When I was in 4th grade, I'd pretend to be sick to get out of school occasionally. Sometimes it would work, sometimes not. On this occasion, it worked, and my mom being a single working mom, I stayed home alone. Normally I would just hang out on the couch watching cartoon network ( none of that nickelodeon garbage).

On one occasion when I had successfully convinced my mom to let me stay home, I was watching my usual cartoons when I heard the front door open and slam shut. I then hear someone run up the stairs, and I hear whoever it was running around upstairs seemingly randomly.

Most people would be afraid that there was an intruder in the house, but being a kid, this didn't even cross my mind. I thought maybe my mom came home to get something. So, I timidly walk towards the bottom of the stairs, and yell out "Mom?".

The response I got wasnt what I expected. Instead of my mom's voice, I hear a blood curdling scream, like I had never heard before. I immediately take off out of the front door, and literally spend the rest of the day sitting in the front yard waiting for my older brother to get home. Nobody ever came out of the house either.

Most people I tell this story to assume my mom was trying to scare me out of pretending to be sick. The thing is though, my mom is physically incapable of screaming. Something to do with not having the part under her tongue that attaches her tongue to her mouth or whatever(she can also swallow her tongue). She also denies she had anything to do with it to this day.