30 Hair Raising Stories About What Can Happen When You’re Left All Alone

If you know where to look, you can find some truly terrifying stories on Reddit. Here are a few of the creepiest ones that prove why it’s dangerous to be alone. You might want to read them with a friend.

1. I spoke to my great grandmother’s ghost

I spoke to the ghost of my great grandmother on the telephone. I didn’t recognize her voice because she had died over sixty years before I was born, but a very elderly sounding lady called and calmly told me to “tell Essie it is time to come home now.” I kept telling her she had the wrong number, but she was adamant that I pass along the message. Two hours later my grandmother’s assisted living home called and told us that my grandmother (Esther) had passed away in her sleep. Her mother had died when she was 16, and Essie was my grandmother’s childhood nickname. This was 25 years ago and thinking about it still makes the hair on my neck stand on end.

2. My house was robbed while I was in it

When I was younger (about 7), I was home alone and I heard the door open. My parents had gone out to celebrate a birthday with a few friends and I wasn’t allowed to go. My older sisters were at a sleepover.

I assumed it was my parents getting home and I ran to the door but nobody was in the house after a thorough search. I then heard the back door to the house open and a man yell, “Hurry, get the hell out!”

I really didn’t understand what was going on at the moment so I just closed the doors and locked them. After my parents got home my mom and dad accused me of taking their money they had stashed away and asking me what I did with a few different things.

After I told them what happened they didn’t believe me until they saw that the hallway downstairs leading to our backdoor had muddy boot prints. They called the cops and freaked out.

3. A stranger masturbated in front of me

When I was about 10-11 I was walking home from a local store that was across the street from my apartment complex after buying milk. I walked by an older gentleman, maybe late 60’s. After I passed him he said, “Excuse me, miss?” I turned around and he was furiously masturbating in the open saying “You like that? YOU LIKE THAT?!”

I ran faster than I ever have in my life. Never told anyone. Never saw him again.

4. A man broke into my hotel room

Traveled for work. Got stuck in Memphis overnight. Found a hotel with a shuttle, so I didn’t have to rent a car.

Check in, have dinner, go to bed.

Now… I had been separated from my luggage, so I only have the clothes I’m wearing. Thought, I’ll just sleep naked, shower in the morning, and put those clothes back on.

Around midnight, I wake up and see the curtains moving in, then a leg come down into my room, then the other. This dude comes into my room and starts looking around.

I throw off the covers, flick on the lights and start screaming.

I guess a naked screaming white dude was enough to make this guy haul ass.

Called the front desk, hey, could you do something about the creepy guy? Nope, we’re full, but we’ll put security on your side of the building. A dude on a golf cart parks outside my room.

I go back to sleep, then get up and dress in yesterday’s clothes.

5. I played hide and seek with a phantom

One time when I was about 12, my best friend at the time and I were having a sleepover at her house.

As a visual, the house was pretty old and was filled with tons of antiques and old furniture (she lived at her grandmother’s house). The basement was one of those ones where you wouldn’t dare go down into alone because it just felt spooky.

Because we were spooked by the basement, we decided it would be fun to sleep in a very long hallway on the third floor (on opposite sides of the hall for some reason) the whole night before bed we were playing a game where we were spies so we would hide in the closets and sneak up on her mom and grandma.

I was often homesick at sleepovers as a kid and when it was bedtime I just read my book by a nightlight on my end of the hall. Then, right across from me, I see my friend get up and run towards me. Innocent me says, “Are we playing spies again?” No response. So I just giggle and I’m excited to play again, so I follow the figure into a bedroom closet and close the door.

I’m trying to communicate, but she’s not answering. I look over to where she is supposed to be beside me but no one is there. I decide to leave the closet because I couldn’t fathom what was happening. I walk across the long hall and saw that she was fast asleep this whole time.

I could never sleep there again and I’m still really spooked by the fact I ran into a closet with a mysterious figure.

6. I heard my dead grandmother’s cough

I was raised by my grandmother and when she passed I continued to live in her house for a time until my family sold it on, one morning I was tidying and heard a creaking in her room (I never went in there once she passed), I just assumed it was in my head. Then following that I heard a coughing noise and it sounded exactly like my grans, she had a cough I could recognize, I guess from being around her so much? Anyway, that really freaked me out.