foreign [Music] house with my sister it's a two-floor house a mother-daughter house meaning it has two kitchens my sister takes the downstairs I take the upstairs my sister isn't home a lot because she often stays with her boyfriend who lives 20 miles away like I said I'm 30. I shouldn't let being home alone ever freak me out but admittedly sometimes it does this happened on a night that I was home alone in my living room watching a scary movie my part of the house is an open layout so the living room dining room and kitchen
are all one big space my couch is in the middle of the space so as I watch TV on the couch my back is to a large part of the room behind me so for those a little more easily spooked it wouldn't be the most comfortable place to be sitting alone watching a scary movie I'll admit as I watched in the dark room with nothing but the light from the TV to cancel the darkness of the room I found myself glancing over my shoulder a lot I like to think I'm not the only 30 year
old male that does that but anyway after the movie I brush my teeth turned off all the lights in the house then went to sleep my sleep lasted for about two hours I woke up around 1am and I wasn't sure why I woke up at first then I Heard a Voice downstairs it sounded like my sister it sounded like she was inside the house so it's not like she was calling for me to open the door but still I knew it was my sister's voice I didn't know what she was yelling up to me though
but I was still groggy and not thinking straight all I could think was that she must have been calling for me or arguing with her boyfriend so I got out of bed and went into the pitch black Hall I turned on the hallway lights and then made my way through the living room and heard my sister's voice again from downstairs now I could understand her to be saying my name I made my way downstairs in the dark yelling back at her what is it I looked for the light switch in the foyer downstairs but couldn't
find it I'm not lying when I say I was groggy as hell I walked down her little hallway towards her kitchen find a light switch and flick it on the light in the kitchen lights up her little apartment including her living room the light starts off dim and needs time to brighten up but I still saw that there was no one down there not her not her boyfriend I went to her bedroom but it was empty I called her name really loudly one time no one called back but shortly after I yelled I heard something
dropped to the floor in my sister's bedroom which I had just checked and it was empty I went back up the stairs like a little kid and went back to my bed to where my phone was I tried to call her a few times but she didn't pick up I had myself locked in my room wondering if I had just hallucinated all of that eventually I fell asleep and in the morning I woke up to text from my sister asking why I called her at 1am I asked her if she was home last night and
she told me no she was currently staying at her boyfriend's house I went downstairs to her bedroom to see what may have fallen down on the floor but there was not a single object on the floor that could have made that noise I'm led to believe I hallucinated everything I heard that night but that's what I want to believe because the alternative would be much more horrific but I've never really hallucinated anything else or had any kind of sleep disorders so how vividly I heard my sister's voice and that sound in her room really freaks
me out I was left home alone a lot as a kid just due to the fact that my mom was single for a good chunk of my upbringing and she worked as an RN on a crappy RN schedule and my brother went away to college this was a night that my mom was working in overnight it was a weekend night so I had this Girl Molly over who I was talking to and she hung out for a while we watched a couple movies and whatnot and eventually she had to go home because her parents don't
like her out late so I was left alone to hold down the fort I continued to watch TV in my room in bed my bedroom is upstairs next to the backyard so when someone dragged one of the chairs on the deck outside I heard it I got up and looked out the window and I saw someone sitting on one of the deck chairs down below I called Molly's name thinking it was her after all she'd only left under 10 minutes ago whoever it was looked up at me but it wasn't Molly I immediately pulled away
from the window to hide that was not anybody I recognized not in the Darkness at least I texted a few close friends on our group chat if it was one of them messing with me the ones who answered all said no and asked what I was talking about I didn't really believe any of my friends would come to my house to mess with me like that anyway scared shitless but still curious I slowly walked back over to the window to look down again and that person was still sitting in the chair looking up at my
window it was a he that much was clear and he definitely saw me I hurried away from the window again to turn off the TV I sat in my bed in a ball basically with my arms wrapped around my knees I waited in darkness for a while I didn't even want to turn my phone screen on because I was scared he'd see the light I didn't even want to move because the window was opened and I feared that he'd hear any movement I made I wanted him to assume I was just no longer in the
bedroom I waited enough time it had to be a solid five minutes of just sitting there I highly doubted that man outside could still be there I finally mustered up the courage to get up and look out the window I felt a little part of me die inside when I saw he was still down there looking up at my window instead of running away from the window again I tried to be brave and said down to him what do you want I then noticed his shoulders started to go up and down as if you were
laughing really hard but he didn't make any kind of audible laughing sounds at first so I heard a slight whistling sound coming from him it seemed like he was laughing so hard that he was wheezing I asked him to please go away then walked away from the window again I went back to my bed I was scared to call the police for some reason I left my room and sat at the top of the stairway listening the back door was being pushed he was trying to get into the house I ran back to my room
to hide again I was 14. I didn't know what else to do eventually I heard the front door's door not being fiddled with and the man trying to push the front door open as well he gave up quickly thank God I closed my bedroom window and curtains if our doors weren't locked I could have been killed easily I was skinny and weak when I was 14 and definitely not a fighter I didn't leave my room again that night until my mom got home around nine I told her what happened and her reaction was angry at
me for not calling 9-1-1 and in hindsight that was very stupid of me one of the many things I did or rather didn't do at a young age that I questioned greatly this was the story of how I almost died as a young kid home alone and possibly the most intense night of my life with way too much going on we're a family of five I was 10 at the time my older brother was 14 my little sister was five it was a Friday night my brother was out with his friends causing trouble clearly because
a dreaded phone call came to my parents all I remember was I was in my room playing a Star Wars video game when I heard my mom start freaking out crying I got really scared and hurried to see what was wrong my mom was on the phone with a hospital calling to inform my parents that my brother had gotten hit by a car obviously we were all shaken and really scared my brother's leg was broken but I don't know what else was said on the phone all I know is my parents hurried to get their
coats on and got my little sister from her room and asked me if I was okay to stay home alone I said yes and they hurried out to the car and left I was of course really worried for my brother but I really didn't want to go to the hospital and see him in any kind of bad condition I don't think my parents wanted me or my sister to either but they didn't want to leave my five-year-old sister home without them it's worth mentioning my brother recovered just fine as his injury is no longer relevant
to the story other than it being the reason why I was left home alone on a Friday night before my dad left he was trying to calm down my mom telling her he was going to be okay so seeing my dad like that made me feel better I had a feeling my mom was just being over dramatic like any mom would be I continued playing the Star Wars game for a couple more hours when I heard the front door open I had my bedroom door closed by this point it was easily past midnight and past
my bedtime so I turned off the TV and PlayStation and crawled into my bed with my Game Boy I tried listening to hear my parents voices maybe here if my brother was with them or just hear what they were saying but I didn't hear anything after a few minutes of not hearing them even come up the stairs I had a feeling something was wrong I went to my door and quietly opened it then walked over to the ledge and Banister that overlooked the living room the lights were off but there were three tall people standing
in my living room they weren't my family I was so petrified that I was frozen for a second before I could quietly walk back into my room and shut the door as quietly as I could in my trepidation but it wasn't quiet enough and I knew it they had to have heard the door click shut even if just slightly I hurried to my closet door opened it quietly stepped inside then shut the door I had myself sitting behind a bunch of the boxes and bags of clothes that were stuffed in my closet I was actually
pretty covered from View there was a short period that felt like forever that I was anticipating my bedroom door open and it did and at that moment I knew I was going to die I heard footsteps walk into the room I couldn't tell how many people it may have been one it may have been two I heard the footsteps moved to my bed and I heard my covers being played with then silence that more footsteps towards the closet door then silence for a few seconds and then the closet door opened my heart was in my
throat by this point all I did was sit quietly and hold my breath the door was open for a really long time but I didn't look up I didn't move it had to be a good 20 seconds of Silence before the door closed again footsteps walked away from the door then out of the room I finally looked up and I just realized from where I was crouched down behind the bags and boxes I may have been visible to that person it wasn't until probably an hour that I heard my parents return I ran downstairs to
them the front door was left ajar by the people who broke in and they had stolen a number of valuables from our house it was a night that just went from bad to worst for our family my parents were in such a rush when they left for the hospital that they apparently didn't even lock the door I was lucky to have not been killed that were kidnapped I look back now and really wonder if the person who opened the closet and just stood there for 20 seconds saw me hiding in there maybe he was just
a guy that came to rob a house not to kidnap or hurt a child or maybe he just didn't see me and I just narrowly escaped death or injury [Music] I was home alone for an entire week one time when I was still a teenager living with my parents which was a rare occasion since my parents don't go out a lot my mom's Rich friend Patty invited my parents on a trip that she was paying for I'm an only child so I was left alone in the house we lived in Newark Ohio which is in
Licking County yes our County was actually called Licking County my parents old house had Woods in the backyard and was on some quiet road that only a few cars would pass per day usually we had a huge deck in the backyard overlooking the woods and a decently large backyard we even had a little fish pond and above ground swimming pool this was on a Thursday night I remember because I had conversations with friends about plants for the weekend that day this was in July of 2013. I was out on the deck smoking weed with my
speaker playing music that's about the time it started I thought I Heard a Voice from out in the woods I lowered the music and listened for a little bit it didn't repeat so I raised it back up when the music was loud again I Heard a Voice from out in the woods again this time I turned the music off completely and listened for longer there was a voice calling from the woods again confirming I wasn't just hearing things male's voice saying hey over here he was kind of distant but not too far the woods were
anywhere from 20 to 30 yards away from the deck and that's where the voice was coming from I didn't think in a million years it was someone calling out for me though rather maybe just some kids playing Manhunt or something The Voice called out again hey over here we need help this time I realized the voice was too deep to be a kid and when a voice yells out we need help obviously that'll always be slightly concerning I was getting a little bit uncomfortable now because now I was questioning if these yells were directed at
me now I heard the voice yell straight in front of you please come help us and the voice was coming from straight in front of me in the woods now I had a feeling this was directed at me I reluctantly called back who is that and they responded we just need help we're stuck in the woods I called back what does that mean then the voice replied back just please come help straight in front of you I got out for my seat walked down the steps of the deck onto the grass and proceeded towards the
woods I called out I'm coming Where Are You The Voice replied instantly right in front of you I see you I replied back wait are you alone or with someone there was no answer this time I stopped in my tracks about halfway towards the woods I had a bad feeling in my gut about this I started walking backwards back towards the house and the deck I didn't even want to turn my back to the woods because it took me that long to realize there was something very suspicious about this situation I made it back to
the deck and the voice didn't say anything else if they truly saw me and this was real they would have said something like where are you going at the very least they knew I was on to the situation but who even knows how many people were in there could have been one could have been three all I know is getting stuck in the woods makes absolutely no sense especially if he or they were able to literally see me like what did their shirt get caught on a branch I went inside the house and locked all
the doors just to be safe I chilled in my living room for a bit still high and I think that's why I was more trusting at first because of how high and relaxed I was then though I heard the voice again from outside closer now definitely in the backyard and not the woods anymore I heard splashing of water it could have been the pool or the pond I hurried to the window to see I didn't see anyone at first but then the voice called I see you with a laugh I noticed him it was one
guy at least one guy visible he was hidden behind the pool on the other side and I could only see his head it was just too dark to make out anything besides this dark medium length hair I close the blinds and tried to ignore it maybe he'd lose interest if he saw I wasn't entertaining him he was probably a sick deranged person who enjoyed messing with people so I didn't want to give him what he wanted but my breaking point was when there was a horrible aggressive banging on the window where I had just closed
the blinds and on the other side the guy was screaming help I screamed at the top of my lungs to [ __ ] off you freak the police are coming I screamed it over and over trying to make myself sound crazier than him I heard him start to laugh on the other side of the glass his laughing started to fade away as I assume he walked away I sat back down on the couch trembling shaking out of breath I sat there for a while and it seemed like the guy had really given up I still
got a good night's sleep that night because weed helps me sleep I wonder if I would have handled that situation any differently if I wasn't High though the situation made me more paranoid about who I opened my door to [Music] I'm 23 years old and I live at home with my parents still one day they were both not home and I was outside playing basketball in the front yard at some point while I was playing I looked up at one of our upstairs windows and saw a woman standing there not my mom not my sister
he was a random woman I guess when she saw me looking at her she dipped away from the window when I went inside and upstairs to check the lounge room she wasn't anywhere I checked every single room I could every bedroom the bathroom every closet then I checked the downstairs which included the living room kitchen dining room one bedroom and more closets finally I checked the basement and I highly doubted she could be down there it's a small basement with a couple couches a bar and two closets there weren't many places for someone to hide
but when I opened the second closet door I was incredibly scared as I didn't know of any other places someone could be hiding in the house this was the last unchecked spot that I could think of I yanked the door open as if I were ripping off a Band-Aid and like I did with the closet before this one I right away pushed myself into the closet just in case that woman was in there and I'd have the jump on her but all I pushed myself into was a bunch of coats and coat hangers I was
so confused I wasn't going to question my sanity though I definitely saw that woman and I knew it it wasn't the kind of thing you would just so vividly imagine I went back to the middle floor and screamed very loud that whoever was in the house needs to get the F out I actually screamed so loud that our next door neighbor came over and asked if I was okay I told him that I literally just saw a woman at her upstairs window watching me play basketball he came in and helped me search again when we
couldn't find her I was left to assume that she snuck out through the back door which I did unlock after all when I went to grab the basketball from the yard so my neighbor left I locked all the doors called my parents and told them the crazy story and they weren't too thrilled but they asked me to make sure nothing was stolen I did just that and luckily it seemed anything that was worth something was still in place so now fast forward to that night I went to sleep after checking the house one more time
just for peace of mind it was hard to fall asleep though my mind was racing for obvious reasons most people can't relate to seeing a stranger at their window inside of their house but my restlessness helped me out in this situation and here's why I was finally starting to drift away slightly then I heard some noises from the other side of me I had the fan on above me so the room wasn't dead silence and that's why I didn't immediately turn to my other side at the first sound I heard but the sound started as
sounds human-like I turned to my other side and there she was getting out from under my bed she stood up tall above the bed and I screamed so loud louder than earlier before I jumped out of my bed and tackled her to the floor and had my hand around her throat asking her who she was my doorbell rang my neighbor again I picked a tall dirty looking woman up off the floor and dragged her to the front door with me as she struggled and scratched at me I still have two scars on my right arm
from her claws I opened my front door to my neighbor again and he let himself in and helped me restrain the woman this was when I called the police the whole time we waited for the police the woman was screaming and cursing at my neighbor and I threatening us too the best way to put it she looked and acted like a meth head currently suffering from withdrawals when the police arrived one of the officers knew exactly who the woman was they had dealt with her multiple times before her name was conveniently Karen it was satisfying
to watch her be brought into the back of the police car I let my neighbor know how grateful I was for him coming so quickly to help and that night my mind continued to race but instead of being completely freaked out which I still was a little I felt this overwhelming feeling of satisfaction and I can't fully explain why
