What is the most terrifying thing you've experienced while home alone?

[@kurotsuki7427]

If you think your haunted Check for gas leaks Check for mold Check for med side affects/interactions Consider other potential symptoms that might suggest mental problems/tumors/head injuries ect and if you need a doctor If none of the above then go get a priest

[@herstoryanimated]

and make sure to have a carbon monoxide alarm

[@user-mn9wc5ru5w]

True story. I was haunted by a particularly loud and hostile poltergeist for a few days. Every night my books would go crashing across my room, bottles broken, etc. So one night I slept with a big container of flour in my bed. When the noise and banging started, I threw the flour all over the room and found the shape and location of the poltergeist. I began to violently "S.A." the ghost, dry with no lubricant, and went until completion. Never had any haunting issues ever again. A few months later though, I got my hands on a Oujia board and conducted a seance with my friend. Turns out the poltergeist was my deceased cousin, and his hauntings were his "coming out of the closet" ... he was 🏳️‍🌈 in life, never told anyone and took that secret to the grave. He never was able to rest in peace knowing that he kept his secret for all of eternity with him, so he came back to try to tell us. I think when I clapped his cheeks he finally found some peace (I could hear him moaning) and that's why he never came back. Rest in peace Joey 🙏

[@darlingmunmun]

there's definitely mold in my work. that must be why i'm hallucinating asf.

[@ShadowSkyX]

The only thing a priest does is either further agitate or calm you down. Otherwise, they're just talking In white noise

[@Hades-100]

I think this is the best comment here

[@skyeblueoceanx]

One time I didn’t lock my door when I came home because a friend was coming over in a couple minutes. A man I don’t know walked in, sat down his lunch bag, and started washing his hands in my kitchen. Shocked, I said, “uh… excuse me…?” He looked up, looked around, mumbles “shit my bad” and leaves. Turns out it was an EMT who had just gotten off a very long shift & was sleep deprived. Poor guy was too tired to even be embarrassed.

[@benevoIencee]

Omg😭

[@jenniferlloyd9574]

Poor guy.

[@sarahmccollum3694]

I would offer a coffee or muffin next time I saw him and just say thanks fr all that you do and smile. ❤

[@blakerider888]

Had a similar thing happen, but with an old lady insisting that it was her house. Her husband came in soon after apologizing that she wasn't completely there and they lived a few houses down in a house with the same layout inside

[@Thatspookychick]

My mom had something like this happen. It was a guy who recently moved into the apartment building next to hers. He walked through her door took his boots off and sat on her couch, she came out of the kitchen and was like “um excuse me who tf are you?” The dude was so embarrassed and said sorry and left. He was a construction worker who worked long days.

[@widowkeeper4739]

The person who had a creep calling her at age 9 and her mother just laughing it off sounds so much like how my own "mother" was. If it was too complicated, too much work, or too expensive, my mother would just gaslight both us and herself by pretending it wasn't REALLY that big of a deal. We were just being overdramatic and silly children, which gave her the convenient excuse to not have to do anything. There were so many situations where my brother and I were just left to fend for ourselves and survived only by sheer luck because our egg donor was useless. I really hope that storyteller is doing OK today.

[@Lenape_Lady]

There are support groups for children of narcissistic mothers. I understand how you feel. And I’m sorry you had to go thru that.

[@Agender_Potato]

​@Lenape_Lady i need to start looking into support groups :(

[@Wishfull171]

Yes that one stuck out to me too, such a horrible mom but I’m glad their kids and other family members have enough sense to care and realize the danger. It’s like the mom didn’t care if they died. Sorry to hear your mom was the same and I hope you’re surrounded by good people now too!

[@Wishfull171]

@@Agender_PotatoReddit is great for it! My mom has BPD but refuses help, I was able to find a support group there of similar kids.

[@Seabeastie20000]

Dude self heimliched with 0 instructions just a vague memory from a cartoon? Damn.

[@melanie_meanders]

my uncle was able to do this as well!! he was an adult when it happened though, the fact this kid did it is amazing!

[@Ummmmwtf.............]

My grandma randomly commented to us once that if we are ever choking and no one can help, to ram our midsection against a table until the food comes out. I did this in elementary school during lunch. I was choking around 100 people and not one noticed lol. I got it out that way obviously. Never ball up a dinner roll and try to swallow it with two chews and a swig of chocolate milk, lol. It happened again as a teen and I jammed myself against an industrial sink and got it out... I have since learned to chew food good even when in a hurry.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

Back when cartoons were actually useful and tried to teach lessons instead of just brain rot.

[@shuavonhaven190]

I'm not gonna lie. I don't think I've ever seen hemiliched written before and it took me solidly typing it out syllable to syllable into Google to understand 🤣

[@_nob0dy_297]

Fr

[@liuqmno3421]

Story 31 is really sad. I got a scary call when I was about 9, maybe younger, from a boy who was *actually* my age. It was scary because it was a boy I didn't know telling me he likes/loves me. Even something this harmless made me feel watched and icky, I couldn't imagine the dread OP felt. I despise OP's mother, even if it was a prank from a neigbor boy, not taking your kids seriously and even after years and years not realizing how traumatizing this event was.. Is the mother coping or simply just a horrible person?

[@TheOmegaXicor]

Story is probably fake but if not, that's the sort of mother who doesn't know anything about her child and has huge confirmation bias about everything, she wasn't aware that no one was laughing at her story.

[@NiaJustNia]

​@@TheOmegaXicorMy mum has narcissistic personality disorder, and she would do the same thing. She did something similar when I was there babysitting and some drunk guy tried to climb the scaffolding that was up for a roof repair at around 1am. She said it was the wind and repeated that to her friends, despite the fact I (who was 25), my brother (19 at the time), and both my nieces were witnesses. Then when she realised a scarier story got her more attention, she told people it happened to her and she added some embelishments. On another occasion when I was a kid, I saw a man in black run through the back garden with a torch. Called me a liar then told her friend over the phone that I'm imagining things for attention, then 10 minutes later there was a knock at the door. It was the police. They were chasing a guy who had run up our back garden path and was jumping through the gardens to escape. What I'd seen was the policemanv wearing a body torch who was chasing him. He'd noticed me but obviously didn't have time to stop, so after they got the guy, they knocked on the front door to explain the situation in case I'd been frightened. Suddenly the story to my mum's other friends was how I was almost attacked in the garden and saved by the police and herself after she confronted the guy and I called the police.

[@simplyk6965]

@@NiaJustNiayep, just like your mum, the mum in that story displayed the tell tale narcissistic traits. My mother was similar, they are not lovers of the truth.

[@BtbN]

I somehow got the sense that the mother was in on the "prank", given how unfazed she was about her own child's safety. Not sure what I'd find more troubling. The thought of her doing that to her own daughter, or her not taking something like that even a little bit serious.

[@_nob0dy_297]

Fr

[@StormTheSquid]

23:44 "We think she has nightmares sometimes" I think they have someone who breaks into their house a lot and messes with the nanny cam so they can do something to the kid without anyone noticing.

[@TimeCircleBlue]

Precisely what I thought

[@saladslug7432]

I had the same vibe..

[@jaddee4273]

That's so sad... oh my gosh

[@AmandaE24]

The way the nanny cam got all static-y and then she started screaming I was thinking more their house is haunted and whatever it is is messing with the baby. They should have brought her into their room to see if it stops happening. Just my opinion.

[@nyotamwuaji6484]

Or lives in a hidden section of the house. There are stories about spots like that

[@MyPumpkinSpicedChaos]

When I was 10 years old my family moved to one of those quiet and small towns in a different state. We didn't know anyone there, my mom just really wanted to move away from the coast and up in the mountains. About a month after the move I had to stay home from school because I was sick but my mom had to work so I was left home alone with our elderly Rottweiler who would bark at anything. At around noon the dog was in the kitchen and just started barking like crazy so I went to go see what was going on (there were wild turkeys all over the neighborhood and I wanted to see if he spotted one) only to be met with a full grown man who was wearing a suit standing terrified in front of my dog. Luckily I was only 10 and didn't actually think "I'm in danger" but rather I thought the look of fear on his face was the funniest thing I've ever seen because that dog was a sweetheart who wouldn't have hurt anyone. So now I'm giggling while my dog is barking like crazy at this dude which just made that guy look even more afraid. I ask him if he's here to make me a sandwich and he stutters no, drops a few magazines and slowly backs out of the door. The magazines he dropped were all different issues of The Watchtower. My mom didn't leave me home alone again until I was 16. I'm so very grateful that my dog was there with me that day. He was the goodest of all good boys and 28 years later I still miss him.

[@jadedlulz]

Wasn't exactly home alone when this happened, but if you have ever lived in nigeria, then my experience will not shock you. It was late, at about 2am when my neighbor called me to say there were armed robbers in our estate robbing the whole place. Then I heard their pew pew going off. I was freaking out and called the police. The person that picked up the call told me point blank that he was off duty, to call someone else. Oh lord!! I was in tears as I didn't want to get graped that night. They were literally at my front door when help arrived. I moved out of the whole city to about 12 hours away.

[@sunnysunflowers328]

Thats awful. Sorry you went through that. Police are really bums

[@SewardWriter]

It's awful how that's happened to such a wonderful country with wonderful people. (HUG)

[@nakiamebuge8598]

That’s my worse fear when we’re back… where did you leave from and where did you go?

[@CyndiCalista]

😢 very scary

[@jadedlulz]

@nakiamebuge8598 from abj to lag then realized that lag is a madhouse and moved back north.

[@kittys.2870]

As a child I was home alone and there was shaking and breaking glass when all our dishes fell. March 27 1964. 9.2 earthquake Anchorage Alaska.

[@justboredandtired408]

I hope you are well now. Earthquakes are dangerous.

[@TheHellhound01]

also the "can you feel the love tonight" riff had me on the floor cackling

[@annika5893]

Don't throw your unused medicine into the toilet or trash or whatever. Take them back to the pharmacy to be properly disposed of. A pain in the butt, but come on.

[@kurotsuki7427]

Dont want to give the fish hallucinations

[@rusteddenial453]

@@kurotsuki7427or you know poison the water and kill lots and lots of fish

[@herstoryanimated]

​@@rusteddenial453 and people when it gets back into the drinking water

[@RabidWildCreature]

too late now

[@monikalegwant3159]

Why, is it because it can make the bacteria immune to it eventually?

[@sunnyandthechlo]

One late night back when I was a teenager I heard a knock on my window. My room is on the second story. I shakily went to open the blinds to see what kind of psycho had climbed up there and found a cat looking at me. It had been tapping on the window with its paw. I opened the window, let it in and it sat on my lap while I finished my homework. When I was ready to go to sleep I motioned to the window and it went back out. Nice encounter.

[@deinodinosuchus]

my god i can't imagine the relief when you see a cat and not a human being 😭good for you honestly

[@sophielegay4104]

I was home alone as I lived alone, in a house at the end of a tiny village (max 60 people) in the mountains. I was never afraid before, even going for a walk in the night at 3 AM when I couldn't sleep, sleeping with open windows or sometimes even forgetting to close the front door. One night I realised I needed more wood so the fire wouldn't die before morning, so, as I often did, I got outside to grab a few logs. I was on my way back when a feeling of dread got to me. I was terrified and couldn't figure out why. No noise, complete silence and the only source of light was my phone. I kept walking as if nothing was wrong, thinking that I would be attacked if I showed I knew someone was there. Plus maybe it's my brain pranking me? I went home as if nothing happened, bolted the door and realised someone could have got in. I was terrified but checked the whole house (still lights off, originally to keep bugs out but afterwards to not show my position) and made sure no one was home. Ok, no one was home but I was still frightened. I didn't sleep a lot that night. The next day I learned wolves (there normally no wolves in my area) had been spotted less than 10km away from my home. I have no proof but I'm sure I was watched by wolves that night. Better than a creep!

[@atc35012]

Last year I had an allergic reaction while I was home alone. I put a Benadryl in my mouth because I could feel the reaction starting. I was hoping that the medicine would kick in fast enough. My tongue swelled to a scary size and my throat was closing. I texted my boyfriend and told him that he might want to come home because I wasn't sure I was going to survive this one. Luckily the Benadryl kicked in a couple minutes after I sent the message. I went to a hospital for treatment after this happened.

[@JigsawSaysHello]

Story 31 makes me indescribably angry. That mother should've been in a panic and worried for the safety of her child, not joking about a traumatic situation burned permanently in OP's mind. Shame on that mother!

[@richardherndon451]

I was home alone one day during summer break during high school. There was a severe storm. House rocking thunder, bright white lightning flashes, large hail, tornado sirens. Inside the house, my dog was barfing everywhere and freaking out, and a smoke detector was beeping because of a low battery. I was freaking out so bad that my poor grandmother drove through this storm to comfort me. I still feel bad but am very thankful for my grandmother.

[@strawbababababerry]

i lived alone, i think i was 20 or 21. was struggling with mental health issues and probably should have been taking some anti psychotics. i heard noises in my house and i could tell they were not my cats. i was frozen in fear, and all i had was my therapist. (she has her own practice so she will text clients, but not after a certain time). i guess my message got her attention and she returned back with a sweet message and a link to a calm down youtube video. as i played it, i was filled with even more fear. the dialogue was soft and was giving a step by step on things to meditate on? and randomly it said “like the sound of a light switch” and i heard a light switch go off downstairs. i immediately told my therapist who ended up zoom calling me while grocery shopping. i loved her. idk what that shit was

[@Lampe2020]

3:33 You sneezed the power out. And sneezing while taking a dump can be both messy and painful, speaking from experience there.

[@Katchelina]

Why do any delivery people think they can enter someone's home? I had an Amazon delivery person open my house door once, no knock, no doorbell, didn't need to sign anything. So I reported them. They shouldn't be going around trying people's doors when they only need to drop something off.

[@BlankBrain]

When I was about five, my mom went to the next door neighbor's for coffee. There was a huge explosion that shook the house pretty violently and made the chandelier swing about a foot. I was terrified, and too afraid to go see my mom. The basalt quarry about 150 yards down the hill had blasted. They usually gave notice, but not that time. When I think about it, I think of kids in war zones. I can't imagine how they grow up to be normal.

[@onionbubs386]

When my grandpa was a kid, he was home alone at night during a thunderstorm. He wanted to get a drink from the icebox in the garage (this was the 1940s) so he went outside. It was too dark to see, but he knew the way. Suddenly lightning flashed and he saw the figure of a grown man standing in his yard, so he ran like hell inside, locked the doors and hid with his dad's gun. Turned out to just be a drunk neighbor stumbling home.

[@emilysullivan4031]

Several years ago, I was home alone and watching a Korean horror movie (don't remember the name, something like "the camera"). At the climax when the bad ghost was just about to get the main character, there came a banging and loud screeching sound DIRECTLY BELOW ME in the crawl space. I nearly levitated off the couch. Damn raccoon got in a tussle at just the PERFECT moment!

[@IamDootsdoot]

I actually have one. I live with my boyfriend and my mother(the house is mine), but this particular night, my boyfriend was on a business trip and my mother decided she wanted to go out drinking. I am wheelchair bound so even if I am naturally confident, it did make me slightly uneasy being alone. Around 3 ish am I hear my sliding glass door slide open, and my service dog(a lab/pitt mix) stand at attention with his hackles up. He's naturally a very calm dog, and is normally the sweetest, most lassez faire pup when off duty, but him going into full protect mode set me off. I put his leash on and wheeled out to the living room where the door was, phone in hand. There stood my 20 lb chihuahua/whipped mix in my backyard completely unaware he almost gave me a heart attack. He opened the door, since the latch was broken and just pushed it with his snout. my service pup got steak in the morning.

[@theaceguitarist]

My family lived in El Paso for a bit, and my mom once told us how one day, when she was home alone with her three young daughters, some random dude jimmied our back door and just walked straight into our living room- where my mom was sitting in front of the couch. My mom (always one to pick fight when there’s a potential threat to her kids) immediately stands up and turns around to see this guy (who was Mexican, I think, and not very big) standing about six feet behind her. Luckily, either he really wasn’t expecting anyone to be home, or my mom must have had MURDER in her eyes (knowing my mom, I’d believe it) bc this dude bolted right back out the door, jumped the back wall straight into an arroyo he must’ve forgotten was there, and seemingly landed badly. By the time my mom got the cops on the phone, she could see him limping away. Another time, like six years later, we had just moved into our newly built house, and my mom was coming home from some errands with my three-year-old sister in the back seat, my dad was at work and the rest of us were at school. She had just gotten out of the car and was headed to get my sister when she saw a pair of man’s hands stop the garage door as it was closing and push it back up. They turned out to be like, from the construction company or something so. Not hostile, just two idiots who nearly got their heads taken off by a mom with a shovel.

[@wordforger]

I once made the mistake of watching 2001: A Space Oddyssey while I was home alone in rural Texas with no driver's license/vehicle, my mom's boyfriend working in the city for the week, and my mom on a months long tour of Europe (that I had declined to join her on). Let's just say I've never felt more alone and isolated in my life.

[@amyfiederowicz7053]

I had one of those experiences in college. I had what we called a super single (a room designed for two with no roommate). One night I was asleep in my bed when I was awoken to someone climbing into my bed. It turned out to be a very drunk guy from another floor but at the time I didn’t know who he was. I still to this day have no idea how he got into my room as I had locked the door.

[@PAISLEYSHEARER]

THE TOILET SNEEZE IM CRYING

[@mehoynoy8560]

watching these further motivates me to buy a security system

[@kdcthelioness]

Story 4 is a literal nightmare of mine as well. I am disabled and have to live on the ground floor. The first apartment I lived in on the ground floor, someone woke me up by banging on my window, which was RIGHT NEXT TO MY BED. I keep all my windows locked when I sleep.

[@silaswalt7639]

Love both narrators, missed this guy the last few!

[@NiaJustNia]

At least we know now that the emergency that was mentioned in the community post was green narrator having an allergic reaction and needing recovery time

[@JeantheSecond-ip7qm]

I wasn’t home alone, but in the middle of the night in 1988 my entire house shook with what sounded like an explosion. My parents and I got up, freaking out, looking around the house and outside, but we couldn’t find anything wrong so we went to bed. Then it happened again. We went through the freak out thing again. Couldn’t find anything wrong. Tried to go back asleep, still freaked out. Turns out there were two dynamite explosions several miles away. It blew out windows of home closer by, but we just got shook a bit. It was big news in Kansas City. Six firefighters died in the first explosion because they were investigating a fire at the construction site.

[@xentarch]

Funny how the person in story 12 immediately thought it was something supernatural and never even considered for a moment that it could be a hallucination

[@LFanimes333]

30:50 I have no fucking idea why this story felt SO much scarier to me compared to the others. The sheer panic and terror of knowing you’re being watched and about to die… I’ve just noticed I randomly started crying listening to this one. It didn’t happen for any other story. I think the sheer anxiety of the situation would have driven me permanently paranoid for the rest of my life.

[@Academia.lavender]

“Get out of my gosh dang house!” IM DEAD ☠️☠️☠️

[@sockruhtease]

I (24 5ft girl at the time) was asleep when I kept hearing weird noises in my studio apartment. I lived alone. Not even a pet. I yelled "HEY!" And flew up going to my front door. The doorknob had been broken off. Several apartments had been broken into. I guess no one expected someone to be in bed at around noon on a weekday.

[@funkylittlespacecowboy2372]

When I was a teenager I used to sleep downstairs on the couch (long story). I'm autistic and have adhd (also had an undiagnosed heart condition at the time) all of this leading up to the fact that I was a very confused and paranoid teenager (still kinda am as an adult). I was sitting on the couch later in the day, 100% convinced I was home alone, when suddenly I hear a door open and someone walking around upstairs. It was like switch was flipped. There was no other possibility to me other than that someone had broken in (despite the fact that I had been awake downstairs for hours...) I immediately grabbed a knife and ran outside and called my mom. She believed me and was about to call the police when she remembered that my little brother was home from school that day. No one told me. I felt so so embarrassed and shaken up and I didn't stop crying for an hour at least.

[@Lampe2020]

29:27 When I was cooking eggs on the stove with the fan on, also letting the dish washer wash the dishes and cooked some water in the kettle to pour a hot instant powder drink the breaker for the kitched felt like it was too much. So after a few seconds of the kettle being on it suddenly went black and I just heard the fan spinning down and the ticking of the little mechanical egg timer. The light outside the entrance (right infront of the kitchen window) also went out because apparently it's connected to the kitchen circuit. You can imagine that I was scared. I held my ears shut because I for some reason expected a loud noise from what I believed was the lightning that caused the "power outage". When I went upstairs to get a lamp from my room I notice dthe light in the stairwell was on. And then I realized I had popped a breaker. So I went into the basement to turn it back on and right when I get into the litchen again it pops again. So I flipped the switch of the lettle off and then the breaker back on. And then I had to reset the oven clock and turn the lights back down to half brightness, because they always go on full brightness when powered on.

[@NiaJustNia]

Glad to hear you've recovered from your allergic reaction Green narrator. Allergies can be terrifying.

[@MrDucks2279]

the dog story.. right as it was plaing while i was playing a game ragtime piano played I CANT 😭

[@lunatyk4455]

The poster that mentioned having hallucinations from their meds put me on such high alert, they put me on it for sleep apnea and it gave me insane anger issues and s****dal thoughts- to my knowledge there was even a lawsuit against that medication because of how bad the side effects were.

[@Saturn.7056]

I think that we can all agree that the pop of a plastic water bottle is the most terrifying thing you can experience 😂😂😂

[@miimu2000]

I was home alone suffering from a migraine when somebody rang the doorbell. I didn't want to answer, and my parents always said to not answer the door if they weren't home, so I didn't. The people stayed there for a few minutes and then all the fire alarms started going off. I honestly thought they were trying to break in or set our house on fire. Turns out they were people from the electric company testing if our electricity worked or something, can't remember. I called my dad and he drove home from work to turn off all the alarms, by then the people had already left.

[@PeaK808]

Wow These stories truly illustrate the saying, “The worst thing that has ever happened to you is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you”

[@entropy_portal]

I may not have been home alone but when I was about 9 I heard the unmistakable sound of my front door open and shut. The chain rattling everything. I learned the sound of the front door because I heard it so often I was used to it. As a stupid nine year old I went to find out who left the house at like 2am and nobody was there… the door was locked and chained I never heard anyone lock it or anything… the next morning I asked my mom my dad and my brother even though he couldnt reach the chain. To this day I don’t know what happened. Safe to say I slept with my parents that night. Nothing stolen no proof of break and entering just a scary sound. And no it wasn’t sleep paralysis I was able to move easily.

[@onionbubs386]

Oh I just remembered that time I almost died a really dumb death. I was home alone and going for a walk. My parents live in the country and have a nice 3 acre backyard, so it was pretty wide open out there. Suddenly, I felt saliva go down the wrong pipe and began coughing so hard, tears were streaming down my face and I couldn't stand up. I couldn't breathe for a solid minute and my nearest neighbors were too far away for me to get help. The whole time I was thinking "Dammit, is this really it? Choking on my own spit? What a stupid way to die, this is so embarrassing." Eventually I got it all out and could finally breathe again, but it felt like forever. It was so scary. This is still a recurring problem even today where food, drinks or saliva gets in my windpipe rather than my esophagus, though it's never been as bad as that. I think my epiglottitis is trying to kill me.

[@projectjupiter5523]

I'm so sorry this happened to you and keeps happening; it sounds terrifying! if you have the means and resources to see a doctor about this and get it checked out, please do! it sounds like it could be really dangerous, in addition to being terrifying, and if there's something that can be done to stop it, I hope you sort it out

[@onyx_mango]

32:29 THE UTTER NEGLIGENCE OF THE MOTHER IM GOING TO SCREAM

[@anabelroutledge]

In middle school I planned to go 2 doors down after school to hang out with my friend and her boyfriend but had to take my new puppy out first and cut fruit for my little siblings for when they got back. I had suddenly heard noises from the garage through the door connecting it to the house. I ran to the front to see a truck backed up into our driveway with a few guys wrapping up the grill in the front. I called my friend's boyfriend who come running over with his knife and I sandwiched them with my softball bat. They got in the truck and left quickly without stealing anything. My parents put in quite a few security measures after that and we didn't hear of any robberies in our neighborhood before or after. Glad for my friend's boyfriend because I was only 5 foot at the time and probably wouldn't have been scary enough to get them to leave. Look into if your garage door can be opened manually easily

[@musiclover6499]

For me it was when I was in middle school and 5 tornados touched down in my hometown (not all at once but in the same night) gotta love kansas

[@belatedcascade5]

Ah, that giant spiderweb was probably made by a writing spider. They make giant webs and are pretty big, but ultimately harmless

[@sylveadiff2813]

If for whatever reason you're looking for invertebrate friends they make good ones. Once they've chosen a spot they tend to keep rebuilding their web in the same place, and they can be very calm once they're used to people close to their webs. I've found they like to build on frames up against glass doors and windows. Used to have one I named Orbit on my back porch who caught a cicada once.

[@junecleaver4099]

You're allergic to Ice cream? That sucks😒

[@onionbubs386]

I like this narrator

[@jamaalsanchez6982]

Same. He speaks well. The others sound like they celebrate all throughout June

[@onionbubs386]

​@@jamaalsanchez6982 you're talking to a bisexual man, buddy

[@onionbubs386]

​@@jamaalsanchez6982also it's very obvious that you're white. you're very bad at this.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

@@jamaalsanchez6982 Weird thing to say.

[@sherpajones]

For me its the realization I've always been home alone and don't expect that to change.

[@starry3yed00]

I shouldn't be watching this when I have 2 more weeks of bring alone at home

[@MizukiUkitake]

I have a sooo many stories, but 2 come to mind first. The first one nobody has ever believed. 1 - I was in high school, I think about 16 or 17. I lived close to the school and basically in the middle of town, so it was pretty safe to walk at night. And I took midnight walks often (I now know that probably isn't smart as an AFAB person). One particular night, I was getting ready to go out for my usual walk when a black car pulled up in front of the house. I hesitated, but at that age I was of the "This is MY TERF" mindset, and I wanted to "assert my dominance" and make whoever this was know that I knew he was there so he couldn't get away with anything. So I went out the front door and began to approach the sidewalk with a glare. Not the car directly, just to spook whoever was driving. As I got closer, I could see whoever it was looking at his phone, so I relaxed. He was either on a phone call or checking his GPS. Just as I was about to reach the sidewalk, the black car pulled away and pulled a U-turn. As it completed the turn, I instantly realized the man's face had changed. In the very next second, he locked eyes with me, his jaw opened so wide it must have unhinged, and he let out the most inhuman screech I'd ever heard. I later compared it to a vixen scream. I froze in my tracks in the grass as the car drove away like any normal car. After taking a moment to process this, I screamed after him "WHAT THE F--K!?" and I got a second distant screech in response. I bolted straight back into my house and didn't go out for my walk that night or the next. 2 - After becoming an adult, I started living alone in a new town. One day I got terribly sick and had to take Nyquil to sleep. Late in the middle of the night, I was abruptly awoken by the sound of heavy work boots walking through my kitchen. For a brief moment, I thought my mom was home, only to remember I live alone. It sounded like the steps were going from the back door through the house towards the me, but they stopped in the kitchen. There was just the living room between me and where the steps stopped. I laid frozen, scared to death. I could barely breathe. I considered calling 911, but for some reason I called my mom instead. Crying, I whispered to her that I was scared because someone was in the house. But I also confessed that the footsteps had stopped and I couldn't hear anything anymore. At the moment, that only told me that they were standing in the kitchen, waiting. Mom, in a rare moment of wisdom, asked how long it'd been since I heard ANYTHING, and when I said several minutes, she told me to peek out of the room, which could see through the livingroom into a corner of the kitchen. I did. I saw nothing. Seeing nothing, I slowly crept out into the livingroom, then into the kitchen. It was empty. I snuck to the back of the house. Nothing in the spare room. Nothing in the bathroom. The back door? Locked. Front door? Locked. I was baffled, and my mom, now knowing I was fine, scolded me for calling her instead of 911. The next day, I called the help number on the back of the bottle to tell them of my concerns. It was the only explanation. The woman on the phone proceeded to inform me that cold medicine has a high chance of causing hallucinations when taken around the same time as mind-altering medication...... such as my bupropion....

[@codm22712]

Me personally my own mind and thoughts

[@lordvoldemort5586]

I don't leave guests at my house alone. Not even the people I trust. It's not because I'm worried they'll steal something or they will look through my stuff but because I collect haunted stuff especially dolls. Knives have flown at my head, heavy footsteps on the stairs, book tornado, and the one that scares most of my guests when they hear about it is the doll that drowns you. Not even kidding she has killed multiple of her past owners by drowning in like 2nd floor 3rd floor rooms. The person that owned her before me was in a fifth floor apartment, in her bedroom, asleep, and drowned. I chose to take the doll but I am careful around it and it has already tried the same with me more than once. Needless to say I have a lot of scary incidents from being home alone. Although I got one story in particular that isn't all the way about a haunting. I was asleep in my room upstairs and I heard the back door open something fly and a yelp. I went down to investigate and I saw a man bolting down my driveway, my back door wide open, and a kitchen knife in the doorframe. Apparently the same ghost that I bought a couple years prior to this in a doll who used to throw the knives at me had now decided to protect the house. I do kind of feel bad for the intruder though cuz I'm not sure how we would ever wrap his head around that.

[@asparagusoffice]

the snowboarding is probably my favorite backdrop they've chosen so far

[@gandalainsley6467]

Not alone but it was at the middle of the night . I heard a kidnapping when I was 11 year old. Couple days later I saw a woman had disappeared on the news and the last place where she was seen was the club near the place I was living at. I heard her running in high heels screaming and stereotypical do you want candy kids(I forgot what its called in English. Those bus thingies.) drove in front of her. Doors opened and closed pretty fast and car just drove away. The reason I know what kind of car it was is because I can tell it just by the sound now. I guess I got little trauma from it. My country always has a had a lot of disappearances here.

[@benevoIencee]

It’s called a van 😮 but did they ever find her??

[@gandalainsley6467]

@@benevoIencee I don't think so. In these cases it usually is that way. My mother's teacher's 8 year old daughter disappeared too and nobody knows where she went or what happened to her.

[@goldencamel8606]

Your mention of Ben drowned gave me spine shivers and put tears in my eyes, I've never heard the full story, so I'm quite spooked

[@justiceness284]

Had a similar experience as story 19. At the time, I was roughly 12 years old. I was upstairs watching my two little brothers (both toddlers at the time) while my sister was in the basement and my parents were in the backyard, working in our garden. I was playing with the younger of my brothers, chasing him around when out of nowhere, a random woman walked right through the front door, right in front of me. Now, this might not sound scary to most people, but it was to me. At that time, I was the oldest person in the house, and our backyard was really big, so my parents were too far away to do anything if I needed them. So when this middle aged woman walked in my house, no knock or warning at all, I was pretty scared.As soon as she walked in, she froze. For a moment, she just stared at me, not moving or talking at all. Meanwhile, I picked up my youngest sibling and I am watching this women like a hawk, making sure that she isn't going to try and go after my other brother (who was closer to the door, with nothing but a couch between him and her). After a brief pause, she greeted me and started explaining that she was here to see random guy (don't remember the name). I moved closer to my other brother and told her no one by that name lived here, but she still wouldn't leave. She repeated our houses address and the guys name and asked me, multiple times, if I was sure he wasn't here. I told her I was sure, wished her a good day, and she finally left. I later told my parents what happened, and they were as surprised as I was by the incident. Now, I don't think she really had any bad intentions for me and my siblings, and I really did beleive that she was just lost. Even so, I took no chances that day, and now I always make sure to lock the front door whenever my parents leave me home alone with my siblings. Because you never know.

[@TheHellhound01]

i was home alone at 13 when hired goons came and demolished the building next to mine for "building on temple land". Like imagine being a little ass kid just doing your shit when you hear some mf screaming over the loudspeaker for people to get out of that building (didn't even let the people in mine get out) as 12-13 armed men just be surrounding it and dragging people out. (My dumbass was stood in the balcony watching this shit) The people screaming and crying as they took all of 2 days to completely demolish an "illegal construction" that had been there so long a fifty year old banyan tree was growing in it's middle

[@sunnysunflowers328]

Is this a new narrator?? I LOVE YOU NEW NARRATOR

[@lilpurpskurp]

Musinex/Nyquil gave me such bad anxiety and paranoia that I legitimately was hiding under the covers having panic attacks thinking someone was going to break into my apartment and k*ll me. I only use those meds extremely sparingly now if needed and avoid it at all costs.

[@frenkieamanfo6022]

Story 1: Bro,trolled himself💀

[@katwim9169]

I thought the Ben drowned story was about Majoras Mask but maybe I’m wrong

[@jennifershuping664]

My mom is handicapped so we used to have baby monitors so she could call my dad when she needed help. One day I was home alone and I swear I heard breathing on the monitor upstairs in my parents room. I grabbed the portable phone went outside and called my parents. I waited outside until they got home! I was like 9 or 10 at the time.

[@MogamiKyoko13]

One of my roommates when I lived abroad was always forgetting her keys and she was always getting back really late at night, so she'd just not lock the door ever and complain if I or our other roommate locked it. One night, it was like 2:30am, and some strange guy came into our apartment drunk and started pounding on the door to my room asking to be let in and calling me someone else's name. He went to all three of our doors, jiggling the handles and pounding on the wood. One of my roommates yelled that she had a knife and told the guy to get lost, but it was like 40 minutes before he finally got the fck out. I was just so thankful that our individual doors had deadbolt locks on them and that I had taken to locking my room every night because of the forgetful roommate. I don't know if my roommates were also in the habit of locking their room doors or if they got up and locked them when they heard the commotion. Either way, that was scary af and I'll be forever mad at that one roommate for her carelessness.

[@therewasanattempt7092]

I got one for this! I was home alone, sitting in my basement playing a game, family wasn’t gonna be back from their jobs for another couple of hours. All of a sudden I hear my basement door slowly creak open. I, terrified out of my mind grab a hammer from my dads toolbox and go investigate. My dog fucking pawed the door open and was standing at the top of the stairs. She was the reason I nearly had a heart attack that day

[@FKC903]

My older sister is 5'2" and under 150lbs. She has shouted down MULTIPLE people over 6' and 250lbs. If I'm scared, I go to her for help even though we're both in our 30s. She's like a house cat chasing away a tiger, but she would actually do damage.

[@RedditFamilyStories]

I love the way he said "meow" LMAO, so cuteee 😻😼

[@jodiewhiteside4194]

Lightning struck the house and popped the phone line. The bang it made and the electrics blew was terrifying

[@lucasplata540]

36:14 something tells me that mom was a part of it

[@hoglinofficial]

i think u guys should upload more shorts with good clips in the background then u guys are gonna rack up views

[@Polaf3456]

Thought the Mucinex story was ridiculous, until I read that some Mucinex preparations contain DXM and Phenylephrine, both of which are quite psychoactive in high enough doses and have synergistic effects with each other. That being said, you'd still have to practically overdose on it to experience a delirium that extreme, I suspect user error or intentional overdose. Either they drank the whole bottle or there is some underlying genetic impairment that explains their extraordinary sensitivity to it. Certain anti-depressant medications can also cause an extreme increased sensitivity to cough syrups. Dextromethorphan is a pretty powerful disassociative (think PCP), plenty of people drink cough syrup to literally trip balls.

[@tchftg]

story 12 reminded me of these weird dream-like things that would happen to me right as I'm falling asleep, like two weeks ago. the first time it happened I was starting to go to sleep and I got to that stage where you're not fully asleep but you can feel yourself entering it, when I started entering that stage I started seeing extremely vivid scenes that would shock me awake, I don't remember all of them from that night but the last one was an old woman and as I started falling asleep her face started distoring and turning into something you'd see in a horror movie. a couple nights later I was trying to go to sleep and I kept hearing rummaging in my closet, to the point where I would jolt awake everytime and I would sit there staring into the crack of my closet half-blind (no glasses) and only my dim fairy lights trying to see wether that was real or not, then after I made sure it was all good I laid back down and HEARD A MAN GROANING IN MY ROOM. when I say I jumped up from my bed I mean it, I had to grab my butterfly knife and slept with it next to my face and I finally went to sleep.

[@djch33zy_b4con6]

Story 5: greatest story EVER

[@DungeonDragon18]

For story 49, it might have been a sun bear. They have really weird proportions that make them look like a person in a bear suit. They're not native to the Netherlands, but if it was an illegal pet that escaped, it didn't have to be native.

[@Walnusskreis]

How am i supposed to sleep tonight 😭😭

[@tryingtothrive157]

The neighbour (HOA head) opposite our house had so many close calls from robbing attempts. Many times a week, we'd hear lurking motorcycle tandems driving by repeatedly and surveying which houses are ripe for picking. Our street is a deadend so they always had to turn back AND nobody in our immediate neighbours owns motorcycles so it's very obvious. Their balcony was easy to "parkour" for thieves with just a simple glass door. We ended up flicking the lights or making a noise to show our houses had occupants still wide awake, then the motorcycle sounds slowly moves away. Have had this happen while home alone so I watched the TV with an audible volume (if one's outside) and generally just stayed up late than usual. Trying to stay safe is lowkey a daily game of paranoia without looking crazy 😅😂

[@alexiskuwata]

I was reading Creepypastas with friends one day and felt someone was watching me but nobody else was there.

[@rewto5131]

I was over at friends house for a few days to take care of their pets. Well at the time they didn't have Internet, and my phone was disconnected from service (it was a free phone that was given out by Social Security, big stupid story there). Basically I had no way to contact anyone. Well we were hit with a very bad wind storm. The howling, structure shaking, and no way to contact anyone was torture. The pets (a little dog named Trixie and a cat who was VERY old named Catolus Rex) kept near me the entire stay.

[@rewto5131]

To clarify: I was house and pet sitting. I did have my computer, just no internet. Trixie was my couch buddy, and Catolus was my buddy when I went to sleep in the master bedroom.

[@sbatou87]

Believed I was in a stranger's house instead of my own. One part of me wanted to get the hell out and run. The other part of me said it was safer if I stayed put. I stayed put. No, I don't remember when I accepted I was in my own home, and was confused earlier.

[@kyototomokui6676]

I think OP in story 49 might have just seen a furry.

[@kayleighfuria819]

Narrator is obviously not a sublime fan since he doesn't know how to say Santeria.... "I don't practice Santeria, I ain't got to crystal ball, I had a million dollars but I, I spent it all"

[@xX_Overweight_Xx]

I was awake late at night when I heard glass shatter in my kitchen and I walked in to see the crustiest, 6 foot 5 80 year old touching a little boy who was chained up to the ceiling. Nobody knows how he or the kid got in, or how he silently chained a little boy to a ceiling

[@Walnusskreis]

This ones really tame compared to the others and I wasnt even home alone but I dont really care. So when I was like 12 years old, my bedroom was located just a few meters away from our front door and only during winter, I could hear knocks at the front door. It was a single knock, followed by ~40 seconds of silence, then another knock. Always at late evening, almost every day. Me being just 12 years old, it was really feasable that the knocking stems from a friendly ghost, and I would tell my friends in school about it and we would call him the knock ghost or something. Well a few years later I realized it was just this stupid "Merry Christmas" sign my mom puts up on our front door during winter, being pushed against the door from the wind.

[@Bluecifur]

Story 12: I similarly found out Montelukast gives you hallucinations the hard way. Guy on a chair in my room, people standing across the yard at night, whispers, etc. freaky shit. So of course I look up all my medications and their side effects. Montelukast does this to me only when I’m under stress though, so it’s not constant. I’ll take that over not breathing. I’m so glad to hear I’m not the only one though.

[@herstoryanimated]

I don't know how much you need to take this, but if it's all the time, then I have heard of service dogs (assuming it's ok with your asthma) trained to recognise if there is someone present or not for people who have hallucinations. I think they are trained to bark if someone is there when person asks, but stay quiet if no one there. Just wanted to put this out there, as I thought it was a really nice way for people to feel more in control of their environment whilst hallucinating.

[@becauselifts9913]

Story 10: I know a few EMTs in my area that don't put their best efforts into helping patch wearers. It's this sort of reason why.

[@saraholsson5710]

I was sent down the rabbit hole of Ben drowned and I’m not disappointed

[@guida_mov]

i like this narrator but i miss the other one tooo

[@hibaakaiko3888]

Poster who had mean neighbor cat get in their house. I adopted a cat that had gotten into someone's house through a doggy door and got into a fight with another stray that snuck in too. Don't think the cat i adopted started anything. He was always thes sweetest cat ever. He passed yesterday of cancer. I loved that old tom cat like a son.

[@markevert6847]

This guy sounds like Alan Wake! Nice

[@etherraichu]

30:45 I had something like that happen when using cough spray. It only affected two hours though, so it was more strange and confusing than scary. Parents said I was acting totally normal.

[@sharonrinkiewicz3940]

I was about 13 years old and I was babysitting. The kids were in bed, and I was watching Friday the 13th for the very first time. It was probably about midnight, when I heard someone knock on the livingroom window behind me. I turned around and I see a guy wearing a hockey mask, just like Jason. I let out a blood curdling scream so loud, the kids woke up, the neighbors came running over. The guy in the ski mask turned out to be my friend's older brother playing a joke on me.

[@ChewyCheese-sf9cq]

the door to my sister's room opening and closing for hours, even when she came home and was downstairs (i was in my room, and hers is next to mine. i know AS A FACT that i was home alone, and even if someone was there they would NOT do it for over an hour.)

[@yourconfusionmaster]

Probably the most haunting one I’ve got: My ex (then gf) and I were hanging out, around 13/14 at the time, and we went to her place where we were alone. We were just watching a series or whatever on Netflix, when we heard footsteps in the attic (context her living room is on the first floor (not ground floor) and the attic is on the second). Of course, being idiot teenage girls, we were both mortified (since we knew no one had gotten home) yet still walked over to the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs, I stomped on the ground a couple times to make us audible so whoever knew they weren’t alone (stupid, don’t do that) and we heard the exact same amount of stomps returned from upstairs (which could not have been an echo, since it wasn’t the exact same rhythm and nothing else echoed up there). Did it a second time, heard it back again. We never did find out what the hell was going on because we left immediately after that since we were terrified. Since then we’ve believed the house was haunted because we couldn’t think of another explanation- the house was in the spot where an old hospital used to be anyway. Now no longer in contact with her for personal reasons, but I still think that house is haunted because what the hell

[@yourconfusionmaster]

Also pretty regularly hear the bathroom light in my house flick when I’m trying to sleep (my bedroom is next to the bathroom) even though the light doesn’t turn on when I hear it- heard it while home alone before too. Yeah so I think I’m just hallucinating that one-

[@soniczforever5470]

Warning disturbing: was in sitting room suddenly heard banging. I noticed my kitchen door was slamming itself ok I thought then checked the back hall door that was slamming too. Back Door wasn't open The hot press doors were slamming too. I fled the kitchen in panic. I was stuck in hall with my hands clapped over my ears. All doors gave one massive slam and stopped. The house always was scary.

[@plastiqueneurosis]

I used to be skinny to the point of seeing my ribs and I was outside to the point of having skin soo dark it looked like I stood next to a camp fire. I lived in a hotel room with a mirror right beside the bed. Every time I went down to bed, I would almost scream because I thought I saw a ded person laying where I was. Every night I’d nearly have a heart attack.

[@_Error_404_Goodbye]

Just going to throw this out there in case it hasn’t already happened, you need to team up with Let’s Read and tag team a 3hr block of spooky stories. 💯

[@mariekatherine5238]

It was about 11:00 PM and it was just me and the baby at home. I heard a loud noise from the attached woodshed. Thinking it was a dream, I went back to sleep and heard it again. I knew it was not a dream. Thinking it was some vagrant man, I grabbed my husband’s 12-gauge and crept silently downstairs to the kitchen. Yes, there was someone in the woodshed. Approaching the woodshed door, rifle ready to go, I flung open the door and yelled, “Get out or Ill shoot!” Imagine my relief and embarrassment to discover the intruder was one of the Billy goats!