Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast - Wednesday One-Shot: Middle-School Imposter

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Starting point is 00:01:15 I'm a 28-year-old woman from the Seattle area, and this happened when I was in seventh grade. I had two teachers, both of whom were some of the best teachers I, ever had in general. One day, this guy who was dressed up in a full military outfit with a giant knife dangling off of his vest came into our classroom. He claimed to be a former student who was now a successful military man. He said he wanted to talk to the students to inspire us or something like that. My teachers were confused, as there was no scheduled speaker expected to come to our classes, but they reluctantly allowed him to speak to all of us. He went on about his military career and shared stories of his time and war. He also went into details about how he had shot and killed

Starting point is 00:02:13 children, which was very shocking for a classroom full of children to hear. He also said that he was fluent in Japanese. One of my classmates happened to speak Japanese as well, so she began to speak with him. He responded, but judging by the confused expression on her face, it didn't seem like he replied in Japanese at all. After a while, my teachers started to feel weird about the situation, so they sent a student to escort this man to the front office to get a visitor's pass since he didn't have one.

Starting point is 00:02:53 This decision is what later got my teachers suspended for the rest of the year. There was a police investigation following this situation, and it turned out this man was not an active member of the military. He had never been military personnel at all. He was just some fraudulent, 20-year-old guy. When his car was searched by the police, he had a whole bunch of people. of costumes in there. There were police uniforms, various military garb, and security guard uniforms. He had a prior record and had been previously arrested for impersonating a police

Starting point is 00:03:35 officer as well. Since my teachers didn't send him to the office immediately, they were both suspended. They likely got into additional trouble since they had a student escort him to the office, which, inadvertently, albeit effectively, put them in danger. My class then had a substitute teacher for the rest of the year. It was all over the local news, since it was such a strange thing to happen. I'm not sure why this guy was doing this. He had nothing to gain. Nobody was paying him for speaking or anything.

Starting point is 00:04:13 So what compelled him to walk into a middle school and come speak to a bunch of kids with a bunch of fake graphic details about his life. Was it some ego thing? Did he just get off on presenting himself as somebody who is powerful? All I know is that in today's world, this guy probably wouldn't have made it

Starting point is 00:04:36 through the front door without being questioned. This happened just before schools started bulking up on security due to nationwide school shootings. In any case, whatever this deal was, to the weird, fake military man who had a giant knife dangling from his vest, Let's Not Meet. Thanks for listening and thanks to the author for submitting their story. If you have a story to share, send it to Let's Not Meet Stories at gmail.com. Be sure to subscribe if you're new here.

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Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast - Wednesday One-Shot: Middle-School Imposter

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