Mr. Nightmare

Dog Sitting Horror Story

"There was this one weekend that my aunt, uncle and cousins went away upstate and instead of taking their dog with them or to a kennel they asked me to watch her for the weekend at their house. I was excited to do so because not only would they pay me but they're loaded and their house is full of fun stuff to do. They have a Havanese which is a tiny dog, her name is Luna. I didn't mind watching Luna because she was such a calm, low maintenance dog. I just fed her twice a day and let her out back a couple times a day. She always followed me whatever room I was in, so if I was in the giant living room watching tv, she'd be laying on the floor in the center of the room, if I went downstairs to the basement to play video games she followed and would lay down their. While playing video games in the basement Luna suddenly lifted her head from the ground and stared in the direction of the boiler room. I had a dog before and I knew this was something dogs did to any slight sound but it was still enough of a reason for me to pause the game and feel a little unsettled. I looked in the direction of the boiler room as well, it was silent and dark in their and there was no chance of me going in their, so I unpaused the game and continued playing. I'll be a bit uncomfortable now, I guess my childish fears were getting the better of me. She put her head back down for a minute but then again lifted it up and I looked towards the boiler room. Deep down I knew it was probably nothing but I was still a bit too freaked out to continue playing video games comfortably, so I turned everything off and ran up the stairs shutting the door once Luna came hopping up. They also had another big gaming room on the main floor, it was kind of disconnected from the rest of the house and that you had to go through a narrow hallway to get there. Luna plopped herself down infront of my feet in this little game room. I played more video games for a while until it got late, then I went down the hall to the room i'd be sleeping in, a guest bedroom that was nicer than my bedroom back at home. I threw on a pair of sweatpants and a white undershirt as pajamas and jumped under the covers. Not going to sleep without a little tv first, Luna was obviously by the bedside, she was really growing on me, how affectionate, yet calm she was. I eventually turned off the tv and went to sleep. My sleep was disturbed by a growling sound, I turned on the bedside lamp and saw Luna laying still on the floor head down yet growling at something. I said her name a few times but she didn't look at me, then she lifted her head finally to look at the closet door. Her growling grew more intense and she stood up now, still looking at the closet. She didn't bark though, infact I never heard her bark once. I looked at the closet, a sliding wooden door closet, it was open about three inches from the left side, of course I couldn't really see anything from the inside. I got up from the bed really sneaky like and tip toed closer to the closet. I don't know what I was planning on doing really, I guess I just wanted to look through the crack or see if I could hear something. When I got about five feet away from the closet door, something that I couldn't see from my bed came into view through the crack of the door, an eye.

I couldn't see any face or anything, it was too dark but I knew what I was looking at in the closet was a person's eye, perfectly tucked between the wall and the edge of the door, looking into the room or now at me. I screamed but it didn't do much good since I was alone. I took Luna and ran for the front door grabbing the emergency cell phone on the counter to call 911 during my run away from the house. It was one in the morning so I didn't bother calling my aunt and uncle. The cops did a thurough sweep and found someone in the pantry closet downstairs. I never saw him though because another officer was pre-occupying me with conversation to calm me down. I was just releaved to go back inside knowing I was the only one in the house, besides Luna of course, who might just have saved my life that night. "

Alex G -