4 Scary REAL Christmas Horror Stories

[Music] I'm a single mother of my 8-year-old boy Mark when this happened he was 5 and I was 27 I have my own house that was passed down to me from my grandparents it's in the quiet side of town with a lot of older people and I still live here with Mark today it was Christmas time and I was out with Mark shopping I was doing my Christmas shopping for my family Mark and I went to the mall including a few clothing stores and a hardware store where I bought a gift for my dad after

all the shopping was done I took Mark to McDonald's to get him some burgers and ice cream afterwards we left the mall through the South exit and here we bumped into a mall Santa standing outside he waved at us and said the usual Santa stuff he then knelt down to get to Mark's level and asked him what he wanted for Christmas Mark LED my hand closer to the Santa and I allowed it because he seemed like a normal nice Mall Santa Mark said he wanted a Nintendo switch which ironically was what I was planning on

buying him for Christmas the Santa laughed and said if you're good maybe you'll get it while looking up at me and winking I smiled and then he stood up and started complimenting me saying to mark your mother's a looker Mark you know that and Mark laughed even though he didn't know what that meant I still smiled then we had a couple minutes worth of seemingly friendly adult conversation about the holiday Mayhem and such the guy said he worked for them all I regrettably mentioned the stress of being a single mom during Christmas is unfathomable and

then I made a joke about needing Santa's help then the Santa made what I thought was an innocent joke saying Mark have you ever heard the song I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and Mark shook his head yes then he leaned in towards me with his cheek implying he wanted me to kiss his cheek I was going to give him an innocent little peck on the fake beard but as I leave leaned in he turned his head and tried doing that old trick where he kisses you on the lips instead I moved my face Away

In Time the way he did it was so creepy and aggressive too he looked at me and started doing the Santa kind of left but there was nothing Jolly about it I said come on Mark and we started walking away he yelled Merry Christmas and that was the last thing I heard him say as we drove away past the back exit of the mall I noticed he wasn't there in front of the entrance anymore I wish I took that into consideration as to what may have happened next we got home and after bringing everything inside

I locked the door and Mark and I started to watch a Christmas movie our wholesome time together was then interrupted my doorbell rang I wasn't expecting anyone and it was late for any kind of door to-door people I told Mark to keep watching as I went to go answer the door I said who is it through the door and a man's voice on the other side said it's Santa my heart dropped I said said if you're the mall Santa please go away or I'm calling the cops he replied you dropped something out of your bag

Miss I'm just looking to return it I replied what did I drop he replied I don't know Miss I'm not looking to be nosy but if you open the door I can hand it to you I repeated myself that I wanted him to leave now I then decided to call the mall management office of the mall to report this but the man on the phone said they don't officially hire any mall Santas at this mall and that whoever is dressing as Santa is doing it on their own accord with that bit of information I felt

incredibly unsafe I went back to be with Mark but my mind was elsewhere now I felt this sickly worried feeling in my gut I made an excuse to get up again after a few minutes I went to the kitchen out of earshot of the TV I raised the blinds to the kitchen window I couldn't see anything out there being that the kitchen light was on and it was Pitch Black outside but I heard a man yelling ho ho ho he was probably out there watching me at that very moment looking out the window I had

no choice but to call the police and report that I was followed by a man dressed as Santa I told Mark to keep watching the movie and I spoke to the police outside they took a report and were on their way the police having come made me feel just a little better a few nights later though my doorbell rang again around the same time if not a little later Mark was already asleep tonight I was in the living room watching a show I turned off off the TV and went upstairs to my room which is

connected to Mark's room the doorbell didn't ring again but I never went back downstairs that night it wasn't until the next day when I was leaving the house that I found the note taped to my front door it was typed out and printed this is a picture of the note and it said I'll just be blunt I'm sure you can guess who this is I didn't mean to scare you the other night I just had a long shift and when a pretty lady talks to you after pretending to be Santa for for 6 hours hormones

kind of go crazy you and your son are the cutest things ever and I'd love to one day be a part of your family you can't pretend you didn't feel the connection when we spoke the other night I already know where you live now I just need your number feel free to shoot me a text whenever and maybe we can plan something one day sorry I know this may seem creepy or a bit much but I'm the kind of guy where if I see something I like I go after it anyway happy holidays if we

don't speak soon here's my number best Ted I wanted to crumple this up but I took a picture of it called the police again and gave this to them since it had his number on it the police could work with that they said I'd be hearing from someone when action was taken and that following Monday I got a call from I assume a detective telling me that the man would not be contacting me anymore and if he did to let him know I never heard from that creep again I assumed the police threatened to arrest

him if there was any further contact [Music] [Music] this is a short but scarring story nonetheless from my Early Childhood I grew up in an average middle class home in the suburbs my sister and I were huge fans of Christmas as kids I had to be like 6 years old when this happened because we had just moved to our new house this is one of my earliest memories in life that I remember vividly just because of the gravity of it on Christmas Eve I would always have trouble sleeping even as a young kid just due

to anticipation I would stay up really late playing video games in my room on my old box TV I'd play until I just fell asleep from exhaustion this night in question I was playing a Star Wars game for the PS1 and when I had to go to the bathroom I turned the volume down low and quietly snuck out of my room because I knew my mom would get mad if she heard me sneaking around on Christmas Eve night I snuck to the up upstairs bathroom and when I was done I was quietly going back to

my room when I heard the sound of the tree rustling around downstairs my first instinct was to think Santa I started tiptoeing down the stairs until I got to the bottom the sound of the rustling pine needles was louder now I peaked around the bottom wall of the stairway into the living room there were no lights on except for someone holding a flashlight I could see only the person's legs as they were bent over behind the tree there was a black bag on the floor and this random adult man came out from behind the tree

and looked at me he looked at me and put his pointer finger up to his mouth and he made a shushing motion with his lips he whispered yes I'm Santa I was old enough and smart enough to know that wasn't what the Santa I grew up knowing looked like I started screaming for my mom and dad as loud as I could I remember the man started freaking out deciding whether or not to take the bag he filled with our gifts and he ended up running away to the front door I don't remember remember if he

had to unlock it or if it was already unlocked or not I just remember him leaving through the front door and seconds later my parents running down the stairs I'm sure I screamed there was a man in here and them seen the black bag on the floor filled with our would have been stolen gifts proved that here's where my memory started getting fuzzy so I had to ask my parents what happened next but my dad told me he went outside in his slippers and ran all over the place ready to kill someone half the ornaments

on the tree were taken off and in the bag what kind of sick evil person steals people's sentimental Christmas ornaments according to my dad the method in which the man broke in was the back door which it appeared he yanked open with a crowbar due to the chipped wood a house a few blocks away had also Fallen victim to this and it was on the news it was most definitely the same guy I don't remember much from when I was six but this is a memory that most of it still sticks in my brain like

it was only a few years ago [Music] it was December 2020 my fiance and I bought a house together a few years ago it's a cute house in a decent neighborhood a nice area to raise a family that's why what happened 2 years ago was all the more shocking and disgusting we know all of our neighbors both our Nextdoor neighbors and the three closest neighbors across the street everyone is friendly enough but you truly never know the skeletons hidden in someone's closet are neighbor Paul to the right always seemed nice the few times we'd speak

but he never really spoke too much I'd see him outside almost every day either coming or leaving for I'm assuming work though I never knew what he did for a living at this time I hadn't seen the guy in a few days and his car hadn't moved from his driveway obviously that in of itself isn't any cause for alarm all the neighbors including Paul had their lights up already I found it interesting how Paul a single man in his 40s would put lights up I actually found it kind of nice I was late to the

party putting my Christmas lights and decorations up outside one night while doing so I noticed Paul's Christmas lights out of nowhere started flickering like crazy all of them not just one strip of Lights it looked like it could have just been faulty wiring or some electrical glitch the next day I left for work around 10:00 and noticed again Paul's car was still in the driveway I also noticed all the blinds in his house were still closed even when I got back from work the blinds were all closed but his Christmas lights were on so he

was definitely home I joked with my fiance that he must have been on some kind of hibernation later that night my fiance came inside and told me of Paul's Christmas lights acting up I went outside and it was the exact same thing that was happening the night before the flickering wasn't happening in a way that would appear that he programmed it that way it was happening in a very glitchy sort of way so I figured I'd be nice and go let him know and also see if he's okay since I hadn't seen him I knocked

on the door and when there was no answer I rang all the blinds were closed and I couldn't tell if the lights were on or not when there was no answer I rang one more time finally the door opened and Paul greeted me I let him know about his flickering lights which I just noticed weren't flickering anymore I promised him I wasn't making it up he said he wasn't aware of that and thanked me I asked if he was all right as I hadn't seen him in a while he said he was just feeling under

the weather he was acting a bit off then I heard something from inside the house at first I thought I was imagining it but it sounded like a child screaming screaming for help Paul didn't have any kids I was about to ask him did you hear that but on the spot I decided not to I said goodbye and walked back to my house then I told my fiance to call the police right now I think Paul has a child in his house her reaction was literally what did you say I said I think Paul kidnapped

a child so I called the police and said I think I heard a child screaming inside my neighbor's house my neighbor who doesn't have kids and hasn't been leaving his house the past week or two I asked to keep who made the call Anonymous though I knew Paul wouldn't be so stupid as to not know it was me who made the call sure enough the police arrived and entered his house on an excy and when I heard what they found I was appalled there was a young boy locked in the basement he had been locked

down there for 4 days the boy had been kidnapped for from a completely different town as far as the flickering lights the boy was a genius and somehow found a way from the basement to flicker the Christmas lights as an attempt to call for help and get someone's attention outside probably whenever he saw someone through one of the blocked off basement windows I reckon he saw his chance to call for help when someone me was at the front door clearly a very smart kid with great survival instincts I'm glad he was reunited with his family

I don't want to know what was done to him but I hope he lives a normal life and has put this behind him knowing how serious of a crime child kidnapping is Paul won't be getting out of prison anytime [Music] soon I was Home Alone one weekend so my girlfriend Jenny came over to spend the weekend with me it was the middle of December and Christmas festivities were in full swing Jenny wanted to watch Christmas movies tonight so we ordered food drank wine and sat by the Christmas tree in the living room watching Christmas movies

we started with the Polar Express then we started watching elf we ran out of wine so I decided I'd run to the liquor store down the block to get more it would only take 10 minutes anyway it was a Saturday night so they were open later the usual cashier was working and I got stuck in a conversation with him like I always do whenever I go there mid conversation with him I felt my phone vibrating in my pocket I checked my phone to see who was Jenny I interrupted the cashier saying one sec and I

picked up Jenny sounded scared saying she keeps hearing noises from below the living room that would mean the crawl space I told her it's fine there's nothing down there she asked me to stay on the phone with her until I got back so I did I walked a 5minute walk back home and Jenny was still on the couch she had the movie Paw still saying that she was listening for sounds when I asked her if she heard any other sounds she said no she asked what if there's an animal down there I told her that's

not possible there's no openings from anywhere outside I opened the wine bottle and we continued to watch the movie it wasn't long after that we both heard a distinct thud type of sound from below us from the crawl space I looked at Jenny and she looked at me she was right there was something down there I said oh there might actually be an animal down there once again we paused the movie and I went to the closet with the attic door inside I grabbed the flashlight on the ledge and went down into the crawl space

I stayed by the crawl space door and just did a quick scan of the place there are a million boxes down there so a small animal could have been hiding anywhere it smelled like piss in there which pretty much confirmed that there was something down there I'm not an exterminator or pest control so there was nothing I could do about it I told my parents about it in the family group chat and told my dad he'd have to call Pest Control tomorrow then as I was climbing back up the stairs I heard something from across

the crawl space I don't know what it was but something moved I got scared that some animal was going to run at me so I hurried up the stairs and shut the door there wasn't much else we could do now except just go back to the living room and finished watching the movie after elf ended we went to my room and eventually went to sleep I woke up in the middle of the night having to pee really badly and with a throbbing headache I got up and opened my bedroom door and looked down into the

dark hallway at the end of the hallway I saw a person's silhouette I almost screamed but instead I I closed the door quietly and locked it I heard footsteps coming down the hallway and then the door knob turned and someone tried opening the door and then a deep hor sounding voice on the other side said hello that was when Jenny started to scream she had been woken up by my getting up and she heard the voice too I would have tried to calm her down but I was scared shitless myself I did hear footsteps walk

away from the door and so I called 911 waiting for the cops felt like a millennium all I know was when the cops got here there was no one else in this house whoever it was left the smell of piss in the crawl space wasn't my imagination there was literally a puddle of that person's piss on the ground which is pretty disturbing because that would suggest that he had been down there for a while while there was likely a homeless squatter that didn't make it any less horrifying my family didn't even believe it at first

I've never forgotten to lock the door ever [Music] again [Music]