Everyone likes the security of their home - for many people, its the one place where
they feel truly comfortable.
The world is out there, and this is their space.
Thats why stories of people breaking into homes seem to scare us so much.
I found some stories from Reddit where real people came face to face with home intruders.
Sometimes they won the battle, sometimes they lost - but the stories are always terrifying.
I hope youre sitting comfortably, because my name is Danny Burke and this is the Top
10 Scary Home Intruder Stories …
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Starting off at number 10 we have The Weapon[a].
If you had to fight off a home intruder, what item would you grab to use as a weapon?
For Reddit user Water Guardian, they grabbed possibly the most badass thing I can think
of.
They said -I was living in Las Vegas at the time and I have always a night person.
I was asleep in my bed when i heard banging at my door around 10am.
I was still really tired, but decided to just go see who the hell was beating at my door.
(I assumed it was my friend being a dick) When I go to look out the peephole, I saw
noone there.
Pissed off that i just imagined someone beating at my door, i went back to my bed.
3 min later I hear someone messing with my window.
Confused, thinking it was probably maintenance fixing something, i slightly opened a slat
of my vertical blinds to see what was going on.
I see a man walking away with my window screen.
Still a little confused i sat back on my bed, but suddenly realized I i never received a
notice of work, nor asked for any.
By this time the guy(Mr. Burgler) came back and i heard what sounded like him trying to
pry my window open.
I kept a decorative sword by my bed, so i grabbed it, unsheathed it and braced my back
against the wall next to the window remaining out of sight from Mr. Burglar.
He popped my window open and took his hands to slowly open a view from my blinds.
Adrenaline had begun to pump into my veins like nitrous to a car.
I raised my sword and blindly stabbed it out the window.
Missed his eye by an inch.
Mr. Burgler fell back into the bush under my window allowing my to swing again.
It landed, but being a decoration, it just merely cut his jacket.
He got up and ran like the wind as i yelled at the top of my lungs "GTFO OF MY HOUSE".
After 10 min of cooling down, i call the police.
operator asked why i waited so long to call.
i told her i couldn't find my phone.
Police showed up, asked questions, and the asked if i thought about being a cop-
Moving on to number 9 we have The Killer[b].
A home intruder is a scary prospect - but a home intruder that kills, thats a whole
other level.
Reddit user Quinnteligent may have had that exact experience, they said -When I was around
five my family lived in a pretty sketchy neighborhood.
One week my mom and dad had all three kids sleep upstairs in the same room.
At the time I didn't know what was going on but remember seeing a bunch of squad cars
and helicopters patrol the area.
Turns out there had been a serial stabber running around who had killed one and hospitalized
two others.
My mom woke up in the middle of the night to someone messing with the lock.
She calls the police and waits at the door with an umbrella.
Eventually whoever it was gives up and leaves.
We never found out for sure who was trying to get in but the stabber was arrested that
night trying to break into another house two blocks down-
Next up at number 8 we have Help[c].
Reddit user Diogene selpirata shared a story that shows even whispering a single word can
help in these kinds of situations.
-While I was in graduate school, I was getting some much needed and probably pretty deep
sleep in the afternoon after pulling an all nighter and turning in a paper that was due
earlier in the day and woke up to hear two guys talking to each other in the next room.
I was very confused but luckily realized what was going on before I said anything or got
up.
Heard them talking about how to get my TV out of my apartment and decided it was probably
best to just act like I was sleeping and hope they just went on their way.
While laying there I realized I had a cordless phone nearby.
Dialed 911 and didn't say anything - just whispered 'help.'
Cops showed up 10 minutes later just as the two guys were walking out the door.
Woke up.
Felt good.
Got my TV, Laptop, and a bunch of video games back.
Did not go back to sleep.
Finally appreciated the mandatory response to any 911 call.
Moral of the story: if you need to call 911 and aren't sure what to say, its the thought
that counts and you don't need to say a word-
Moving on to the number 7 we have Home Alone.[d] When I was 17 I had a black powder rifle.
I was cleaning it in the basement, put it together, and took it upstairs for storage.
While I was upstairs I heard someone come in through the basement garage door.
I thought it was my brother or mom coming home but when I opened the door to the basement
i saw some random old guy coming up the steps.
I asked him what he wanted and he asked if I was home alone.
I grabbed my rifle (empty) and pointed it at him, telling him he needs to leave the
way he came in.
When he got back to the bottom of the stairs he unlocked the door he came in through.
It didn’t register with me until later that he had locked the door behind him when he
entered the house.
Next up at number 6 we have The Superhero[e].
This one comes from Nickldd92 and although its scary, it does have a wholesome end, just
wait.
They said -I was 12 years old hanging out with my dad watching a movie at around 1 am.
All the sudden there is pounding on the door.
My dad gets up and twists the knob.
As soon as he does the door flies open and a mountain of a man throws the door open.
My dad is pretty big himself but gets knocked to the floor but happens to grab the guys
shirt on the way down.
They start wrestling and fist fighting in the entrance of our doorway.
Im standing at the top of the steps looking down and watching all of this in slow motion.
My dad start screaming to get his shotgun out of his closet.
I run upstairs grab the shotgun, run back to the top of the steps and pump a round into
the chamber.
Immediately after hearing the sound the guy tries to run away but my dad holds him down
on the ground.
At this time my neighbors had heard the yelling and scuffle and ran over.
They call the police while my dad is holding this guy against the ground, and me a 12 year
old kid aiming a shotgun at the back of this dudes head.
The police end up coming with their guns drawn and i put the shotgun on the sidewalk.
The guy ends up getting arrested and supposedly had just gotten out of jail for a strongarm
robbery and battery.
I cant even imagine what would have happened if i had been alone considering my dad has
worked 3rd shift my entire life but it just happened on one of his nights off.
My dad was literally a superhero to me after that day.-
Moving on to number 5 we have 400 Pounds[f].
Melishka told this story on Reddit - when I read it, I almost jumped, so I hope I can
do it justice.
She said -I was working the morning shift at the time and was about to go to sleep around
9am when I heard a knock at my door.
I looked through the peep hole and there was a huge dude that I did not recognize standing
there.
I figured if I didn't say anything he would just go away.
He did not.
After a minute I walked into the other room trying to decide what I should do.
While I was pacing, he threw his whole weight (probably a good 400 pounds) into my door
and busted the frame right in.
I screamed as loud as possible 'WHAT THE FUCK?!' and grabbed my phone to call 911.
Ten minutes later locked in my bathroom the cops finally showed up, he ran off once I
screamed.
I rode in the cop car and id'd him a street over.
Thinking back, if I had just said "who's there?" he probably would have left...but oh well.
I was very disappointed how I actually reacted when something happened.
I had taken self defense and everything but all I ended up doing was yell expletives and
fumble to call 911.
I was standing in my kitchen and didn't even grab a knife :-/ I'm prepared now though.
As a 23 year old girl who grew up in the suburbs where nothing bad ever really happened, it
sucked.
I promptly moved-
Moving on to number 4 we have The Afterthought[g].
This one comes from a Reddit user who said that when it came to their home intruder,
what happened after was scarier than the experience.
They said -My brother had just left with his friend so I was home alone at around 7:30
pm.
I've sitting in my bed with my dog when the lights go out in my house.
I'm thinking my city just experienced a power outage so I leave my room and start walking
around the living room.
After about 3 mins of using the flashlight app in my house I head back into my room with
my dog and lock the door.
So I'm in my room watching a YouTube video when I hear something break.
Normally I never thought someone would try to break into my house so I said the wind
probably blew something over.
Now my dog is snarling and I shush her when I see some lights going under my door.
Someone tries to open it but luckily I had it locked.
While they go into another room I sneak up to my door and place my ear next to it.
I hear a voice saying, "Grab the laptop."
I'm freaking out but still I have doubt that someone would break into my house.
I was thinking my brother came back with a friend and were looking for stuff so I yelled,
"Who's out there?!"
No response so I said it again, "Who's out there?!"
When I didn't get a response that time I just yelled, "Get out of my house!
I'm calling the police!"
I call and the police arrive maybe 3 min after.
The front door was broken into.
The robbers took a stack of quarters and a camera.
What scared me the most wasn't the experience but what my mom said afterwards.
She said thank god the robbers weren't professionals or they might've broken into my room to shut
me up.
I had nightmares for a couple of days just thinking what if they tried to break into
my room.
The whole experience was frightening but if anything I'm glad it happened to me instead
of one of my cousins-
Coming in at number 3 we have The Good Boys[h].
If you can get through this story, I have a picture of some dogs for you at the end.
I promise.
This one comes from Reddit user Kcurtp.
He said -My wife was at home without me.
Midday, she is in the front of the house in the living room.
She hears the gate to our privacy fence open and then close.
She looked out the window to see a man she didn’t know walking along our house through
our backyard.
Our dogs were both home with her, we had a boxer and a boxer-Rottweiler mix.
She went to the back of the house to lock the back door, but by the time she got there,
the guy had already started to open the back door.
She tried to push the door shut on him, but he was much bigger than she was, and he pushed
his way into the house, knocking her on the floor.
Both dogs jumped over her (one of them actually used her as a launching pad and broke one
of her ribs.) and went at the guy.
Both dogs connected and latched on and began to tear his arm and leg up pretty and.
My wife had the wherewithal to get her phone out and call 911.
The guy tried to leave and run but our mutt pulled him into the house and kept at him
until the police arrived.
My wife was finally able to pull both dogs off of him and get away once the cops arrived.
He was charged with breaking and entering, as he had broken our gate.
He spent 3 days in a hospital getting 2 surgeries to repair his arm and leg from the dog injuries.
He deserved them.
Since that, we have always had large dogs.
We now have a boxer and 2 English Mastiffs.
My wife still gets edgy when home alone-
Next up at number 2 we have The Archer[i].
This story from Reddit user Torch It could have been in a weirdest home intruder stories,
but its also scary - probably for the intruder, youre about to see why.
They said -I do traditional archery.
I also sleep naked.
These will be relevant points in about twenty seconds.
My last house wasn't in the nicest of neighborhoods.
Not bad, but not really the kind of place you want to leave a door unlocked.
Luckily for me, I remembered to lock the door...but forgot that I'd burned something in the oven
earlier and left the kitchen window cracked.
At this point, I lived alone with my two cats, but my tom might as well be a guard dog.
About two in the morning, I heard my cat going apeshit in the living room, and I knew something
was up.
So I grabbed my bow off of the wall (40# recurve, I keep it strung, and now some archer's gonna
yell at me for it) and knocked an arrow.
Walked into the living room quietly, flipped on the light, and behold...a young man half-in,
half-out of my kitchen window, straddling it like a horse.
It's not an easy window to climb through, the sill is about at eye-level.
Drew back to my anchor, lined up my shot, and said "Wrong house, motherfucker!"
He stared at me completely dumbfounded/terrified for a moment.
Considering that he'd just been caught in the act of breaking into a house by a 62"
bow wielding woman wearing nothing but socks, I think he handled himself quite well actually.
He promptly rolled out of my window and beat feet.
Drew down, rehung my bow, got dressed, and called the police.
I don't think they believed me, and the guy was never found-
And finally at number 1 we have The Run Around[j].
Our final story comes from Reddit user Cacec 04 who said -My mom was outside mowing in
the middle of the day and I heard the phone ring.
I ran downstairs to try to answer it, missed it, but then saw a tall man stand up in the
backroom out of the corner of my eye.
I was a little kid so don't ask me what I was thinking, but I went to guide him to that
front door to get out of our house.
My mom walks in from that back door, the guy runs up the stairs, and she immediately can
tell from the look on my face that someone is inside.
She grabbed a butcher knife and began chasing him around the house (the guy must have been
high).
He was so scared he was begging her not to hurt him.
He ended up getting away but not before my mom cut him because she was trying to hold
onto him until the police arrived-
Can you imagine being a parent and just catching a glimpse of someone running upstairs after
they were talking to your kid?
That would give you nightmares for years.
Do you guys have any crazy home intruder stories?
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