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The original was posted on /r/truescarystories by /u/Smolbeanartist on 2025-06-29 21:52:19+00:00.

(100% real.)

one night i went to the bathroom because i was about to head to sleep, everyone else was already asleep, (and my family confirmed that this morning,) but i heard someone open my door and step in my room. I didnt hear them leave. I was scared shitless, so i stood in my bathroom waiting to see if i maybe saw a face or something, or if i heard a gunshot, or any sign to call the police, but nothing. I was in my mom’s bathroom so i knew i had to run and wake her up. Then i heard a CHAIN. Like the rustling of a chain? And i fucking almost vomited right there and then, so i bolted out the door and ran and woke up my mom. I told her everything and she went PALE. We were both shaking, it was pitch black, silent. My mum went to go check the house, so i stood alone in her room. I picked up the first thing i saw for defense, a russian nesting doll, and gripped that thing ready to fling it at anyone who came near. Then i heard a footstep. Luckily my mom soon came back but i was paranoid, so i went in with my dad who assured me we were fine and that it was just the neighbourhood foxes barking or something, since we live next to a deep forest. (But i kept swearing that i heard a person, all my family denies it wasn’t them). The next morning i was alive, thank god, so i went to my room to make sure my stuff was still in there, and i almost shit myself. The plant pot on my windowsill, and majority of the other stuff that was on it, was spilled all over my bed, including the mud from inside the plant pot. My windows were open. I screamed for my parents, paranoid, crying. They said the wind knocked it down, but i explained my windows were only ajar, like not even really open, and they were now almost half open. (And broken, like someone had pryed them open) we called the cops, who said that they had already been dispatched to my neighbourhood this morning (HOLY SHIT.) and that we were LUCKY THAT THEY ARRIVED. They checked the house, and swabbed the windows that we think the intruder escaped from. sure enough, they had other dna on it that matched no one in our houses! So now im sitting here, home alone, with my dog, reminiscing this day, because what if they come back? and what if im in my room this time.