The man I wanted to make a move on turned out to be a stalker

This happened to me almost 5 years ago but somewhat recently, I had a post upvoted and I saw a comment from someone I've never interacted with saying "let's not meet" and referencing one of these posts, I checked my post history and it wasn't there. Most of my Reddit posts from around 5-6 years ago are gone, and a lot of them just disappeared one day.<br><br>I'm going to try and recreate it as best as I can. Not a big deal or anything.<br><br>Basically, my freshman year of college, the guy in charge of the RA's was temporarily allowing people to pick their roommates due to an incident earlier on, but out of a room of maybe 50 people, there was one guy there with a yellow piece of paper on the front of his binder that said "Do not room with me."<br><br>I asked one of the kids behind me what that was about, and he said that basically, the guy kept pestering girls in his hall by knocking on doors and just talking to the girls at lengths about random stuff. It got to the point where they were worried he would break into their dorm if they didn't lock the door when they were inside.<br><br>A few weeks later, there was an event on campus where you could bring your favorite board game to an event in the student union and just hang out. It was in a large room so there was lots of different tables with lots of different games. I decided to bring Uno because it's easy to learn, easy to play, and goes by pretty quick. I was there for about 5 minutes, picked a table, and set the game down. A guy walked in, scanned the tables, then picked the table I was playing at. I thought maybe he just likes Uno? He introduced himself, and then we sat down with a couple other kids.<br><br>There's not a lot to say about the Uno game. The whole time he was just asking me questions and I was trying my best to answer them without being rude because the questions were so random. Once we were done with the game, he sat back down and asked me if I knew the name of the song playing, I said no, then he asked if I knew who the singer was. I still said no. He told me the song and singer, and after a few seconds, I heard him whisper "Do you like Lana del Ray?" in my ear.<br><br>I got up pretty quickly and apologized saying I had work to do but he came with me and sat down at my table again, even though there were other tables open with chairs. I was about to leave but he asked me if I liked any of the following musicians/bands, and I forget all of them except for one. Tool. I didn't recognize the names he was giving me, so when he said Tool, I told him I loved them and he asked his favorite song and I said "Schism" and he was like "Aww, that's not my favorite." Then he asked me why I liked Tool, and I think he expected some deep response, but I just said I liked the music so he was disappointed. But he kept talking and asking me questions about random things like my favorite foods, favorite colors, favorite bands, then we got on the topic of my favorite hobbies and he asked if I liked to paint, I said I used to paint a lot and loved it but I haven't painted in years.<br><br>When I was done at the event, I made up the excuse I had a friend waiting for me to study and left, he walked outside with me and asked me if I wanted to paint with him, I said no, and then he offered to buy painting supplies for me, and I politely declined again. I told him it was nice meeting him and I had to go.<br><br>The whole time he was talking to me, it felt like there was just something off about him and I don't know how to describe it. I went back to my dorm and I think I forgot about it until a month or so later when I received a message on Facebook with a link to a song and instant message from him saying "How's it going." I ignored it because I didn't know how he got my Facebook information but not my name. It was just his first name, but I didn't even know his name.<br><br>I had a moment where I was in my car in the parking lot and the music ended and Alexa asked if I wanted to play a different station, and I told her to play a random station and it played a Lana del Ray song that I had never heard before. I looked at the title and it was the exact same song he mentioned when he whispered in my ear "Do you like Lana del Ray?" I got off the app and turned Alexa off because it freaked me out.<br><br>He continued to message me every few days, sometimes weeks. Sometimes just sending me links to songs, sometimes it was a short message asking how my day was. I got in my car one day to go to class and on the passenger side, on the floor, there was painting supplies and a note that said "So you can paint again." I have no idea how he got into my car but I locked it every time. Like I said, I don't know what it is, but just something about him, his vibe, his aura, makes me uncomfortable and scared. I stopped going on campus on weekends, and when I drove back home one weekend, I stopped at a gas station and when I came out, he was walking toward me. I got back in my car and drove off, called my mom in a panic and told her about what was going on and she told me to go to the police.<br><br>I didn't end up doing it and just thought maybe he would eventually stop sending me messages. I changed my phone number and deleted my Facebook and Instagram, and never heard from him again.<br><br>The vibe this guy gave out just made me feel so uncomfortable and I felt like if I made a wrong move, I would have ended up dead or hurt in some way. I don't think he ever saw me as a person, I was just an object or a curiosity to him or something. Like something he wanted to examine and figure out. I feel bad that I didn't try harder to get him in trouble, because he might have done this to someone else, or worse.<br><br>Let's not meet, dude I think had a crush on you.