The Lurker

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HeyWarren – Posted 2/27/19 9:23pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #1

Not really sure how to start this. So, I guess I’ll just try to start from the beginning. My name is Warren, and I met Jake when I moved into my college dorm room. I’m reluctant to say which college, mostly in fear of doxing myself.

He’s in a pretty big frat. When I asked why he didn’t want to just live in the frat house, he said it was ‘Too loud’ and ‘had too many rules’. So, he chose the easier option of sharing a dorm room with a random student. I, unfortunately, happened to be that random student.

We kicked it off pretty fast. He’s a chill guy, we listen to a lot of the same music, and despite him being an Art major, and me being here for comp science, we have a lot of similar interests. Honestly, it was hard not to be friends with the guy. He was more or less friends with everyone, always chatting with someone, always knew when the next party was happening, and was always expected to attend. That’s what makes this whole thing feel so weird.

The guy was the definition of ‘outgoing’. Sure, I mean, I guess there were some pretty nasty rumors about him. But, that happens to almost everyone, right? If they were true, I don’t think he’d be able to brush it off the way he did. I wouldn’t be able to, at least. I haven’t been hit with that treatment yet, but my assumption is, I’m just not as noticeable as him.

Anyways, around two-ish months into living with him, he got…weird. I’m not really sure how else to put it, really. Paranoid, maybe? But, like, worse. He slowly started getting abnormally fidgety, always jumpy and looking over his shoulder. I thought maybe he just developed some kind of anxiety, but it got so bad at one point I had to ask him if he was doing drugs. He claims he wasn’t, but I’m still not sure.

It got bad fast, he got skittish, started keeping the curtains closed and peeking out of them in random intervals like a creep. Worst of all, he started leaving the lights on all the time. And, I mean 24/7 the lights all HAD to be on, he’d freak out on me if I tried to turn them off. He told me he was trying to ‘make the school pay extra for electricity’, then made up something about how it’s ‘actually very beneficial to sleep with the lights on’. It drove me nuts. I had to buy a sleep mask, and I mostly started sleeping in friends’ and girlfriends’ dorms just to get a normal night of sleep.

This all freaked me out, to be honest. But, nothing will top the day I came home to see him setting up a camera pointed out the window just above his desk. He was pointing it toward the woods across campus, mumbling to himself about how he was going to ‘catch that stupid bitch’. I asked him what he was doing, and he started freaking out, trying to explain it all in a way that made absolutely no sense; I still have no idea what he was actually trying to do.

He was yelling, telling me I wasn’t listening to him (I wasn’t), that nobody believes him about something, talking about some white woman (???). Honestly, the whole thing was scary, it ended with him storming out almost in tears, and then he didn’t come back for two days. I still have no idea where he went.

This whole thing ended super abruptly when I came back to the dorm after class one day, and all of his stuff was gone. And, I mean wiped clean, it seriously looked like he was never there in the first place. Bedsheets stripped, posters taken off the wall, books missing from the bookshelf, desk wiped clean and trashcan empty. If he wasn’t so popular, I would honestly have thought I imagined him.

It’s been just over a month now, and I still haven’t seen a trace of the guy. I texted him after a week, called him a couple more days later, nothing. Texts unread, call sent straight to voicemail. Faculty won’t tell me if he’s even still a student, says they ‘can’t give out that kind of information’. I asked around campus, nobody has seen him or heard from him, nobody has any idea where he went, and everybody thinks I’m the freak for wondering where he’s gone.

I even found his mom on Facebook and messaged her asking if he came home, which did nothing but worry the poor woman sick, and now i feel bad, I told her it’s probably nothing, and that I’ll let her know if I see him around. I went to the police to report him missing and they all but laughed in my face. He’s an adult, there’s no reason for them to believe anything other than him just dropping out of school. He’s allowed to disappear without a word if he so pleases, and until there’s ‘real evidence something is wrong’, they’re simply not worried about it.

So, I guess I’m wondering how I would go about finding him? I figure some internet sleuths could give me some tips on looking for him. I just wanna make sure he’s alive and alright, we were really close for awhile, at least I thought.

I’m really worried about him.

HeyWarren – Posted 3/3/19 11:56pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #2

I’ve been asking around campus, and luckily one of his frat buddies knew about a blog he was pretty active on. Like, something straight out of the early 2000’s, almost daily updates on tests, parties, what he was up to, what was on his mind. I guess it started as some extra credit thing he was doing for one of his classes, and he ended up liking it.

It starts super normal, at least. I skimmed through his posts until I got to where he started acting strange IRL, then went back a little bit to see if I could pinpoint exactly when it started.

The entries all seem to follow the same path, regular college guy stuff until about early October. Then, they start to get weird. It happened slower in the posts than in real life. I can’t really tell if he was trying to seem more normal online, or play it up more IRL.

Either way, I manage to find the first post where he mentions being followed. I know what was something he started to get really worried about towards the end there before he disappeared. I’ll post it here, and I’ll update my findings as I come across them, since you guys seem pretty interested in helping me crack this case.

JustSomeGuy – Posted 10/10/18 7:28pm

Hey, dudes. It’s been like almost a week since I posted last, doesn’t usually take that long, but there’s some weird bullshit happening lately, lol.

Which one of you fuckers hired someone to follow me around? Best prank of the year by far, for sure. Don’t worry, when I find out who it is I’ll get you back tenfold ;P

Whatever, anyways, besides the ghostly chick seemingly lurking around at all hours, Not much is new. The party on the 6th was still the best by FAR. Sad my roommate had to miss it, I bet he would’ve loved all the shit we got up to. (All legal, in case you’re faculty reading this, lol.)

It’s only Wednesday, and I feel like I’ve lived through two weeks in the past three days. I got a crazy fucking test coming up on monday, so I gotta try to cram in as much work as I can, wish me luck.

‘Til next time – Jake

That’s the first time anything is mentioned on his blog, but at the time he clearly thought it was some kind of campus prank. I’m really not sure if someone was actually following him, or if he was going through some kind of mental break. He did mention being followed quite a few times after he started acting weird, saying creepy stuff like ‘She’s always watching’. Honestly, after a while, it started to freak me out pretty bad.

I’m gonna keep looking through his blog and see if I can find anything else. More posts mentioning the person following him, maybe even a post saying this is all some elaborate school project. I don’t know, I’ll keep you guys updated.

HeyWarren – Posted 3/7/19 8:32pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #3

So, I found some more stuff on Jakes’ blog over the last couple of days, and I bumped into one of his art profs.

His posts seem to switch from being totally normal, to paranoid and crazy in the blink of an eye. It’s giving me whiplash to read, to be honest with you guys. I’m glad you’re all here to go through this journey with me, otherwise, I think I might’ve gotten too freaked out at this point to keep looking. By now, I’m too curious to stop looking into it. And, now you’re all involved, too.

JustSomeGuy – Posted 10/16/18

Absolutely crushed the test, no thanks to the freak lurking around. If she’s gonna be over my shoulder all the time she could at least help with my homework, lol.

Speaking of, does anyone have the notes from yesterday’s Physics? Totally missed that class.

That chick is kind of starting to freak me out, whoever planned this whole schtick is good, I’ll totally admit it. I’m starting to wonder how many people are in on this prank, since nobody else has admitted to seeing her. Great spooky vibes for halloween, I get it. She’s fuckin’ ghostly, honestly.

This is one for the history books, for sure.

‘Till next time – Jake.

He’s still talking about that woman following him around. Though, he doesn’t give much detail. According to the comments on the post, it seems like everyone thought he was trying to start some scary Halloween rumor. Like, bigfoot but a little more ‘scary’, I guess. I can see why people thought that, we live in a pretty wooded area, and it was pretty out of left field for Jake to be so paranoid like this. Nobody thought this woman was real, least of all Jake.

I was able to get a little more info from his art prof when I bumped into him on campus earlier. He was walking to his car, and I managed to stop him for a chat, asking if he had seen Jake at all recently under the guise of sharing a group project with him. He got kinda irritated, told me he hasn’t seen Jake, and to tell him if I see him around because he ‘left a massive pile of crap’ in his art room.

When I asked what he meant, he told me that Jake had started painting at rapid fire speeds the last couple weeks before he ‘dropped out’, all very different from his usual art, and some gory enough to be concerning. Jake didn’t want the paintings when he was done with them, didn’t even want to look at them, I guess. And, nobody else wants them, either.

I asked if I could take a look at them, maybe I wanted one, and he told me to stop by at the end of class tomorrow to take a look. He said he doubts I’ll want any, that the ones that aren’t gory are all mostly the same thing over and over again. But, I feel like it’s worth at least looking at. I’ll let you guys know what I find when I get the chance.

Update: I went and looked at the paintings. They’re definitely different, alright. They’re all dark woods and some glowy wispy figure hiding somewhere in the shadows, or closeups of a woman too bright to make out any real features. In some of them, she’s covered in blood and gore, in some of them she’s almost an ethereal being, and in some, just looking at her eyes on the canvas makes my skin crawl. I didn’t take any back to the dorm, they’re still in the art room under a sheet.

HeyWarren – Posted 3/10/19 7:38pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #4

I spent the whole weekend on this, now I’m hoping I don’t fall too behind on my classes from all the homework I put off. I found some more relevant posts, and I also found stuff hidden in my room over on Jake’s side. I’ll go over my findings in order.

First, I spent most of my nights digging through his blog, and I found two pretty concerning entries. I know at this point he was really spiraling IRL, I think this was around the time I found him setting up that camera, so he was full throttle convinced he was being stalked by now.

JustSomeGuy – Posted 10/24/18 2:24am

Alright, I don’t really think this shit is funny anymore. I could get whoever this is arrested, this has to be considered stalking or something. This fucking bitch is everywhere, and she has been for months now.

I’m fucking sorry, okay? Is that what you want? Jesus, just get her away from me.

JustSomeGuy – Posted 11/5/18 8:20pm

Okay, you guys got me. It worked, I’m freaked, you can fess up now. Hasn’t this gone on for long enough, now? Can someone please just tell me who’s doing this?

I don’t care about getting anyone back for this anymore, I just want to stop feeling watched all the time, I feel like a freak. Whoever doing this is a fucking freak, I’m being real when I say you have serious fucking problems.

FESS UP OR I’M GOING TO THE COPS

These kind of threw me for a loop, to be honest. It’s scary to watch how he goes from pleading to screaming in the blink of an eye, admitting he feels like a freak and then lashing out all in the same sentence. It seems like it was really serious.

Now, for the things I found in my room.

First, and most unsettling, was a knife hidden inside of his mattress. I was rearranging the room, a mix of needing a small change of scenery to make me feel less uneasy, and a way to see if Jake had left anything behind.

Well, he did.

It was barely noticeable, a long rip right along the seam of the mattress, loose threads sticking out every which way being the only thing to clue me in to the little secret he was hiding. It took some courage to reach my hand in, assuming the grossest possibilities first.

Instead, something sharp sliced into my fingertips.

He had a huge knife hidden right in the side of the mattress, one of those fancy expensive ones that seem too sharp for their own good. I have no idea what this was for, and pulling the blade out from the plush fabric made all my hair stand on end.

Under the bedframe, hardly out of place if I wasn’t playing Sherlock, was a board of wood suspiciously scraped up at the edge. I really didn’t think people actually hid things under the floorboards, but prove me wrong, I guess. It took some finagling, but I managed to get the board lifted up eventually. (I hope that’s all the knife was for, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever find out for sure.)

Inside was Jake’s laptop, and two busted up cameras. I’m still trying to figure out the password to his laptop without getting it locked, and then I plan to get the SD cards from these cameras uploaded onto the laptop so I can see what’s on them. I’d upload the SD cards to my own laptop, but I’m a little worried about what’s on them.

I’ll update when I can get more info.

HeyWarren – Posted 3/16/19 8:42pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #5

Okay, so, I did manage to open up Jake’s laptop, but I can’t for the life of me get the pictures from these SD cards to transfer over. I even tried it on one of the school computers, and when that didn’t work, I caved and tried it on my own laptop. The cameras are pretty busted, but the SD cards are seemingly fine. They, in theory, should be working. But, they just won’t upload. It’s seriously error after error, failure to upload after failure to upload.

So, I guess I can’t look at the pictures. But, I did dig through his laptop a bit and found his notes, which get really concerning really fast. It starts with a ‘to do’ list, and ends with him talking to himself in the notes like he’s yelling at someone else. His laptop never left our dorm room, and there’s no way someone just waltzed in here and then left notes for him and literally nothing else. I’m really worried he just had some kind of mental break and is out lost in the woods somewhere, or something.

I’ll copy and paste his notes here, even the ‘normal’ ones, just in case there’s something I missed.

TO DO
-call mom✓
-study for chem✓
-make doctors appointment✓
-help warren study for art history✓
-Call aria

PARTIES/WHEN
Welcome bash 8/11✓
Was chill, went with Aria.

House party at andy’s 8/25✓
Had a blast ;P
Aria fucking broke up with me over this. Whatever

Halloween party @ frat 10/6✓
Fucking LIT ! Glad Warren wasn’t there, he never would’ve let us do all that, lol. Would’ve had to put shit in his drink, too.

POSSIBLE PRANKSTERS
Jenny
Aria
Joseph
Robby
Meagan
Warren
Dani
Kyle
Who the fuck is doing this??

SIGHTINGS
10/9 2:23pm, 6:48pm,
10/13 2:26am, 6:06am, 4:53pm
10/19 3:02am?, 7pm
10/20 1:24am, 6;20pm
10/23 3:01am, 8:27pm, 11:58pm
10/29 all the fucking time. This is stupid.

Hello :)
Crazy fucking bitch, how did you get onto my computer??? You know I’m going to find out who’s doing this. At this point it’s harassment and stalking, not a fucking prank. This is illegal, I can get you arrested.

Silly :)

HeyWarren – Posted 3/26/19 11:23pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #6

So, not a huge update or anything. But, I still felt like maybe it’s important.

I think I saw ‘her’?

I’m not sure, really. It was barely for a second, and it just happened so I’m still pretty on edge. I was at the library a little late, since we’ve got this big exam coming up. And, eventually the librarian had to kick me out. Anyway, I was walking back to the dorms, and I hear this like, clicking? Or, chittering, maybe? I don’t know, the sound made my blood run cold, It sounded like it came from deep in someone’s body, not even their throat. I don’t think a person could make that sound, honestly.

It froze me in place. I mean, I felt like a little kid again, that full-body terror without reason that makes all your hair stand up and your heartbeat too loud. Eventually, I made myself turn around, and I just kinda wish I hadn’t, that I had kept walking, pretended I didn’t hear anything.

Barely a flash around the corner, fingers peeling themselves from the brick wall in the blink of an eye, gone before I could really register what I actually saw.

I’m not sure it was actually a hand, to be honest. The fingers were a little too long, the skin way too white to be natural. Maybe there is someone playing a prank around campus. I don’t know. Maybe I’m just thinking too much about the stuff Jake was saying before he disappeared.

HeyWarren – Posted 4/6/19 1:43am
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #7

Hey guys, I think this whole thing is getting to my head. I feel like maybe I should take some time away. I don’t know, log off, hang out with friends, try to clear my head a little bit.

I still want to find out what happened to Jake, you guys can feel free to keep digging all you want. I just think I need to take a break for a minute so I don’t go crazy, too.

HeyWarren – Posted 4/24/19 6:27am
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #8

The break didn’t work. Actually, I think it made it worse.

I get it now, I understand. The uneasiness, the paranoia, the constant urge to check over your shoulder and make sure she isn’t watching. I see her everywhere, around corners, behind trees, in windows I pass by. She’s there all the time, from the moment I open my eyes to the moment they pry themselves closed, I fucking see her.

Not ever enough, though. Not all of her, nothing defining, nothing concrete. Just whisps, glimpses, fleeting moments that make me feel like I’m going crazy because nobody else seems to see her.

You’d think the worst ones are when I’m alone, when it’s dark outside and I’m keeping my room too bright, when the reflection of my own exhausted figure is more clear than the blank emptiness outside. But, it isn’t.

The worst ones are in the middle of the day, when I’m in public, when I’m surrounded by friends. It always happens the moment I start to forget, the moment I’m distracted and happy enough to let myself breathe.

And then I see her.

And, nobody else ever does.

I’ve pointed, yelled, ignored, chased after her. Nothing ever lets me see more than a strand of hair, a too long finger, a too white eye, a too wide smile. Never at once, never all of her. Bits and pieces slowly forming together a mock of a human being.

I should have never tried to find Jake.

HeyWarren – Posted 5/3/19 5:42pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #9

I’m sorry. I’m sorry to my mom for every time I’ve lied. I’m sorry to every friend I’ve ever ditched. I’m sorry to Jonah for the rumor I made up about him. I’m sorry for kissing Jennifer when she was drunk. I’m sorry to Jake for telling him he was crazy. I’m sorry to all my friends’ parents I’ve lied to. I’m sorry for sneaking alcohol into parties, I’m sorry for giving Kevin a weed brownie when he didn’t know. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.

HeyWarren – Posted 5/4/19 3:04am

Not the point, silly :)

HeyWarren – Posted 5/9/19 7:17pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #10

For everyone who commented saying the last ‘silly’ post couldn’t have been me, you were right. I didn’t post that.

I’ve changed all my passwords, and I logged out of everywhere that isn’t my personal laptop. So, hopefully there shouldn’t be any way for whoever that was to get back into my account. I was asleep when it was posted, but nothing in my room was moved, including my laptop, and I’m sure if someone came in I would’ve woken up.

So, hopefully no more posts made on my account without me knowing. No major updates besides this, just wanted to clarify.

HeyWarren – Posted 5/14/19 2:46pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #11

Yesterday, I went down to my local police department to try and report that someone was stalking me. I gave them everything, I told them everything that happened, and they all but shoved me right back out.

Apparently, I need undeniable proof that I’m being stalked. And, not only has nobody else seen the woman stalking me, they told me they’re ‘getting real tired of this prank you kids are trying to pull’ and spent way too long lecturing me about falsifying reports.

So, I’m not going to be getting any help from the police, I guess. Not unless she does something so outrageous that I have undeniable proof she’s actually real. And, if I start trying to get clear pictures of her, then now I’m the one doing the stalking. Isn’t that ridiculous?

You guys are the only ones helping me on this, since I’m not going to be getting any help legally. I guess we’re all in this mess together, huh?

HeyWarren – Posted 5/15/19 3:54am

Isn’t it so terrible, to not be believed?

HeyWarren – Posted 5/30/19 12:24pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #12

Hey, guys. Sorry I worried you all, I promise I’m still alive.

This is going to be my final update. I’m done looking into this, I don’t want anything to do with this stupid internet investigation anymore. I tried to delete the page, but it won’t let me for whatever reason. So, I’m logging out, and I don’t plan to come back.

Thank you all for your help, please stay safe.

HeyWarren – Posted 6/11/19 9:14pm
My Roommate Is Missing – Entry #13

Jake, I am so sorry I didn’t believe you when you told me someone was following you.

Aria, I’m so sorry I called you a liar when you told me why you broke up with Jake. He is awful for doing that to you.

Jenny, I’m so sorry I waved you off when you tried to tell me about the Halloween party. That should have never happened to you.

And to you, reading this. I am so, so sorry you’re involved.

Please don’t look for me, don’t make the same mistake I did. Don’t look for The Lurker, and don’t give her the chance to look for you. Ignore this page, report all my posts, do your best to get it taken down. Call it a hoax, a scary story, an internet myth. But please, for the love of god, don’t look for me.

And, again, I’m sorry for involving you. I don’t know how well she’ll be able to sniff you out. If you stop now, I hope she won’t be able to find you.

Goodbye.

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