A collection of 15 frightening true stories from Reddit users, including:
1. A babysitter who called the police on a potential intruder, only to have a SWAT team find a wanted rapist.
2. A father who discovered his daughter was not in her bed, despite seeing her enter the kitchen.
3. A family who found out a man had been living under their mobile home for months.
4. A woman who found a child's drawing of her family in a strange neighborhood, and later heard a child's voice shouting at her.
5. A man who was visited by a shadowy figure that would move objects and make noise.
6. A woman who discovered someone had been living in her basement.
7. A family who found a hidden room in their home with a single chair and strange markings.
8. A woman who received hundreds of love letters and found used condoms under her bed.
9. A man who saw a gray creature with giant red eyes in his backyard.
10. A man who discovered a mysterious floor in his office building that was not on the elevator buttons.
11. A person who heard a voice on an old TV antenna saying "we are already dead."
12. A family who was haunted by the ghost of a young girl.
13. A woman who was asked to take a photo of a couple, but the woman in the photo walked off a bridge and fell to her death.
14. A nightshift worker who discovered a man had been breaking into his business and had been using his bike.
15. A family who discovered a hidden room in their home that had been sealed off for unknown reasons.
These stories range from paranormal encounters to real-life crimes, and are sure to send chills down the listener's spine.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. A babysitter sent the kids to bed at 9:00 p.m. and went to the basement, where she heard rustling and pans falling over.
2. The babysitter phoned the police, and an entire SWAT team arrived to search the basement.
3. The SWAT team found a man in the basement who was wanted for multiple cases of rape in the area.
4. A Reddit user's father was going through a divorce and stayed with his mother, who claimed the house was haunted by a shadow of a girl.
5. The Reddit user's daughter would sometimes stay with her mother, but one night, her father saw her sneaking into the kitchen, even though she was supposed to be at her mother's house.
6. A father heard his four-year-old son calling for him, but when he went to check, the son was asleep and didn't remember calling out.
7. A Reddit user found a strange TV channel with a rhythmic crackling sound that suddenly stopped and was replaced by a whispering voice that said "it doesn't work, we are already dead."
8. A woman appeared to a couple in Ithaca, offered to take a photo, and then walked off a bridge without hesitation.
9. A Reddit user's father was working the night shift when a rock shattered the glass at his business, and he later discovered that someone had broken into his car.
10. An elevator in a cafe in Taiwan stopped on a mysterious, numberless floor, where a man found a pitch-black room with random pieces of furniture and a figure in a white gown approaching him.
11. A Reddit user's family found a child's drawing under the stairs with a caption "our new home," and later heard strange noises and a child's voice shouting "rah."
12. A woman was sleeping in her house with her baby son when an intruder shouted "are you in here?" and she phoned the police, who discovered that someone had been living in the basement.
13. A Reddit user saw a shadowy figure that seemed to follow him, first appearing as hot static in the room, followed by a smell of cat piss, and finally a black shape in the corner of his bedroom.
14. A woman lived with her grandmother and aunt, who heard strange noises coming from inside the walls at night, and discovered a tiny child-sized door behind a piece of plywood.
15. A Reddit user's friend found hundreds of love letters addressed to her, each ending with the words "if you don't believe me, just look under your bed," and discovered hundreds of used condoms under her bed.
16. A man was waiting for his wife when a motion sensor light lit up, and he saw a gray creature squatting on the ground, rocking back and forth.
17. A man's sister would sleep in his parents' bed, but one night, his father saw a girl standing next to his mother, staring down at her, who looked similar to his sister but was not her.
Note: Some of these facts are based on unverifiable claims from Reddit users, so their accuracy cannot be guaranteed.