Scary

<p>Being home alone is fun because you can walk around with no pants on, talk to your dog like it&#39;s a human, and eat food straight out of the fridge with your hands. But being home alone can also turn scary real quick. Especially when you realize you might not be as alone as you thought.</p><h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l4styp/serious_what_is_the_the_scariest_thing_that_you/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;What is the the scariest thing that you have ever encountered while home alone?&quot;</h2><h2>These 21 people share stories of the most chilling and terrifying things that happened to them when no one else was home:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/-PM_me_your_recipes-/">-PM_me_your_recipes-</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was house sitting for some family. They neglected to mention that their cat knows how to open doors.</p> <p>I learned this at 2AM when the bedroom door flung open.</p> </blockquote><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CylonsInAPolicebox/">CylonsInAPolicebox</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Was in the shower when I heard the door to my apartment being unlocked. Husband wasn&#39;t due back for several hours. Turns out it was the skeevy ass building manager snooping around people&#39;s apartments when he thought they were not home. Reported him to the company that own the building but nothing ever came of it. Moved out shortly after.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Chubbymommy2020/">Chubbymommy2020</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was taking a nap in my apartment under blankets in my bed when I hear the door open. Thinking it&rsquo;s my husband, I ignore it. But about five minutes later, I hear several female voices. I&rsquo;m thinking I&rsquo;m dreaming so again, I ignore it. The voices get louder and suddenly my bedroom door opens.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I freak out and bolt upright in bed. Three women were in my apartment: 2 young, 1 older. I shriek! They shriek! They run out of my apartment!</p> <p>It turned out that the management company showed the wrong apartment available for rent that day. I got an apology and a bouquet of flowers.</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Itsamemario3007/">Itsamemario3007</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>We lived in a maisonette in London (we lived upstairs and a man was downstairs), he came banging at our door one day screaming that his flat was being flooded from our bathroom and to let him in. Well I was 14 and my bro 13 (mum was out). He came in, went in to the bathroom and did something. I don&#39;t know what (he was an adult and we trusted him). Well mum called the council out and there had never been a leak. No water marks or anything so mum told us not to let him in again. Next time mum went out he came banging at the door again and we told him what mum said. He... Went.... Apeshit. LET ME F**KING IIINN, LET ME F**KING IIIINN. All the while banging the f**k out of the door. God knows why he wanted in. Scary</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Darths_Desire/">Darths_Desire</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was woken from a deep sleep by the most horrifying high pitched howling noise. We lived deep in a wooded area, and I was familiar with sounds like foxes barking or even fisher cats screaming, but this was eerie and didn&#39;t sound like an animal. Then it came from the other side of the house, but there was no sound of anything walking. You know how your mind isn&#39;t really logical when you first wake? I was convinced it was some terrible otherworldly creature.</p> <p>In the morning I checked some online recordings of sounds to figure it out. Turned out to be a tiny harmless screech owl. Little guy can make some demonic sounds tho!</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Honey_Magnolia/">Honey_Magnolia</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was maybe 11 or 12 and was home alone one winter day. The desktop computer I was using shared a wall with our (unheated) garage. The house was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. All of a sudden this boom erupted from the garage that shook the wall, it honestly sounded like a bomb went off. 20 minutes later, after hiding behind the couch and getting my heart rate down I finally went to inspect.</p> <p>A 2 liter sprite bottle had frozen and exploded off the shelf.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Arcinbiblo12/">Arcinbiblo12</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>The first night alone at my new house, a dude tried scouting around my home looking for a way in. I flipped on all the lights and ran downstairs as loudly as I could holding a plastic tomahawk in one hand, and my phone dialing 911 in the other. He never actually got inside the house, but it was terrifying especially since it was literally my first night of living on my own.</p> </blockquote><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/calette/">calette</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was babysitting a family I was unfamiliar with. My parents knew them and suggested me when they needed a babysitter and as I liked having money, I accepted. The kids go to bed and I kill time as one does before smartphones are a thing by...reading I think? Maybe doing homework, but that seems unlikely.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Anyways, I start to hear speaking from another room. Not just speaking, but this low, almost demonic voice speaking to another one. I&#39;m not a religious sort, but when you realize that no, you&#39;re not just hearing things there&#39;s definitely a voice it&#39;s more then a little creepy.</p> <p>Not knowing what was going on, I slowly crept up to the doorway of the sitting room, then peered around the corner.</p> <p>F**KING FURBYS. TALKING TO EACH OTHER. AT NIGHT. IN THE DARK.</p> <p>Furbys suck.</p> </blockquote><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Deltaas/">Deltaas</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was at a friends house (watching her cats) and suddenly someone stood on the balcony, right when I walked down the hallway. I stopped dead and stood frozen for minutes, hartbeat up in my throat. Turns out it was my reflection....Took me solid 10 minutes.</p> </blockquote><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NEKKID_GRAMMAW/">NEKKID_GRAMMAW</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Screams of f**king foxes (as in mating). No joke, almost shat my pants the first time.</p> </blockquote><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Insomniax995/">Insomniax995</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Growing up we had large old mirror with a thick wood frame leaning against the wall in our hallway. I was doing some homework in the kitchen but got up to get something from the living room. The hallway is the connecting room between the two. So I passed through it, picked up whatever I needed in the living room, turned around and was on my way back ....and that old mirror is broken on the floor. IT&#39;S SHATTERED. Pieces everywhere. As if it had EXPLODED. It was completley fine when I passed it just seconds before. I didnt hear it break.</p> <p>I just kind of walked by it and headed out the kitchen door. Scared the sh*t out of me.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sleepwhileyoucan/">sleepwhileyoucan</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was probably about 12, newly allowed to be home alone for a couple hours over the summer. A man was walking through my fenced in backyard, walked right onto my deck to the back window. My dog was going nuts barking with her hair standing up. I had no way out of the house or to the phone without this man seeing me in the window. So I&rsquo;m hiding behind the couch waiting for him to break in when I see him exit my yard through the gate. I immediately call my mom almost in tears and she said &ldquo;oh I forgot to tell you the gas meter guy was coming&rdquo;. Of course the gas meter is right next to the window my brother and I always used to &ldquo;break in&rdquo; to our own house when we forgot our keys. My dog was the only badass that day..</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/datacollect_ct/">datacollect_ct</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I tree branch crashed through my window when I was home alone playing xbox.</p> <p>I&#39;ve always thought I would be prepared for like an intruder or something, but if that was a dude that just like did that SWAT rope swing thing through my window, he would have had enough time to walk over to me, grab a gun from my hand, load it, and shoot me before I figured what the f**k went on.</p> <p>I was like one of those goats that faint when you scream at them.</p> </blockquote><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/who_ate_my_soap1865/">who_ate_my_soap1865</a>&quot;</p><blockquote> <p>I had a massive tub of lego fell over while i was eating downstairs. I kid you not, it sounded like somebody went through the window. I was frozen on the spot thinking i was going to be killed or kidnapped or something. An hour and a bit passed and i thought they must have left. I slowly went around the house looking for evidence of a break in. Then i saw the lego all over the floor.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/IndyMazzy/">IndyMazzy</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was home alone since my husband was away on deployment. One night as I was falling asleep both my dog and I heard someone on the porch walking around. My dog flipped out and I decided to go downstairs. I grabbed my gun out of the safe and headed downstairs. About two thirds of the way down I saw the man through the front door windows. We locked eyes and he said, &ldquo;Let me in.&rdquo; I told him that he needed to leave. Again, &ldquo;Let me in.&rdquo; I told him he needed to leave and that I was calling the cops. &ldquo;Let me in.&rdquo; I told him I that had a gun. &ldquo;So do I&rdquo; and he lifted up a gun and aimed it at me. I fired my gun through the window but missed him. He ran off. The cops found him a few blocks from my house a little bit later. His gun ended up not being loaded. Still. Most terrifying sh*t ever.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BearBells/">BearBells</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>In the house alone one night and from my room I hear deep, gutteral voices. Go in to check and no one is there. This happens a few more times that evening. After checking and finding nothing...again I stand perplexed and then I hear the voices again, from my stereo speakers! Turns out it was a nearby Ham operator coming across, somewhat, on my stereo speakers.</p> </blockquote><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lalllo7/">Lalllo7</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A big, freshly-shed rattlesnake <em>skin</em> on the floor in front of the tv where my kids were watching cartoons.</p> </blockquote><p>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Book_devourer/">Book_devourer</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Just moved in to our brand new home, my husband goes out to pick up dinner. I&rsquo;m just setting up our tv and all of a sudden a man comes down the flipping stairs. I scream at the top of my lungs and run for the front door. He screams at the same time. Thankfully the neighbors next door were outside I sqweek out that there is a strange man in my house. He comes out of my house and turns out he works for the development, and had been fixing a upstairs bathroom. My husband forgot to tell me he was there. 🤦🏽&zwj;♀️</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PreEntertain/">PreEntertain</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was watching TV alone like I do almost all the time and a cat jumped up on my lap.</p> <p>I ain&#39;t got no f**kin&#39; cat.</p> </blockquote><p>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/J4ck0fDiamonds/">J4ck0fDiamonds</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Someone trying to break open the window, woke up because my dog was barking, looked at the window and seen someone&#39;s head staring at me... he ran away and left a couple of tools</p> </blockquote><p>21.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/in-a-sense-lost/">in-a-sense-lost</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My husband was having a dudes weekend and I was home alone with our kid. The downstairs neighbors were fighting (nothing new there) when all of a sudden I heard her scream &quot;HELP ME PLEASE GOD SOMEONE HELP ME!&quot; So loud I knew she had run out the kitchen into the back stairwell. She was crying and screaming, their baby was screaming, then there were thumps and more yelling. I had already called 911 and while they were getting my information everything went silent down there. The baby suddenly stopped, everything was quiet. I told them to hurry.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>The police arrived and I had to let them in the building (so much for an anonymous report!) And they pounded on the downstairs door for a while with no answer. They tried calling the landlord to get permission to break down the door but one officer came up to ask me if there was another way in. I showed them the back stairwell and said they were unlikely to have bothered locking the kitchen door. They hadn&#39;t, and the officers got in. Nobody home.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>They came back and asked me again what I&#39;d heard, and another officer hung back. The family was finally found in the basement. He said they&#39;d all been down there doing laundry and hadn&#39;t heard the police knocking. (Bullshit, people down the block could hear them threatening to break down the door; we&#39;d drawn quite a crowd). She insisted everything was fine and she and the baby were safe and sent the police on their way (nothing they can do if she insists she&#39;s safe)</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I couldn&#39;t sleep all night, and they were extra cold to us after that. A few months later I answered the door to two police officers responding to a report of DV. The downstairs neighbors claimed they&#39;d heard screaming and thumps and then saw my husband jump in his car and speed away. I was home alone, still in my nightgown (they could see lots of skin and no visible marks), and my husband had been out of the country on business for three days. They got in trouble for the false report and moved out later that month. I hope she eventually left him.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

21 people share the scariest thing they've experienced while home alone.

Being home alone is fun because you can walk around with no pants on, talk to your dog like it&#39;s a human, and eat food straight out of the fridge with your hands. But being home alone can also turn scary real quick. Especially when you realize you might not be as alone as you thought.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;What is the the scariest thing that you have ever encountered while home alone?&quot;These 21 people share stories of the most chilling and terrifying things that happened to them when no one else was home:1.) From -PM_me_your_recipes-: I was house sitting for some family. They neglected to mention that their cat knows how to open doors. I learned this at 2AM when the bedroom door flung open. 2.) From CylonsInAPolicebox: Was in the shower when I heard the door to my apartment being unlocked. Husband wasn&#39;t due back for several hours. Turns out it was the skeevy ass building manager snooping around people&#39;s apartments when he thought they were not home. Reported him to the company that own the building but nothing ever came of it. Moved out shortly after. 3.) From Chubbymommy2020: I was taking a nap in my apartment under blankets in my bed when I hear the door open. Thinking it&rsquo;s my husband, I ignore it. But about five minutes later, I hear several female voices. I&rsquo;m thinking I&rsquo;m dreaming so again, I ignore it. The voices get louder and suddenly my bedroom door opens.  I freak out and bolt upright in bed. Three women were in my apartment: 2 young, 1 older. I shriek! They shriek! They run out of my apartment! It turned out that the management company showed the wrong apartment available for rent that day. I got an apology and a bouquet of flowers. 4.) From Itsamemario3007: We lived in a maisonette in London (we lived upstairs and a man was downstairs), he came banging at our door one day screaming that his flat was being flooded from our bathroom and to let him in. Well I was 14 and my bro 13 (mum was out). He came in, went in to the bathroom and did something. I don&#39;t know what (he was an adult and we trusted him). Well mum called the council out and there had never been a leak. No water marks or anything so mum told us not to let him in again. Next time mum went out he came banging at the door again and we told him what mum said. He... Went.... Apeshit. LET ME F**KING IIINN, LET ME F**KING IIIINN. All the while banging the f**k out of the door. God knows why he wanted in. Scary 5.) From Darths_Desire: I was woken from a deep sleep by the most horrifying high pitched howling noise. We lived deep in a wooded area, and I was familiar with sounds like foxes barking or even fisher cats screaming, but this was eerie and didn&#39;t sound like an animal. Then it came from the other side of the house, but there was no sound of anything walking. You know how your mind isn&#39;t really logical when you first wake? I was convinced it was some terrible otherworldly creature. In the morning I checked some online recordings of sounds to figure it out. Turned out to be a tiny harmless screech owl. Little guy can make some demonic sounds tho! 6.) From Honey_Magnolia: I was maybe 11 or 12 and was home alone one winter day. The desktop computer I was using shared a wall with our (unheated) garage. The house was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. All of a sudden this boom erupted from the garage that shook the wall, it honestly sounded like a bomb went off. 20 minutes later, after hiding behind the couch and getting my heart rate down I finally went to inspect. A 2 liter sprite bottle had frozen and exploded off the shelf. 7.) From Arcinbiblo12: The first night alone at my new house, a dude tried scouting around my home looking for a way in. I flipped on all the lights and ran downstairs as loudly as I could holding a plastic tomahawk in one hand, and my phone dialing 911 in the other. He never actually got inside the house, but it was terrifying especially since it was literally my first night of living on my own. 8.) From calette: I was babysitting a family I was unfamiliar with. My parents knew them and suggested me when they needed a babysitter and as I liked having money, I accepted. The kids go to bed and I kill time as one does before smartphones are a thing by...reading I think? Maybe doing homework, but that seems unlikely.  Anyways, I start to hear speaking from another room. Not just speaking, but this low, almost demonic voice speaking to another one. I&#39;m not a religious sort, but when you realize that no, you&#39;re not just hearing things there&#39;s definitely a voice it&#39;s more then a little creepy. Not knowing what was going on, I slowly crept up to the doorway of the sitting room, then peered around the corner. F**KING FURBYS. TALKING TO EACH OTHER. AT NIGHT. IN THE DARK. Furbys suck. 9.) From Deltaas: I was at a friends house (watching her cats) and suddenly someone stood on the balcony, right when I walked down the hallway. I stopped dead and stood frozen for minutes, hartbeat up in my throat. Turns out it was my reflection....Took me solid 10 minutes. 10.) From NEKKID_GRAMMAW: Screams of f**king foxes (as in mating). No joke, almost shat my pants the first time. 11.) From Insomniax995: Growing up we had large old mirror with a thick wood frame leaning against the wall in our hallway. I was doing some homework in the kitchen but got up to get something from the living room. The hallway is the connecting room between the two. So I passed through it, picked up whatever I needed in the living room, turned around and was on my way back ....and that old mirror is broken on the floor. IT&#39;S SHATTERED. Pieces everywhere. As if it had EXPLODED. It was completley fine when I passed it just seconds before. I didnt hear it break. I just kind of walked by it and headed out the kitchen door. Scared the sh*t out of me. 12.) From sleepwhileyoucan: I was probably about 12, newly allowed to be home alone for a couple hours over the summer. A man was walking through my fenced in backyard, walked right onto my deck to the back window. My dog was going nuts barking with her hair standing up. I had no way out of the house or to the phone without this man seeing me in the window. So I&rsquo;m hiding behind the couch waiting for him to break in when I see him exit my yard through the gate. I immediately call my mom almost in tears and she said &ldquo;oh I forgot to tell you the gas meter guy was coming&rdquo;. Of course the gas meter is right next to the window my brother and I always used to &ldquo;break in&rdquo; to our own house when we forgot our keys. My dog was the only badass that day.. 13.) From datacollect_ct: I tree branch crashed through my window when I was home alone playing xbox. I&#39;ve always thought I would be prepared for like an intruder or something, but if that was a dude that just like did that SWAT rope swing thing through my window, he would have had enough time to walk over to me, grab a gun from my hand, load it, and shoot me before I figured what the f**k went on. I was like one of those goats that faint when you scream at them. 14.) From who_ate_my_soap1865&quot; I had a massive tub of lego fell over while i was eating downstairs. I kid you not, it sounded like somebody went through the window. I was frozen on the spot thinking i was going to be killed or kidnapped or something. An hour and a bit passed and i thought they must have left. I slowly went around the house looking for evidence of a break in. Then i saw the lego all over the floor. 15.) From IndyMazzy: I was home alone since my husband was away on deployment. One night as I was falling asleep both my dog and I heard someone on the porch walking around. My dog flipped out and I decided to go downstairs. I grabbed my gun out of the safe and headed downstairs. About two thirds of the way down I saw the man through the front door windows. We locked eyes and he said, &ldquo;Let me in.&rdquo; I told him that he needed to leave. Again, &ldquo;Let me in.&rdquo; I told him he needed to leave and that I was calling the cops. &ldquo;Let me in.&rdquo; I told him I that had a gun. &ldquo;So do I&rdquo; and he lifted up a gun and aimed it at me. I fired my gun through the window but missed him. He ran off. The cops found him a few blocks from my house a little bit later. His gun ended up not being loaded. Still. Most terrifying sh*t ever. 16.) From BearBells: In the house alone one night and from my room I hear deep, gutteral voices. Go in to check and no one is there. This happens a few more times that evening. After checking and finding nothing...again I stand perplexed and then I hear the voices again, from my stereo speakers! Turns out it was a nearby Ham operator coming across, somewhat, on my stereo speakers. 17.) From Lalllo7: A big, freshly-shed rattlesnake skin on the floor in front of the tv where my kids were watching cartoons. 18.) From Book_devourer: Just moved in to our brand new home, my husband goes out to pick up dinner. I&rsquo;m just setting up our tv and all of a sudden a man comes down the flipping stairs. I scream at the top of my lungs and run for the front door. He screams at the same time. Thankfully the neighbors next door were outside I sqweek out that there is a strange man in my house. He comes out of my house and turns out he works for the development, and had been fixing a upstairs bathroom. My husband forgot to tell me he was there. 🤦🏽&zwj;♀️ 19.) From PreEntertain: I was watching TV alone like I do almost all the time and a cat jumped up on my lap. I ain&#39;t got no f**kin&#39; cat. 20.) From J4ck0fDiamonds: Someone trying to break open the window, woke up because my dog was barking, looked at the window and seen someone&#39;s head staring at me... he ran away and left a couple of tools 21.) From in-a-sense-lost: My husband was having a dudes weekend and I was home alone with our kid. The downstairs neighbors were fighting (nothing new there) when all of a sudden I heard her scream &quot;HELP ME PLEASE GOD SOMEONE HELP ME!&quot; So loud I knew she had run out the kitchen into the back stairwell. She was crying and screaming, their baby was screaming, then there were thumps and more yelling. I had already called 911 and while they were getting my information everything went silent down there. The baby suddenly stopped, everything was quiet. I told them to hurry.  The police arrived and I had to let them in the building (so much for an anonymous report!) And they pounded on the downstairs door for a while with no answer. They tried calling the landlord to get permission to break down the door but one officer came up to ask me if there was another way in. I showed them the back stairwell and said they were unlikely to have bothered locking the kitchen door. They hadn&#39;t, and the officers got in. Nobody home.  They came back and asked me again what I&#39;d heard, and another officer hung back. The family was finally found in the basement. He said they&#39;d all been down there doing laundry and hadn&#39;t heard the police knocking. (Bullshit, people down the block could hear them threatening to break down the door; we&#39;d drawn quite a crowd). She insisted everything was fine and she and the baby were safe and sent the police on their way (nothing they can do if she insists she&#39;s safe)  I couldn&#39;t sleep all night, and they were extra cold to us after that. A few months later I answered the door to two police officers responding to a report of DV. The downstairs neighbors claimed they&#39;d heard screaming and thumps and then saw my husband jump in his car and speed away. I was home alone, still in my nightgown (they could see lots of skin and no visible marks), and my husband had been out of the country on business for three days. They got in trouble for the false report and moved out later that month. I hope she eventually left him. 

Being home alone is fun because you can walk around with no pants on, talk to your dog like it&#39;s a human, and eat food straight out of the fridge with your hands. But being home alone can also turn scary real quick. Especially when you...