OnlyFans creator Kit Barrus has a story that sounds like it belongs in a horror movie. But she actually lived it. She's convinced a college friend tried to hex her into falling in love with him after she turned him down. Repeatedly.

Kit met the guy through a math class, and they got close working on a group project together. After she and her boyfriend broke up, he started showing up more, inviting her to group hangouts, gaming with her, and having those deep late-night conversations about spirituality that feel meaningful in the moment. "My boyfriend and I broke up and he was super nice," Kit said. "He started inviting me around a lot, usually in group settings, and we'd have these really deep talks late at night."

Eventually it became obvious he wanted more than friendship. Kit says she was upfront about it, more than once. "I told him multiple times, 'Look, I really just don't think this is going to work out. I don't think we're a good pair and I don't think we'd mesh well.'" Part of that was just practical. She was making serious money through her online career at the time, and he didn't even own a car. "I don't need you to be rich," she said, "but our lives are just in completely different places."

He kept hanging around anyway. Then he came over for poker night. He showed up at her place unusually quiet, sat in one corner of her kitchen the whole time, and left without much explanation. Kit didn't think twice about it until two days later, while cleaning, she spotted a zip-lock bag tucked behind some decorations on a shelf. Inside was a handmade bracelet with her name on it. "I pulled it out and there was this necklace or bracelet inside," she said. "It had 'Kit' on it. I remember looking at it and thinking, 'What the f*** is this?'"

Knowing how into spirituality he was (he ran an actual spirituality club on campus and had a room full of books on the subject), Kit went straight to Google. What she found spooked her: apparently there's a whole practice where you make someone jewelry while focusing your intentions on them, then leave it somewhere in their space so the "energy" transfers over. Basically a DIY love spell.

She texted him immediately. "I messaged him like, 'Bro, what the f*** is this?'" His response? "It's just your bracelet. I thought you'd like it." Needless to say, that did not land well. "Don't give me that," she told him. "I know you. You've put this thing in my house." He eventually admitted he made the bracelet, but wouldn't cop to it being a spell. Kit wasn't buying it for a second. "It's a f***ing hex. You left it in a bag. I Googled it. This is literally a spell I can find on the internet."

Looking back, Kit realizes she missed some pretty obvious signs. At one point he'd written her a full two-page letter about how much he liked her and how excited he was to get closer. At the time, she took it as a sweet gesture between friends. "In retrospect, yes, it was very obvious," she said. "At the time I just didn't get it."

The bracelet discovery ended things for good. That conversation was the last one they ever had, and any time she'd spot him around campus after that, she'd leave as quickly as possible. "I'd see him and I was basically like, nope, run away."

For Kit, the actual creepy part isn't whether the spell theory holds up. It's that someone she'd clearly and repeatedly rejected still snuck something into her home with her name on it. Spell or not, that's a real boundary getting crossed. "I had already told him it wasn't happening," she said. "Finding something hidden inside my own house after that was just too much. Spell or no spell, it was creepy."

Whether it would have worked or not is honestly beside the point. The bigger takeaway: if someone you've turned down multiple times is sneaking handmade jewelry into your kitchen without asking, that's not romantic. That’s creepy.