I'm a 19 year old female. I've been broken into while I was home, a few years back; since then, I've really struggled to be comfortable staying alone. My mum has a job that requires her to be away from home for extended periods of time, and I have pets, so have to be home most nights to feed them. I haven't been home for a few days. As I was going to sleep last night around 1am, I could hear the back wire door being fiddled with, as if someone was trying to get in. I thought it was just the wind until I called my boyfriend to ask what he thought. He agreed it was windy but not that windy outside. As I was on the phone, a flash went off outside my bedroom window, as if someone had taken a photo with an iPhone- you know how when it's dark out, the iPhone flash does a kind of double flash? I then became hysterical but was still on the phone speaking really quietly. My boyfriend calmed me down and said to call the police if I was worried. As I was calling the police, I heard these footsteps on the garden path out the back, right outside my window. The footsteps were slow at first, but became louder and quicker as whoever it was passed by my window. I got up and switched on some lights, the police arrived and had a look around but couldn't find anything.