The Scariest And Weirdest Stories Of Horror Roommates

Discover the creepiest and weirdest roommate experiences! From bizarre habits to mysterious occurrences, these tales will send shivers down your spine. Get ready to rethink your roommate choices and explore the spooky side of shared living experiences.

1. Annoying And Loud

Not me, but my cousin had a roommate during her freshman year of college who had to listen to Harry Potter book one on tape every single night to fall asleep. My cousin bought her headphones but she refused to wear them because they "hurt her ears". She would play them on a portable speaker loud enough to keep my cousin awake all night.

The worst part... she wouldn't even start the tape where she left off the previous night, she would play the beginning every night over and over again. "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of Number Four Privet Drive..."

Turns out the roommate wasn't even a fan of the series, had never watched any of the movies or read the other books, didn't know any characters, and as far as my cousin knows she never even finished the first book because she'd fall asleep every time she started it.

chlowoah

My old roommate was dating a good friend of mine. One day, after her spending the night, they went out for lunch. His dog came out of his room with a tissue in her mouth, I stopped her, grabbed it, and went to throw it out when my hand felt really wet.

It was a condom, fully loaded, and when I grabbed it I guess I squeezed it because my hand was now covered in my roommate’s… liquids. It's been years and I still haven't told him about it.

LadyJane17

My roommate was from Appalachia, West Virginia. He gets drunk and catches a "mess of squirrels". He brings them inside the apartment house. They're all in the same damn cage.

When he opens it up to clean one before cooking it, they all shoot out and run off. The dude stumbles around trying to catch them all again. Knocking crap over.

[deleted]

I had a roommate freshman year in a shared room who was training for a bodybuilding competition. He would wake up at 5, make a ton of noise, go for a run, come back at 6, go to the gym, come back and pose in front of the mirror (sometimes in the nude) all while I was clearly awake.

He would also go to bed at 8 pm and get pissed if any noise was made, the clicking of the keys on my phone once set him off because he needed beauty rest.

[deleted]

My first roommates invaded my privacy by stealth-installing screen viewer software on my desktop and cyberstalking me. They would do crap like ban my MAC address from the router (which belonged to me).

They would type while I was trying to do homework assignments on my computer, mess with me by typing expletives, put a hard drive in my computer and clone my main drive onto it, and put me to other roommates and online friends to a certain fandom I was part of at the time.

I genuinely believed I was being targeted by an online hacker. I was just a naive, sheltered child with social anxiety. It wasn't until the only decent roommate I had opened up to me and told me what was going on.

There were other things, like threats of ganging up on me, and stuff like saran wrap on the toilet seat and peanut butter in my shoes.

[deleted]

During freshman year of college, I got stuck with a smelly, anti-social dude who would call his mom on the landline (this was on the cusp of the cellphone explosion) in our room and complain about his classes and professors in the whiniest tone for about 2 hours every single night.

He never once hung out with us despite our encouragement and by the 2nd month, we stopped talking completely. I wonder how he's doing.

RedBarnBurnBlue

First year of college, I was living in an old Hungarian widow's house where she rented out three rooms. It was a good quiet place to study and not get distracted.

So one of my fellow renters was a quiet nerdy girl who lived in the basement, she was no problem... then there was Phil… Phil was a 500lb bachelor in his 40s who claimed to be a professional pilot and millionaire (all while renting a room for 400 bucks)

He would cook steaks the size of my head and then blame his dishes on me to the old lady who had no idea what to do about it. He'd steal my food. If my girlfriend was over, he'd rub one out and wheeze so loudly we could hear.

He couldn't fit on the toilet in our tiny shared bathroom so he would crap in the shower and waffle stomp down the drain leaving a horrible crap smell and brown stains in the shower. I hated Phil.

CaptainFilmy

I'm actually the horrible/horrifying roommate. I didn't do any of this crap on purpose, but you can't actually help what you do when you're asleep, can you?

First, I snore. My roommate and I shared the same room and she eventually got used to it. It wasn't bad, but going from sleeping alone to sharing a room with someone who snores sucks.

Second, I talk in my sleep. Not full sentences or anything but enough for my roommate to hear a word or two every hour or so that she was still awake in our room.

Third, I move around A LOT. A lot of the time in the beginning of us sharing a room she thought I was waking up when really I was still dead asleep.

This brings us to the actual horror part though. I don’t know how many times this happened but it was often enough to freak my roommate out, but I would sit up in bed.

But how is this horrifying you ask? I would sit up in bed, turn my head, stare at her with my eyes so dilated that they looked black, and growl/make scary noises/sleep talk/was most likely snoring along with muttering the occasional word. That's how I was the horrifying roommate.

fuckmeidk_1

My roommate's boyfriend moved in with us to "get back on his feet," which was supposed to be a couple of weeks at the most. He kept ordering adult videos on our cable box and when I told her he had to go, he refused to leave.

We called the cops and they made us allow him 30 days to vacate! It was the most awkward situation. Pair this with the fact that I had to hide my food in my bedroom because my roommate would get up in the middle of the night and eat my pop tarts.

slyce0flife

I had a horrible, nightmare roommate who had no sense of smell. Her boyfriend was a creep who lived with us without my permission and they each paid one-quarter of the rent while I paid half (he also loved to leave hair in the bathroom sink!).

She got pet rats that stank, and they escaped and ate/pooped on a bunch of my stuff when I was out of the apartment on winter break.

FontenotA

During my first semester in college, I had a roommate who was a spoiled brat. She didn't know how to use a washing machine. She had so much crap that my stuff was just this little blob of blue in a sea of pink.

She was always cold so kept the temperature up really high. She would always bring guys back to the dorm room and I'd have to hang out in the common room.

I finally got fed up with that. She brought a guy back and tried getting up to something. She kept giving me looks and I just ignored her. He finally left and she was like, "Why didn't you leave!?!".

I told her to buzz off because it was my room too. However, she once left a guy in our dorm to run off and do something. He was pretty cool and we watched a football game together.

Gaelfling

One night, as some of us sat downstairs enjoying substances, we had one of those fabled shared illusions that our ceiling was exploding and bulging.

Then a foot appeared through it, followed by a roommate's face. He cursed, then another roommate's face appeared, and he cheered.

It turned out they had argued over which downstairs room a bedroom was above, so they ripped up a floorboard and kicked the ceiling through.

Kamuza1927

4 of us lived in a 4-bedroom house. My roommate had a pretty serious girlfriend who was over all the time. One day, she came up to me and asked if I was alright with splitting rent 5 ways instead of 4. Of course, I am. She then asked the other 2 roommates the same thing.

Yes answers all around. Finally, she approached her boyfriend to ask if she could move in with us since all of his roommates already said it was alright. Wait, what was that? She hadn't asked him about it yet.

the_co_founder

When I was a freshman, my roommate basically had his girlfriend (whose own room was on our floor) move into our small dorm. They were banging all the time for 4 solid months.

I'm waking up, they were having intimacy. going to sleep, they were having intimacy. got back from class, they were having intimacy. It was completely out of hand. It was every day at least 5 times for months. There were empty bulk condom boxes everywhere on his side. I basically couldn't be in my room.

One day, I just wanted to come home from a long day, sit down and play Mortal Kombat with friends in my room, but you guessed it, that witch was locked. I went to our lounge, dejected, and told my friends "I really just want to walk in there, sit down, and play just to spite them". One friend looked up at me and said, "Why don't you?" I was shocked.

Then I nodded and said "Yeah... why don't I? Let’s go, boys." So without even knocking, 12 people followed me as I unlocked the door, walked in, refused to acknowledge them, turned on my Xbox, and we played for hours. They just sat there for a while dumbfounded.

That's the same week I changed rooms. The next one wasn't too much better, but at least I could be in it.

therealjew

Not my story, but my neighbor had a roommate freshman year who was a total stoner. So much so that he rarely left his room. 1/2 of the school year through, he got pretty sick. Smoked more and left his room even less.

Never went to the doctor because he was always stoned and didn't wanna get caught. He was sick for the entire 3rd and 4th quarter. Mid 4th quarter, he busts out of his room and yells "I JUST CRAPPED BLOOD. TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL."

He went and found out his appendix burst a month ago, and he could've easily died at any second.

He also had some other kind of severe virus that I can't quite remember what it was called but also could've easily killed him had he gone any longer without a doctor. Scary to think how easily somebody can fall into something like that.

flynnmclovin2112

One of my roommates was a real slob. We argued with him about messes in the kitchen, but there wasn't much we could do about his room.

Anyway, one night we woke up to his yells and when I opened his door a raccoon ran out of his room, which my other roommate took care of.

My dirty roommate fell asleep with his window open and a raccoon ended up coming in and eating random stuff strewn about his room.

[deleted]

I caught my college roommate rubbing one out. More than three times. In the first semester. He transferred. I also had a roommate who was excessively "green."

Meaning he would sort through our recycling and trash and then hold house meetings to explain why certain types of things were going in the wrong container.

I learned a lot about recycling, but it kind of got to be too much. Also, quite a few too many roommates prefer to have their dishes "soak" when we have a perfectly good dishwasher.

bluegnatcatcher

The one thing that bugs me about my roommate the most is since I've lived here she has somehow adopted at least 5 of my chargers. Like mine will go missing and I keep buying replacements and sometimes hide them.

Then she'll ask to borrow one again and it's suddenly hers. Where are the first 5 I bought? Where the hell are they? Does her boyfriend have a giant pile of them at his? In the 2 years I've lived here she has not bought her own charger once.

And she seems to mess up every charger she's ever used. It's like a never-ending cycle of me buying chargers and her adopting them. Yet I don't have the courage to say anything about it... I just get secretly furious!

glassspires27

In university dorms, I lived in a townhouse-style unit with three other people for a single summer semester. One never cooked (dining hall), and was pretty cool.

The other two would cook but would leave food scraps out, wouldn't take out the garbage ever, and would only clean dishes when they wanted to use them again. I'm not a tidy person myself, but the kitchen became unbearably awful.

We started getting fruit flies and they multiplied into swarms. They would cluster together on walls in the hundreds. I put out traps selectivity so they didn't really make it into other parts of the dorm (i.e. my room), and basically stopped using the kitchen.

The thing about my school was that whoever left last, was responsible for the damage deposit (stupid system). I cleaned my crap out of the kitchen, did a garbage run, cleaned my room and half my shared bathroom, and bailed leaving the two messy ones to deal with whatever was left.

CrispAndTangy

I had a roommate who would play video games on his laptop all day in the same seat. He was clean and out of the way, but my dog didn't like him.

One day I got home and there was blood on the walls close to the door and the window, she pooped and peed in the room (which was the first time), and blood there too.

I looked at her and there was blood coming out of her mouth, I took her to the vet ER. She was missing a little bit of her tongue, when I got back home I asked him what happened and he said nothing happened.  

The dog refused to come out of the room and later on, I caught him tossing the dog off the couch and laughing. Kicked him out and made his parents pay the money he owed, and my dog immediately was happier.

Littlemorte

I had a roommate freshman year who took a picture of my student ID so he could buy pizza when I wasn't on campus. Checked my transaction list one day and the kid charged $90 worth of pizza over about a months period.

Went to the campus police and they were able to tie it back to him. He got reassigned to another dorm room about two weeks later. When he moved out of our he took a bunch of my stuff with him.

Clothes, duffle bags, a five-pound bag of protein, and the remote to TV. Don't know if he thought I wouldn't notice or just didn't give a damn. I go back to the police and they make him come into the station.

He denied the whole thing but the idiot still had the remote in his pocket. Ended up getting all my money and stuff back but it was a pain in the butt.

jdk11793

My college roommate was an extremely quiet athlete who would go weeks without speaking to me. When she asked me one day if she could order some protein bars, I was confused by the question. Why would my weird quiet roommate need to ask me this?

She failed to mention the quantity of protein bars she wanted. She ordered about 50 jumbo cases of protein bars and a similar amount of protein powder online one day.

The boxes filled up the entire free floor area of our room for the rest of the year. I had a little pathway cleared so I could walk to my bed.

mybfhaslesskarma

I had a roommate who thought it was funny to change my alarm clock setting from am to pm at night. Then she'd gaslight me and tell me I must have set it wrong.

Every time I would reset it and it would be fine, the rest of the week, and come Monday it would be switched again. I finally caught her when I woke up one night while she was changing it. Ever since that year, I only used 24-hour time.

persephone11185

I had a roommate in my first year in college who wanted to be my best friend. Before we met other people it was great and all, but because we had nothing in common, we grew apart.

She started getting really passive-aggressive and not talking to me when I came into the room. One night she woke me up at 3 AM and said "We need to talk." She proceeded to explain how she "signed up to have a best friend" not someone who just "shared a room with her."

She got angry when I didn't invite her to study with me in the library because I had my own work to do, and even when I wanted to go on a date with my boyfriend alone. She told me either I start doing everything with her or I move the hell out. I chose the latter.

whoops519

My roommate in college used my toothbrush to clean the toilet and then put it back. He didn't tell me. I went to use it later that night and there were brown pieces of crap and toilet scum on it.

When I asked what was up, he readily admitted to it and acted as if he had done nothing wrong. He was also the guy who took food from any food shelf donation bin he could find because he was a "poor college student."

DuLL_ExIsTeNz

I had a roommate who literally never left the dorm room because he played World of Warcraft around the clock. He was so addicted, that he had set up a fridge next to his desk and kept it stocked so he only had to leave his desk as few times as possible.

But here is the worst part: to cut down on restroom trips, he would urinate into a container at his desk, and empty it only when it became full. It was disgusting.

conundrumbombs

My first roommate, oh the memories. Very heavy, very socially awkward, and definitely psychotic. Often mumbled to himself with shifty eyes, ate my food, and was either railing against the evils of religion out trying to get me to join the Army Of The Virgin or some other catholic sect.

He often lounged around in his tighty whiteys and refused to clothe himself if I had guests or girls over. He would just sit down and put a blanket over his lap.

I walked in on him jackin' it or blaring adult videos a number of times, with which he used my tissues. He would also have long phone arguments with his girlfriend, who according to the wallet photo he had of her, was Greedly from Captain Planet.

The kicker for me was when he had a breakdown and called the RA and a counselor in to talk with him while I was writing a paper. He is highly agitated and at one point said "I just looked over at my roommate while he was asleep and thought to myself I should just end him.

No offense demonjuices." I was in the zone with the paper so I automatically replied "None taken" and then did a double take as the horror dawned on me. Nonplussed eye contact with my RA.

Noped the hell out and moved to a different floor. This will probably be buried but hopefully, someone can benefit from my past misery.

demonjuices

My roommate and his girlfriend's anniversary happened to be on Valentine's Day. In the morning, I awoke to the smell of chocolate fondue and noticed him making chocolate-dipped strawberries. I commented on how nice he was for doing so, to which he replied, "Yeah, and if she's lucky she'll get a chocolate-dipped d**k after!".

Now I thought he was joking, but later that night I heard a scream (not out of the ordinary if you knew their intimate life... but that's another story) followed by the door slamming. I went on with my night and figured it was not a big deal.

The next morning I saw him in our kitchen and he apologized for the scream. Me being naive asked what happened... His actual response was, "I wanted to give her dessert, so I poured the fondue right onto my privates". He then rushed to the hospital to get his burns treated... I could never look at him or chocolate fondue the same.

teepatt

My roommates were always great, but I had terrible suitemates just about every year. For those who don't know, a suite is just a cluster of 4-6 dorm rooms around a bathroom.

Guys would piss all over the floor and toilet seat, leave a toilet full of crap, puke on walls, doors, etc., and leave substances on the wall of the shower. It's like whenever something came out of their body, they just left it where it landed and thought "Screw it, someone else will clean it up."

On the other end of that spectrum, freshman year I shared a bathroom with a guy who would lock everyone out of the bathroom for two hours every night so he could groom himself. He was incredibly neat but would ignore you if you asked him to unlock the door so you could take a piss.

peachy-mean

Not so much a horror story but I moved into a brand new house with four roommates my sophomore year. It was one roommate's turn to do the dishes and shortly after we heard someone yell "WHAT THE HELL" from the kitchen.

Everyone ran downstairs to see what was going on and the entire kitchen was two feet deep in bubbles; it looked like a foam party.  

Apparently, our roommate had never operated a dishwasher in his life and thought that you were supposed to use dish soap.

[deleted]

My roommate was cool, but one time, one of the girls down the hall started screaming. Turns out she was pregnant and it was baby time.

Oh also, that one time someone duct taped all the doors shut so fully they had to call the fire department to get the doors open. We couldn't leave our hallway, and if there had been an emergency, we would have been in a bad way- no escape through the windows.

[deleted]

He had a girl over and I was like "ok whatever this is college". I asked him not to make too much noise as I had an exam in the morning, so I went to bed.

Woke up at 2 am with a heavy-set black guy over my bed saying "Airnova I am your fairy black godmother".

They thought it'd be funny to invite people over and mess with me, it's okay though, I looked at his girl (who he's been dating), informed her of his current long-distance relationship, and went back to bed.

AirNova

I left at the start of the week when he had a couple of plates in the sink. I came back at the end of the week to a sink full of dishes, standing water, and maggots in a plugged drain.

He routinely would not throw away his take-out containers. He let them pile up about three feet on the dining room table until they drew flies and more maggots.

I did not eat in the dining room, I ate in my room, I washed my own dishes in my bathroom sink, so the mess was 100% his.

One day he complained to me because I had left two boxes in the "living" room and told me "we" really needed to clean the place up because just look how much stuff I had cluttering up the place.

I took everything I owned into my own bedroom and quit talking to him. I was pretty happy to move out a while later, even though my lease wasn't up.

I still paid my half for the remaining six months, although I was really tempted to quit when he started calling me, messing with me, and accusing me of planning to skip out on my payments once I moved out.

I have no idea what the hell he was talking about, I never missed a payment, and on more than one occasion while I lived there had to cover his rent. I just blocked the number and went about my business.

NeatHedgehog

I have two: The first would come back drunk at like 3 AM on a weeknight, and just whip it out and start pissing on the floor. At first, it was intermittent.

But then it started to happen a few times a week. Then almost every day. I'd throw stuff at him if I woke up, he never even flinched. Eventually, he just started passing out on his bed and pissing that instead. Thankfully I had the top bunk.

The other guy was super Christian. To the extent that he didn't bring a computer to school, because it "took away from his time with God". Well, after a while, my girlfriend found a bunch of websites in my history.

Like, really sick stuff. I know it wasn't me visiting those sites. I started locking my computer every time I even went to the bathroom. Oh yeah, and bought a new keyboard and mouse.

Waiting_in_a_Eye_Que

My roommate was kicked out of school a month after I moved in, and basically never left our apartment. She was obsessed with her cat. As the year went on, she began talking through the cat to me on a regular basis.

For example, I'd get home and instead of saying hi, she would say "Leena was wondering where you were." If I slept late on weekends she would text me "Leena misses you."

It got to the point where she hardly ever spoke to me directly, just as the cat. It was simultaneously super creepy and annoying. I was overjoyed to finally move out.

latche

My roommate decided to microwave a towel to put on his sore neck. He did not wet the towel prior which caused it to catch on fire. He then started to freak out and threw the flaming towel across the room landing on our makeshift curtains, which were constructed of bed sheets and various clothing items.

In a frantic adrenaline-fueled state I proceeded to pull down and stomp out all burning textiles. His dumb self nearly caught our room and the whole goddamn building on fire.

extra_element

I got my first computer after my first week at college. I would plug my headphones into the speakers and listen to music. After a week of this, my roommate screams at me how damn rude I am to be listening to music when she is trying to work.

I was so flabbergasted. I said I had my headphones on and it wasn't that loud, why was she so mad? Turns out my stupid speakers would continue playing music out loud even with the headphones plugged in.

I had no clue. And, instead of politely telling me this, my roommate decided to wait a week and then blow up at me. That paints a very accurate picture of the rest of my time with my first college roommate.

workerdaemon

My roommate took away two guys and held them for ransom. One of them was set free weeks later, while the other wasn't so lucky. He was eventually found in a basement cemented/buried in the ground.

Cops busted into the flat (I rented a room in an apartment - he lived in it before I moved in) and apprehended my roommate while he was sleeping. Tried for taking those people away, along with his other few associates.

This was in Ontario, Canada around 2011/2012. I never really followed the story after I moved the hell out and learned that they were all in jail.

InformationFetus

A good friend of mine had a roommate who loved to snoop, steal, and squeal during their freshman year. Snoop: My friend's bags would be unzipped, boxes opened, laptops opened, personal items moved, etc.

Steal: My friend would hide her jewelry in a bag, in a sock, in the back of a drawer. More than once she caught her roommate wearing her jewelry. Squeal: Literally anything that was meant to be personal was spread throughout the floor within a day. Zero privacy was to be had.

Thankfully, after numerous complaints and reports, they were split up after the first semester.

AJTTOTD

I've never resided in a college dorm, but I just want to share that once I was on a Skype call with my good friend, who does reside in a dorm, who left his mic on when he left for an extended period of time.

Allowing me and the other 2 people in our call to hear all his roommates (like 5 other dudes?) arguing about who ate the last pop-tart. It got pretty intense. Is this what dorm life is like?

[deleted]

I had a roommate who jacked off CONSTANTLY. I would unlock the door (which was on old school push combination lock, so it took a few seconds THANK GOD) and enter, and he'd be shutting his monitor off with his hand over his pants.

This seriously happened so much that I had TO ACTUALLY HAVE A TALK WITH HIM ABOUT IT after bringing girls over once in a while who would catch him in the act with me and suddenly no longer be "in the mood".

I don’t have a problem with him doing that. God knows I did it, too. But I would catch him twice a week. If I gave you an honest guess… I would say he did it more than 5 times a day.

Once he did it when I said I was just going downstairs to the dorm vending machine. Walked down and back up in like 3 minutes and he was hiding his shame.

[deleted]

My favorite roommate story is from freshman year. My roommate came home drunk one night and wandered into the dorm basement. She was too drunk to find a bathroom, so she peed in the dryer.

Not the washing machine. THE DRYER. I'm half horrified, half impressed, given the fact it was a front-loader.

And in an incredible twist of fate, the next day she forgot her clothes in the washing machine. Some kind gentleman paid to put them in the dryer for her. And it just so happened that it was the one she peed in the night before.

this-is-she

'Sharon' used to eat in her room and then slide the plate under her bed. She'd do this every day until my other roommate and I couldn't bear the stink anymore (and needed plates for our own dinner).

She also regularly invited her substance dealer boyfriend over to hang out in our apt during the day. Several times I came home to find deals taking place in our living room.

Eventually, the cops were called by one of our neighbors and we (not him) were interrogated and searched. Oh, and there's the time she left a sanitary towel 'sunnyside up' on the toilet seat in our shared bathroom. I could go on.

Harry_Seeward

This happened to my cousin. I was there to witness the aftermath. My cousin is an international college student who had just moved here and barely spoke any English.

He moved in with another roommate to offset the ridiculous cost of a NY apartment. His roommate met a pretty cute girl. However, he discussed it with my cousin and agreed that there was something odd about the girl.

He didn't want to fully commit to a relationship just yet, but they still hooked up. My cousin also said that his roommate still talked to other girls, but didn't move farther than that.

One day my cousin and his roommate were having breakfast in the kitchen. The girl had slept over the night before. The girl wakes up and goes into the kitchen, picks up a knife, and messes with his roommate.

My cousin froze in shock but then picked up his chair and tried to fend her away. Everyone survives. My cousin cried and called my dad telling him he hates America and wants to go back to China.

pleasedtoeatyou84

My freshman roommate installed a sliding bolt (lock) on the door to our shared dorm room so that I couldn't enter while he was in bed with girls he brought in (which was so random I could never tell when he'd be "using" the room).

The worst part was when I'd get back very late, wanting to get in the room and go to sleep, and he'd have me locked out in the hallway - especially when I had an early class.

Even when I waited patiently in the hall, he refused to unlock the door - until one night I knocked harder, and he threw a glass full of ice water in my face as he finally opened it.

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