2 Chilling BASEMENT Horror Stories [r/NoSleep Stories]

[Music] I was home alone for the week my family had gone on vacation and I had to stay home and work it was about 2:00 a. m. I had stayed up late to watch a scary movie in the dark of my basement I was intent on really scaring myself and seeing how far into terror I could really go while still knowing I was safe in my own home it was then that I heard the pounding of footsteps on the first floor this was a common and annoying occurrence when my family was home every time they would pass through the front hallway past the basement door I would hear their footsteps this time fear immediately shot through me at the sound my reflex was to turn the television off immediately the basement door was up a flight of steps and around the corner so whoever it was wouldn't have seen any light I heard the basement door click and turn as I sat in absolute darkness I moved slowly so as to be absolutely silent I crawled behind our large television as I passed it inch by inch I noted with panic that it's a black screen still dimly glowed I heard footsteps coming down the carpeted but creaky stairs I froze on my hiding-place listening for many long minutes I heard nothing had the intruders seen the televisions afterglow or did it fade out in time was he standing in the pitch dark listening for me I stayed there in the total silence for what felt like eternity my panic state began to fade and I began to think more clearly did I really hear an intruder could someone possibly be standing there in the silence for so long without making any noise the basement was so exceedingly quiet that the silence itself began to hurt my ears could the unknown person really avoid any noise from shuffling or breathing or anything else if there was an intruder he was still in the basement because the creaky stairs were a dead giveaway the door handle would click and he wouldn't know how to hide his footsteps on the first floor so they couldn't be heard down here I began counting in my head trying to pass the time drool fell from my mouth onto the carpet I was too afraid to even swallow I counted to sixty once twice and several more times after a while the fear had faded and I was more confused than anything I estimated the Eibon crouched behind the TV for almost two hours and I still heard nothing if there was an intruder none of this made any sense finally I decided I would have to make a move if I did nothing eventually the Sun would come up and shine in through the small basement windows and worse I began to smell something rotten slowly I began inching my way towards the stairs sticking close to the walls if someone was standing there in the dark I should be able to go around them and make a break up the stairs meanwhile the horrible odor I was smelling grew stronger had something died down here in the night no living person would smell like that some terrible images of some corpse monster listening for me in the dark erupted in my thoughts and I moved as fast as I could without making a sound as I finally reached the stairs there came a loud sound as if something collapsed onto the floor it was at that moment I left forward and tore my way up the stairs running through the open basement door and my opened front door now certain that someone was in my house I called the police from my cellphone and watched my house from down the street the police eventually came they checked the inside of my house and then came back out to question me they found the body of my elderly neighbor on my basement floor he seemed to have been dead for quite some time their belief was that I must have left the front door unlocked and someone must have wandered inside my house with the body of my neighbor what the hell was that loud noise that prompted me to bolt up the stairs and out of the house I asked the police and they confirmed the back door to my house was also found open there was someone else in the basement with us silent waiting and listening in the dark holding the rotting corpse of my neighbor I was hanging out with a bunch of my friends over Thanksgiving break we all go to different colleges so this is one of the few times that we were actually able to get together the group consisted of the usual suspects which included Adam Zack Luke Brandon Mario and myself we always ended up at Mario's house and would tend to keep to the basement because of its size and seclusion from any unwanted attention Mario's house is giant and his basement is no exception apart from being very spacious the basement is also nicely furnished carpeted and very comfortable to stay in during most of our get-togethers there's a fair amount of drinking and after a while of being cooped up in the basement my friends and I started to get rowdy and wanted to drive out to the local club I'm not much of a drinker so I usually stay pretty sober during these events thus I'm usually left as the designated driver for everyone normally I'm alright with driving everyone to the club but during this specific night I was really against going out there were several reasons for this one I would have to drive five drunkenly annoying people in my truck the day before Thanksgiving which has the reputation of being the day with the most drunk drivers I didn't want any of my friends to get an underage drinking violation even though several of them already had one I would also get into trouble if the police happened to find alcohol on my bloodstream which they definitely would have the second reason why I didn't want to go to the club because there was a high probability that one or several of my friends would end up in a fight they tended to provoke people when they're drunk this again leads to the police and underage drinking and all that damaging stuff I really wanted to stay at Mario's and just hang out in the basement but they were adamant about going out and it was five to one so I finally caved in and as the time came closer to leaving my friends became more and more rambunctious I had to go upstairs in order to retrieve my keys so I left my lard friends roughhousing in the basement I felt like he's resting on a table in Mario's kitchen but while I was walking over to get them the lights went out I stood still wondering what the just happened but a few seconds later the lights came back on I didn't really think much about it and went over to grab my keys off the table that's when I noticed something else and stopped moving I couldn't hear the muffled noises that my friends were making below me anymore I just shrugged it off assuming that they had started to calm down which was a good sign I went back downstairs but it was surprised to find that none of my friends were there anymore the back door to the house was located in the basement so I assumed that they had left through that and we're heading to the cars parked in the driveway I quickly followed them through the back door and started heading towards the driveway myself I got to where the cars were parked but once again my friends were nowhere to be found everyone drove up to Mario's house separately and I got scared for a second thinking they all piled into someone else's vehicle and took off intoxicated but I counted the cars and saw that all of them were still there it was the middle of November so it was cold as [ __ ] out and I wanted to go back inside but I decided to take a quick lap around the exterior of the house just in case they were out there smoking or something I walked around the entire house but I didn't see or hear anything so I went back inside through the back door they still weren't in the basement but they could have gone upstairs without me knowing since the basement is so big there are two stairwells on either side of the room that were separated by a wall I deduced that while it was coming down one of the stairwells my friends had gone out the other one probably looking for me I went up to the first floor again and looked around for my friends but once again I couldn't find anybody there was no way they went up to the second floor the last thing that Mario would want was to wake up his dad while he was drinking I went up anyway and looked around for my friends trying to make as little noise as possible I couldn't find them on the second floor the only place left inside the house was the Attic but that was almost impossible for them to get into they would need a chair just to reach the handle and it was also locked from the outside at this point I was annoyed and confused where the hell did they go I went back down to the basement and called Mario on my phone I started to ring but I could hear the on the coffee table next to me Mario had left his phone I tried calling Zach a winch straight to voicemail I tried calling Luke same thing then Adam and Brandon every single one went straight to voicemail I didn't know what to do at this point besides wait I just sent there on the couch alone in the basement I wasn't moving at all I was just listening to nothing it was really creepy in the basement all by myself I don't want to come off as cliche by saying that it was almost too quiet but that's exactly what it was it's hard to describe the stillness that I was feeling the best way I could put it was that I could literally hear the silence around me I was starting to freak myself out and wanted to turn on the TV I was about to stand up and get the remote when I heard something was very soft but I knew I heard it I stood still and let the silence consume me after a few seconds I heard the same thing again it was still very soft but I could tell what it was it was snickering the kind of snickering that you make whenever you try to suppress a laugh by putting her hand over your mouth that's when I hit me my friends were hiding somewhere and laughing at me they obviously didn't want to be found which is why they were trying to hold back their laughter once I figured out what the noise was I became very annoyed my friends were intentionally hiding from me even though I was getting genuinely worried about where they were I got up and started looking around for them again thoroughly checking all the closets in the basement there were a lot of them while I was looking the snickering started to become more distinguished but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from I was at the end of the room and I would hear the snickering behind me but once I went over to the opposite end of the basement I would hear it behind me again as I mentioned before the basement is a big area with a lot of closets enclosed rooms but there are only so many places that a person can hide and I felt like I checked all of them yet the dance snickering was still going on and it was very noticeable at this point then all at once it stopped it cut off out of nowhere and the lights went out once again there was no way that my friends could choreograph a stunt like this especially while they had been drinking something was wrong something felt off and was at that exact moment I started to become scared standing in the middle of the dark basement not moving and was once again in complete and utter silence it felt like I was in a nightmare and wanted to wake up more than anything instead I just stood there too petrified to move that's when I could hear footsteps the floor was carpeted so they were quiet but I could hear them clear as day they were coming from my right but they weren't the type of footsteps that you would expect these were very particular they were taken slowly carefully each step was followed by a few seconds of silence as if whatever was walking did not want to be heard something was creeping closer to me I dared not move my body but I searched frantically with my eyes trying to see what was approaching it was still pitch black but I could swear I can make out a figure advancing towards me from the right I closed my eyes and started to cry I couldn't help it warm tears slid down my cheeks as I braced myself for the worst then the lights came back on and I almost screamed I looked around but there was no one in the basement with me the snickering was gone and I felt lightheaded from the amount of terror that was flowing through me I was horrified and I didn't want to be in that room by myself any longer I still had no idea where my friends were and as much as I wanted to leave I still didn't want to leave them behind if this was some kind of elaborate prank that my friends were trying to scare me with it worked but the joke was over they would have to come out of hiding by now I texted each of my friends saying that I was going to leave if they didn't come out I tried calling each of them three times but like before they all went straight to voicemail except for Mario's which was still buzzing on the coffee table I told myself that I would give them five more minutes to respond and then I was out of there five minutes past and I was leaving through the back door and heading towards my truck it was almost two o'clock in the morning at this point I was tired scared and annoyed I honestly didn't know what to make of the situation once I got home I started to realize how stupid I was for thinking that there was some monster in the basement with me I knew my friends were just trying to scare me for whatever reason and I'm sure that I gave them the exact reaction that they were looking for me crying by myself in the dark they probably had it on video too and we're going to post it on every single media platform they could I no longer felt bad for leaving them behind as a matter of fact I felt betrayed by them I spent over an hour worrying about where my friends had disappeared to and tried looking for them and in return they scared the living [ __ ] out of me and made me feel like I'm an idiot I went to bed and waited anxiously for the morning to come so I could give my friends hell for what they did when I woke up the next morning I immediately went from my phone and was shocked to find that Mario had sent me a text around 3:30 a.

m. I opened the text to find nothing but gibberish it clearly looks like a drunk text I really wasn't surprised by this Mario had sent me many drunk texts before it was almost 11 a. m.

and if the guys had stayed up all night drinking there was no way that any of them were awake yet I decided to wait it out and make them call me first it wasn't too long after I woke up though I received another message this time it was from Mario's dad did you guys go somewhere I can't seem to find anybody I actually left last night I don't know if they went somewhere but I couldn't find them either have you tried calling or texting any of them I keep getting their voicemail yeah I'm getting the same thing all right well if Mario or anybody else calls you tell them to call me so I know where they are we'll do about two hours later and Mario's dad text me again hey have you heard anything from your friends yet Mario and I were supposed to go somewhere today but he still isn't answering his phone no sorry I haven't heard anything from them yet I still hadn't told them about the drunken text because Mario's dad hates it whenever Mario and his friends come over to drink around 4:00 p. m.