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<p>Being home alone can be creepy when you&#39;re a kid, and incredibly liberating when you&#39;re an adult. But it can also be creepy when you&#39;re an adult... especially when you discover you&#39;re not as &quot;alone&quot; as you thought you were. *Shudder*</p><p>In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked: &quot;What is the creepiest thing that has ever happened while you were home alone?&quot;</p><h2>These 19 people share stories of their most haunting moments when nobody else was home (or at least, that&#39;s what they thought...):</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RainWindowCoffee/">RainWindowCoffee</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Someone started trying to force the door of my small garage apartment open, while I was laying in bed inches from the door, at around 2am.</p> </blockquote><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Billie_fixes_stuff/">Billie_fixes_stuff</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>One time, a guy stole my boyfriends keys to my house - let himself in while I was asleep - took off his clothes.</p> <p>I literally woke up to the guy naked in my bed. Yeah it was terrifying.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>He wasn&#39;t well. He told me &quot;god&quot; told him to do it. I literally talked him down from it all - and ended up driving him to the nearest train station. The whole thing was weird, and awful.</p> </blockquote><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CuriousRelish/">CuriousRelish</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I wasn&#39;t technically alone as someone else was in the house, but because of his medication, he couldn&#39;t do anything to help if there was an emergency.</p> <p>I was downstairs with my husband snoring beside me. I heard from the top of our basement stairs &quot;Hello?... Hello?... Is everybody okay?&quot;. I went up to figure out who it was and thought maybe we&#39;d accidentally left a door open somehow.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Searched everywhere, nothing even slightly amiss. Made a phone call and also got my neighbor over. Both doors were shut and locked. Did a thorough check behind every door, the tub, under furniture, etc. Nothing. No one.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>This has happened several times and my only explanation is that it&#39;s our neighbor. For some reason, when we&#39;re in the basement, everything our neighbor does sounds like it&#39;s in our townhouse. Though I still have no idea why he&#39;s walking around his own house calling out &quot;Hello?&quot; and asking if everyone is okay.</p> </blockquote><p>Sometimes life imitates art. And not in a fun way...</p><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kharmatika/">kharmatika</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Once was watching arachnophobia as a 13 year old on Halloween. Went to go to bed, got a little nervous because of the movie, decided to just shake out my bedspread. Found a solid 3 inch wolf spider sitting like an Andes mint on my pillow. Slept in the bathtub that night. Idk why that felt safe but it did</p> </blockquote><p>Having neighbors nearby can make you feel less alone. Except when your neighbor is... a murderer.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/offtuna/">offtuna</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My neighbor shot 2 people in his house. Then proceeded to hide the gun behind my house. I was home and watched him out the window. I didn&#39;t know what he was doing at the time. It wasn&#39;t until later I found out what had happened. The victims both died.</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/rosecoloredpotato/">rosecoloredpotato</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A random man knocking on my parent&rsquo;s front door repeatedly and asking me by name to open it. This was before Ring doorbells were really a thing so I actually had to go to the door to see who it was. I looked through the peephole and saw a man that I didn&rsquo;t know standing right in front of the door, looking right into the peephole. I remember he had some gray hair but was balding and was wearing a brown flannel. He kept asking for me and banging on the door.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Being a scared kid, I ran away from the door and called my mom crying. By the time my parents got home the guy was gone. It&rsquo;s been more than a few years since it happened and my parents just recently told me that it was probably my great-uncle (that I&rsquo;ve never met) looking for someone to borrow money from.</p> </blockquote><p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Sometimes life on Mars actually seems like a safer option.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">7.) From </span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ruthlessbaderginz/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">ruthlessbaderginz</a><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">:</span></p><blockquote> <p>I was home alone and the rest of my family was on a trip somewhere. They were returning after I had to head back to campus, so I stayed back. One afternoon, I was in my room (behind a door I locked obsessively) in the basement when the stereo, also in the basement, came on deafeningly loud. For about an hour, David Bowie played at such a high volume that I couldn&#39;t hear anything else. After it stopped, I stayed in my room, petrified, for hours.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>This was in 2004, so there was no Bluetooth technology and the stereo was from the 80s--no remote. Either someone was in the basement, or it was the weirdest glitch ever. We checked with several family members with keys who might have stopped by, but everyone denied being there and there were no signs of any entry at all.</p> <p>At least the music was really good?</p> </blockquote><p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Remember, kids (and adults), you&#39;re never &quot;alone&quot; if a stranger asks. You&#39;re at home with your parents and your twelve siblings who are all trained WWE fighters, and your german shephard named &quot;Killer.&quot;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">8.) From </span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OBannion/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">OBannion</a><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">:</span></p><blockquote> <p>When I was about 11 or 12, I was home alone when a really creepy-sounding dude called my house and asked where my dad was. Like an idiot I told him he wasn&rsquo;t home. The guy&rsquo;s response was to started laughing and then tell someone else, &ldquo;He says he&rsquo;s not home&hellip;&rdquo; the other dude in the background started creepily laughing as well and then the line went dead.</p> <p>I ended up grabbing two hockey sticks and waiting by the front door until my parents returned a couple hours later. Terrifying and weird.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Sometimes nothing at all is the scariest thing you can find.</p><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/_Doda/">_Doda</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Middle of the night watching TV. A huge glass-breaking noise coming from the kitchen. As if a dozen of glass cups just fell off the table on the floor. Ran to the kitchen to checkout the noise but there was nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing at all. Everything was in place!</p> </blockquote><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Accomplished-Gap5856/">Accomplished-Gap5856</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was awoken in the middle of the night to something pulling on my comforter at the foot of my bed. I look down the foot of my bed and see this three or four foot shadow figure trying to climb on my bed. I panicked thinking I was about to get murdered. I flipped on the light to find my 15lbs dog trying to drag my 4 foot teddy bear onto my bed. It was terrifying in the moment, now I just find it hilarious</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MrBigTimeJim/">MrBigTimeJim</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>It was like 2am and I had to take my dog out to go to the bathroom. As I&rsquo;m standing out in the yard, I notice there&rsquo;s this really big dude walking down the sidewalk towards my house.</p> <p>The big dude looks over toward me and screams &ldquo;Hey! Come over here, right now.&rdquo; He sounded really pissed and I definitely did not go over to him. I locked myself in the house and watched him from inside.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He was pacing back and forth on the sidewalk just staring at my house and looked really mad. As I&rsquo;m watching him, two cars pull up to the curb and a bunch of people get out and join him to stair angrily at my house.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m very confused at this point because I don&rsquo;t have any enemies and I wasn&rsquo;t sure what all these people wanted with me.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>The guy who originally scream at me starts walking toward my house and screams &ldquo;I said come over here! Right now!&quot;</p> <p>At that moment, my motion activated light on my porch went on and I could see a giant goofy looking dog sitting on my porch. The dog sprinted away when the light went on and the big dude went chasing him up the street. The people got back in the cars and chased after the dog too.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>As it turns out it the big goofy dog was their family pet and it had escaped from their house. It saw me in the yard with my dog and was running towards me to play (I never even saw it until the light came on). The big dude was just yelling at his dog, not me. The people in the cars were his family members trying to help catch the dog.</p> <p>I actually saw them walking down the street a few days later and introduced myself. Both the dog and man were very friendly. It was a happy ending for an initially creepy situation.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>She&#39;s the last person you&#39;d ever expect...</p><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AmbivalentEnthusiast/">AmbivalentEnthusiast</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>As I&#39;m laying on the couch watching TV late at night, I hear a tapping on glass. I brush it off, only to have it happen again about a minute or so later. I turn to look out our sliding glass back door, which had always given me the creeps with its no blinds or lighting in the back yard, to see of all things someone standing outside wearing a scream costume. My mind started racing as to who it might be, perhaps one of my sister&#39;s friends? I wasn&#39;t about to go outside and find out! They slinked away into darkness before I found my nerve. Turns out my 70 yo grandma decided to scare the shit out of me lol.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Well, this is absolutely terrifying.</p><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FugaziRoker/">FugaziRoker</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A guy popped his head in my bedroom door, looked at me and quickly left when he saw me. It was dark so assumed it was one of my housemates and I was more concerned that they didn&#39;t knock before entering until I got up and realized the house was empty and nobody was home.</p> </blockquote><p>Nature is a nightmare.</p><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/morethanlemons/">morethanlemons</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was about 10 or 11 years old. We had woods behind our house. My parents were out one night, and I heard a shriek from the woods. My blood ran cold and I called my parents immediately. While on the phone, the terrifying scream happened again from the woods, and my mom could actually hear it from the phone.</p> <p>Later we figured out it was a fox.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tassadank/">tassadank</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Years ago, a stranger smelled weed outside my apartment and knocked on my door. They wanted to join and smoke. I apologized and said no.</p> <p>Later that night, I left to go out. When I came home my air conditioner was knocked in and there were signs of someone trying to force entry.</p> </blockquote><p>Sometimes the scariest experiences are caused by our own minds.</p><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/georgia080/">georgia080</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A few years ago I went to sleep one Sunday evening and lost 2 full days. I woke up in a cold sweat, screaming for my fianc&eacute;, but he wasn&rsquo;t there. I thought it was still Sunday night. It was actually late Tuesday evening or very early Wednesday morning. I called my fianc&eacute; on mobile frantic asking where he was and he said he had left for his work trip to Boston. He left around 5 am Monday morning.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I must have gotten up to use the bathroom and take care of the animals because I hadn&rsquo;t soiled myself and the dogs hadn&rsquo;t used the bathroom in the house either. But I have zero recollection of those missed days. I was terrified to go back to sleep while I was home alone for that week and it&rsquo;s never happened again.</p> </blockquote><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Kate_NSFW/">Kate_NSFW</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Some guy on Tinder sent me a message saying &quot;I&#39;m pretty sure I can see you right now, look up if so&quot;. I&#39;m like 85% sure he was out in public somewhere looking at some girl who just looked similar to me but like... bruh I still locked my doors, closed my blinds, and unmatched so f**king fast. What a terrible opener.</p> </blockquote><p>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kjerstih/">kjerstih</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I was a 21 year old female and staying alone at my family&#39;s mountain cabin. It was in the middle of the week and the other cabins in the area were empty. Around midnight I saw headlights from a car coming up the driveway. I wasn&#39;t expecting anyone, so I ran and hid. I went upstairs to look through a window very carefully from a dark room so I would be very difficult to spot. I saw three strange men standing outside. They were banging on the door. I was absolutely terrified! Luckily they didn&#39;t try to break in, but I did not feel safe and could not sleep that night.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>It later turned out that they were Polish carpenters that were coming to work on the cabin as they had done several times before. My dad forgot to tell me that they would be coming and forgot to tell them that I was there. They had an agreement to stay in the cabin while working on it, but instead they had to spend the first night in their car.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hootyowlscissors/">hootyowlscissors</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was in bed when I heard a rustle. Looked around. Saw nothing. Lay back down.</p> <p>Heard a louder rustle. Looked around. Looked under the bed. Lay back down with my heart in my throat.</p> <p>Something large landed on my face and chest&hellip;it was the stupid poster over my bed.</p> <p>To this day I&rsquo;m proud I didn&rsquo;t soil myself.</p> </blockquote><p>Well, this settles it. Never staying home alone again. And after reading this, neither are you.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 people share the creepiest thing that happened while they were home alone.

Being home alone can be creepy when you&#39;re a kid, and incredibly liberating when you&#39;re an adult. But it can also be creepy when you&#39;re an adult... especially when you discover you&#39;re not as &quot;alone&quot; as you thought you were. *Shudder*In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked: &quot;What is the creepiest thing that has ever happened while you were home alone?&quot;These 19 people share stories of their most haunting moments when nobody else was home (or at least, that&#39;s what they thought...):1.) From RainWindowCoffee: Someone started trying to force the door of my small garage apartment open, while I was laying in bed inches from the door, at around 2am. 2.) From Billie_fixes_stuff: One time, a guy stole my boyfriends keys to my house - let himself in while I was asleep - took off his clothes. I literally woke up to the guy naked in my bed. Yeah it was terrifying.  He wasn&#39;t well. He told me &quot;god&quot; told him to do it. I literally talked him down from it all - and ended up driving him to the nearest train station. The whole thing was weird, and awful. 3.) From CuriousRelish: I wasn&#39;t technically alone as someone else was in the house, but because of his medication, he couldn&#39;t do anything to help if there was an emergency. I was downstairs with my husband snoring beside me. I heard from the top of our basement stairs &quot;Hello?... Hello?... Is everybody okay?&quot;. I went up to figure out who it was and thought maybe we&#39;d accidentally left a door open somehow.  Searched everywhere, nothing even slightly amiss. Made a phone call and also got my neighbor over. Both doors were shut and locked. Did a thorough check behind every door, the tub, under furniture, etc. Nothing. No one.  This has happened several times and my only explanation is that it&#39;s our neighbor. For some reason, when we&#39;re in the basement, everything our neighbor does sounds like it&#39;s in our townhouse. Though I still have no idea why he&#39;s walking around his own house calling out &quot;Hello?&quot; and asking if everyone is okay. Sometimes life imitates art. And not in a fun way...4.) From kharmatika: Once was watching arachnophobia as a 13 year old on Halloween. Went to go to bed, got a little nervous because of the movie, decided to just shake out my bedspread. Found a solid 3 inch wolf spider sitting like an Andes mint on my pillow. Slept in the bathtub that night. Idk why that felt safe but it did Having neighbors nearby can make you feel less alone. Except when your neighbor is... a murderer.5.) From offtuna: My neighbor shot 2 people in his house. Then proceeded to hide the gun behind my house. I was home and watched him out the window. I didn&#39;t know what he was doing at the time. It wasn&#39;t until later I found out what had happened. The victims both died. 6.) From rosecoloredpotato: A random man knocking on my parent&rsquo;s front door repeatedly and asking me by name to open it. This was before Ring doorbells were really a thing so I actually had to go to the door to see who it was. I looked through the peephole and saw a man that I didn&rsquo;t know standing right in front of the door, looking right into the peephole. I remember he had some gray hair but was balding and was wearing a brown flannel. He kept asking for me and banging on the door.  Being a scared kid, I ran away from the door and called my mom crying. By the time my parents got home the guy was gone. It&rsquo;s been more than a few years since it happened and my parents just recently told me that it was probably my great-uncle (that I&rsquo;ve never met) looking for someone to borrow money from. Sometimes life on Mars actually seems like a safer option.7.) From ruthlessbaderginz: I was home alone and the rest of my family was on a trip somewhere. They were returning after I had to head back to campus, so I stayed back. One afternoon, I was in my room (behind a door I locked obsessively) in the basement when the stereo, also in the basement, came on deafeningly loud. For about an hour, David Bowie played at such a high volume that I couldn&#39;t hear anything else. After it stopped, I stayed in my room, petrified, for hours.  This was in 2004, so there was no Bluetooth technology and the stereo was from the 80s--no remote. Either someone was in the basement, or it was the weirdest glitch ever. We checked with several family members with keys who might have stopped by, but everyone denied being there and there were no signs of any entry at all. At least the music was really good? Remember, kids (and adults), you&#39;re never &quot;alone&quot; if a stranger asks. You&#39;re at home with your parents and your twelve siblings who are all trained WWE fighters, and your german shephard named &quot;Killer.&quot;8.) From OBannion: When I was about 11 or 12, I was home alone when a really creepy-sounding dude called my house and asked where my dad was. Like an idiot I told him he wasn&rsquo;t home. The guy&rsquo;s response was to started laughing and then tell someone else, &ldquo;He says he&rsquo;s not home&hellip;&rdquo; the other dude in the background started creepily laughing as well and then the line went dead. I ended up grabbing two hockey sticks and waiting by the front door until my parents returned a couple hours later. Terrifying and weird. Sometimes nothing at all is the scariest thing you can find.9.) From _Doda: Middle of the night watching TV. A huge glass-breaking noise coming from the kitchen. As if a dozen of glass cups just fell off the table on the floor. Ran to the kitchen to checkout the noise but there was nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing at all. Everything was in place! 10.) From Accomplished-Gap5856: I was awoken in the middle of the night to something pulling on my comforter at the foot of my bed. I look down the foot of my bed and see this three or four foot shadow figure trying to climb on my bed. I panicked thinking I was about to get murdered. I flipped on the light to find my 15lbs dog trying to drag my 4 foot teddy bear onto my bed. It was terrifying in the moment, now I just find it hilarious 11.) From MrBigTimeJim: It was like 2am and I had to take my dog out to go to the bathroom. As I&rsquo;m standing out in the yard, I notice there&rsquo;s this really big dude walking down the sidewalk towards my house. The big dude looks over toward me and screams &ldquo;Hey! Come over here, right now.&rdquo; He sounded really pissed and I definitely did not go over to him. I locked myself in the house and watched him from inside.  He was pacing back and forth on the sidewalk just staring at my house and looked really mad. As I&rsquo;m watching him, two cars pull up to the curb and a bunch of people get out and join him to stair angrily at my house. I&rsquo;m very confused at this point because I don&rsquo;t have any enemies and I wasn&rsquo;t sure what all these people wanted with me.  The guy who originally scream at me starts walking toward my house and screams &ldquo;I said come over here! Right now!&quot; At that moment, my motion activated light on my porch went on and I could see a giant goofy looking dog sitting on my porch. The dog sprinted away when the light went on and the big dude went chasing him up the street. The people got back in the cars and chased after the dog too.  As it turns out it the big goofy dog was their family pet and it had escaped from their house. It saw me in the yard with my dog and was running towards me to play (I never even saw it until the light came on). The big dude was just yelling at his dog, not me. The people in the cars were his family members trying to help catch the dog. I actually saw them walking down the street a few days later and introduced myself. Both the dog and man were very friendly. It was a happy ending for an initially creepy situation. She&#39;s the last person you&#39;d ever expect...12.) From AmbivalentEnthusiast: As I&#39;m laying on the couch watching TV late at night, I hear a tapping on glass. I brush it off, only to have it happen again about a minute or so later. I turn to look out our sliding glass back door, which had always given me the creeps with its no blinds or lighting in the back yard, to see of all things someone standing outside wearing a scream costume. My mind started racing as to who it might be, perhaps one of my sister&#39;s friends? I wasn&#39;t about to go outside and find out! They slinked away into darkness before I found my nerve. Turns out my 70 yo grandma decided to scare the shit out of me lol. Well, this is absolutely terrifying.13.) From FugaziRoker: A guy popped his head in my bedroom door, looked at me and quickly left when he saw me. It was dark so assumed it was one of my housemates and I was more concerned that they didn&#39;t knock before entering until I got up and realized the house was empty and nobody was home. Nature is a nightmare.14.) From morethanlemons: I was about 10 or 11 years old. We had woods behind our house. My parents were out one night, and I heard a shriek from the woods. My blood ran cold and I called my parents immediately. While on the phone, the terrifying scream happened again from the woods, and my mom could actually hear it from the phone. Later we figured out it was a fox. 15.) From tassadank: Years ago, a stranger smelled weed outside my apartment and knocked on my door. They wanted to join and smoke. I apologized and said no. Later that night, I left to go out. When I came home my air conditioner was knocked in and there were signs of someone trying to force entry. Sometimes the scariest experiences are caused by our own minds.16.) From georgia080: A few years ago I went to sleep one Sunday evening and lost 2 full days. I woke up in a cold sweat, screaming for my fianc&eacute;, but he wasn&rsquo;t there. I thought it was still Sunday night. It was actually late Tuesday evening or very early Wednesday morning. I called my fianc&eacute; on mobile frantic asking where he was and he said he had left for his work trip to Boston. He left around 5 am Monday morning.  I must have gotten up to use the bathroom and take care of the animals because I hadn&rsquo;t soiled myself and the dogs hadn&rsquo;t used the bathroom in the house either. But I have zero recollection of those missed days. I was terrified to go back to sleep while I was home alone for that week and it&rsquo;s never happened again. 17.) From Kate_NSFW: Some guy on Tinder sent me a message saying &quot;I&#39;m pretty sure I can see you right now, look up if so&quot;. I&#39;m like 85% sure he was out in public somewhere looking at some girl who just looked similar to me but like... bruh I still locked my doors, closed my blinds, and unmatched so f**king fast. What a terrible opener. 18.) From kjerstih: I was a 21 year old female and staying alone at my family&#39;s mountain cabin. It was in the middle of the week and the other cabins in the area were empty. Around midnight I saw headlights from a car coming up the driveway. I wasn&#39;t expecting anyone, so I ran and hid. I went upstairs to look through a window very carefully from a dark room so I would be very difficult to spot. I saw three strange men standing outside. They were banging on the door. I was absolutely terrified! Luckily they didn&#39;t try to break in, but I did not feel safe and could not sleep that night.  It later turned out that they were Polish carpenters that were coming to work on the cabin as they had done several times before. My dad forgot to tell me that they would be coming and forgot to tell them that I was there. They had an agreement to stay in the cabin while working on it, but instead they had to spend the first night in their car. 19.) From hootyowlscissors: I was in bed when I heard a rustle. Looked around. Saw nothing. Lay back down. Heard a louder rustle. Looked around. Looked under the bed. Lay back down with my heart in my throat. Something large landed on my face and chest&hellip;it was the stupid poster over my bed. To this day I&rsquo;m proud I didn&rsquo;t soil myself. Well, this settles it. Never staying home alone again. And after reading this, neither are you.

Being home alone can be creepy when you&#39;re a kid, and incredibly liberating when you&#39;re an adult. But it can also be creepy when you&#39;re an adult... especially when you discover you&#39;re not as &quot;alone&quot; as you thought...