8. An attempted break-in.
After my wife had gone to sleep late one evening, I was watching a movie in the living room. I had turned most of the lights off, closed the curtains and the TV sound was turned down so nobody would wake up.
We had some break-ins in the neighborhood, so when I heard someone at the front door, I freaked out a little. When I went to look, nobody was there.
I went back into my seat and almost nodded off when I heard the door handle on the garden door move only a meter away from my chair. I walked to the window next to the door to peek out the window and saw three guys at the door, ski masks on and one of them had a crowbar in his hand. As soon as they saw me, they bolted out the garden, over the fence.I slept very lightly that night, with a baseball bat and phone by the bed.
9. Ex-girlfriend breaks in.
Real life issue, totally non-supernatural. Long before I met my wife, I started dating this girl who was fun at first and then the crazy came out. I eventually broke it off. She kept calling and making up pretenses that we should get together.
One night it was, “I have some pictures I want to give you that were taken at my birthday.” I told her I didn’t want to see her and go to bed. I wake up in the middle of the night, sensing a presence in my room. I roll over to this dark figure looming over my bed and I start to freak. She’s suddenly trying to comfort me, telling me she just stopped over to bring me the pictures. My terror turns to rage and I tell her to GTFO. I follow her down and usher her out the door.
I lived in the ghetto at the time, actually still do, just different ghetto, and always locked the doors. I have no idea how she got in, but fortunately never spoke to her again to ask how.
10. Creepy crawling.
Several months ago my wife and I were sitting up watching some TV. After our kids had gone to bed. We heard our 4-year-old son’s bedroom door open and then the sound of him rapidly crawling down the hallway toward the living room. We figured he was trying to sneak up on us and doing poorly. My wife mouths “watch this” and gets up off the couch. She moves toward the hallway and pounces into the entrance to startle our son only to stand up looking confused. She looks at me and says there’s nobody there. We go into our son’s room and he’s knocked out. So of course we check on our daughters and they’re asleep too.
