3 Hours of True Home Alone Horror Stories

I live by myself in an apartment I live on the second floor of what I would say is a pretty standard apartment building there's four floors total and the building is very long with straight hallways on each floor it's fairly close to the city maybe like 10 minutes away and in a decently populated area I've lived here for about 2 years now and I like it a lot but there's one thing that happened several months ago that made me Question moving it was an ordinary night and I was home alone my apartment has one bedroom

and then a living room kitchen and bathroom I was in the living room sitting on my couch and watching TV I don't remember the time but it was a little bit later at night probably after 10: p.m i had only gotten home from work about an hour earlier as I was sitting there watching TV I heard some noises I thought that it was coming from my next Door neighbor's apartment that's what I assumed and I didn't pay it much thought some time went by maybe like 30 minutes out of nowhere though I had a really

weird feeling it's hard to describe but I suddenly became uncomfortable and started to look around when I looked over my shoulder I saw my bedroom doorway that was only about 5 ft away there was a man sticking his head around the corner of the doorway looking right at me we made eye contact just for a Split second before he quickly ducked back around the corner I got up from the couch and in a panic ran directly out of my apartment I couldn't believe what was going on some random guy was in my apartment after getting

out into my hallway I didn't really know what to do I wanted to call the police but soon realized that I left my phone inside on the couch I thought about driving away but I had also left my keys on the counter not knowing what else I could do There was one person who lived in my building that I was friendly with it was a woman named Courtney who lived down the hallway I went to her door and knocked unfortunately she didn't answer she was probably sleeping because it was pretty late at that time that's

when I decided to try to go back into my apartment just to get my phone and keys maybe the guy either left or was hiding or maybe I had just imagined the whole thing it all happened so fast I was even Questioning myself if I really saw it I felt like I was going crazy I mean I didn't know how on Earth this guy would even get in my apartment door was always locked and I didn't think I forgot to lock it that day or anything when I got back to my door I finally got

up the nerve and I opened it my plan was to quickly run to the couch grab my phone and then run back to the door on the way there grab my keys right up off the counter it would probably take me less Than 10 seconds total however when I opened up the door the first thing that I saw was the man standing in my living room and facing me I shut the door just about as fast as I had opened it and sprinted away I ranan down the hallway and to the stairs and then ran

downstairs until I made it to the first floor then I left the building I couldn't get to my car because I didn't have my keys so I walked out to the sidewalk that went along the road I Walked along that road until I saw a gas station that was open when I got there I went inside and asked the clerk to call the police then I waited until they arrived when they got there we went back to my apartment but when we got there the man was gone they searched all around the building and in

my place he had stolen my laptop my wallet and a couple of other things my phone was still there but probably only because it had fallen between the couch cushions And he didn't see it I'm not sure if the man was ever found my best guess to how we got in was by somehow getting onto my balcony I had a small balcony and it would be difficult but not impossible to get to it from the ground level the door to the balcony was closed but I never locked it he must have entered there when I

was at work I didn't really think that anybody would get to it from outside since that experience everything has been good I haven't had any Break-ins or attempted break-ins I got a new laptop and credit cards but I still wonder how that man chose to go into my place did he watch me before or something I don't know but I would never forget seeing him that night this happened back when I was in high school it was the summertime and my parents were going on a weekend trip with some of their friends this meant that

I would be staying home alone by myself for the weekend I didn't really Have any plans other than to just play video games and hang out our house was nice but nothing too crazy when my parents left I thought that it was kind of cool I was the only one in the house this didn't happen too often I was enjoying it right up until the second night it was a Friday night and I stayed up pretty late I'd been playing PlayStation and finally got tired at about 2: a.m i turned off all the lights and

got into my bed when I was just Starting to feel relaxed and about to fall asleep I heard a noise it sounded like a knocking at the window in my bedroom it was quiet but I was sure of what I had heard I sat up in bed and looked around everything was silent now I didn't hear anything and when I looked to my window I didn't see anything either I thought that I was just being paranoid I stayed up looking around and listening for a few minutes though without hearing anything finally I Calmed down and

told myself that I was just worried for no reason I laid back down and closed my eyes within probably 5 minutes I was relaxed again but then I heard the knocking once more this time it was louder and there was no mistaking it I sat up faster and looked to the window that's when I thought I saw something move out of sight I really didn't know what it was though I only saw it for a Split Second my window was next to a tree and I was Just trying to tell myself it was just a

branch or something still it didn't really seem like it to me this time I got up and turned on my bedroom light then I moved out into the living room it just felt safer in there to me I looked out the window I didn't see anybody but when I looked out to the street I did notice a car there it was a car that I had never seen before and it was parked sort of in front of our house I got really suspicious I watched the car Wondering if anybody was inside of it but then

I heard a noise coming from the back side of the house it wasn't a knocking though this time it sounded like somebody was trying to open up the back door when I heard this I ran back into my bedroom I got in my bed and covered myself with my blankets then I called the police I told them everything that had happened and I didn't plan on moving from under the covers until the police got there I was really scared I Tried my best to just hide and distract myself until then the whole time I I

didn't hear any loud noises or anything finally when the police arrived I got up but what they told me gave me the chills they said that when they arrived at my house they saw a man running away out of the backyard when they got around they saw that the back door was open that meant that the man was able to get inside I hadn't even known he ran away when the police got there but his car Was still parked on the street he ended up being located within the hour and I felt much better after

that for a little bit of background I live alone in a two-bedroom house in a usually quiet neighborhood one night I was home by myself and it was pretty late in fact I was just about to go to bed and starting to get really tired that's when there was a knock at my front door my first reaction was wondering who on Earth Would be at my door at this hour but even aside from that people rarely came knocking on my door so because of this I was kind of on edge I walked to the living

room which was at the front end of the house all of my windows were covered including the window to the front door when I got to the front door I pulled back the curtain and looked I didn't see anybody though then I carefully opened the front door and looked outside nobody was there I walked Out and looked all around but whoever had knocked was gone I did notice something on the ground though on the front step there was an envelope I picked it up and took it inside once I was in I opened it up

the envelope did not have anything written on it but inside was a piece of paper folded up and on that was writing I read what was a very cryptic looking note the letter mentioned me by name in the beginning and was very creepy basically whoever Wrote it was just saying that they knew who I was and where I lived and I better be aware of my surroundings they didn't directly threaten me or anything but the letter was also not very well written at all that's what I gathered from it but I honestly had no clue

what it meant the handwriting was really sloppy as well and I couldn't make out some of the words after reading it I threw it away really creeped out I looked back out of all the windows but didn't see anyone it Just seemed like a typical quiet night I wanted to go to bed but now I wasn't that tired anymore I went into my bedroom and put something on the TV to try to relax I would say about 3 minutes later I was starting to but that's when I heard knocking again it wasn't coming from the

front door this time but the back immediately I got my phone and called the police I told them what was happening and what had already happened I was told that someone would be there Shortly after that I got up and walked over to a window that looked out to the backyard when I did I couldn't see anybody the police got there relatively fast whoever had knocked was gone though the police searched my property and asked me a few questions after that they just told me to call again if anything else happened there wasn't a whole

lot that could be done aside from showing them the letter I had never seen the person so I couldn't give any kind of a Description after the police left I was able to fall asleep although it took a while since that night there was no more strange events or knocks on my door I still wonder who did that and why the letter was very strange it may have all been some dumb prank or something just to try to scare me I really don't know anyone who would do that or why though I'm just glad that

nothing like that has happened since I live with a roommate and this is Something that happened not too long ago we live in a smaller house pretty close to the city the rent is cheap and up until the point of the story everything had gone really well my roommate's name is Matt and we get along good but I would not call us best friends we have different work schedules as well so sometimes we don't really see each other for a few days so a couple of months ago I got home from work one night it

was probably like 600 p.m or so and when I Got inside the house I first went to the kitchen to get something to drink when I was leaving the kitchen and going into the living room I saw that the back door to the house was left open I don't mean left open as in unlocked but literally left open open I walked over and shut it and figured that Matt had left it open both Matt and I were a little bit sloppy sometimes here and there but between the two of us this is something that he

might do I shut the door and locked it And just shook my head then I went upstairs to my bedroom I was there for probably 30 minutes before hearing the sound of someone walking up the stairs I was 100% sure that it was Matt I never even considered the possibility that somebody else could have been inside Matt or at least who I thought was Matt got to the top of the stairs and began walking down the hallway after he walked past my bedroom door which was closed I yelled to him I said Matt I didn't

Immediately get a response then I said to him you left the back door open still he didn't say anything back to me this was a little strange because I knew that he had heard me it seemed like he had either gone to the bathroom the spare bedroom or most likely his bedroom I walked over and open up my door when I did I didn't see Matt but instead a different man this guy had longer blonde hair a slight reddish beard and was tall and thin he looked over at me and as Soon as he did

I made a run for the stairs to my surprise the guy started running after me this made me panic and after getting downstairs I didn't feel like I could get to the front or back door quick enough I would have to stop unlock it and then open it instead in a split-second decision I chose to run down into the basement I know how dumb this sounded looking back but in a moment of panic this is what I chose the basement door was right by the bottom of The stairs and already open a little the guy

was running behind me at probably 20 ft back or so when I was running to the basement stairs I could see that it was Pitch Black down there our basement was unfinished all that we really had down there was our washer and dryer and aside from that there were just random pipes and beams there was also a few storage containers and boxes not very many though I didn't bother to turn on the light and went when I got downstairs I Immediately went to the left then I went behind the stairs which I felt like was

my best hiding spot there was literally no visibility down there at all I heard the guy running down the stairs and he got down shortly after I had got behind the stairs after he got down there I heard him walking around he didn't say anything and I didn't know what he was capable of the man then pushed over one of the boxes he was definitely looking for me but for what reason I didn't know When it sounded like he had walked further away I thought about leaving my hiding spot however I guess I chickened out

and I just couldn't bring myself to do it the area I was hiding in was a pretty good spot to be honest and was not that obvious if you had never been in the basement before I was just hoping that the guy wouldn't decide to look back here he kept walking around and at one point walked pretty close to me but he didn't look to where I was somehow he Stayed down there for probably 10 or 15 minutes finally he went back upstairs when he did that I wasn't quite sure what to do I felt

relieved that he was gone but if I decided to go upstairs I was worried that he would be right there waiting for me luckily I had my phone on me this was the first time that I thought to call the police or really even had the opportunity to I dialed 911 but tried to be as quiet as possible it was really silent down there and I Didn't want the guy to hear me wherever he was when the operator answered I told them some guy was in my house chasing me around and I was told the

police would be be there shortly I hung up after that not to make too much noise I didn't move from my Hiding Place about 10 minutes went by I was feeling better until I heard the basement door open again the guy then walked back down into the basement again he was walking very slowly and was only down there for like A minute then he started to walk upstairs again I didn't know what was going on but luckily there was a knock on the door after that it had to be the police I heard the guy

running through the house I got out from where I was and I ran back upstairs to let the police in sure enough it was them and I heard the guy leaving out the back door when I got to the top of the stairs I told the police the guy was running away and they were Able to track him down a short time later the guy had in fact entered through the back door after Matt had left it unlocked I didn't know what he wanted though he seemed to be after me for some reason I'm hoping

that I never see the guy again I'm also hoping that Matt never leaves the back door unlocked again 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 1 and 1/2 bathrooms each room has a decent amount of space I unpacked a few things and then

went into my bedroom to continue now most of the time my apartment is pretty neat but I had left for my trip in a bit of a rush I had been meaning to wash one of the comforters for 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 I 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 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 splash 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 is something that took place back when I was in high school I was a sophomore at the time and I should mention that I have an older brother but he was already in college at the time of this story

every day I would ride the bus home from school it would stop at the end of my street and then I would walk the rest of the way home and be Back by about 2:45 p.m our house was about halfway down the street one day just like like any other I got off the bus walked home entered my house through the front door and went inside my parents were not home from work yet as they rarely were when I got home from school sometimes on Fridays they would leave work early but this day was a

Thursday I would be home alone for usually anywhere from 1 to 3 hours I didn't mind and would just do whatever I Wanted really when I got inside I had some homework to do that day and I wanted to get it done and out of the way I remembered that I went upstairs to my bedroom to do it we had a two-story house and my bedroom was upstairs probably like 30 minutes after I got home I was doing homework when I heard a knock at the front door I wasn't really sure what it could be

we didn't get people at our front door very often I got up from my desk and walked Downstairs to check the front door by the time I got down there I kind of expected whoever had knocked to be gone they didn't knock twice or anything but when I arrived to the front door I saw that there was a man standing there he looked pretty average he was wearing what looked like some kind of business uniform and was carrying the briefcase I unlocked the front door and opened it the man said hi and I asked him

what he wanted that's when he told me that he Was some kind of insurance person I really don't remember exactly what he said he spoke kind of fast and the only word I really remembered was insurance he asked me if I was the homeowner I told him no and said my parents were not home right now the guy said sorry to bother me and then bye I watched him walk back down the drive way and I went back upstairs to my room when I got up there I continued doing my homework there was a window

in my bedroom that Overlooked the backyard maybe about 10 minutes later something caught my eye out of the window I walked closer to the window and saw the same insurance guy he was now in our backyard that's when I got a bad feeling there was really no reason why he should be back there I watched him walk over to where one of our back windows was I saw the guy look around when he got there almost as if he he was trying to make sure that nobody was watching him when he did I ducked Down

below my window I waited for a few seconds and then looked up again the man was still there at the window he set his briefcase down and then opened it there were what looked like tools inside he looked inside the back window putting his hands up to the glass next to his face then he went back to his briefcase he picked something up out of it and then walked over to another window and looked inside that one after that he returned to the first window that he had Been at I then watched take the kind

of tool and I was sure that he was going to try to break in as I watched the man putting his tool to the window area to do who knows what I got an idea my parents clearly weren't home yet and I had no idea when they would be so I ran out of my bedroom down the stairs but I tried to do it quietly then I got to our garage door that led from our pantry to the garage I opened up the door and then pressed the button to open the front Garage door when

I did I carefully went to the doorway of the dining room and looked to the window where the man was at I was just in time to see him scrambling away I watched him run to the opposite side of our house I then went back to the garage and closed the open garage door I had hoped to make the man think that my parents had gotten home by opening the garage door and luckily it worked the man ran into our neighbor's backyard and after that I lost sight of Him but I think he kept going

I kept a close watch on the backyard and the man didn't return when my parents got back I told them everything they were impressed with how I handled the situation after that the guy never showed up again though I'm glad he wasn't able to get into the house I had a really scary experience just two weeks ago it all happened on a Thursday night as I got home from work up until that point it had been a pretty Typical day I got up went to the gym came back home got ready for work and then

headed out I worked a l shift that day so I wouldn't get off until 7:00 p.m work went by as usual and then I drove the roughly 15 minutes it took to get back home after arriving back I parked my car in the driveway and got out I currently live alone in a two-bedroom house on half an acre of land I walked up to my front door and went inside after getting inside my plan was to Change and then make something to eat I only had made it halfway to my bedroom though when I heard

the door knob turning to my front door door I stopped where I was and suddenly had a bad feeling obviously I wasn't expecting anybody to come over I started to turn around and walk back then whoever was there started knocking on the door I walked back over but was kind of suspicious when I got within view of the front door I carefully looked out of a Window there was a man standing there on my front step and he was right against the door I didn't want to answer it but he kept knocking then I heard

him yell something I didn't know who this guy was maybe he was at the wrong house I thought about answering the door in case that was true but the way he was aggressively banging on the door caused me not to I stayed there just a few feet away hoping that he would leave he demanded to be L inside then he said my Name I couldn't believe that he knew who I was I was positive that I had never seen him before I yelled to the other side as loud as I could that I was calling

the police if he didn't leave right now now however that didn't seem to have much of an effect he stayed there and kept banging on my front door I also noticed that he had parked his car right in my driveway I got out my phone to call the police and dialed as quickly as I could my heart was racing And I told the 911 operator the situation my biggest fear was that the man would try to break in somehow and get in my house at almost the end of my conversation on the phone the man

stopped and I noticed him running back to his car then he got in and drove away I watched closely and made sure that his car left my street I felt a little bit better and told the 911 operator this new information they sent an officer out anyways so that I could tell them what Happened and stuff after that the guy was still gone and after looking around a little bit and talking to me the officer left as well it was a little bit scary being home by myself that night and I had a difficult time

trying to go to sleep but eventually I was able to I woke up the next morning at about 7:00 a.m at first I had forgotten about the craziness of the night before I made my way to the kitchen though and passed by a window I happened to notice a car Parked right out front by the driveway it was the same car as the night before the guy was back I noticed that he appeared to be inside of it I didn't hesitate and I called the police immediately I told them that the man had returned then

I carefully watched out the window for a couple of minutes the man remained inside I watched him open up his door and leave the vehicle he made his way up to my front door again then he started Knocking I couldn't believe this guy I still didn't know who he was or what he wanted and I didn't know how he knew who I was he stayed at my door knocking every so often I went to the back of the house after maybe 5 minutes the police got there when they did the man tried running away he

wasn't able to make it that far though and was caught by the police when he was questioned he didn't even reveal how he knew knew me or what his reasoning was all he would say was That he just wanted to talk to me he claimed that we were old friends which was not true at all I'm just glad that I noticed him that morning I think that he followed me home from work the previous night and I simply hadn't noticed when I walked to my front door he must have followed but was a little ways

back this was one of the scariest experiences of my life and hopefully i' never see that guy again this is something that happened back When I was in high school during that time I lived at home with my parents and brother we also had two dogs usually just about every day the dogs would be walked it would either be me my brother or my parents walking them one night it was probably like 8:00 p.m and the sun was setting the weather was pretty nice though and the dogs needed to go for their walk my parents

decided to take them and my brother was at his friend's house I was having a hard time with my Homework so I stayed home alone when they left when my parents walked the dogs I never really quite knew how long it would be our neighborhood was pretty quiet but it was also pretty large there were lots of streets and houses in the general area and there was also a park not that far away sometimes it would be like 20 to 30 minutes for the walk and other times it would be over an hour I was

up in my bedroom when my parents told me they were leaving and I said bye From up in my bedroom and then heard them walk out after that I tried hard to focus on my homework it was some math assignment and I just couldn't seem to understand it I was trying my best to figure it out though and I lost track of time the next thing I knew I heard the front door downstairs opening I automatically assumed that it was my parents getting back and I remained focused on what I was doing but several moments

later I realized that that Wasn't right if my parents were home I would have heard the dogs with them the only thing that I had heard when the door opened was somebody walking inside I never heard my parents voices or the dogs or anything I stopped doing my homework then I stood up and walked to the doorway I listened closely to who was inside of our house I heard nothing but silence now I didn't know what was going on clearly it wasn't either of my parents and I knew that it wasn't my Brother either I

thought about going downstairs to look around but for some reason I just felt like that was a really bad idea instead I quietly shut my door and went back inside of my room I couldn't really focus anymore on schoolwork I was replaying in my head hearing the door open and close and wondering if I had imagined the whole thing looking back I was starting to question myself then out of nowhere I heard the sound of somebody walking up The stairs the footsteps reached the top and then started to approach my bedroom I began to panic

and was was really scared that whoever it was would go into my room I did not have a lock on my door so they would be able to just walk right in if they wanted when the footsteps reached my room they walked right past whoever it was was going to the end of the hallway back there was a bathroom and my parents' bedroom as well as the guest Bedroom my brother's was right across the hall I heard whoever it was reach near where my parents' bedroom and the guest bedroom were and without even giving it

much thought I ran to my doorway opened it and sprinted for the stairs I did didn't look at all to see who was actually inside of the house I felt like this was my best opportunity to get away when I had raced down the stairs I ran directly for the front door I then went outside and started running For the street I couldn't tell you if whoever was in the house with me went after me or not my memory of it all is just a blur when I got back out to the street I just

started jogging until I saw my parents with the dogs they saw me running and wanted to know what was up I told them that somebody went inside the house my dad called the police and we waited a distance away until they arrived my parents had left the door unlocked after leaving our neighborhood Was not known to have crime really so this was a big deal the police got there and only then did we return to our house when we got back whoever had been inside the house was now gone they didn't even steal anything after

that experience we always locked our doors in the weeks that followed there were two reports of burglaries just a few blocks away I think that it was probably the same person I know a guy was caught in Connection with them but I really don't know if he was the same person who went inside our house or not I don't really know if there's a way to prove it either I'm just glad I got out of there when I did there was no way I was going to stay in the house with the guy just down

the hallway from me that was one of the scariest moments of my life a couple of years years ago I lived alone in an apartment it was on the fourth floor of the building which was a Pretty typical apartment building I think it had five floors total and was relatively old and close to the city my apartment was one bedroom and one bathroom with a kitchen and a living room it wasn't that big but had everything that I needed for just me living there I'd guess after about 3 or 4 months of being there one

night I woke up in the middle of the night I remembered that immediately I heard some sounds as if there was somebody else in My apartment I thought I heard footsteps of somebody walking near the front door I sat up and turned my light on the noises seemed to stop after that I sat in bed for a while before I felt brave enough to get up and open my bedroom door eventually I did I looked out into my dark living room and kitchen I turned on the lights and everything seemed normal I must have been

hearing things or something after looking around my apartment and double-checking to see That the door was still locked I went back to bed nothing El that was strange happened for like a month but then almost the exact same thing happened again I was woken up in the night hearing noises inside my apartment this time I sat laying in bed trying hard to listen to the noises to detect what exactly they were they really weren't that loud but it did sound like somebody was walking inside my apartment all of my lights were off inside including my

Bedroom so I really couldn't see a thing I thought about reaching over and turning on the light but I was just really focused on listening to the noise was there somehow a chance that I was hearing something other than what it sounded like maybe I was hearing someone on the floor above or below my apartment or maybe I was just hearing random noises the buildings make but no this was for sure the sound of somebody walking around in my apartment and now It sounded like the footsteps were right outside my bedroom door then I heard

the door handle start to turn and I heard the creek of my door opening I thought my heart would pound right out of my chest I got really hot and sweaty as the door opened I looked right at the opening the door got about halfway open and I saw the figure of a man standing in the doorway he appeared to be looking right at me but I couldn't tell any details about him at all in the dark Just that he was there I was sitting up in my bed and he stood there for maybe 10

seconds before I couldn't help but let out a scream when I did the man backed up and shut the door I was screaming like a crazy person for like a minute straight by the time I composed myself I grabbed my phone and called the police they arrived in my apartment a while later and when they looked around whoever had been in my apartment was now gone there was no evidence left behind And there were no signs of forced entry my door was still even locked none of my windows were open or anything like that either

I was so puzzled by this I knew what I had seen though but all I was able to give was the description of a man that was sort of tall I couldn't tell anything about him really it was like 2:00 in the morning and the police left I barely slept at all for the rest of the night I didn't know what to do I worried that I was going insane Over the next few days things got a little bit back to normal but I was worried for something like this to happen again and then an

idea came to me I went to the store and I got two things the first was a lock for my bedroom door and the second was a motion detecting security camera it was a little bit expensive but I needed answers I set it up inside my apartment facing the door in most of the kitchen area where IID heard the footsteps I hid the camera as Best as I could on my bookshelf then I set up a lock on my bedroom door so I would feel more safe as I slept I set the camera every night

before bed but for the longest time nothing happened of course I was happy about this but at the same time I was always a little bit worried about whoever it was returning I would say it was like maybe 3 weeks since the last incident and then something happened I was once again woken up to hear what sounded like the Door to my apartment opening I heard footsteps once again but this time they were really fast they went straight toward my bedroom door and were much louder than before whoever it was tried opening the door but

this time it was locked they tried violently and quickly turning the knob several more times before stopping I screamed that I was calling the police this caused whoever was there to walk back and straight out my door as soon as they left I got up And ran out to get my camera I went back into my bedroom and locked the door again from there I watched the footage it had recorded the entire thing when I played the video I saw a man walking right into my apartment as if the front door wasn't even locked when

the man walked in I recognized him it was my next door neighbor I didn't know the guy well at all but I knew that his name was Jim I had only briefly said hi to him one time in the hallway after seeing This I called the police again they arrived and had remembered me from before this time I had evidence to show them when they watched the video they went next door and confronted Jim at first he was pretending to be asleep and that the police woke him up but when he was told there was

video evidence he seemed to get angry he flat out claimed it wasn't him and denied it but then later changed his story that he must have been sleepwalking but the police Weren't buying it and took him in I'm really glad they did because he later admitted to being awake the whole time and the way he was able to get inside my apartment was because he somehow had a spare key how he had an extra key to my place I'm not sure but I'm glad I don't have to worry about him anymore this happened just about

a week ago I'm 20 years old and I live with my parents during the summer however they went out of town for some of their friends Wedding and I wasn't invited this was fine with me though because I didn't really know the people anyways and it's kind of fun to have the whole house to myself we have a split level house and my bedroom is at the front end of it but on Friday night I stayed up really late watching a movie in the living room I like that TV better because it's much bigger than

mine the couch in the living room is also super comfortable so I just decided to sleep there for the night Anyways I woke up Saturday morning and it was still super dark in the house in the living room we had a sliding glass door that connects to the deck in the back the blinds were covering most of it and that's the main source of light but there was maybe a 5-ft gap to look out and I saw that it was raining I then looked at the clock and it was almost 9:30 a.m i was just

sitting on the couch and turned on the TV when all of a sudden I heard two knocks at the front Door they weren't really hard knocks sort of light and immediately my heart started pounding I know it's not a big deal just to get knocks on the door but we lived towards the end of a dead end Road and our neighborhood was very quiet it wasn't very big and it was extremely rare for anybody to knock on our doors for any reason maybe it's also because I'm a shy person but it made me really nervous

for some reason from where I was sitting on the couch I was just barely Around the corner and I couldn't see the front door and whoever was at the front door probably couldn't see me at least I was hoping they couldn't see me I was wondering who it could possibly be especially in the middle of pouring rain then I remembered something I had ordered an Amazon package and was expecting it today suddenly I felt so much better and started to relax I opened up my Amazon app on my phone and clicked on my orders expecting

to see That it was delivered but when I looked it said it wouldn't arrive until 5:00 p.m that day suddenly I went back to being super nervous I decided to carefully look out and see if anyone was at the door it had now been maybe a minute or two since they had originally knocked and they hadn't knocked again since I slowly moved to look out the window and when I did I saw that nobody was there now this made me feel a little better now that they were gone but right At that moment I heard

the noise of somebody walking up the stairs of our back deck I couldn't see because of the lines covering most of the sliding glass door but I then heard footsteps on the deck I started shaking and the next thing I knew I saw a man appear in the opening of the sliding glass door where you could see outside he was staring right at me but had no expression on his face he was bald and wore a black jacket and Black pants the guy then tried sliding the door open thankfully it was locked but I knew

if he really wanted to he could probably break the glass between us I ran away into the bathroom that was just down the hall I had no idea who this guy was or what he was doing here I had been right to be so nervous about this for seemingly no reason as I closed the bathroom door and locked it that's when I heard the first loud bang against the window as if he was going to try to Break it I knew I needed to call the police but then I realized that I didn't have my

phone I had left it back out in the living room I heard another loud bang from the window but I didn't hear glass breaking I knew it was a risk but I opened the door back up and ran out to the living room couch I looked around frantically and finally saw my phone then I made another Mad Dash for the bathroom as I was another bang came from the window I looked back At the man as I ran I saw he had been kicking at the glass and trying to break it I got back into

the bathroom and locked the door again then I called 911 on my phone as soon as the operator answered I told them everything they told me to slow down and repeat what was going on that's when I heard the sound of glass breaking I repeated what was happening as best as I could and just after that I heard the sound of the man starting to walk inside the house he was Walking straight for the bathroom that I was in when he got to the doorway he tried the door and it wouldn't open because it was

locked I backed away from it and went into the shower the 911 operator said that they would stay on the line with me which made me feel a little bit better because I was terrified the man then started to bang on the bathroom door and my phone suddenly went silent I looked at it and saw that it had doed I hadn't plugged it in the previous night I figured the man was kicking on the door the same way he had been kicking on the sliding glass door and I knew he would probably break this as

well I heard him walk away for a minute and then go down the stairs that we had he was gone for maybe a full minute and then I heard him return there was another loud bang against the bathroom door but this one sounded much harder I think he had found one of the baseball Bats we had in our house or something this made me even more terrified than I already was I grabbed the towels we had in the bathroom and covered myself I then went into the small bathroom closet we had and closed that door

I just barely fit in there but I had to do what I could the guy hit at the door a few more times and it really sounded like he was breaking it now but that noise was interrupted by another one it was the noise of a loud knock on the front door Could barely hear someone shouting police I hoped they would be able to get inside fast and just after that I heard the man walking away towards the back of the house where we had gotten in I stayed hidden and a short time later I

heard a bunch of shouting eventually I heard someone yelling put it down when I finally heard the voice of multiple officers inside my house I finally came out of the bathroom they had literally gotten there just in the nick of time And the man had been caught I'm really lucky how fast the police were to arrive that day this was very recent and I'm still a little shook up about it but I'm just happy to be okay last year I was at home by myself one night I live in a smaller house in a quiet

neighborhood it was probably about 10:00 at night when I heard a knocking at my front door obviously it was strange to have somebody knocking on the Door at this hour I walked over and looked out the window to the front door I saw a small woman who appeared to be 25 to 30 standing there I had never seen her before and was not sure as to what she was doing here after thinking about it for a few seconds I decided to answer the door I opened it up and the woman said hi and said that

her car broke down on my street she said that she was just down the road then she said that she knocked on Two of my other neighbors doors and nobody answered I asked her if she had called her roadside service and she told me that she couldn't get any signal around here I looked over in the direction that she had pointed her car was in at first I didn't see anything I asked her where exactly her car was she told me to follow her and asked if I knew anything about cars I actually did I

wouldn't call myself a car expert but I have fixed a couple of things on my Own cars a few times I've always had an interest in cars and how they work and I was curious I asked what she thought happened to her car as we were talking she started walking back over to it and said that her power and everything in the car just started going off and then it died I followed her down my driveway and into the street when I got onto the quiet Road I saw a little ways down a car was

parked on the side of it it was what looked to be a fairly new Honda CRV The location the car was parked was past my next door neighbor's house after his house the road curved and there were no houses for a little stretch and just Woods on both sides we finally got within maybe 15 ft of her vehicle I noticed that the windows were tinted very dark the woman walked over towards the driver's door and unlocked the car it was that very moment when I saw the back two doors opening to her car and two

men getting out one at each door I Was only 10 ft away from them the very instant that I saw them I turned around and sprinted as fast as I could in the opposite direction there were two of them and one of me and I had nothing to defend myself so I wasn't going to stay there I heard the men starting to run after me I didn't even know that I could run as fast as I did when I was going back to my house I somehow got back to my front door and was able

to get inside and locked the door probably less than a Second later the men reached it and tried going inside when I got inside I wasted no time finding my phone and calling the police unfortunately the men left within a minute and were gone by the time the police got there everybody was gone I told them everything that happened but did not get the license plate of the car I gave a description of the people but the car is pretty common and I really didn't get a good look at the men at all so I

don't know if they Were ever located at the end of the day though I'm just glad to be all right I came within seconds of who knows what I feel kind of dumb for being set up like that and I'm more suspicious of people now about a year ago I lived in an apartment by myself I'm in a new apartment now and the one I lived in last year wasn't the greatest it was a small one-bedroom place and I lived on the second floor I had a very small balcony which was nice one night I

was By myself at home cooking dinner I cook quite often and I was at the stove in the kitchen it was the early Springtime and the weather was still sort of cold out I remember that I started to get really hot while cooking which I often do I walked over to the sliding door in my balcony at the end of my apartment and opened it when I did I felt the cool air rush in then I went back to work probably about 20 minutes later I was still in the kitchen cooking that's when I heard

a noise I looked over and saw somebody standing there in the opening of my sliding glass door it was some guy I didn't know who he was when I saw him at first I was too confused and surprised to say or do anything the man was just standing there and then he walked right inside and went into my bedroom he then shut the door finally I spoke I yelled who are you I yelled it again louder than the first time whoever had just entered my bedroom did not Answer me but I did hear noises inside

I was still kind of standing in the kitchen which is right by the front door then my bedroom door started to open when this happened I opened my front door and left I ran down the hallway into the stairs I wanted to call the police but it wasn't until I was at the stairs that I realized I did not have my cell phone with me I had left it on my kitchen counter instead I decided to keep going I did not want to go back in There I left the building and went out to my

car in the parking lot I sat inside my car and thought about what I could do I consider driving to a friend's house or the police station or something like that but I didn't know where the police station was and I didn't want to go to my friend's house without letting them know I didn't have my phone on me to help out with either of these things after about an hour I decided that I would go back inside my Apartment whatever that guy was doing there he was probably gone by now I left my car

and went back inside when I got to my apartment I opened the door door and saw my whole place was all messed up my stuff was all over the floor and furniture was all out of place however I didn't see or hear anybody I saw that my balcony door was now closed I went further inside but as soon as I got to my bedroom doorway I saw the guy again I turned and ran out of my apartment this Time I banged on my next door neighbor's door I had never met my neighbors but I didn't

care they actually opened and I told them someone had broken into my apartment and to call the police they actually let me inside their apartment and we waited for the police to show up when they got there the man was still inside my apartment and was caught he had taken my phone and had a backpack with a bunch of my stuff that he was intending to steal I really can't Believe that he stayed in my apartment for so long he got in by climbing up to my balcony and going in the open door I guess

he had seen my door open from a ways away I'm just glad he was caught this is my scariest experience of being at home by myself it happened back when I was 12 years old it was a long time ago now but I still remember it really well during this time I lived with my parents older sister and younger brother it was very rare that I would be at home By myself but somehow it happened it was a Friday FR evening and my dad was out of town until the next morning for work he didn't

travel for work a whole lot but every now and then he did I remember that my sister was at her best friend's house and was going to be sleeping over there as for my mom and brother they were at a birthday party my brother was invited to I was not invited and my mom went with my brother because she was basically helping the birthday kid's mom With the party so that left me home alone all by myself on a Friday night my big plans were to just relax and play video games I was excited about

it though because I rarely got the entire place to myself our house was pretty average for the most part there were two levels with all the bedrooms being Upstairs Downstairs was the living room dining room and kitchen so after my mom left that afternoon shortly after I got back From school she gave me instructions on how to make a frozen pizza I had never never cooked before but I loved frozen pizza and at about 7:00 p.m i cooked it everything went pretty well and then I went into the living room and sat in an office

chair right in front of the TV and started playing on my PlayStation this went on for several hours at about 9:00 at night I heard the sound of somebody stepping onto the front step where our door was the living Room was at the front of the house so it really wasn't that far away when I heard the person walk onto the front step I assumed that it was my mom and brother returning from the birthday party I kept playing expecting to hear the door open at any point but after several minutes went by nothing happened

nobody entered the house I got curious and I got up and walked over to the front door to look outside when I did I didn't see anybody there there was no one at the front door And my mom's car was not in the driveway either as I was looking there though something caught my eye to to the left I looked and saw what appeared to be a man walking through the front yard he was just barely in my sight for about a second before disappearing past what I could see he had gone towards the side

of the house or maybe the neighbor's yard I was a little nervous after this but I assumed that the man had left I didn't really know who he was or what he Was doing I kept watching around the front yard for a minute or so and saw nothing more so after that I returned to my video games I couldn't help but be creeped out by what I had seen so I was trying to take my mind off of it and after about 10 minutes it was starting to work that is until suddenly I heard the

sound of somebody trying to open the back door to the house our back door was connected to the kitchen and went out to the patio this sound was much louder and I instantly stood up I ran over to the phone and called my mom's number during this time I didn't hear any more noises I told my mom that somebody tried coming in the back door and she told me to call the police she told me that she would be home as soon as she could but the birthday party was still going on so after that

I quickly ran upstairs and then went into my bedroom once I was there I called the police and told them that I thought somebody was trying to Break in after giving them my address I went and hid behind my bed I covered myself with tons of blankets I was really too scared to want to know what was going on as I waited for the police to arrive I was hoping that the man had just left and not tried breaking in I wasn't hearing anything but then again I was covered in blankets it felt like forever

but maybe 10 minutes later the police got there I remember that I got a call On the phone and was told that they were there I never would have gone down and left my bedroom on my own when that happened I got up but heard people talking so I stayed in my bedroom I remember a while later later there was a knock at my bedroom door I was terrified until I Heard a Voice on the other side say police then I answered the door and there was an officer there he told me that they had

caught a man who had just broken in I was told that the police got There in the nick of time and they really did the man had somehow got the back door to the house open he had literally just entered when the police arrived the man was arrested and luckily didn't get far into the house I was honestly shocked when I heard it but luckily everything turned out fine he wasn't able to steal anything or do any damage the back door needed a little bit of fixing but it wasn't a huge deal after that though

I didn't want to stay Home by myself for a while this is something that happened when I was a kid I was probably like 12 and back then I would ride the bus to and from school every day my parents both worked until 5:00 and would get home between 5:30 and 6:00 but I would get home at about 2:45 to 3:00 p.m from school every day so usually I had a few hours by myself one day the school bus dropped me off at the end of my street like every Other day I walked on the

sidewalk until I got to my house and then went inside my After School Routine was usually to go to my room and try to get my homework out of the way first then I would relax and do whatever I wanted until my parents got home this time I did my homework on the kitchen table as I was doing it I remember looking outside the window and seeing a man walking out front on the sidewalk he walked past our house and I didn't think much of it we Usually wouldn't get too many people walking down the

sidewalk but an occasional person wasn't a big deal but I later saw him walking by the other way again like 10 minutes later and he kind of looked over still it wasn't a huge deal the kitchen was at the front of the house and after I finished my homework it was probably like 400 p.m then I moved into the living room and turned on the TV just a few minutes later I heard our front door opening now I knew Instantly that it probably wasn't either of my parents I'm not sure how I knew that but

I just had a bad feeling they were rarely home that early and when they were they would usually let me know then I realized that I forgot to lock the front door when I got home that day I jumped up off the couch and didn't know what to do I ended up going right behind the couch to hide I had no time to go anywhere else the person walked inside I was in the kitchen for about a Minute then I heard their footsteps moving closer and then they entered the living room where I was my

heart was beating like crazy there was a little bit of space between the couch and the walls behind it and that's where I was laying on the carpet I couldn't see anything and my head was down and now that the person was walking on carpet I couldn't hear their footsteps anymore more I tried my best to be as silent as I possibly could the seconds felt like Minutes I didn't hear anything I was afraid that whoever was in here knew that I was there but then I heard footsteps again in the kitchen the footsteps soon

moved to the stairs and I heard the person walking up I was slightly relieved but there was still somebody in our house I thought about hiding there until the person left but when they reached the top of the stairs I realized that I could probably leave if I got up and ran now I should be able To reach the front door before the person could I couldn't really hear their footsteps anymore now that they were upstairs so I didn't know exactly where they were I carefully got out from behind the couch and stood up then

as quietly as I could ran for the front door I opened it and went outside from there I ran down the street to one neighbor that my family was pretty good friends with I knocked on her door and luckily she answered she let me come Inside and then she called the police it was great to finally be safe again but the person was still in my house the police response time was really fast they were there within probably 5 minutes my neighbor and I watched from her window when they got there they soon entered our

house and searched it unfortunately the person was gone I went back to the house with police and everything was in order except for my bedroom door upstairs which was open That gave me an eerie feeling then not too long after I found out that the police had had found a suspicious man in another neighbor's backyard when I saw what he looked like it was the same guy that I had seen walking on the sidewalk earlier I couldn't believe it he later admitted to being inside of our house my parents got home a short time later

and the police stayed for a while talking with everyone soon they left though and things got back to normal for the most Part that experience made me not want to be home by myself for a while though it also made me remember to always lock the door a strange thing happened to me a couple of years ago at the time I lived in an apartment by myself it was a one-bedroom one-b place and I lived on the second floor of the building overall the apartment was not the nicest and it didn't have that many units

in it either I knew a few of my neighbors but not all Of them one night I was at home by myself like usual it was sometime at night I really don't know exactly the time but there was a knock on my door I walked over and answered it without giving it that much thought a man was standing there he was kind of short and had dark brown hair the man told me that he was my neighbor from down the hallway and he pointed a ways to the left he asked me if he could come

inside of my apartment to make a phone call he said That his Wi-Fi was not working and he didn't have any service on his phone at the time so without the Wi-Fi he couldn't make any calls I was not comfortable with this I told the man sorry but no he said that he would be really fast and I told him that I really couldn't help him he kind of came across as a little bit sketchy to me for some reason the man turned to walk away and I closed my door I was really curious afterwards

I had never seen the man Before and had seen most of the people who lived in the building because it wasn't all that big I thought maybe the guy would knock on another person's door and I quietly opened my door and looked around the corner to see him walking away he walked all the way to the end of the hall and then he went inside of the elevator I was suspicious that he didn't even live here at one point or another I had seen just about everyone that lived on my floor after the man left

I went to One of the windows in my place I looked out of it into the guest parking lot where the main doors open up to now there are assigned parking spaces for all the residents and those are under the building there's a small guest parking lot with like 10 spaces out front I saw the man leave the building and then walk to an older looking car in the guest parking lot and drive away he definitely didn't live here so why would he lie to me and claim that he did I Didn't know but the

fact that he wanted me to let him inside of my apartment kind of creeps me out he certainly made up the whole story about his Wi-Fi being down and him not having any cell phone service I'm not sure how he got into the building in the first place but most likely somebody else let him in when they were entering after that night I never never saw him again that pretty much confirmed me that he didn't live there I'm really glad that I didn't let Him inside of my apartment when I was a kid my parents

used to leave me home alone sometimes both my parents worked and they stopped getting a babysitter for me when I was around 10 I'm an only child so I got used to being home alone pretty quickly I was able to make several foods for myself and have snacks but most of the time I would just sit and watch TV or hang out in my room the house that we lived in was one level and had a Basement as well there were three bedrooms and two bathrooms on the main floor as well as the living room

and kitchen it wasn't a very big house but it also was not tiny and it never felt like we didn't have enough space at the time of this story I was probably about 12 years old so one night I was home by myself I really don't remember where exactly my parents were that night but they were both gone my mom had cooked me some food before they left so I had it While watching TV in the living room then I went into my bedroom afterwards for the next hour or so I just kind of hung

out in there playing on my Nintendo DS and watching the smaller TV that was in my bedroom it was probably like 8:30 or 9:00 p.m at this point and it was completely dark outside that's when I heard our sliding glass door opening I was used to hearing that noise because my parents went in and out to the patio all all the time the sliding glass door Was connected to the dining room area by the kitchen and it was at the back corner of the house we had a little patio with a table and a grill

and stuff like that it was like 5 seconds after I heard this noise that I realized it was strange not of my parents were home so who could have done that we didn't have any neighbors who would just come over or anything like that and I suddenly became very worried very quickly I started to panic and I didn't know what To do this kind of situation had never happened to me before and in fact I had never really thought about it being a possibility the neighborhood was always quiet and calm and it seemed just like

any other to me I tried thinking quickly of who would be there but I couldn't think of anybody my bedroom door was not completely closed either but open about a foot I thought about getting up and closing it but I didn't want to make any noise so I stayed where I was sitting on Top of my bed one thing I noticed though was that I didn't hear anybody walking around inside the house we had wood floors in the living room and dining room so I probably would have heard whoever was there walking my TV was

playing with the volume pretty low so I knew I would have heard the footsteps I sat there on my bed not moving listening closely for any noise but I didn't hear anything after a few moments I grabbed my TV remote which was Next to me and turned the volume all the way down I listened very closely for probably another 30 seconds to a minute I still heard nothing I wondered if I actually had heard the sliding door closed I definitely had this was really strange but after not hearing anything for a while longer I started

to feel better I was convincing myself that nothing was wrong soon I decided that I would have a look for myself I got up from my bed and walked over to the Doorway my bedroom led into the hallway and to the right was the living room the dining room and kitchen were not in view from the hallway you had to walk through the living room and then take a right to get to it after looking around in the living room and seeing nothing I stepped out I walked through the living room and then to the

dining room and kitchen still I didn't see or hear anybody this made me think that nobody was there when I looked to the sliding glass door it Was closed but not locked now this was a little bit concerning but nobody seemed to be inside the house possibly a neighbor saw that it was open and closed it or something that was bizarre but that was the thought that came to my head I don't know why I tried thinking if the door had been open or closed when I had been out in the living room and kitchen

before I couldn't remember though to be honest most of the time I wouldn't even notice maybe one of my Parents have forgot to close it or lock it I walked over to the door and then I locked it then I looked around into the patio and backyard our yard was pretty small but we did have a bit of grass and a few plants and trees everything seemed fine from what I could see and after that I walked back over to my bedroom I really didn't know how to explain the bizarre sound that I heard but

I guessed that it could be nothing after returning to my bedroom though I decided to look Outside to my backyard from my bedroom window I usually had the window covered with blinds as it was on this night I lifted them up and looked out everything seemed fine from what I could see about right after this I returned to my bed but was thirsty and my water glass was empty so I picked it up and headed to the kitchen to get a refill after I walked to the fridge I was filling my glass when I heard

another sound it was coming from the living room somebody was Definitely in there and I started to hear footsteps the closest exit that I was near was the sliding glass door and I sprinted for it right away I unlocked it opened the door and ran out without even closing it behind me I was probably the scaredest I had ever been I didn't see whoever was there at all but I knew somebody was inside the house when I got outside I sprinted out of the yard and around the house to the street then I started running

down the street just Trying to get as far away from my house as I could I'm not really sure where I was planning to go but as long as I was away from my house I felt safe luckily at this time I had recently gotten my first cell phone I had it with me in my pocket and I took it out and called my mom when I told her what had happened she said that she was calling the police and my parents would head home immediately I'm pretty sure in the meantime I just kind of

walked around The streets of my neighborhood eventually I got another call from my mom asking where I was and when I told her her and my dad were there within a minute or two to pick me up I got inside their car and we drove to our house which had several police cars in front of it now I waited in the car with my mom as my dad talked to the officers to know the situation when he came back he said that the guy who had been inside the house was gone the police hadn't Found

anybody inside however the house had several things in it that were messed up one of the blankets that was on the couch was now on the floor and I hadn't put it there the doors to my parents bedroom and the basement were also left open and had been closed before but surprisingly nothing was stolen from the house at all we all went back inside a short time later and I was pretty scared for the rest of the night the guy never came back though and I Never saw him again I'm just glad that I left

when I did and got out of there this happened back when I was younger I believe that I was about 14 at the time I remember it pretty well and it all started on a Friday night my parents were going out of town to go to a wedding that I was not invited to I didn't care though I found weddings boring and would rather stay home and play video games my parents left on Friday afternoon after I got back from School I was sort of excited to have the house to myself for a little while

my mom let me order a pizza to be delivered that night and I got it and then watched TV in the living room maybe an hour into that at like 8:00 p.m or so there was a knock at the front door I didn't know who it could possibly be I felt a little bit nervous as I got up from the couch to go check I looked out of a window and saw a man standing there he was not a neighbor and I didn't know him at all The man was wearing a black jacket and like

a winter hat he also had a slight beard there was no way that I was answering the door though he knocked again and I just stood there waiting for him to go away I was pretty confident that he couldn't see me from where I was eventually I saw the man turn and walk away I was a little bit creeped out and I didn't know who the guy was or why he came to our house but I figured that was that and I went back to what I was doing Maybe 30 minutes to an hour later

I decided to go up to my room and play some video games I went upstairs got in my bedroom shut off the lights and closed the door then I got in my gaming chair and put my headset on I had a pretty good setup in there and really enjoyed it probably 30 minutes into that I was interrupted though I heard a knock on the door but it wasn't the front door to the house it was coming from my bedroom door my heart started racing Like crazy instantly and I became as scared as can be I

didn't know what to do very quietly I got up from my chair then I turned the TV off now it was completely dark in there and I could see very little I was kind of expecting the door to just open open but it didn't I got down on the ground careful not to make any noise my gaming chair was sort of in the corner of the room away from the door my closet was half open and just a few feet from me I crawled over There quietly and careful not to make a sound then they

knocked again somebody was right outside my door and I figured that it was probably the man who had knocked on the front door earlier in the night I was able to crawl my way into my bedroom closet it was not that big of a Clos closet but enough space for me to fit inside of it plus my room was pretty Messy as a teenager I had clothes and stuff laying all around the floor and basically a huge pile of clothes in my Closet as I went inside of it I carefully covered myself in clothes in

the middle of doing this I heard the door start to open I froze and just hoped that I was not visible I did not hear the guy walk inside but could tell that he was in there then he took a couple of steps inside my bedroom I was terrified and held my my breath he was in there for maybe 30 seconds then he turned and left the room and I heard him walk out I had just gotten a cell phone At that point just a few months prior I got it out and quietly dialed for

the police I was sure to make it so the guy couldn't hear me wherever he was I whispered to the 911 operator what was going on and then hung up because I was worried that the guy would hear me he was still upstairs but I couldn't tell where he was I went deeper into my closet in case the guy came back he he didn't come back in my room though after waiting for what felt like a really long Time and not hearing anything else the police arrived I left my closet and bedroom and saw that

the police had actually caught the man he was back downstairs and I was told that he had been hiding in the basement I hadn't heard him go downstairs at all but then again I was under a bunch of clothes in my closet it was a huge relief my parents were called and told about it and they ended up coming back home that night they got me and made me go to the Wedding with them anyways because they didn't want to leave me alone I didn't really want to be alone either that was probably the craziest

night of my life and I will never forget it this happened many years ago probably about 15 and I would say that I was about 10 years old at the time I lived with my parents and my older brother I think it was a Friday and I remember after getting home from school my parents and brother were going to go Shopping they asked me if I wanted to come with and I said no because I really wanted to play video games at that moment and I wasn't really interested in going with when they left I

figured they would be gone for maybe a couple of hours I went upstairs to my room and started playing video games it was kind of my after school thing to do back then I started it up and my game hadn't even loaded yet when all of a sudden I heard a noise coming from the hallway it was The upstairs hallway right outside my bedroom this was really strange and I remembered I listened but I didn't hear anything for a few more seconds then there was another noise it was definitely coming from right outside my bedroom

door my door was already open but not all the way maybe 3 ft or so so I decided to look out I walked over to the doorway and leaned my head just out and looked as soon as I did I saw a man climbing down the ladder that we had Which led up to the attic I pulled my head back into the room he hadn't seen me because his back was facing me when he was climbing down but I just hoped he hadn't heard me at first I was really confused I knew our house wasn't

being worked on so why was there a guy coming down from our attic I heard him begin to walk down the hallway towards my door as quietly as I could I got onto the ground and slid underneath my bed the man walked right past my room and then Headed down the stairs I got as far underneath my bed as I could and hoped that the man wouldn't come back I heard him move around a little bit downstairs especially because my ear was up against the floor floor I was too scared to get up or move

it felt like forever that I was laying there I couldn't call the police because I didn't have a cell phone back then we had a home phone but that was downstairs in my mind my best bet was to just stay hidden I kept Laying there and I really have no idea how long it was but I remember eventually hearing him walking back up the stairs I closed my eyes and held my breath when he got to the top of the stairs he once again just walked right past my door and then see seemingly went back

up into the attic when things were quiet once again I thought about leaving my Hiding Place but ultimately was too scared I remained there until I heard our front door unlock and then heard the Voices of my parents and brother downstairs at that time I ran down as fast as I could and told them what had happened at first they didn't believe me and my dad seemed to think it was funny but eventually when my dad went up into the attic he said he immediately saw signs that someone had been up there he didn't see

the guy himself but enough to know that there was somebody in there he closed it and we called the police we went outside and waited and eventually When the police got there they were able to catch the man he had been living in our attic for several days we rarely went up to our attic or used it back then it was just really a storage place for us I don't know how the man didn't hear me in my room at first but I always feel lucky that he didn't this story happened when I was much

younger I was in high school at the time and a freshman this was during the fall semester I had just gotten home from School and was all by myself I have a brother but he played football and would get home much later I would ride the bus home from school and get back at like 3:00 p.m usually after I got home I had about 2 hours or so until my parents would get back from work in that time I usually just played video games or watched TV every every now and then did homework on this

day I made some pizza rolls and then went upstairs into my room to play some video games I was up There for probably like an hour playing I heard the sound of the front door opening and closing coming from downstairs I knew it was more than likely either my mom or my dad getting home and I paused the game and went downstairs to say hi and ask what we were having for dinner I went down the hall outside my bedroom and started to walk down the stairs I got maybe like three steps down when I

noticed something there was someone in the house But it wasn't either of my parents it was just some guy he had sort of long curly light brown hair and was walking through the end of the kitchen into the dining room I paused and immediately turned around thankfully the man hadn't seen me I ran back into my bedroom and quietly shut the door once I was inside I started panicking I was pretty scared and had no idea what to do back then I didn't have a cell phone and the only phones that we did have were

downstairs In the kitchen and in the living room I was definitely not going down there I was afraid whoever the guy was was going to come upstairs I went around my bedroom and took everything big I could find and stacked it up against my bedroom door then I went and hid in the back corner of the room I couldn't really hear anything so I had no idea where the guy was downstairs I got a blanket and covered myself up because I was so scared I waited there in my room For what felt like forever eventually

I heard the sound of one of my parents coming home I got up and went over to my door to listen as I listened I heard the front door to the house opening and then heard my dad's voice I couldn't quite make out what he was saying so I moved all the junk away from my front door and went out I saw that my dad was standing in the kitchen and most of the downstairs was all messed up he saw me and asked what was going on I ran Downstairs and told him about what had

happened we both left the house and called the police when they got there and searched the house whoever had been inside was gone the guy that I had seen had been able to enter the house because I guess I forgot to lock the front door when I got home home the guy went inside and basically just messed the place up and didn't really steal anything he then left before my dad got home I felt bad for being sort of responsible but at the Same time my parents weren't mad at me and were just glad that

I was okay this happened to me when I was 15 years old I'm an only child and I lived at home with my parents at this time I was in high school and this was a Friday night my parents went out with some friends and I had nothing going on they told me that they would be out until somewhat later and my parents got some food for me before they left I had stayed home quite a few times before by Myself and I didn't mind it at all it wasn't something that happened every week but

I was very much used to it by that age so when my parents left I just had dinner and then finished up my homework for the weekend then I went up to my bedroom and started playing video games I was gaming for probably an hour or two before I heard something downstairs it was the sound of glass breaking at first I thought maybe a Plate or something fell from the cabinet but it didn't really sound like that I think I was kind of in denial that it was possible somebody could have broken in I always

thought my neighborhood was so safe and nothing ever happened after a few seconds though I realized that it was a possibility especially after I heard footsteps inside I could barely hear them because they were far away but I heard just enough whoever was inside was in the kitchen area and I was on the Second floor in my bedroom then I ran to my door and locked it and then grabbed my phone I dialed 911 and the operator answered I told her somebody had broken into my house I then gave her the address and I was

told that the police would be there shortly she said that she would stay on the line with me until they got there now I was talking as quietly as I could and hiding in the back corner of of my bedroom I was underneath my desk and covered myself With a blanket as well the woman on the other end of the phone asked me if I knew where within the house the Intruder was I tried to listen to hear for the footsteps again I didn't hear anything though I honestly had no clue as to where the

person was they could have even left for all I knew for the next several minutes I heard nothing I started to feel better and was told that the police were very close by but then out of nowhere I heard noises in the Upstairs hallway it sounded like whoever was in the house had just reached the top of the stairs the footsteps walked to just outside my door and then they stopped it was like they knew I was in there my heart was racing and then whoever it was tried opening the door I'm really glad that

my door had a lock on it that's when the woman said the police were arriving I very faintly heard the sounds of cars pulling into the driveway at that point the footsteps Upstairs quickly walked away then they went back down the stairs I stayed where was though the police entered the house and actually caught the guy as he tried to leave out the back it was a bit of a scene and a bunch more police vehicles arrived my parents were called and they came home as soon as they found out about it the man that

had broken in I had never seen before he was sort of younger looking tall and thin and longer dark brown hair I'm not sure what his Intentions were or why he chose our house the police really got there in the nick of time though sometimes I still can't believe that it happened I will always feel lucky that it turned out as well as it did when I was back in high school I lived at home with my mom it was just her and I after my parents got divorced when I was younger my mom had

a pretty good job and occasionally would get to travel I remember in the Summer she Brought me with her to New York once and another time to Chicago however during the school year I wouldn't be able to to go with and had to stay home because of school during my sophomore year of high school my mom had to go to Dallas for a couple of days and I would be staying home by myself she left me with money for food and gave me some instructions on how to take care of several of our house plants

she left and the first few days went by very smoothly Then it got to Friday night I thought it was kind of cool to be on my own and have an entire house to myself on Friday night I stayed up pretty late it was probably like midnight and I was up in my bedroom watching a movie that's when I heard a knock at the front door I was terrified who on Earth would be knocking on the door at midnight it was rare that people even knocked on our door during the day there was no way

I was going to answer it and I hoped that It would just go away whoever was there knocked maybe two more times and then it stopped after a few moments I was confident that whoever was there and had been knocking had left and I unpaused the movie then probably 30 minutes later there was knocking again it was almost exactly the same as before my heart sank as soon as I heard it they knocked and then waited about 10 seconds and knocked again it sounded like they weren't going to go away unless I Answered the door

however I had no plans on doing so I quietly left my bedroom and walked over to my mom's office on the upstairs this is a room that actually had a view of outside near the front door where whoever was knocking was I crawled to the window and then peaked outside of it I saw some guy standing there and I didn't recognize him he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a hood up and I watched him knock on the door I duck down again careful so That he didn't see me he kept on knocking though I

just wanted the guy to go away who was he and what did he want I was sitting there on the floor at my mom's office thinking about the possibilities I even considered answering the door even though I didn't want to then the knocking stopped after not hearing it for a few seconds I was hoping that the guy had gone away I wanted to look and see if he was gone but I was terrified after a minute or so I mustered up the courage to look out of the window again this time I saw the man

was still there and he was looking up right at me I jumped back and ran all the way back to my bedroom shortly after getting back inside I heard the sound of glass breaking coming from somewhere downstairs I will never forget it it was probably the most scared I've ever been I closed my bedroom door but sadly it didn't have a lock on it I had no idea what to do as I was inside I heard the Guy walking downstairs it seemed like he went straight towards the stairs and then started walking up I began

to panic I had no idea what I was going to do the only thing that came to my mind was to climb out of my bedroom window but it was pretty high up from the ground I went over and opened it there was a tree close by with a large branch and as I looked at it I heard the man's footsteps coming down the hallway and headed right towards my bedroom I took a deep breath And then climbed out my window onto the tree branch I was able to sort of climbed down it and it

wiggled a little but overall seemed stable as I was going down I saw out of the corner of my eye my bedroom door opening I went faster and when I was close enough jumped down I got to the ground and I was all right whoever the guy was was now in my bedroom though and I sprinted as quickly as I could down the street I found a neighbor's house that my mom and I knew Pretty well and banged on their door like crazy thankfully they were still up and answered the door they called the police

for me and let me stay in the house when the police got there the man was gone though I called my mom as well who came back home the next day after that experience I didn't want to be home alone for a long time I live alone in a small one-bedroom house for me it's the perfect size and I've lived here for about a year but Shortly after I first moved in I had a terrifying experience I was sitting in the living room one night and watching TV I was very comfortable on my couch and

I think it was about 10:30 at night out of nowhere I started to hear a noise coming from the other end of the house it was kind of quiet sort of sounded like it was coming from inside the wall immediately I started to fear what I thought was the worst at the time which Is that there would be mice in my house but I would eventually find out that it was something different I turned the volume down on my TV to to listen closely eventually I did hear the noise again I just couldn't quite tell

what it was so I walked over to where I was hearing it I went through the end of the living room towards the pantry and then the attached garage I realized that's where the noise was coming from could hear somebody walking around in there I Was a little scared but I opened my garage door and looked around it was a onecar garage and really dark in there I turned on the light which wasn't that bright but I could now see but I didn't see anybody at all I looked all around and there was nothing there

wasn't really a whole lot of space but the longer I had the door open and was looking around the more freaked out I was feeling I shut the door and then went back inside I listened for more Noise and just hoped whoever was in there would leave and not try to go in the house as I was inside I kept listening for a while but I didn't hear anything else now so I thought maybe looking in the garage had scared off whoever was there eventually I was able to go back to watching TV and later

got got tired and went to sleep the next morning when I woke up I had forgotten all about what happened the previous night I left my room and walked into the Kitchen but froze as I did I noticed that my front door to the house was wide open I walked over to the garage door and saw that that was open as well this was extremely creepy to me because obviously I had closed and locked them the night before I looked all around the house everywhere but nobody was there somebody had been in my house the

previous night I don't know who they were or how they got in but I'm just glad they left since then I haven't had Any problems one time I got back from work a little bit later at night I lived alone in an apartment on the second floor during this time after getting back home I changed and then went in into the living room I was sitting on the couch eating when I heard this loud noise coming from next door it sounded like the next door neighbor was banging on the wall it was extremely loud and

went on for almost a minute I was really Confused when I heard this I wasn't making any loud noises or anything the TV was on but the volume was really not that high at all but yet the neighbor was pounding on the wall as if I was being really noisy and he wanted me to be quiet I didn't really know why else he would be banging on the wall like that and even if he was bothered by the TV I didn't even think it was loud enough for my neighbor to be able to hear it

I wasn't hearing any other loud Noises from anywhere else just to be sure though I muted the television for a short time everything was quiet but then the loud banging on the wall started up again I really had no idea why my neighbor would be doing this I wasn't aware of making them angry or anything and to be honest I didn't even know who my next door neighbor was on that side I never really saw them I'd been living in my apartment for like 6 months but I had never met or seen hardly any of

my Neighbors the banging stopped after a short time I didn't know what to make of this but for the next couple of minutes everything was quiet so I just kind of moved on from that except about 5 minutes later there was suddenly a loud knocking coming from my front door it seemed as though whoever had been B on my wall had now moved to my front door after it continued for about 30 straight seconds I decided to get up I walked over to the door and when I approached The banging stopped I looked through my

peephole to the other side but nobody was there whoever had been knocking had now left and I had no idea who it was I was just assuming that it was my next door neighbor but I didn't even know what they looked like I considered going over there and asking them what the deal was was but I decided not to based on how hard they were pounding on the walls and door I just had a bad feeling about it so instead I just moved on again and Tried to ignore it I was hoping that there would

be no more banging on my walls or door that night and luckily there wasn't so the next day when I was leaving for work I walked out of my apartment and went down the hallway there was an elevator and a set of stairs right next to it now I was always in the habit of just taking taking the stairs and I very rarely use the elevator so after walking down the hallway I had passed by my next door Neighbor's door a moment later I heard the door open this was the same neighbor who had seemingly

been banging on the walls in my door last night I remembered the previous night but I just kept walking when I made it to the stairs and started to go down I heard whoever it was walking behind me the stairs turned and I went around the corner and glanced up I saw a man walking down the stairs but I did not directly look at him but apparently that was the guy who lived Next to me after walking down the stairs I went through the lobby and then left out the front door the guy that was

walking behind me did exactly the same thing he followed me out the door and was walking behind me as I was on the sidewalk I parked in the large parking lot that was at the complex after getting to my vehicle I got inside I then saw the guy kind of standing there and looking in my Direction he was about 50 ft away and I didn't know what his Deal was he just stood there as I drove off and went to work I had never seen that guy before but I guessed that was my next door

neighbor so I worked that day and when I arrived home afterwards it was a little bit later at night once again by the time I arrived back I think that it was about 10:00 so I went inside of my apartment building and then walked up the stairs when I made it to the top I walked down the hallway way towards my door right after I passed by my next Door neighbor's door I heard it opening again I just had a bad feeling and I walked faster to get to my door I heard his footsteps enter

the hallway when I arrived at my front door I quickly unlocked it and opened it up as I was closing the door behind me I heard the footsteps still approaching I closed and locked my door and probably 5 seconds later my neighbor actually tried opening it then there was once again more really loud banging coming from the other side Of it I really couldn't believe this guy I looked out and saw him relentlessly pounding at my front door I moved away from it then and was about to call the police I went and got my

phone but then he stopped at that point I put the phone down I didn't want to get in some war with my nextd door neighbor clearly he had some problems with me and he had tried entering my apartment but I also didn't know if maybe it was just a misunderstanding Landing or something I Decided that if I heard any more banging on the door or walls or anything I was going to go over and give him a piece of my mind and hopefully he wasn't dangerous but after that nothing else happened so I would say

about a week later one day I saw another neighbor in the hallway I went over and introduced myself to her I had seen her a couple of times before and knew that she lived here I told her about what happened and asked her if she knew the guy who lived Next to me she told told me that nobody lived there and the apartment had been vacant for a while this was crazy to hear I then went to the offices of the apartment complex and asked one of the agents they confirmed that the unit next to

mine was vacant and had been for several weeks my mind was blown after hearing that I never saw that guy again or heard anything else I don't live there anymore but I still get the creeps thinking back to that This scary situation happened to me many summers ago at the time I was living in low-income housing funded by the government I had just graduated college and still did not have much money so I was able to qualify for the small two-story living space which I was in the way the low-income housing was set up there

were many units in a row sort of like a motel Style and I shared a wall with the neighbor to both my right and my left this Particular night I had gotten off of work at 11: p.m i got home made something quick to eat and then got in the shower to get ready for bed I had only been in the shower for about 5 minutes when I heard banging at my front door downstairs I hurriedly dried off and threw on some clothes then I cautiously went downstairs and approached the door as I rounded the

corner I was hit with a bright light and told to put my hands up As a policeman pointed a gun directly towards me through the glass window on the door terrified I threw my hands up and followed their orders as they told me to open the door after they got inside the officers had to settle me down a bit from the shock I had seeing a gun pointed at me through the door window they went on to explain to me that they were looking for someone who was suspected in a murder the police had received

a call from a witness that the Person had been seen attempting to enter units in my stretch of building and the witness had directed the police towards my place as one of the places that the suspect had attempted to enter the police requested to search my unit but I was exhausted at this point and ready for bed I assured them that I had been home for over an hour now and everything was fine in my unit the police apologized for the scare and moved on to check the other units in my area it was After

midnight by now and after the police encounter I was tired and ready for bed I fell asleep quickly that night but then woke up in the middle of the night for what I thought at first was random I checked my phone and saw that it was close to 3:30 a.m as I was in bed about to drift back to sleep I heard some odd noises coming from the bedroom across the hall when I had first moved into this unit I had a roommate but they had moved out a couple of months prior So I mostly

used their bedroom for storage purposes I went out into the Hall to check it out because the noise noises although quiet were continuing the walls were thin so sometimes you could hear stuff the neighbors were doing through the walls I had to pee anyways so I went into the hallway I still couldn't tell if the noises were coming from inside the closed door of the spare bedroom or the neighbor's wall which was shared with that bedroom I Stood right outside of my bedroom door and said hello in my normal voice the noises stopped immediately persuading

me that there was indeed someone or something in that spare bedroom remembering the whole encounter previously with police I frantically went back into my room and locked the door then I immediately dialed 911 while I was on the phone with the police I heard the bedroom door get ripped open and someone Sprint down the Stairs and out the back door I never heard of the police ended up finding the suspect but it was scary to think that I had spent the night with a potential murderer in my place the next morning I saw that the

screen had been cut open in one of my back windows which is how the suspect would have entered my unit every place that I've lived in since I always double check that my windows are locked before I leave my best guess is that the suspect was going to wait out the night In that bedroom and leave after I left for work the next day but I will never know of their true intentions or what they had been doing in the middle of the night which was the reason for the odd noises story happened when I

was a freshman in high school back then I used to ride to school every day on the bus and then take it home I would usually be home by myself for a few hours until my parents Got home from work one day I got dropped off the same as always and walked to my house I got to the front door and put the key in only to realize that it was already unlocked I found this strange because it was usually always locked when I got home we lived in a decently busy area so we were

always sure to lock our doors as a high school kid I got a little concerned from seeing this but I Figured one of my parents just forgot to lock it I went inside when I did I got a slightly bad feeling it was very quiet and I slowly looked around the room everything looked normal and in place I then thought I heard a noise of someone walking upstairs but it was really hard to tell gave me a shiver down my my spine and I paused to listen more closely when I did I heard no more

Noises the noises that I had heard were so brief and quiet that I figured I had to be just paranoid I locked the doors and went into the kitchen I made some pizza rolls and then went up to my room which was upstairs and watched some YouTube videos in my bed after a few minutes of doing that I got really tired and fell asleep I woke up about 30 minutes later when I did I went back to watch watching YouTube until I heard the sound of my parents getting home a short time later I then

went downstairs and helped them unpack groceries which they had gotten I was talking to my mom when I heard my dad shout from upstairs he came down and said that my parents' bedroom was all messed up as if someone had torn through it we all went upstairs to find the room was a complete mess it was then that I remembered everything and told my parents about the Door being left unlocked they told me when they got home that I had left the door unlocked as well but I know I had locked it the police were

called and came over to search the house nobody was found but my parents did have several valuables stolen I realized that I most likely was home with the Intruder in the house and had taken a nap with them probably in the next room it gave me the chills and I'm very Lucky that I didn't decide to look in my parents' room about 10 years ago when I was 12 years old my family took a trip out east to visit some other family that lived out there my aunt and uncle offered us to stay at their

place because it was decently big and it was just the two of them living there after all of their kids had moved out it was an old house in a nice little neighborhood and it had a Woods in the Backyard after we arrived there there were two empty bedrooms my parents got the larger one and I took the smaller one I remember we walked around the city the first day and met up with some other family then we went back to their house the next night my parents aunt and uncle were all invited with a

few people to dinner when I realized I would be the only kid at the dinner they told me I could stay home for the few Hours I was happy with this because I would rather play on my Xbox than be bored with a bunch of adults there was a TV in my room which was a pretty nice one and after they left I started playing Call of Duty about 20 minutes in I heard a car door shut which sounded like it was coming from the driveway I went over and looked out my second floor window

down to the driveway the sun was setting so it was Kind of hard to see but I saw a car parked on the side of the street between my aunt and uncle's house and the neighbors next door a man had gotten out of the car and started walking up the driveway I didn't recognize him but I figured he was some sort of door to door salesman I was definitely not going to answer the door but I continued to watch him all the way until he arrived at the front door but when the man got to

the front Door he didn't knock he appeared to just look inside and then walked around the side of the house towards the back suddenly I got a bad feeling why would this man want to go into the backyard the only details I could really make out about him is that he was wearing a black jacket and jeans with a camouflage baseball cap I went out of the room and into the bathroom across the hall which had a little window in it overlooking the Backyard I looked around for the man and then I saw him he

was walking fairly close to the house and went to the back door I saw him look inside of it and then appeared to try the handle to my surprise I saw the door open and the man walk right inside I think I went into shock for a couple of seconds when I saw this because I really didn't think the door would be left unlocked I heard noise coming from Downstairs the sound of the man coming inside I didn't have a cell phone at the time and the only house phone I knew of was downstairs so

I ran back into my bedroom and hid under my bed I hoped the man wouldn't come upstairs and would just leave I could sort of hear noises from downstairs of the man moving around he seemed to be walking around near the kitchen in the living room then I heard him start to walk up the stairs this Scared me more than anything he got up the stairs and walked down the hall I heard him open a door nearby and then the door next to my room finally my door got open I held my breath as it

did but as quickly as it opened it was shut I didn't know if the man was inside my room or outside because I was facing the wall until finally I heard the door to my uncle's bedroom open the man appeared to stay in there for a while and then walked back down the hallway and Downstairs again I kept hiding under the bed and hoped he wouldn't come back upstairs I was feeling slightly relieved until I heard the footsteps come back up the stairs once again they seemingly stopped directly in front of the bedroom door that

that I was in then came one of the scariest moments of my life I heard the man on the other side of the door say I know you're in there and under the bed then the man told me to come out in a very creepy way I didn't move however Probably because I was Frozen with fear I was thinking of what I could possibly do when I Heard a Voice come from downstairs it was the voice of another man and he was yelling I heard him say hey and what's going on I heard the man

upstairs then walk back down to the base of the stairs and down them I stayed in hiding I heard some yelling come from downstairs and then heard the voice of the second man yell he had called the Police about 10 minutes later of me shaking under the bed I heard sirens and the police entered the house I came out and talked to a lady police officer about what happened the man that had broken in had left but the other man had stayed he turned out to be the next door neighbor my parents arrived about 20

minutes later I was told that the next door neighbor had seen the suspicious man enter the house and went inside to Investigate when he saw that the man had broken in he yelled at him the man that had broken into the house used to work for my uncle and had been fired about a year earlier it was truly a miracle that the neighbor came in the house when he did because he possibly saved my life this happened about 10 years ago I was I think about 12 or 13 at the time one night on a

Friday after I got home from school my parents told me they Were're going to dinner with some friends that meant I would be home alone for the night I was the only child and my parents would occasionally leave me alone I always always enjoyed it because I felt cool and grown up to have the whole house to myself I asked my parents if I could have my friend Ryan over and he came over a little bit later we played some basketball and then my parents left me and Ryan played some video games for a Few

hours after that and then he left to go home I stayed in my room playing Madden on my PlayStation about 20 minutes later I thought I heard a noise coming from downstairs it was now around 9:00 p.m p.m so I assumed it was my parents and I thought nothing of it however not too long after that I got a call from my mom on the phone and she told me that they wouldn't be home for about another hour still I had forgotten about the Noise at that point and I kept playing video games that is

until out of the corner of my eye I was sure I saw somebody walk past my bedroom and down the hall I had my bedroom door open only about a foot or two but I was sure I had seen somebody walk by I tried to convince myself that it was just our cat or something but suddenly I got really creeped out and I wasn't feeling safe in my bedroom anymore I wanted to get out of the house But I was afraid of what I had seen I waited in silence to see if I could hear

anything else but there was no noise then I heard the floor Creak at the end of the hall past my bedroom my door didn't have a lock on it and was on the second floor so I felt if I made a run for it I would be able to safely get downstairs and outside I just didn't know who or what was at the end of my hallway I was too scared to make any Noise or look down the hall I just sat there in my chair staring at the crack in my door to see if

whoever was there would walk by again after a couple of minutes I finally got enough courage to walk over to the door I did it as quietly as possible and then stood next to the door and listened I didn't hear anything so I decided that on the count of three I would quickly walk out of my room and Down the stairs as quietly as possible and then go out of my house I took a deep breath and quickly left my room but as I did I guessed that my curiosity got the better of me and

I looked to the end of the hallway I saw a dirty woman with really messy hair crouched down against the wall with her hands over her face as soon as she saw me she started to scream I was more than freaked out and I ran as fast as I could down the stairs and out the front door as I did I heard Her screaming getting louder and louder when I got outside I immediately took out my phone and called my parents they told me to call the police so I did and then I ran to

Ryan's house which was about 5 minutes away my parents picked me up from Ryan's and then we all went back to my house where we saw multiple police cars with flashing lights as well as an ambulance I had to talk to the police and my parents did for a while too I guess when Ryan left out the front door he left it open and a lady that was messed up on drugs walked right in it was something I will never forget in the fall of 2018 I was going into my junior year of college after

living in the dorms for the first 2 years I decided to rent a house with a few of my friends we attended a very large and old college and this house was sort of rund down and very old but it was close to the campus And cheap so we were more than happy to rent it there was going to be four of us living there total and when we first got the place we all moved some furniture in and then went back home when August came around I was the first one to move back into

the house for the school year and the others were going to move in the next week I moved the rest of my stuff in then had the the whole place to myself For a few days it was a house with two floors and a basement and for the most part was a typical rundown old College house the first night when I got back I was too tired to really do anything and just went to bed the next day I mostly just played video games but at night I decided to go all around the house and

make sure everything was good because none of us Had been there for a couple of months I went upstairs and on the main floor and then went down into the basement the basement was unfinished and we really didn't have a plan on using it for anything it had hardly any lighting at all and was just overall not a very livable space when I got down there I turned on a light and saw what appeared to be something moving from about 20 ft away I didn't get a good look at it at all as to what

it Was I was afraid it could possibly be a rat so I took out my flashlight on my phone and looked around I went all around the basement slowly but didn't see anything at all but when I was on the wall next to the stairs I heard the sound of something falling I looked over and saw an empty box that had fallen over it was a rather large box and I didn't understand how this could happen it gave me the chills and without Hesitating I ran back for the stairs and all the way up once

I got upstairs I shut the door and stood there I wasn't sure what to do do I told myself I was 20 years old and I shouldn't be afraid of this I didn't know if there was some sort of animal downstairs or worse yet a person I decided to text my friends who would live there about the situation as I got out my phone I heard the sound of a woman screaming coming From downstairs it sounded extremely disturbing I literally ran all the way upstairs to my bedroom and then called the police I told them

what I had heard and what I had seen and they said they would send somebody over right away I sat in my bedroom with the door locked sitting on my bed as I did I heard a door open from downstairs and then another door slamed Shut violently I slowly went out of my room to look around and see if anything was down there but I didn't see anything at all the police arrived a few minutes later they came in and searched the entire house but couldn't find anybody at all we all assumed whoever it was

left I just don't know how they got in there who it was and to know that I lived there for a whole day with somebody possibly living in the basement Really creeps me out this story happened a long time ago when I was 10 I don't remember all the details but I know that on this night I was left home alone I was not left alone all that much as a child at that age it had to be one of the first times but I believe that i' had been left alone a few times prior

my parents usually wouldn't leave me home alone for more than a few hours at most I'm an only child and we lived in a two-story house With all the bedrooms being upstairs so at this time I believe it was the late afternoon or the early evening I was inside of my bedroom and my parents had been gone for a while I just remember that I heard a knock on the front door we occasionally had people knocking on the door and usually it was just somebody trying to sell us stuff or whatever when I got downstairs

and into the kitchen I looked at the front door I remember seeing a man standing there and We made eye contact for a second he was looking at me through the window and the guy was wearing a black jacket and jeans and he seemed pretty average looking I walked over to the door and answered it I was curious as to who he was and I didn't think anything could go wrong I'm sure that at some point my parents had told me not to talk to people I don't know or answer the door for them I

really can't remember it though and I guess I just didn't know any better the Man said hi to me and asked me if my parents were home I told him no and the man then asked to come inside I remember asking him why and he said that his car broke down and he needed to make a phone call I believed him and I said that he could come in to use the phone when I opened up the door he walked in and into the kitchen our phone was hanging on the wall in the kitchen and

I pointed it out to him although I remember when he entered the house I had a bad feeling About it I'm not really sure why I did at the time but I just did the man picked up the phone and started to dial a number I stood there inside the kitchen with him about 10 ft away the next thing I remember is the guy messing around with the phone and then saying that nobody was answering he then hung up the phone but did not leave I expected him to make the call and leave and if

nobody answered it then too bad but he kept standing there in the Kitchen then I remember he started to walk out of the kitchen towards the living room in the back of the house I was wondering where he was going and then right as he was walking into the other room I heard my parents pulling into the driveway when they did the man suddenly turned and started running he sprinted past me and ran for the front door he then opened it up and bolted out the door into our yard after sprinting through our yard he

cut through the Neighbor's front yard and then went onto the street after that he went out of sight our driveway was at the opposite side of the house that he ran my parents parked their car and soon got out and walked up to me asking me what was going on they said they saw a guy running through the yard and asked me if I was okay and what had happened I told them the story and they said that I never should have let the man inside I learned a valuable Lesson that day at that age

I should have known better but I didn't I feel really lucky that my parents got home when they did I'm not sure if that man was planning to Rob our house or what luckily I never saw him again after that something weird happened to me last week I was having a movie night by myself in my apartment I live alone and on the second floor my apartment building is fairly new and I really like it the place I live in has one bedroom One bathroom a living room and a kitchen I was was on my

second movie of the night and the time was about midnight it was Saturday so I didn't have work or anything the next morning my apartment happened to be on the far end of the hallway and it was right next to the stairs that people would occasionally use the elevator was in the center of the hallway which is much more common for people to use I heard the door to the stairs open and then close it Sounded like somebody was walking by down the hallway and I didn't think anything of it but I realized soon that

it sounded like more than one person maybe almost 10 I thought it was a little weird but expected them all to pass by it seemed like they all stopped right outside of my doorway though maybe they were going to the place across the hall from me the apartment across the hall though was not lined up with my door but was a little ways down I just Got curious for some reason so I paused the movie and got up I walked over to the door and looked out the people what I saw shocked me there was

like 10 guys standing in the hallway right outside my apartment and they were all facing my door I was instantly creeped out I didn't know who any of these guys were and they were all wearing all black and had hoods on so I couldn't see much of their faces this was really bizarre to say the least Nobody had knocked on my door though and it didn't seem as though they were going to they were just standing there I considered for only a second opening the door and asking what was going on but I thought better

of it I quickly walked away and decided to just ignore them still I couldn't feel comfortable as long as as they were all standing there I was hoping and sort of expecting them all to move along and to keep walking away down the hallway I listened for Them to move away but they didn't I waited for a little longer before unpausing the movie but I still didn't hear them walking away the guys had to all still be there I tried to distract myself by watching the film but in doing so I turned the volume down

significantly I didn't want the people outside to hear or know that I was home as the movie played though I still couldn't focus it wasn't helping to distract me from the strange man Standing outside my door then I heard what I was sure sounded like my door knob turning it was very quiet and the only reason I had heard it was because number one I was already thinking about the guys at the door and number two my TV volume was now very quiet this made me feel really creeped out even more than I already was

I also started to feel like possibly I was in danger I stayed where I was not sure of what to do for the next probably 10 minutes I Didn't hear any other noises or anything I got up to see if the men were gone and I was really hoping that they were when I got to the door and looked out though they were all still there I ran back as quietly as possible I sat back down on my couch and had no clue what to do in this situation I didn't think I could call the

police for this they were just standing in my hallway yes I thought they tried opening my door but it's not like they were trying over and over or Banging on the door looking back I probably should have but I was just hoping I wouldn't have to after maybe 5 more minutes or so I went back to look again this time when I looked out they were all gone I couldn't believe it I hadn't even heard them walking away or anything I was so paranoid that I kept looking back out my peephole every 10 minutes or

so luckily I didn't see them but before going to bed I was so worried about it that I left my apartment and Walked the hallways just making sure that the men were gone I went throughout the whole entire building just about without seeing them after that I was finally able to go to bed by now it was past 2:00 in the morning and I was really tired I fell asleep pretty quickly however at some point I was woken up in the night I just remember waking up to the sounds of somebody knocking on my front

door they knocked about two times after I woke up I knew it was probably the same guys and I was terrified I stayed in my bed and didn't even bothered to get up what could I do then there was just silence I was afraid they would break break in or something I couldn't believe that they were back if that's in fact who was at the door I really didn't want to get up and check though I laid there in my bed for the longest time it was probably about 30 minutes or so I finally looked

at the clock and saw that It was almost 4:00 a.m then I got up and checked the door nobody was outside in the hallway though whoever had knocked was gone I went back to sleep after that and heard nothing more since then everything's been fine this happened when I was home alone as a kid it was the summertime 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 time 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 off into 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 5 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 Bas 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 unfortunately 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 walk 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 1:00 a.m 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 l 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 just last year I live Al alone in a house with two floors and three bedrooms total one of the bedrooms I use as a guest room and the other as my home office so one night I got home from work it was maybe like 700 p.m or so I would say after arriving back I went inside and then started to cook some

food the kitchen was at the back center of my house I listened to the radio as I was cooking and it took me maybe 30 minutes when I was done I decided to go up upstairs and change and Then go back down to eat so I walked upstairs and was going to my bedroom but I noticed that the door to the guest bedroom was closed I always left the doors open and I didn't recall closing it this was really strange to me so I went over and opened up the door and took a step inside

the lights were off but before I could reach the light switch I saw something there was a woman standing in the back side of the room and looking at me it was really dark in There so I didn't get a good look at her at all but after about a second she started to charge at me I stepped back and closed the door and then ran back down the hallway when I made it to the stairs I heard the woman opening the bedroom door I didn't have any time to think and guess why there was

a random woman in my house and why she was now chasing after me after going down the stairs I really wasn't thinking at all I don't know why but I ran to the door Next to it which led to the basement then I went in there and closed the door behind me I was standing at the top of the stairs and it was completely dark down there and I guess I thought that it would be a good hiding place when I was there I heard the woman go down the stairs but then she seemed to

turn and go in another Direction instead of heading towards the basement I started to feel just slightly better I took out my phone to call the police and when I Did it lit up the surrounding area of where I was I was standing at the top of the stairs still and I saw that there appeared to be a man standing in the basement at the bottom of the stairs and he was walking towards me when I saw this I opened the door back up and left the basement then I just ran for the front door

I honestly don't know where the woman was but thankfully I did not see her I left the house and ran for my car once there I got inside and called The police I then drove away from my house and did not come back until the cops were there when the police got there they went inside my house and were able to locate both the woman and the man the crime couple was arrested I'm not sure how but they were able to get inside of my house there was no sign of a Breakin so I never

found out where they entered maybe I left a door unlocked but I really don't know apparently they both entered together Though and for some reason the woman hid upstairs and the man hid downstairs I'm not sure if I surprised them by getting home or what I think they were planning on robbing me that was by far the scariest moment of my life though I still live in the house but since then I've taken just about every security measure there is and hopefully nothing like that ever happens again in high school I would earn some extra

money over the Summers by house Sitting my aunt and uncle were fairly Rich so they took a lot of vacations they had gone away on a short weekend trip so I was housesitting for them the entire weekend my aunt and uncle owned a couple of cats so they always requested that I stay overnight and I didn't mind it anyway since they had a really nice house this particular Saturday night it was my friend Tyler's birthday our friend group went out for dinner that evening and we all wanted to Hang out afterwards I offered up my

aunt and uncle's house as a place that we could hang out the rest of the night since many people wanted to drink and party a bit and we couldn't do it at anybody else's house due to their parents being home it was a pretty normal night and we played many card games and drinking games together and enjoyed celebrating Tyler's birthday we wrapped up close to 2:00 a.m and everybody began leaving there were Enough people who stayed sober so everyone had a ride home and nobody needed to crash at my aunt and uncle's couch for the

night I said goodbye to everybody and then headed back into the kitchen to clean up some of the cans and glasses it felt like it had been barely 3 or 4 minutes since everybody had left that the doorbell rang I assumed that one of my friends had forgotten something important at the house so I went to answer the door without thinking Much about it I opened the door and was surprised to see nobody there I was pretty drunk and didn't think too much of it thinking my friends were playing a prank on me before leaving

into the night Darkness I yelled real funny guys go home home I went back inside and then went to sleep on the couch later that night I was woken up to the sound of the doorbell being repeatedly rang about four or five times in a row very quickly I didn't know what the time was but I Was pretty angry at being woken up and I had a feeling that it most likely wasn't my friends ringing the doorbell I didn't open the door this time but peaked out the front window through the curtains my aunt and

uncle's house was in a nicer part of town where there was a lot of space for yards and not that many street lights I couldn't see anybody through the window because of how dark it was I didn't call the cops because there was a possibility that it could have been my Friends so I figured i' better not call I went back to sleep and didn't have any more problems for the rest of the night the next morning I texted my group chat of my friends and asked them if they had played a prank on me

last night with ringing the doorbell they all swore that they had not as they all went home and went to bed after I had cleaned up the rest of the mess from the night before before I opened the front door to leave and saw a piece of paper taped down to The door the note said if you want a really fun night leave the door unlocked next time to me the whole situation seemed more like a weird messed up prank by someone but either way it was creepy I told my aunt and uncle about the

night once they returned and also asked not to stay overnight when I house it for them in the future they ended up installing a ring doorbell camera after that and have had no problems since that night but I still feel feel uneasy sometimes if I'm Housesitting for them and I'm there while it's dark out was a kid my parents used to go out of town for business all the time I used to have to stay at my aunt's house when they were gone but when I turned 13 my parents finally trusted me enough to stay

home by myself I was excited for this because I felt like I was being an adult living by myself for 3 days my parents went over everything I needed and told me to lock All the doors and windows when my parents left I mainly watched TV and played video games it was a Friday night so I stayed up pretty late and at about 2:00 in the morning I finally got sleepy and decided to go to bed I went around the house making sure every window and door was locked and then all the windows with blinds

and shades I covered then I got ready for bed and turned out all the lights I got in bed closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep I was laying there for maybe 2 or 3 minutes when I heard the sound of a car slowly driving down our street we lived in a very quiet neighborhood and we were at the end of a street so we didn't get much traffic often I kept my eyes closed until I heard the car seemingly stop directly in front of our house I heard the engine idling but Didn't hear

the sound of a door opening or anything after about a minute of this I got curious so I carefully so I carefully raised my blinds and looked out I could see there was a pickup truck parked right in front of our mailbox just sitting there with the engine running I didn't recognize the truck and I stayed watching it for a little while finally I saw the door open and a man get Out he walked around the truck towards my yard our yard was pretty big in fact it was about 5 acres and most of it

was just wood that went from the side of our house all the way to the back and beyond our property the man paced around a little bit halfway in the street and halfway in our driveway he seemed to be looking around and then out of nowhere he just walked into the side of my yard and into The woods I started freaking out inside and wanted to call my parents but with it being nearly 3:00 in the morning I knew they would be sleeping I considered the police but I also thought maybe the man had a

logical explanation I feared the man was going to try to break into our house or something though I got up and once again checked every door and window to make sure that it was locked I then turned on every light in The house to make it look like there were people home after that I went back up to my room and locked the door I peaked out of the window again when I did after just about 30 seconds I heard noises coming from the woods I was very careful to not let myself be seen from

the window I saw the man come out of the woods he jogged towards his truck and got inside then the truck sped off rather fast so fast In fact that I heard skidm marks as it drove away I was left with many questions it took me a long time to fall asleep and the rest of the weekend I was on edge I'm happy to say that the man never came back but I still wonder to this day what he was doing story took place in December of last year my parents took my sisters to my

aunt's house about 30 minutes away from mine and I didn't want to go so my Parents left me home alone with my dog it was around 8:30 p.m and in the winter time so it was already Pitch Black by now I was in the middle of playing a game on my TV in my room when I heard a noise this was unusual but being the 15-year-old that I was I decided not to pay any attention to it a few minutes later though I heard another noise but it sounded closer this time I decided to pause

my Game and go investigate a bit I did a full sweep of the house and found nothing this sort of creeped me out but there wasn't much I could do so I just went back and kept playing some time went by and I recall the time being around 10:20 p.m my dog had come up to me and started getting all excited and jumping around for a bit this was her way of saying that she needed to go to the bathroom which meant I had to let her outside and then let Her back inside when she

was done I was skeptical about this but I hesitantly took her out to the back of the house to go and let her out I was about to open the back door when I suddenly got this fearful urge to go and look out the window first I cautiously looked out the window making sure to only move the blinds by centimet I saw nothing at first but when I looked at the back of my yard what I saw made my blood turn to Ice it was a man in his late 30s with a scruffy beard and

long disgusting hair and long disgusting hair looking right at me I took my dog locked the door ran upstairs and went into the bathroom then I lock locked the door there I called my parents and they were home in 20 minutes the cops were called but they never found the guy I still wonder to this day what would have happened if I didn't look out the window first story of the first time I ever Remember being left home alone I'm guessing I was 8 or 9 years old or so I had two older siblings so

usually when my parents went somewhere they would stay home with me but finally one day my parents were both at work and my sisters left to go to a friend's house so I was home alone for the first time in my life it was a strange feeling being all alone in our house I remember I was a little scared so I even went to all the windows and shut them and made sure all of our Doors were locked I knew nothing would happen but still I did it to make myself feel safer I I remember

I went into the living room and turned on the TV and started watching I was having a relaxing afternoon until I heard a knock on our front door I was a very shy kid and we lived in an area that was rare to get people at our front door because our house was the only house at the end of a quiet Culdesac I didn't know why anybody would be knocking at our front door I wanted to go see who it was but I had no intentions of answering it unless I knew the person so I

quietly went to a window of a nearby by room and peaked out of it I slowly looked out and ducked down so whoever it was couldn't see me I saw that it was an old lady knocking on our front door but I didn't recognize her at all she had white hair and was wearing a hat and also a Jacket I decided to wait until she left before I went back to watching TV she knocked and then waited a few seconds and then knocked again she continued this for several minutes it felt like a long time

and I had no idea what she could possibly want then she walked away but instead of walking back down the driveway she went around the side to the back of the house now I was feeling a little bit more concerned I walked to a window at the Back of the house and again was very careful not to be seen or heard she started knocking on the back door of the house this time she continued this for several minutes and then walked back to the front of the house when I didn't answer I was so relieved

when I finally saw her start to walk down my driveway to the street I saw a car parked on the side of the street kind of hidden behind a tree and the old lady walked to it I kept watching her as she opened the Passenger's door of the car and got in I could see in her window from this angle but as she sat in the passenger seat I saw her remove her hat and then reached for the top of her head and removed a mask to reveal that it was not an old lady but

a man my jaw dropped when I saw this I saw the person throw the mask and hat into the back seat and then the car drove away I may never know why a man Pretending to be an old lady came knocking on my door but it gives me the creeps to think about it this happened when I was a kid ironically it was the first time I was ever left home alone I remember the year was 20 0 6 I lived with my parents and older sister our house was in a pretty normal neighborhood there

were a bunch of houses on our street and The Yards were decent size but not that big the street Was usually pretty quiet mostly only people who lived there would drive down on this night my sister was at her best friend's house and my parents were going to a movie with friends I didn't have anything going on so I was left home alone normally my older sister would be left home with me but not tonight I was was a little bit nervous to be honest because I was afraid of the basement and really shy in

general but overall I didn't think it was that big of a deal My parents were only going to be gone for maybe 3 hours our house was pretty average and I planed to just hang out in the living room the whole time when my parents left everything went well for the first hour or so I was sitting on the couch channel surfing when there was a knock at the front door suddenly instantly my heart started pounding I would never answer the door by myself and I didn't know who could be there also it was like

8:00 at night and Dark out I stayed where I was and after a 10-second pause or so whoever was there knocked again I was too scared to even get up and look out the window to see who was there our blinds were all closed in the living room which I had done myself after my parents left this is the exact kind of situation that I was afraid of the person knocked again they seemed like they really wanted somebody to answer the door I just wanted them to leave leave though after Knocking one more time finally

it seemed to stop for good I was glad that they stopped and now finally I decided to go look out the window I got up and looked out but saw nobody there the front step as well as the driveway were empty and I didn't see anybody in the street either I felt a little better after this and then returned to what I was doing I had no idea who had been knocking or why but all that mattered to me was that they were now gone for the next 20 minutes or So I stayed in the

living room on the couch then I heard what sounded like something hitting up against the back window of the house it seemed weird to me I heard the noise for probably like 30 seconds I decided to get up and see what it was when I walked over to the kitchen I saw the window where the noise was coming from and at first saw nothing then when I got closer I saw there was a man right on the other side in our backyard I turned on the light and the Guy ducked down out of my view

I ran away after I saw him I went all the all the way to my bedroom and got into my bed when I got there I covered myself with blankets and plugged my ears I couldn't take it anymore and I didn't want to know what was happening I remained there for probably another hour too scared to move I didn't hear anything and didn't allow myself to hear anything either for all I knew our house could be getting robbed finally when I Was able to feel well enough to take the blankets off everything seemed fine I

didn't hear anything from inside the house just minutes later my parents got home when they were inside I went to see them everything in the house was fine and there was no sign of the man anywhere the windows he had been at were still closed and not broken or anything I told my parents about it and they checked all around the house as well as outside there was no sign of the guy Though I'm guessing that after the man saw me he ran away and didn't come back I think he was trying to break in

though quite possibly he knocked to see if anybody was home and when there was no answer he figured the house was was empty after this experience I didn't want to stay home by myself for a long time this happened back when I was in college during the Summers I lived 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 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 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 of 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 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 I'm 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'm a 29-year-old female and I live with my husband in a house our neighborhood is pretty standard for the most part and this happened about a year and a half ago I worked pretty normal hours then but my husband's hours are

more random on this night I recall that he was working late it was probably some time after 8:00 p.m and I remember that I was in the living room I was FaceTiming my sister and young nephew the three of us Were talking until her son had to go to bed and then I hung up at that point I recall looking out the front window window and noticing a car is starting to pull into our driveway a couple of things struck me as odd about this though for one it was not my husband's vehicle and he

wasn't supposed to be home yet and for two the vehicle's lights were off as it entered the driveway now our driveway is somewhat long and goes up to the garage The garage is out of sight of the house though because it connects to it so the car ended up slowing down and then just barely going out of my sight and parking I kept watching and was now listening as well but I didn't hear anybody getting out or anything I called my husband and let him know what was going on I was hoping that maybe this

was one of his friends or something but he had no clue as to who that would be and said that he would leave work as soon as possible After hanging up with him I wasn't really sure what to do I then walked over to the dining room which had a window that looked out to the backyard it was very dark back there as well but when I looked I saw what appeared to be a man walking out from behind the garage and into the backyard when I saw this I left the room and dialed 911

I told the operator my address and told them the situation of what was going on I was told that police were on the way After that I was walking through the living room when I suddenly heard the sound of glass breaking it sounded like the dining room window was being smashed I ran the rest of the way to the bedroom and the and closed the door behind me and locked it I moved into the bedroom closet and shut the door there as well now that I was there I really couldn't hear Too Much several minutes

went by and I thought that I was in the clear but then I heard Footsteps in the Hallway when that happened I held my breath the man got closer and closer and didn't go into any other rooms it seemed as though he was heading straight for the bedroom that I was in he then tried opening the door which was locked when it didn't open there was a very loud bang at the door perhaps the man was trying to break the door down by hitting it with something then after another loud bang I heard police sirens

in the distance this caused the man to move Away from the door and go back down the hallway within a minute police were out front of the house I didn't hear much more until I was sure that the cops were there then I left the bedroom and went out into the hallway the police had found the man leaving through the backyard and luckily he was caught the man had in fact broken the glass to the dining room but nothing in the house was really messed up other than the window I'm not sure what the guy's

plan was but I'm really grateful that the police got there when they did my husband and I have been living at this house for about 5 years now we lived in a fairly large town but we lived on the edge of town so we had a larger property in a wooded area our property had a cabin type of vibe with plenty of space for our dogs two German Shepherds to run around we had neighbors close to us maybe only 500 ft away but there were enough trees to make us feel Secluded on this rainy Thursday

night my husband had gone to play poker with some friends as they occasionally do and it was at one of his buddy's houses that was about 10 minutes away I was home home alone with the dogs watching Netflix and enjoying some ice cream after an episode ended it sounded like there was a break in the rain so I got up from the couch and let the dogs out to go to the bathroom in the backyard I would normally go out with them and Stand outside but since it was raining lightly still I just watched the

dogs through the window the dogs do their business pretty quick most of the time but this time they were spending a lot of time sniffing and hovering around our old shed close to the woods in the backyard my dog began barking at the shed and wouldn't stop thinking that they had trapped an animal in or near the shed I stepped out onto the back patio and yelled their names ordering Them to come inside the dogs would not stop barking I went back inside grabbed a rain jacket a flashlight and put some shoes on and then

I walked out towards the shed to check out the scene as I got closer to the shed I noticed a horrible smell filling my nostrils it smelled like a dead animal almost it was that bad as I approached the shed shining my flashlight towards it I got within about 20 ft when suddenly the door of the shed burst open and the small dirty looking Man jumped out he couldn't have been much taller than 5 ft his clothes were Rags his hair a tangled mess and he smelled horrible he had a shovel from our shed in

his hand and he took a couple of swings at my dogs attempting to hit them but thankfully he missed he locked eyes with me for a split second and then dropped the shovel and ran into the woods behind my house after he had disappeared into the woods I ran back inside called the cops and Then called my husband telling him to come home right away the cops came very quickly and searched the woods area behind my house where they ended up finding the man hiding in some brush close to my neighbor's house my husband and

I ended up finding out a couple of days later that it was a homeless man who had been squatting in people's sheds and garages around town I'm grateful that I had the dogs there with me that night as I'm not sure what would have Happened if I had come fronted the crazed Man without the safety of my two German Shepherds I was home alone with my older brother One Summer Night I was 11 or 12 and it's been a long time since this happened now my parents told me and my brother that they were visiting

a friend and would be gone for the night they entrusted my brother with me he was 13 or 14 at the time our parents left at About 8:00 p.m and then it was just us keep in mind we lived in a one-story house with a kitchen a living room and three bedrooms my brother slept in the bedroom closest to the living room meaning he was closer to the front door and I slept in the room farthest from it when my parents left me and my brother went to the living room and started up our Xbox

we took out our our controllers and Started playing some video games at some point I would say around 9:30 it started to rain and I got bored I left my brother to play some video games by himself and went back to my room and turned on my tablet to watch some videos with my headphones in as I was doing that I suddenly heard some rustling and what I thought were footsteps somewhere outside my window I didn't mind I assumed it was the wind to keep in mind my house has a Pathway with gate cutting from

the front laand all the way to the backyard and it passes by my window I heard a squeak and then through the pouring rain I heard our gate Creek open then thud lightly against the garbage cans right next to it it was loud enough for me to hear through my headphones which caused me to pause the video and listen closer footsteps sounded on the pathway going to the back door and that's when I Freaked out I threw my headphones on the bed and dropped my tablet then I sprinted towards the back door and locked it

just as soon as the person tried the handle the blinds on the door were closed so I couldn't see the person clearly but I saw the shadowy figure of a man facing the door I backed away slowly and reached my brother in the living room I whispered to him to get his attention and I asked Him if he had heard what I did he paused the game and stared at me bewildered no he said I took a deep breath before responding there's a man at the back door I said then I asked him if he

had locked the doors he nervously glanced at the kitchen door before Whispering that no he didn't but before I could run into the kitchen and lock the door I heard the dreaded footsteps headed towards it I wouldn't be able to lock it on time so I Told my brother to follow me and we ran terrified into our parents' bedroom and went into their closet we locked both their bedroom door and the closet door I heard the terrifying sound of the kitchen door opening and the pouring rain got even louder my brother whispered to me that

he was going to call 911 and open his phone and dialed he reached the operator as he explained the situation quietly I heard the Intruder stomping Around the house opening doors and closets until he reached our parents room he tried the handle but realized it was locked then we heard him chuckle I know you're in there he said in this hollow raspy voice that sent shivers down my spine as I heard it in the dark I saw the terrified gleam from my brother's eyes as the Intruder began pounding on the door letting out screams as

he did so making it even worse it made me feel Sick the Intruder then stopped and it was suddenly So Silent that I could feel the tension in the air me and my brother waited until the sounds of police sirens were Audible and it sounded like music to my ears the police pounded on the front door but when they realized it was locked they broke the door down and did a thorough sweep of the house one of them comforted us and told us to call our parents to come home when They left they told us

to call again if anything else happened since the Intruder had escaped luckily the Intruder didn't come back but those terrifying moments when the Intruder pounded on the door and screamed nonsense will forever haunt me this took place back when I was a kid I believe that I was 10 years old or so this was in the late '90s and during this time I would ride the bus home from school it would drop me off at the Corner not far from my house then I would walk a short distance on the sidewalk and go inside we

lived in a pretty standard neighborhood in the suburbs and when I would arrive back home from school both of my parents would still be gone at work I had been trusted to be home by myself since I was 9 years old and I didn't mind it but in the afternoons I would usually only be by myself for about 2 or 3 hours I would just hang Around the house and do homework or watch TV usually so one time I got home from school like always I was by myself and it was maybe about 15 minutes

or so after I got back home I was in the living room and there was a knock at the front door I looked over and from where I was I could tell that somebody was there but I couldn't see who they were back then I was a shy kid and I didn't want the person at the door to see me so I ducked down the person at the door Then knocked again I was curious so I carefully moved to a window and looked out to see who it was there was a man there but I

did not recognize him and he was just standing at the front step after knocking twice the guy then tried opening the door which was locked then he finally walked away I thought that this was really weird I watched him cut through the front yard and then go out of sight heading towards the sidewalk it was very confusing why this guy would be Here I was thinking that he had to be at the wrong house or something I really couldn't think of any other possible explanation but after the guy left I moved on and forgot about

it it was certainly strange and a bit creepy but it didn't seem that bad to to me my parents ended up getting home later and everything was fine but the very next day I saw the man again I remember that I rode the bus home and I got dropped off shortly after I stepped off the bus I remember noticing the guy he was a long ways away but walking down the sidewalk I found it strange to see him here again because until the previous day I had never seen him before I was not aware of

him living in the area or anything like that so I tried to hurry up and I walked quickly to my house then I unlocked the door and went inside once I was in I felt safe and I didn't really think that the man would do anything but maybe 5 Minutes later there was a knock at the door again I looked and saw that the same guy was back obviously I was not going to answer the door I tried to stay hidden from the view of the man this time he only knocked once and again he

tried opening the door but after that I saw him start to walk away it was pretty much the same thing as the day before and I saw him go out of my sight this time though I was more creeped out because of the fact that he was here 2 Days in a row plus he saw me walk to the house so there was no mistaking it but for the next hour or so nothing else strange happened I was just hanging out in the living room then I decided to go out and water some of the

flowers in the backyard I went to the back of the house where the kitchen was and then left at the back door I took two steps into the backyard and saw the guy coming out from behind a bush he was walking towards me I ran back inside as fast as I could and The man started running after me I closed the door and locked it just in the nick of time he nearly stopped me he tried getting in but couldn't I ran out of the room and went to the phone in the living room I

dialed 911 and asked for police to come to my address the man ran away at that point point though I was glad he was gone the police got there a while later and searched the entire property as well as the neighborhood however the man was long gone by then There was a bit of an investigation done I don't really remember much else other than a neighbor about a block away remembered seeing a work van parked on the side of the road they didn't know whose it was and it was thought that maybe that was the

guy's vehicle after that though he never came back I'm really glad that I was on all right I will never forget that scary experience it was the holidays and at this time of year me and my family would Usually go to my aunt's house given the fact that there would always be a big party there this year I decided that I wouldn't go seeing as I was a 19-year-old male and I would really only want to play games such as 2K and call of Duty my parents reluctantly told me I could stay and off they

went to my aunt's house I immediately went on Call Of Duty Modern Warfare fast forward to around 2:00 in the morning I was lying on my bed watching YouTube videos when I heard a knock at the door it was more of a pound really I sat up in fear who Could That Be I thought to myself I went to a room next to where the door was and I peaked out I I saw no one at the front porch I was a big car guy so I immediately recognized the car it had its lights off

but in the driver's seat sat a man probably in his 40s he had a disgusting Goatee a trucker hat and what looked like a 20-year-old next to him in the passenger seat I had a bad feeling ever since the knock on the door and now I felt even more scared I immediately went to my bathroom at the first floor and locked the door all of a sudden sudden I heard a window getting smashed I wanted to call the cops but I left my phone upstairs in my room I slowly and quietly worked my way upstairs

and entered my room I got my Phone and as I was leaving I saw it two pairs of boots were shown in the bottom part of my dresser where there was an opening I pretended that I didn't see it and calmly walked downstairs as soon as I was halfway back down the stairs I heard a crack the type of crack that can only be produced if you shut a door really slowly as soon as I heard that I bolted the rest of the way got out of the house and called the Police hi my name

is Jay and this is the most traumatizing experience of my life I was 11 at the time when this occurred it was it was just a day like any other my parents were both doctors so they constantly went in and out of work so I was home by myself a lot I never had a problem being home alone on this night it was 8:00 and I was just watching a movie when I started hearing rustling In My Bushes my cat had gone for a walk so I Thought she was coming back and didn't think anything

of it 5 minutes passed by and I had forgotten about the rustling until I saw my motion light turn on I again thought it was my cat so I just kept watching the movie some more time went by and the motion light was still on so now I was a little interested I went to look out my window but I saw nothing okay weird I told myself about 10 minutes later I saw my motion light Turn on and this time I thought it was some kids trying to mess with me so instead of looking out

the window I turned on my Dad's camera system but what I saw Will haunt me for the rest of my life three large lar men wearing Vendetta masks were standing on my patio porch I immediately turned off my TV and the lights and went into my kitchen and grabbed the biggest knife I could find then I immediately ran into my mom and dad's master bedroom locked the door and Hid under their bed I used the bed sheets to cover me I then dialed 911 and told the officer I needed help the female officer told me

there were two officers in the area and that they were immediately in route to my house the officer wanted to keep me on the line but I wasn't thinking clearly In the Heat of the Moment and I hung up 5 minutes felt like hours as I waited in that dark room until I heard glass shattering the bitter truth then hit me As I realized that they had broken into the living room window and were making their way inside I then heard them make their way upstairs and towards the master bedroom where I was hiding they

tried the door and when they saw that it was locked they broke it open when I heard them break the door I literally peed myself they went into the bedroom and I heard them first go to the closet where My dad kept his very important and valuable documents the closet was at the other side of the room and I knew I had to think fast so I took a risk and got out from the other side of the bed and ran as fast as Usain Bolt screaming as I ran through the living room and outside

the miraculous sound of police sirens was like music to my ears as I flagged them down they pulled over and I ran and hugged them and said that they were in the master bedroom some officers ran Into my house and moments later I heard shouting and then three gunshots 10 minutes later two ambulances arrived along with my family and some friends who were worried sick the rest of the night was me making statements and filling out police reports I then learned 2 hours later that when the cops went into the house they saw that the

men were making their way upstairs they told the men to freeze but one of the men p pulled out a gun And fired it at the officers it hit the officer in the leg and the other cop shot two bullets back killing one of the suspects instantly and causing the other two to surrender if you're wondering the cop that was shot did survive this experience was extremely traumatic and I had to take therapy for the next 8 months to cope with what happened that night I still get chills running down my spine when I think

about what those men would have done to me if they had found Me this happened when I was younger I think it was either my last year of middle school or my freshman year of high school when I was a kid my parents divorced and I lived with my mom most of the time occasionally I would go up and stay at my dad's place for a weekend but usually I was just at my mom's I have an older brother who's like 5 years older than me and he was now in college at the time of

the story so most of the time it Was just my mom and I inside our house he lived in a smaller place with a few bedrooms upstairs and the regular kitchen living room and bathroom downstairs on the night of the story my mom had to work at night which she would have to do occasionally this meant that I would be home all by myself at least until she got off of work I think she got off at like 9:00 that night and at about 7:00 p.m i was home alone and got bored my Best friend

was a kid named Brian who lived in the same neighborhood he actually lived just down the street but our street was really long and it took like 5 minutes to walk from his place to mine I snapchated Brian and asked him if he wanted to come over and hang out I didn't bother to ask my mom if I could have him over because I figured she wouldn't care Brian wasn't really doing anything either at the time and he agreed normally when Brian and I hung Out we would just game I told Brian that I would

leave the back door unlocked for him and to come right in then I went downstairs unlocked the back door for Brian and turn the light on next to it as well then I went back upstairs to my bedroom and started up my PlayStation a few minutes went by and I started playing a warm-up game of Call of Duty waiting for Brian then maybe minutes later I heard the back door open then close I kept playing and didn't really Bad an eye Brian knew where my bedroom was and I expected him to be up shortly I

kept focusing on my game and got a little bit carried away because like 5 minutes went by and Brian still wasn't at my room yet that's what when I realized it was strange I got up and walked over to my doorway I yelled out Brian there was no answer I headed downstairs to see what Brian was doing right when I got down the stairs and was at the bottom of them though I saw Somebody it was a grown man who I had never seen before in my life he was standing at the other end of

the room and wasn't looking at me I couldn't believe it I quickly ran in the opposite direction but then I heard the Man start to move I ducked down and hid behind the couch then I heard the Man start walking the guy also sounded like he was very quietly talking to himself I couldn't make out what he was saying though it sounded like he was rambling I was on my Hands and knees crouched down between the wall and the couch the guy walked over into my Direction but seemed to go past me towards the stairs

then I heard him walking up them when he reached the top I used this opportunity to get up and run for the door I exited the front door just in time to see Brian walking up the driveway he saw me leaving the house and I ran over to him Brian looked really confused when he saw the look of panic on my face I told him there was a Man in the house and we had to get out of there we both ran back to Brian's house down the street luckily his parents were home so when

we got inside we felt much safer the police were called and Brian and I stayed at his house after like an hour a police officer showed up at Brian's house he told us that they had caught a man inside my house upstairs in my bedroom my mom heard about it and left work 30 minutes early she picked me up from Brian's and we went back to our house everything was mostly still in place still I couldn't believe they had found the guy inside my bedroom I'm so glad I left when I did and the guy

didn't see me hiding from him I learned a valuable lesson from this not to leave any doors unlocked I'm always very careful about it still to this day 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 put on some comfortable clothes And go to bed I had made it about 10 ft 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 the

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 door knob 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 man stood there just outside of my front door I 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 and 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 back in Romania it was a school day and I had to get prepared me and my family lived in an apartment and my room had a faded glass door you can still see through it but It's blurry I was changing into nice clothes and my mom was out of the apartment I don't remember exactly where

she was but I was all alone at the time and so as I was changing I looked at my door and saw a white thing past my room immediately my chest fell like it was being poked with a spike and my heart pounding really fast I called my mom and told her about it but she just told me it was because of all the video Games I'm playing but I've never had nightmares from those games or anything related to that I hung up and went to investigate I checked everywhere and saw nothing I'm very sure

that I saw something and it even scares me to this day I did some research and no one died in the apartment or anything but I still don't have any explanation for what happened 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 6:00 I was Inside my bedroom playing video games on the TV that I hadn't there for a while at probably 7:30 p.m 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 it was probably about 8:00 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 the 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 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 but whoever was in there would hear me I was out of sight and unless they 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 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 shut

again then I heard the sound of The door from the garage open and my parents voices 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 I 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 this happened many years ago when I was still in college I was in my junior year At a large University and

was rooming with four other people who I had met and become friends with in the dorms we were renting this older three-story house together that was just a bit off of Campus the house was pretty rundown and not in great condition as a lot of college houses tend to be my friends and I didn't mind though because the rent was cheap splitting it between five people and it was also a short walk to campus which was Nice this particular night it was just me in the house as all my roommates were going out to the

bars I didn't join them in going to the bars because I wasn't feeling it that night and mostly just didn't usually enjoy myself at the bars I had just wanted a relaxing night so I was up in my room on the third floor just watching a movie and hanging out on my phone sometime close to midnight I heard the stairs heading up from the first Level creaking and then somebody moving around on the second level below me being an old house you could hear a lot of floorboard creaking when somebody was moving around on a

Stairway or floor when my roommates would go out to the bars when they would come back they'd normally be talking loudly and I would know who was back or not so it was odd to me that I didn't hear any talking I had always been a bit cautious when I'd hear people down stairs because our door Was usually left unlocked so I got up from my bed to go and see who was in the house our house had two separate stairways because of how large it was so I stood at the top of one of

them and peered down to see if I could see anybody whoever was down there must have heard me moving around upstairs because they had stopped walking around and were silent at this point I had a feeling that there was somebody in our house who shouldn't have been there I didn't want To call out and say anything and I didn't want to move either so I stood frozen out in the hallway at the top of the stairs eventually after what felt like 5 minutes the person downstairs started walking again and I heard them begin to ascend

the second stairway at the other end of the hall from where I was standing with the stairway right in front of me I felt comfortable enough to stay and see who would emerge from the other stairway a man who looked to be in His 50s or 60s emerged and stopped as he saw me at the end of the hall he quickly said in a raspy voice that he used to live here and he was just checking the place out I didn't believe him so I told him to leave the house now or I was calling

the cops that made him angry and he started cussing at me and moving towards me down the hall I ran down the stairway in front of me quickly and pulled out my phone to call the cops as I was on the phone explaining the Situation I was also playing a scary type of Ring Around the Rosie game where I could hear the man's movement based on the noise of the stairs and the floorboards every time the man would go up or down one stairway I would go the opposite direction in the other stairway and when

he'd pause and stop moving I would also stop after a couple of times going up and down the two staircases avoiding him I heard him descend to the stairs back to the first floor and leave Through the back door of the house the cops showed up and I described the man to them I was informed that they would keep an eye out for him and to call right away if he ever came back from that point out my roommates and I did a better job always making making sure that the doors were locked at all

times one of my roommates had some cash stolen from his room but otherwise everything was in order we lived in that house for the rest of the school year and didn't Ever see that man again every year the village I live in has a weekend long Festival in the fall just to celebrate the town and have a good time it's just sort of like a miniate fair with a bunch of vendor tents set up food trucks live music and the whole works the festival takes place in a big Park in town which I happen to

live right next to I've lived on my own for a while now in this place that's had some creepy events take place during the Weekend of this Festival 2 years ago on the first day of the festival Friday night I had been sitting out on my balcony outside of my bedroom watching the fireworks as I do every year with plenty of light to illuminate my backyard from the fireworks I saw a hooded figure come up the path from the park and walk down the property line between my house and my neighbor's yard I assumed that

it was somebody from the festival taking a shortcut to get home By going through people's yards I was shocked when the hooded figure took a sharp turn into my yard and approached one of my downstairs windows and looked inside of my house it appeared that this person didn't know I was up on the balcony as they continued around the house towards the door which was directly under my balcony I I couldn't see them from where I was but I heard my screen door quietly open as the person attempted to open the door thankfully my Door

was locked I yelled out from the balcony using some vulgar language for them to get out of here the hooded figure bolted from the door ran out of my yard and back into the park fast forward to exactly one year later to the day I did my normal routine of going to the festival and then watched the fireworks from my balcony the fireworks ended close to 11:00 p.m i went to bed pretty soon after that I was woken up by the sound of my screen door opening I Quietly descended the stairs down to the living

room and approached the door from what I could tell there was nobody there but when I turned back around to go upstairs I saw a hooded figure staring straight at me through the living room window I couldn't see much but I could tell that it was a man what was scariest about the situation was when I saw him looking at me he didn't Flinch or duck down out of view he simply continued to stare at me at this point I was truly Spooked remembering the incident from last year which happened on the same Friday Night

of the festival I had my cell phone on me and I called the police immediately as I was still standing in the living room once the hooded man saw I was talking to somebody on the phone he finally dipped out of view the cops came and didn't see anybody still around my property I explained to them the scenario of the multiple incidents which had happened backtack years and how I Was convinced that it was the same same person but there wasn't really much that they could do this year the village Festival is coming up in

a couple of weeks and I've already arranged to have a friend stay over with me at my house that night I'm hoping that nothing will happen for the third straight year in a row but I'm definitely on edge about it as the festival DWS near