`FindingAlaska` [Thread]

My friend and I were going to a party a few hours out of town, so we
decided to stay at her family's holiday house about an hour south of the
party (now three hours from home). We arrived around mid afternoon, and
it was winter in a holiday town, so the area was completely empty - no
other cars on the street.

When we left for the party I spent a moment deciding whether to pull the
gate all the way closed. I'd had some trouble opening it earlier when we
arrived, and if we were getting home late at night I didn't want to be
stuck outside. I decided to shut it for security.

Party was great, we got back to the house around 12:30, and the gate was
open. I immediately felt on edge because not only did I know I'd locked
it, but I knee it couldn't just blow open in the wind, but I didn't want
to make a big deal so I was vague when my friend asked if I'd shut it.
We went inside, and decided to make a snack. I was wandering through the
house when suddenly my friend raced from the kitchen into the hallway
and virtually tackled me to the ground; she was convinced she'd heard
someone walking around outside. We tried to calm ourselves down, but we
had no cell reception and there was no one else around. Over the next
half hour or so, as we sat in the hallway paralysed with fear, we heard
footsteps outside, and the back door being jimmied.

We decided we had to leave, so we gathered everything up and got ready
to make a break for the car. Just as we were at the front door ready to
leave, there was a huge bang in the back yard, and suddenly what sounded
like hundreds of birds started screaming. We legged it to the car, ended
up starting it with all our stuff still on our laps, we hadn't bothered
to even put it in the backseat. As we reversed out the driveway we saw
somebody running up the side of the house towards us.

Sped the entire way home and even once we got back to my place, didn't
sleep at all that night.

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