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3 True Scary Airbnb Horror Stories
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00:14one of the benefits of my job is that I get to travel all around the world it's taken me
00:19to
00:19some amazing destinations like Greece and Italy although most of the time I stay within the US
00:25a few years ago my job took me to a mountainous region in the northeastern United States called
00:30the Adirondacks if anyone's familiar with the area you know what I'm talking about when I say
00:35it's beautiful in the fall the leaves change and it makes the mountains look like you're in a fairy
00:40tale or something it's incredible usually my job pays for a hotel but this time I wanted to spend
00:47some much-needed alone time in the mountains so I went through Airbnb to find a secluded mountain
00:52home for the weekend I found a beautiful home that was nestled in the trees and had an incredible
00:57view that looked down part of a mountain from the back deck this place was exactly what I was looking
01:02for there were a few trails right by the house that I could jog on in the morning and as
01:07I said the back
01:08deck had an amazing view that I could just sit and relax and take in all the scenic beauty for
01:13privacy
01:14reasons I'm not going to reveal the name of the woman who posted the property on Airbnb my work
01:19obligations were only in the late afternoon and early evening so I could spend most of my time
01:24at the house I got to the house later on Friday and I didn't do much except have a few
01:29drinks on
01:30the deck I called it an early night I woke up around 6 a.m. on Saturday and went for
01:36a jog on
01:36the trails that surround the house you know that horrible feeling that you have when you're being
01:41watched well I had that feeling for my entire jog I blamed it on the anxiety of just being alone
01:47in
01:47the wilderness since I'm technically a city person after my jog I took a shower and just hung out
01:53around the house for a few hours I kept hearing weird noises but once again I just kept telling
01:59myself that it's my anxiety I was in a wooden cabin up in the mountains of course there were going
02:04to
02:04be all sorts of noises I left the house a little after 3 30 in the afternoon and made my
02:09way into the
02:10town I met my co-workers at a local restaurant and we took care of our business after all of
02:16that
02:17we decided to go out for a few drinks I didn't want to admit it to myself or anyone else
02:22but I
02:22was freaked out to go back to the house I don't know if it was the feeling of being watched
02:26and
02:27all the strange noises or if the remote location was just a little too remote for me whatever it
02:33was I was happy to take my time getting back I even offered to have a little after party at
02:38the
02:38house but my co-workers decided to turn in a little before 10 p.m. I put the fear beside
02:44me and
02:44made my way back to the house I spent the entire drive trying to communicate with the irrational
02:49part of my brain that was freaked out I repeated to myself over and over again that it's just a
02:54house houses make noises and I'm safe I'll lock the doors and triple check that I've locked them
03:00before I go to bed I got back to the house at about 10 45 I was relieved how tired
03:06I was even with all
03:08my nerves I was confident I could fall asleep I did indeed check all the locks three times and then
03:13tried to go to bed I spent the next few hours tossing and turning I would drift away for a
03:19little bit and then hear something outside and be wide awake for 20 minutes I tried turning on some
03:24music with my phone to drown out some of the noise but the distraction of the music was keeping me
03:29awake it was only a matter of time before I started hearing the noise again even with the music playing
03:36it was a little after midnight when I decided to go smoke a cigarette and contemplate just leaving
03:40early since I was already wide awake I grabbed my coat my phone and my cigs and made my way
03:46downstairs
03:47the stairs came out into the living room and if you turned left at the bottom of the stairs you
03:51would
03:51see a large open room that served as a dining room and a kitchen the back of the room had
03:56a sliding door
03:57that led to the back deck which was my current destination I took one step into the dark room and
04:03I
04:03thought I could see a shadow in the kitchen that was causing some of the moonlight from the window to
04:07be obstructed I felt that horrible pit in my stomach turn into a cyclone as I just stood there I
04:14kept
04:14telling myself that it was just shadows and it was nothing to fear I decided to confront my fear and
04:20turn the light on and the image of what I saw is still burned into my brain and is one
04:25of the scariest
04:25images I've ever seen standing in the kitchen clear as day was a man he was probably six feet tall
04:32with
04:32long shaggy hair and a thick beard I would say he was late 30s if I had to guess there
04:38was a brief
04:39standoff where neither one of us did or said anything it couldn't have been longer than 10
04:43or 15 seconds but that specific moment felt like it lasted hours he was hunched over a bit and just
04:50staring at me with no notice the man lunged at me with a full sprint thankfully there was a counter
04:56in
04:56the middle of the kitchen so he had to go around the counter which gave me the time to run
05:00back to my
05:00room and lock the door I realized that this is what stupid people do in horror movies but at that
05:06moment it seemed like the best possible solution for starters I didn't think I could make it to the
05:11front or back door without getting caught first and if I was able to escape I didn't have my keys
05:17and I didn't know if this man had a weapon or something so I wasn't about to just run aimlessly
05:21into the woods my room seemed like the safest place because I could lock the door call 911 and just
05:27hoped that the door's integrity would last until the police showed up so that's just what I did
05:32I locked the door ran to the closet and called the police I told them the address and to hurry
05:39the woman from this dispatch stayed on the line and told me that someone would be there soon
05:44while I was waiting the man started to beat on the door they seemed like violent strikes on the wood
05:49of
05:49the door after each strike he would say the weirdest things like he kept saying that he loves me and
05:55that he's changed I got a good look at this man in the kitchen and I knew without a doubt
06:00that I had
06:01no idea who this guy was I started yelling back to the man that I didn't know him and that
06:06he had
06:06the wrong woman but it was like he couldn't hear me he just kept yelling about how much he loved
06:11me
06:11and that he needed me back I could hear the door starting to break when I looked I could see
06:17his
06:17fists starting to penetrate the wood of the door from him striking it repeatedly I'm so grateful that I
06:22heard sirens at this point I heard several cars pull in and they came at the perfect time just as
06:28the man was able to get his entire hand through the door I heard a loud crash accompanied by the
06:32sound of the police yelling at the man at the same time I decided to jump out of the bedroom
06:37window since
06:38it led to a small roof that I figured I could try to scale down the crash I had heard
06:42right before
06:43it was the police tackling the man to the ground just as he was about to get into the bedroom
06:47I flagged
06:48one of the officers from the roof and he helped me get down the police arrested the man and he
06:53continued yelling incoherently as they put him in the back of a squad car they called the owner of
06:58the house and that's when we finally started to get a few answers this guy was the ex-fiancee of
07:03the woman who owns the house apparently the guy had gone off the grid for a while after a bad
07:08breakup
07:09the most disturbing part of all of this was the guy had been living in one of the closets of
07:13the house
07:13for a few days inside the closet they found a bunch of beer cans and snack foods I don't know
07:20why he didn't act sooner but I'm so thankful he didn't because this could have ended a lot worse
07:24for me if I hadn't decided to get up for a smoke at that moment this story could have had
07:29a much
07:29more tragic ending the police told me that he had a knife from the kitchen inside his belt loop it
07:35made
07:35me think to myself I probably caught him in the act of getting the knife the owner of the house
07:40felt
07:40horrible and last I knew the man was going to jail but who knows it's just so scary for me
07:47to think
07:47that I checked the lock three times and it didn't even matter because this creep was already in the
07:52house I guess you never know what can happen this may be the only time in history that going outside
07:58for a smoke saved a life
08:09okay so this is a weird story I was freaked out in the moment but for a while I thought
08:15maybe I was
08:15just overreacting it was almost two years ago and I interviewed for a job that was in another state
08:21it was about a five hour drive instead of driving home after the interview my soon-to-be wife suggested
08:28that I find an Airbnb to stay at for the night I'm hopeless when it comes to apps like this
08:32and I have
08:33no idea how to find a good place she downloaded the app for me found a place that looked nice
08:38and it
08:39was only about a 10 minute drive from where the interview was being held I booked this spot and
08:43got myself ready for the interview the guy who owned the house was really nice I was messaging him
08:49about why I was coming down and he told me that if I wanted to I could get into the
08:53house early that
08:53day so I could get myself ready and prepared for the interview instead of driving for five hours and
08:58then going straight into the interview I thought that was really nice the owner sent me the code
09:03to get in and gave me all the instructions on how to lock the door well it's literally one button
09:08but
09:08still good to know since I had never used one of those keypad locks before this my interview was at
09:13three I had more than enough time to shower and get myself mentally prepared for the interview
09:18when I plugged in the interview address into the GPS it said nine minutes so I planned on giving
09:24myself at least 30 minutes in case I got lost or hit traffic after the interview I grabbed some tacos
09:30and went back to the house I thought the interview went well but of course I spent the next few
09:35hours
09:36second-guessing every answer I gave I tend to do that when I'm nervous I didn't do much of anything
09:41that night except eat talk to my girl on the phone and watch a movie I know all these places
09:46are
09:46cleaned but I still find it weird to sleep in someone else's bed I'm just weird like that it's
09:52why I don't travel a lot or go on vacation I planned on sleeping on the couch and heading out
09:56first thing
09:57in the morning the living room was cozy it had a big fluffy wraparound couch that was in front of
10:02a
10:02fireplace above the fireplace was a huge tv just to sweeten the deal the room also had surround sound
10:09I was perfectly content just staying in this room all night and watching movies until I dozed off and
10:14went to bed around 11 that night I grabbed a blanket from one of the beds and I threw on
10:19Avengers Endgame I was only about 15 minutes into the movie when I started to fall asleep
10:25that sleep didn't last very long as I was awoken by the sound of the doorbell I just laid there
10:31for
10:31a few minutes and looked around I didn't know if I was dreaming or if it was the movie or
10:36something
10:37then a few seconds later the doorbell chimed again I couldn't believe it the doorbell was actually
10:43ringing I grabbed my phone and saw that the time set 11 33 I couldn't imagine who would be ringing
10:49the doorbell at this hour my first thought was just to ignore it then the bell rang again every
10:56time it rang it made my heart basically jump out of my chest at the fourth ring I decided I
11:01was going
11:01to go check it out I was thinking to myself what if it were like the police or something I
11:07cautiously
11:08made my way to the door and before opening it I looked out the front windows that gave me a
11:12somewhat view of the person it was a skinny guy and he was holding up a small brown bag in
11:17his hands
11:18he had his head down and almost looked unresponsive I went to the door and opened it but left the
11:23screen door shut and locked the light was dim so I couldn't get a decent look at the guy
11:29with his head still down he told me he had my pizza delivery clearly he wasn't holding a pizza it
11:35was a
11:35brown paper bag I politely told him I didn't order a pizza and that he had the wrong address
11:41I shut the door and started heading back to the living room the doorbell rang again I marched back
11:47to the front door and opened it before I could yell go away or anything he just told me again
11:52in a bleak
11:52and monotone voice that he had my pizza when I shouted I didn't order a pizza the guy responded by
11:59giving me
11:59the address of the house and said the delivery was for this address I started to shout that it was
12:04a
12:05mistake and I didn't order pizza and while I was shouting I noticed that the guy was grabbing the
12:10screen door handle I know I should have been more freaked out but I was just annoyed I slammed the
12:16door after yelling at him to go away before I called the police after I slammed the door I snuck
12:21back to
12:22the front window and again crouched down to look at what this guy was doing he stood there for another
12:27minute and walked away he had a beat-up red sedan of some kind I couldn't tell what the make
12:32was
12:33one of the front headlights was busted once I saw him get into the car I felt a moment of
12:38relief
12:39after that ordeal I was ironically hungry I grabbed something from the kitchen and as I was walking back
12:45to the living room I saw lights still shining through the front windows when I looked outside this guy was
12:51still sitting in the driveway with his one high beam shining through the window I decided to go
12:56upstairs and look out one of the bedroom windows since I would have a much better vantage point
13:01because the light was so bright I couldn't see him sitting in the car but I could see that the
13:06car was
13:06running I was still more annoyed than anything else my two thoughts were either calling the police or
13:12going outside and telling this guy to hit the road I decided that I didn't want to bother the police
13:17with
13:18something that could be very small and maybe nothing so instead I'll just go outside and scare the guy into
13:23leaving I threw my shoes on and marched out there like I was an Avenger when I got to the
13:29window of
13:29the car nobody was there without thinking I turned around and ran back to the house and immediately I
13:35locked the door I even locked the chain on top of the door I was trying to ask myself why
13:40he wouldn't
13:40be in the car but the car was still running it didn't make sense to me I grabbed my phone
13:46and went
13:46upstairs into the bedroom I tried texting the owner of the house but I didn't receive a message back from
13:51him right away I continued to look out of the window for several minutes I contemplated calling
13:56the police but I kept telling myself that this isn't police worthy and I'm blowing all this out
14:01of proportion a few minutes later I looked out the window and I saw the skinny man get back into
14:06his
14:07car and it almost looked like he was coming from the direction of the front door I watched him finally
14:12back out of the driveway and he appeared to drive down the street and out of sight I wasn't scared
14:17but
14:17I was so on edge that I didn't really sleep I spent the entire night watching YouTube videos while
14:23lying on the floor of the bedroom at four in the morning I decided to officially get up shower and
14:29then leave as I was gathering my things and getting ready to walk out the door I noticed something
14:34horrible the front door was unlocked and ajar because the chain was locked it wouldn't open any
14:40further I just stood in amazement I couldn't remember if maybe I left it unlocked by accident after the
14:46last incident I was sure I locked it but I didn't want to think about the potential alternative
14:52then it dawned on me that I for sure didn't lock the screen door when I ran inside as the
14:57sun was
14:58rising I made a run from my car just in case and as I was backing out of the driveway
15:02I noticed on the
15:03side of the front porch was the brown paper bag I ran outside so fast that I didn't even notice
15:08it
15:08initially I thought about going to see if anything was inside but that was a question that in that
15:13moment I didn't want answered I drove away and at the end of the street was a disgusting green house
15:19and in the driveway was an ugly red car with what looked like a broken headlight it may be a
15:25coincidence but it looked exactly like the car that sat in the driveway the previous night
15:30the owner of the Airbnb messaged me that morning to apologize for missing my message last night and
15:35asked how the stay was I told him about the delivery driver the car in the driveway the unlocked door
15:40in
15:40the morning and the similar looking red car at the end of the street he started typing because I could
15:45see the dots in the message and then he never responded after that I never bothered to look
15:50more into this situation until I started telling people the story when I looked up the house more
15:55recently it's not listed on Airbnb anymore so I don't know what to think it was unnerving and a little
16:02freaky for sure but I truly wasn't that scared I'm more scared now when I think about it because other
16:08people seem to think that this was almost some kind of setup I'm curious to see what people think
16:12if it all could have been just a crazy string of coincidences or if I was almost a victim of
16:18something sinister
16:29let me start by saying that monsters exist in this world and they're not ghosts or demons but very real
16:35people who mean you harm
16:37my family still hasn't recovered from the terror we experienced last summer and I'm worried they may
16:42never fully heal I'll start at the beginning and do my best to tell the story my wife and I
16:48decided to
16:49take the kids on a small family vacation nothing crazy just a few nights away at the ocean I was
16:55surprised
16:55to see that finding houses on Airbnb was cheaper than the hotels that were available my wife found this
17:01awesome place that wasn't right on the ocean but it was only a five minute walk and it was way
17:06cheaper
17:07than staying on the ocean the house was directly at the back of a dead-end street and behind the
17:12house
17:12was a creek so it felt very private which was cool we got to the beach town in the mid
17:18-afternoon and we
17:19spent several hours at the beach before heading to the house my son was eight and my daughter was 13
17:24and
17:25usually they fight constantly but something about being at the ocean caused them to play together like good
17:30siblings this would probably be the highlight of the trip because things start going downhill after
17:36that we got to the house at five and unpacked our bags the kiddos claimed their rooms and we all
17:42got
17:42cleaned up from the beach my wife brought a bunch of meals to cook instead of us having to go
17:47out every
17:47night she loves to cook which I love there really is nothing better than a home-cooked meal the deal
17:53is
17:54she cooks and I do the dishes it seems like a fair trade-off that night we stayed up for
17:59a few
18:00hours and played uno and then we eventually went to bed I slept like a baby that night I wish
18:06I could
18:06have said the same thing about my son the next morning he looked exhausted at breakfast the poor
18:12kid barely touched his food when I asked him what was wrong he just put his head down and didn't
18:18say
18:18anything he almost looked embarrassed after a little bit of prying he finally caved in and told me what was
18:25wrong he claimed that he saw ghosts the previous night yes you heard me correctly my eight-year-old
18:31son claimed to have seen ghosts when I asked him to explain more he told me that he saw the
18:37shadows
18:37move around in the backyard he looked out the window and saw several shadows come up to the house and
18:42disappear for a while then eventually go back into the tree line which was right before the creek
18:48he said one of the shadows even turned around at one point and waved at him
18:53the poor kid was in tears while he was telling me whatever he saw or whatever he thought he saw
18:58it clearly freaked him out my wife and I and even my daughter were giving him the ghosts aren't real
19:05talk it took a little while but he finally started acting like himself again we went to the beach that
19:11day and had another fun day together hitting waves and building sandcastles when we got back to the
19:17house I noticed that the door wasn't locked I asked my wife if she had locked it and she wasn't
19:23sure
19:23I'm compulsive about locking the door and unfortunately she isn't I would have been more
19:29annoyed but anything of value that we had was with me and after a little walk around the house nothing
19:33looked out of place another evening of cooking and card games and then the kids went to bed around 10
19:39pm
19:40my wife and I stayed up for a little bit longer and had a few drinks I didn't look at
19:45the exact time
19:46but I would say it was nearly midnight when my son knocked on our bedroom door he could barely talk
19:51and the poor kid was trembling he said the ghosts are back and they're in the backyard again
19:57I sprang up and looked out all the windows and I didn't see anything
20:01I kept asking him to point them out but he was too scared to even look out the window
20:06the only thing that was admittedly a little weird was that the backyard floodlight was on
20:11but that could have been set off by anything like the wind or even an animal
20:16I spent the next few minutes trying to comfort him and tell him everything was okay
20:20when he finally spoke he barely got the words out he said one of the ghosts tapped on his window
20:26he told him that if he screamed he would hurt his entire family according to my son he asked the
20:32ghost to leave him alone and apparently the ghost said he'd leave him alone if he opened the door
20:38instead of opening the door my son came to wake us up
20:42I was scared but not because I thought ghosts were real rather because something was clearly
20:46terrifying my poor son I was thinking maybe my daughter showed him a movie or something that
20:51he wasn't supposed to see or maybe he was just homesick since he hadn't traveled much as a family
20:58that night he slept with us and I didn't sleep very well because I could feel him shaking all
21:03night the kid was truly scared out of his mind at breakfast it was the same as the day before
21:09he
21:10barely touched his food and he looked like he was about to collapse into his scrambled eggs
21:14I pitched an idea to him and the rest of the family I proposed that we have a camp out
21:19in the
21:19living room we can make a fort and we'll all sleep together it'll be like a family sleepover or
21:24something the kids loved it especially my son if he was going to see the ghosts tonight at least
21:31I'd be there with him we played games for a while but eventually we all fell asleep at 2 30
21:37in the
21:38morning my son was shaking me awake and said that the ghosts were outside I got up expecting to see
21:44nothing and I couldn't be more wrong at the sliding door were three hooded figures wearing these creepy
21:50black masks with these bulging white eyes they almost looked like golf balls I shouted some kind
21:56of nonsense out of fear and that woke up my wife and daughter as soon as they saw the masked
22:01figures
22:02they started to scream and shout during all the commotion I saw one figure trying to open the sliding
22:08door but thankfully it was locked my daughter thinking quickly on her feet called 911 I grabbed a big
22:16walking stick that was inside the house and approached the door I realized that if they had real weapons
22:21the walking stick would be useless but I was in fight or flight mode and I had to protect my
22:26family
22:28I started yelling at them to leave my family alone and they looked like they were taunting me
22:32almost like they were enjoying the mental pain they were putting my family through
22:36the person on the left side of the door pulled out what looked like a knife and started waving it
22:41back and
22:41forth my family was in tears and continued screaming for their lives I'll never forget those horrible
22:47screams and then out of nowhere almost like a scene from a movie I saw the person at the end
22:53get tackled
22:54by a police officer the other two sprinted away but didn't get very far as they were also caught by
23:00the
23:00local police force they were arrested and when I saw the faces under the masks I was almost more afraid
23:07there were three young men just normal looking guys I found out months later that two of the men were
23:1320 and one of them was 18 my son thought these three masked men were ghosts because it was dark
23:19and
23:19they were dressed in all black when they were apprehended I was informed that all three of them
23:24had a knife on them not just the one guy who showed his knife I'm convinced these random young
23:29men were targeting us specifically considering they kept coming back after talking extensively with local
23:35law enforcement apparently there's a group of punks in the area that target tourists especially tourists with families
23:43I guess they assume that tourists with families have more money and when they have kids they're easier targets
23:48the police weren't overly concerned which made me fear that this happens all too often
23:53it makes me sad and angry that these types of people exist in the world
23:57you hear stories like this all over the internet but you never think it could happen to you
24:02especially on vacation the police seem to think that they wouldn't have physically harmed us and
24:07they only wanted our money but no one knows what they were capable of doing if they were able to
24:11get
24:11through that sliding door not to mention the mental scars we got from this trip will last a lifetime
24:18sometimes the mental scars are much more painful than the physical ones
24:22I don't actually know what became of these men and thankfully I'll never find out because I will never
24:27be returning to that airbnb or that beach town for the rest of my life
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