People who used to do burglary for a living, what is the scariest thing you've seen in someone's house?

It wasn't really a burglary, but unlawful entry, simply because I could.

I decided to try my luck in an older house after I noticed they went on vacation.

There was a room hidden behind furniture that I managed to get to, but not into,

because the door wouldn't fully open. Without completely moving the furniture,

the smell inside was unholy, like death and bleach.

I sent an anonymous tip to the police. It turned out they were basically

luring people's pets in and dissecting them alive.

To those that are curious, I used to do this kind of as a form of joy writing except in houses,

break in, walk around and leave everything more or less untouched.

Not the best thing to do as an early teen kid, but when you have a friend's dad who thought

it was smart enough to teach kids how to pick locks, you kind of feel you need to use it.

In this case, him committing burglary or more accurately unlawful entry,

probably ended up saving the lives of tons of animals in that neighborhood because

how also people have figured this out, ever. He also added that he stopped a house or two

after finding this because he was afraid at that point of what he might find.

The next example is from someone who said,

When I was 14 years old, I broke into a neighbor's house and looked around.

I found a big stash of polaroids of some of my friends, Naked.

Most of them were younger than me. I just stayed quiet for about two weeks trying to figure it out.

Then I broke back in and took a couple of pictures of my best friends and asked them about it.

Neither of them had a clue how they were taken and couldn't even remember being over at that

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