"Okay, there's this one story that I heard when I was little from my sister, here it goes: There was this girl who was home alone (I can't remember where her parents were) and while she was watching television she heard the phone ring. When she answered it the person on the other end said, "I'm on your street corner." Creeped out now, she immediately hung up the phone. After locking all the doors and making sure the windows were shut, she went back into the living room. Right before she sat down on the couch, the phone rang again. Hesistantly, she picked it up. "I'm in front of your house," came the voice from the other end. "What do you want?" she asked shakily to be replied with the dial tone. After a few minutes, the phone rang yet again and she answered it screaming, "What do you want?!" "I'm on your front porch." The girl freaked out and ran upstairs and locked herself in her room. Meanwhile, she was still listening into the phone. "I'm in your kitchen."...a few minutes later..."I'm walking up your stairs."..."I'm outside your room." Now, she could here the floorboards squeaking outside her door and her heart was beating out of her chest. The door slowly opened. Later that night, the girl's parents came home to find their daughter dead in her room, stabbed to death. They later learned that there had been an escaped lunatic on the run, from a prison just 5 miles from the house." - Kristen, VA

"This happened in my hometown like fifteen years ago. There was a young boy and his sister. One night their parents went out to run some late errands they had put off until the last minute. Before they left they told their children not to open the door under any circumstances. About an hour after they left, there heard a knock. The children who were now in their rooms asleep, were awoken at once. Finally the sister got up wondering who it could be. Her brother lay awake in his bed listening. When he heard nothing for a few minutes and his sister did not return, he got a little scared. He decided to go to his neighbors' house, who were very close friends of his parents. He got out of bed and headed for the neighbors house. When he got there they told him they were relieved he was there, because they had just heard on the news that a murderer had been spotted just a few blocks away not too long ago. In the morning, they discovered the sister's body, and a discarded knife on the brother's bed." - Rachel, IL

"This story literally made my hair stand on end…A young girl was left alone at home for the first time with only her dog to protect her. She saw on television a report that a dangerous lunatic had escaped from a nearby asylum. She immediately locked all the doors and went to bed. A dripping sound from the bathroom made it difficult to fall asleep, she reached down under her bed to make sure her dog was by her side, he replied by licking her hand enthusiastically. The next morning when she woke up and went to the bathroom room, she found her dog hanging from the shower nozzle, blood dripping from his torn throat, on the mirror written in blood were the words "People can lick, too!" - Shannon, WA

"This is why I never babysat as a kid! A young girl was babysitting some children in a large old house, the children were in bed and she was watching TV when the phone rang. All the voice on the other end did was laugh, she listened for a minute then hung up. A few minutes later the phone rang again and a scratchy, male voice said "have you checked on the children yet?" She asked who he was, but he just laughed and hung up. She was very scared and called the police. They told her there was really nothing they could do about prank calls, but they'd trace the call if it happened again. After she received yet another call the phone rang again. This time it was the police telling her to get out of the house. The calls were coming from the upstairs extension, where he'd already murdered the children." - Valerie, AZ