I got really sick in my 20s and it was showing all signs of being cancer. I didn’t have health insurance (pre-ACA recent college graduate) so I applied to my state’s low-income health care coverage. I was working as a waitress at the time so my reported income was juuuuuust low enough for me to qualify but it was…

This isn’t a huge thing as far as changing my life, but anyway, here goes.

A long time ago I was in Morocco at a summer study program in a small town. Inexplicably after over a month of being there, my debit card froze and I couldn’t get any cash for weeks. My bank’s website said there were no bank branches in the country, so I couldn’t figure out how to unfreeze the account. I called the…

Another story - This was a few years ago, I was probably 26-ish. I was at a concert alone, at a small venue in LA (the Echoplex), and the room was sparsely filled because I was seeing a band that wasn’t yet popular. The guy behind me, around 50/M, kept trying to start conversations with me while the openers performed.…

created a burner for this so not sure if it will be seen.

This is such a small thing, but it still sits with me. About 20 years ago, I was flying home with my garbage boyfriend after I’d brought him to meet my family for the first time at Thanksgiving. I now realize it was an emotionally and verbally abusive relationship, but at the time I just suffered constantly. On the…

Not me but something my mother did:
I lived in a remote spot of California growing up. One day on the way to school, we saw the neighbor who lived in the “weird” house walking to town with a suitcase, her dog, and a puffy, red face. Without hesitation, my mom whipped the car over, sternly said “Keep walking, I’m coming…

I did Peace Corps in rural Nicaragua. On 6-hour bus ride to visit a friend, I was thankfully seated next to a kind woman, Dona Maria, who loved all dogs. Some Nicaraguans regard the local street dogs as pests or dirty so traveling with my street dog rescue was sometimes a challenge on public transport. My seat mate…

My parents discovered I was gay at the end of my senior year of high school, right before graduation. My father beat me nearly unconscious and I literally ran out of the house with only the clothes I was wearing. I snuck back in twice to get some things, but it barely amounted to a suitcase’s worth of stuff.

I stayed…

I got in a minor fender bender (A guy ran into the back of my car in a parking lot and then tried to gaslight me into not taking his insurance and said that “my parents would probably be upset if they found out I was in an accident.... bitch please with that condescension... you. hit. me. ) Anyways, I got his info and…

I’m happy to say I have a million stories I could share on this. 1) I took a very long bus ride home from college 4 nights a week. Because it was the last run of the night, I would be dropped well after 10pm and would walk down some very dark streets. When the driver found this out, he started(with permission of the…

I was traveling through Europe at the end of the study abroad, so I was lugging a huge suitcase from France, to Belgium, to Italy, to Greece, to England. Upon my arrival in Brussels, a man approached me and offered to carry my suitcase up the stairs. I declined, having learned in my time in Europe that men who offered…

Exactly and I’m guessing the sympathizing principal has rapey history of his own cause it makes no fuckin sense to suspend this young girl because a student confessed to being THE RAPIST!

“Shedd claimed that a male student felt targeted by the notes and no longer left safe attending class.” asshole is in denial about the rapist who literally outed himself. police need to get the name from the principal and find out what he’s been up to.

All those poor people who named their kids Daenerys or Khaleesi.

My mom died last year. My sister and I were very close to her. Several months ago, my sister had been trying to get pregnant. One night she had a rare dream of my mother. It was extremely vivid; she said she was sitting with mom, talking like they used to, laughing. She said mom kept asking “Did you tell him yet? Did…

Sorry, this turned out longer than expected. It’s not creepy in the way typical horror stories are, but it’s a story I’ve always wanted to share, and this seems like an appropriate enough forum. My story takes place spring 2000. I was 17 and going through a rough time. One of my older brothers had unexpectedly passed…

a few years ago while apartment hunting with my old roommate, we were taken around to a few places by the realtor. i remember it being very dark in general, but since it was october it might not have been that late at night. we came up to a spot that was pretty creepy, it was a 2-family house across the street from a…

I live in an old farmhouse in New England that has been in my family for 7 generations. My husband and I moved in in 1984, and we had our daughter the following year. The following weird stuff has happened in this house:

I have a somewhat similar story. There was a spot we frequently went to smoke at, a long dirt road that ended up at a dead end with fields on either side-by-side completely secluded. We went there all the time, day night. One day it was just myself and one of my friends hanging out, smoking in broad daylight. I always…