re: Need to Kill Time: What's a story that you've heard that still gives you chills

I recently took my kids to where the Smiling Man video was made and thought about showing them later to freak them out.

The octagon house intruder story made me remember this one. I had a friend who lived in Tigerland about 20 years ago in one of those townhouses with 3-4 units per building. This was maybe a year or two after Derrick Todd Lee had been caught so it was still fresh in your mind. His was in the middle so he had a neighbor on each side. One day he came home late at night and the cops were at his neighbors unit where someone had broken in by busting open the front door. Not much missing but she didnt have a lot worth stealing anyway. He talks to the neighbor a bit after the cops leave and offers to let her stay over that night if she wants. He gives her the bed and he sleeps downstairs on the couch. The next morning she is acting weird around him and asks why he was watching her sleep. He has no idea what she means so she leaves and they don’t even speak for days. She told his girlfriend about it and she even asked him about it, obviously pissed. My buddy swears he never even went upstairs that night after she went to sleep but she said she could see him peaking in the door and called out to him but he closed the door and left.

About 2 days had passed at this point and he comes home from work one night and thought he saw a light on in his window, almost like a lamp or flashlight instead of the whole room lit up. Immediately he went upstairs and looked around but saw nothing. Next day, same thing only this time he notices candle wax on the carpet in his room which didn’t make any sense. So he starts checking under the beds and such and looking in closets but finds nothing. Later that night he goes outside on his porch and runs into the neighbor finally. They talk and she is over it but he assures her he never went in the room while she slept. He brings up the candle wax though and the light he saw and she freaks out. She saw the same thing in her room so he goes upstairs with her to check it out. It’s so weird but they can’t come up with anything. The next day he comes home to his apt robbed. They took a dvd player some movies, cds, and some small items he could tell, just leaving the front door open as they left. The cops come and he tells them about the candle wax and they immediately go to the attic to find a guy had been living up there, had cut holes in the firewall of each apt and could enter them all through the attic. He used candles to walk around in the dark to avoid flashlights or room lights I guess. The other neighbor on the other side of him hadn’t been home that week but they found out he had been in theirs too.

The first girl freaked out and moved. He ended up living there a few years I remember. But anytime after that if I heard about a break in I thought about the attic guy and wondered if it was him.