Still not 100% sure I wasn’t grabbed.

This happened to me about a year ago and I’m still on edge about it. <br><br>It was early December and I was working on Christmas ornaments for my friends and I. I’m a big fan of true crime, so I was listening to a crime junkie podcast while I was crafting, and I had the tv on, but I wasn’t paying attention to it. <br><br>I live in a small house off campus, with just a basement and one floor. My bedroom and the attic are well insulated, so everything echoes really nice. I was in my bedroom when I heard my tv in the living room go silent. <br><br>The channel changed. I was distracted, but I heard a guy’s voice and thought maybe my show came back on, but then I heard a kid’s voice. This was an episode of Dr. Phil, a Christmas episode with a guy who had been accused of being a pedophile. <br><br>Then I heard the tv turn off, and I could hear someone in my kitchen, followed by the sound of my back door opening. I ran from my bedroom to the back door, and by the time I got there, I saw a guy I had never seen before running up the hill in my backyard. <br><br>I can’t tell you what he looked like, because I was so in shock, but I do know he was wearing a dark hoodie. <br><br>I called my best friend and told him what had happened. He came right away. I didn’t call the police but I should have, and that still bothers me. <br><br>The only thing that’s weird is that my door locks every time it shuts, so the only possibility is that the guy left my door unlocked when he left or I left the door unlocked when I came home. I’m sure I locked it, but I obviously can’t be 100% sure. <br><br>Either way, I put a lock on my bedroom door so I can sleep at night. <br><br>So, weirdo, who I still haven’t filed a missing person report on, let’s not meet.