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a two-bedroom but since it's a small house it's geared more towards couples sometimes I'll have groups of four or more staying there those are the groups I usually worry about because they're the ones who could do damage with the couples they usually clean up pretty well after themselves and I trust a cleaning lady to go take care of the place afterwards after bigger group stay I usually take the drive over there myself to clean and make sure nothing was damaged or stolen it's only about 2 hours and when I do decide to take the drive
there I'll most often stay the night there anyway this was after a bigger group stayed for a weekend so I wanted to go up there and just clean and check on the place I let my nearest neighbor know I was heading up there for the day like me he's also hardly ever there so when I do go up there I reach out to him to see if there's anything he wants me to bring around back like his mail or packages he texted back pretty quickly that he won't be up there this week and he'd appreciate
it if I could check if there's mail from a specific person so on my way to his house I pulled up his driveway to his mailbox as I walked over to it I saw footprints in the snow alongside the house before investigating that I checked his mailbox and there were just a few junky looking envelopes like credit card offers I told him there's no mail from the person he mentioned and then I let him know that someone had walked on his property it wasn't the mailman because the footsteps came from the woods approached the window
and then walked around to the back he called me and he told me to check where the footprints led to I followed them all around the house and then they LED off into the woods on the other side of the house he said as long as they didn't break in I don't give a [ __ ] so I left and drove the remaining minute up the hill to my house the second I got out of the car I noticed a bunch of footprints in the snow around the property the guests left a couple days ago
and it had snowed there the day before I arrived so it was a little interesting that their Footprints didn't fill in yet there was more snow coming tonight so they'd surely be filled by tomorrow the first thing I did was change the security lock on the front door for the next visitors walking into the house it was kind of a mess they left the sink full of dishes and glasses the garbage bin was full and cans of pop and beer were everywhere some guests are like this because they figure hey we're paying a cleaning fee
anyway I triple checked everything to make sure nothing was taken or missing and then I began cleaning I had music playing as I cleaned but even over the music I heard something from outside my house is all the way up on a hill surrounded by Woods no one should ever be here I turned off the radio and I heard Footsteps in the snow right outside the house they just passed a window now going to the backyard I went to make sure I locked the front door and then I didn't make any noise whoever was out
there had to know I was here because my car was out front after like 20 minutes of sitting in the living room I decided to get up and go outside to look around sure enough there was a fresh trail of footprints circling the house I followed them all around the house and then they seemed to just stop or overlap in the back of the house by the window air conditioning unit I looked out to the woods feeling like someone was just out there watching so I went back inside and didn't go outside again that day
I ordered a lot of food on Grub Hub that took forever to be delivered which ended up being my late lunch and dinner how I spent the rest of my day after cleaning and doing the laundry was just working remotely on my laptop it was snowing again outside and it was supposed to snow all night meaning I definitely have some people looking to rent the next few days for the Cozy Factor that's usually how it goes after I was done with work and it was like 8:00 I started watching a movie and during the movie
I was hearing these creaks and cracks in the ceiling that I'd never heard before there's no attic so it was weird my only idea was that it could be the weight of the fresh snow on the roof after the movie I went to bed I could hear the sound of the snowflakes hitting the window sill outside it was so peaceful but that unsettling sound of footsteps in the snow outside returned the realization that someone was outside this late at night was hor horrific the footsteps passed my window then faded away I was sitting on the
edge of my bed for like 20 minutes waiting for any kind of sound like one of the doors being shimmed with or something anything that would shift me from awareness mode to full-on defense mode it was a long while of Silence before I went outside in my coat and shoes with a baseball bat and I walked around the house there was once again another fresh trail of footprints but this time they started at the air conditioning unit and they walked away towards the woods I then put it together that someone was likely on my roof
before and they climbed up and down via the window AC unit I went back inside and decided to call the police a Wakefield police officer came to the house maybe 20 minutes later we looked outside together he even climbed up onto the roof and told me there were indeed Footprints and such on the roof that would suggest that someone had been up there he was very nice and reassuring telling me he wouldn't be far away if I heard them come back I also told him about the similar Footprints at my neighbor's house just as a
warning in case this person or group of people is targeting multiple houses for whatever they're doing as he left he said he'd be in the area the next morning I left and I rented the place out to a group of guests a few days later they didn't report anything out of the ordinary thankfully this was only an isolated incident that happened over a year [Music] ago this is something that happened when I was of course home alone when I was a kid I was in the seventh grade my parents just recently started leaving me home
alone I would just play video games when they would be away one night my parents were out doing whatever and I was alone playing video games we had the video games in the basement so that my older brother and I could share it and our dad didn't want the video games in the living room the basement at my parents house is pretty big but also as little kids had scared the crap out of my brother and I where when it was time to go upstairs we'd flick the light and spring up the stairs as if
demons were chasing us at 12 I obviously wasn't as scared as I was as a little kid but I would still look over my shoulder every once in a while when I was down there alone especially if I was home alone I was playing Whatever video game I played at the time when Bang there was this crash at the basement window I damn near jumped out of my seat as I turned around to look at the window it sounded like someone hit their fist on the window it was kind of dark out since it was
cloudy and snowing outside I looked at the window and noticed there were some snow particles on the window it looked like a piece of snow might have hit it my initial thoughts was that it was a falling icicle hitting the window I tried to go back to playing video games but the icicle Theory melted when there was another loud bang on the glass I stood up this time and looked closer at the window there were even more particles of snow in the glass now someone was out there throwing snow walls out the window I knew
it had to be my brother Keith I went upstairs into the backyard door I opened the interior door and looked out through the glass exterior door the brick wall to the left blocked view of the entire backyard so I opened the door and stepped into the yard with only a pair of slides on my feet the cold snow and air was blowing in my face as I stepped down the two steps to the ground level and looked beyond the brick wall I called Keith's name and said why didn't you tell me you're coming home tonight
I I saw someone in the bushes in front of The Back Fence they were clearly hiding I said Keith I see you but the more I looked the more scared I got questioning if that was actually Keith I went back inside and locked the door I went straight to the phone and called my mom to ask her if Keith is supposed to be home she told me no he's at his friend's house for the night right at that moment another snowball I asked my mom if she heard that and she said yes I told her
there's someone in the backyard throwing throwing snowballs at the windows she now put me on speaker so my dad could talk too my dad asks if it's some kids messing around and I said I don't know I was just a kid and I was freaking out I asked when are you guys going to be home and they said soon they're already on their way home I remembered my mom telling me to not let them know I'm home but I said they already know because I went outside into the yard so she told me to just
wait upstairs in my room with the door locked and she was going to call the police for me and that's what I did I went to my room and kept the lights off it was getting darker out but when I looked out my window I could still see there was someone walking around the backyard they were looking through the downstairs windows and then I saw them knocking on the kitchen window the one they threw the snowball at minutes ago they thought I was still in there because the light was left on whoever it was they
weren't a kid they looked too tall maybe they were an older teenager or something but I couldn't tell because they had a jacket or a coat on with the hood on up I kept watching and I saw they tried lifting open the window downstairs obviously in the dead of winter those windows hadn't been unlocked for months but one thing was for sure they were trying to get into the house he then started looking up at the upstairs windows and that's when I duck down I didn't look out the window again there was a crash at
my bedroom window now he must have seen me he threw a few snowballs at the windows in my room and then it just stopped my mom called me back to make sure okay and tell me that the police are on their way it took a long time probably because of the conditions but the doorbell eventually rang and so I went down to confirm it was the police before letting the police officer in it was a lone female cop probably in her 40s she walked around the property with her flashlight as I stayed inside and watched
Through the Windows she checked the bushes the shed and the patio when she came back front she said there were Footprints all over the yard but that there's definitely no one out there not anymore at least she spoke to my mom on the phone for a few minutes and then she told me that she's going to wait here until my parents got home at the end of the day my parents showed up the cop left and I was okay it may have just been some weirdo or some teenagers playing some mess up prank though the
guy trying to open the window makes me think otherwise if it were an attempted Breakin it was clearly the dumbest attempt ever after alerting me with the Snowballs I think it was someone that was just trying to scare me just to be a twisted [Music] individual many years ago I went with my girlfriend Trish my friend John and his girlfriend Katie to the Colorado Rockies in the dead of winter John is a longtime friend of mine who I love to do outdoor activities with like hiking snowboarding and mountaineering John's family owns a cabin there so
we stayed there for a couple nights we picked a week end with snow in the forecast when we arrived to the cabin there was already snow on the ground but there was more snow in the forecast for the next day the first night we got there we all unwinded by jumping in the hot tub and having wine the cabin is very remote in the middle of the woods there were small snow flurries falling from the sky that night while we were in the hot tub it was a sign of what was to come tomorrow the
next day we all woke up to see it lightly snowing outside lighter than the forecast had L on not much new snow accumulated on the ground yet but we still held out hope that it would continue to snow throughout the day John fueled up the quad his family had in the Big Shed out back we had to jump it with my car initially but when it was up and running we took turns riding it around the trails on his property this went on for hours as this property is massive it has big openings perfect for
drifting and doing donuts and then it has tight winding trails to ride through throughout this foggy day it was snowing but earlier in the day it was a light snowfall John rode around with Katie for a while while Trish and I were outside sleding down this big hill on the property after a while of this we all went out for lunch I took my pickup truck there so getting around in the snow wasn't an issue by the time we got back the girls were ready for a nap John and I said screw that and we
put on our hiking gear and went into the woods climbing one of the trails we had been riding around on the quad this Trail went way up the mountain though past John's property so we began to climb both both of us are really fit so we're used to this kind of thing but for the average person hiking in uphill in the snow with heavy boots on can get very tiring we hiked for about half an hour to an hour up the mountain before we made it near to the top or at the very least we
stopped at a spot that would have been an amazing view if it weren't so foggy and snowy all we could see was white we took a break up here though and sat in the snow the snow was starting to come down a lot harder now the forecast was right I asked John for like the third time are you sure you know how to get back and he said yes absolutely so he led the way back down the mountain it was a fullon blizzard at this point so we picked up the pace luckily going down is
a lot easier than going up at some point as we were descending I heard this moaning humming type sound coming from behind us out of nowhere I told John to stop and asked if he heard that he said no we stood still and waited then it happened again there was this rumbling moaning type sound coming from not far behind us it didn't sound like an animal it sounded human we both turned and started going quicker down the mountain after hearing it I said what is that and he said he has no idea I started to
hear footsteps from behind us I said to John to stop again and then we stopped and listened you know how it's dead silent during a snowfall well that's why it was so easy to hear footsteps from behind us it was so foggy and the forest was so thick however that it was near impossible to see whoever it could have been John said that was definitely not the sound of an animal and no animals would be following us especially when we're making noise I suddenly felt the vibrating in my coat pocket I took out my phone
and saw Trish was suddenly blowing up my phone she must have been trying to reach me but I didn't have service until now and all her text sent at once as we continued to walk I took off my gloves so I could answer what she was saying but as I read her texts I started to worry she was asking if that's JN and I outside of the cabin and that they're scared to go out there I replied the best I could with my wet fingers what do you mean it didn't deliver I tried calling but
it went to voicemail I lost reception again I told John about the text and said we have to hurry all the while we kept hearing humming and moaning sounds not far behind us we were basically running at this point all the way down back to the cabin we finally saw the lights of the cabin through the quickly darkening Woods we got to the cabin and knocked on the door for the girls to let us in once inside the two of them started talking over to each other trying to explain what happened basically what they told
us was that they saw two people walking around outside like 10 minutes ago one of them stopping by the window and looking in they were too scared to go over and shut the blinds until we got back so they stayed hidden in one of the rooms John went to his dad's room to get a gun all the blinds were closed now the problem was we still had to go out for dinner so John and I went outside after tensions cooled he brought the gun with us we looked around quick then told the girls that it
was clear to come to the car we didn't bother telling the girls about The Sounds in the woods because it would just further scare them we went to a diner then came right back we skipped the hot tub tonight and instead had a movie night inside it was interrupted by a loud and aggressive knock at the door we all looked at one another and I could see the fear in everyone's eyes John grabbed the gun off the table and he came back over to us whoever was out there knocked again John asked if he should
threaten to shoot them I said no we should just remain quiet there was never a third set of knocks the girls went to the bedrooms while John and I stayed in the living room waiting in silence for about half an hour he had the gun loaded though I know he was hoping he wouldn't have to use it the two of us opted to sleep in the living room that night so that we would be able to hear anything we made it through through the night the next morning we all packed up I helped John clean
up and put everything back into the shed outside then we left but the really weird part was that there were no Footprints at all in the snow outside the next day it's possible that they were filled in by the new snow but still it seemed weird whatever was going on there that night couldn't have been good
