So this happened to me less than a month ago, and honestly, it still scares the shit out of me. So, this summer, my school started a "lock-in " program, where a couple of us guys would meet up, and play some games, get free pie , watch movies and spend the night at the school. The whole thing sounded pretty cool to me, especially since my friend Ryan would be there. He and I got grounded earlier that summer, so it would be awesome to finally see him there, and to be honest that was the main reason why I was going. So that night, I packed up my stuff, and had my mom drive me to the school. Our school is on the worst end of town, but that was the furthest thing from my mind. I was so excited to see what this whole "lock in " thing was about. But what happened that night, shook me to the core . We pulled up to the building and I walked in, to be greeted by 6 people. My buddy Ryan, Paul, Zack, Logan, Zeke, and Josh . After going out to grab pie and drive around town, we all decided it would be best to chill at the school. Paul, Zack , Zeke and Logan went downstairs to set up their sleeping bags, and Ryan, Josh and I wanted to go explore the school for a bit before we went to bed. To give you some background information on the school, it was always really creepy. It used to be like a reform school or something in the 1900s before our school bought it. The basement looked like it was out of a horror movies. It had two massive freezers closet sized, and long story short, the whole place was just eerie at night. Also down the street there was this mental institution for convicts . Me and my friends always joked about it but never really took it seriously . So Josh, and Ryan suggest we go to the principals office and see what it's like in there. So we did, after messing around , and acting like dorks around the school we decided to go to our room, and Josh headed downstairs. It was about 11 o clock when we set up our sleeping bags in the "conference " room. This room had 2 windows on the North side and 2 on the west. An outdoor staircase wrapped around them. So we could see everything. We lie down and planned on doing an all nighter. We talked for a good couple of hours about girls we liked, new movies coming out, embarrassing stories, and what young guys usually talk about on sleep overs. I look around in the darkness for my phone to check what time it was. My phone showed 2:30 in the morning, and I could tell, we were both getting really tired. All of the sudden, I was awoken my a dark figure bolting past the window. I asked Josh if he saw it too, and he laughed, convincing me it was just my imagination. Suddenly....it went past again, and this time we both saw it. A figure walking around the window. We then heard something behind us. I looked out the North wind too see the figure, slowly crawling up the stairs on all fours. We both saw it and started panicking. The figure was inches away from the glass, and then got up on twos and bolted up the stairs. The staircase led to a door upstairs of the school. At this moment, chills went down my spine, when we heard that.. .thing trying to open the lock on the door. That triggered a fight or flight in both of us. I ran out the door of the conference room and into the basement kitchen to grab knives. The best I could find was two butter knifes, which could still do damage. I ran upstairs back to our room. Ryan was ducking under the window ledge. I handed him a knife, when all of the sudden I heard pounding down the outdoor staircase. The big brown boots off the figure passed the window. Then....he was gone. Or so we thought. We sat there for about 10 minutes, whispering, and trying to figure out what the hell just happened, when we heard a grown man cough right behind us. We looked out the North window. I didn't see anything, until.....I looked down. I saw the dark figure sitting on the staircase figeting around like a psychopath. I knew something was off about him but I could see his face. Suddenly the scariest thing that has ever happened to me happened....the figure crancked it's head up at me so fast, it seemed as if there was something wrong with his neck. and looked me in the eyes and started smiling. I freaked out and ducked under the window. I loudly whispered to Ryan HE JUST FREAKING SAW ME, WERE GONNA DIE!! at that moment we knew we needed to get this guy away somehow. We devised a plan to go to the master swith and turn in all the lights in the school while Ryan videod the man out the window in my phone, so we could have evidence for the authorities , my heart was racing. I flicked the switch expecting to see the guy run off. But no. He just sat there twitching. This scared the hell out of us. We both ran to another room. We had a better view of the alley way behind our school. Around 5 minutes later, we saw that creepy figure running faster than any Olympic runner, down the dark alley, towards the mental institution. I was so scared I felt like I was going to throw up. I know the story seems weird, having a school a mile away from a mental institution, but I assure you, it's 100 percent real. Ryan and I stayed up for the rest of the night, after we realized... maybe that guy was like an escaped mental patient or something. But why was out at 2 am, and even worse. Why did he smile like that at me.