7 True Scary Stories about Obsessive People

A customer, 'Pizza Hobo,' maintained a consistent routine at a pizza restaurant for two years, developing a perceived friendship with an employee. His behavior escalated when she missed a shift, demanding personal details and later being observed discarding his purchased pizza, indicating his visits were solely to see her. This pattern mirrored a previous incident where he stalked another employee, forcing her to leave her job and move.

The narrator's colleague, Andrew, reported 'Pizza Hobo's' fury and demands for personal details when the narrator was sick (00:03:08). Andrew later discovered 'Pizza Hobo' consistently dumped his pizza in an alley after leaving the store (00:06:08). An area manager recognized 'Pizza Hobo' from a past incident where he stalked an employee for two years, following her home and smoking outside her house, which was not legally considered stalking at the time (00:06:59).

A high school friend, Brian, became obsessively fixated on a girl who had previously crushed on him but moved on. He sent her anonymous, 15-page essays accusing her of 'friend-zoning' him and demanding sexual favors. When she refused, he threatened to spread false rumors about her and a teacher. His obsession culminated in a written manifesto detailing a plan for the entire grade to 'suffer,' leading to his arrest.

Brian's anonymous, 15-page essays were found in the narrator's locker, accusing her of leading him on and demanding oral sex (00:11:19). Upon refusal, Brian threatened to spread rumors about the narrator and her English teacher (00:12:57). A guidance counselor revealed a manifesto found on Brian's desk, detailing how the entire grade would suffer (00:13:29).

A 'minor public figure' was targeted by a woman who 'lovebombed' him with excessive praise and unsolicited nudes, quickly declaring him her 'dream guy.' This rapidly escalated into her moving into his parents' home, demanding financial support, and using emotional blackmail, including threatening harm to her own four-year-old child if he ended the relationship, all while she purchased luxury items for herself.

The woman immediately claimed the narrator's work was her 'favorite thing of all time,' triggering alarm bells (00:18:37). She sent unsolicited nudes and, upon rejection, threw a tantrum, claiming he made her feel like a 'lady of ill-repute' (00:19:49). She suggested his father provide her with a weekly allowance and threatened that if her son 'ruined her chances at happiness again,' she had 'no idea what she might do to him' (00:24:08). She later demanded $500 a month for her mother's 'mortgage' (which didn't exist) to 'go back to being the one' and get married (00:25:49).

An office worker experienced anonymous love notes and felt followed, initially suspecting her boss. The stalker was revealed to be Jan, the boss's direct assistant, who physically assaulted the narrator in an alley. Investigations found numerous fanfics on Jan's work computer about her and the narrator, indicating a severe disconnect between fiction and reality, leading to Jan's arrest.

Anonymous emails from the company network described the narrator as 'angelic, perfect, my body divine' (00:27:50). Jan, the boss's assistant, followed the narrator, attacked her in an alley, grabbed her by the breasts, and attempted to strip her (00:29:01). Later, Jan's work PC contained 'numerous fanfics about me and her, all in an inappropriate nature,' suggesting she 'couldn't discern these fictions from reality' (00:29:52).

A grandfather found companionship with Edith in a nursing home, but her behavior became increasingly erratic at night. His emails turned cryptic, describing 'shadows at the door' and 'scratching in the night.' It was discovered that Edith suffered from 'sundowning' dementia, which caused her to become a 'crazy 84-year-old witch' at night, obsessively targeting him, culminating in a naked assault in his room.

Grandpa's emails changed from gushing to cryptic, stating 'There's something wrong with this place. I see a shadow at the door. She scratches in the night' (00:32:54). The narrator observed Edith outside Grandpa's room at midnight, scratching the door (00:35:17). Edith then burst into his room, stripped naked, slathered in oil, and screamed 'Take me! Take me!' at Grandpa (00:35:55). The staff later explained Edith had 'sundowning' dementia (00:36:25).

A homeless man, Patrick, was lured by Angela, a soup kitchen volunteer, who falsely claimed to be his wife. She drugged him, kidnapped him, and subjected him to electric shocks in her basement, believing he was the reincarnation of her dead husband, Patrick Carson. Her delusion was that a car battery could 'bring him back' since a car killed her husband.

Angela approached Patrick at a homeless shelter, claiming to be his wife and taking him 'home' (00:39:52). She gave him a drugged tea, causing him to pass out (00:40:41). He woke up naked in a basement, hooked up to a car battery, and was repeatedly shocked by Angela (00:41:04). Angela screamed at him, insisting he was 'Patrick Carson, husband to Angela Carson,' whose husband was killed in a hit-and-run, and that a car battery could 'bring him back' (00:42:48).