What's The Scariest Thing That's Happened To You While You Were Home Alone? (r/AskReddit)

serious what is the scariest thing to happen to you when you've been home alone I was home alone at my dad's while he was working nights making my dinner and everything I was probably about 14 or 15 at the time I was watching TV while my potatoes were cooking when I had something slam into the front door I grabbed my pocket knife and check it out nothing about ten minutes later I hear another bang on the front door repeat and still nothing really freaked me out cause we'd had a few houses get broken into on my street turns out I didn't put enough holes into my baked potatoes and they exploded in the oven a coma the scariest thing that happened to me I didn't know actually happened until the following day I lived in an apartment in a not so good part of a dangerous city with my boyfriend who work lights one day our friend came over and called me to let him in our building in a hurry turns out this guy had been crouched by my car in the parking lot and had approached her friend and closed in on him my friend pulled out a weapon and the guy ran off upstairs I noticed that the guy had left a green bundle near my car and assumed he would be back for it it made me uncomfortable so I suggested we call the cops not five minutes after a cop showed up to ask where the guy had gone SWAT k-9 and about ten cars showed up and swarmed our area turns out the guy had escaped from County the night before with two other guys he was in jail for assault with a deadly weapon and repeated domestic violence offenses he had climbed the fence in the yard behind our building where our landlord kept his camper broken into the camper and stayed there the night before he had stolen all the electronics out of it as well as a butcher knife and was trying to break into my car before my friend showed up I had been alone the night before and had taken my dog down to the yard to go to the bathroom I noticed that the barbed wire on the top of the fence had fallen down and my dog was nervous but I brushed it off the guy had been in the camper watching me the whole time and I never knew it wow that would make me paranoid of my surroundings for life law was home alone one night and it was close to Halloween in 2015 loud but knock on the front door I was eating dinner so I slowly but cautiously go to the front door open it up and there is blood all over the front porch and no one there kind of freaked out a bit thought it was a prank called the cops because what the Frick er no they said they would send someone there they called back and said someone was on a bike and fell and was bleeding bad and was going door-to-door asking for help I missed the person but one of my neighbors helped them out apparently crazy good thing someone helped the guy was working pretty late Rea 2:00 a.m. on my computer when I get an alert from my security camera that detected motion I checked it and there was a person staring into my apartment window in full view of where I was working I closed the computer turned off the lights and went into the bathroom for a bit turns out being extra paranoid when someone is staring into your apartment at 2:00 a.m. isn't a good combination I checked the camera memory and the guy was there for 20 minutes just real casual called the cops and the kid ran away and came back an hour later haven't seen him since it was about 8:30 at night and I heard the front door open I called out from my room asking why my mom and dad will home only a half hour after they left for dinner I almost crapped my pants and straight up jumped out of my bedroom window when a random male voice replied what there's somebody in here turns out it was somebody who got hired to check on one of our neighbors dog when they were on vacation and he got the wrong house address but the raw fear that gripped me when I heard his voice still gives me nightmares there had been a scratching in my ceiling for a while and my landlady was dragging her feet over having it looked into one night around 2:00 a.m. the scratching became so bad it woke me up from a dead sleep I tried to reassure myself that whatever it was couldn't really get through to me and I would be fine until I could call my landlady the next day and really press the issue then some debris fell from my ceiling whatever was up they had managed to dig a small hole into my room I screamed and heard some scurrying away from my approximate location grabbed any stuff I needed for the next day got the Frick out of there shut the door tight behind me and slept on the couch I called my landlady first thing in the morning and she had someone come while I was at work that day - check it out my momma raccoon had managed to get her way into the space between the roof and my ceiling and have given birth to a litter of kits the guy speculated that the kits were getting old enough to start wrestling around and that was likely what led to the hole in my ceiling luckily it was just small the size of a quarter so there weren't any angry raccoons hanging outs in my room when I got home they were able to safely trap and release the whole little family but I still started hunting for new apartments ASAP I move into my new place on the 1st of May imagine waking up in pitch black to a raccoon hanging from your ceiling freak that crap when I was younger my mom left me and my little brother home alone while she ran to the store I was in middle school so old enough to be left home safely for an hour and my bro was only two years younger mom leaves and me and my brother are watching TV in the living room and we see a bunch of smoke from the big bay window facing the front yard shortly after she leaves we look and a car has crashed into the ditch that is next to our driveway I grab the phone and we go out on the porch i call 9-1-1 and give them my address then i called my grandma and tell her what happened cops and the whole emergency entourage gets there i go talk to the cops mind you we lived on a state route it's a two-lane road so the entire section of road in front of my house is closed off my mom rounds the corner of the side road to pull onto the saint artie and sees a ton of cop cars in our driveway and shutting down the road - fire trucks at least two ambulances and as any mom seeing this freaks a not note about the road in our house the road is significantly higher than the ditch so it is entirely possible to miss the wrecked car especially when you know you left your kids home alone they allow her to park in the neighbor's driveway since ours is currently occupied and we see her sprinting across the yards the cops intercept her she sees at me and my brother are ok and is able to calm down enough to talk to the cops TL DR car crashed in our front yard when I was left home alone gave mom a heart attack from all the emergency vehicles surrounding her house when she tried to drive down the road got couldn't I McGann how your mother would feel in a situation like that anything could have been going through her mind glad things were okay with you and your brother though I was probably nine years old my sister was six we had the baddest ITAT who was 12 so alone in the sense that no adults were around jackass that I was i squirted bug spray on my sister and she chased me in retaliation but I ran through some French glass doors to get away from her she went for the knob and missed her arm went through one of the glass panes she cut herself so deep you could see muscle tendons and bone it looked like a shittily cuss piece of raw meat since that's basically what it was the baddest eater held a piece of cloth on my sister's arm until my mom came home called her right away and took my sister to the air she didn't hit an artery so it wasn't as bad as it could have been but it was scary as Frick at the time got sixty stitches out of it early teen years power went out while I was taking a shower late at night I got out of the shower already freaked out and looked outside through the window my house was the only one without power stupid teenage brain this is clearly an attempt on my life reality House had a weird problem where the power would cut out if the water heater and air conditioner happened to turn on the same time it had never happened to me before that but my dad assured me that was the problem once he finally came home your house wasn't wired to handle two heavy demands on the supply nothing weird about it it just means whoever had the air cannon stalled or did the installing frisch's up someone tried to break into my neighbor's house while I was babysitting their kids I was 15 and I used to babysit for my neighbors down the block they had a really nice house three floors with a built-in garage under the house that connected to the basement it was the family's most used entrance of the house and they rarely locked the basement door as long as the garage was closed they also had the type of security system wherein a timer door opens you had beep beep beep after the parents left one night I was putting the kids to bed and I heard the beep beep beep I yelled out thinking it was the parents coming back for something but no one answered the system on the wall kept reading basement door open I was freaked out so I called my dad and asked him to come by since he was only a few houses away when he arrived he told me to stay in the kitchen while he checked the house but before he could we heard the beep beep beep again and then the garage door opened when we ran to the window to see if the parents who were pulling into the driveway they weren't instead someone in a hoodie was running out of the garage door and into the woods behind the house my dad ended up calling the cops I'm still creeped out by it it was a hot summer and my parents went to a wedding I had a project to do and it was like 1:00 a.m. and silent until a random drunk dude crawled in through my window with a bottle and blush face I was 20 feet away at my desk from the window and we both just stared at each other he was flustered and said oh sorry their kid wrong house and attempts to leave the way he came he was drunk and dizzy so I helped him by pushing him out the window I thoroughly shut it and stared at it for two hours until my parents came home I was in my basement where the computer was playing some game probably roon escaped and heard someone pull into the driveway naturally assuming it was my mother who was coming home from work I heard the screen door open but when no one opened the lock on the actual door I started to go upstairs and I saw a pair of legs go by the window while the basement was underground there was about a foot that popped up above ground level and had two windows I go upstairs and see two dudes in my backyard looking at the windows and talking about the door was locked it was an attempted home robbery we had been broken into a few times at that point and had everything locked but 10-year old me was terrified they just left nothing happened no home alone crap I did not get killed I am very much alive just me and my mom she got drunk and fell down the stairs she knocked herself out cold and I had admin insta CPR while the paramedics came she has no recollection of this incident denies it and no one else in my family can relate to how scary it is seeing someone almost die and having their life in your hands I don't know how first responders do it when I was around 8 or 9 my mom commuted to a major city about an hour hour and a half away so I would bring myself home from school about 100 meters away lock the door and watch cartoons or play near pets until she got home we lived in apartment blocks and one day one of the older male people in the apartment lost his wallet and he figured it must have been me keep in mind I've never stolen anything in my life who had any trouble with the law and I had no clue what he was talking about he came and banged on the door so aggressively that I jumped out of my skin and was belligerent demanding I opened the door I rang mom crying and she jumped on a train to come home but she was an hour and a half away she called some friends and they came and got me and left that stage he had taken a break and gone back to his apartment but left his dry-cleaning there when Mom got back she stormed straight to his door and pounded on it like he had done to our door he came to the door all shocks and she demanded to know why he thought it was appropriate to bang on the door for an hour to scare a little girl he replied that he thought I stole his wallet mom asked him if he still thought I did and he said no I found it in the car park she looked like she wanted to kill him and forced him to apologize also in that same apartment block there was a hairline fracture on the sliding door that we didn't know about a strong wind blew and shattered the entire window inwards I was home alone then - that was scary as Frick as among that ride home to save your child would be torture I'm sure she was relieved that you were okay and certainly released a lot of pent-up anxiety on him and was probably a relief once while I was home alone I had been warned not to answer the door for anyone or I might get taken away one sales guy had been banging on the door repeatedly for the last six minutes I guess I hadn't muted the TV fast enough he screamed I know you're home alone and there are about died I'm not sure that was a sales guy and if it was he seriously needs to work on his people skills this just happened last week I woke up to someone in my house walking up the stairs to my bedroom it was about 1 p.m. and I work third shift so I was sleeping in my haste I didn't grab my bat I whip open my door and it's my ex best friend whom I've blocked on every social media site she starts yelling at me for not responding to her and how she misses me idk what scared me more the split second I realized there was an intruder all that someone I knew would just take it upon themselves to force me to talk to them by trespassing not super scary but one time when I was like 11 I was home alone at night and got a call from the local sheriff's office who told me they just had a drop 9-1-1 call from this number my house landline and asked if I was okay I didn't call them nobody else was home to call them idk it just creeped me out a lot it was spooky movie night at a friend's and we were three movies deep just finished watching dark skies I was hungry so I was like alright getting my leftovers so I went downstairs by myself when I closed the fridge I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and when I turned to see what it was there was a ghostly white skeletal too thin just staring at me from outside the patio with shimmering hazy lights pulsing behind it I freaking freaks dropped my food and run up the stairs nearly in tears babbling about someone or thing in the backyard turns out it was just my own reflection mixed with the lights and steam from the hot tub outside but I've never been so scared in my life great movie though I started choking on a clump of my guides only survived because I tripped and fell on the couch in such a way that it dislodged the candy I was nearly killed then saved by being a klutz I was actually at a friend's house when her parents weren't home we were maybe 10 it was her my sister her sisters and me we decided to go swimming there had been a rash of burglaries lately but mostly garages being broke into anyway we were in the pool when we noticed the kitchen lights turn on it was evening we assumed her parents so looked in the window to do something stupid to get their attention when we realized we do not know the individual in the house we hid behind the wall of the pool above-ground terrified until her parents finally came home it appeared as though he got spooked as he only ransacked the kitchen and left the garage door wide open when fleeing the thought of an absolute stranger going through your home is absolutely unnerving or I heard gunshots when I was home alone for the first time as a 12 year old turns out my neighbor was a murderer at least twelve cop cars and like two fire trucks showed up and I thought it was the end of the world this happened many many years ago when I was but a youngster in my suburb they had recently been a spate of break and enters where I live they tend to happen suburb by suburb like one suburb will get hit a bunch then there will be nothing for a while or my family had gone away for the weekend but I had stayed home because I had work I was up at midnight watching a James Bond movie Live and Let Die for those playing at home with all the lights in the house turned off and I heard a really sudden and strange thud from my kitchen living area I instantly knew it was a weird noise nothing in the house made any noises like that so it was immediately suspicious just as I was about to get up to go and check it out I heard it again that's when I realized it was actually the thudding of the thick glass sliding door from the kitchen to the outdoor patio as I mentioned all the lights are off so I'm making my way through the house turning lights on when I reached the light switch to turn on the patio lights I hid all of the lights at once including the light at my front door which is visible from where I'm now standing we had those glass panels next to the front door which I could now also see out off since the light was on there was nobody at the patio area at this time but through the glass panels at the front door I saw someone sprint past and out of the yard even though I couldn't see any detail it was unmistakable to see that it was a person running past it later occurred to me that they were most likely kicking the glass patio door to try and smash it and break in as I later learned that this is apparently one common method of entry during burglaries I had initially assumed they were hitting it was something but a boot would explain the deep hollow thud of the noise better than striking it with something was pretty spooky at the time just that sudden realization of that is not a normal noise kind of crazy what your intuition knows in moments like that police were chasing a guy and he ran into into our backyard and over the fence to another house it felt like the helicopter was going to land on the house I have a few more stories similar to this growing up in southla was kinda wild my parents let me walk home from school alone when I was in fourth grade in my now adult opinion that's way too young so I walk home from school house is empty till about 5:00 when my parents get home so I am doing my usual routine Mountain Dew Code Red the Rito's 3ds and Toonami on Cartoon Network so I am only home for about three minutes when I hear a knock at the door 99% of the time I stay quiet and just wait for whoever to leave but for whatever reason I actually go to the door and call out who is it strange a dude voice on the other side hey it's your buddy Mike I don't have a grown but man buddy Mike I am in fourth grade my crap goes cold heart in my throat goosebumps cannot move paralyzed terrified dude says again hey open the door we gotta go and he jiggles the door handle really hard then he knocks again Bam Bam Bam jiggles the door handle hard again I am still like one foot away from the door I actually never moved since all of this started because I didn't want him to hear my footsteps after a minute of silence I heard a car door closed and him drive away I am still freaked the freak out for the next hour and worse thing was I was now super paranoid about walking to from school because obviously he followed me that day and I had no idea I was being tailed we lived outside a rural town and my mother always told my father not to leave me home unsupervised because it was a 20-minute drive from town if some accident were to occur anyway my dad was a completely irresponsible parent and so he ignored that advice and instead left me at home by myself at age seven however before he left to go back to a meeting and he explained how to load and dong his 12-gauge shotgun under his bed with buckshot and told me if anyone comes to the door and tried to break in shoot them fast forward a couple hours my mother calls him and asks how everything is going he says I'm home alone she loses her mind and rushes out of work to come home and get me in her rush she forgets her house keys so she gets home and starts banging on the front door I didn't hear her voice and also being the obedient child I am I go into my parents room load the gun and bring it towards the door wide on it and I don't know if my mom heard it or what but she suddenly stopped banging and yelled my name instead it's probably the only reason she's alive today I was really scared before I knew it was her but I assumed my dad was smart and told me the right thing to do bet your mom wasn't too happy with your dad when you told her he told you to do that law the lights turned off all at once while I was in the kitchen it was pitch black I heard the door open for some reason instead of thinking power outage my brain went to someone has cut the power and is coming to kill me I grabbed the landline the knife and was crouched behind the kitchen counter hearing steps come through the house trying to breath as quietly as possible then I hear my mom go to low anyone home the power went out by chance at the exact moment she came in the door that would have been an awkward hospital trip just imagine walking into your own house not knowing that a family member is about to stab you from the dark my house came with an alarm that kept track of movement in every room I set the alarm before bed but I woke up in the middle of the night because it was alerting me that there was movement going back and forth between my guest bedroom down the hall and into my office my alarm has a robotic speaking voice so in the dark I'd Harris say movement guest bedroom movement 2nd floor hallway movement office etcetera I assumed it was a glitch and nothing to worry about but I ended up turning that function off I also heard human footsteps above me in my attic once home alone while my wife was out of town but I posted that one already months ago I got up immediately and searched through my entire house couldn't find anything figured it was a glitch and turned the feature off the next day I didn't ignore the alarm that night if I've learned anything here you have a squatter living in your attic who only comes out when you away or vulnerable enough not to check it out for me I was 12 years old and my dad was at his girlfriend's house I went into my room to take a shower I always put a chair under the door handle in my room because it didn't have a lock my grandma loved giving me porcelain dolls and she decorated my room with shelves that had porcelain dolls on them all of the dolls were on their shelves before I got into the shower when I exited my bathroom one of the porcelain dolls was ten feet across the room facedown on the ground this doll must have flown across the room to have landed where it did also the doll was not broken needless to say my grandma was sad that all of the dolls were packed up and put in the Attic for safekeeping those dolls are just horrendous I'd be scared to even have them in the Attic plotting their evil growing stronger I was chilling in my bed with my dog watching TV and I hear a door shut downstairs I look out the window of my sister's room cause she had a view of the garage but the garage was empty I grabbed a pocketknife and crept downstairs I search the basement as well as everywhere on the ground floor and found nothing went back to my room on edge for the next couple of hours until my family got home still don't know what happened and it couldn't have been wind cause it was winter so we had all the windows closed not that scary bitter door closing when you're home alone and not even twelve is a lil spooky I guess I too enjoy playing Rainbow six in my own home first time I was ever home alone an earthquake hit and being a ten-year-old who had never experienced an earthquake I had no idea what was happening and lost my crab wasn't alone but I was a teenager with my girlfriend and my parents where and home we were house-sitting for my mom who was on vacation with her boyfriend we are sitting there in the living room which is right next to the front porch it's about 12:30 a.m. or so when we hear loud and heavy footsteps on the porch a guy goes next to the windows and goes crap Frick really loud I'm assuming it's because the curtains are closed this really spooks us because the couch we were sitting on was near the windows had those curtains not have been closed he could have seen us freaked out we shut off all the lights in the house as the footsteps go away we look out the windows to see if there's anyone out there and there's a big burly man with a kind of plastic bag we live in a small town out in the middle of hillbilly country so any stores or takeout restaurants are closed at this point in time so it's a mystery where he got this bag and what was in it this guy walks down the street turns around back towards my house and disappears into a parking lot next door to us not two minutes later we hear the door number to the side door which was thankfully locked jiggle my dog starts going absolutely insane at the noise he's a small dog with a loud bark so I think he scared him away but that was that we debated calling the cops but never did' and nothing else ever came of it we were going to call the cops if he came back but he never did we figured he was either drunk or high or something else the carbon monoxide alarm went off since someone asked me what happened I was a little kid when this occurred I was home alone upstairs in my bedroom and my dad was down the street at a neighbor's house I had never heard the carbon monoxide alarm go off before and no one told me about it so when it went it scared the toenails out of me it was located in our big empty basement so that only amplified the noise like the world's worst kind of acoustics it took about a minutes to figure out the house wasn't on far so I tried to investigate what the alarm could be I wasn't able to get down the basement steps because it was so loud and painful to my ears to be that close to the noise not sure how normal that is but this mother was loud like loudest thing I've ever heard in my life kinda loud after a few failed attempts at investigating I finally got worried enough to run out of the house and look for my dad I found him talking to one of our neighbors outside in their yard down the street and told him some alarm is going off and I didn't know what to do he got really annoyed at me like I did something wrong but he walked with me back home and he realized what it was so he opened a bunch of windows and went down to check the alarm I don't know if it was a false alarm or not but he just put new batteries in it and told me to leave the windows open for a while he went back to the neighbor's house and left me alone again about five minutes later the alarm went off again so I don't think it was a bad battery I went to get my dad for a second time and now he was super annoyed he came home and just took the batteries out of the thing and left again father of the year I didn't die though so that's cool but maybe I got brain damage from sneaky carbon monoxide and that's why I am so dumb this happened to me last August I don't know if it was the fire alarm or carbon monoxide alarm but I couldn't tell anything was wrong it went off for about 30 seconds and then stopped never happened again my girlfriend and I both travel a lot for work pree covet so it's not unusual for only one of us to be home on any given week last fall she was in San Francisco and I was home alone for a few days we live in an apartment on the top floor of a building above us is a roof with a deck available to everyone middle of the night I get up to use a bathroom and on the walk back to bed I look over to the study there's a sliding door in the study leading to a balcony I immediately stopped dead in my tracks I see the outline of a person standing on my balcony facing me I ran hit the Lights grab a knife from the knife block and start dialing 9-1-1 the person is a kid no more than 16 he sees me hit the lights grab a knife and my phone and he immediately grabs the railing on my balcony and flings himself over I run over assuming I just watched someone kill themselves only to see him safe and sound on the balcony below me he then hurdles off the balcony he's jumping from floor to floor he hits the parking lot into the back of our building safely and then Sprint's off cops finally come and break up a party on the roof turns out he was just a drunk friend off someone on the second floor and got dared to do it also shout-out to my dog for being asleep 15 feet from the balcony and not doing anything my grandparents paid me to house-sit for them and take care of their animals two dogs two goats and like three or four horses for two weeks one of the dogs was really clingy so I closed the door on him when I went to bed one night I woke up in the middle of the night but I was too tired to move but I saw a black figure with a white face standing right beside the bed it was making this horrific growling noise and leaned into me and pressed down on my chest it pressed harder and harder and then I was able to move my fingers and then I was eventually able to move my body but after that I let the dog sleep in the room and I slept with the lights on that was the first time I experienced sleep paralysis and thankfully the times after that one went freaky but sleep paralysis is the worst sometimes I have trouble breathing when it happened so I focus on that and wiggling my toes well my house was sort of out farther away from town we had neighbors but they were few and far between there was a hiking trail opening across the street from our driveway which was very long and can be seen from the trail my room had a large window facing out to the driveway anyway I was home alone cleaning my room and singing we are the champions extremely loudly as well as playing it on my TV looked up and suddenly see a man power walking up my driveway very quickly it's obvious no one is home but me since there aren't any cars in the driveway so I ran to the front door which was open because it was hot F outside and locked it and closed and locked my window turns out bro friends did not like that i called 9-1-1 because he was still approaching my house and i was getting scared by his demeanor and while on the phone with the 9-1-1 operator he started banging on my front window by the door and then the door itself he tried kicking in the door and tried breaking the window i went and hid in my mom's closet because it locked from the inside only with the knife until the cops showed up by the time they showed up he was gone and there were hand and shoes prints all over the door in front window and some hand prints on my bedroom window they found him about an hour later walking up and down my street he told them that he heard my pretty singing voice and just wanted to say hi he was also drunk but admitted to being sober at the time of the incident and started drinking after I rejected him he also told them that he planned to come in and have some fun with me after he found that I was home alone and that he was waiting for night time to come back so yet had a lot of nightmares about that one TL DR man tried to break in because he heard me singing couldn't get in gave up then went and got drunk a police found and arrested him an hour later then he admitted to them that he wanted to violate me okay what the Frick I was watching some sort of ghost TV show about demons or something in my basement home alone when I was probably 14 or 15 a freaking turkey walked up to the sliding door and started tapping on the glass I know the freaked out of that basement so fast I don't think I ever watched that show again either the show was called a haunting reminds me of an incident that happened to me in college I lived in a dorm my freshman year while my roommate was sleeping my boyfriend and I were having a conversation online about angels and demons in her sleep she randomly sass straight up completely stiff with her eyes wide open and said it's coming the Monster is coming freaked me out so bad this happened a few years ago one evening my dog who sadly passed away this year used to like standing on the stairs and looking out the window to watch the world go by one evening my parents went out and my dog was on his usual spot when I hear a very low growl I come out of my room to see to him and he growls again and shift slightly but he's focused on the window and he doesn't budge his heckles are up and his body languages stiff I'm thinking it's a fox or cat that's triggered him but I'm concerned as it was the first time I had ever heard him growl I take a look out of a different window and I can't see anything I knew enough not to try to move any dog on whilst in that state a risk of dogs redirecting etc' so I left him to it and eventually he comes and settles outside my room after pacing along the hallway for a bit but he won't come into my room when I call him he's just fixed in my doorway after an hour of police helicopter flies over and circles around the area but that's normal for that part of town and I don't make a connection I just figure something has spooked my boy the next day at around the afternoon we get a knock on the door from the police the evening before a young girl got followed off a bus and violated on a nearby green and the dirty bastard ran off and hid in people's gardens after he was done and had tried a few people's doors and windows to see if there were open and the police wanted to know if we'd seen anything unusual that evening my dad answered and the negative as he was out with my mum however I wasn't and when the police knocked and only heard about it later when my dad told me about the police the guy was eventually caught and charged as they traced the card he used to board the bus he followed the girl off from it wasn't his first offense either it was all over the local news I suspect the guy was hiding in our garden and my dog had spotted him and knew the guy was dodgy so went into guard dog mode which was unusual as he was a big sappy baby who loved everyone I miss him if you don't mind me asking what kind of dog was he got a hot dog stuck in my throat I chopped myself in the Adam's apple and it flew out I was 15 or 16 it was a Friday night and my parents were having dinner with some friends I was supposed to stay alone at home for three or so hours a middle-aged guy got into the garage and was trying to break into the house he was carrying a bat pipe something was angry as heck and kept yelling my dad's name he broke windows and a door and damaged my mom's car luckily he didn't get inside I was so scared I didn't even think of calling the police I remember how my hands were shaking and how I was trying hard not to cry I called my mom and my parents rushed home they called the police on their way police arrived a few minutes later turns out this man was married to one of my dad's coworkers she was cheating on him and she told her husband the other guy was my dad in order to protect the real of a guy what a be sitting in my parents farm house reasonably deep into the Scottish Highlands on a farm around five miles from the nearest small town overlooking a valley but on a small road that wasn't traveled on much anyway totally alone just chilling in the living room and something smashed into the window right beside me i frickin shat myself a huge crow completely out of the blue flew hard into the window double glazed so didn't break that made a heck of a noise about three feet away from me I was freaking out how could a crow hit that window in the house having not avoided the house altogether I was on edge for hours afterwards it survived and eventually kind of limped and eventually flew away just a random occurrence that had gave me a serious fright all alone up there on a windy hill later on I could laugh as it left a perfect bird shaped greasy mark on the window like something out of a cartoon I read cannot crow first and I was amazed at the strength of the window when I was about eighteen ninety-nine ish my parents went out of town to visit family and I was home alone for a few days Saturday night I'm chatting with friends online and start hearing little noises downstairs then I can hear muffled voices my parents hunt you back till the next evening and I started panicking I locked myself in the office and called 9-1-1 I'm crying and hiding behind the desk with the phone and I hear footsteps coming up the stairs I lost it when the donor started rattling and then my mom started asking why the door was locked I told the operator that my parents were home early and hung up while my mom is fussing at me for being online all evening they had decided to come home early and because I had been online they couldn't call me to let me know mom finally realized they had scared the absolute crap out of me and apologized but I was grounded for running up the AOL bill while they were gone not sure if this counts because it was my sister home alone not me and she didn't know it was scary at the time my sister was sleeping in one morning and I left for an hour or so but I didn't lock the door behind me while I was gone my sister woke up to the sound of bashing on the door she thought it was me and I had locked myself out so she took her sweet time answering the door which like I said was unlocked anyway by the time she answered no one was there which she was confused about but didn't really care and just started off about her day I got home later and soon after two police officers came to the door and questioned her I snuck out after they left and asked WTF they were wanting and she told me the story about the person at the door turns out a bloke had been bashing on people's doors in the area and when they opened the door he would stab them with a knife as a means of getting past the owner and robbing them he was caught soon after and confirmed that he had attempted the act at our house but he got distracted for some reason and ran away before my sister answered the door we lived in a dodgy suburb at the time so we weren't surprised who happened in our area but it freaked us out enough to remember to lock the door for a good few months after dang it's a good thing he just left BC that could have turned out really bad planned our sisters okay my sister and I we're home alone our parents were out with some friends suddenly there was the voice of a young child downstairs repeatedly screaming mommy after a few minutes I was finally able to go downstairs and look turns out how PC was turned on and it played this sound so I turned it off when our parents came home they didn't believe us until it started again a few days later in the middle of the night this time our parents were home and it turned out it was some strange virus on our computer good lord that still creepy not completely home alone it was myself and my younger siblings I was working late one night and had told my brother and sister than when I got back we could order pizza I got home at around 2130 and walked through into the front room where they were sat waiting both looking pretty confused they told me they thought I had already come home because they heard the front door open followed by me running up to my room creepy enough I had a quick check upstairs nothing there so proceeded to order the pizza now I don't fully believe in ghosts I've always thought that there could be something but I'm the kind of person who has to have a logical reason for everything anyway we're sat waiting for our food to arrive when one of our three dogs sits up with his ears pricked and essentially watches somebody walk into the room and sit in the empty armchair then dog 2 of 3 starts growling staring at the armchair dog 2 of 3 is a rescue and is very wary of people he doesn't know and was acting exactly how he would towards a stranger dog 3 then clods into the room chilled as anything and goes to jump into his favorite armchair he gets to it and stops staring directly at face level as if somebody has sat there at this point I'm sure you can imagine we're all freaking out he just sits besides the chair growling and he's definitely not comfortable with whatever sat there my siblings and I have all frozen there's a horrible feeling in the room we're all sat staring at the armchair on edge when the front door opens my mum had come home early and the dogs all run through to see her I don't think I slept properly again in that house this seemed to have tied in with a few other creepy things which happened but I won't go into that here please go chant oh it here I was pretty young at the time probably 10 - 11 my parents went to get groceries and let me stay home to watch the TV then suddenly a bloody dude just runs up to my house and starts knocking on my door we live on a one-way street maybe a quarter of a minute later a cop car pulls up and they beat the crap out of the guy put him in the back of the car and drove away but I guess the criminal was trying to escape that did not think there would be no exit whatsoever except through someone's house scared the living heck out of me decided to go downstairs in the middle of the night to get snacks after I take my first step down the stairs I passed out woke up on the landing unscathed I must have fall backwards idk how I fell but if it was the other direction I would have plunged to death if 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Id: aXh-87-r_ZM

Length: 42min 49sec (2569 seconds)

Published: Sun May 31 2020