5 Disturbing TRUE Home Alone Stories

I've owned and lived in the same house for 8 years it's a normal family-sized home which was relevant when I had roommates but when they moved out and it just became me living here I had nothing to do with the extra space it was technically a four-bedroom house but I only used two of the bedrooms one is my main bedroom and one is the game room the other two rooms were on the far end of the upstairs hallway one had a few storage boxes in it and the other was completely empty after getting out of work at 9:00 I picked up Wendy's on the way home and pretty much went right to the game room I was off tomorrow so what better to do than game all night I put my headphones on and loaded up Cod but before I had time to even even load into a match I thought I heard something that sounded like a knock at the front door I took my headset off and listened but not hearing anything and figuring they would have knocked again if there was someone there I went back to my game probably a whole 2 hours went by and then I heard it again it sounded like either a knock or a door closing or something like that but with my headphones on and with my room door closed it was way too quiet for me to tell I got up and opened the door looking out into the hallway and waiting for that sound to come again after a minute though I went downstairs and looked out the front door nobody was outside my house and everything seemed normal having been hearing these sounds though I obviously made sure the door was locked before going back upstairs to be a bit more cautious I left my room door open this time so if it happened again maybe I'd hear it better I put my headset back on and continued gaming I played through a whole round so like 20ish minutes as the game ended and I leaned back in my chair a figure rushed past the open doorway just off to the side of my view I immediately threw my headphones off and jumped from my chair horrified and unsure what to do I just stared at the doorway I didn't get the courage to finally move for several minutes when I looked into the hallway though and eventually the rest of the house nobody was there but the front door was unlocked again when police came and investigated it was clear that the person had been hiding and very likely living in the empty room I hadn't been in there for weeks or maybe even months so all this time they could have been just on the other side of the wall from me and I had no idea it's really scary to think about especially if I'd happened to confront him there's no saying what he would have done [Music] this happened to me just a bit over a year ago I'm 24 and have a townhouse in the suburbs I live alone which for me gets really boring so I try to have friends over whenever I can my closest friends come a couple times a week and sometimes even sleep over to escape their parents' houses I didn't have any plans this night but I had plans for the next day with my friend Sarah who was supposed to be coming over to have a movie night so I really was just trying to get this night over with and looking forward to the next day I went to bed early like 9:15 in the middle of the night I woke up I looked at my night stand and saw it was 2: a. m. but the way I woke up was odd my heart was pounding for some reason and my brain was very alert and aware like something was happening I thought maybe I had just woken up from a nightmare or something until I heard a click from downstairs I sat up a door slowly screeched open and I could hear someone's footsteps entering my home although terrified I thought this had to be Sarah or one of my other friends as they all had keys to my house in case they needed somewhere to stay I got up from my bed and walked over to the door opening it and stepping into the hallway Sarah no one responded I waited in the hallway for what felt like forever but then a bright light suddenly flickered on lighting up up the hole downstairs a second later soft chattering noise came from the living room whoever it was had turned on the TV for a moment I felt relief thinking it was definitely one of my friends who had one too many drinks I went down the stairs and into the living room and felt my whole body Turn ice cold in an instant some random man was sitting on my couch looking at the TV screen he looked maybe 50 years old with patchy long black hair and dirty clothes as I stared at him in fear he glanced over at me and showed a crooked smile then waved his hand as if to invite me over to the couch I turned around and sprinted right out the front door I banged on my neighbor's door until they let me in and called the police by the time they made it though he was gone no trace of him at all what's worse is the police didn't take it all that seriously suggesting it was probably just some harmless homeless man wanting a place to sleep the way I see it everything points to otherwise he picked the lock on my door sat on my couch and turned on the TV then the sick man smiled at me and invited me over to the couch I think he may have been a stalker or something and now I find it hard to even sleep at night when I'm alone thinking that there's a chance that I'm not really alone my friend Derek and I rent a house together he's a pretty big partyer though and often stays out really late or even sleeps over at others places so a lot of nights I have to myself this was one of those nights where drick was out at the club or something so having the night alone I brought out a couple cans of beer to our front porch and sat on the S winging bench we had set up it was nice weather out and with it being nearly midnight most people were sleeping and the neighborhood was pretty quiet after being out for a little less than an hour a person came walking down the street in front of the houses he looked like a large guy and had a sweatshirt on with a hood over his head but something was off about the way he was walking he was very stiff like only his legs were moving and his whole upper half wasn't when he got up to the part of the road my house was in front of he stopped and looked over at me I waited a few seconds for him to say something but he didn't say anything he just stood there in the middle of the road right in front of my house and looked at me hey buddy you need something he stayed quiet for a moment then started walking up my driveway I stood up from the bench and yelled at him to leave but once I realized he was getting pretty close I hurried inside and locked the door behind me I then watched out the pee pole as the guy came right up to the door he waited for another second before pulling out something from under his sweatshirt it was hard to see from the small view I had but it looks like maybe a hammer or crowbar or something once I saw that I knew what was likely about to happen I ran upstairs and locked myself in the bedroom dialing 911 and trying to be quiet I could hear the wood splintering off the door downstairs as I pleaded with the operator for help then there was a loud thud and silence the broken door swaying on its hinges was the only sound I waited anxiously only assuming that I'd hear the guy's footsteps approaching the bedroom door at any second but seconds turned to minutes until I heard a cop car pull into my driveway I thought about running down to the officers but the operator suddenly told me through the phone to stay where I was and wait for the cops to get to me so so I sat back down 30 seconds later I hear one of the officers walking up the stairs followed by them shouting and firing off a taser the guy had been standing right outside the bedroom door as if he was just waiting for me to open it he was arrested and apparently was very drunk but I have no clue who he was or why he did what he did said as far as the officers have told me the guy wouldn't even say why he was walking down the road or what he was even doing there all I know is if I had opened that door it would have been the last thing I ever did my wife and I take years vacations to different places it's our way of taking a break from regular everyday life as well as getting to spend some quality time together this year we had a cabin booked in Washington state it was far out and described online as being quiet and peaceful away from any other places or people most of our life is in crowded cities so this sounded great for us when we flew in we walked to a grocery store to pick up what we needed then took a taxi out to the cabin we didn't rent a car because we knew we'd only be there for 3 days so we wanted to spend it just at the cabin and if we changed our minds or needed anything else we could always just order an Uber the taxi ride was just over an hour from the town we landed in most of the drive was between huge mountain ranges and tree covered landscape it was really beautiful and got us both excited for our stay then at just about 700 p.

m. we arrived at the cabin it was completely alone in the middle of the forest even the driveway leading to it wasn't much more than some tire tracks in the dirt we got out and paid the taxi then brought our stuff inside the cabin itself was small there was the main floor that had the kitchen and living room with a ladder leading up to a loft area that had the bed in it the bed area on the Loft was short though you literally had to crawl into the bed kind of like one you'd see in a tiny home anyway we unpacked the groceries and made a very quick dinner since we were tired from the flight then we open opened a bottle of wine to settle in for the night we lit up the fireplace and chatted about how we were looking forward to the next few days it was around 11:00 p. m.