I was home alone one night during winter break I was watching TV in our sunroom which is like a smaller living room type space which we use as a TV and movie room there was also a door to the side driveway in this room I had all the blinds shut and was under a blanket watching some random movie I don't even remember and out of nowhere the lights turn on outside we have a motion sensing light out there so the fact that it turned on was concerning I had to lower the volume on the TV
to listen up for any possible sounds it was unlikely I'd hear anything from outside though so I lifted the blinds briefly just to do a quick check it was clear there was no way that I know of to shut off that light so as annoying as it was I just had to wait I figured it was a raccoon or a possum or something that might have triggered the light though the more I thought about it the less that made sense so I put on my shoes and just walked around the driveway to ease my mind
no one was there so I could go back to watching TV with a clear head some time passed and I suddenly heard a bucket full of something fall over outside and then the motion sensing light turned back on the first time it happened I was concerned but now I was straight-up scared someone or something was out there I was hoping it was an animal but I really started to doubt it I didn't want to get up because the couch was actually the only blind spot from the door to the side and I had a fear
of getting up and seeing somebody standing at that door I wanted to shut the TV now but the remote was in the middle of the coffee table and I was afraid to even move that much I looked to the blinds which were fully pulled shut however I wasn't looking at the blinds I was looking at what I saw through the blinds it was a perfect outline of a person standing on the other side with their arms stretched out a bit from their body I don't know how to describe in writing how I felt in that
moment there was an intense feeling in my heart and stomach area and I felt like it was harder to breathe that's how scared I was I got up from the couch as quietly as I could but before I could even get to the door that separates the sunroom and the dining room the person on the other end started knocking aggressively on the window I wanted to scare them away somehow I was too scared to go out there so I screamed in a shaky voice and calling the cops I stood by the doorway for a second
to see if they stopped and they did but I saw the shadow beyond the blinds moved towards the door I saw some old crazy looking woman with wiry hair on the other side of the door for a moment I felt less intimidated and so she started banging on the glass of my door with both hands screaming as if she were mental I slammed the door to the sunroom and called 911 reporting some crazy mental old woman attempting to break into my house I was told to wait in a safe locked room with a weapon to
defend myself until the police arrived and you nightmare I ever had about a break-in came true when I heard glass shattering outside of the bathroom I waited a minute after not hearing anything too slowly and quietly unlock and open the bathroom door I peered into my living room and there she was the old woman with the wiry hair standing in the middle of my living room in front of a broken window she spotted me when I had the door open and came rushing over to the door I screamed like the scared seventeen-year-old I was and
slammed the door shut again the old woman started knocking on the door and wouldn't stop she was saying things under her breath on the other side and I couldn't make out any of it it was too busy crying and begging her to go away I finally heard a bang at the front door so I opened the bathroom window and screamed help two cops came up to the window I was screaming through and had begged them to crawl through the broken window out back they assured me they'd be ok and they'll be right here the knocking
at the door stopped and the sudden commotion was taking place outside I heard the two cops scream at the woman to step away from the door when I stepped out from the bathroom the two cops had the insane woman detained I'd imagine they did it pretty easily the woman looked at me with a look of crazy in her eyes and I looked away it turned out the old woman who lived in a nearby house with some woman who never leaves the house none of the neighbors ever really see her the old woman was messed up
in multiple ways and belonged in some kind of special care place my parents pressed charges on the younger woman because they felt as her supposed to caretaker she should have been held liable for allowing a mentally disabled person to break into someone else's house sadly my parents lost the lawsuit but the old crazy woman was out of our neighborhood at the very least and was put in some kind of treatment center I own a small house on a big property in the rural part of New York and I go up there a bunch of times
a year in the winter months to go skiing there's a neighbor up there that I never spoken to once there's a fence that separates our two yards then on the other sides of my house is woods for miles there's another neighbor further down the road across the street and I'd met him a number of times because he happens to go skiing too so he got to know each other based off that I went up this past January for the first time in the season as I walked up to the front door I heard a kid
laughing nearby in the neighbor's houses direction I figured they had kids which was news to me stepping into the house for the first time each season was always weird a house that would be empty for a majority of the year so I'd have to turn on the water and heat and everything of course the first night I slept like a baby after the four-hour drive from Connecticut the next morning after eating breakfast and changing them to my ski gear I went outside and found a big red ball sitting in the snow on my front lawn
wasn't there the day before so I assumed it belonged to the neighbors I took the ball and threw it over the fence separating our properties and I went off to the ski lodge to meet my friends and we spent the day skiing when I got back it was dark out I eaten dinner with my friends so I was ready to go to bed walking to the front door I noticed that once again that big red ball was sitting on my front lawn Howie was getting a bit odd but once again I threw that red ball
over the fence I woke up in the middle of that night to laughing outside a kids laughter it was like 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. I kept playing outside made no sense I went to look out my window I couldn't see any kids though and now the laughter had stopped however I did see something sitting on my front lawn I couldn't tell from the window so I went outside into the snow and my slippers and robe and saw that red ball once again sitting in the snow I got chills as I saw it in the same
spot once again I took the ball and this time instead of throwing it over the fence I brought it inside my house and went back to sleep not hearing any laughter outside again that night the next morning before going skiing again I walked over to the neighbor's house knocked on the door and finally introduced myself surprisingly he was an elderly man who seemed completely innocent I questioned the child's laughter I kept hearing and the ball that kept ending up on my lawn he told me there were no kids around there I got chills again I
thanked him shook his hand and went back to my house I left the red ball in my living room and drove back up the mountain and had another day of skiing with my friend when I got back to the house that night I was completely exhausted and ready to go home the next day I threw all my stuff on the couch and figured I'd pack it all up tomorrow it literally crashed into the bed as my whole body was sore and I fell asleep like a baby except I woke up to a kids laughter outside
again I jumped out of bed and ran to the window to look outside there was the red ball sitting in the snow again I ran to the living room and tore the room upside down looking for the ball I still know to this day I'd left it in there when I left but it wasn't there now I suddenly didn't feel alone in the house I turned on every light as I packed up all my wet gear into my bag I threw everything in the bag so I'd be ready to go if hit the fan I
made sure all the doors and windows were locked and they were so it made no sense I left the lights on and went back to my room shutting off only those lights I looked out the window and far behind the red ball I was in the snow was what looked like a kid a kid just standing stiff looking towards my window I ducked down and closed the blinds I closed the blinds to every window in my house I tried my best to just go to sleep and ignore it it was a long hour before my
exhaustion overcame my fear and I fell asleep I woke up the next morning skipped breakfast packed up the car and spent the hell away from there not looking back to the red ball that was still on my front lawn I've never had anything to be stolen in that house so I was ok with leaving it in the situation either way I can't figure out how whoever was out there got into my house to take the ball out in the first place and that child's laughter still haunts me but the scariest part of the whole experience
was seeing that child standing outside in the cold snow in the middle of the night had that ball not been taken out of my living room somehow this whole thing would be different but because of that I don't know what to think my roommate George and I met through work we live 15 minutes from the office and carpool together every day to get right into it recently we got a new neighbor as recent as two weeks ago actually we didn't see him unpacking or anything we never even saw what he looked like you didn't even
know if he was a man or a woman or how many people moved in but I say he because obviously we found out eventually so on the third day George and I actually went next door to introduce ourselves but he didn't answer the door he was home his car was in the driveway we figured maybe he just couldn't answer it for whatever reason as we were walking back down the driveway George stopped me and told me under his breath to look at the window next to the front door I looked and saw a kink in
the blinds a man was holding it up and staring through it like a creep George and I looked at each other and kept walking agreeing that was both insanely awkward and creepy now we knew already he was not going to be the best of neighbors that night at around 1:00 in the morning I just started hearing noises coming from outside it's warm where we live year round so the windows are always open I went to go look outside and my room is upstairs so it kind of overlooks the neighbor's backyard which was where the sound
was coming from I saw the neighbor he was some big looking guy wearing a hoodie with the hood up which was weird given that it was like 72 degrees out and he was sawing a big piece of wood it was a ridiculous scene I went to go knock on George's door apparently he was already awake from the noise too he had work early the next morning and what this guy was doing at this hour was nuts and it went on for some time we agreed to go over and ask him politely to stop since he
was outside we knocked on the gate instead of the door just as we did the song stopped he expected the gate to open any second but it never did at least the song stopped though so we went back to sleep it wasn't until a few nights later that we heard noises in the middle of the night again I woke up but couldn't figure out what the sounds were right away not until I got to the window and realized the sounds were screams screaming seemed to be coming from inside the house next door and I saw
the neighbor outside in his backyard again he was hurrying into his house but he was dragging something I couldn't tell what then he stopped and looked up at my window and moved away from the window as soon as I realized I ran to George's door he was already awake for the noises too he got on the phone with the police right away to report this I stood right by his door away the whole time listening and there was a slam from downstairs it was her back door we looked at each other with horrified looks on
her faces George yelled into the phone to send help because the man just entered our house while he stayed on the phone with the cops I went to the hallway and then to the stairway I looked down the stairs and listened there was creaking the floorboards down there a tiptoed back to George's room and shut the door he told the woman on the line to have the police come in through the back to her immediately and then hung up there's no lock on his door so we pushed up against the door in case god forbid
the man tried to open it I heard footsteps coming up the stairs fast and the bathroom door opened but stuff son move quickly to George's door we began to push as hard as we could the man tried pushing the door open ramming it and then hitting it with some kind of blunt objects that was the exact reason we didn't try to overpower him we didn't know what kind of weapons he could have no matter what he did though he couldn't push through the door we heard him go downstairs and all was quiet a few minutes
passed and we finally decided to open the door and peek outside it wasn't in the hallway suddenly we heard a man shall police and a deep commanding voice George and I ran downstairs and relief when we got there we didn't see any police I noticed right away however that someone was hiding behind our dining room table I told George to run back upstairs with me and the man hiding behind the table got up and chased us up the stairs this time we went to the bathroom where we could at least lock the door but we
weren't in there for long because once again we heard someone shout police downstairs this time for real the man banging on the door stopped and there was silence upstairs George and I screamed up here up here and the two police officers came up the stairs yelling at the man to drop his weapon we heard the sound of a knife being dropped to the floor and when the police told us to come out we did it brought him out to the police car in cuffs and put him in the backseat we told the officers to check
his house because we heard screams they went in with guns drawn as another cop car pulled up in front of our house and then two more cop cars pulled up two minutes later we were shocked to see the cops come out of the house with a woman crying hysterically she had been locked in his basement and she was pressed up against the door screaming as loud as she could there was also a dead body in the bag the men had been dragging in the backyard he didn't find out the whole story behind who this woman
was or who the dead body was but we're pretty sure the man was going to jail for life the house is now back up for rent and we're just hoping somebody normal moves in [Music]
