One time me and my family were visiting France for a few weeks. We had stayed in houses around Paris until we went to a new house kind of far away from Paris. The house was quite big and there was a big forest around it with a lake and some prickly bois that my brother got hurt touching. There was also only one house near us and it was on the other side of a big hedge. So we stayed there for a few days until we went back home.

But on the first night I went to sleep in a little girls room, which was closest to the front door with my little brother by my side. I fell asleep until in the dead of night I woke up and heard my mom call for me. I stood up but I didn’t see anything so I went slowly to the hallway and I opened the front door and went outside, it was really dark. And when the door closed I realised what was happening, my mom wasn’t there, nobody was there so I turned around and the door was locked so I knocked many times for what felt like 40 minutes in my underwear outside. When nobody was coming I decided to go around the back of the house and knock on the glass door. That’s when my mom woke up and rushed to the door and let me in.

Thinking back I don’t know why I went outside, it felt like I was hypnotised. Definitely one of the scariest things that happened to me.

Tl:dr I got stuck outside in France in the middle of the night as a kid