guess they've got to have like really like a really strict structure in a household or something. And also Craigslist is just one of those things where there was just so much you know, anonymous, so anonymity involved with it. So yeah, that was not like any of vetting really that went into posting any or doing anything on the platform. Yeah, and it involved a lot of meeting up in person too, So yeah, there were a lot of stories involving Craigslist. It was a little suspicious. Put yourself in the shoes of this person, Jack, how would you be feeling? Well, I would probably also want to leave right away if I saw my stuff in there. You know what, I think you would probably do well. I should have expected some kind of set up here. Wow, I mean that would be my reaction. I mean, especially after if it took my water bottle. Yeah, for sure, I don't think I take that back. Honestly, I don't. I don't look the water bottle anymore. Just to be completely Oh that's a good story, Yeah, definitely I agree with to look believable, believable story. My definitely a very believable story. Jeff Townsend Media sees you good night, and the question is do I stay here? Will you be back? Are you gonna come back? Will you be back? 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