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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Impossible_Dig_1860 on 2026-03-06 16:06:48+00:00.
This actually happened years ago but I randomly remembered it today. I was around 12 and my parents went out to visit relatives, so I stayed home alone for the evening. It wasn’t a big deal because I had done that before. I was just in my room on my laptop with headphones on playing some game.
After a while I heard a knock somewhere in the house. It wasn’t loud, just a couple taps, so I thought maybe I imagined it or it was just normal house noises. A few minutes later it happened again, three slow knocks. That’s when I got up and went to check the front window that looks out to the yard. The porch light was on but there was nobody there and the gate was still closed. I stood there for maybe 20 seconds looking outside and then just went back to my room thinking it was nothing.
Maybe a minute later I heard knocking again but this time it sounded way closer. That’s when it kinda clicked in my head that it wasn’t the front door at all. It was my bedroom window. Just three quiet taps on the glass right behind me. I remember freezing for a second because the curtains were closed and I couldn’t see outside, and I really didn’t want to open them either. I just stood there staring at the curtain. After a few seconds I heard someone walking on the gravel outside the house like they were leaving.
I didn’t check the window and I didn’t go outside. I just turned the light off and sat in my room until my parents came back later. The next morning I looked outside and there were muddy shoe prints right under my window.
Still no idea who that was.
TL;DR I thought someone was knocking on the front door while I was home alone as a kid but it turned out someone was actually tapping on my bedroom window instead.