Mr. Nightmare

True Social Media Horror Story #2

-Danielle SterenBurg

"My friends and I have a Snapchat group together which means when someone sends a picture to the group everyone gets the picture. There's five of us in the group, Marvin, Glen, Joe and Jarred. One day at school Jarred told me that he lost his phone and didn't have "Find My iPhone" on, which sucked for him but oh well, what could we really do about it. The rest of us continued about our daily lives, I was at the gas station and saw a funny looking guy who looked like he didn't know how to use a gas pump so I thought it would be funny to sneak a quick video of him and sent it to the snap group that I had with my friends. I got home and checked Snapchat and saw the snap was opened, I checked which of my friends opened it and was kind of surprised to see Jarred's name under the opened list. I texted Jarred asking if he found his phone but the text never said delivered. I asked all my other friends if they'd spoken to Jarred about his phone, Joe said he was hanging out with Jarred as we spoke, he also said Jarred did not find his phone. He put Jarred on the phone for me and told me to come over. When I got to Joe's house he and Jarred had already thought to look at the snap map to see that the location had not been turned off and it said whoever was using Jarred's phone last opened it four minutes ago. It's location was an abandoned construction grounds. Ready to go kick some ass or at least thinking we were, we agreed to drive down to the construction site. Getting there was quick and easy but hopping the fence and navigating in the dark was a different story. According to the snap map Jarred's iPhone was somewhere in a big abandoned building in front of us. The three of us all above six foot definitely felt we could get the better of anyone in a fight but what was this person doing in this
building at this hour? The situation was just too unsettling. We found a big hole in the wall where we could enter the building. Joe and I used our phone lights to find our way through the building, it was cold and empty in there besides the rubble and graffiti everywhere and every little sound created an echo. The last time Snapchat updated Jarred's location was five minutes ago but the location was right on top of us. It didn't seem like anyone or anything was on the first floor so we went to the second floor, we found ourselves in a big empty room. Joe checked the location of Jarred's phone one more time and it appeard that all three of our phones were in the same exact location which was weird, where could his phone be?

The sound of a digital camera shutter accompanied with a blindingly bright flash coming from an adjacent room made the three of us freeze like a deer in headlights then Jarred was the first one to run for it screaming. Joe and I followed soon running back down the stairs and out the hole to the outside. We got to the car and drove back to Joe's house. On the way back, Joe and I got a Snapchat from Jarred's phone, I was the first one to open it and it was a picture of the three of us standing in that room with the caption "run". We never went back to that building for his phone, infact, after that the location on Jarred's phone was turned off until of course Jarred signed in on a different phone.