42 Times People Experienced Something Entirely Unsettling In The Comfort Of Their Own Homes

It was like 2am and I had to take my dog out to go to the bathroom. As I’m standing out in the yard, I notice there’s this really big dude walking down the sidewalk towards my house.

The big dude looks over toward me and screams “Hey! Come over here, right now.” He sounded really pissed and I definitely did not go over to him. I locked myself in the house and watched him from inside.

He was pacing back and forth on the sidewalk just staring at my house and looked really mad. As I’m watching him, two cars pull up to the curb and a bunch of people get out and join him to stare angrily at my house.

I’m very confused at this point because I don’t have any enemies and I wasn’t sure what all these people wanted with me.

The guy who originally scream at me starts walking toward my house and screams “I said come over here! Right now!

At that moment, my motion activated light on my porch went on and I could see a giant goofy looking dog sitting on my porch. The dog sprinted away when the light went on and the big dude went chasing him up the street. The people got back in the cars and chased after the dog too.

As it turns out it the big goofy dog was their family pet and it had escaped from their house. It saw me in the yard with my dog and was running towards me to play (I never even saw it until the light came on). The big dude was just yelling at his dog, not me. The people in the cars were his family members trying to help catch the dog.

I actually saw them walking down the street a few days later and introduced myself. Both the dog and man were very friendly. It was a happy ending for an initially creepy situation.

I was awoken in the middle of the night to something pulling on my comforter at the foot of my bed. I look down the foot of my bed and see this three or four foot shadow figure trying to climb on my bed. I panicked thinking I was about to get attacked. I flipped on the light to find my 15lbs dog trying to drag my 4 foot teddy bear onto my bed. It was terrifying in the moment, now I just find it hilarious.

I was in bed when I heard a rustle. Looked around. Saw nothing. Lay back down.

Heard a louder rustle. Looked around. Looked under the bed. Lay back down with my heart in my throat.

Something large landed on my face and chest…it was the stupid poster over my bed.

To this day I’m proud I didn’t soil myself.

I was 14, maybe 110 pounds soaking wet, and home alone.

A car pulled in to my apartment complex at night with a covered licence plate. Some guys got out with a crowbar and started trying to break into one of the buildings. So what do I do? I stand in our open front door holding a massive kitchen knife trying to be all creepy. It actually worked. They saw me, freaked out, and flew out of there.

Stupidest thing I have ever done.

One time, a guy stole my boyfriends keys to my house - let himself in while I was asleep - took off his clothes.

I literally woke up to the guy undressed in my bed. Yeah it was terrifying.

I was about 10 or 11 years old. We had woods behind our house. My parents were out one night, and I heard a shriek from the woods. My blood ran cold and I called my parents immediately. While on the phone, the terrifying scream happened again from the woods, and my mom could actually hear it from the phone.

Later we figured out it was a fox.

What does the fox say? Apparently foxes scream like someone getting cut open.

As I'm laying on the couch watching TV late at night, I hear a tapping on glass. I brush it off, only to have it happen again about a minute or so later. I turn to look out our sliding glass back door, which had always given me the creeps with its no blinds or lighting in the back yard, to see of all things someone standing outside wearing a scream costume. My mind started racing as to who it might be, perhaps one of my sister's friends? I wasn't about to go outside and find out! They slinked away into darkness before I found my nerve. Turns out my 70 yo grandma decided to scare me lol.

Once was watching arachnophobia as a 13 year old on Halloween. Went to go to bed, got a little nervous because of the movie, decided to just shake out my bedspread. Found a solid 3 inch wolf spider sitting like an Andes mint on my pillow. Slept in the bathtub that night. Idk why that felt safe but it did.

A guy popped his head in my bedroom door, looked at me and quickly left when he saw me. It was dark so assumed it was one of my housemates and I was more concerned that they didn't knock before entering until I got up and realized the house was empty and nobody was home.

This new years actually. I live on my own and it's just me and my dog. I was gaming on my pc and I got up to make dinner.

Few minutes in when I was making some brats I heard two quick loud cracks from my gaming room followed by a louder one after a couple more seconds. Thinking my dog got onto my desk I rushed to the room and saw that my window that I sit in front of at my desk now has three bullet holes through it.

My heart sank as I saw two bullets lodged in my wall and one stuck in my desk chair where I was just sitting.

If I didn't have a craving for bratwurst I would have had a stray happy new years party bullet through my heart.

I was in bed, almost asleep, when I heard someone knocking on my bedroom window. At the time my bedroom was on the second floor, and there was an overhang beneath the window.

I was now wide awake and terrified that someone was watching me. So, I did the most logical thing: I looked at the window.

And there was my cat, sitting on the window ledge, scratching herself. Her little paw kept hitting the window and made the knocking sound.

A few years ago I went to sleep one Sunday evening and lost 2 full days. I woke up in a cold sweat, screaming for my fiancé, but he wasn’t there. I thought it was still Sunday night. It was actually late Tuesday evening or very early Wednesday morning. I called my fiancé on mobile frantic asking where he was and he said he had left for his work trip to Boston. He left around 5 am Monday morning. I must have gotten up to use the bathroom and take care of the animals because I hadn’t soiled myself and the dogs hadn’t used the bathroom in the house either. But I have zero recollection of those missed days. I was terrified to go back to sleep while I was home alone for that week and it’s never happened again.

A random man knocking on my parent’s front door repeatedly and asking me by name to open it. This was before Ring doorbells were really a thing so I actually had to go to the door to see who it was. I looked through the peephole and saw a man that I didn’t know standing right in front of the door, looking right into the peephole. I remember he had some gray hair but was balding and was wearing a brown flannel. He kept asking for me and banging on the door. Being a scared kid, I ran away from the door and called my mom crying. By the time my parents got home the guy was gone. It’s been more than a few years since it happened and my parents just recently told me that it was probably my great-uncle (that I’ve never met) looking for someone to borrow money from.

When I was about 11 or 12, I was home alone when a really creepy-sounding dude called my house and asked where my dad was. Like an idiot I told him he wasn’t home. The guy’s response was to started laughing and then tell someone else, “He says he’s not home…” the other dude in the background started creepily laughing as well and then the line went silent.

I ended up grabbing two hockey sticks and waiting by the front door until my parents returned a couple hours later. Terrifying and weird.

Someone started trying to force the door of my small garage apartment open, while I was laying in bed inches from the door, at around 2am.

This happened about two years ago.
I came home from work and walked into the kitchen. I noticed black dots in the dining room window and drapes.
I walked over to check it out and saw 30 or so flies on the window and drapes.
They weren't flying around or moving much at all. The window was open about an inch or so, but no tears in the screen or any other gap they could have gotten in through. The windows in the rest of the house were all closed too.
No flies in the other rooms of the house, just on the window. I had taken the trash out that morning, so they didn't come from there.
It reminded me of The Amityville Horror.

I blasted them all with bug spray and that was that. Hasn't happened since.

So I lived in an apartment by myself. And every once in a while I'd be about to fall asleep and I'd feel a weight next to me as if someone else got into the bed (it was a queen size bed). So at the time I was dating a woman who would sleep over from time to time but I never mentioned this to her. So one night while she was over I had to leave due to a family emergency. I told her it's okay if she sleeps at mine alone if she would like and that I would be back the next day. I get home that morning and she tells me "the weirdest thing happened last night, as I was falling asleep I thought you had come home and gotten into bed with me bc I definitely felt someone get into bed on the other side, but when I opened my eyes you weren't here". Freaked me out.

My brother and I were home from school because we were sick. We had a craftroom in the mostly unfinished basement and we were down there playing with miniatures. Around noon we heard, VERY CLEARLY, the front door unlock, open, close, and someone walk in shoes across the foyer tile to the kitchen and turn on the sink. They then turned off the sink and went up the stairs to the second floor. I figured it was my step dad and called my mum to let her know he came home for lunch.

She had just got off the phone with my step dad and he was in his office at work. She called him back and he came ripping home while we hid in the basement. Although we never heard the person come back down the stairs we didn't find anyone in the house.

I was a 21 year old female and staying alone at my family's mountain cabin. It was in the middle of the week and the other cabins in the area were empty. Around midnight I saw headlights from a car coming up the driveway. I wasn't expecting anyone, so I ran and hid. I went upstairs to look through a window very carefully from a dark room so I would be very difficult to spot. I saw three strange men standing outside. They were banging on the door. I was absolutely terrified! Luckily they didn't try to break in, but I did not feel safe and could not sleep that night.

It later turned out that they were Polish carpenters that were coming to work on the cabin as they had done several times before. My dad forgot to tell me that they would be coming and forgot to tell them that I was there. They had an agreement to stay in the cabin while working on it, but instead they had to spend the first night in their car.

My parents were out and left us kids at home (13m, 11f, 9m and 6f) and some cabbie pulled into the driveway. We figured he was turning around bc people did it all the time but he got out and started trying all the doors, even went around back and tried the sliding glass door....

we hid in one of the bedrooms and called our parents and they called the cab company and they said no one had been dispatched there (freaky) but if they had it was normal to try and get in the house?????

The cab company ended up shutting down a few years later but that was pretty messed up 🤷🏽😓.