5 True Home Alone Horror Stories

this is my scariest experience of being at home by myself it happened back when I was 12 years old it was a long time ago now but I still remember it really well during this time I lived with my parents older sister and younger brother it was very rare that I would be at home by myself but somehow it happened it was a Friday evening and my dad was out of town until the next morning for work he didn't travel for work a whole lot but every now and then he did I remember that my sister was at her best friend's house and was going to be sleeping over there as for my mom and brother they were at a birthday party my brother was invited to I was not invited and my mom went with my brother because she was basically helping the birthday kid's mom with the party so that left me home alone all by myself on a Friday night my big plans were to just relax and play video games I was excited about it though because I rarely got the entire place to myself our house was pretty average for the most part there were two levels with all the bedrooms being Upstairs Downstairs was the living room dining room and kitchen so after my mom left that afternoon shortly after I got back from school she gave me instructions on how to to make a frozen pizza I had never cooked before but I loved frozen pizza and at about 7:00 p. m. I cooked it everything went pretty well and then I went into the living room and sat in an office chair right in front of the TV and started playing on my PlayStation this went on for several hours at about 9:00 at night I heard the sound of somebody stepping onto the front step where our door was the living room was at the front of the house so it really wasn't that far away when I heard the person walk onto the front step I assumed that it was my mom and brother returning from the birthday party I kept playing expecting to hear the door open at any point but after several minutes went by nothing happened nobody entered the house I got curious and I got up and walked over to the front door to look outside when I did I didn't see anybody there there was no one at the front door and my mom's car was not in the driveway either as I was looking there though something caught my eye to the left I looked and saw what appeared to be a man walking through the front yard he was just barely in my sight for about a second before disappearing past what I could see he had gone towards the side of the house or maybe the neighbor's yard I was a little nervous after this but I assumed that the man had left I didn't really know who he was or what he was doing I kept watching around the front yard for a minute or so and saw nothing more so after that that I returned to my video games I couldn't help but be creeped out by what I had seen so I was trying to take my mind off of it and after about 10 minutes it was starting to work that is until suddenly I heard the sound of somebody trying to open the back door to the house our back door was connected to the kitchen and went out to the patio this sound was much louder and I instantly stood up I ran over to the phone and called my mom's number during this time I didn't hear any more noises I told my mom that somebody tried coming in the back door and she told me to call the police she told me that she would be home as soon as she could but the birthday party was still going on so after that I quickly ran upstairs and then went into my bedroom once I was there I called the police and told them that I thought somebody was trying to break in after giving them my address I went and hid behind my bed I covered myself with tons of blankets I was really too scared to want to know what was going on as I waited for the police to arrive I was hoping that the man had just left and not tried breaking in I wasn't hearing anything but then again I was covered in blankets it felt like forever but maybe 10 minutes later the police got there I remember that I got a call on the phone and was told that they were there I never would have gone down and left my bedroom on my own when that happened I got up but heard people talking so I stayed in my bed bedroom I remember a while later there was a knock at my bedroom door I was terrified until I Heard a Voice on the other side say police then I answered the door and there was an officer there he told me that they had caught a man who had just broken in I was told that the police got there in the nick of time and they really did the man had somehow got the back door to the house open he had literally just entered when the police arrived the man was arrested and luckily didn't get far into the house house I was honestly shocked when I heard it but luckily everything turned out fine he wasn't able to steal anything or do any damage the back door needed a little bit of fixing but it wasn't a huge deal after that though I didn't want to stay home by myself for a while one time I got back from work a littleit bit later at night I lived alone in an apartment on the second floor during this time after getting back home I changed and then went into the living room I was sitting on the couch eating when I heard this loud noise coming from next door it sounded like the next door neighbor was banging on the wall it was extremely loud and went on for almost a minute I was really confused when I heard this I wasn't making any loud noises or anything the TV was on but the volume was really not that high at all but yet the neighbor was pounding on the wall as if I was being really noisy and he wanted me to be quiet I didn't really know why Elsie would be banging on the wall like that and even if he was bothered by the TV I didn't even think it was loud enough for my neighbor to be able to hear it I wasn't hearing any other loud noises from anywhere else just to be sure though I muted the television for a short time everything was quiet but then the loud banging on on the wall started up again I really had no idea why my neighbor would be doing this I wasn't aware of making them angry or anything and to be honest I didn't even know who my next door neighbor was on that side I never really saw them I'd been living in my apartment for like 6 months but I had never met or seen hardly any of my neighbors the banging stopped after a short time I didn't know what to make of this but for the next couple of minutes everything was quiet so I just kind of moved moved on from that except about 5 minutes later there was suddenly a loud knocking coming from my front door it seemed as though whoever had been banging on my wall had now moved to my front door after it continued for about 30 straight seconds I decided to get up I walked over to the door and when I approached the banging stopped I looked through my peephole to the other side but nobody was there whoever had been knocking had now left and I had no idea who it was I was just assuming that it was my next door neighbor but I didn't even know what they looked like I considered going over there and asking them what the deal was but I decided not to based on how hard they were pounding on the walls and door I just had a bad feeling about it so instead I just moved on again and tried to ignore it I was hoping that there would be no more banging on my walls or door that night and luckily there wasn't so the next day when I was leaving for work I walked out of my apartment and went down the hallway there was an elevator and a set of stairs right next to it now I was always in the habit of just taking the stairs and I very rarely use the elevator so after walking down the hallway I had passed by my next door neighbor's door a moment later I heard the door open this was the same neighbor who had seemingly been banging on the walls and my door last night I remembered the previous night but I just kept walking when I made it to the St stairs and started to go down I heard whoever it was walking behind me the stairs turned and I went around the corner and glanced up I saw a man walking down the stairs but I did not directly look at him but apparently that was the guy who lived next to me after walking down the stairs I went through the lobby and then left out the front door the guy that was walking behind me did exactly the same thing he followed me out the door and was walking behind me as I was on the sidewalk I parked in the large parking lot that was at the complex after getting to my vehicle I got inside I then saw the guy kind of standing there and looking in my direction he was about 50 ft away and I didn't know what his deal was he just stood there as I drove off and went to work I had never seen that guy before but I guessed that was my next door neighbor so I worked that day and when I arrived home afterwards it was a little bit later at night once again by the time I arrived back back I think that it was about 10:00 so I went inside of my apartment building and then walked up the stairs when I made it to the top I walked down the hallway towards my door right after I passed by my next door neighbor's door I heard it opening again I just had a bad feeling and I walked faster to get to my door I heard his footsteps enter the hallway when I arrived at my front door I quickly unlocked it and opened it up as I was closing the door behind me I heard the footstep still approaching I closed and locked my door and probably 5 seconds later my neighbor actually tried opening it then there was once again more really loud banging coming from the other side of it I really couldn't believe this guy I looked out and saw him relentlessly pounding at my front door I moved away from it then and was about to call the police I went and got my phone but then he stopped at that point I put the phone down I didn't want to get in some more with my next door neighbor clearly he had some problems with me and he had tried entering my apartment but I also didn't know if maybe it was just a misunderstanding or something I decided that if I heard any more banging on the door or walls or anything I was going to go over and give him a piece of my mind and hopefully he wasn't dangerous but after that nothing else happened so I would say about a week later one day I saw another neighbor in the hallway I went over and introduced myself to her I had seen her a couple of times before and knew that she lived here I told her about what happened and asked her if she knew the guy who lived next to me she told me that nobody lived there and the apartment had been vacant for a while this was crazy to hear I then went to the offices of the apartment complex and asked one of the agents they confirmed that the unit next to mine was vacant and had been for several weeks my mind was blown after hearing that I never saw that guy again or heard anything else I don't live there anymore but I still get the creeps thinking back to that this happened just last year I live alone in a house with two floors and three bedrooms total one of the bedrooms I use as a guest room and the other as my home office so one night I got home from work it was maybe like 7:00 p.

m. or so I would say after arriving back I went inside and then started to cook some food the kitchen was at the back center of my house I listened to the radio as I was cooking and it took me maybe 30 minutes when I was done I decided to go upstairs and change and then go back down to eat so I walked upstairs and was going to my bedroom but I noticed that the door to the guest bedroom was closed I always left the doors open and I didn't recall closing it this was really strange to me so I went over and opened up the door and took a step inside the lights were off but before I could reach the light switch I saw something there was a woman standing in the back side of the room and looking at me it was really dark in there so I didn't get a good look at her at all but after about a second she started to charge at me I stepped back and closed the door and then ran back down the hallway when I made it to the stairs I heard the woman opening the bedroom door I didn't have any time to think and guess why there was a random woman in my house and why she was now chasing after me after going down the stairs I really wasn't thinking at all I don't know why but I ran to the door next to it which led to the basement then I went in there and closed the door behind me I was standing at the top of the stairs and it was completely dark down there and I guess I thought that it would be a good hiding place when I was was there I heard the woman go down the stairs but then she seemed to turn and go in another Direction instead of heading towards the basement I started to feel just slightly better I took out my phone to call the police and when I did it lit up the surrounding area of where I was I was standing at the top of the stairs still and I saw that there appeared to be a man standing in the basement at the bottom of the stairs and he was walking towards me when I saw this I opened the door back up and left the basement then I just ran for the front door I honestly don't know where the woman was but thankfully I did not see her I left the house and ran for my car once there I got inside and called the police I then drove away from my house and did not come back until the cops were there when the police got there they went inside my house and were able to locate both the woman and the man the crime couple was arrested I'm not sure how but they were able to get inside of my house there was no sign of a Breakin so I never found out where they entered maybe I left a door unlocked but I really don't know apparently they both entered together though and for some reason the woman hid upstairs and the man hid downstairs I'm not sure if I surprised them by getting home or what I think they were planning on robbing me that was by far the scariest moment in my life though I still live in the house but since then I've taken just about every security measure there is and and hopefully nothing like that ever happens again I'm a 29-year-old female and I live with my husband in a house our neighborhood is pretty standard for the most part and this happened about a year and a half ago I worked pretty normal hours then but my husband's hours are more random on this night I I recall that he was working late it was probably some time after 8:00 p. m.