foreign this happened when I was home alone as a kid it was the summer time and I was home during summer break both my parents were at work and I think I was about 12 years old I have an older brother and he went to one of his friends houses that day when I was home alone I would just hang out and do whatever usually I would go on the computer that we had and play Minecraft or something like that it was probably sometime in the early afternoon and I had been on the computer in
the living room for a while I moved into the kitchen to get something to eat the kitchen was at the back side of the house and we lived in a split level I will also mention that the neighborhood was pretty average and a little bit on the quieter side it was when I was standing in the kitchen that I saw something out the window I just barely saw movement at first but it looked like somebody was walking by I moved over to another window to see that's when I saw a man walking to the back
side of the house he was wearing a sort of construction vest and had a hat on I realized that it must be the meter reader I remember that they came around every so often to our house I calmed down almost immediately I had been a little worried seeing a guy walking into our backyard he went to the very back side of our house and near one of the basement windows I went back to finding some food in the kitchen after I was in the kitchen for a good five minutes though I looked over and noticed
that the guy was still there usually they would come and go really quick and only be there for like a minute at most I went back into the living room to go back on the computer but a short time later I just had the feeling that I should get up and make sure that the man was now gone maybe it was because I was home alone and a kid so I was a little bit paranoid I carefully walked back over to the window and could see that the man was actually still there I couldn't believe
it I couldn't tell exactly what he was doing because I could only see part of him from the angle that I was at which was higher up than he was he seemed to be doing something and was near the basement window but I couldn't tell what exactly he was doing I thought about going downstairs and looking out of that window but I knew that the man would see me right away if I did I went to walk over to another window upstairs which would have a better angle but I had to be careful so the
guy wouldn't see me fortunately I really messed up as I was walking over I accidentally hit a can that was near the edge of a counter in the kitchen I knocked it over and it fell onto the ground this made a loud noise and the next thing I knew I saw the man quickly walking away he moved back to the side of the house I moved to the front of the house and I watched the man casually walking down the street until I could no longer see him I felt like he was really suspicious I
questioned whether he was even a meter reader or not why would he leave so suddenly like that for the most part though I was just happy that he was now gone I went back to the computer I stayed there for the most part until my brother and parents came back home when they did I didn't even think to tell them about the guy that had been there I thought he was gone for good my brother's bedroom as well as mine happened to be in the basement and my parents bedroom was upstairs because it was summertime
we would stay up pretty much as late as we wanted I remember that on this night my parents went to bed and my brother went down to his bedroom I stayed up and was on the computer all of the lights in the house were off except for a small lamp in the living room near me I stayed up on the computer until I got really tired which was probably at about 1am then I turned off the lamp and went downstairs to go to bed when I got downstairs I had to walk past a little living
room that was in the basement in order to get to my bedroom as I was walking past I happened to see something in the window the man was back I could only see a figure of a man but I could guess who it was this was the same window that he had been at earlier in the day I then heard noises coming from the window as if it was going to come open I was suddenly really afraid it was really dark down there and I hit the light switch which I happened to be really close
to when this happened it lit up the whole room and I could no longer see the man very well I heard some noise from right outside the window though and then it sounded like he was running away I went running as well but back upstairs into my parents bedroom I knocked on their door and yelled for them to wake up about a minute later my dad came out asking what was going on by the time I explained it all the man was long gone my dad went out and inspected the house all around though he
was able to find that the back window the man kept messing with had quite a bit of damage it had almost came off it was like the man had been trying to remove the window and get inside the house and he was really close to succeeding after that night though the man never came back I remember being really scared for a while that he would and I slept upstairs on the couch because I felt safer there luckily he never did this happened back when I was in college during the Summers I live back home with
my parents at their house I had almost the entire basement to myself and they wouldn't really go down there much when I was gone there was a big TV down there and then my bedroom and a bathroom it was really nice to have all that space I drove home from school after I had finished my finals and packed up my stuff from the college dorm when I arrived back at my parents house they happened to be gone they told me that they would be back in a few hours and were out for the night that
meant that I would be home alone I did have my own house key so when I got back I was able to get inside I spent the first bit of time unpacking a bunch of my stuff and putting some of it into storage and in the basement I went down into the basement and I stayed in the main room and was using the TV for a while it was then that I thought I heard a noise coming from inside of my bedroom I hadn't been in there yet and the door was closed I didn't know
what it could be but I wasn't scared or anything like that I casually got up and walked over to the door then I opened it when I did I heard the sound in my closet door closing it was kind of out of my view and when I looked over to it the door was completely shut suddenly I was now a little bit concerned about what this could be only a person could close the door like that and I was home all by myself I thought about going over and opening the closet door but decided not
to I turned around and walked out of the room instead I no longer wanted to be downstairs and I went up into the living room upstairs as I was up there probably 30 minutes went by without anything happening I was just watching TV and relaxing on the couch out of nowhere I heard the sound of somebody walking up the staircase I knew that it wasn't my parents because they weren't home yet I looked over to the stairs the person was not in my view yet but I kept looking then I saw a man start to
come into view and he was walking up the stairs towards me this guy looked a little bit older than me but had a beard and long hair he looked like he had to be on some kind of drug or something as he approached me I quickly got up I backed away and asked him who he was the guy didn't say anything he just kept walking closer I told him that he needed to get out of here or I was going to call the police the guy didn't say anything though and kept getting closer and closer
to me I was backed up as much as I could and would soon reach the wall he continued to approach me I then ran to the side and was now in the back corner of the house the guy kept coming near me then he started to charge at me this guy had to be insane when he lunged for me I jumped out of the way he caught part of my leg and I fell to the ground the man fell also I was able to get to my feet before he did and I ran to the
staircase and went down the stairs as quickly as possible when I made it to the bottom I opened the door and left the house the crazy guy did the same but a little bit after me I went sprinting down the neighborhood street yelling at the guy to get away from me he stopped chasing me eventually and kind of wandered off into somebody else's yard then I was finally able to compose myself and call 911 sir when the police got to my street I didn't know where the guy was anymore I had walked back to our
house and was standing in the front yard the guy ended up being found about 15 minutes later I guess he went and hid in somebody's backyard and they saw him and called the police the police happened to already be there a few houses away at my place and pick the guy up really not sure how he got into my parents house or how long he had been there I'm guessing he got in shortly after they left I do know that he was there the entire time that I was and that really gives me the creeps
I live by myself in an apartment it's really close to downtown of a big city there are lots of people that live in the area but I've never witnessed anything that crazy until recently a few months ago was when the story took place it had been another long day of work and I had just gotten home I worked a long shift and I love my job but it can be very tiring after walking home I got into my apartment building and up to the fourth floor where my place was I got inside closed the door
and locked it like I always did and then headed to take a shower and put on some comfortable clothes and go to bed I had made it about 10 feet away from my front door when I heard the knob turning somebody was trying to get in this was strange and something that had never happened before I stopped in my tracks and then moved over to the door and looked out to people into the hallway nobody was there whoever had tried to enter I guess had just left maybe it was a mistake or maybe it wasn't
either way I was really tired and just wanted to take a shower and go to bed about 20 minutes later I was in bed and just browsing on my phone before I fell asleep during this time all of my lights in my apartment were out and it was completely silent inside that's when I heard my doorknob being turned again but not once this time multiple times there was no knock but I knew whoever had tried to enter before was likely back I couldn't sleep with the thought of someone trying to enter my apartment I got
up from bed and tiptoed over to the door to look out once again this time I saw somebody a man stood there just outside of my front door kind of freaked out when I saw him he looked kind of sketchy wasn't well dressed or put together he was just standing there and looking at my door then he tried opening it another time he sort of looked around the hallway and then back to my door I kept watching and he stood there for maybe another minute then he turned to the Right and started walking away down
the hallway the hallway LED straight down to the stairs an elevator area I waited to make sure that the guy was leaving and about 10 seconds after he left my view I quietly opened my door I snuck out into the hallway and took a few steps out to make sure that the guy was going to leave hopefully that would give me peace of mind and I could go back to bed at first I saw the man a good distance down the hallway walking away still he was almost at the end of the hall but then
he stopped and turned around and faced me he started heading towards me and his walk quickly turned into a Sprint I hurried as quickly as I could to get back inside my apartment and close the door as soon as I made it inside I slammed it and locked it the man reached the door probably a second later and tried opening it again after he realized it wouldn't open he pounded on the door a few times I yelled to the other side asking what the man wanted he did not answer me but kept standing there I
watched still from the people inside he tried opening the door again I yelled that I was calling the police and then the man finally turned and left still I wasn't convinced that he was actually gone I waited around for about an hour checking out my door every so often he didn't return though finally I was able to go back to bed I haven't seen the man since that night and looking back I think he probably followed me home on the street I might have even led him into my apartment building without knowing I didn't really
pay that good of attention as I walked home but now I do I remember that last year I got home after a trip being out of town for a few days it was a work thing and I have my own little apartment in the city after getting back it was night time and I got into my place and started to unpack I have just one bedroom a living room a kitchen and one and a half bathrooms each room has a decent amount of space I unpacked a few things and I went into my bedroom to
continue now most of the time my apartment is pretty neat but I left for my trip in a bit of a rush I had been meaning to wash one of the comforters from my bed and it was lying on the ground in the corner of my bedroom the other one was on my bed I just hadn't washed the one yet as I was in my bedroom I was taking clothes out of my suitcase I was putting some in the hamper and some back in my drawers as I was doing this I was sure I saw
the blanket on the ground in the corner move I wasn't looking directly at it when it happened and I stopped what I was doing and focused my attention to it was sure that I saw it moving ever so slightly this was really weird there was no way that it could move like that on its own I stared at it for probably a minute or so and it was completely still I then got up and left the room I was kind of in disbelief I paced around in my living room for a few moments then I
walked back inside my room and looked at the blanket in the corner again it was completely still and didn't move for the few moments that I looked at it I left my bedroom again I was wondering if I had gone crazy I walked over into my half bathroom which was at the opposite side of my apartment and near the front door when I got inside I shut the door and splashed some cold water on my face maybe I was suffering from a lack of sleep but as I was there in the bathroom I heard footsteps
coming from my bedroom area I quickly locked the bathroom door the footsteps went all the way to right outside of the bathroom door then somebody tried opening it I was so glad that I locked it after the person tried opening the door I then heard my front door to the apartment open and then shut then things were silent I was still freaking out I had no idea what was happening after a few minutes I left the bathroom and locked the front door to my apartment I then searched all around to make sure that whoever had
been there had actually left thankfully nobody else was inside I did see that the blanket that had been in the corner of my bedroom on the floor was no longer in the corner the way that it had been it was spread out in the middle of the room this happened back when I was younger I was probably like 10 or 12 years old and I remember that I was just old enough that my parents trusted me on my own and I didn't need a babysitter my parents would go places occasionally and I was an only
child so I was excited to be trusted alone in the house this was the very first time that I was left home alone as a kid really all I wanted to do was play video games and when my parents were gone I had plans to do just that I remember that it was a Friday night and my parents left at about six o'clock I was inside my bedroom playing video games on the TV that I had in there for a while at probably 7 30 PM I went downstairs and got some food from what my
parents had left out for me then I went back up to my room to keep playing I was eating and playing video games for the next 30 minutes or so it was probably about eight o'clock when I heard a noise coming from downstairs the noise was the sound of our house back door opening right away I knew this was bad I knew that my parents wouldn't come in through that way and they wouldn't be home anytime soon either the only thing I could think of was that somebody was here who was not supposed to be
my bedroom was upstairs and my door was open a little first thing that I did was run over to the door and close it as quickly but as quietly as I could then I looked around my room for a place to hide all the meanwhile I heard footsteps roaming around downstairs I finally decided that I was going to hide in my closet it was really small but I could just barely fit inside of it I couldn't hear as well anymore but did hear footsteps moving around downstairs soon though I stopped hearing them I stayed hidden
in the closet though this was not before cell phones but I didn't have one we had a home phone that I could use to call my parents if I needed anything but that was downstairs I didn't want to leave my bedroom or even leave my closet things were very quiet for probably a good 30 minutes or so I was just starting to calm down and feel a little bit better when I heard footsteps coming up the staircase now I was anything but calm I was terrified the footsteps got to the top of the staircase and
were now in the upstairs hallway my room was the third door on the left from there I heard whoever was there slowly walking down the hallway they seemed to go inside one of the first rooms about a minute later they came out then they got closer and closer to my room they stopped right outside of it and then the door opened by this time I was freaking out inside but trying to keep my composure I knew that I couldn't make a sound or whoever was in there would hear me I was out of sight and
unless I opened my closet I wouldn't be seen I did my best to stay silent after the door opened footsteps entered the room they didn't get too far inside maybe like a couple of feet they stood there for an uncomfortable amount of time I really don't know how long it was maybe 30 seconds it felt like a lot longer than that though then I heard another sound it was the sound of our garage door opening my parents were home the footsteps left the room and quickly went back downstairs I heard them moving around the first
floor of the house soon after the back door to the house opened and shot again then I heard the sound of the door from the garage open and my parents Voice is coming from downstairs I left my closet and saw that my bedroom door was left wide open I ran out of my room and sprinted down the stairs to my parents they asked me how I did being left alone for the first time started crying and told them everything we ended up calling the police and my parents realized that the back door had been left
unlocked it was a door that was easy to forget to lock our neighborhood wasn't known to have much crime so you wouldn't think leaving the back door unlocked here and there was a big deal after this though we were always sure to lock it I'm not sure if the police ever found out who did it I couldn't give them a description at all and I never saw who it was I didn't stay home alone for a while after that luckily nothing of the sort has happened to me since
