- Most of the time being home alone means that you can get
some downtime and enjoy relaxing.
But for some people, what should be a quiet opportunity
to themselves, soon turns into a terrifying experience
as they realize that they're not alone.
Taken from firsthand accounts of Redditers,
the following are real events that happened.
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Here are 10 scary, real home alone stories.
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Number 10 is the babysitter.
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One night, a babysitter was looking after two children
for a couple that she knew.
The children were in bed by 9 p.m. and she was sitting down
to watch some television until the parents came home.
That was when she noticed the reflection
in the television screen.
She saw a tall figure standing in the back of the room
behind her looking at her.
Terrified, she slowly turned around,
but the figure was gone.
She ran up stairs to check on the kids who were quietly
sleeping in their beds.
When the parents returned home, they assured her that
there was nothing to worry about.
The babysitter was paid and left the home.
However, as she drove away, she looked up and saw the same
tall figure watching her, waving from the window.
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Number nine is the grinner.
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When Redditer Msoup was 19 years old, she was left alone
in her parent's house for a weekend.
On the first night, she drank too much and while
in an emotional state decided to reinvent herself
and shave her hair like Brittney Spears.
When she came out of the bathroom,
she saw something unusual.
A piece of paper was sitting on a table in the hallway
opening it up, the paper had a message on it which read
I was going to leave you a note,
but I see that you are here.
Terrified, the girl ran into her room, but when she went
inside, she saw a man standing there.
His face obscured by hair, grinning at her.
Thankfully, she made it out alive.
As it turned out, the man ended up being someone that she
had dated three years previous.
He had heard that she was leaving to go to college soon
and had broke into her house to see her.
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Number eight is the party upstairs.
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When the opportunity to rent a basement apartment directly
below a friend's house came up, one internet poster
was excited to move in.
That excitement however, soon turned to dread.
His friend's family were socially active and often had
family parties upstairs.
One day while he was doing some homework in his room,
the tenant heard noises coming from his friend's home above.
There were voices and a lot of jumping around.
It sounded almost like they were dancing.
Unable to concentrate, he texted his friend and asked to
come up and join them.
However, his blood ran cold when his friend texted back
saying that he and his family were away on a trip.
Fearing for his life, the tenant ran away from the house.
Looking back, he could see no lights were on.
The house seems deathly quiet and he was left to ponder
what exactly he had heard.
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Number seven is let me in.
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It's not unusual to convert a garage into an extra room,
but for one Redditer, he probably wishes his parents
hadn't bothered.
At the time he was living in a room that was just 10 years
old at the time.
Usually he would've been left with a sibling, but for a few
hours on this occasion, he was completely alone.
While playing in his room, he suddenly heard the sound
of someone rhythmically tapping their fingers on the second
door which led outside.
When the boy plucked up enough courage to investigate,
he saw man standing outside the garage room.
"Let me in, love," he said.
"I'm cold and hungry, don't you wanna be nice
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The boy ran and hid terrified by the man outside.
When the parents arrived home, the man was gone and the boy
never found out who he really was and what he wanted.
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Number six is isolation.
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Community is important.
It can make us feel like we're apart of something
bigger than ourselves.
But for some, isolation trumps community.
Why risk having bad neighbors?
Instead, such people search out lonely places to think,
read, and to find themselves.
That's what Redditer Shatterly did.
They intended on spending six months in a remote location
in New Hampshire, a quarter of a mile
from the nearest neighbor.
During their time there, Shatterly never saw anyone else
and was enjoying the peace and quiet.
That all changed one morning when they stepped outside
and saw something terrifying on their truck.
During the night, a layer of frost had formed
over the truck.
Someone had been to the cabin and had written in the frost
on the back windows of the vehicle the words I watch you.
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Number five is the college apartment.
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While living in a college apartment, one Redditer was left
home alone for the weekend as their roommate was away
for a few days.
On one of the nights, suddenly a loud bang was heard.
It sounded like wood being bashed against wood.
Thinking they must've left a window open and that it was
banging shut in the wind, the Redditer went to check where
the noise was coming from.
The windows, however, were all shut.
Confused and a little freaked out, the Redditer looked
around the apartment.
That's when they found the thick wooden panel which accessed
the attic from a hallway.
It had been pulled up.
Now terrified, the person ran to the room
and barricaded the door.
When it was finally safe to come out,
they made a frightening discovery.
The bedroom door was covered
and smeared in bloody hand prints.
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Number four is is it time?
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Some home alone experiences take on
a decidedly supernatural turn.
That was the case was the case with Redditer
CaptianKurshaw's frightening encounter one night
when he was alone.
He was in his house when the phone rang.
When he answered, he heard the voice of a very
elderly old lady.
The voice said, "Tell Essie, it is time to come home now."
Although he kept telling the elderly lady that she had
dialed the wrong number, she was adamant that the message
be passed on.
Wracking his brains, the man couldn't think who Essie
was until it suddenly clicked.
His grandmother's name was Esther.
Two hours later, he received a phone call that his
grandmother had passed away in her sleep.
As it turns out, Esther's own mother had died
when she was 16, 60 years previous, and she always referred
to her daughter as Essie.
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Number three is hide and seek.
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Hide and seek is a game we all played as kids.
It can be great fun, but when your parents aren't around,
sometimes it can lead you into a dark and frightening place.
For one 11 year old, hide and seek brought them close
to something beyond the veil.
While his parents were away, the 11 year old was kept
entertained by his siblings who told him to hide somewhere.
Thinking that under a bed would be as good a place to hide
as any, he climbed under his sister's bed
and waited to be found.
And something indeed did find him.
As he was curled up in the dark, the chilling laughter
of an unknown young girl came from behind him.
When he turned around, the boy saw that he was alone.
After that, he ran out of the room and the game of hide
and seek had come to an early, terrifying end.
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Number two is the tourist.
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One Redditer lived on a picturesque street in her home city
which was over 200 years old and was often visited
by tourists during the day.
She had become accustomed
to seeing tourist in the street and because her living room
was at street level, they would often stare into
her home momentarily.
One night, however, this was taken to new intrusive heights.
The girl entered her living room and looked out
into the darkness, but staring back at her through
the window was a man's face.
Disturbed by this, she started closing the blinds and when
she did so, the man's expression changed to one filled
with anger and hate.
This then quickly changed once more into a wide
leering grin.
He then backed away from the window and disappeared.
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And number one is the visitor.
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A woman named Jane was living in a remote Appalachian farm
during the late 1990s.
She lived there with a small group of people.
A neighbor told her that the farm was haunted by a man who
stayed there in the 1930s.
One night during a terrible winter while she was alone,
Jane awoke to see an outline of a ghost standing in
the doorway of her room.
It stared at her and then left.
Days later, another woman on the farm said it came
into her room.
Months later, the body of a local handyman who did odd jobs
around the farm, was found to have been frozen in the snow.
Jane and the others soon realized that they hadn't seen
a ghost at all.
The handyman had broken into their home and entered their
rooms as they slept when they were alone.
If the snow hadn't killed him,
who knows what he would've done next.