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00:00I was spending the weekend alone at my cabin-style house on the edge of town.
00:13It wasn't isolated in the middle of nowhere, there were other houses around, but they were
00:18spaced out enough that you could go days without seeing anyone around.
00:23I never got visitors, like solicitors or neighbors.
00:27The houses in this neighborhood were the kind people drove past without even thinking
00:32about it, because unless you looked intently, you probably just saw an endless forest of
00:37trees.
00:39It was winter, right after a heavy snowfall, so everything felt quieter than usual.
00:46A thick blanket of snow covered the whole area, and the woods behind my house looked deeper
00:51and darker than they usually did.
00:53I didn't mind being alone out there for the most part.
00:58The house was cozy, with lots of big windows, a stone fireplace, and just overall that nice
01:04cabin feeling.
01:05It was the whole reason I moved there.
01:08The first night, nothing weird happened until late.
01:13I stayed up watching YouTube videos in the living room, kind of half asleep by midnight.
01:18After a while, I turned off the TV and headed to my room.
01:23It was a one-story home, so my bedroom sat right at the end of the hallway.
01:28The thing about the bedroom is that it matched the rest of the home, having these massive floor-to-ceiling
01:34windows along the wall, and even a sliding glass door that opened toward the woods.
01:39Because the home was in a private location, with just the woods on all sides and no close neighbors,
01:46it made sense, I guess.
01:48But it did feel strange sometimes.
01:51Even just seeing my reflection in the glass at night would startle me, thinking someone
01:56was standing out there.
01:57But this night was different.
02:01As I turned off the lights and crawled into bed, I heard something.
02:06This soft, cracking sound, coming from outside.
02:10Not like an animal or the typical forest noise.
02:14This was louder, like someone stepping on a thick branch.
02:19A couple seconds later, it happened again.
02:22I sat up and looked toward the large window.
02:25Because the lights were off in my room, I could see outside through the glass pretty well.
02:31I stared for maybe 30 seconds, before something moved in the solid darkness between the tall
02:38pine trees.
02:39Not a shape I could describe, just a quick shift of a shadow between two trees.
02:45Like someone leaned out of view, or leaned into view.
02:50I couldn't tell.
02:52Everything was still after that.
02:55After minutes of waiting and staring out there, feeling nerves building up in me, I started
03:01to think I might have just imagined it.
03:04Like my eyes were just seeing shapes in the dark.
03:07But I didn't move for a long time.
03:11Eventually though, I got up and double checked the sliding door was locked.
03:15Then got back in bed.
03:16After that, it took me forever to fall asleep.
03:21Every 30 seconds, I felt like I had to open my eyes and look out the window again.
03:26But every time, I saw nothing.
03:28The next day was strange.
03:32Nothing outright happened.
03:34But everything felt off in a way I couldn't explain.
03:37I'd constantly get that subtle, uneasy feeling, like someone was standing just out of sight,
03:44staring in.
03:45I kept glancing at whatever window was behind me, half expecting to see eyes looking in.
03:52I never did, but the feeling didn't go away.
03:56As it got later and became dark again, snow began coming down again, which eased my senses a bit.
04:04I think it made it even more unlikely anyone would be outside lurking around when it was cold and snowy.
04:12So I tried not to overthink.
04:15Around 10, I was watching TV in the living room, wrapped up in a blanket by the fireplace.
04:22The glow of the TV screen lit up most of the house.
04:25So I didn't even realize how dark it was inside, until I left the couch to get a soda.
04:31And as I walked through the main hallway, I noticed the light in the far room, the small den with bookshelves, was off.
04:41I could have sworn I left it on earlier.
04:44I usually always kept it on because it provided a nice ambient light, so the house didn't feel like a shadowy cave.
04:52I went over and quickly flipped the light back on, figuring nothing of it, and getting my soda and sitting back down.
05:01I was maybe back on the couch for a minute, having just unpaused the TV, when I happened to glance over my shoulder.
05:09I wasn't even trying to check anything.
05:11It was just one of those automatic glances, you do for no reason.
05:15But the light in the room was off again.
05:18I could feel the blood rush from my face.
05:23I stood up and walked down the hallway, just enough to see the switch from where I was standing.
05:28The switch was in the off position, physically flipped down.
05:33I just stared at it.
05:36Someone was in that room, and it was like they were trying to lure me in there.
05:41I started to back away.
05:44My phone was charging on the nightstand in my room, and my car keys were by the front door.
05:50I knew I needed to get both and leave immediately.
05:53I quietly moved to the other hallway and into my bedroom, grabbing my phone, but not before seeing something shift behind the glass.
06:02I looked up, and at first all I saw were faint footprints going through the snow behind the window, until it led my eyes to a large figure.
06:13A man, standing just a couple feet behind the window.
06:18He was entirely covered by the dark, but I knew he was looking in at me.
06:22I sprinted back down the hall toward the front door, getting my keys, and hearing not one, but two sets of footsteps on the other side of the house.
06:33I opened the door and ran to the side driveway, where my car was.
06:38As soon as I got in, I saw that same figure come barreling around the house and running toward my car.
06:44I turned it on and fled for the main road, seeing his figure standing where my car just came from,
06:51and watching me drive away.
06:54It took a little over 30 minutes for officers to arrive on my property.
06:59What they found was horrifying.
07:02Multiple windows were shattered, and the whole house looked like it had been destroyed on the inside.
07:08Doors and cabinets ripped from their hinges, furniture flipped over, and dents and tears in the walls.
07:15I told the police that I'd heard two people inside, and saw one man outside.
07:22But the condition they left the house in, it was impossible to know how the two got in quietly, while I was at home all day.
07:30I stayed in a hotel for weeks after that, getting the house repaired and putting it up for sale.
07:36I couldn't get over the feeling of knowing three people had been stalking me, for who knows how long.
07:43And had I not escaped, I can't even imagine the horrible, disturbing things that would have happened that night.
07:50Even now, I have nightmares of me in that hallway, walking toward the room with the light off,
07:56knowing what was waiting for me, just outside a view of the doorway.
08:00My name is Noah, and I'm 36.
08:31I'm gonna have to run you through a bit of backstory just to give context for why I live where I do.
08:37Two years before this happened, me and my wife broke up just a few months after buying a house together.
08:44It wasn't a bad breakup, and we technically didn't divorce until months later, but I digress.
08:51The house we bought was massive, like way too big for even the both of us.
08:56But it was supposed to be something we could grow into and maybe have kids and dogs and whatever in the future.
09:03After we split ways, it was left for me to figure out whether to sell it for a loss or just continue living in it.
09:10But I chose to stay.
09:13So I lived alone in that house for two whole years.
09:17I told myself I'd find a way to use the space.
09:20Like, since I worked from home, maybe I'd use a room for my office,
09:24and then have a workout room and a bedroom, all separate so that it wasn't all that empty.
09:30But I never really got around to it.
09:33The entire, huge house was mostly left hollow and vacant.
09:38If you opened a random door, there's a good chance nothing would be behind it but a dusty, unused room.
09:46I wouldn't even go into half the rooms for months at a time.
09:50I didn't mind it too much, but occasionally I'd get that uneasy feeling of being alone in a giant, empty house.
10:00That, mixed with just overall loneliness, I finally decided to do something I'd been wanting to do for years,
10:08and adopt a dog from a shelter.
10:11That's when all of this started.
10:14I found a small, eight-month-old puppy named Piper.
10:18She was a beagle, and I picked her up after work from a shelter about three hours away from me,
10:25so by the time I'd gotten home, it was around 8pm.
10:29I let her roam around the yard for a bit, then showed her inside to let her explore her new home.
10:36In the shelter, Piper was very excited and happy and energetic, and even on the car ride home.
10:43But as soon as I let her inside, she became very timid.
10:48I thought she was just unfamiliar with the home, and all the change was making her anxious,
10:54so I didn't think too much into it.
10:57I left her alone to explore, and sat on the couch to give her space.
11:01She spent all but two minutes walking around, before jumping up on the couch with me, huddling up right on my lap.
11:10She almost seemed afraid of something.
11:13But again, I had every reason to believe it was all just normal behavior of a new pup moving into a new home.
11:21Later, I brought her upstairs, and we went to bed.
11:24In the morning, everything seemed a little better.
11:29She followed me around while I made breakfast and coffee,
11:32then sat below my office desk while I worked for the day.
11:36However, a few hours in, she got up and walked toward the doorway,
11:41standing halfway in the hall, looking very alert.
11:44Then, after a few seconds, she fully left the room,
11:49and I could hear her nails clicking on the floor, walking down the hallway toward the staircase.
11:54I thought she finally felt comfortable enough to look around,
11:58so I left her alone and kept working.
12:01I want to say, ten minutes went by,
12:05when suddenly she started barking like crazy from somewhere downstairs.
12:10I jumped up from the desk and quickly hurried through the hallway and down the steps,
12:15still with her barks echoing all throughout the home,
12:18down every corridor, making it hard to even tell where she was.
12:23I called out her name and moved through all the rooms before finding her.
12:28Strangely, Piper was standing right in the middle of one of the empty rooms downstairs.
12:35Like, she was just standing, looking at the wall, and barking.
12:41Once she saw me, she hurried over and stood right next to me,
12:44tail down and looking nervously at the empty room.
12:48I walked in, and there was nothing to look at, or make sense of.
12:53It was entirely empty.
12:55I tried to calm her down, picking her up and closing the door to the room.
13:01I brought her back upstairs to the office, and after a few minutes, I continued working.
13:07Rest of that day, not much happened.
13:10When I finished work, I took her for a walk around the area.
13:14Then we spent the night watching TV, going upstairs and getting in bed at ten.
13:18But in the middle of the night, I woke up.
13:23Not to a noise or anything.
13:25I guess, just a feeling.
13:27I sat up and saw Piper standing right up to the bedroom door.
13:32Her ears up and her gaze locked on the gap in the doorway.
13:37I called her name, but she didn't move.
13:39And honestly, I'm not entirely sure how or why, but I laid back down and fell asleep without
13:47a second thought.
13:49Can't even believe I managed to, now that I'm thinking back on it.
13:53I guess I really just thought she was uncomfortable being in a new place.
13:58But I woke up in the morning, and things seemed to be okay.
14:02Anyway, Piper was up on the bed with me, and didn't act strange at all.
14:07I got dressed and headed downstairs, letting her outside and doing my typical morning routine.
14:14When she came back in, we both headed upstairs to my desk.
14:18Just like the day before, she laid down right under my desk while I worked.
14:23I made sure to check on her a few times, looking under the desk at her.
14:27And every time, she was just sleeping.
14:31So I kept working.
14:33Think it wasn't until almost 6 o'clock, when I was just about done with work, and the sun
14:38had mostly gone down, that I looked under my desk again, and she wasn't there.
14:44I looked around the room, and she was just gone.
14:48Must have slipped out without me noticing.
14:51I closed my laptop and got up, calling Piper's name as I walked into the hallway.
14:57But I didn't hear anything.
15:00Didn't hear her walking around, or barking, or anything at all.
15:06The house was dead silent.
15:09Piper?
15:11Piper, where you at?
15:13My voice echoed through the house.
15:17I felt something unnerving come over me, as I started walking down the hall and down to
15:22the first floor.
15:23There were no signs of her.
15:26It was so quiet, I could hear my own heart beating.
15:31I walked down the next hallway, leading to the room I found her in yesterday.
15:37As I got closer, I noticed the door wasn't fully closed.
15:41It was cracked open, which I was sure I hadn't left it like that.
15:46I pushed it further open.
15:48Piper was sitting in the far corner of the room, shivering and facing the doorway I was
15:54in.
15:55She looked terrified, like something else was in the house with us.
16:00It gave me a sense to turn around before approaching her, and when I checked behind
16:06me, I barely caught a glimpse of someone peering down the hallway, back by the stairs.
16:11I quickly backed into the room and slammed the door, locking it and moving toward Piper.
16:19A few seconds later, quiet footsteps started coming down the hallway.
16:24He came right up to the other side of the door.
16:27Piper began quietly whimpering, still huddled in the corner, staring at the door.
16:32I was honestly too scared to even move.
16:37I just stood there, in the middle of the room, waiting for something to happen.
16:42The person behind the door didn't move either for a while, before they started quietly walking
16:48back down the hallway.
16:50It was almost terrifying how confident it felt they were, not running or anything.
16:56Felt like they weren't phased by anything going on, or that this was exactly what they
17:02wanted, which made me wonder what it was exactly they were here for.
17:07I didn't hear anything after that.
17:10I think I stayed in that room with Piper for 30 minutes.
17:15I just couldn't get myself to move.
17:17When I eventually opened the door, I looked down the unlit hallway, and all the way at the
17:23end, I could see the front door was wide open.
17:27Hoping it meant whoever that was was gone, I ran back upstairs to get my phone and call
17:33the cops.
17:35While I was up there, I noticed several open doors that, again, I had always kept closed.
17:41As soon as I got my phone, I ran back down to Piper, and held up inside that room until
17:47police made it.
17:48They searched, not only inside, but also several acres around the house, but found nothing.
17:56No signs of the intruder still being around.
18:00However, they did find signs of him having been in my home.
18:05In one of the rooms upstairs, the one right next to my office, there were a bunch of random
18:10items suggesting that someone had been living there, maybe for months.
18:15And worse yet, it seemed like the person had likely been spending the days sleeping in
18:21the closet, so I wouldn't notice or hear them, and would then come out at night, to
18:27leave and re-enter the home, or to hang around inside the house.
18:32Of course, bringing Piper into my home, she could probably sense someone else was inside
18:37with us.
18:38Makes me think of when I woke up in the middle of the night, finding Piper staring at the door.
18:43However, he could have been walking around right outside the bedroom.
18:48And as for the room she was barking at the wall or ceiling in, it was the room directly
18:53below the one the person was using as their hideout.
18:56She might have heard them move around up there or something.
19:01After it was all said and done, this event was enough to get me to finally sell the house
19:06and move into something smaller.
19:08Bringing Piper with, of course.
19:10She's absolutely the best companion I ever could have asked for, and since moving, she's
19:16been just as happy and excited as she was when I found her at the shelter, and hasn't
19:22been anxious in the slightest.
19:24I still worry about the person not being found, though, and would come back.
19:30I know it's unlikely, but I think I'll never really forget about it.
20:00I was 18, still living with my parents, but because I was old enough, they could leave
20:12me home alone without it being a problem.
20:15This was one of the times where my parents were gone for I think a couple of days.
20:20Our home wasn't anything special, really just a typical neighborhood home in the suburbs.
20:25And as far as these sort of days go, I usually just sat around the house and watched TV or
20:31played video games.
20:33I didn't have my own car, so unless I felt like walking 30 minutes for some fast food,
20:38I had no reason to leave the house.
20:41In the morning, I pretty much just stayed in bed for a few hours watching TV, then finally
20:47got up to start my day, heading downstairs to the kitchen.
20:50Almost as soon as I got downstairs and started making breakfast, my friend sent me a text.
20:58I assumed he was just waiting for me to get online, so I finished making breakfast before
21:03even checking it.
21:05But when I did finally open it, I was a little confused.
21:09He said,
21:11Who's the guy outside your house?
21:13I genuinely was caught off guard by that.
21:17I responded,
21:18What?
21:18And went to the front window to look.
21:20But nobody was out there.
21:23No cars, no people.
21:25Just an empty, quiet neighborhood.
21:28My friend's house was directly across from mine, and I didn't see him in the window or
21:33anything.
21:34So I was confused.
21:36After a minute, I decided to just call him, figuring it was some stupid joke he was trying
21:41to pull.
21:42He was the kind of friend to say stupid stuff like this sometimes, to mess with me.
21:47But this time, I really didn't see where the joke in it was.
21:51He answered, and didn't even try to play it as a joke.
21:56He was serious, saying he actually saw some guy outside my house that he'd never seen before.
22:02And the only reason he even mentioned it was because the guy seemed like he was trying to
22:07look into the windows.
22:09That was super weird.
22:11But neither of us could figure out who it was or what he was doing.
22:15And with him not there anymore, we kind of just moved on from it and hopped on a discord call
22:20to play video games for a few hours.
22:22I only went downstairs once during that time to refill my water, and I did a quick look
22:28out the window again, not seeing anyone.
22:32We were online until probably 5 or 6 before getting off the call.
22:38All I remember was that it was already dark outside, and I realized how much time had passed.
22:44I got up and went downstairs.
22:46I started making a quick dinner, unsure how I'd spend the rest of my night, probably just
22:53watch TV in my room.
22:55But while I was in the kitchen cooking, I saw a shadow, move or flicker, on the wall in front
23:01of me.
23:02I immediately turned around.
23:05I saw nothing, no movement or anything in the living room that could have moved, until
23:11I saw the window.
23:13I walked up to it and looked out.
23:16It was dark and still.
23:19I didn't see anyone.
23:21The image of someone possibly staring at me from outside gave me chills though, but I
23:27thought I was probably just on edge.
23:30I mean, the shadow I saw could have been a car passing by or something.
23:34I was sure it was nothing to worry about.
23:37I finished making dinner and went upstairs to my room to eat, then laid in bed and watched
23:43TV.
23:43I was up there for at least an hour, maybe a little more, just zoning out and half-watching
23:50whatever was on.
23:52At some point, as it got later and darker in my room, I realized I hadn't turned on any
23:58of the lights upstairs.
23:59It was just the TV lighting up my room, and I kept finding my eyes shifting and looking
24:05at the crack under the bedroom door, seeing it was completely dark in the hallway outside
24:11my room.
24:11Usually, that would never bother me, but this night, it just felt off.
24:18Eventually, I paused the show and decided to get up and grab a snack from downstairs, though
24:24it was more of an excuse to go around and turn all the lights on as well, and hopefully shake
24:29whatever feeling I had.
24:30As soon as I opened my bedroom door, though, the feeling grew worse.
24:36It felt like the house was too quiet, and the hallway was eerily dark.
24:41I flicked on the light, seeing it was just an empty hallway, and feeling silly or almost
24:48annoyed with myself for being creeped out.
24:51I headed downstairs.
24:54Before getting a snack, I checked out the windows.
24:56This paranoia I was feeling wasn't something I think I'd ever felt before, at least not
25:03to this degree.
25:05I even left all the lights on downstairs, knowing that I wasn't planning on coming back down
25:10before bed, just so I didn't have to think about it being pitch black down there.
25:15I started going back upstairs, but on my way up the steps, I paused.
25:22I thought I'd heard what sort of sounded like my footsteps resonating through the
25:26house, but it didn't quite sound right, and I'd never heard the house echo sounds like
25:33that before.
25:34I took a few steps down and then back up, and it didn't make the same sound.
25:40I stood there, unsure for a moment, replaying what I'd heard over and over in my head.
25:47I felt my eyes get wider and my heart begin racing, before I bolted up the stairs and into
25:54my room, locking the door shut and calling the police.
25:58I was 99% sure that what I'd heard was someone else's footsteps in the house matching mine,
26:05almost like they were mimicking me walking, so that I wouldn't hear them coming up behind me.
26:10When I was standing on the stairs thinking about it, I realized that was exactly what
26:15it sounded like.
26:17After the police were on the way, I called my friend, asking if he saw anything.
26:22He said no, but went to the front window while we were on call, trying to look around.
26:28It was a couple minutes later, he suddenly said,
26:31oh shit, and saw some guy leaving out of the window on the side of my house and running into
26:36the trees.
26:38He said it looked like the same guy he saw before.
26:41However, I couldn't even speak for a minute, terrified of how right I was about my paranoid
26:47feeling of not being alone.
26:50When police made it, I stood outside with them while they did their whole investigation.
26:55My friend also came out and talked to them.
26:59It didn't lead to much though, aside from the promise to search for the man and follow
27:03up if there's any leads.
27:05They did, however, compare it to a similar incident from a couple weeks ago, in a nearby
27:11neighborhood, where a kid was also home alone and some guy was creeping around outside, eventually
27:17coming up to the window and trying to convince the kid to let him in.
27:21In both cases though, it isn't really clear what he was plotting.
27:26Kidnapping is the obvious answer, but he didn't seem to have a car, so dragging a kid kicking
27:32and screaming out of a house didn't seem likely to me.
27:36I don't know what was going to happen that night, and I never found out, because the
27:42guy is still out there, probably still creeping around and stalking someone without them knowing
27:48it.
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