The Creepy Strangers Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.
He was standing where the lane meets the main road, which is a stupid place to stand, and he had a bag on his shoulder, and it was February …
728 Upvote · 79% of readers believe this story
It was a coat I had owned for six years, from a shop that no longer exists, and it had a missing second button, and a biro stain on the righ…
673 Upvote · 71% of readers believe this story
The app sends you a photograph. Proof of delivery. It is meant to be reassuring. The photograph shows a man at my front door, taking a parce…
601 Upvote · 79% of readers believe this story
I picked him up in the rain, which was my first mistake, and I picked him up because he was old, which is not a defence, only an explanation…
546 Upvote · 76% of readers believe this story
I was driving a long empty stretch of two-lane road late at night, the kind with nothing but fields and the occasional dark farmhouse, when …
366 Upvote · 82% of readers believe this story
This happened at the bus stop near my apartment, the last stop of the night, where it is usually just me under the one flickering light arou…
341 Upvote · 85% of readers believe this story
I have driven trucks and cabs for thirty years and picked up more hitchhikers than the safety brochures would like. This one stood at the Ro…
140 Upvote · 98% of readers believe this story
Four of us, same corner booth we have occupied every Friday for a decade: me, Dev, Christina, and Paul. We know the regulars. We know the st…
111 Upvote · 54% of readers believe this story
On Monday I noticed the coincidence: a man at my bus stop in a navy coat like mine, roughly my build, holding the same reusable cup, mustard…
87 Upvote · 84% of readers believe this story
The 23:52 is the last train, and the station out by the science park is unstaffed at that hour — two platforms, humming lights, mist off the…
63 Upvote · 88% of readers believe this story
We had walked the cliff path a hundred times: shortcut home from the harbour pub, twenty minutes along the headland with the sea doing its e…
58 Upvote · 86% of readers believe this story
She was ahead of me at the supermarket checkout, unremarkable until the cashier asked if she had a loyalty card, and she said my name. First…
34 Upvote · 97% of readers believe this story
My husband saw him first and said nothing for two nights, which tells you about my husband. Then I got up for water at three in the morning …
29 Upvote · 90% of readers believe this story
