A woman was completely shocked by a man’s behavior while on a second date with him. Then, she made a very quick Facebook post about him, and discovered some horrifying criminal charges that made her question the man’s behavior entirely.
“That man will probably kill somebody,” said @mikaylacapps in a video with over 1.4 million views since posting on Nov 8, 2025.
Since posting, other women have recounted their own experiences with the “Ted Bundy of Charleston,” a man who’s continued to frighten South Carolina women without any recourse.
Mikayla’s first date with the Charleston man
“To preface this, I had gone on one date with this guy, two total,” she said in her TikTok video. “The first date [was] very fun. He was very respectful, very kind. He grabbed the check, talked a lot about his family, which I appreciated because I cherish my family as well. Just overall, no red flags.”
She said that the man continued texting her very respectfully, but things went sour toward the weekend.
“He was very adamant that we hang out [that weekend],” she recounted. “I told him, ‘Look, my mom’s in town. It’s a busy weekend. Let’s just play it by ear.’ And he was like, ‘I’ll see you Sunday at three.’”
The second date with the ‘Ted Bundy of Charleston’
Despite feeling a bit unsure about his behavior, she relented to a second date that weekend after some mild encouragement from family members. After agreeing to the date, the man suddenly started pushing for a house date.
She remembered telling him, “Hmm, I don’t really do house dates on the second date. However, I will drive to you, and we can walk somewhere from your house.”
But when she arrived at his house, he began behaving slightly irrationally. She left her keys in his house and walked with him, but noticed something was off with him. “As we’re walking [to the restaurant], he starts saying over and over again, ‘You’re so beautiful. You’re so beautiful. You’re so beautiful.’ To the point where instead of saying thank you, I started saying, like, ‘I know, I know, like you’ve gotta chill,’” she said.
As they were opening the door to the restaurant, he said, “Are you ready to do what it takes to take this all the way?” Something that baffled her, considering it was the second date. She asked him to take things at her pace, something he agreed to at the time.
But, as the date started and they got seated, his behavior got worse. He continuously asked her why she wasn’t happy to be with him, something that irked her, as she had a long week before.
After several drinks, she said his behavior became even more concerning. “He does not stop drinking. I do. I stop. He’s pounding them,” she said. “Then he starts to say things like, ‘I make more money than God,’ and then talks about his huge penis at dinner.”
She decided she wanted to leave the restaurant, but she remembered that her keys were at his house. Troubled, she decided to go back with him to grab her keys and get out. When they arrived at his house, though, he convinced her to stay for a beer.
He says something truly deranged when they get back
When they got back, the situation turned from ugly to completely horrifying. “This is where it gets [expletive] weird,” she said. “He slams his beer off to the side, grabs mine straight out of my hand, drinks it, then takes my hand, bites my pinky, bites the [expletive] out of it.”
She pulled away and said, “‘Ow, why did you do that?’ And he said, ‘Do what?’ I was like, ‘You just bit my [expletive] finger.’ He said, ‘No, I didn’t.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, you [expletive] did.’”
Then, the man made a disturbing and jarring confession. He admitted he had been charged with rape four years before. “He says, ‘Four years ago, I was charged with rape.’ Awesome. Lovely,” she said. “So I’m asking questions, I’m pressing. First question, ‘Did you do it?’ The more questions I ask, the more lies I catch him in.”
The man then admitted that two days before, he had a gun to his head and was planning on ending his life. He told her that he didn’t do it because of her.
Mikayla tried to calm the man down, but felt completely frightened. She stood up to leave, but he grabbed her arm to stop her. “He’s like, ‘Wait, why can’t we make this work? Why don’t you like me?’ Pretty self-explanatory. I’m bee-lining it. I’m out the [expletive] door,” she said. “He tries to stop me from getting in my car, and then he starts to throw a little fit and he’s like, ‘Sorry you can’t handle me. Sorry you can’t handle that I opened up to you.’ I was like, ‘You think this is my [expletive] fault?’”
@mikaylacapps if you don’t wanna listen to me yap I get it just skip to 3:10 and that’s the good stuff…. I hate it here. #fyp #foryou #datingincharleston #chs #menscareme ♬ original sound – MIKAYLA
Escaping the situation
She locked herself in her car and drove off, heading back home. She remembered on the drive back that she let this man pick her up from there on the first date. So, when she got back, she packed her bags and headed to a friend’s place.
The man continued calling her to ask whether she got home safely. She gave him a quick reply that night to let him know she did.
The next morning, he texted her to apologize. She responded to try and keep him calm and unbothered. “I’m trying to be very nice and I’m like, ‘Look, I just don’t think that you’re quite in a head space to deal with all of this,’ you know, and I’m trying to play it cool,” she said.
Posting to Facebook
After her extremely scary night, Mikayla decided to post to the “Are We Dating the Same Guy? Charleston” Facebook Group.
The responses she got back were even more baffling.
“I think other girls should know about it,” she said. “And when I did, the receipts came flooding and I had like 90 people [expletive] interact with it because he’s insane.”
According to her, the Facebook responses gave her mugshots and background check screenshots. “He has nine charges, four of which are sexual assault, two rape, and then two battery and assault of the third degree,” she said.
She also added that she had previously Googled his name and found nothing. “Where the [expletive] were those? Would’ve loved to know that.”
She then texted the man and told him to “leave [her] the [expletive] alone,” keeping the sweatshirt he left with her.
Mikayla warned her viewers toward the end of her video to look out for the ‘Ted Bundy of Charleston.’
Other commenters weren’t surprised by her description either. “The second you said Ted Bundy of Charleston I knew exactly who you meant,” one commenter wrote.
Another Charleston woman, Madison, said, “[I] walked into this man’s house. [It had] straight up murder vibes. I had a feeling in my stomach and RAN out on the street until I got an Uber a few streets down.”
The Mary Sue has reached out to Mikayla.
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