I BARELY SURVIVED A HOME INVASION | 10 True Scary Horror Stories From Reddit (Vol. 88)

I BARELY SURVIVED A HOME INVASION | 10 True Scary Horror Stories From Reddit (Vol. 88) includes true creepy encounters submitted by normal folks just like yourself...
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[@maramaroney7057]

Story five OP was nearly as psychotic as that guy. She invited him???? into her home??? And then proceeded to say her anger.... changed the temperature.... whew chile Reminded me of those "my eyes change colors when I'm angry" kids

[@amarareed2432]

The whole time I'm like bitch are you fucking serious, if she would have gotten 86'ed she'd have no one to blame but herself.

[@rachaelshort1704]

idk seemed pretty obvious to me that she didn't mean that literally but ok sure whatever.

[@maramaroney7057]

@@rachaelshort1704 yeah.... no... that amount of detail to such a weird statement made it pretty literal. Unless it's your story and you're offended?? 🤣😖

[@LeonBaby]

Side note: OP in story 5 is male!

[@anthonyderryberry]

For real! Like my eyes were rolling. “A full quote from the art of war...” haha girl please lol

[@lrowe5846]

These stories help relieve the stress.

[@carlosnoriega1209]

Frrr makes me forget ab school and all my problems

[@sgr1888]

Ironic

[@jairustheadventurer3935]

Same... because if bad people pull up on me when I'm in the middle of nowhere, I've got my AR loaded with 30 rounds of green tip at the ready.

[@amylynn732]

They also make me realize I have made very few bad decisions like a lot of the victims ... in other words, I am nowhere near as nice and polite as the protagonists in the stories! 😆 🤣

[@zackt.7727]

Homie in the first story really had to flex his Bench and Squat lmaooo

[@jackmckibben9218]

tbh I would have done it too.

[@KevinTheGuide]

it's a fake story lol

[@BigfootWithMemes]

You humans don't like it when your homes get invaded but yet you invade my woods all the time smh

[@Ry91415]

Your woods what about my ocean?

[@Lets-Die]

Sorry guys we will try better :)

[@calebmelcheck1952]

Dam right i go in the woods whenever 😂😂

[@kennethclaar922]

Stay the hell off my moon.

[@quantumleaper8396]

Woods are for Fairys 🧚‍♀️ Mr.Squatch

[@BigBeefy0w0]

The poor pupper😭

[@Valadriel100]

The anime con story reminds me of the time a creep kept following my friend and clipping pictures of her simply because she was "beautiful" to him. We weren't crazy anime fans at the time, but volunteered at the con because it was something to do. This dirtbag literally followed us up until her parents showed up to pick her up. There really are freaks at the con.

[@timwaters7964]

Enjoy your stories at night with headphones on makes me feel like I’m apart of the experience

[@Michellee970]

I do the same while I sleep. Interesting dreams for sure!

[@Cameronagain]

Yes me too : )

[@mleighqs]

I can tell you know that the guy who took the "Look me up" comment literally would have been hoofing it back to where ever he came from, if he was dealing with me :) .

[@maramaroney7057]

But she instead invited him into her home 🙃🙃🙃

[@mleighqs]

@@maramaroney7057 ikr, wtf.

[@spooky2toes83]

Yeah I would have just hung up and blocked him. Problem solved.

[@mleighqs]

@@spooky2toes83 Exactly :) .

[@kayahutcherson9691]

I @@mleighqs

[@zachshine6170]

NOT THE DOG 🥺🥺🥺🥺 I CANNOT

[@Paradox_Incognito]

_I'd rather not have the bathroom fairy watching over me, thanks_

[@Ry91415]

Doesn’t sound like a pleasant fairy

[@rebeccahetrick6576]

Okay it's one thing to break into a house and terrorize a person, but to murder and innocent pupper?! That's just cold and totally uncalled for.

[@MasterBuilderDragon]

I think it was established this guy had some screws loose.

[@FluffballKitties]

Happens often. They'll poison meat at the houses where there are dogs so they can rob it, without noise from the dog.

[@trishilapatel4471]

@@FluffballKitties i heard that happens in texas to. i will keep my doggo inside the house at night like always.

[@arjundang6733]

John Wick has seen this and has begun preparation

[@HexIsme]

I think the part that you're missing is that someone who's breaking into a home may encounter some _formidable_ resistance by an innocent pupper; Puppers are known for doing their best to guard their humans and their homes. That's why they'd kill the dog. It is cold, but it's not really uncalled for. Depends on the pupper, though, of course. If the dog is small enough, it won't cause enough damage to be of any concern. However they might still kill it because the racket it would make would call attention to the situation. TLDR; All doggos is guard doggos***. ***Unless the person knows the doggo and the doggo is friendly toward them. But even then, doggo might still call bullshit when the actual situation goes down, and/or attack their accomplice(s).

[@Ang3lito15]

I was approached by women talking about God the Mother in my community college and they did the same as the women in the story did. But they looked like average college girls. I'm not sure if they're intentions where human trafficking but oh my.

[@savannahb6307]

It's a scary world. Stay safe love!

[@kaych.]

The "God the mother" story really scared me, because (also in Canada) I had the same experience in early 2019. I was coming home from some errands on a snowy day in early January, and got off my bus at the terminal closest to my apartment building, right across from a mall. As I started to head in the direction of home, I heard someone shout "excuse me" and I turned around expecting someone to trying to bum bus change or maybe tell me I had dropped something. But it was three women, I would guess my same age in their early 20's. They asked me the same kind of questions the author of the story describes, about if I believed in God or went to church. But something I noticed, and didn't like, is that as I had been talking to them they had kind of got me boxed in, and the two girls on either side of me were standing uncomfortably close. This gave me really bad vibes. That was when the girl in front of me asked me if I knew about God the mother, and if I knew that parts of the scripture actually give clarity to God being a woman. Something about how she was talking now just gave me awful vibes, and she asked if I would go to one of their meetings. It was snowing pretty hard at that point, so I just said I wasn't interested and needed to get home before the storm got any worse. I had to back all the way up to get clear of them because they were so close to me on every side, invading my personal space. Even with the awful weather, I made record time getting back to my place from that terminal. I always wondered if I would see them there again, but never did.

[@MONIMONKS]

That’s creepy!!

[@itachi6336]

@@MONIMONKS yeah 😕

[@hadassah179]

I'm curious what their ethnicity was that were talking to you. There's a false korean church that's lead by a woman who calls herself the "god the mother" and a "ministry" in Toronto, Canada called "world mission society church" that believes in "mother god". They say they're wrongly labeled a cult but is heresy in using that. God always only reveals himself as Him not as female. These females that are going around in public places tapping people possibly just use it as a ploy since the term itself is obscure to legitimate names you hear connected to anything church related.

[@IZM3R]

My snub nose is under my pillow on the couch ready to greet unwanted company.

[@ftdefiance1]

Roger that

[@hunterjardine7148]

Hey let’s read, I’ve been finding tons of channels that use your narrations for their animated stories. While I enjoy the animations and the fact they have your voice? I wonder if you even allowed them to use your voice or if you’re okay with it ?

[@tamiruiz2766]

Holy crap. That God the Mother story sounds so similar to something I experienced last year at the mall. I just gave them a fake number and left... Never heard of any other situation around that

[@14thivy89]

How’s they let the ring leader escape from custody?!🙄🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

[@KaleTheWitch]

Idk that whole story gave me kind of a narcissistic made up vibe (but definitely terrifying if real)

[@someonesomewhere8984]

@@KaleTheWitch it is 100% real. If you read his Reddit post there’s even pictures of him, as well as pictures of the police holding one of the criminals. It’s actually surprisingly common for criminals to escape in South Africa. The police can be very corrupt in SA (not all but many)

[@Tinyfurball]

The Cops always will let go in purpose. But at least the story has a happy ending.

[@noriko6382]

Police in the continent of Africa are useless or nonexistent

[@gingereden546]

The dad shouldn't have missed them on purpose. After what they did to the dog, he should have taken them out.

[@PerrRose]

The first one.... the poor puppyyy 😢

[@charliekirkpatrick6883]

South Africa is a very crazy place I can say that from experience... But it's still my Home ❤

[@bianca2224]

It's crazy for sure, gotta keep safe wherever you can here. But there's no place like home

[@someonesomewhere8984]

Nope. It was my home my whole life. Not anymore. Home shouldn’t feel like immense anxiety and panic attacks. That’s hell 💕🤠

[@alexander1902]

@@someonesomewhere8984 that’s quitter talk

[@sierralilbit7558]

Love you and your stories Joel . Keep em coming .

[@AntienStormblessed]

Just finished getting caught up on the last few, and this drops. It’s a good night!

[@saltystellfish]

Pretty sure I encountered the God the Mother folks at a Target once...I was wandering around the makeup by myself (per the usual) and they approached me with a similar schtick they did to the writer of the story. I kept on trying to tell them thanks, but no thanks, but still being polite. Finally my mom came over and was able to get me away from them. My mom is a big Karen type of woman, who has no problem telling people to F off, which she essentially did. I was initially kinda like “Thanks but you were kinda rude” but now I gotta text her and thank her for being her brash self 😅

[@HoodtheJailbird]

Hearing the God the Mother story made my heart DROP. I was approached on my university campus (in Canada) by a woman who pitched the exact same thing-youth group and all-and had no clue about the history behind the group until doing some digging by myself. Crazy to hear others’ encounters with this sinister organization.

[@Cfdezb21]

Omg... I had a group a girls come up to me during college telling me about the “God mother” as well! It was super creepy so I just walked away! Scary to know what that was all about, now.

[@breitbander914]

33:22 Social anxiety is no excuse for murder and cannibalism!

[@tablescissors]

Legalize it

[@JacobASmith59]

As someone with really bad social anxiety, I COULDN'T AGREE MORE! Seriously.

[@rtf2048]

Just caught up listening to some stories I had missed 🙏

[@katekinder]

Awesome just finished the Desert stories :) listening whilst I put up my christmas decs :)

[@jefetheshaman3588]

Same! It’s more soothing than Christmas music 😌⛄️

[@pas_du_tout]

Poor Puppy😢

[@Elemarth]

"Who really expects there to be a random guy in the ceiling at McDonalds?" Probably the best line.

[@swordfightergrr5975]

Time to get the coffee blanket and heater ready

[@atReddd]

Yay! Perfect timing. Going for my daily walk. Thankful for your posts .

[@ruthcastillo4080]

Ty I always get so excited when I see your new videos 🎥 your voice is soothing ty ty ty.

[@b.lonewolf417]

For a second there, I thought you were calling Lets Read "Ty" -- as in, that being his name. Like short for "Tyler" or something! But then I realized it was an abbreviation of "thank you" -- LOL!

[@ruthcastillo4080]

@@b.lonewolf417 cute 😂🤣😹

[@batwom4304]

LR, your format, your voice, the way you narrate, the stories you read... It’s all simply awesome. I’m so thankful for your channel! 🤗

[@Ash-hi5hy]

You and GenSen have the best horror narrating voices. 💜

[@sammy5674]

These stories make me sleep, your voice is so soothing and smooth. I drift into a peaceful sleep, and I have serious insomnia. Just letting you know your work is really really appreciated. thankyou

[@briankerschke702]

worked all day and get to come home to a new lets read video, thanks man

[@lenny7773]

"look me up" *Gets looked up* "Ew, wtf"

[@alexd.c8349]

Wait look up what

[@annie_xo]

I would not interpret “let me know if you’re ever in my area” as an invite to travel to the area just to see a virtual stranger, unannounced, expecting to stay at their house.

[@tablescissors]

Legit disappointed he didn't kill little miss "rage" lecture. honey pls, u put ur own life in needless danger

[@annie_xo]

@@tablescissors you’re disappointed someone didn’t get murdered? wtf man. Btw it was a guy telling the story, not a woman.

[@kay-leighlewis9322]

Uhm, getting looked up would be a simple phone call, not getting a one way ticket to your house with the expectation of living with them.

[@luludesiree9630]

yay! I am working on my finals, and have been listening to your stories all day. So glad there is a new one out!!!

[@EmilysCrimeCorner]

Another Amazing video 🙏 thank u Joel!!! I’ve been under the weather and I needed this to relax and get to sleep 💋😍💕

[@kissaneitinen]

Ah, just in time fir me to listen on my way to work.

[@thehawk7064]

Squaaaaawk 🦅 Squaaaaawk 🦅 Squaaaaawk 🦅

[@L333ny]

I swear to god some day that comment will become a meme

[@thehawk7064]

@@L333ny it’s already a GIF on Discord

[@blackpuglove]

Pulling another all-nighter for an exam! Thank you, Joel! ☕

[@CPWebster]

The first story is truly symptomatic of modern South Africa sadly...

[@someonesomewhere8984]

Yup it’s so common now in SA

[@SheepLatte]

Never been this early

[@azihaussman683]

Same

[@audreydavis7269]

Lol same

[@someonesomewhere8984]

Anyone who wants to read this comment let me tell you a little about South Africa since I lived there my whole life up until 2 months ago (: my entire family just moved to Europe due to the crime in SA. It’s become a common joke that everyone who can leave SA is leaving. The author of the first story is not exaggerating at all when they said home invasions in South Africa are expected to involve murder, torture, and rape. They are also very common, so my family and I used to go to bed every night worrying about a home invasion. I used to stay up until 5am most days of lockdown just listening to the house to make sure we were safe. There is such an abundance of unnecessary violence, like the most disgusting, extreme violence you can imagine. I wish there was research on what is causing the violence to be so extreme and common. I am taking a guess that there are some strange beliefs... there is a major lack of education, lots of misogyny, and a common belief is witch doctors requiring body parts from children or humans that are still alive. There was a new case with a child just 2 days ago I think. I can only imagine from the mix of a lack of education, misogyny, and violent witch doctor beliefs that more violent and strange beliefs can happen. Also there’s extreme poverty which leads to crime, which leads to people invoked in crime becoming desensitized and more violent. There’s so many crime stories I’ve experienced and that my friends and family have experienced. It’s a common thing to talk to a random person in South Africa about a crime experience and them to say “oh yeah that happened to me the other day”. A very scary place. So pleasantly strange to now live in Europe and smile at the good police and military who are everywhere you go (:

[@avi4989]

I’m European and have met several South Africans who moved here for the same reason. Hope Europe treats you well!!

[@kymharty7001]

Great stories

[@jordachesturgis7930]

Love your channel and your voice thanks let’s read your in time ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@moocyfarus8549]

Story number 6 I totally knew that was trafficking before they mentioned it mostly because they start asking about religion to make sure you're not of a specific one because they don't traffic their own....... the dead giveaways that accident and the well-dressed women that beautiful beautiful seductive accent that if you didn't grow up around it it's really hard to place

[@ralphcoryeaiv3963]

Home invasion stories are my all time favorite.

[@libratude9595]

LMFAO 😆🤣 at the last one! "My fight or flight was instantly in 6th gear." Oh man that's fantastic, I'm howling at 3:23am.

[@trueblue2892]

I’m earlyish 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤗🤗🤗one of the few youtubers whose videos I actually like before I watch them bc I already know I’ll love them! Still one of my fav narrators ❤️

[@apricotseeds]

Also I love how many of these you post, I literally always have something to watch/listen to for bed. 🖤

[@donna617]

Great as always! LOVE the chapters, thank you

[@ellesandralady8596]

Love the video ready 💚💚

[@sefarinatabor9329]

I BARELY SURVIVED A HOME INVASION @X-MAS WHEN I WAS 5..It was our new home & they took everything! My mom shot at them & almost killed ME! I fell back onto my bed & a gallon of milk. That damn cold milk! I'll never forget this..My mom put us in her bed, sat in the liv room with a bottle & her gun..those bastards took everything but the tree. My sister said it was because we were naughty & that's why they stole ALL our stuff & her MY LIL PONIES.🦄

[@itsa_miifromyourwii3966]

Correct me if I'm wrong. But this is TWO uploads IN A ROW!!

[@yourfriendlyinternetgrandma]

As a South African can confirm it’s actually like that.😔

[@kay-leighlewis9322]

Same. I live in fear 🙂

[@cherrylimeaid6353]

Oh gosh u kept the bathroom fairly from live lolol...love ur stuff keep up the good work

[@TheDark-jh1do]

I love home invasion ones

[@cristalledbetter]

So mad about how he got 7k views but less than 1k likes 😡 I like the videos to mark as a “I’ve already listened to this one”

[@itendzinplural9563]

Man your the best thanx for helping me relax. Kinda weird that all the crazy stories help me relax! Hmm..

[@Netherdrop]

I've been looking forward to falling asleep to this ever since I saw it having been uploaded earlier :)

[@joelenelalara8540]

Yes! Let's goooo!!!

[@katmartin739]

Thankyouuuuuu

[@susans5296]

Thank you Let's Read ❤️

[@sportsknowitalls5770]

You the best bro!!

[@witch_grrl]

Story 4, those people are still around and going through our malls. As soon as I heard the murder capital comment I knew it was my city and one of our malls here

[@victoriaalbertella7391]

The first guy is actually v smart

[@someonesomewhere8984]

Ye

[@MsSouthernSlang]

Yay, just in time to cook dinner!

[@racerx009]

Awesome, I'm hungry...what are you making? 😉

[@heavenloveangels1777]

Yay! The voice is on. You're voice is so soothing until it can make the most Insomniac person fall asleep 😉😴

[@ashgideon7796]

Crying 😢 because they poisoned the 🐕 🐶 awww noooo

[@dem.windsor93]

my favourite ❤❤❤❤

[@andrewmildenberg4210]

“I was taking commands over the phone” ...uhhhhh, do you mean orders? Unless you work at a restaurant where every customer barks their orders at you angrily and loudly?

[@raindropsandfeathers2245]

The "God, the Mother" story is freaky because I've been approached by the same group stating the same thing when I worked at Walmart years ago!!

[@ZaytheGenius]

Nice story , very soothing!!

[@Notnugupromoter]

so excited for this

[@deshaefromarounthawayricha7324]

Happy misrible monday everybody!

[@athenak5009]

I was watching an old video of yours. I couldn’t make it early 😭. I’ve failed again

[@carryn8802]

Wonder where in South Africa that guy is from lol He is lucky to be alive that's for sure.

[@angeliqueSeidlitz2388]

So calming!

[@valeriexo8102]

First time I've been this early!!

[@simba8276]

Lets goooooo!!!!! The ending of Story 1

[@rubywright2249]

Mr Read you have such a nice voice

[@monagonzo5027]

Listening these during a wake and bake 🥰

[@asterx1879]

You are the best ! Im from Europe, Macedonia and the time difference makes you upload this video just when i was about to go to bed 🙌 !

[@welsh.truth.dragon3914]

Thanks for the content. A comment to show support for your channel and beat the algorithm x

[@lacedtabs000]

The bathroom fairy reminds me of hisoka lol

[@kaylalamott5206]

My mother lives in Kalispell 😬

[@treeflesh1661]

Lewd and Lascivious

[@nickykeightley9355]

Thank you👍

[@briannatizianamarigliano1812]

so glad to be here early😁😁!

[@carressa]

I’ve been approached so many times from those people in story #4. In the same style, always 2 young women, a youth group that night, then they want to text you! I hope it wasn’t something sinister 😰

[@erikadillon5247]

the perfect bedtime post

[@lengyelszunyog]

i love your content! for some reason i love listening to your horror stories while drawing/painting.. as well as while doing the dishes :D speaking of the stories in this episode - is it only me who thought about Quagmire from Family Guy in the second story? XD

[@heather7324]

Story 1: I’m also a South African so can relate. I was a victim of a home invasion in 2014 which was literally the scariest night of my life. I’ve did some house sitting recently and I still have ptsd from 2014 so I took every precaution of locking doors and windows, locking myself in the bedroom, arming the house and bringing my boyfriend with me 😂 even though we were in a really nice neighborhood alto house sit.

[@smackedinthejaw]

I'm glad that the home invader got his just desserts after robbing the wrong home. What an evil, monstrous creature! Protect yourself folks.

[@Goose9313]

Oh South Africa. Yeah. Where a neighborhood is dodgy if there are NO burger bars...dodge

[@someonesomewhere8984]

If your walls aren’t 100 meters high with electric fences then summin up 👨🏻‍🍳

[@okmeowokmeow]

The manga about the guy who couldn’t stop k1lling a girl he liked - Tomie? A lot of people like it lol, it’s a pretty popular horror

[@PerrRose]

Killing stalking?

[@user-nb4dt7yo5k]

The first one that popped to mind was future diary even tho it's a female killing a male 😂

[@Geetahl]

I thought of tomie as well

[@okmeowokmeow]

@@PerrRose KILLING A GIRL HE LIKED I- WAT?! Killing stalking is gay and serial killer-y, he doesn’t like anyone, he’s a sociopath 😳

[@PerrRose]

@@okmeowokmeow dude he killed a girl in that i was just guessing

[@kikivee6724]

Perfect 3am gift

[@apricotseeds]

Do you do your own art? It's really good