3 Terrifying Real College Horror Stories

True Gym Horror Stories 1 

I joined a gym for the first time three months ago now a gym is really the last place you'd ever expect something scary to happen but last week I had the most horrific experience of my life I wear one of those wireless headphones when I go to the gym because the wired ones always get in the way and they're just annoying sometimes I'll leave my phone on a workout machine when I walk to the water fountain and when the phone gets too far from the headphones the headphones start getting staticky before disconnecting I only knew because it happened a couple times before when I walked away too far from my phone in the gym well one late night last week I was one of the last people still in the gym I was on one of the seated leg machines I began my set of 20 while I was pushing towards my final reps the music in my headphones started getting staticky that's how my headset said disconnected from phone I stopped my set and reached over to the phone compartment on top of the machine and I filled with worry when I couldn't feel my phone it wasn't there I looked around the gym desperately thinking someone might have taken it I only saw two other people in the whole gym though excluding the guys sitting at the front desk one guy was really fat and sweaty and the other guy was sitting on one of the machines looking down on his phone which one could have taken my phone if either of them I had to approach the guy sitting on his phone as much as I didn't want to he had earbuds in so when I approached him he looked at me with a confused look on his face as if he didn't want me to be talking to him he took one year butt out and looked at me and I firmly asked him did you take my phone he looks at me in silence for a couple seconds then said no there was obvious attitude I asked him if he saw anyone else walking by recently and he just shook his head no for some dumb reason I said thanks and walked away when I deep down wanted to tell him to quit being a dick I went to the front desk and asked the worker to check the video cameras and see once and for all who actually took my phone as the guy work in the front clicked around on his computer the rude guy who I spoke to walked past me and out the exit the worker then turned the computer screen so that I can see it and clicked play on a video which showed the guy who left 15 seconds ago taking my phone I thanked the employee and ran to catch the guy who just left but by the time I got outside the guy was nowhere to be found

 the scary thing that sunk in right away was the fact that I recently disabled my passcode blocks my phone meaning he had access to all of my apps all of my texts pictures emails all of my data basically I went back inside and that's the employee to track that man's membership info but when he checked the cameras the guy didn't even check in he simply walked past the counter unnoticed so there were no records of this guy even being a member of the gym the footage showed that he suspiciously walked around between machines looking around a lot like a nervous person I asked the employee to report that to the police he said he'd show it to his boss tomorrow

 the next day I called my best friend Tom so I could tell him why I wouldn't be answering texts for a while and to also see if he could tell all my other friends what happens he started freaking out on the phone begging me to tell him I was kidding about losing my phone he told me someone had been sending him texts and came to his house I didn't understand so he said he'd be over to show me ten minutes later Tom got to my house and showed me a long conversation between him and someone using my phone pretending to be me it started out with the person on my phone saying hey can I stay at your place tonight I got in a huge fight with my parents Tom said yeah let me know when you come over then the guy who was using my phone said can you just leave your back door open I'm gonna be over super late and I don't wanna wake you the conversation went on a little while longer before Tom finally agreed to just leave his back to her unlocked Tom went back to sleep under the impression that it was actually me who would be coming through that back door when we finished reading the conversation Tom looked up at me and said the cameras we rushed to his house together and watched the footage captured on the cameras throughout his house I was disturbed but also not surprised to see that man from the gym who took my phone walking in through the back door of Tom's house he scavenges the place grabbing expensive household objects and throwing them in his pockets he moves from the den to the kitchen and eventually to the upstairs I saw the fear in Toms face when he watched the man on the camera on the upstairs hallway open his bedroom door stepped in for about 20 seconds and come back out leaving the door open the man was in the house for about 10 minutes before sneaking back out the back door it looked like he took a lot of valuables Tom and I sent the video footage to the police and when I went back to the gym the manager told me she'd be sending their footage as well three months later not a word from the police so whoever stole my phone and snuck into Tom's house got away with it scot-free.

True Gym Horror Stories 2

 I currently go to a 24-hour gym in my town it's usually on the quieter side most of the day but during the night hours it really becomes a ghost town I don't quite understand how they could afford to stay open 24/7 I had to work late one night to cover for someone else's shift so I got off work at 11:00 p.m. I planned on heading right over to the gym to get a quick midnight workout in when I got there nobody else was there I was the only one working out well only for about ten minutes and so I finally spotted someone else working out it made me feel a little less odd for being there so late the guy was wearing a beanie and a hoodie I was sweating just looking at him to be honest I mean yeah it was cold out but it wasn't cold in the gym I barely had enough time to analyze his odd clothing decision before he started staring me down I looked back for as long as I felt comfortable before deciding to look away I felt like he seemed to be challenging my dominance because I still felt his stare through my peripheral vision I kept shooting brief looks back at him to still find him staring at me I tried my best to ignore it and went on with my workout I just couldn't take the staring any more though so I went to a different section of the gym where there was absolutely no around I was finally able to workout in peace I was doing bicep curls by the free weights while facing the mirror that's when I noticed it that guy in the beanie was hiding behind one of the chest press machines there was a slight opening between the lifting mechanism and the actual weights on the machine and through that opening was the guy's face once again staring at me I think when he realized that I noticed him he moved away out of sight behind the machine I'm Way too timid a person to go approach anybody like that so instead of confronting him I put the weights down and left the room I walked straight to the front desk and asked the girl working to tell the man to either stop staring at me like that or to leave the gym she looked down the aisle of workout machines and saw nobody I asked her to come follow me she was clearly very reluctant to do so but she ended up coming with me to the backroom we looked around the room but he wasn't in there in fact it seemed like he wasn't even in the gym anymore I apologized and told her to keep an eye out for the man in the beanie she walks back to her desk and I kept working out for another ten to 15 minutes I waved goodbye to the girl as I left the gym and went to my car as they put the key in the door lock I heard manic footsteps hitting the concrete I was confused at first it sounded like somebody running in my direction I turned 180 degrees someone was sprinting towards me from the dark I stood like an animal frozen in headlights for a second as I stared in shock when the person emerged into the circle of light onto the light post I was parked under I was able to instantly recognize the guy in the beanie and hoodie from earlier I opened the car door and jumped inside slamming it shut behind me I slammed my hand down on that tiny lock knob atop the door handle a split-second before the man tried to open the door as I started the car he started to kick at my door and window I threw the handle into reverse and stepped on the gas the car jolted backwards away from the man and I was able to escape the parking lot safely I got home and found a bunch of dents in my door from the man's kicks admittedly I should have called the cops or even the gym and warned the girl of the men now that she was alone instead I selfishly just went to bed and told myself I would never go to the gym late at night again.

True Gym Horror Stories 3

 I used to work nights at a 24-hour Fitness in New Jersey I had a love-hate relationship with these ships I loved it because very few people would come in during the deep night hours meaning less people checking in and less weights I had to react I hated it because the man I had to spend the graveyard hour sitting on a desk doing nothing while everybody else was asleep still maybe you would think many strange things would happen during these hours or maybe you wouldn't it's a gym what could happen actually only one strange incident ever happened while I was there I was sitting in a chair behind the counter reading a magazine then out of natural curiosity I turned to do a little people watching well I guess you would call it person watching because there was only one guy in the gym he wasn't doing anything though he was kind of just pacing slowly down the gym looking around there's a cutoff between two different sections of the gym the Front's and the back he made a left turn past the wall that separated the two sections and then he disappeared from my view so it was back to reading for me ten minutes passed and I forgot the guy was even there then suddenly everything went dark in silence like literally the power in the gym just shut out all the lights turned off and all the music went dead it was so dark I couldn't see two feet in front of me thank God our phones have flashlights these days otherwise I wouldn't have known what to do I turned it on and tried to think of what I should do next I knew some kind of power box was in one of the storage rooms connected to the back section of the gym I also knew that's exactly where the one guy working out happens to be on my way there phone / flashlight in hands I called out for the patron over and over now I was in the back section still calling for him why on earth would he not answer me there was something so eerie about being in a silent pitch-black gym and seeing all the workout equipment only through a flashlight

 I found the power box in the back storage area or I guess what I thought was the power box I tried flicking on and off every possible combination of switches but the power did not come back on since I couldn't figure it out I guessed it was on me to close up shop and wait for Cathy the owner to come fix it tomorrow morning but first I had to find that guy I did a thorough scan of the whole back section behind all the equipment and all the janitorial closets nothing the only other place I could check back there was the women's bathroom I opened the door and called for him once more my voice echoed into the seemingly empty bathroom still I had to double-check to confirm I made sure to point the flashlight in every possible direction so I could see every inch of the bathroom she only placed a check now where the stalls before I could open either of them though I started to hear noises breathing noises like sickly deranged breathing noises I had my hand on the door ready to push it open but I couldn't bring myself to do it I said are you in there no answer I got on my knees and looked under the stall door with my flashlight there were two legs standing right behind the stall door practically inches from my face he was literally standing on the other side of the stall door I quickly got up and left the bathroom heart racing I ran to the front desk and tried to figure out what to do I tried calling the owner aka my boss but obviously she was asleep by this time I left two different voicemails on her phone the only other thing I could think to do was call the cops and so I did I didn't know what else to say other than there was a suspicious man in our gym and I was 90% sure he somehow cut the power I hung up the phone and felt alone and horrified in the darkness and silence suddenly a metallic hit sound came from across the dark gym like one of the machines weights being dropped I shine the light down the gym and called for the patron once more and then called out that we're closed than that he had to leave then I think I saw him I saw someone walking between two machines before getting too far from the light to see it seemed like he was messing with me now I shined the light in the direction that he was walking and I swear to god it looked like just at the edge of the light there was a face looking at me

 the blue and red lights from the cop car outside lit up the front section of the gym briefly a cop knocks on the now dysfunctional front door and I physically opened it to let him in he took out his flashlight greeted me and said he'd take a look around all I saw from the front desk was the light of the officer patrolling the whole entire gym including bathrooms and closets before coming back to me and saying it's empty he suggested that whoever it was left through the back door and that I should lock up and come back tomorrow morning and that's exactly what I did by the time I got back the next morning to check on things Kathy was already there apparently it was just a simple power outage the night previous Kathy and I checked the camera footage together and those brief moments before the power went out we checked for the guy I described but he wasn't there there was no footage of him entering the gym there was no footage of him working out or even just walking around the gym Kathy looked at me like I was alone but I was too frozen with shock and confusion to care I swore up and down to her that someone was there that night to this day I don't know if she believed me I don't even know what to think of that night but I know I saw someone there that night regardless of what the cameras might have shown