The creek

Okay so this happened when I was in high school. One day after school, some friends and I decided to smoke some good ol' devils lettuce. Our usual smoke spot was this creek like area behind my friends house. It was a good smoke spot because there was so many tree's to hide us.

So we go to the creek and start smoking. I think there were about 5 of us including myself. Anyway, we're about halfway through a bowl, having a good time until suddenly, we hear a branch snap near us. Every single one of our heads turn to the direction of the sound...

There behind some foliage, crouched down is a random stranger. He's about maybe 25 feet away from us. He has a grey hoodie on with the hood up. He has sunglasses and a long unkept beard. He has both hands inside his hoodie pocket. I remember hearing my friend scream "THERES A MAN!!!" And that's when he started running towards us...

We all instantly started running, struggling to put our supplies away in our backpacks mid run. Now this creek is in-between 2 rows of houses so we run out of the trees onto this hill next to where these houses are. I was thinking maybe we would see someone to help us. Problem is it's the backyards of these houses and no one is in their backyards to help. Also we couldn't just go through someone's backyard. There was 2 entrances to the creek and we were a good distance away from them both. We just keep running.

I looked back hoping the man had went away, but when I looked back, there he was still. He wasn't running anymore, more like a very fast speed walk. I'm guessing he was worried that someone might actually be in a backyard to help us? He still had his hood and sunglasses on, and he still had his hands in his pocket. I was so confused why he was following us, and I was assuming he had a knife in his pocket possibly. The thought of us all fighting him crossed my mind, but he looked to be about 30 years old. We were just some teens. And if he did have a weapon.. things could get ugly. We even yelled at him to leave us alone but he said nothing. He just kept speed walking towards us. It was certain that this man was not giving up.

Anyway we ran pretty fast, so we were a good distance in front of him. At this point, I wasn't as scared because I could now see the exit. We all walk out the exit and head up the street towards my friends house. We slow our pace down a little to look towards the creek entrance and there he fucking is still following us.

The worst part is no bystanders are out right now. Literally not a soul is outside. Were still kinda far away from our friends house, so we just keep running up the street until we finally see some random mother watching her children play outside. The creepiest part is once we get near the mother and her children, the man instantly 180's and starts walking the other way.

We sigh in relief and run back to my friends house safely.

Anyway, this is a true story and my friends and I always bring it up. That has always been a really creepy creek, and many phenomena have happened to us there, but this was by far the creepiest. We have never went back to that creek after that. Till this day, I wonder how long that man was watching us for.. why he was watching us.. and what he planned to do if he ever caught up with us... and I pray I never run into him again and find out. Stay safe out there kids.

TLDR: Friends and I went to smoke in creek. Hear noise. See man watching us. Man starts chasing us. Chases us through entire creek. Is still chasing us on street. Finally find random pedestrians. Man stops chasing us as soon as we find pedestrians and he runs away.