I'm (F29) receiving weird/possibly borderline creepy messages from an "ex" and am unsure of what to do, if anything

Some historic background: I put "ex" in quotation marks in the title because I'm not even sure if I could even truly call this person an ex. We "dated" by high school terms for, like, maybe a few weeks?! Throughout high school, I went to a boarding school abroad. I would come home for the holidays 3 times a year. I met this guy, let's call him Dave, at a party when I was maybe 15 and we "hooked up" for the rest of the time I was back home (couple weeks, max), we didn't keep in touch after I went back to boarding school and I happened to be able to avoid/not bump into him ever since.

Some more current background: I happen to work at a family business, my family's business. It is primarily located in a city that is a few hours away from their home, but if you search the business on google you could find their home address very easily. During this pandemic, I have been staying at their home, as the city that is near by had/has a lot of COVID cases and it seemed safer, as I'm lucky enough to have the type of job where I can work from home/anywhere.

Current Situation: Recently, Dave has started emailing my work email address, an email address I most certainly was not in possession of when I was a teen. This makes me feel like he's googled me, and found where I work. I feel spooked because I'm currently residing in a place that he a) visited once when he was a teen and b) could find the address for very easily. The emails have been.. I'm hesitant to say weird or creepy because I don't want to cause offense but ... I have been finding them off putting to say the least. They've consisted of confessionals about his drug addiction, ramblings about how he misses feeling things, mis-memories (I'm not sure how else to describe it, but he's detailed events between us that just simply never happened), he's sent me maybe 10 emails so far, from various email addresses. Some of them have no content and just contain images of people I don't know, or of empty bath tubs filled with dirty clothes, or weed. (I don't click to download the attachments, but my email previews the images so I can see the thumbnail.) He's also sent me videos which I haven't downloaded/watched as well as songs.

When I received the first email, I flagged my concern to my family. They didn't seem to worried, but the emails keep coming and I'm feeling a bit freaked out and unsure of what I should do. I haven't replied, as I think that would add fuel though I do feel sad for him as it seems he's not in a good place. However, I am not the one to help him out of this dark spot. I'm just not sure if I should keep ignoring, or if I should be more concerned about my safety. I'd love some advice! Thank you for reading all for reading all of this!

tl;dr blast from the past high school "ex" found my email address and has been sending me bizarre messages and I'm unsure of how to proceed.

Submitted July 24, 2020 at 07:55PM by Lolololokokok https://ift.tt/2ORfh68