The SCARIEST Thing That Woke People Up At Night (/r/AskReddit) Reddit Stories

what's the scariest thing that's ever woken you up during the middle of the night [Music] once i woke up because i heard music playing from the kitchen and i thought maybe mum forgot to turn the radio off i went through the dark hallway to the kitchen to turn the radio off but when i was standing in the dark kitchen there was no music playing everything was as quiet as always at 3am i had a large camel spider run over my face at about 3am that was not a pleasant sensation the extremely realistic feeling of a bare hand grabbing my foot which made me wake up instantly only to realize it was somehow a dream a poster falling down from the wall i'm pretty sure my neighbors heard my scream the night i watched the movie the conjuring i woke up to my bed shaking and all the clothes hanging in my closet rattling like crazy took me quite some time to realize it was an earthquake and not the devil come visiting when i was in my final year at high school i had trouble sleeping at night with my final exams approaching i think i dozed off for a bit and suddenly woke up to see a person's face staring in through my window grill i was in such a panic i literally couldn't move or scream luckily he saw me wake up and escaped when i was a kid we went camping in the woods i heard what i thought was a bear outside our pop-up camper and it woke me up me and my two brothers were sleeping on one side with me in the middle and our parents were sleeping on the other side it was completely dark so i couldn't see a thing but i could hear what i thought was the best snorting around outside i was scared to death i couldn't figure out a way to climb over my brothers and cross to the other side to wake up my father without making noise and alerting the bear to the tasty meal waiting inside so i just lied there perfectly still for the whole night waiting for giant claws to rip their way through the canvas as the sun came up and i started to see i noticed that the lump that was my father in a sleeping bag was rising and falling with the bear snorting turns out my dad snoring had kept me up all night in absolute fear my cat howling at another cat threw a screen in the door sounded like a demon my sister had an all-white clown doll that hung from the ceiling on a little swing in the summer time we slept with our doors and windows open to get the cool air in when i woke up one night hearing some tapping against her window down the hall if i sat up in bed and looked down the hall and i could see into the front of her bedroom so i did and i see this freaking clown swinging back and forth against her window back led by the street lamp but clearly staring directly into my soul like it was all it desired in this world i didn't sleep well that summer i heard someone quietly trying my front door now blate at night i wasn't quite asleep yet i checked with my roommate later and it wasn't them it happened once or twice more but i never got to the door quickly enough to see who it was through the peephole nothing ever came of it and i live somewhere else now my dog barking because cops were banging on the doors and windows of our airbnb flashing their lights into each and every room called 911 and she told us to not answer the door because she doesn't see cops in our area yup when i was 18 i'd broken my leg and it was non-weight-bearing so i was sleeping on the sofa downstairs woke up to a guy climbing in the window directly over my head i'd obviously left the window open a crack and he'd seen an opportunity to be honest as scared as i was i'm fairly sure i scared the poop out of him too as he screamed and ran away after i hit him with my crotch i was drifting off and was already dreaming but it seemed i was still awake because i was dreaming of myself in bed in my room but in my dream i was awake i dreamt some people or person swung through the bedroom door and ran towards me and in an instant and hit me with all their might with some heavy object i shook awake it was a similar feeling when you may startle yourself awake because it seems like you're falling it took a moment for my brain to tell me i was alone and it was just a dream it was so strange exhilarating scary never had a dream like it since it turned out to be funny someone was trying loudly to break into a car just outside my ground floor bedroom window that faced a large parking lot in an apartment complex he was trying to smash the windows and wasn't strong enough and was yelling a lot i called the police i heard every word they said when they showed up it turned out that he was trying to break into his own car because he was too drunk to find his own keys in his own pocket i woke up with chunks of teeth in my mouth and severe abdominal pain probably swallowed some tooth then i looked across the room and there was a pool of blood on the opposite side of the room after quickly spitting out the rest of the teeth bits i went to the bathroom and was shocked to see my entire face was bleeding but from a deep cut in my chin and not from my missing tooth i realized that i had sleep walked then decided to fall asleep while standing on the other side of the room and did a belly flop straight on the floor and then somehow after all of that got up again and walked back into bed and fell asleep for a few more hours i had to get a new tooth from a student's doctor that i've never gotten fixed i also ended super gluing my buster chin together because i couldn't afford stitches i had an industrial size rad dying from rat poison come through a panel in my closet and up into bed with me at 2 am my dog decided to hop onto our piano and started walking along the keys in the middle of the night the shadow of a person next to the bed my first and last night terror sleeping over at a friend's house when i was about nine years old on the top bunk and was woke up when pieces of the ceiling landed on me and warm furry things also landed all over me and were scurrying across my face chest and limbs i jerked up and saw my skittering all over the place and pieces of the ceiling missing which were on the bunk where i had been sleeping i got up and the noise woke up my friend's mom who came in saw the mice running around the bed where i had been and screamed blue murder mice were continuing to periodically poke their heads out of the hole in the ceiling the people who lived in the apartment above my friend had a mouse problem and the mice had an extensive nest in between the two apartments in the floor space after the landlord looked at the problem my friend slept over at my house from then on the worse was when the neighbor boy 9yo came banging on our door and ringing the doorbell at 1am his mom and stepdad were fighting stepdad hit mom and had her on the ground with his hands around her neck trying to choke her we've never had to call nine one one before that night this poor little boy had his two wise sister in his arms with a completely dazed look on his face while my mom was on the phone with nine one one i sat the boy down and made sure to tell him that he was incredibly brave and no matter what anyone tells him he did the right thing by coming here even sadder as they had just moved here from across the country that week and he knew no one when my baby was first born i had to take anti-nausea medication and that medication messed with my dreams one night i slept on my arm so that it fell asleep beyond pins and needles all the way to numbness i was sleeping on my stomach with my armpit underneath me my hand near my chest in my dream a marauding squirrel jumped on me in my sleep my body tried to fend off the squirrel with my then num arm because my arm didn't feel like me my brain confused the scrabbling movement of my sleeping arm with the attacking squirrel i screamed bloody freaking murder and jumped like i had been bucked out of bed my movements knocked over a frame that had been leaned against the nightstand which fell against the baby's crib then down in front of the dog kennel within maybe two seconds we went from bucolics lumber to screaming wife confused yelling husband crying baby and barking dog it took us a while to get back to sleep i woke up and heard someone walking outside my bedroom window the window was open and there were leaves on the ground i got up and put my back against the wall next to the window i heard a very distinct human walking sound getting closer and closer i was pooping my pants at this point they were now very close and i could see out the window but i could not see them i was pressed against the wall as the footsteps got closer and closer then the footsteps got quieter as the being got farther away it took every nerve in my being to look out that window and nothing i went outside and looked back there baseball bat in hand and saw a very large possum no scary criminal my parents visited my wife and i and since we didn't have two bedrooms we let them stay in our bedroom but we have two cats and they can open the bedroom door if it isn't locked by key we told them to remember to close it sometime at night i hear a scream followed by cat come to find out that my mom went to use the bathroom but forgot to lock the bedroom door afterwards and my dad was greeted by my cat's face staring at his honestly was probably scarier for my cat who was expecting to see me instead [Music] my first tornado woke and listened carefully and asked the wife is that rain or wind just then both of our phones started beeping alerts and that put us in motion in hindsight we reacted about a minute later than we should have got lucky and it contacted the ground about a miles past us i don't know if it counts but we were in the field in camp pendleton ca and sleeping in just our mummy bags under the stars and i woke up in the night for whatever reason and my eyes focused on the next guy over in our circle who had one of the largest spiders i've ever seen in the wild sitting on his forehead maybe getting warm or something freak me the freak out i flicked it off of him and zipped my bag all the way up so there was just the breathing hole and used my booney cover to plug that and just breathed through the little vents bf was out of town and i heard a voice in the middle of the night my dogs woke up and barked too heard the voice again sounded like a british woman grabbed the gun and started lurking the house like wtf ffff full stop full stop it was my carbon monoxide detector that apparently talks to tell me the battery was low but it scared the poop out of me for a few minutes tornado siren in the midwest they test them once a month and you get used to it but holy hell when it goes off at 3am your subconscious mind dumps adrenaline into you i thought i was going to have a heart attack like literally 29 year old about to have my wife call an ambulance on a camping trip with friends in a state park in the middle of the night our tent is woken up by the sound of gunshots it is illegal to go hunting in state parks so we weren't sure if the shooter was hunting animals or just shooting a gun randomly into the woods gunshots grew louder over the next hour so it seemed like the shooter was getting closer to our campsite a state trooper helicopter started flying overhead with a spotlight trying to find the shooter we eventually heard a bunch of cop cars up the hill from our campsite and heard the state troopers get out and order the shooters to drop their weapons and they brought the shooters into custody the next morning we asked the people who ran our campsite what happened the people who lived in the house up the hill had apparently done a lot of meth then decided to use cars driving down the main road as target practice there were rvs and trees in our campsite that had bullet holes in them luckily none of the bullets hit any campers or caused any of the cars to go off the road which would have sent them hurtling down a mount inside my children i love them more than anything but they are some sneaky m office and they wake you up in a way so gentle that you don't realize it then you open your eyes and they are three inches from your face like good morning daddy it's four am wouldn't change it for the world my snake farted so loud and harshly that he knocked himself off a branch and the poo stuck to the other side of the glass the noise it made in the dark middle of the night was horrifying all the time that my rat got out of his cage and decided to crawl onto my face for kisses back when i was in the military went to bed after drinking for god to lock my door woke up to someone sitting in my chair watching tv turns out he'd been drinking too and thought he was in his room a shadow person from a sleep paralysis episode my roommate screamed directly into my face at 1am you best know i instinctively slapped that bastard probably my fairy lights turning on with a battery missing a fox making the scariest frick noise foxes make literally thought that there was gonna be zombies outside was so scared i wouldn't even go check with my ex what the hell it was [Music] a silhouette of a small child at the end of my bed that whispered my name in a demonic voice it was my daughter i don't care what people say kids are creepy af in the dark feverish hallucination sickness isn't the fun type of hallucination it's the i took too much benadryl sort of hallucination my wife and i were separated and i was sleeping in the basement apartment of our home she woke me in the middle of the night to come upstairs there in the kitchen was an intruder sitting calmly at the table my wife left me alone with this person at 3am i was shaking scared that this person would snap and get violent turns out he was stoned out of his mind and my wife had forgotten to lock the front door she had left to call the police i found out later that she had found him in my son's room there aren't many things scarier than funding a stranger in your house in the 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Published: Tue Jul 14 2020