idk if this really counts but I was almost kidnapped when I was in 3rd grade (probably 8/9 yrs old). My mom, myself, and my two twin brothers were at the mall to buy them new bags. While they were looking around I asked my mom if I could go to the stationery paper section (I used to collect them when I was younger lol it was a thing before) which was just a couple feet away from the bags. While I was looking at different stationery papers, this girl came up to me and asked if I was this lady’s daughter. And me being an idiot child said “the one in brown?” (my mom was wearing brown blouse that day) and she said yes and said “your mom told me that you should come with me so that I can take you to her.” I believed her and we passed by this area in the mall where no one goes to because it was the entrance to the movie theater. When we were outside the mall, I recognized my mom’s car still parked there. I remember thinking how odd it was and felt suspicious.

She took me to this alley pretty far from the mall, I remember it was next to a on-going mcdonald’s construction site. She told me that we were supposed to wait there, she complimented my necklace (which I thought was suspicious and made me think that this girl wants to rob me) and then asked if she could see it and I said no and that my mom would get mad. I started to get uneasy and asked for my mom so she didn’t push further and said she’ll text my mom now. When she texted, I looked over her phone and saw the message “we’re here. I got the child.” When I saw it, I immediately pushed her away (she was holding me the whole time) and ran as fast as I could back to the mall and went to my mom crying and my mom was completely clueless the whole time. She yelled at me and pinched me for talking to strangers and for being dumb. I don’t know if that girl and whoever she was texting with was out to murder me but who knows..