HORRIFYING home invasion in a "safe neighborhood"

we all like to believe that when we are home behind our shut and locked doors and shut and locked windows tucked away inside of our bedroom under our covers that were safe that our family members and their bedrooms they're all safe but in reality that's not true most of the time it is and most of the time that illusion of safety is enough that you don't think about it very often that someone actually could probably break into your house if they wanted to not all houses some people are much more prepared than others but most people never have to worry about that actually becoming a reality someone breaking into their home but there are people that do live that nightmare when the place they look at as safe becomes unsafe today's story is about someone who believed they lived in a safe house in a safe neighborhood but in a moment's notice that illusion was shattered before we get into today's story if you are a fan of the strange dark and mysterious told in story format well then you've discovered the right channel because that's all i do and i upload three to four times a week so if that's your style and you might be interested in something like that i would encourage you to please gently incinerate gently incinerate gently incinerate keep it together here we go please gently incinerate the like button and then subscribe to my channel and turn on all post notifications so you don't miss any of those weekly uploads alright let's get into today's story in 2017 a woman had just moved in to a beautiful home in northern california that was just outside the suburbs it was in kind of a more rural area you know there wasn't any street lights um she did have neighbors but they were pretty far away from where she was actually staying but she loved it and it was this beautiful area you know she'd go outside at night on her porch and she'd look up and because there wasn't much light pollution you know she could see the stars and she just loved it and even though she didn't see her neighbors very often she knew them they were older they were really nice it was just like a really warm welcoming neighborhood albeit people enjoyed their space but it was it was safe and it was a place that she truly loved and didn't expect to move anytime soon later that year in the winter she got home from work one day she had a long shift she was exhausted and she pulls into her driveway and when she steps out she immediately smelled cigarette smoke she didn't smoke she didn't think her neighbors smoked it was not a high trafficked area i mean they're in kind of this rural part of northern california and her street the only people that really ever went on it were her and her neighbors and so she was thinking like who was smoking near my house but it was really really foggy this day she could barely see you know even when she was pulling into her driveway she could only see what her headlights had illuminated on her house i mean it was like no visibility she's she kind of glanced around but she was like you know what i'm so tired i just want to go and go to bed so she just kind of forgets about the cigarette smoke wasn't really that concerned about it uh and goes in her house and even though it's like seven o'clock she's like i'm just gonna go to bed so she heads upstairs takes a shower and gets in bed a couple hours later she wakes up because she thinks she hears something on her first floor at the time she had a close friend that was taking classes in the city but working outside of the city and sometimes didn't have enough time to get back to his house to shower and clean up before work and so she'd actually given him a set of her keys so that at odd hours when he was going between classes and work he could just come to her house take a shower get changed it was just a lot easier for him and they were close enough it wasn't a big deal but he always texted her before he came to her house as a courtesy hey i'm gonna be there taking a shower you know using your house just for a minute and they rarely actually ran into each other because his hours were so strange so when she wakes up and hears commotion downstairs the first thing she does is check her phone for a text message because she's assuming that it's her friend who's just you know stopped by to to use the shower or change or whatever he's gonna do so she reaches over to her bedside table grabs her phone and she opens it and it blinded her because she's just woken up and she kind of squinted at her phone and she couldn't really tell if there was any unread messages from him or not but she just put her phone down and decided she would yell out uh just a lot faster than trying to read this text message so she yells out to him and they're silenced downstairs and she yells out again hey is that you and there's silence and then all of a sudden she hears very loud footsteps running across the first floor charging up the stairs she instinctively leaps out of bed runs into her closet which is right across from her bed and as soon as she's literally stepping into the closet she can hear whoever was downstairs now is in the hallway upstairs and so the layout upstairs is there's a bedroom on the left a bedroom on the right of the hallway and straight ahead at the end there's a bathroom and the two bedroom doors were shut the bathroom door was open this person bombed up the stairs and ran right past the bedroom doors one of them she was in straight to the bathroom it allowed her an opportunity to pop open the the attic crawl space that the access was inside of her closet she pops that open and is able to clamor up into the attic and as literally her feet are coming they're still being sucked up into the attic as whoever that was they realized she's not in the bathroom and they started charging back down they punch open the door that she's in and they charge into her bedroom she's trying to suck her legs up into the attic crawl space she gets them up just in time and as her knees sucked up against her chest when he comes into her bedroom flips on the light and opens the closet from her vantage point she's looking down and just because of the way the view was obscured she could only make out that it was someone wearing like kind of tattered jeans with the cuffs rolled up and dirty work boots this was definitely not her friend and as she's looking at his shoes and pants wondering if he's going to poke his head in and look up and see this crawl space where she is and she has nothing she can do if he decided to reach up and get her there's nowhere for her to go she didn't have her phone it was in the bedside table and she's just hoping that he doesn't see her luckily he turns around and starts rummaging through everything in her bedroom basically looking for her flips the bed over knocks over the dresser and then he screams this loud scream of frustration and as he's screaming she pushes the little crawl space cover over the spot so now she's completely tucked away inside of the crawl space and she can't see anything and for the next several hours this person was literally screaming and running around the house punching walls screaming where are you running down the hall reopening the bathroom going into the other bedroom clearly knocking things over just going crazy looking for this girl and then it slowed down and she heard him walking around the house and he would say periodically i'm gonna find you no you haven't left yet i'm gonna find you she started smelling cigarette smoke he was smoking inside of her house and then she realized that he was probably at her house when she first got in that's why she smelled a cigarette smoke for hours she huddled inside of this attic crawl space that realistically is a little bit obscured inside of the closet you would need to be looking for it to see it and she just hoped that he didn't find her and so she started counting she figured if i can just count to a thousand with silence downstairs if i can do that that means he's probably gone and so she would start counting and she'd get to like 200 and then she'd hear him whispering or yelling or knocking something over and she'd go back down to zero and so all night she basically would try to count to a thousand until finally she did without it being interrupted it was probably like five or six in the morning so it's been hours and hours of this guy looking for her in her house and she believed that it was safe enough for her to open up the attic crawl space and kind of peek back into the room and so she moves the attic crawl space the little square piece of wood that blocks the crawl space she lifts it up and moves it and she can now see that just from her little vantage point to where his feet were that she could see before that clearly things have been broken there's glass on the ground she can see there's clothes in the ground and she wriggles down there's no sign of him it's been a while since she heard him she darts across her now destroyed bedroom her bed's in flip things have been broken there's holes in the wall she gets her phone and goes right back in the crawl space she calls the police and is like whispering and she's talking to them because now she's worried that maybe he hurt her and he's gonna come back she really doesn't know if he's gone she just knew she had to call the police otherwise she was dead if he was still there she gets the police on the phone they say we'll be right there stay where you are the police show up and she can hear them entering the house they're yelling police we're coming inside they search the whole house and they start yelling for her they start yelling for her by name and at this point she feels comfortable opening up the crawl space and coming down to to show herself sure enough there's the police and they're like nobody here do you want to walk around the house and see if anything was taken every room was completely trashed holes in the wall things broken whoever this was was looking for her everywhere in the house and was basically rummaging through everything to try to find her and the police are like you're very lucky that you thought to jump into that crawl space because we found a number of your knives from your butcher block had been taken out they were scattered around the house it seems like he might have grabbed a knife and then in frustration was maybe looking for you and slashing at different things then he'd throw a knife and get another one it's pretty clear this person was trying to do you harm and you're very lucky that you had the the wherewithal to immediately when you heard those running footsteps charge into the closet and hide in the attic that almost definitely saved your life although she would stay at this house for another three years after the incident it ultimately proved to be too difficult to stay in that house she was constantly afraid that it was going to happen again it was very traumatic and so she ultimately moved so it just goes to show that while we believe we are safe when we are home the reality is is all those locks and cameras and all the stuff we install around our house to keep ourselves safe that's really just to keep the honest people out the monsters out there the evil people that want to do us harm they don't care about breaking windows and forcing their way in so you should always have a plan of what you would do if someone broke into your home how you would handle it whether it is an escape plan or even concealed weapons but you should do something to protect yourself and have a plan in case the worst case scenario happens to you so that's going to do it guys if you enjoyed the story today if you would please gently incinerate the like button and then also subscribe and turn on all post notifications so you don't miss my three to four weekly uploads if you want to reach out to me you can hit me up on instagram my handle is john ballen416 i'm also very active on 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Channel: MrBallen

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Length: 11min 14sec (674 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 03 2020