What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you?

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Now you can choose to believe in this one or not because it has no 'proof' in the traditional sense and would be considered a paranormal experience, but it is by far the scariest thing that's ever happened to me.

When I was around high school age (~13 ish) my mom decided I was old enough to start staying home alone. I had rules of course, like don't ever answer the front door and don't use the oven/stove and she had all the emergency numbers on the fridge and such.

This carried over to when we went to visit my grandmother, as she also held the same belief. My grandmother lives in the country side where her nearest neighbors are 2+ miles out and it's easily over 10 miles into the nearest town. It's a big farm house too that's all just surrounded by woods.

So one day when I was 13-14 or so my mom and grandma were going into town to visit my great-aunt who I was never particularly fond of and I asked if I could stay home. They said sure, and my grandmother instructed me on how to close up the house for the night so I could do that when it started getting dark; close the curtains, shut off the pocket doors to the den, ect.

I learned and sent them on their way, and when it started getting dark I followed my grandmother's instructions. While I was closing the curtains in the main area I thought I heard my name being called from the breezeway in front of the kitchen so I went there to look out the big window over the sink but didn't see anyone. Said window looks into the breezeway that also has a window that looks out to the driveway and my mom's car wasn't there so they weren't home yet. I thought nothing of it and went back to closing up and heard my name called from the entrance room - the breezeway leads into this room and that room leads into the kitchen which is then an open floor plan to the main of the house. I opened the door but no one was in the room and again, no sign of a car in the driveway.

Finally I was closing the pocket doors to the den and heard my name called again. I was reaching for the light switch when I saw a giant dark mass in one far back corner and it stared at me with these bright red eyes I will never forget and then spoke my name again. I slammed the pocket door, ran and grabbed my cell phone and then locked myself in the first floor bathroom and called my mom in a panic because I didn't know what else to do.

Mom scolded me for being over dramatic when I told her what I'd seen but as she repeated it back I heard my grandmother say something and then she took the phone from my mom and told me to stay in the bathroom with the lights on and that they were coming home. I sat in the tub so I didn't have to see the obvious signs of something moving outside the door, though I could still hear it every now and again. Then I heard a car pull in and my mom and grandma came home and grandma came into the bathroom to get me and told me to grab what I needed and we were spending the night elsewhere. I got my laptop and a change of clothes and we were out of that house as fast as we could go.

Now my mom still to this day thinks I was lying or hallucinating or something along those lines, but my grandma believes me. According to her the area up there is known to be 'haunted' by things that lurk in the fields and forests and they lure people in by calling their names and then do gods only knows what with them. She thinks one of these whatever they are got into the house and was intending to do the same to me, and apparently on the way to get me my grandmother had called the local priest and asked him to come out and bless the house while we were gone so as to be rid of it and also prevent another one from gaining entry.

All I know is what I saw and what I heard, and the fact that I had nightmares for months and my mom had a difficult time convincing me it was safe to go back to my grandmothers. I didn't until several months later at Thanksgiving when I knew the house would be full of people well into the evening and then my mom and grandmother weren't going anywhere, and after that point if they did and were going to be gone past sundown I sucked it up and went with them because I was not going to be alone in that house again after that.