A Reddit user said the whole thing started just after midnight when he and his wife were jolted awake by a loud thud at their house. He wrote that he grabbed his gun immediately and swept the house, trying to figure out what had made the noise, but at first he did not find anything inside. When he got back to the bedroom, his wife was already checking the live feed from their outside cameras. That was when she saw someone on the porch moving one of the cameras. She called 911, stayed in the bedroom, and he headed back toward the front of the house to make sure the person did not get in.
According to the post, when he got near the front porch, he saw a man just outside the window. He described him as about 6 feet tall and wrote that the man was peering in, apparently trying to see whether anyone was in sight so he could jump in. That was the moment he drew on him. He said the man ran off as soon as he did. Police got there shortly afterward, swept the property, and even brought in a K9, but they did not find the suspect in the surrounding neighborhood.
What made the whole thing feel even worse was that it was not the first time. The poster said it was the second time the same man had tried getting into the house, and both attempts had been caught on camera. He added that the two incidents happened within 30 days of each other. That detail clearly changed how he was thinking about it. He wrote that police were worried the family was being targeted, and he said he had the same gut feeling. By then, the fear was not only about one break-in attempt. It was about the idea that the same person had come back again after already trying once before.
He said the whole ordeal left him gutted. In the post, he wrote that he had always believed he would rather deal with the aftermath of protecting himself than live with failing to protect someone he loved, but that the reality of it still hit much harder than he expected. He said he was especially worried about protecting his wife and admitted that he no longer felt safe where they were living. He was already planning to see a therapist and move as soon as possible, but in the meantime he said he was struggling with how shaken the whole thing had left him.
Later in the thread, he said they had already started changing things around the house the very next day. He wrote that they installed bolt locks on the storm doors, added alarms to the windows, and put up more cameras. He also said the next step was adding alarms to the storm doors as well. From the way he told it, the break-in attempt did not end when the intruder ran. It carried over into everything that came after — how they slept, how safe the house felt, and how much they now felt they had to harden the place just to get through the night.
The story he told was simple but chilling. He and his wife woke up just after midnight to a thud, his wife spotted someone on the porch moving the camera, and when he went back toward the front of the house, he found the man outside the window looking in. He drew, the man ran, police searched and found nothing, and then the couple were left facing the fact that it was the second attempt by the same man in about a month.
What do you think — if the same man tried to get into your house twice in 30 days and was caught on camera both times, would you still try to stay there and harden the house, or would you already be planning to move?
Original Reddit post: Attempted home invasion last night. What now?
