I was 5 or 6 years old when it happened, I was at grandma's and it was very late, she had allowed me to sleep in my aunt's room for the night. The house isn't very big but it has a weird design with a hallway that just feels wrong, it starts in the kitchen, turns right then goes down (where there's a random bathroom only my grandma uses), then turns right again and ends in the room I was in, so unless you know the house you wouldn't even think there would be a third bedroom there, this is important for the story, sorta.
I don't know what time it was, but I woke up thinking I heard something, I remember sitting up and hearing noises coming from the bathroom, thinking it was just my grandma I laid back down for a few minutes before I heard something that sounded like a man clearing his throat but trying not to make noise. The worst decision of my life came when I decided to leave the room to look for my grandma and saw this man's shadow walking back up the hallway going towards the kitchen, back into the room I went and hid under the bed before I heard my grandma's dog barking and a lot of yelling. She had woken up to the man trying to take the TV from INSIDE HER BEDROOM and took the chains off the dog. Toddy was a very vicious dog and only sweet around kids, she told me he completely destroyed this man's leg.
But dude, oh dude, I'll never forget the chills creeping up my spine when I saw his shadow so close to me, and whenever I remember this incident I think of what could have happened to me if I weren't sleeping in that weirdly placed bedroom that night.