Traveling alone gives you a whole new level of feeling of freedom. You can do whatever you want, you don’t need to accommodate someone else’s needs or take their opinion into consideration, you have time to reflect and be with yourself and your experience solely depends on your decisions.

While all of that sounds nice, being alone in another country might get dangerous. There is nobody to have your back and you are an easy target for thieves and perpetrators. Solo travelers have their own horror stories and some of them shared what unpleasant adventures they’ve been through when Reddit user g_1234 asked “Solo travelers, what is your creepiest travel story?”

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#1 Someone Tried To Enter This Woman’s Room In The Middle Of The Night And The Receptionist Told Her She Didn’t Have A Reservation

For me it was when I was driving from Georgia to California to visit a friend. I didn’t want to fly because I wanted to site see on the way. When I got to San Diego, the hotel I booked on Expedia screamed run from the get go. But I was exhausted and wanted to rest. Got my room key and checked in. I locked the door and because I am always on guard, I locked the bar on the door for extra safety. About 4 am I was sleeping and heard someone trying to come in my room. They had opened the door but couldn’t get pass the little bar that was locked. I quickly got up, threw clothes on, and went to the door to see what was going on. Two guys outside the door with their hand in the slit of the door yelling at me. They kept saying “come here pretty girl. Oh a pretty face” or something like that. I called the front desk to see what was going on and they said “Oh I didn’t know you were still here.” I was beyond furious and went to the front desk with all my stuff. The lady at the desk said I didn’t have a reservation even though I had my paper saying I checked in, my car decal stickers for parking there, and the room key. She said she rented the room out that I was in for the next month. Flabbergasted I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. She looked up my information and said “oh I see you didn’t book with us but Expedia. We don’t partner with them.” Still confused as to why the world I was given a room, paid for it, and had issues being in it. She refused to call her manager at 5am by that point. So I waited until they got in at 9am, demanded a refund, got it, and checked out. No matter how terrified the ordeal seemed I think it would have ended differently had I not locked the bar on the door.

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#2 Woman Was Almost Taken To The Jungle By A Tuktuk Driver

Travelling in Asia at the time. I got a tuktuk to go to the center of a village with a young driver. We started driving and he turned around while telling me he wouldn’t take me to the center of the village because he knew a better spot in the jungle – a place he and his friends loved… I told him no, I want to go to the center of the village and that’s it. He got angry and sped up while I was considering my chances of just jumping out. But then he also grabbed my arm in a tight grip so I knew for sure no good would come from the situation. Luckily for me I had an umbrella with me and with my free hand I started slamming him with it as hard as I could till he stopped the vehicle and he offered me to “take me to the center of the village. lol. No. I ended up walking 3 hours to the village. I had planned one more day there and was constantly confronted by people that I was the girl who attacked the tuktuk driver offering me rides. Pretty sure they were his friends.. I strictly stayed in busy areas till I was able to take a train out. F that situation.

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#3 Person Was Harassed By Border Control

I spent a week in Dusseldorf travelling around and never encountered anything creepy. Get to the airport for my flight home and started getting followed by a border control man, he ends up swapping with another person for the security part meaning I had to go through his security bit. The whole time he’s asking me personal thing,
“Do you like Turkish men?”
“Would you like to go to dinner with a Turkish man?”
“Where are you from? how many Turkish men are near you? I know loads in Scotland”
I’m assuming the man was Turkish after these questioning.
I ended up having to get patted down and he made sure to watch (by this point it was beyond uncomfortable). Once I was finished he continued to follow me through duty free, I start walking faster to get away from him
“Have lunch with me” he starts shouting down the airport.
I jump straight on my phone and call my dad and hid behind a shelf in duty free till I saw him walk past trying to find me.
Stayed hidden in the toilet till my flight was boarding.

Through all these questioning I never even answered him, I’m not a rude person but with this guy I was.

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#4 Person Didn’t Find Their Hotel Because Taxi Driver Dropped Them Out A Few Streets Away

It was my first ever trip overseas (and solo) to Vietnam. I’d booked a nice hotel but the taxi driver dropped me off from the airport a few streets away and I had no idea where to go (this was pre Google maps). It was late at night and a fairly quiet area, I was just wandering around with my suitcase hoping to find the place and a random Vietnamese bloke asked if I was ok. Turns out he worked at the hotel that I was staying at! He walked me there and made sure that I got to reception. I’m so lucky that I ran into him and thanked him profusely, and gave him a generous tip. I’m so glad that I ran into him and not some sketchy character.

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#5 Woman Was Cornered By A Pack Of Domesticated Dogs By Their Owner’s Command

When I was in a coastal town in Colombia last year, I was cornered by a pack of domesticated dogs.

I was walking back to my hostel on the main strip of shops after dark and noticed a pack of dogs waiting outside a store. The store happened to be the last business on the main strip and also the last source of light between it and my hostel up the road.

As I passed the store, a man inside noticed me and signaled to his dogs to follow me. At first it was cute, but it turned scary when I tried to turn down my street and was snarled and barked at. The dogs cornered me between the road and a house, barking and jumping on me. Flustered, I eventually pushed through the pack to get up the road, but continued being swarmed. I kept swatting and yelling at the dogs until I just a couple houses down from my hostel and the man whistled to recall his dogs.

The family that ran the hostel came outside when they heard all the noise and asked me if I was alright. Turns out this wasn’t a one-off thing; a local misogynist has literally trained his dogs to scare and trap women. I shudder to think what would have happened if I didn’t shuffle up the street when I did or if the family hadn’t appeared in the street before the man caught up with me.

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#6 Pilot Knew Passenger’s Name And They Started Getting Calls From Russian Phone Numbers

Had a layover in Moscow, flying from Seoul to Barcelona a few years ago. Aeroflot, of course.

Standard economy ticket, nothing special.

We land as usual, and are leaving. Cabin crew and pilot were thanking us as we left. When I got to the door, the captain looks at me and grins. “thanks for flying with us Captain (last name).” I was a military Intel guy at the time, and it seemed apparent they wanted me to know I was being watched and tracked.

My phone immediately started blowing up with Russian phone numbers calling it once I cleared security and hid out at a different terminal than my follow on flight. Never been to Russia before, no friends or family. Super weird.

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#7 Person Woke Up To Their Hotel Room Being Burgled

Waking up to my hotel room being burgled. Was real annoying.

Thankfully the only thing taken was my petty cash before I woke up and chased him out.

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#8 Person Got Almots Mugged On The Steps Of Sacre Couer In Paris

Almost got mugged in Paris on the steps of Sacre Couer. Surrounded by five assailants and had no choice but to shout at the top of my lungs. As soon as I did they scattered.

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#9 Woman Was Lost In Paris And Two Men Started Following Her

I was walking through Paris looking for the closest metro station to go back to my hostel. I was trying not to look lost, but I was very lost. There was this intersection shaped like the hub of a wheel, and I knew the metro was on one of the streets radiating out from it, so I started going down the streets one by one.

As I went down one particularly deserted street I passed two men sitting in a doorway. In French one muttered to the other, “a woman”, and they both got up to follow me. Luckily I could see the train a block ahead, so I checked my imaginary watch and started running. I made it before the train left. I don’t know how far the men followed me, but there was hardly anyone at the station so I’m glad the train was there.

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#10 Someone Took A Ring Off This Man’s Finger While He Was Asleep On The Train

My brother travelled by night train in Russia. He had bought a nice ring for his wife. He figured the safest place for the ring was on his finger. When he woke up, it was stolen.

So yes, someone took it from his finger while he was asleep.

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#11 Woman Was Hitchhiking And The Truck Driver Was Being Too Personal And Wanter Her To Sleep In His Truck

I was hitchhiking with a trucker in Patagonia. The guy seemed nice enough so I thought it’d be fine going with him. But conversation got increasingly weird and personal (him complimenting my appearance, didn’t find it possible i didn’t have a boyfriend etc). And then every once in a while he had to look on a paper map where he was going, cause he seemed clueless.

At one point, in the litteral middle of nowhere, he stopped his truck to take a nap while i just sat there in panic.

Later on, there was so much wind and he said i could sleep in his truck that night. By then i was also feeling feverish cause he drove with his windows open and it was freezing and I was exhausted from stress. We ended up picking up more hitchhikers (i insisted) and i actually had to sleep in his truck that night, as there was too much wind to drive in the valley. One of the other hitchhikers was also super strange and scared me, so i cried myself to sleep and hitched with another truck the next morning (with the nicest guy ever i felt like hitch gods were trying to make up with me)

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#12 Person Saw A Guy Pushing An Empty Baby Stroller Along The Highway

driving up thru the arco desert in idaho and saw a guy pushing an empty baby stroller along the highway. no cars or stops for miles in either direction

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#13 The Airport Being Empty Looked Spooky

I once flew from Anchorage, AK to Valdez, AK… the Valdez airport is so quiet and empty it was spooky

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