I havnt seen anyone else bring this one up: this has happened twice btw... Basically, I will exit a area, in my case Helios 1 and the crimson caravan's outpost in vegas, and a bunch of NPCs spawn with me. At helios it was the junkyard lady from outside Novac and all of her dogs (they all turned hostile on me so I killed them all). At the caravans outpost a bunch of North vegas NPCs spawned with me (12 or so) they didn't turn hostile,but all got in a single file line and started walking somewhere...

Anyone else have this happen?

yup,that has happened to me(the Helios one),i basically had to reload a previous save,it happened first time i went there...the second time today it was night time and only the dogs appeared,but this time they didn't attack me...i went to old lady Gibsons junk yard and talked with her to make sure we were still cool,and we were

i had the old lady glitch too...

all sorts of weird things happen in this game...but you never know if it's intentional or not because the game is so damn buggy!

No thats a new one on me, I have ncr troops spawn with me when fast travelling on occasion, but that can be a blessing in disguise somtimes.

The randomly spawning NPCs is usually a bug that comes with ED-E.
More often than not, and especially at Helios I, I get huge clumps of NPCs spawning with me when I open the door.
I think it has something to do with the companion string, but unlike everyone else on these forums, I'm not a programmer, so I'm not certain.
But overall, this is a fairly common bug.

Okay thanks for the info. An FYI for any possible bug fixing devs out here (yeah right) The one at helios was with veronica and the one at crimson caravan was with veronica and rex.