3 True Scary Stories for a Rainy Night Alone

my name is Caleb Fletcher I'm 16 years old and this took place around 8 to9 months ago on the 24th of August which was a Saturday school had been going on for about 2 weeks so to de-stress a little I decided to see if my friends who I'll call Griffin and Broly wanted to hop on fortnite my mom and sister were out shopping my dad was working and I was bored it was around 8:00 p. m. when we finally got on to play because I had decided to make pizza rolls beforehand and ended up burning the batch after a few rounds I could tell my friends were getting tired of losing so they got off after only an hour I planned on just lying down with my phone and going to bed that was until I heard my two dogs barking outside it's not unusual for them to bark given how people typically walk on the side of the road but I still looked anyway just to make sure I didn't see anybody but seconds after looking out the window I heard our garage door open and shut that usually means my dad is home from work but I didn't see his van outside and he had texted me earlier telling me that that he would be working late tonight I decided to walk downstairs into the dining room and look out the window to get a better view from there I could see that our driveway was empty there wasn't a person or vehicle in sight I wasn't the type to go investigate so I ran back up to my bedroom and texted my family group chat to ask if anybody was home I told my mom about the garage door and she told me to turn off the lights lock my bedroom and stay there until she got home so I did just that about 15 minutes later I thought I heard our wooden floor downstairs creaking like someone was trying to be sneaky I didn't have anything to use as a weapon so I unclipped my microphone's boom arm from my desk and quietly opened the door I walked out onto our upstairs balcony and looked over trying to see if I could spot anyone hiding or anything suspicious I stupidly yelled is anybody there like they were really going to answer I thought everything was fine though until I saw a large silhouette of someone standing underneath the balcony I panicked and ran to the closest room with a door which happened to be my small bathroom the Intruder must have known I noticed them because I heard loud and Fast footsteps running up our stairs as I locked myself in the bathroom I had stupidly left my phone in the bedroom which was the room right next to me after I built up enough courage I bolted into my bedroom locking the door as soon as I got in my sister's room was right across from mine and its door was open so I figured the Intruder must have been in there after locking my bedroom door I grabbed my phone and typed 911 into it just before I called I noticed that the storage room in my wall was open just a tad I saw a dark brown eye peeking through the crevice staring into my soul the pure Terror I felt in that moment moment is something I'll never forget I booked it down the stairs and out my front door running up the hill to my neighbor's house he was a police officer he alerted the other cops while I stayed with his wife and he went down to investigate I told him exactly where the Intruder was hiding in my bedroom minutes later I ran back down the hill to see if the Intruder had been caught when I walked in I saw a tall skinny man with a gray beard and a dirty black coat being pushed onto the floor by my neighbor as he was getting handcuffed I'm not allowed to be home alone anymore and we have better security around our house now my family was just happy to know I wasn't hurt and they were thankful for my neighbor bravery I don't wish an experience like this on anybody not not even my worst enemy this was a few months ago while driving for door Dash I only drive as a side gig maybe 10 to 15 hours a week this night I was only doing a a couple orders since it was already late and I had picked up a small order around 1:00 a.

m. it was to be delivered to a business building somewhere across town which was apparent by the address this was a normal thing usually for overnight workers or whatever when I pulled into the parking lot though it was empty no cars at all and it didn't look like there was a parking lot behind the building either I parked in a spot near the front and got out with the food the place was definitely an office building of some kind and was smaller than most being only two stories and not very wide all the lights were off in the Windows though aside from one light behind the front door I walked up to the door and checked the app seeing it has specific drop off off instructions to enter the main hallway and leave the bag outside of room 232 I looked through the door in the building seeing this hallway with a bunch of closed doors on either side delivering to specific rooms I'd only done at hotels so this was kind of new for me I tested the door pushing on it and it was unlocked so I stepped inside I I expected to hear people working moving around or talking but instead didn't hear anything there wasn't a single sound in the whole building it was just white noise from the overhead lights buzzing above me as I passed the first few doors though they were all numbers in the 100s like 102 and 106 the room the instruction said to leave it at was in the 200 so I assumed that meant it was on the second floor in the middle of the hallway was the doorway leading to the staircase it was held open with a wedge door stopper on the floor but the lights weren't on I stepped in and up to the bottom of the staircase then looked up the whole stairwell was pitch black not even any light was coming from above where the room was supposed to be for me to drop it off at again I started to notice the Eerie silence and it sent a chill through me I was always one to do whatever the instructions say so I'd get good reviews but this was the first time I told myself that this was too sketchy I stepped out of the stairwell and back into the hallway and just as I did the door right across from me opened the lights in that room were off but a man emerged from behind the door and stepped into the hallway he was wearing street clothes and just didn't look like an office worker at all but he stood in front of me and pointed past me at the stairwell 232 is up there I nodded but didn't move and neither did he he just looked me in the eyes with a look like he was suppressing his anger after an intense few seconds I dropped the bag on the ground and started quickly walking to the exit the man didn't follow me but I heard his footsteps go into the stairwell and up the stairs as I left the building I got in my car and left I didn't know what that was or if I was maybe overreacting about it so I didn't call the police the following day though the police actually called me apparently the office reported a Breakin and in the CCTV footage they saw my car and license plate tracking it back to me they also had footage of the Breakin and so they called me in to question me about any information I might have I didn't have much to give but it turned out there were actually three people that broke inside one was downstairs who I saw but the other two were shown on the cameras to be hiding at the top of the stairs seemingly waiting for me to go up disturbingly several other delivery orders were made to that same office that night all of the other drivers were smarter than I was though leaving the the orders outside by the front door what would have taken place in that office had any of us gone up to the second floor is unknown but hopefully police can find the three men before anyone Falls victim to it I'm a man at a midsized grocery store I do 10-hour shifts and work mostly overnights at the time our store was having some staff issues that made pretty much every Department underst staffed and overworked and overnight stalking was no exception I had one guy that would help me five nights a week but that was it other than me this was on his day off so it was only me working I got in at 10: and was alone by 10:15 after running some numbers in the office I started pulling out loads of boxes to the aisles to start unpacking and stocking even though I had no help this night I still had to get everything done so I was working hard and as quickly as I could I didn't even stop for a break or anything but sudden suddenly a tapping sound echoed through the store I stopped and listened hearing it happened again and it sounded just like someone tapping on a window at the front of the store I looked at my watch for the first time since I started working and it was 2: a. m.