A Year After Madeleine McCann Went Missing, She Thinks She Was Almost Kidnapped As A Child While On A Family Vacation In Portugal
For the most part, staying in a hotel or a resort on vacation is super fun and relaxing. However, for many of us, there’s still a little bit of fear that something could go wrong during our stay.
One young woman remembers her hotel room in Portugal getting robbed when she was a little girl, and it’s a very creepy story.
When she was five, she and her family went on vacation in Portugal and stayed in a villa. The villa was isolated and not very close to any nearby towns. Her family stayed in the villa most of the time and had a quiet holiday together.
“Not sure why my parents thought this was a good idea considering what happened to Madeleine McCann just a year before,” she explained. “Either way, we were staying in a villa, not near any towns or cities, and would hardly go out.”
Since she was a little kid, she remembered always going to bed earlier than her parents and typically waking up to the sounds of them cooking in the kitchen.
She’d always crawl out of bed when she heard their noises to join them.
“One thing about their nighttime routine, which I do remember, however, is that they would always go to sleep before the sun was completely gone down,” she said.
One night, she was woken up out of her sleep by something other than her parents.
She woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of something being smashed in the living room. In a sleepy haze, she got out of bed, thinking it was the sound of her parents, until a bad feeling hit her stomach.
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She stood in a dark hallway of the villa as she realized she couldn’t hear her parent’s voices. She ran into the room she shared with her older sister and was terrified.
She got under the covers and eventually fell back asleep. The next morning, she woke up, and there were police officers in the villa. The kitchen and living room had been destroyed. As it turned out, she woke up to the sounds of a robber.
“They had taken everything, from the TV to the safe box with our passports and money inside,” she remembered.
“Everything was gone. My mind instantly went back to last night and what might have happened to me if I’d gone into that TV room while they were in there.”
The idea of what could’ve happened to her five-year-old self if she had come face to face with the burglar shakes her to her core.
“I’ll forever be thankful to scare younger me for going back to bed rather than investigating the noise further,” she added.
Can you imagine how terrifying that must have been for a five-year-old?
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