Short Scary Stories

Seekers of Nevada

This happened to me when I was 14 years old. I'm 18 today and this was the scariest night of my life. 

It was a cool summer night and my Aunt invited my sisters. my cousin and I to go swimming at someone's pool she was house sitting for. We agreed to go and walked to the house. This house was located at the far end of North Nevada. 

We arrived at the home and it felt like we had been there before. It just felt really strange. My cousin, sisters and I were swimming and I started getting this funny feeling that someone was watching us. "Hey guys," I said. "Lets go inside, I feel as if someones watching us." 
"Yeah me too." My cousin said. 
We went inside and started to get dressed and we sat down on a couch. 

My aunt started reading to us and then we started hearing footsteps on the roof. "Its just their cat." My sister said. Then the cat walked into the living room and jumped on my lap. "It must be a dog." She said. 
"Dogs can't climb up on roofs." I said. 

We continued reading and the thumps of the footsteps on the roof started again. My aunt got up to lock all the doors and close the blinds. While she was doing that, I looked out this window that was opposite from me and I saw somebody peeping his head up and looking at us. He knew I saw him and he started lowering his head. I remember his hair, it was brown and on top there was blonde streaks. 

I started to cry pointing at the window as I was too startled to say anything. Then I said, "There's someone out there, I just saw somebody." I started to cry even harder, shaking like there was nothing else I could do. I felt like I was frozen. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't move. We were about to actually leave, and my cousin had to help me up, because I was stricken with fear. My aunt opened the door and we looked out the screen door. The wind was blowing, and it actually felt like a halloween night. 

We were about to leave, and I got a really bad feeling. "Maybe we should stay." I said. We all agreed and went back into the living room. We all sat down, just trying to calm ourselves down. Then there was a huge BANG! on the window. So we all ran into this guest bedroom and shut and locked the door. We sat down on this couch that was in the bedroom and we started shaking and crying.

My aunt called the police. While we were waiting for them, we heard two men talking. One was walking around the house and one was inside. The doorknob to the bedroom we were in started jiggling. 


Now when we heard police sirens, the jiggling stopped. Next we saw the police lights and we left the bedroom grabbing our stuff and we walked outside of the house. The police went inside and searched the house. They didn't find anything or anyone. 

My Mom came to pick us up. We told her what happened and she could hardly believe us, or our aunt. We left the house and drove back home. 

The next morning I turned on the news and it reported that somebody was murdered in the neighborhood we were swimming at. To this day, whenever I think about what happened, I get shivers and I'm just glad that I followed my senses.