What TERRIFIED You While Home Alone? (/r/AskReddit) Reddit Stories

what is the most terrifying thing you've ever experienced while home alone [Music] one day while I was working afternoons a couple years back I woke up at around 10 a.m. and started to watch American dead before getting up next thing you know I hear my back door open a normal thing in our home since we only use the back door but no one was supposed to be home yet I assumed it was my mom and didn't think anything of it then I heard footsteps coming up the stairs as my bedroom was on the second floor I call out to my mom and get no response then my door cracks open and her head pops in it's a 30 ish year old man with a blond beard and a big mane of greasy hair who looks shocked to see me at the time I was about 260 pounds six feet three and 20 years old M I was also sitting in only my boxers before I was able to realize what was happening he asked is this the residence to which I reply no dad he makes a swift exit and before I can recollect my thoughts he's not even in my driveway talk to a family friend who is a veteran police officer turns out a man has been pulling this kind of stunt to rob people in nearby towns someone attempting to break in I have a 75 pound boxer and have never seen anyone run as fast as that man did when I was 19 in my first apartment I had someone knock at the door I looked through the peephole and saw this burly heavyset man who abruptly started screaming to let him in he was screaming things like he was going to beat my ass and kick the door down if I didn't open I called the cops and as soon as someone got on the phone he started body slamming my daughter break-in I was freaking out and crying as they quickly had five cops show up within five plus minutes as soon as he heard the sirens he quickly walked away and they met him at the bottom of the stairs apparently he was after the previous renter but was extremely intoxicated there rested him and thankfully he never came back I ended up breaking my lease and moving out three months later it was in a very nice neighborhood but it quickly made me wish I was back home with family instead of being on the other side of the United States you know those tongs in the kitchen that have a spring but a latch to keep them together I had a pair of those and I put the latch on and put them down on the counter I went away for a bit and came back and then they jumped off the counter at me biggest jump scare of my life the latch had come undone and they sprung open but of the millisecond when inanimate objects suddenly come to life and jump at you you don't realize this and totally freaked out I hate when there's a random noise in the house like a door slamming shut and the unsettling feeling of not being alone when you've already checked if everyone's gone my BF worked away from home a lot and I always struggled to sleep on the first night he was away on this occasion I was woken by the sound of a man shouting and then someone banging on wood or a front door I jumped up and looked out my bedroom window just in time to see a man dressed all in black walking through our garden towards the house I ran to the front of the house to look out of the front window and make sure he kept going he did but he met up with another man dressed in black walking towards my house I was terrified and called the police they arrived in a matter of minutes and checked out the back garden but they were gone turned out a neighbor had caught them both trying to steal his car and one had escaped through the gardens while the other had run through the roads and they had met up outside my house I didn't sleep at all that night and my brother came to stay the next night I'm so glad I live in an apartment now much more security I have been pretty fortunate based on these comments but I was home alone one night while my wife and son were visiting my mill I walked back to our bedroom to see someone rummaging through my son's room on the video baby monitor immediately grabbed my firearm and yell to the other side of the house I am armed come out slowly over and over while slowly making my way back to his room got there flipped on the light and nothing searched the whole house pumped full of adrenaline finally satisfied I was alone I went back to my and the guy was back in the room I took a closer look and I am ashamed to say I was looking at myself the camera is a life fetor now we fee and it was steaming on a huge delay I have never known it to do that and it has not done it since TL DR went looking for myself and came back empty-handed the cleaning lady tried to commit suicide in our bathroom she died four days later I work from home so I'm home alone a lot one day I was working and out of the corner of my eye I noticed some movement in my backyard there was a man jumping over my fence into my backyard panicked I call my then-boyfriend now free and K and tell him what is happening while I'm on the phone with him I get a knock at my front door it's a woman from CenturyLink informing me that technicians will need access to my backyard I tell her someone just jumped over my fence so I think they are already there way to give me a heart attack CenturyLink I had the police knock one day while I was alone the cop had a guy in the back of his car who said we were holding his friend captive I showed the cop my ID and explained that it was just me and my husband he wasn't home but they could look if they wanted to and he said no that was okay and then asked questions about my neighbors when I was young I came home from a party in the middle of the night when my dad were out of town I started making a midnight quest Dilla when I heard someone cough in the basement I yelled and ran outside and they took off through the backyard come to find out my dad's ex GF s daughter stole her key to our house and came to rob us she was busted a couple years later doing this to her soul when I was like 14 I was home alone one night around 10 p.m. stood in my kitchen making some cereal it's dark outside and then all of a sudden the loudest sound some drunk woman literally launched a hammer through my kitchen window was so loud and glass was everywhere I followed her down the street whilst calling the police pretty strange edit for everyone asking why I followed so the reason I actually followed her was because you could see really clearly through the smashed window as it was now wide open she looked like a very fragile little old crack head lady that could barely walk or see straight and she started stumbling away mumbling some poop once she had done it plus I didn't really know how the Frick I was gonna explained this poop to my parents if I didn't have a solid answer half but yes it was a very distressed walk whilst following her definitely inaction caused by adrenaline - I had to long taper candles for some ambience while I was playing guitar late at night I was facing the other direction looking out the window while playing and shortly later turned around and went back towards the candles and discovered one of them was completely gone The Stand was still there but no melted wax just a bare candle holder and the other one was still lit and no shorter than it was when I lit them it was almost 3 a.m. and I was so terrified that I got in my car and left and drove to my dad's house one evening an explosion at a petrochemical plant located a mile from my house blew out the double window in my living room while I was in the room I definitely thought we were being bombed until I remembered where I live I had just let my dog out to the backyard and he was completely traumatized for the following two months I had to carry him outside and sit in the grass with pieces of chicken just so he would potty headed to it my house is currently for sale for unrelated reasons [Music] not exactly alone but I was home with my newborn son and someone knocked on the front door I was expecting my mother but she usually comes in through the garage I thought it was strange but yelled come in because why wouldn't I then this cracked-out old woman comes stumbling through the door and asks me for a ride to the nearest gas station I told her I didn't have a car seat for my son so I couldn't go anywhere so she starts screaming that's just inappropriate and doesn't stop even when I'm telling her she needs to leave or I'll call the cops after a minute or so my mother actually pulls in the driveway the crackhead sees the car and volts back out the door and I never see her again that night my truck got broken into can't for sure say it was the same woman but I have her description to the cops anyway somebody tried to break into the house while I was by myself the whole place was quiet and dark at nighttime I walked past the front door to go upstairs for bed and the handle suddenly started jerking around like the Hulk was trying to get him then whoever it was started to either kick or shoulder the door and it was making the whole frame jiggle I completely frozen my mind went blank just standing there like an idiot and staring my dog bolted down the stairs like it was her time to shine scrambled on the tile and let loose the most vicious sparks I've ever heard whoever it was left she was a very good girl I miss her I was asleep at home alone when I turned over in bed I casually opened my eyes a little whilst turning and they were shut again just as quickly in that split-second I could have sworn I had seen a man stirred at the bottom of my bed I laid still awake with my eyes closed trying not to act like I was awake and trying to listen for any sound in the room of someone breathing or moving couldn't hear anything I was too scared to open my eyes and look consoled myself that there wasn't any way someone could have gotten in without me hearing a window smash and fell back asleep when I got up in the morning though the front door was open they didn't take anything and left no signs of being there was still very very creepy though edit typos the guy wasn't a stunt he was stood edit thanks for my first award was home with my infant twin daughters who were sound asleep I was watching TV in the lower level of my tree level home on that level the windows look out to the backyard and as I got up to go to the kitchen something caught my attention what looks like a pail left arm is being subtly illuminated outside in the far right window maybe six inches away from the window it had angled straight down as if to steadying itself my heart sunk then I could feel my heartbeat in my neck I ran up the few stairs to the main floor and grabbed my phone and returned to see if it was still there nope nothing I've never been remotely shaken like I was then called the non-emergency police and when they arrived walk to the backyard with the officers but didn't find anything they were great and kept saying calling them was the right thing to do it's what were are here for etc don't know what it was but the images said into my memory nothing too crazy but startling two scenarios and lady so my wife and I lived in apartment buildings owned by our University we complained to get rid of our rant invasion I'm a gamer and have some good noise cancelling headphones this lady comes into our apartment probably announces herself idk I'm chillin playing games and I hear a noise in the bathroom my wife shouldn't be home for a few hours I almost end up clobbering that poor woman : dart police response to stabbing that day was Friday game night just moved into our new apartment so none of our friends know where we live currently wife goes out to hang out with friends it's 12 a.m. I hear a knock on our door it's a man's voice now this is weird for several reasons no one knows where we live and a man knocking at 12 a.m. now huge red flags I tell him give me a minute I go grab the biggest knife I could as I open the door I hide the knife behind the thigh furthest from him and he's responding to someone in the neighborhood who claimed they got stabbed I'm literally holding a frickin knife lucky I hid the knife behind me chatted a bit and he left could have been bad I was babysitting a kid who had a video monitor and was told that she wouldn't wake up while the parents were out and if she did - call them right away I was watching TV with the monitor set off to the side to keep an eye on her and right around 11:00 the cameras view shifted a few inches it then began to slightly jiggle like someone was messing with it I was squinting at it trying to decide what I was actually seeing and I kid you not the whole screen burst to static for a few seconds and the kid started wailing she stood up and was screaming in her crib just like one of the kids from The Sims when she didn't fall back asleep after a few minutes I called mom and she said okay were on our way home anyway we think she has nightmares sometimes it's fine never again got a 5 channel sound system nothing too fancy but the best I'd ever had watched her action film and heard a creaking door to my left in the distance I had to clear my home as I thought there was an intruder nope just better stereo sound edit it's a 5:1 system the two behind me caused all the problems they are oriented towards the outside of my house sorry for any confusion in my lack of terminology [Music] when I was about 10 years old someone kept ringing the doorbell for like ten minutes was freaking creepy a few years ago I was home alone in my basement playing video games when I hear the door that connects my kitchen to the garage creak open and slam shut but I never heard the actual mechanical garage door open then I heard heavy footsteps of someone wearing boots walk the length of my kitchen directly above me I originally thought oh my brother must have forgotten something as he had left about five minutes before that for work so I was about to yell up to him to make fun of him but something in the back of my mind was telling me hold on something's not right here so I muted my TV to both hear better and to stay quiet then I heard the footsteps turn around and walk back to the door and again I hear at creak open and slam shut but again I never heard the actual mechanical garage door open or closed so I slowly walk upstairs thinking maybe my brother just forgot to close the garage door I slowly opened the door to my garage and see that the garage door has been closed the entire time the only two explanations I can come up with are either something paranormal happened or someone broke into my house walk through my kitchen and left without taking anything while also not letting me hear them open my garage door in my opinion both are equally terrifying to me hi there look if you enjoy the video well why not go ahead and hit that like and subscribe to Reddit stories in fact if you want to see even more responses to this thread well then take a look there's the link in the description below and remember show some love to those authors while 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Published: Thu Jul 16 2020