I 100% believe that if I didn't have a night light when I was a child, I would've been kidnapped or worse.

This was when I was about 11 years old in the 80s. We moved into a new house that had a different floor plan than our other houses. I always kept a night light in my bedroom, but in this new place, I found I had to keep a night light in the hallway. I could see it flickering through my open bedroom door. The only way I could fall asleep is knowing that I could always see the light.<br><br>One night I woke up, and the light was off. It was pitch black. I could see the outlines of my furniture and the open door, but nothing else. I tried to call out to my parents, who were just down the hall. Too scared to get out of bed and walk down the hall, I kept calling for them. Finally, a man came into my room and turned on my bedroom light. He said he was my dad. I thought this was odd, because my dad always walked into the room saying "knock knock" even if I was calling him. Before I could ask what was up, he turned and left the room. I tried to go back to sleep but couldn't. The next day, I approached my parents with what happened. They said it wasn't them that came into my room. We thought nothing of it until the next day, when a child in our neighborhood went missing.<br><br>A man was going house-to-house, seeing which rooms children slept in and if their bedroom doors were open.  He was lurking until around 3 AM, then entering houses and taking a kid from the room with an open door and enough light that he could see inside. The kidnapped child was taken from her open bedroom door with a night light. They never found her, and they never caught the kidnapper.