Real Encounters

*I have no idea what would have happened..*

This happened when I was in 8th grade. My sister is 2 years older than me and we were with my mom when this happened.
My sister had just gotten a new camera (Nikon for those who care/wanna know) and we were looking for cool photos to take. We went to a somewhat nearby town that will remain unnamed.

We first found this huge wall, and it had mural on it. Perfect, this would make for a cool photo. After my sister takes a few photos a person comes out of a furniture store that was in the building that had the huge wall. She asked us what we were doing and what we were taking a photo of. We didn't think much of it since maybe she thought we were photographing their business or something. We explained and she smiled and said nothing and walked back in the shop. Okay, not too weird.

We take some more photos and stop at a small convenience store nearby (still in the same town though). We parked and noticed this store had some cool paintings on both sides of it. They were frogs that were dancing together, so we thought it make for a cool photo.

My sister was outside the car, taking photos of the frogs, and me and my mom were inside the car waiting for her to finish up. Outta nowhere this black SUV pulls up behind us and parks perpendicular to us, so we cannot get out. She opens the door and comes to the passenger side window (where I am) and is rambling in another language (sounded middle eastern). She's on the phone with someone and is staring at my mom. Quickly she asks what the hell we were doing. I had no idea what was going on but my mom knew something was up so she played the "stupid white tourist" act, hoping it would get rid of any suspicion about us.

She tells her that we just got a new camera and love the paintings. She keeps talking on the phone while glaring at us. Then her husband (I assume) comes out of the shop with a fucking blunt weapon. It looked like a crowbar but it wasn't. It was like a metal bar.

He stomps out, looks at the lady on the phone then stares at us. When he looks at us his face went from "im gonna bash ya fookin headin" to "wait what the fuck?" He must've noticed we were just young white folks taking dorky photos. He looked back at the woman and nodded, and without a word she left like nothing happened. A little fun fact: on top of the entrance to this store is painted in red "WHO'S NEXT?", which adds to the creepiness.

So after that we all decide it's best to leave, since we probably came across a drug operation in disguise or something much worse. On the way out of the town, we saw a cool area and had a perfect angle for the nearby mountains. My sister gets out of the car and literally within 30 seconds we see headlight waaaay off in the distance. It's slowly coming towards us and eventually parks in front of my sister.

They don't get out but ask "what are you doing?"

My sister explains again and we all leave. They saw my sister from miles away, since the direction from where the car came from was way out there, not close to us. Were they watching that area? There's no way anyone could have seen us from that distance unless they had binoculars.

After that we decide it's best go home and never return to this town, but especially not with a camera. It's like the entire town was in on something. Since then we don't really go there anymore except occasionally passing through.