5 True Gaming Horror Stories

one of my favorite hobbies has always been playing video games when I was younger I used to do a lot of console gaming but in recent years I've done most of my gaming on the PC so I have a setup in my bedroom in the apartment that I currently live in it's in one corner of the room opposite my bed several weeks ago I was having a gaming night with a friend we both logged on at probably a little after 700 I was at my apartment and he was at his apartment so we were just

gaming online we were going to go until we got tired so I live alone in my small one-bedroom apartment which is kind of old and on the first floor of the building after playing online for several hours neither of us were tired yet at this point I'm guessing it was around 10:00 that's when I thought I heard a knocking at my window behind me I had my headset on which is mostly noise cancelling so I couldn't hear that well but I looked back to the window it's probably like 15 ft from my desk in the

chair I was sitting in when I looked I thought I saw what appeared to be a man moving away from the window the window looks out to a small grassy area behind the apartments then there's a fence between the next property and a little woods before another apartment complex in all my time living here I had never really seen anybody out walking back there or anything so this was kind of strange and also suspicious the total time that I saw the guy was less than a second though he was already moving away when I turned

around and looked I told my friend I would be back in a second and then I got up I then walked over to the window and looked out of it it was pretty dark in the little space back there but I could see a little bit however I did not notice anyone there I then left my bedroom and walked out to the kitchen which also had a window looking out to that same general area this had a broader view but I still didn't see anyone I figured that the guy was gone this situation was kind

of weird especially with it being late at night my only good explanation that I could think of was that possibly the man accidentally went to the wrong apartment Window he could have been trying to get somebody else's attention who he knew I then went back to my gaming chair and sat down I told my friend about what had happened we chatted about it for a while and decided that it probably wasn't a big deal however probably 30 minutes after this or so I remember looking back to the window my headset was still in so I

don't remember if I heard anything or if I was just randomly turning around when I did though I saw a man standing at the window he was looking in because of it being dark outside I did not really see any details of the man's face or what he looked like instinctively I quickly got up from my chair when I did the man moved out of sight from the window I then walked out of my bedroom into my small hallway with just a bathroom in a closet then to the right is the living room it just

felt safer to be away from that window moments later before I returned to my bedroom or really did anything I heard a noise I was standing in the hallway and there were a few sort of loud banging noises from my bedroom window it seemed like possibly the man was going to try to break in I heard several more loud bangs on the window and I worried that it would break I walked over to my door and left my apartment going into the hallway then I called the police I told them about what happened and said

that I thought a man was breaking in while I waited for the police I went to the lobby of the apartment building near the front I felt much better being away from my unit the police got there minutes later they searched my apartment and behind it when I returned to my place I saw that my window was actually broken and the man had gotten in several things were messed up I was also missing several items however the man was able to escape before the police got there at the end of the day I was just

glad that I left before he broke in with the window being broken I went and stayed at a friend's house for the night the window got repaired the next day though I'm mad about having several of my things stolen but it was not even $100 worth of stuff I am however sort of concerned that something like this will happen again I still live in the same apartment but luckily nothing like this has happened since a few years ago I used to play video games and stream them online I was not really popular or anything I

just did it for fun I would stream on Twitch for my friends and usually anywhere from 1 to three or four of them would watch sometimes they would play with me in the games as well every now and then a few other random people would watch the stream too but I never got more than like 10 viewers at once I wasn't trying to become famous or anything one night I was streaming fortnite it was almost a nightly thing for me to do at the time I was playing with my friend Zach who was also watching

the stream I remember that at one point I saw there was another viewer and soon the new viewer started talking in the chat and leaving comments I did not recognize the username to be any of my friends and I realized it was a new person I said hi to them and welcome them to the stream the person responded saying hi but a short time later their comments turned bad it started with basic insults calling me names and cursing at me I assumed it to be some teenage kid just messing around on a Twitch account I

remember asking on the stream why he was so angry my friend was thinking that it was really funny though the comments then got threatening the user said something like they were going to find me and they knew where I lived or something along those lines obviously I didn't take the threat very serious I really had no idea why they would act this way because my stream was always pretty fun and light-hearted the first comment the person made that really raised my eyebrows though was when they mentioned my real name they said they knew my name

and when I asked what it was the user commented it this shocked me because my name was not my username or anything and this person knew my last name as well it was then that I figured it had to be one of my friends messing with me and that's what Zach thought as well I remember Zach asking who it was going through a list of friends that he thought it could be the person denied it all after going back and forth for a bit the person eventually left and I ended the stream a short time

later but the very next night the person was back I went back on what I usually did and was playing fortnite again Zach also joined and it was just the two of us like the night prior well maybe 30 minutes into the stream and the Mystery person returned they started commenting again picking up right where they left off but this time they said they were going to my house I was kind of like okay buddy let's see it and still not taking it seriously they went quiet in the chat for a while but then out

of nowhere the person commented that they were at my house then I heard this loud knocking coming from the front door I lived in a house that I rented with a roommate during this time my roommate was gone at work and I was at home by myself after I heard the knocking I told Zach about it who seemed shocked this definitely had to be a friend I said I was getting up and went over to go look after leaving my bedroom and starting to enter the living room I could see somebody through the front window

there was a man standing on the front step who was wearing all black and a ski mask he did not resemble any of my friends but I guess it could have been one of them I just had a bad feeling about it though like this was somebody else I went back into my bedroom and asked the guy through my stream what he wanted he did not respond to this but loudly knocked again on the front door I was not going to answer it the mysterious man then made a comment that he hated my car I

don't know why he said this but then he left the stream I really had no idea as to what was going on me and Zach talked about who it could be and I told him that I thought it was someone totally random Zach was telling me that I should go out and confront the guy eventually I left my bedroom to go check but the guy was gone now I looked out of every window and didn't see him well the next day I was leaving for work when I got to my car in the driveway there

was a big dent in the driver's door like somebody had hit it with something I remembered the comment the guy made about hating my car which is a Pontiac Aztec now I knew none of my friends would go so far as to damage my vehicle after that I decided to stop streaming for a while I told all my friends about it and like I expected none of them knew who it could be it remains a mystery to me to this day I don't live in that house anymore I did stream on Twitch again a while

after it happened but the guy never joined another stream or at least never said anything [Music] this is one of the craziest things that's ever happened to me it took place back when I was in high school I was I believe a junior during this time and loved to play video games I had a good friend at school named John who I would game with almost on a nightly basis we would hang out all the time as well and he lived just a few blocks over on this night we were playing video games online on

our PlayStation 4s I was at my house and he was at his and we had headsets so we could talk to each other as we were on I remember that after playing for a while John said what was that it kind of came out of nowhere and I assumed that he was just talking about the game I asked him what and he didn't answer me at first then all of a sudden he said what the and it kind of abruptly went quiet I heard some other noises but couldn't make them out I didn't know what

was going on I asked John what he was doing doing but he did not answer me everything was silent for a while after I sent John a Snapchat asking him what that was all about I was really confused but John did not immediately open it so I got curious and was kind of concerned and I decided to walk over to his place maybe he was playing a prank on me but I felt like I should go ask him we were such good friends and it wasn't that weird for me to do that so I left

my house at whatever time it was probably like 9:00 p.m. a.m. it was dark out and after walking a few blocks I arrived to John Street it was quiet and we both lived in a pretty typical neighborhood for the most part when I reached Jon's house I wasn't sure if his parents were home or not because most of the lights in the house appeared to be off I walked up to the front door and knocked on it at first there was no answer it was very quiet but a short time after knocking I heard what

sounded like somebody who may be in the backyard after waiting a while I knocked again I couldn't see into the backyard from where I was I continued to wait at the front door wondering if I should investigate the noises I had heard in the back maybe Jon had gone outside but I didn't really know why he would then finally I heard someone walking towards the front door inside the door then opened and Jon was standing there he looked very serious and he told me to come inside quickly I got in and then he closed and

locked the door he he said a man had been inside of his house and he was calling the police he added that he thought the man just left then John went back and got his phone from his bedroom and dialed 911 he told me that his parents were gone and he was home alone and we both waited for the police in his parents' room because it had a lock on it nobody else entered the house or was in it while we waited the police got there shortly after and spoke to us I guess what happened

is when I was gaming with John he heard a noise from behind his house it sounded like the back door which led to the kitchen was opening it must have been left unlocked or something because an unknown person did in fact enter after hearing the footsteps Jon ran to his closet to hide he was able to hide but did not have his phone and couldn't call the police then I must have heard him running to his closet and he said that he completely forgot about me on the headset the headset was also not wireless so

he had to take it off to hide in his closet while hiding he heard the person walking around in side of his house he hid all the way until I arrived at his place when he heard the knock on the door he said the man started walking around quickly and then left the house I realized that I must have scared the guy off by knocking on the door John was grateful to me for doing so he then was able to leave lock all the doors get his phone to call the police which was on the

floor near his bed and let me in the house I don't know why the man entered the house or how he seemed to know that the door would be unlocked but I'm really glad that I went over to John's d at night I like to play video games as a hobby quite a bit this is my scariest experience while doing so I remember that I was playing online on some game with random people I had a headset and would talk to them most of you know that in online gaming people sometimes say some crazy stuff

but but on this night it seemed pretty tame I remembered towards the end shortly before I would go to bed I was starting to get tired I was playing this one game with basically just one other person it was a man and we were talking about the game over our headsets during the game I remember he asked me some somewhat personal questions I didn't think too much of it and figured that he was just making conversation the things he asked me were what my name was which I only gave my first name to and where

I was from I only told him my state and I'm pretty sure I asked him the same questions back but I honestly don't remember his answers there wasn't anything really that creeped me out or anything there was maybe a few more questions but nothing that stood out I remember that after a while I got tired and I told him that I was getting off I do remember him asking why and I said that I was going to bed afterwards he sent me a friend request on the game which was not a big deal but it

was either the following day or the day after that he sent me a friend request on Facebook I did not know it at the time though when I would go on Facebook I would accept most friend requests unless it was clearly a bot this guy appeared real and I accepted it not knowing who he was at all he started to message me a short time later I remember he said hi and asked me what I was doing and stuff as if we were friends I asked him who he was and he responded saying we had

played video games together a few days earlier that's when I realized this had to be the same guy obviously I had no idea what the guy looked like when I heard this I was surprised that he had found me on Facebook I never told him my last name or the city that I was from it kind of creeped me out plus based on the guy's page and photos he did seem pretty weird I decided at that point to delete him as a friend but the day after that the guy followed me on Instagram he then

started messaging me there he asked me why I deleted him and sent me like four other messages when I saw them I deleted and blocked him from Instagram as well I thought that was the end of it but a couple of days later I got a text message from him out of nowhere an unknown number texted me when I looked I figured it was a wrong number until the texter said their name and it was a long angry text about how I blocked him and stuff this creeped me out more than anything I blocked his

number and hop that I would stop hearing from him obviously I deleted him from being friends on the game as well after this I did stop hearing from him I still wonder though how he found me I mean the only thing he had to go off of was my first name and state how did he find my number my only thought is that he possibly messaged somebody who knew me on Facebook claiming that he was my friend and wanted to know my number or something I never asked around so I can't confirm it though either

way it's really creepy what he did and I'm glad that I haven't heard from him since this is something that happened to me when I was much younger I believe I was about 12 or 13 during this time I lived at home with my older brother and my parents one of my favorite things to do after school most days was to unwind by playing some video games I would go upstairs to my bedroom and start playing on my Playstation 2 for a while sometimes I would play all the way until it was time for dinner

so one day I got home from school and went straight up to my bedroom to play some video games both my parents were still at work and my brother was still at school that's how things usually were for an hour or two after I got back on most days I remember playing video games and a little while in I heard my brother getting home downstairs the front door opened and closed and I heard him walk inside I thought nothing of it and I kept gaming but about an hour later I got a call from my

mom I had a home phone in my bedroom and saw through the caller ID that it was my mom's cell phone when I answered she told me that she was on her way to pick up my brother from his friend's house and they would be home soon my dad was going to pick up some food on the way home from work and she wanted to know what I wanted I told her whatever food it was that I was in the mood for that night and then we said bye and I hung up it was only

after ending the call that I realized it was strange that my brother was not home if he was at a friend's house then who had I heard entering our house my heart started racing and I had a terrible feeling I carefully walked to my bedroom door and opened it up I had never heard the person walking upstairs or near my bedroom I didn't know where they went after entering the house so after not hearing or seeing anything I left my bedroom I quietly walked down the hallway and looked downstairs I still saw nothing then I

went down the stairs once there I walked around the main level of the house looking I did not see anybody but when I was near the kitchen and kind of the front door I heard a noise coming from the basement it sounded like somebody was down there I quickly ran away and went back upstairs to my bedroom a short time after entering my room I heard the front door to the house open and close again at that point I ran back downstairs when I got to the front door I saw what looked like a man

walking away down the street I didn't recognize him and only saw him for like 2 seconds it might not have been the same guy who had been in the house but I think it was I then locked all the doors and called my parents who then called the police the door had been left unlocked for when my brother got home I hadn't known he was going to a friend's house looking back I can't believe it happened I didn't even know I was home alone with some random guy downstairs I'm really glad that he didn't go

near my bedroom for