Flea Market Kidnapping Attempt true scary story

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Last story of the night. Gonna
be hard to talk what we've done so

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far, but I think we're going
to go back to the theme here of

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the dad thing what we said earlier. Oh yes, I've titled this flea

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market kidnapping attempt. This happened to
me when I was about four years old,

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when I was still living with my
family in San Diego, California.

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It was a summer morning, and
it was customary for my family on the

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weekends. We decided we'd go to
the flea market to do some shopping right

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after we had breakfast at our favorite
pancake place. Before I share my account

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of what happened on this day,
I need to make two things clear.

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First, one is that I'm a
female, and even though I'm Caucasian,

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having very curly black hair, which
often make people think I'm Hispanic or perhaps

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biracial. And secondly, there were
two things that always, and I mean

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always, made my father distracted whenever
we'd go out. Women and tools.

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On the day in discussion, my
father was looking for some specific tool he

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needed to work on a project for
a client. My heavily pregnant mother had

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decided it was time to buy the
last item she needed for the baby because

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she could go into emergency labor any
moment. My mother and my eight year

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old brother stayed behind to check out
the baby stuff in one of the aisles

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closest to the food court, which
is right in the middle of the place.

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This left me in the care of
my father. My father took me

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with him to check the tool stand
that was located on the opposite side,

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opposite end of the row, as
expected, and despite my mother warning him

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several times that morning not to let
go of my hand as he'd done the

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previous week when I got lost inside
a department store because he got distracted as

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we were approaching the area where the
tools were. He let go of my

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hand as soon as a young lady
asked him if she could help him with

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anything. He pointed out to a
toolbox that had caught his eye and went

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around the table as she offered to
open it up so he could check out

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the tools inside. Well, I
felt bored just standing there. I turned

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around to see if my mother was
still checking the baby items, thinking perhaps

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I could go with her instead of
staying here with my father looking at all

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this boring stuff. I couldn't see
her or my brother anywhere, though,

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so I stood in that same spot. I was told the week before to

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stay put so it'd be easier to
find me if my father lost track of

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me again. As more and more
time dragged on without my father checking up

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on me, I soon realized he
probably was not going to come back.

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I looked around, but he was
nowhere to be seen. The young lady

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who had helped him before was still
there, but now she was talking to

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another customer, not him. Still, though, I waited for a bit

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longer, thinking perhaps he had just
gone to the nearby aisle to check out

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any of the other tools kept around
there. I was feeling increasingly scared at

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this point, so I took a
few steps into the aisle and called out

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for my father. He did not
reply, so it seemed he wasn't there

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anymore. At this point, the
only thing I could assume was he'd forgotten

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all about me again and left me
behind. I walked back to the area

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where my mother and brother had been, but they were no longer there either.

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I began to wander around looking for
anybody, but I couldn't see them

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in any of the aisles I passed
through and by to make things even worse.

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That day, the market was absolutely
packed, so it was hard to

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see anything being a little kid with
all the adults towering above me. To

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this day, I don't know how
I managed to stay calm. I find

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my way to the side entrance where
my father had parked the car. Before

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I continue with the story, I'll
say that even though I'm a girl,

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my parents often dressed me and closed
it no longer fit my older brother.

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We were kind of poor, and
it was cheaper to have their daughter just

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wear their eldest son's clothes instead of
getting new one. That day, I

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was wearing some denim overalls, a
white T shirt with yellow lines on the

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sleeves, and a pair of brown
Oxfords. Due to my hair being curly

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uncapta in short, I was often
mistaken for a boy. I was waiting

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by the entrance to watching the people
that were leaving, when a Hispanic woman

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in her thirties or forties made a
bee line straight towards me. She began

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to act overly dramatic, calling to
me in this annoying sweet voice. She

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tried to pull me into her arms
and kiss me a couple of times on

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the forehead, but I turned away
and clung to a metal pole that was

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behind me. I've never really been
a people person, so touchy Philly people

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always make me feel uneasy. Another
thing that worth mentioning is that whenever I

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feel scared or threatened, I immediately
go into fight mode. Of course,

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at that moment, I was feeling
extremely scared by this woman's antics. I

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began to slap and push her away
from me and scream telling her don't touch

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me. She started trying to pick
me up. People stop and stared,

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but did not but did nothing to
help stop her or help me. She

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turned to them and told them and
broken English. Basically, she told them

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that I was just throwing a fit
or something along those lines. Apparently,

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hearing that was enough for everybody to
just keep on walking by. At this

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point, I was sure no one
would take the time to help me,

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which made me think I had to
get out of this on my When I

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began to act more aggressive, screaming
louder, trying to get any attention,

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the woman then yanked me from the
pole so hard my arms let go.

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She tried to pull me towards a
parking lot. This is when I began

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to bite and kick while screaming for
my mother and father as loudly as I

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could. This is when an elderly
couple rushed up to me. Elderly woman

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said, darling, are you all
right? What's the matter? I told

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the couple that this woman was not
my mother and she wanted to take me

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somewhere I did not want to go. The old man picked me up as

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the old lady left to call security. The woman kept trying to pull me

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by my clothes and legs, but
the man was much stronger than her.

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Two younger men finally walked over and
restrained the woman. I remember the old

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man wearing a cap with an eagle
and flags on it. I asked him

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what they meant. He began to
tell me about it to distract me while

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ignoring that crazy woman who was still
screaming after me like a bansheet. He

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was telling me all about the medals
he received during the war. Suddenly I

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heard my mother calling out to me, almost out of breath. I saw

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her rushing over to us, dragging
my older brother along. The elderly man

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put me down and explained the entire
situation to her. It took my father

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even longer to show up popping up
out of nowhere? Why does a ghost?

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When he saw the police talking to
my mother and the elderly couple,

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my mother was of course furious and
gave him quite a earful for being an

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irresponsible head. My parents thanked the
couple and the officers for their help,

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and we left the flea market immediately. While leaving, I saw the crazy

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hispanic woman was being put into a
patrol car and taken into custody. I'm

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not sure what happened to her after
that. I later found out the elderly

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couple's last name was Ralph. I
don't know how things would have ended if

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they decided to walk on by and
not help me, Like I said,

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another Father of the Year award here, Yeah, that's west. I don't

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know. I have like three daughters, right, so I'm immediately thanking Mike.

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Who does that? I mean,
it could easily happen, right,

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but like to do a week after
week? You're going to hell, dude?

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Yez. Yeah, that's rough.
And that's also like one of those

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really real scary things that could happen. We don't know what was going on

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with this person. You know,
there are any number of horrible things that

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could be happening besides simple light dementia. We don't know mentioned it was a

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slightly older Hispanic one thirties or forties. You know, the person was four

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when this happened. So you know, I don't know what they're right,

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how detail their memory is. But
so she did identify the elderly couple that

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helped her, so I guess they
weren't quite that old. The person that

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old. Yeah, it's true.
Yeah, there are any number of things

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what could have been going on there, and all though horrible, I'm not

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gonna lie. Before I realized the
gravity of the situation that the story was

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going to be, I laughed at
first when you said that, yeah,

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it was going to be. It
was talking about flea market and you know,

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being the ductor to the flea market
because you told us about your flea

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market experiences. I was like,
it's a story about you. Oh,

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oh the Koy Creek place. Yeah, they talk about Koy Creek, Yeah,

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yeah. Yeah. Then when you
started reading this off, I was

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like, oh my god, it's
terrible. This is what happened to me.

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No, and this this guy,
I'm not sure which one is worse,

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this one or the camping one they're
putting bad uh electful parent. Uh,

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I know it's the worse to lead
your kid all alone with nobody around,

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or to leave with a bunch of
people around. You know, I'm

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trying to think of how this is
worded here. That got me, gosh,

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where is this part? I left? Love this part here. There

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were two things that always, and
when I mean always, made my father

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distracted whenever we'd go out, women
and tools. That's uh, that's rough.

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It's rough to know that a younger
age too, those two things would

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distract your dad. Yeah, that's
really messed up. So we've all been

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to flea markets and the one that
you referenced our flea Marko was outside.

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This seemed to be like an inside
one. Yeah, we've all been to

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those, like the big inside area
where they have different aisles and stands and

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stuff. So that's what I'm picturing
in my head. Which when you're a

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little kid, that little with a
bunch of tall adults around, I can

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definitely see where it would be you'd
get lost easily, especially if a parent

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wasn't there guiding you. But yeah, definitely, Yeah, there have been

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to a few uh indoor flea markets
that are really kind of mazes onto themselves.

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You really won't know where you are
if you especially if you're shorter.

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Yeah, so I could definitely see
that being pretty terrifying. Do you think

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it was Do you think her intent
was the kidnapper? I believe so.

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Yeah. Yeah, it seemed like
she was definitely trying to make it seem

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like that she was a parent or
possibly grandparent, Yeah, going to take

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her god knows what for. We've
all been in a store when you see

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a kid throwing a fit, yeah, right, and this really makes you

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think twice about how you handle it. Yeah, it does. I know

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what she's talking about. Like the
lady just brush it off, right,

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like, oh, just throwing a
fit, you know whatever, blah blah

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blah, and people kept walking by. It's always hard to say, right,

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you never know. I mean,
like I was talking about the other

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day, you walk past like several
murders in your life spent. And he

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said you will walk past people capable
of horrible things and not realize it,

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and that it's truly terrifying. Yeah. I assue what people said here,

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the dad's of this episode. Somebody
else said they respect to the father.

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I don't know when they said that, but several minutes later then they said,

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okay, well I do not respect
the father. Maybe it was the

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tools that they went along with that
on this, Yeah, probably. Yeah.

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Scariest thing in the world aren't ghosts
or goblins, it's other humans.

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Yeah, I'm with you. I
think the thing that sticks out to me

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is you could tell this definitely traumatize
them. Yeah, long lasting effect on

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them, which I mean, I
get it, it would be on me

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too, would be Yeah, something
that would definitely stick with the rest of

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your life. It's terrible. Jeff
Townsend media seesy good night, And the

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question is do I stay here?
Will you be back? Are you gonna

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come back? Will you be back? Are you coming back?