Fear thy Roomate true scary story

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All right, fear thy roommates scary
story. In June of twenty nineteen,

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an ad was posted on Craigswood Craig's
List for a room available for rent and

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a single family home in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. The ad wasn't for a

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whole house rental. Rather, the
man who posted the ad was looking to

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be roommates with somebody, meaning they
would share the living space, including the

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kitchen. That is what the ad
said. It said in further details,

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thirty five year old male looking to
rent out. So one of my empty

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bedrooms and my four bedroom one family
house. It's just me living here currently.

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The other two rooms are currently being
used as storage, but depending on

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how much space you need, I
could consider allowing you to use one extra

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spare room with storage. That then
goes on to list all the futures inside

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the house, including maintenance. It
even goes on to note in all capitals

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that no pets or no smokers were
allowed, which could lead some to believe

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the person behind the listing is a
clean person, halfway trusting person. Possibly

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definitely a plus if you neither if
you don't have either one of those.

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A few days after this ad was
posted. A regular twenty five year old

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named James came across the listing desperate
for a place of his own and to

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move out of his parents' house.
For nine hundred dollars a month, he

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thought it could be a good deal, depending on the homeowner, of course.

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James contacted the owner through the number
provided on the ad and they had

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a five minute phone call and set
up a time and date for James to

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view the house. On a Tuesday
after work, James stopped by the house,

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which was exactly how it looked in
all the photos. The owner was

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waiting on the front porch. He
introduced himself as Todd. He had to

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be at least thirty five years old
anyways. Todd gave James a walk around

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the house, like you would if
you were viewing any department orhouse for the

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first time. The house was a
modest size, nothing fancy or anything like

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that, but clean. For the
price was very spacious. James noted that

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there were no wood floors. There
was all carp even the living room and

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bedrooms. After the showing, Todd
discussed with James the ground rules, which

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were mostly normal most of them.
The one that stood out to James was

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the rule of having a sleep time
by twelve o'clock midnight during the week.

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Since James works full times, he
didn't see this as much of an inconvenience,

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just rather unusual rule to have for
grown adults having a roommate, but

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he chalked it up to Todd also
working nine to five and not wanting to

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be woken up by noises late at
night. A week later, James moved

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in, which given that the bedroom
was already furnished, it was an easy

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quick process. Todd would be in
the living room most of the time watching

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TV, or he was in the
living room most of the time watching TV

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or just reading the paper. He
didn't go out much. He would try

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to talk to James anytime he was
in the kitchen making food, which,

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to be honest, got a little
bit old pretty fast according to James.

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He says he wanted to be left
alone and just wanted to eat in peace,

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but never had the luxury of doing
that. One work night, James

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woke up thirsty, so he went
to fill up a cup of water down

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in the kitchen. Once in the
kitchen, he noticed red stains on the

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carpet leading to the basement. You
know, the basement door was in the

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kitchen, pretty common. He quietly
opened the basement door and found the red

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stains led down the carpeted stairs.
Todd's voice came from behind him in the

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kitchen, which was led up by
a small night light. He saw Todd

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was sitting on in the kitchen on
one of the kitchen chairs, and he

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said in a raspy voice, don't
go down there. Todd said the stains

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on the carpet were wine stains.
James didn't ask any questions. He just

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filled up his cup with water and
went back upstairs. From this moment onward,

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James wasn't one hundred percent comfortable in
the house and was now suspicious of

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his landlord slash roommate's behavior. One
day, after work, Todd was at

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home, so James decided to take
a look at take a look in his

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bedroom. His bedroom being Todd's bedroom
lands. The door was locked, but

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it was easily unlockable with his fingernail, so that's what he did. Entering

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the room. Once inside, James
immediately found two of his shirts and strangely,

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his under armoured water bottle and a
basket of clothes James took his three

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belongings and left the room. When
he left the room, he locked the

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door back with his fingernail. He
planned on taking a personal day from work

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and evacuating the place early the next
day without mentioning anything to Todd. After

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all, there was no leaves or
security deposits, so he could leave pretty

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easily. He did some packing that
night, and he had a hard time

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sleeping because his mind was racing.
At some point, while he was lying

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there awake trying to sleep, his
door creaked open. It was past midnight

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when this happened. Since he was
lying on his back, he simply opened

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his eyes to see Todd standing in
the doorway. The dim light from the

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hallway night light was eliminating his face
and body in an unsettling way, possibly

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not even aware that James was awake
or not. James wasn't sure if Todd

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was aware, but Todd stepped into
the room slightly and said, I know

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you went into my room. I
told you my room is off limits for

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now on. Also, I don't
want you going into the basement. If

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this happens again, there's going to
be a big problem. He then got

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angry and slammed the door, and
James heard him stomping back down the hallway

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to his room. He then slammed
the door as well to his room.

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Once he got in there, James
said that Todd sounded drunk, and he

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was saying this because he was slurring
his words and his voice was raspier than

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usual. James started packing up the
rest of his thanks first thing. The

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next morning, he blocked Todd's phone
number and temporarily and moved back into his

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parents' house. A couple of days
later, he received a voicemail from a

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summer random number that sounded all garbled. There's just a lot of breathing,

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weird mouth sounds either side of the
phone. James said he's confident that the

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stains on the carpet weren't whine.
They look more like bloodstains. Whether this

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Todd guy was hiding something or not
will remain a mystery. Yeah, I

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think it was a good move to
get out of there. Run side run.

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That sounded like a really real story. Well, you've kind of you

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know, you've dealt with if you
throughout life, you deal with like really

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confrontational people, so you can kind
of get that feeling what's going on with

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this guy stepping in your room and
just kind of shouting or whatever, saying,

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you know, dug in my room. That was just it's weird.

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But I think the creepy part is
he went in his room and he found

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some of his stuff. Yeah,
like why does he have my stuff in

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here? Like your water bottle and
some of your shirts? So obviously he's

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going through your room. Yeah,
he keeps basically threatening you not to go

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in his room. Then he adds
the basement to it after he sees these

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red wine stas. According to the
landlord roommate, I see the thing.

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The part of the story that makes
it seem so real is the opening the

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door lock with the figure. Now, oh yeah, my door lock does

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that? Like I could open it
up with my fire now from the outside

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on my bedroom door, so like, you know, I don't have a

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key to it, but we lock
it. Anyone could just go up to

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click it with your finger now and
turn it over to the internet. You

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see so many Craigslist stuff over the
years. Obviously Craigslist isn't relevant really anymore,

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but so many horror stories come from
Craigslist, and this is another one.

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You want to move out. This
guy wants to move out his parent's

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house. He sees this ad online, right, He's like, hey,

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this is the perfect opportunity. Is
cheap, the house is nice. There

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were some weird rules though, right, like bedtimes and stuff, which isn't

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really typical. But I guess if
you want to go to your parents' house

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is bad enough, you've gotta go
along with it. I don't know.

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Yeah, And I guess if you
grew up with certain types of parents,

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you might be like, well,
yeah, okay, this is normal.

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I guess they've got to have like
really like a really strict structure in a

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household or something. And also Craigslist
is just one of those things where there

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was just so much you know,
anonymous, so anonymity involved with it.

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So yeah, that was not like
any of vetting really that went into posting

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any or doing anything on the platform. Yeah, and it involved a lot

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of meeting up in person too,
So yeah, there were a lot of

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stories involving Craigslist. It was a
little suspicious. Put yourself in the shoes

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of this person, Jack, how
would you be feeling? Well, I

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would probably also want to leave right
away if I saw my stuff in there.

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You know what, I think you
would probably do well. I should

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have expected some kind of set up
here. Wow, I mean that would

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be my reaction. I mean,
especially after if it took my water bottle.

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Yeah, for sure, I don't
think I take that back. Honestly,

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I don't. I don't look the
water bottle anymore. Just to be

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completely Oh that's a good story,
Yeah, definitely I agree with to look

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believable, believable story. My definitely
a very believable story. Jeff Townsend Media

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sees you good night, and the
question is do I stay here? Will

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you be back? Are you gonna
come back? Will you be back?

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Are you coming back?