What is the scariest thing to happen to you when you’ve been home alone?

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Ismail · Accepted Answer

I was living in an apartment in a building complex where apartments were connected via staircases, corridors etc. I remember I was playing PS4 when I heard a knock at my door. I opened the door and saw two police officers asking me if they could come in and ask me a few questions about my neighbour, after letting them in, my eye cought something white in the corridor 5-10m next to my door. It was a white sheet covering a dead body (that of my neighbour) and 4 more police officers were standing next to it. The police officers asked me if I knew the guy but our working hours were different so I had barely seen him at all. A few hours later, I went outside and asked one of the remaining officers, if I should worry. He said they ere not treating the incident as something suspicious, aka it was not a murder. My neighbour had a heart attack and died just ouside his appartment door, 10 m from my apartment, as the ambulance crew that he had called were carrying him to the ambulanc

Stanton · Answer

"I was pregnant with my first kid and home alone. I've always been a bit of a coward and "heard" strange noises regularly and scared myself. So this time I definitely heard a window breaking and started to freak out. I took a bottle of hairspray (to use as mace?...), wrapped a towel around myself, and went to investigate. In the nursery, I could see that the outer pane of the window was quite broken. Also, there were feathers everywhere. A pigeon had flown into the window and broken the glass facing the outside and gave me a heart attack. I guess the bird was fine because he was nowhere to be found. "

Agnola · Answer

A man was outside my door shouting for me, then threatened to bang the door down. I heard a gun cocking outside and I was scared out of my life. He went 'Damn it, there really isn't anyone home.' And I heard his footsteps go down the corridor. I was 11 at the time.

JOSEFINE · Answer

I was watching a horror movie late at night while my parents were on vacation. The tv got all scrambled during a jump scare. The phone started ringing very strangely. Usually it sounds off 3 rings, pauses, then does it again. It was just constantly ringing and put me on edge. Our tv would show us the caller ID but it just said unknown. My dogs were asleep next to me and they got up and just started growling. One of my dogs is a grouch and does it all the time. I was worried when my sweet little poodle got up and started growling at seemingly nothing.  Then it all just stopped after like a minute and I went back to watching the movie. Typing it out it doesn't sound all that bad but I was scared shitless.

Yenifer · Answer

3 bullets went through my window

Thida · Answer

Well technically I wasn't alone, but I was alone with my mom and her and my dad had been fighting a lot lately, so one day he told her he wanted to cheat on her so she called my nana and told her what happened and that she was about to have an anxiety attack. I didn't know what those were until it happened. She sat on the floor and started crying but not as usual. She started saying she couldn't breathe so I got up to help her. And I was so scared bc I had never experienced this. So my nana told me to call 911. The paramedics came and helped her. Some hours later she apologized to me and thanked me and said she was trying to hide that from me ever since I was a toddler

Niccolo · Answer

when I was living in Thailand, one night I was in my house, as I was walking down the stairs I felt something crawled up onto my ankle I looked down and I saw an 8-inch long centipede wrapped around my ankle. I try to get rid of it by kicking it off but as I went to go kick it off it bit me on the inside of my ankle. It felt like someone put a knife through my foot and it was absolutely excruciating ,screaming, saying f*** a whole lot and before I knew it felt like all of the oxygen in my brain had drained out of my head and I hit the ground and then shortly after that my vision disappeared. I just laid there for two hours not knowing where I was , not able to move and I honestly thought I was going to die

nariman · Answer

Was out on my back porch for a smoke before bed, just chillin' with my cats, when this absolute slab of a badger just strolls up my steps and starts eating the leftover cat food. Discourteous boi, didn't even cross his cutlery after he finished. The cheek of it. tut, eye roll

Zero · Answer

Bad idea to read these while I'm home alone at 3:30am. Yep, I'm terrified.

Claudia Nagel · Answer

I was home alone when I was younger and hearing scratched and banging on the glass, I was terrified someone was trying to break in. It kept happening on and off and it ended up being the palm tree branch banging on the window.

Ursula Ritter · Answer

One time, I was reading a book on my bed and heard a loud bang against the window, didn't think much of it at the time because birds would often fly into the window. About a month later someone broke into our house by throwing a rock through the window and opening it from inside. Turns out the same guy had tried braking in when I heard the bang, but missed the glass of the window. It is quite creepy to think what would have happened if he didn't miss.

Jo · Answer

i was laying down and a crayon was thrown at me but i was alone and later on my blanket was on the floor and something kept pulling it under the bed it still haunts me

Jordana · Answer

Was making a sandwich in the kitchen one day only one home had my youtube on my phone watching either datto or fruit I dont remeber. I chuckled at something and a glass vase just randomly exploded. Now had I throw somthing or my pets been near it I'd be like oh ok. But nope just me in the kitchen making a sandwich and a glass vase that is easily 15ft away on the dinner table.

Jilleen · Answer

When I was about 10-12 (one of the first few years I was home alone during the summer) we had a private plane have to make a crash landing in the field behind our house.

Tuyen · Answer

My most recent memory of scaring myself was that my brown hair tie came off my plait, fell on my shoulder then skidded across the ground.  Thought it was a huntsman spider. Flipped a chair over getting away from it.  I appreciate a huntsman spider bro eating other spiders. Just not on my shoulder.  Felt like a dickhead when I saw it was a hair tie

LENITA · Answer

I was alone, about 15 years old, with my dog. As I let in my dog late in the evening prior to going to bed, a huge spider followed her inside. Not wanting to harm it, but certainly not wanting it inside, I shooed it with a magazine. Next thing I saw were hundreds of babies disperse off of its back! Frantic, and nervous, I sent my dog back outside, and I ran to our shed and grabbed Raid and every known spider killer. Equipped myself like I was in Arachnophobia, and unloaded an entire can and a half of Raid inside the house. Waited about an hour for it to air out before re-entering. Every night for damn near the next year I felt like a spider was crawling on me. Fuck the desert and its monstrous creatures.

Iago · Answer

I think I had an out of body experience one time. I was about to fall asleep on the sofa after a long day at work. I always check to make sure the door is locked before going to sleep. I reached over from the sofa to feel if the door was locked. It was, then looked down to see the cat watching me. I was kinda glowing in a strange light. Then I realized I couldn't reach the door from the sofa and I saw my body asleep on the sofa. I panicked, the cat panicked, I got sucked back into my sleeping body and woke up. Didn't sleep again for a long while.

Buppha · Answer

"I was in the middle of washing dishes when I heard four loud bangs coming from my front door. Then someone barked out, "POLICE! OPEN UP RIGHT NOW!" I got so freaked out I tripped and almost slammed my head against the fridge trying to run to my door. When I pulled aside the front curtain to make sure it was the actual cops I found 6 of them fanned out in front of my apartment, all with guns drawn. But they weren't trying to get into my place. They were all facing the unit right next to mine (the walls were super thin, which is why it had sounded like they were at my door). Apparently a homeless man had been squatting in there and got really aggressive when he was discovered, so the police were called.  No weapons were fired and he left quietly after they said they were going to taze him, so it was all ok in the end. But I almost shit my pants. "

Angelika Hoover · Answer

It was in the middle of the night, I was going to the bathroom. I turned on the light and heard glass shattering, as if someone shot through a window. I thought that someone had broken into my apartment and had a gun, but it was the light bulb that apparently tend to just fucking blow up sometimes. I still know everything because it scared me so fucking much.

Cyb · Answer

I was like 8yrs old and decided to try and play music. I put the plug into the electric socket. It had an open end and I got a shock. The issue was that I didn't know what a shock was. So I was under the assumption that someone was in the house who I couldn't see. And I thought they startled me. It was scary.

Sabrina Diederich · Answer

Sitting in the back room during a thunderstorm. I felt a wierd sensation and then all of my senses went into overdrive as a lightning bolt hit a tree maybe 15 yards away. My ears were ringing for a few minutes afterwards, and the roughly 20 seconds after the strike when i couldn't see or hear was absllutely terrifying, I thought I died. Never messed around with thunder storms after that.

Piitu · Answer

This was last week, actually, and I was going #2 with the door open (I live with my fiance, no kids), I saw a hand around the edge of the doorframe, and got up to joke with my girlfriend and I came around the corner and there wasn't anything. I called her, and she said she wasn't home, that I knew she was at the gas station, she said she told me. In a serious manner, I cannot logically explain it, and I can't help but believe ghosts are real. Is there something wrong with me?

Afrin · Answer

Oh man , one time when I was around 12-13 a drunk dude wondered into my backyard. I didn't know it was a human at this time and just heard the loudest commotion coming near the garage. He was mumbling and groaning like a damn zombie. Grabbed a bat to try to see what was up and this mutherfucker starts COMING FULL SPEED at me. I immediately ran inside and called the police. I thought I was going to be eaten by a fucking zombie.

Hilke · Answer

"This happened when in was home with a friend in 7th or 8th grade. I was home first as i took the bus. My friend was over and we were doing homework in my room. We lived on a military base. All of a sudden, we heard the alert sirens. We went outside to check what it was. This what we heard. "Active shooter on base" we ran upstairs and hid. Still scary "

Inesita · Answer

This is the worst thing to read when imma about to go to bed and my roommate is at work.

Robinetta · Answer

I was walking to the bathroom at 3am in the dark and heard my brother laughing in his room. Only thing was, my brother was 200km away

CHERRYL · Answer

I once woke to 2 cops opening my bedroom door asking who I was. They had apparently been called because some one noticed the house back door was open. This actually wasn't scary in the moment because I was so goddamn tired, but I get nervous thinking back now. Always makes me do a door & lock check.

Andre · Answer

My dark cat came around the corner from a dark room

Juliane Walter · Answer

"I was home alone during the "clown incident" in 2014, let's just say one of them knocked on the front door of my house, I was ten at the time, I called 911 and they have a police come to my house and stay with me till my mom could get home. "

Arel · Answer

"My neighbour got shot a few months ago that was kind of crazy.  Another time I was sitting at home and some big Native guy just walks into my apartment, looks around looking a bit lost, and says "I think I'm in the wrong apartment".  Poor guy was a floor too high, apologized, shook my hand and left. It wasn't actually a bad experience, but if he had been someone with any kind of malicious intent it would've been completely different. I still compulsively lock doors behind me ever since. "

Hele · Answer

"My parents and sister left to do an errand and said they would be about 20 minutes, so just leave the back door unlocked. Sunday morning, pretty safe neighbourhood, I was 17 at the time. About 10 minutes after they left, someone started banging on the front door. I ignored it thinking if it was urgent they would ring the doorbell or yell who it was. The creep ran up the side of the house and came in the back door. Some homeless dude drugged out of their mind started walking around my house looking for something. He didn't seem aggressive. I kept repeating "this is my house, you can't be here". He found a bag of m&m's, asked to buy them for a dollar, I gave them to him and was able to coax him to leave. About 5 minutes later, my parents came home. I was in so much shock I bursted out crying and they helped me call the police. Never ended up finding the dude and nothing similar ever happened again, that I'm aware of. "

Pilvi · Answer

This just happened last week, I woke up to someone in my house. Walking up the stairs to my bedroom, it was about 1pm, and I work third shift, so I was sleeping. In my haste, I didnt grab my bat. I whip open my door and it's my ex bestfriend, 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. Or that someone I knew would just take it upon themselves to force me to talk to them, by trespassing.

Ursula Ritter · Answer

It was probably the time when an armed methhead, who was clearly high off of his mind, ran on the streets screaming and shouting then desperately tried to climb up our house's gates so he could hide and get away from the police who were chasing him.  Thankfully, he got caught, but boy did I almost shit my pants that night.

ODA · Answer

Sitting on the couch around 11:30 one night, playing a phone game. Light is off. Tv is on, but i have it on my media pc, so no sound, just a desktop background. And, someone knocks on my door.  I had recently moved a few hundred miles, all my friends are that far away. I'm not expecting anytrhing, so I'm panicking a bit. I dunno who it is, but scared it's about to be a home invasion or something. Turns out it was the police. Some had called the police and said I was having a party or something (live in an apartment). To this day, I have no idea what it was about, or why someone would do that. They called the apartment office and told them that too. Having someone unknown outside your door wanting in at 11:30 at night when you're all alone is seriously scary.

Betlehem · Answer

My cat and I turned our heads when a ball of light flew past us indoors a few feet away. May have been ball lightning.

Ilana · Answer

it was 2 am and someone was knocking on my door, i ignored it or told myself it must've been something else. but the knocking persisted. without opening the door, i figured out what was happening and apparently my drunk neighbor was lost.

Soley · Answer

I'd just come back from school and my entire family had gone shopping. I'd switched on the TV and I saw that the area my family had gone shopping to had just had a terrorist attack and my family wasn't picking up their phones.

Janina Kunze · Answer

One time when I was around 12 my parents left me home alone so they could go on a date. We lived on a ground floor apartment so I could hear everything going on outside, but very faintly. Anyways, about an hour after they've left, I put my phone to charge in my room and went into the living room to watch a movie. Sometime passes by and there is knocking at the door. I knew my parents left with their keys so I shut off the TV and his in my room. This occurrence happened to me for about two months while I was left alone. (I would be in the common areas with a light on or the TV on and there would be knocking). Of course I never answered and I was always freaked the fuck out afterwards. One day, my parents go to watch the news and they see that a pedophile that lived in my apartment complex had been arrested for knocking on young girls doors on the community whilst they were home alone and kidnapping and raping them. Now, three years after I'm still scared to be home alone.

KACI · Answer

This meth head was trying to break into our house when I was a teen. I remember hearing the door knob moving and I moved the curtain back on the window and saw an empty stare looking right at me. His eyes were dilated and had the look of death in them. Thankfully my neighbor saw it and had him at gunpoint.

Mairead · Answer

My husband and I had just moved into our house. It was in a bad area, my husband was working nightshift, and, at the time, we didn't have any firearms. It was about two or three in the morning and there was a storm outside. The dogs and I were curled up in bed when I heard the back door open (we kept bells on the back door that the dogs would touch when they needed to go outside). I thought the storm had somehow blown the door open so I walked out of the room with one of my dogs. I was standing on the steps and could see into the kitchen where my back door was. A man was standing there. He locked eyes with me and started towards me. I screamed for my dog, hoping to scare him, and she absolutely launched herself from the top of the stairs to the man. He bolted out the back door. I called the police but they didn't find the guy.

Anneliina · Answer

"Was in the garden sun tanning as an about a 13 year old. Two snakes escaped from our neighbour who had been keeping them secretly and illegally, didn't see them until they were about 3 metres away. Grabbed the only "weapon" within reach so I could use it to get back in the house. A rake. They both kept slithering towards me hissing, panicking, I swatted at the first snake and ran. Got back inside, called my parents and the police on their instructions. The Police showed up and even they began to panic as both snakes were apparently vipers and very venomous. It took them about an hour to catch both snakes. Our neighbour was arrested, turns out he had a great number of illegal animals in his house, some of which the escaped snakes had killed and eaten before coming to scare the shit out of me. "

KRYSTEN · Answer

Oh boy, this one is meant for me. I was settling in to go to bed, I hear my dog going crazy. Mom and dad were out buying things for a kitchen upgrade, my older sister was at a friend's doing homework. Just me, alone in bed. I've lived in the same house my whole life and know how every door sounds from my room, and whose footsteps they are. I hear my parent's door opening, only the release sound, though. Then three of my dad's footsteps. I could hear it cause my dog stopped barking. I call my parents asking if they'd come home? Had I not heard? Nope, my dad answers, they're still on the freeway. My dog starts barking up a storm then.

Dareen · Answer

Not super spooky but here ya go: I woke up to the carbon monoxide detector going off and wasn't sure what to do so I called the police and sat outside with the dog until they came and checked the area. Thankfully we were okay. The scariest part was I almost didn't get up because I was so weak and tired. I'd been, among other things, sleeping entire days during that period and barely had enough energy to stand without blacking out and I couldn't remember what was real or a dream. My mom was out for the weekend with her friends, I believe. I called her about it later but she didn't appreciate me bothering her.

Tamas · Answer

This technically doesn't count because I wasn't entirely alone, just my dad at home, but when I was suuuuper young like maybe 8-9? I remember I had woken up in the middle of the night to a light in the hall directly across from my room and I figured someone was in the bathroom. For some reason this made me need to go to the bathroom so I got up and walked to the door. Just before I knocked though, something either pinched or poked my butt and when I whipped around, nothing was there. It's kind of embarrassing for me to say, but I am now 20 years old and I still cannot keep my back turned from any dark rooms or halls, and I have to sleep with my back against a wall.

Oralla · Answer

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 head something slam into the front door. I grab my pocket knife and check it out, nothing. About 10 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 didnt put enough holes into my baked potatoes and they exploded in the oven. :(

Doreen Cole · Answer

I started choking on a clump of Mike/Ikes. 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.

Gasper · Answer

I was actually at a friends 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 light 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

Birgit Schroder · Answer

I heard gunshots when I was home alone for the first time as a twelve 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

PiperGreen · Answer

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. Edit: I have a few more stories similar to this. Growing up in South LA was kinda wild.

Mansoura · Answer

First time I was ever home alone an earthquake hit and being a 10 year old who had never experienced an earthquake I had no idea what was happening and lost my shit

Marshall · Answer

"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 "Hello? 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. "

SILVA · Answer

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 10 feet across the room, face down 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 safe keeping.

Myy · Answer

"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 hear it say, "movement guest bedroom, movement 2nd floor hallway, movement office, etc." I assume 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. Clarification edit: My original phrasing is confusing, so I wanted to clarify. 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. "

EMIKO · Answer

It was spooky movie night at a friends 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.. thing just staring at me from outside the patio, with shimmering hazy lights pulsing behind it. I fucking freaked, dropped my food and run up the stairs nearly in tears babbling about someone or thing in the back yard. 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.

Carena · Answer

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 dropped 911 call from this number (my house landline) and asked if I was ok.  I didn't call them Nobody else was home to call them Idk it just creeped me out a lot

Lea Schneider · Answer

"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 6 minutes. I guess I hadn't muted the tv fast enough. He screamed "I know you're home alone in there!" I about died. Edit: wow, this blew up. Thanks! I was about seven or eight. Edit 2: thank you for the silver (and the yikes)! My first two awards ever! Edit 3: some of you were wondering. I just waited until the guy left. Told my parents what happened that night. They freaked. "

Edi · Answer

Was home alone one night and it was close to Halloween in 2015. Loud ass knock on the front door. I was eatting 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 fuck ya know? 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 neighbours helped them out apparently. Crazy.

Vanezza · Answer

Probably pretty lame compared to most stories on here. Was working pretty late (re: 2am) 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 2am isn't a good combination. I checked the camera memory and the guy was there for 20minutes, just real casual. Called the cops and the kid ran away and came back an hour later. Haven't seen him since.

Malvina · Answer

"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 were home only a half hour after they left for dinner. I almost shit 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 neighbor's 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. "

Dinnie · Answer

I was probably 9 years old, my sister was 6. We had a babysitter 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. 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 shitily cut piece of raw meat, since that's basically what it was. The babysitter 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 ER. She didn't hit an artery so it wasn't as bad as it could've been, but it was scary as fuck at the time. Got 60 stitches out of it.

Eliin · Answer

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.

Nadezhda · Answer

"It was a hot summer and my parents went to a wedding. I had a project to do and it was like 1am and silent until a random drunk dude crawled in through my window with a bottle and blush face. I was 20ft away at my desk from the window and we both just stared at eachother. He was flustered and said "oh sorry there kid wrong house" and attempts to leave the way he came. He was drunk n dizzy so I helped him by pushing him out the window. I thoroughly shut it and stared at it for 2 hours until my parents came home. Edit: first upvote above 50 wow ill try and read all if not most and reply if I can "

Meaghan · Answer

I was in my basement where the computer was playing some game, probably Runescape, 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. edit: because you guys keep asking, they just left, nothing happened. No Home Alone shit, I did not get killed, I am very much alive.

Sinem · Answer

Just me and my mom. She got drunk and fell down the stairs. She knocked herself out cold and i had to admininster 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.

Franziska Gaertner · Answer

I was chillin 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 pocket knife 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 dont know what happened, and it couldn't have been wind cause it was winter so we had all the windows closed. Not that scary but a door closing when you're home alone and not even 12 is a lil spooky.

Jason · Answer

"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 3 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 other guy. "

Anlaug · Answer

I was in the front of the house watching TV when one of the bedroom doors down the hallway slammed shut. That's never happened before and it's never happened since. Investigation turned up nothing but I still couldn't explain it. I'm just glad it was during the daytime!

naya · Answer

I woke up from a dead sleep, sitting straight up in bed, heart pounding, absolutely convinced someone was in my home. I spent the next 20 minutes slowly searching my very small basement suite, where I live alone, with 9-1-1 pre-dialed on my phone. No one was there and my door was still locked. No windows open, etc. Still not sure what woke me up, but I've never been so paranoid in my life. ETA: this happened, like...a year ago. I'm in my 30s.

Audur · Answer

My siblings decided to play a prank on me when I was in like 3rd grade. They told me I'd be home alone and they left with my nanny. Then, after about a half hour, they started tapping on the windows. It started spaced out but as time went on they got more and more frequent and I was terrified. It ended with both of them just banging really loudly on random windows, then they banged on my door and finally came in and told me what they were doing. I was straight screaming and crying. Easy worst day of my life. I hate being home alone now and Im really jumpy and I hate saying it was traumatic because I feel like that's going overboard (Edit: My siblings are good people, they just didn't know better at the time)

Anni-Mari · Answer

I slipped and fell and somehow lodged myself stuck crammed in the doorway. I was very stuck for a very long time, one leg bent in an odd position and my wrist had bent backwards. Could not move due to shock and pain at first, finally wriggled myself loose, but for a moment I was convinced someone was going to find me dead in this weird position. Edit: clarification

Gert · Answer

On mobile, sorry. Many years ago when I still lived in my shitty hometown, I worked in hospitality doing split shifts most days. I was young and frequently hung over so on my 3 hour break I would often go home to nap and refresh. During one of my breaks I woke up to a guy trying to break in through my bedroom window. I don't think he saw me (I hope he didn't because god knows what the plan was if he did). I jumped out of bed, completely confused and just stared at him kinda shocked. He also seemed shocked and ran away. The thing I find crazy now is my home town was such a shit hole that I didn't even call the cops because this kind of thing was so common that I just normalised it and had a laugh with friends when I told them about it later that day.  I live in a much better place now and realise that this shit is not normal.

VALERIE · Answer

A was walking home from the station, it was dark and it felt like a guy wearing a hood was following me. He walked switching between being in front and behind me for about 10 minutes. He had been a good few metres in front of me when I got to my front door so I sighed and thought I was just being a silly paranoid girl. But I still had that weird feeling I was being watched.  So I turned around and the guy had walked back and was now standing at my front gate staring at me. I freaked out and opened the door, ran to the kitchen and grabbed a knife and slammed all the lights on although I'm sure it was obvious no one else was in the house. I was alone at home for a couple of days but slept with a knife in my room for weeks after that.

Jenda · Answer

I have always had hallucinations, primarily audio and visual ones When I turned about 9 I started to be able to tell when it wasnt real Just imagine up until then, when I was home alone at night the walls would breath and people stomped around the house I would carefully search the house for other people But the walls breathing always scared me Still see it every now and then, still creeps me out

Nealy · Answer

Late at night when I was a teenager. Must've been around 1 am and I was watching YouTube and I my phones has an alert. My phone is connected to the security system and when ever something happens it gives an alert for a few seconds before ringing so that you can cancel if you want to. I'm home alone and I decide to cancel the alarm. I slowly get out of my room and creep down with a Renaissance fair knife I bought a couple weeks ago and I head a thud. It sounded like someone trying to quietly jump down from a higher place without making much noise. Then some footsteps and creaking, now coming from my kitchen. I slowly inch towards my kitchen, adrenaline pumping. Knife in one hand, I turn the light on with the other, prepared to fight for my life. Yeah turns out it was my cat that I forgot had existed because I was so scared.

Anke Burger · Answer

I was home alone and heard a noice downstairs, I go look and see the sillhuette of a person in my parents bedroom. I sneak back to my space, get my rifle from my locker, load it and head back silently.  My heart was racing, I peeked around the corner fast, getting a lock on that burglar shit... Turns out it was a new jacket stand with a jacked and a hat on it that looked like an actual person from behind...

NATOSHA · Answer

"When I was about 12 years old, I was home alone for the weekend and I was cooking lunch while playing some loud music. Then I kept hearing that something was playing with my music so i I stopped it and heard the tune of "it's a small world". Just the tune, no lyrics. Kind of like coming from a toy. So of course, I had to investigate. I checked downstairs and found none so I went upstairs and halfway thru the stairs, it got louder so I wasn't about to go there pls i know my way around horror movies. It eventually stopped but i could never hear it's a small world in the same way ever again. It also didn't help that my bedroom was upstairs so I did the fastest run that I could do when it was bedtime. To this day, I still don't know what was responsible for that sound. "

Manuela Bader · Answer

I was in bed upstairs crying (was severely depressed) when I heard the door bell ring and because of how depressed I was, was too lazy to answer it. Thank God because turns out it was a man with a knife wearing a mask we caught on our security cameras, he went to our backyard, drank a beer from our eski, waved at my dog and tapped the glass doors while looking inside. Thank God I did not answer that door or go downstairs because he woudl've seen me. Also turns out he broke into many other homes that night all through our neighbourhood

Finn · Answer

My grandparents paid me to house sit for them and take care of their animals(2 dogs, 2 goats and like 3 or 4 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 weren't freaky

Mirja-Maija · Answer

"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 fucking turkey walked up to the sliding door and started tapping on the glass. I noped the fuck out of that basement so fast. I don't think I ever watched that show again either Edit: the show was called "A Haunting" Edit 2: my first award! Thanks u/yunabug1988  Glad I could give someone a good laugh, also love that my most popular comment is about being terrorized by a turkey "

Kristin Schmidt · Answer

Got a hot dog stuck in my throat. I chopped myself in the Adam's Apple and it flew out

ISIDRA · Answer

Sitting in my parents' farmhouse reasonably deep into the Scottish Highlands, on a farm around 5 miles from the nearest (small) town overlooking a valley but on a small road that wasn't travelled on much. Anyway, totally alone, just chilling in the living room and something SMASHED into the window right beside me. I fucking shat myself. A huge crow, completely out of the blue, flew hard into the window. Double glazed so didn't break but made a hell of a noise about 3 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 occurence but it 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! Edits for spelling.

SHAQUITA · Answer

When I was about 18 ('99ish), 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 aren't due back till the next evening, and I started panicking. I locked myself in the office and called 911. I'm crying and hiding behind the desk with the phone, and I hear footsteps coming up the stairs. I lost it when the doorknob 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'd been online, they couldn't call me to let me know. Mom finally realized they had scared the absolute shit out of me and apologized, but I was grounded for running up the AOL bill while they were gone.

IRMGARD · Answer

"My sister and I where 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 our 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 startet 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. "

Sunna · Answer

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 shit out of the guy, put him in the back of the car and drove away. I guess the criminal was trying to escape but did not think there would be no exit whatsoever except through someone's house. Scared the living hell out of me.

Johnny · Answer

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 falled backwards (idk how I fell) but if it was the other direction I would've plunged to death.

Git-Marie · Answer

"I was laying in bed when the doorbell started ringing multiple times. I thought it was my cousins because they do that a lot, so I stayed in bed since I was lazy and they do have keys to get in. After a few more minutes of ringing, I started to get paranoid and texted my family group chat. The ringing stopped and I heard loud banging noises and the sound of wood being broken  I don't know why, but I got up to check it. The burglar saw me through our frosted glass on the door, yelled "shit!" And ran away in his car. Got scared of being alone in the house for a while after "

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