5 True Christmas Horror Stories

this happened 2 years ago at Christmas time I worked in a pretty large office with a lot of other people every year our department of about 20s something people has a little party with a gift exchange I remember that a couple of days before the party I went to the store to get my gift we all drew names to see what other person we would have to buy a gift for I drew Amanda who was a pretty good friend of mine while I was at the store trying to figure out what to get her I

happened to notice another coworker there it was a guy named Mike who to be honest always seemed like a pretty strange guy he didn't really work that close to me and was in another room but he would work in the same general area I had heard some things about him over my time working there and I myself had some awkward conversations with him so when I noticed him I really didn't want to go over and say hi and I didn't think that he noticed me he was just standing a good distance away and was not

looking in my direction when I saw him so I just finished my shopping and then I left the store so when the Christmas party arrived I got there and it was what you would expect for the most part when it was time for the gift exchange we all opened the things that we got for each other the gift that I was receiving came from Mike apparently what he got for me was a teddy bear with hearts on it I said thanks and that it was very nice the rest of the party went on pretty normal

overall it was fine and I went home after that for the next few days things went on like normal but one night I was at home by myself I lived alone in a smaller house that I was renting in a neighborhood I was just having a nice relaxing night to that point when it got late though and I was about to go to bed I happened to glan out of a window what I saw was what appeared to be a person quickly going behind a bush near my house in the front yard it happened so

fast that I couldn't tell who it was or anything but obviously this was very suspicious I was now nervous to go to bed thinking that somebody might be prowling around or trying to break in I went and made sure that every door was locked and every window was closed which they were when I moved to the back of the house to check there I heard somebody try opening the front door that's what really got me nervous at that point I went over to my phone ready to call the police then I went to another window

and I looked but nobody was at the door any longer whoever it was must have moved I wasn't sure if they had left or not so I just kind of stayed there at the front window looking around I didn't see anything for probably several minutes then I saw somebody come out from behind my car in the driveway it was a man and he was walking closer to the house then I realized that it was Mike when I saw him I quickly moved away from the window I couldn't believe that he was at my house I

had no idea how he would even know where I lived moments later he tried the front door again now I decided to call the police I dialed 911 and then went into my bedroom where I felt safer when I was in there I heard a loud bang at the other end of the house I feared that Mike may have been trying to break in I didn't know why but he had always kind of given me the creeps I stayed in my bedroom for the next few minutes the police got there very fast the next thing

I knew I heard police and I looked out of my bedroom window and I saw several police vehicles outside Mike was arrested for attempting to break into my house with a further investigation I found out that Mike did not originally have me for the gift exchange when he found out who did he traded with them saying that he had the perfect idea for me and inside the teddy bear was an air tag which is how he knew my location this information really freaked me out but I was also very glad that he had been caught

this happened back on Christmas morning when I was a kid probably around 10 years old I lived with my parents and siblings in a house that that had a main floor and then a basement as well I was the youngest child in the family with my older brother being 13 at the time and my older sister being 16 they each had their own bedrooms on the main level as well as my parents I on the other hand had my bedroom in the basement which had positives and negatives to it the basement was finished and pretty

nice so I got the most privacy but it also got really cold down there sometimes and it was just really far away from everything I would walk through the basement living room area and another room that was pretty much just storage and then I would get to the stairs so obviously being a 10-year-old kid I was very excited for Christmas to arrive I'd been looking forward to it for a while when it was Christmas morning I remember that I woke up at probably 6 something in the morning after waking I got out of bed and

I was going to go upstairs and wake everybody up after leaving my bedroom I literally ran through the rest of the basement to the stairs as I was running though I was sure that I saw somebody in the storage room to my right that I would always pass by however I didn't look over and wasn't sure who it was I just assumed it to either be my older brother or my father most likely so when I got upstairs I saw that my brother and sister were already up they were near the Christmas tree in the

living room watching TV and looking at the tons of presents that were under the tree I asked them if our parents were up yet and they said no so I went down the hallway to their bedroom to wake them when I got into their bedroom I woke them up and I realized that if both my parents were in their room and my siblings were up then who was it exactly who I had seen downstairs this made no sense to me I went over to my brother in the living room and told him that I thought

I saw somebody downstairs he said it was probably just our father but I told him how it was impossible because I had just seen the guy when I went upstairs now that everybody in the family was awake and in the living room I was very curious so I decided to go back downstairs at this point I was thinking that maybe I was just imagining things all the lights were off Downs stairs so you couldn't really see that great anyways maybe I had seen a large box and mistook it for a person or something I wanted

to clear my mind so I went back down the stairs by myself I was like 90% sure that it was nothing when I got downstairs at first I heard and saw nothing then I got to the storage room there were quite a few boxes and things like that in there it was kind of cluttered however within a few seconds I saw this man walk out from around the corner it was a homeless looking guy he had longer hair a long beard and was wearing baggy clothes as soon as I saw him I took off running

back up the stairs I got back up and screamed that there was a man in the basement everyone started freaking out there was a mix of people not believing and others confused within moments though we all heard movement downstairs not knowing if the guy was dangerous or not we all went into my parents' bedroom except for my dad he went over to the top of the stairs and started yelling at the guy to leave and stuff obviously we called the police as well the next thing I remember was that my dad came back into the

room and said that the man was gone apparently the man had entered the house through a window that led to the basement sometime in the night he had left through that same window and ran in the direction of the neighbors the police got there and ended up locating the man hiding behind the neighbor's house across the street it was a huge relief knowing that he was caught but I was extremely creeped out also knowing that I slept the entire night with a man breaking in and being in the Next Room over from me that was

the craziest thing to ever happen on Christmas when I was a kid last year I went to a Christmas party with some friends I've a pretty large friend group that I've had for years most of us live in the same general area and Jim and Vanessa who recently got married live in a really nice apartment building they're part of the friend group and they decided to host the Christmas party last year in the Recreation room of their apartment building you can rent out the room and it's very nice and also large there's a kitchen and

dining room and stuff so it's popular for parties of all kinds so I went to the party and there was probably 30 to 40 people that wound up coming so many that I didn't even know all them that well but I at least recognized everybody and most of them I did know very well we talked had food drank and had a very good time I remember though there was this one woman who I did not recognize at all she was the only person at the party where I had no idea who she was I thought

maybe she was somebody's girlfriend who had just recently started dating or something but she didn't really seem to be with anyone I would see her on and off during the party I never got around to saying hi to her or having a conversation and asking who she was or anything though eventually people started to leave the party I would say that there were maybe 15 or 20 people still there when I left so a good amount when I was leaving I remember noticing the woman sitting by herself sort of in the corner of the room

after I left I walked out of the apartment into my car then I started to drive back to my own apartment which was like 10 minutes away well the strangest thing happened that very same woman ended up following me home I hadn't noticed anything at all until I pulled up to a red light and was like maybe 2 minutes from my place when I stopped I just casually looked in my mirror at the car behind me I saw that in the driver's seat it looked like the same woman I didn't know what to make of

this but from that point on I paid attention to her driving she made all the same turns as me it was very confusing soon she was turning into my apartment complex along with me I was pretty confident that she did not live in my building or anything I had never seen her at all before so I drove around the parking lot with her still behind me I parked my car in the space that I usually did the woman drove a little ways past and then I saw her parking in an open space a ways away

I got out of my car and started walking for the door I heard a car door open and close and glanced over to see the woman then walking in my direction I went faster and I made it inside a good time before she would reach the door after getting in I went up a flight of stairs and then looked out of a window outside the woman was standing near the door indicating that she did not have a key to get in then I went to my apartment I texted a few friends about it and I

put in the group chat asking who the woman was well nobody had any idea everybody just kind of assumed that someone else knew her but it turns out not a single person at the party knew who she was and then she ended up following me home after that I haven't seen her since the next time I left my apartment she was gone and so was her car I'm still very confused about it this is something that happened back when I was in high school it was the night before Christmas and I was at home my

family and I were in the living room rapping gifts and watching Christmas specials this went on for a while but at about 11:00 or so I remember that there was a knock on the front door this was really weird because it was late at night on Christmas Eve we weren't expecting anybody so why would someone be knocking on the door I decided to get up and go and see who it was I remember that I walked over to the front window and looked out I saw a man standing there but I didn't recognize him so

I walked away I told every everyone that it was some guy who I didn't know the man was not a neighbor that I was aware of but I didn't really think too much of it in the moment I just went back to what I was doing before however about 30 minutes later there was a knock on the door again once more I got up to go see this time though I was feeling more suspicious I didn't think whoever had been there would come back when I got to the window I looked out of it and

I saw that Not only was the same guy there again but another man was now with him two guys now stood right outside the front door this time they knocked again my parents started to walk over from the other room because they were also curious we all looked out the window for some time at the men and we were very confused as to why they were there but ultimately we decided not to answer the door after the men stood around for like a minute they finally turned to walk away but the men were not walking

back towards the direction of the street instead the men were both walking around towards the side of our house at that point my dad opened up the front door and yelled at them but this didn't stop the guys they kept going around all the way to the back end of the house now they seem to be somewhere in the backyard we then went around to the back of the house we had a sliding glass door back there that led out to the patio the yard was not all that big but there were some trees and

bushes back there and stuff my mom turned on the light and we looked out but we didn't see the guys my dad briefly opened a window and yelled at them again there was no response and we didn't see the men anymore at all after looking around the yard from the windows for a while we concluded that the men probably ran away most likely they went through another neighbor's backyard or something and took off we all returned to what we had been doing once again and hanging out in the living room I was just really curious

about it for some reason so I remember that I decided to go outside and look around which was a stupid decision I left the house out the backsliding door and looked around the yard it was dark out other than the patio light obviously so I couldn't see that great but things were completely silent I took a few more steps out into the yard then suddenly out of nowhere I saw these two guys come out from behind a tree in the back of the yard they both started running straight for me at full speed I turned

around and out of pure instincts ran as fast as I ever have before for the door and then I went back inside I closed the door behind me and locked it just before the men reached it they tried opening the door and then banged on the do's briefly and then ran away again this time we called the police the men did not return though when the cops got there the guys were gone and they looked around they came up empty-handed at our house but actually located the men walking along a street a few blocks away

I don't know why those men chose to go to our house I think they were just looking around for a house to Rob or something but I'll never forget seeing them run at me though it was one of the scariest moments of my life every year on Christmas Day we usually host family over at our house we have a decent sized place and most of the family lives nearby I live here with my wife and a few years ago we were hosting Christmas like usual so family members started coming over at around 12:00 and they

were mostly parking on the side of the street out front our neighborhood is pretty quiet but not super isolated or anything when pretty much everyone had gotten there I remember that somebody told me that there was a random car in the driveway I walked over to a front window and I saw this large SUV with really tinted windows just sitting in the driveway apparently it had just recently got there but hadn't left nobody had gotten out of it either I looked at it and wondered who was driving because I had never seen the car before

nobody was getting out and it wasn't leaving so I decided to go out and ask I thought that maybe it was somebody who was lost trying to get to a neighbor's house that was the most logical explanation in my mind so I opened up the front door and I walked outside however as soon as I stepped out into the front yard the car which was already running started suddenly backing up I was not able to reach it and the car quickly left the driveway and then drove off down the street pretty quickly it seemed weird

but at least they were gone now after that I went back inside over the next few hours I talked with lots of family and soon we had our Christmas dinner some of us were going to take a walk around the neighborhood after because even though there was some snow on the ground it was a nice day and rather warm when I got near the front door though I was shocked to see the same SUV parked in the driveway again I opened the door once more to go outside when I did once again whoever it was

backed out and then quickly drove away this was very strange I remember noticing also just how tinted the windows were it was like I couldn't see anything inside so I had obviously no idea who was driving or anything well we ended up taking a walk around the neighborhood I didn't see the car at all and nobody else did either we went back in after that and everybody hung out some more that night people started to leave at probably around 7 or 8 by 9:00 everyone was gone and it was just me and my wife at

home well we were in the living room watching a movie and my wife got up to go get something from the kitchen however on her way back she went to the front of the house and passed by a window I heard her mention that the car was there again I walked over to the front of the house and looked outside once more that same SUV was sitting in the driveway I really couldn't believe it we both stood there near the front door and watched it the car was running but nobody got out or anything we

watched it for at least 10 minutes it was crazy then I had enough and I went to leave again this time as soon as I opened the front door I took off and I sprinted for the SUV however like every other time the car quickly backed up and then drove away I was unable to catch up to it I then went back inside after that my wife and I were both very confused for the rest of the night though the car didn't come back and I haven't seen the SUV since I'm hoping that I never

see it again I still wonder about it though