Living alone can be downright terrifying sometimes.
Every time I’m laying in bed at 9 PM on a Tuesday and I hear the creak of floorboards in my hallway, I’m 100% convinced that the ghost of a sickly Victorian child is back to haunt his final resting place and strangle me to death with my own Nike AirForce One shoelaces, before burying my lifeless corpse in my front yard.
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Maybe I’m being a little dramatic, but have you seen a horror movie in the last 20 years?
The early-20-something woman living on her own always gets killed by the murderer demon ghost thing. These are just facts.
You could be “rational” and ignore the warning signs you get when you think something’s up in your home, or you could survive .
One young woman is pretty confidant that something strange is going on in her house.
“I have reasonable suspicion that someone is squatting in my attic or accessing it on a regular basis,” she writes.
She clarified that she lives in a pretty safe area, but that the house was empty for four months before she moved in.
“I’ve heard whats sounded like footsteps at first more than a handful of times.”
When she first moved in, she assumed that the footsteps were just “new house sounds.”
However, she’s now lived there for a month in a half and she continues to hear bumps, steps, and creaks coming from the attic.
Her sister and boyfriend checked it out, and came across a shocking discovery.
There was a tent set up and it looked as though someone had been living in it.
The girl immediately called the cops, but when they arrived, they didn’t take her seriously.
She went up to the attic to check for herself, and found a deck of playing cards in the tent.
The police took down her name and left, but gave her no advice as to how she was supposed to protect herself if the stranger returned.
She nailed all entrances to her attic shut and changed the locks on every door in her home.
“Do I hire someone to check the house? Should I not stay here alone?”
I can tell that the police thought that the girl was overreacting, but to be fair, there is literally a random tent set up in her attic.
I would be equally concerned about the prospect of a random stranger living in my home.
Oddly, the Internet took her pretty seriously.
One Redditer provided the woman with a full list of options to proceed with, including getting a dog, installing a camera system, changing locks, and not staying in the house alone.
A whole wack of comments were removed that had previously tried to convince the woman to murder the stranger.
More than half of the comments on the post were removed by Reddit for “advice that is considered amoral or illegal”, including suggestions to hide in the attic until the stranger comes back and attack him.
I don’t think that’s quite the advice she was looking for.
If all else fails, moving is an option.
You should never feel unsafe in your own home, but moving to a more protected area might be for the best.
I wish this woman the best of luck with her house hunting .
