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00:00I'm 30 years old and I share a house with my sister it's a two-floor house a mother-daughter
00:15house meaning it has two kitchens my sister takes the downstairs I take the upstairs my sister isn't
00:21home a lot because she often stays with her boyfriend who lives 20 miles away like I said
00:26I'm 30 I shouldn't let being home alone ever freaked me out but admittedly sometimes it does
00:31this happened on a night that I was home alone in my living room watching a scary movie my part of
00:37the house is an open layout so the living room dining room and kitchen are all one big space
00:42my couch is in the middle of the space so as I watch tv on the couch my back is to a large part
00:48of the room behind me so for those a little more easily spooked it wouldn't be the most comfortable
00:53place to be sitting alone watching a scary movie I'll admit as I watched in the dark room with
00:58nothing but the light from the tv to cancel the darkness of the room I found myself glancing over
01:03my shoulder a lot I like to think I'm not the only 30 year old male that does that but anyway after the
01:10movie I brushed my teeth turned off all the lights in the house then went to sleep my sleep lasted for
01:16about two hours I woke up around 1am and I wasn't sure why I woke up at first then I heard a voice
01:23downstairs it sounded like my sister it sounded like she was inside the house so it's not like
01:29she was calling for me to open the door but still I knew it was my sister's voice I didn't know what
01:35she was yelling up to me though but I was still groggy and not thinking straight all I could think was
01:41that she must have been calling for me or arguing with her boyfriend so I got out of bed and went into
01:47the pitch black hall I turned on the hallway lights and then made my way through the living room
01:51and heard my sister's voice again from downstairs now I could understand her to be saying my name
01:57I made my way downstairs in the dark yelling back at her what is it I looked for the light switch in
02:03the foyer downstairs but couldn't find it I'm not lying when I say I was groggy as hell I walk down
02:09her little hallway towards her kitchen find a light switch and flick it on the light in the kitchen
02:13lights up her little apartment including her living room the light starts off dim and needs time to
02:18brighten up but I still saw that there was no one down there not her not her boyfriend I went to
02:24her bedroom but it was empty I called her name really loudly one time no one called back but
02:30shortly after I yelled I heard something drop to the floor in my sister's bedroom which I had just
02:35checked and it was empty I went back up the stairs like a little kid and went back to my bed to where my
02:41phone was I tried to call her a few times but she didn't pick up I had myself locked in my room
02:47wondering if I had just hallucinated all of that eventually I fell asleep and in the morning I woke
02:53up to text from my sister asking why I called her at 1am I asked her if she was home last night and
02:59she told me no she was currently staying at her boyfriend's house I went downstairs to her bedroom
03:04to see what may have fallen down on the floor but there was not a single object on the floor that
03:08could have made that noise I'm led to believe I hallucinated everything I heard that night but that's
03:14what I want to believe because the alternative would be much more horrific but I've never really
03:19hallucinated anything else or had any kind of sleep disorders so how vividly I heard my sister's
03:25voice and that sound in her room really freaks me out
03:28I was left home alone a lot as a kid just due to the fact that my mom was single for a good
03:44chunk of my upbringing and she worked as an RN on a crappy RN schedule and my brother went away to
03:50college this was a night that my mom was working in overnight it was a weekend night so I had this
03:56girl Molly over who I was talking to and she hung out for a while we watched a couple movies and
04:01whatnot and eventually she had to go home because her parents don't like her out late so I was left
04:05alone to hold down the fort I continued to watch tv in my room in bed my bedroom is upstairs next to
04:12the backyard so when someone dragged one of the chairs on the deck outside I heard it I got up and
04:18looked out the window and I saw someone sitting on one of the deck chairs down below I called Molly's
04:23name thinking it was her after all she'd only left under 10 minutes ago whoever it was looked up at
04:29me but it wasn't Molly I immediately pulled away from the window to hide that was not anybody I
04:35recognized not in the darkness at least I texted a few close friends in our group chat if it was one
04:41of them messing with me the ones who answered all said no and asked what I was talking about I didn't
04:47really believe any of my friends would come to my house to mess with me like that anyway
04:50scared shitless but still curious I slowly walked back over to the window to look down again and
04:56that person was still sitting in the chair looking up at my window it was a he that much was clear
05:02and he definitely saw me I hurried away from the window again to turn off the tv I sat in my bed in
05:08a ball basically with my arms wrapped around my knees I waited in darkness for a while I didn't even
05:14want to turn my phone screen on because I was scared he'd see the light I didn't even want to move
05:19because the window was opened and I feared that he'd hear any movement I made I wanted him to
05:24assume I was just no longer in the bedroom I waited enough time it had to be a solid five minutes of
05:30just sitting there I highly doubted that man outside could still be there I finally mustered up the
05:35courage to get up and look out the window I felt a little part of me die inside when I saw he was still
05:41down there looking up at my window instead of running away from the window again I tried to be brave and
05:47said down to him what do you want I then noticed his shoulders started to go up and down as if he
05:52were laughing really hard but he didn't make any kind of audible laughing sounds at first till I
05:57heard a slight whistling sound coming from him it seemed like he was laughing so hard that he was
06:02wheezing I asked him to please go away then walked away from the window again I went back to my bed I was
06:09scared to call the police for some reason I left my room and sat at the top of the stairway listening
06:14the back door was being pushed he was trying to get into the house I ran back to my room to hide
06:20again I was 14 I didn't know what else to do eventually I heard the front door's door not
06:26being fiddled with and the man trying to push the front door open as well he gave up quickly thank
06:31god I closed my bedroom window and curtains if our doors weren't locked I could have been killed
06:37easily I was skinny and weak when I was 14 and definitely not a fighter I didn't leave my room
06:43again that night until my mom got home around 9 I told her what happened and her reaction was angry
06:49at me for not calling 9-1-1 and in hindsight that was very stupid of me one of the many things I did
06:55or rather didn't do at a young age that I questioned greatly
06:59this was the story of how I almost died as a young kid home alone and possibly the most intense night
07:17of my life with way too much going on we're a family of five I was 10 at the time my older brother
07:24was 14 my little sister was five it was a Friday night my brother was out with his friends causing
07:30trouble clearly because a dreaded phone call came to my parents all I remember was I was in my room
07:36playing a Star Wars video game when I heard my mom start freaking out crying I got really scared and
07:42hurried to see what was wrong my mom was on the phone with the hospital calling to inform my parents
07:47that my brother had gotten hit by a car obviously we were all shaken and really scared my brother's leg was
07:53broken but I don't know what else was said on the phone all I know is my parents hurried to get
07:58their coats on and got my little sister from her room and asked me if I was okay to stay home alone
08:02I said yes and they hurried out to the car and left I was of course really worried for my brother
08:09but I really didn't want to go to the hospital and see him in any kind of bad condition I don't
08:13think my parents wanted me or my sister to either but they didn't want to leave my five-year-old
08:17sister home without them it's worth mentioning my brother recovered just fine as his injury is no
08:23longer relevant to the story other than it being the reason why I was left home alone on a Friday
08:28night before my dad left he was trying to calm down my mom telling her he was going to be okay
08:34so seeing my dad like that made me feel better I had a feeling my mom was just being overdramatic
08:39like any mom would be I continued playing the Star Wars game for a couple more hours when I heard the
08:45front door open I had my bedroom door closed by this point it was easily past midnight and past my
08:52bedtime so I turned off the TV and PlayStation and crawled into my bed with my Gameboy I tried
08:58listening to hear my parents voices maybe hear if my brother was with them or just hear what they
09:03were saying but I didn't hear anything after a few minutes of not hearing them even come up the stairs
09:08I had a feeling something was wrong I went to my door and quietly opened it then walked over to the
09:14ledge and banister that overlooked the living room the lights were off but there were three tall people
09:19standing in my living room they weren't my family I was so petrified that I was frozen for a second
09:26before I could quietly walk back into my room and shut the door as quietly as I could in my trepidation
09:32but it wasn't quiet enough and I knew it they had to have heard the door click shut even if just
09:37slightly I hurried to my closet door opened it quietly stepped inside then shut the door I had myself
09:44sitting behind a bunch of the boxes and bags of clothes that were stuffed in my closet
09:47I was actually pretty covered from view there was a short period that felt like forever that I was
09:54anticipating my bedroom door open and it did and at that moment I knew I was going to die
09:59I heard footsteps walk into the room I couldn't tell how many people it may have been one it may
10:05have been two I heard the footsteps move to my bed then I heard my covers being played with
10:10then silence then more footsteps towards the closet door then silence for a few seconds
10:20and then the closet door opened my heart was in my throat by this point all I did was sit quietly and
10:28breath the door was open for a really long time but I didn't look up I didn't move it had to be a
10:35good 20 seconds of silence before the door closed again footsteps walked away from the door then out
10:41of the room I finally looked up and I just realized from where I was crouched down behind the bags and
10:47boxes I may have been visible to that person it wasn't until probably an hour that I heard my parents
10:54return I ran downstairs to them the front door was left ajar by the people who broke in and they had
10:59stolen a number of valuables from our house it was a night that just went from bad to worse for our
11:04family my parents were in such a rush when they left for the hospital that they apparently didn't
11:09even lock the door I was lucky to have not been killed or kidnapped I look back now and really
11:16wonder if the person who opened the closet and just stood there for 20 seconds saw me hiding in there
11:21maybe he was just a guy that came to rob a house not to kidnap or hurt a child or maybe he just didn't
11:28see me and I just narrowly escaped death or injury I was home alone for an entire week one time when
11:44I was still a teenager living with my parents which was a rare occasion since my parents don't go out
11:49a lot my mom's rich friend Patty invited my parents on a trip that she was paying for I'm an only child
11:56so I was left alone in the house we lived in Newark Ohio which is in Licking County yes our county was
12:04actually called Licking County my parents old house had woods in the backyard and was on some quiet road
12:10that only a few cars would pass per day usually we had a huge deck in the backyard overlooking the woods
12:15and a decently large backyard we even had a little fish pond and above-ground swimming pool
12:21this was on a Thursday night I remember because I had conversations with friends about plans for
12:27the weekend that day this was in July of 2013 I was out on the deck smoking weed with my speaker
12:33playing music that's about the time it started I thought I heard a voice from out in the woods
12:39I lowered the music and listened for a little bit it didn't repeat so I raised it back up
12:46when the music was loud again I heard a voice from out in the woods again this time I turned the music
12:52off completely and listened for longer there was a voice calling from the woods again confirming I
12:58wasn't just hearing things it was a male's voice saying hey over here he was kind of distant but not too far
13:08the woods were anywhere from 20 to 30 yards away from the deck and that's where the voice was coming from
13:14I didn't think in a million years it was someone calling out for me though rather maybe just some kids
13:20playing manhunts or something the voice called out again hey over here we need help this time I realized
13:27the voice was too deep to be a kid and when a voice yells out we need help obviously that'll always be slightly
13:33concerning I was getting a little bit uncomfortable now because now I was questioning if these yells
13:39were directed at me now I heard the voice yell straight in front of you please come help us
13:45and the voice was coming from straight in front of me in the woods now I had a feeling this was directed
13:51at me I reluctantly called back who is that and they responded we just need help we're stuck in the woods
13:59I called back what does that mean and the voice replied back just please come help straight in
14:06front of you I got out from my seat walked down the steps of the deck onto the grass and proceeded
14:12towards the woods I called out I'm coming where are you the voice replied instantly right in front of
14:18you I see you I replied back wait are you alone or with someone there was no answer this time I stopped
14:27in my tracks about halfway towards the woods I had a bad feeling in my gut about this I started walking
14:34backwards back towards the house and the deck I didn't even want to turn my back to the woods because
14:39it took me that long to realize there was something very suspicious about this situation I made it back
14:46to the deck and the voice didn't say anything else if they truly saw me and this was real they would
14:52have said something like where are you going at the very least they knew I was onto the situation
14:57but who even knows how many people were in there could have been one could have been three all I know
15:04is getting stuck in the woods makes absolutely no sense especially if he or they were able to literally
15:10see me like what did their shirt get caught on a branch I went inside the house and locked all the
15:17doors just to be safe I chilled in my living room for a bit still high and I think that's why I was
15:24more trusting at first because of how high and relaxed I was then though I heard the voice again from
15:31outside closer now definitely in the backyard and not the woods anymore I heard splashing of water it
15:38could have been the pool or the pond I hurried to the window to see I didn't see anyone at first
15:44but then the voice called I see you with a laugh I noticed him it was one guy at least one guy
15:53visible he was hidden behind the pool on the other side and I could only see his head it was just too
15:59dark to make out anything besides his dark medium length hair I closed the blinds and tried to ignore
16:06it maybe he'd lose interest if he saw I wasn't entertaining him he was probably a sick deranged person who
16:13enjoyed messing with people so I didn't want to give him what he wanted but my breaking point was when
16:18there was a horrible aggressive banging on the window where I had just closed the blinds and on
16:23the other side the guy was screaming help I screamed at the top of my lungs to fuck off you freak the
16:30police are coming I screamed it over and over trying to make myself sound crazier than him I heard him
16:36start to laugh on the other side of the glass his laughing started to fade away as I assume he walked
16:42away I sat back down on the couch trembling shaking out of breath I sat there for a while and it seemed
16:50like the guy had really given up I still got a good night's sleep that night because weed helps me sleep
16:56I wonder if I would have handled that situation any differently if I wasn't high though the situation
17:02made me more paranoid about who I opened my door to
17:05I'm 23 years old and I live at home with my parents still one day they were both not home and I was
17:22outside playing basketball in the front yard at some point while I was playing I looked up at one of our
17:28upstairs windows and saw a woman standing there not my mom not my sister it was a random woman I guess
17:37when she saw me looking at her she dipped away from the window when I went inside and upstairs to check
17:43the lounge room she wasn't anywhere I checked every single room I could every bedroom the bathroom every
17:51closet then I checked the downstairs which included the living room kitchen dining room one bedroom and more
17:58closets finally I checked the basement and I highly doubted she could be down there it's a small
18:04basement with a couple couches a bar and two closets there weren't many places for someone to hide but
18:11when I opened the second closet door I was incredibly scared as I didn't know of any other places someone
18:17could be hiding in the house this was the last unchecked spot that I could think of I yanked the door
18:24open as if I were ripping off a band-aid and like I did with the closet before this one I right away
18:29pushed myself into the closet just in case that woman was in there and I'd have to jump on her
18:34but all I pushed myself into was a bunch of coats and coat hangers I was so confused I wasn't going to
18:41question my sanity though I definitely saw that woman and I knew it it wasn't the kind of thing you would
18:47just so vividly imagine I went back to the middle floor and screamed very loud that whoever was in
18:54the house needs to get the F out I actually screamed so loud that our next door neighbor came over and
19:00asked if I was okay I told him that I literally just saw a woman at our upstairs window watching me
19:06play basketball he came in and helped me search again when we couldn't find her I was left to assume
19:13that she snuck out through the back door which I did unlock after all when I went to grab the
19:17basketball from the yard so my neighbor left I locked all the doors called my parents and told
19:24them the crazy story and they weren't too thrilled but they asked me to make sure nothing was stolen
19:29I did just that and luckily it seemed anything that was worth something was still in place
19:35so now fast forward to that night I went to sleep after checking the house one more time just for
19:41peace of mind it was hard to fall asleep though my mind was racing for obvious reasons most people
19:49can't relate to seeing a stranger at their window inside of their house but my restlessness helped me
19:55out in this situation and here's why I was finally starting to drift away slightly then I heard some
20:02noises from the other side of me I had the fan on above me so the room wasn't dead silence and that's why I
20:09didn't immediately turn to my other side at the first sound I heard but the sound started to sounds
20:16human-like I turned to my other side and there she was getting out from under my bed she stood up tall
20:24above the bed and I screamed so loud louder than earlier before I jumped out of my bed and tackled her to the
20:32floor and had my hand around her throat asking her who she was my doorbell rang my neighbor again I
20:39picked the tall dirty looking woman up off the floor and dragged her to the front door with me as she
20:44struggled and scratched at me I still have two scars on my right arm from her claws I opened my front door
20:51to my neighbor again and he let himself in and helped me restrain the woman this was when I called the
20:57police the whole time we waited for the police the woman was screaming and cursing at my neighbor and
21:02I threatening us too the best way to put it she looked and acted like a meth head currently suffering
21:09from withdrawals when the police arrived one of the officers knew exactly who the woman was they had
21:15dealt with her multiple times before her name was conveniently Karen it was satisfying to watch her
21:21be brought into the back of the police car I let my neighbor know how grateful I was for him
21:26coming so quickly to help and that night my mind continued to race but instead of being completely
21:32freaked out which I still was a little I felt this overwhelming feeling of satisfaction and I can't
21:40fully explain why
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