Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Alyssa Vanilla
Topics: True crime, Crime, Travel, US News
Jen Thomas
Imagine building up the confidence to go camping alone, only to find out that a strange man is watching you.
That's the real-life horror story that happened to one woman, who has recalled the terrifying moment she was told that someone was keeping an eye on her.
We've all heard the creepy stories, but life can be scarier than fiction at times, as Alyssa Vanilla shared.
She shared the tale of what happened when she was travelling alone in the desert and set up camp in her van.
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Alyssa posted a video explaining what happened when she was camping in the desert outside of Tucson, Arizona.
A man approached her in an ATV van, and her instincts told her to start filming in case anything was wrong.
Whatever that instinct was turned out to be correct.
A man approached Alyssa, asking her if she was OK and whether she needed any water.
Alyssa replied, asking if he was a ranger, to which he said 'no, no I just live close'.
So far, so strange.
The conversation continued with the man asking her how long she planned to camp out there, adding strangely: “If you do stay, I’ll see you again.
“But that’s all I’m doing, just nothing spooky.
“I have a house, my wife is living there and my children, so if you ever need a shower you’re welcome to come by.
"It would probably work better since you are female if you came by while I was there a couple of times, just so my wife gets to know you and she doesn't think there's something stupid going on."
Alyssa didn't know how to feel about the interaction, and things got even weirder when the man came back again.
He came up to tell her: “So you have a guy, in the mountain over there, watching you with binoculars.”
Alarmed, Alyssa answered: “Oh well that is erm, unnerving, I guess I won’t be staying.”
The man replied: “Well it’s not that you can’t stay, but I’ll be honest with you, the other side of the mountain is safer.”
Alyssa wrote in text on the video that "the other side of the mountain is a lot more open and exposed," and it seems she knew he wasn't telling the truth.
He continued talking about the "stalker" he knew of, and said it was a man who went round checking people had water.
Which, if you remember, is exactly what he did to Alyssa.
By this time, Alyssa had enough and began packing up to show that she was leaving, but instead of taking the hint and also going, the man sat there staring at her, rubbing his hands back and forth on the steering wheel in silence.
Fortunately, Alyssa's tale ended safely, but it acts as a warning to other women thinking of camping alone in a remote area.