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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/G0TH1C_IDIOT on 2024-11-06 05:59:32+00:00.

After I came home from college, I (18F) was calling my best friend when I ended up getting a string of texts from an unknown number that kept asking where I was and claimed that I had something I wasn’t supposed to have. Initially I laughed it off and played along, thinking it was my little half-sister on one of her friends’ phones trying to prank me, when the number kept calling me. I kept declining because I wanted to talk to my friend, but she told me that it would be fine if I answered since the person said they’d explain everything over the phone.

The person who answered sounded like a 30-something-year-old man. He told me his name and said he liked to stand on business, but the voice was so hard to understand that I got impatient and hung up. I called my friend back and told her it wasn’t my sister, but some guy who had the wrong number. Finally, the unknown number texted me “Ight so you think this is funny? You don’t know how dangerous we are. Answer the phone, or else. I know where you live.”

I roll my eyes at this point. I’m home alone, since my mom just left to go to the store with her boyfriend, so what happens next disturbs me to the point that I’m nearly paralyzed with fear. The person asks, “You live near (restaurant name), in (my town’s name) right? With your mom (Mom’s name)? Yeahhh I’ve been watching you, (my name). And I know your little sister too, (half-sister’s name).” I freak out and call my mom, suddenly unable to leave my room, because I’m actually thinking that someone is stalking me. I ask my mom if she knows anything that’s going on, to which she says she doesn’t, but that she’s on her way back to the house. Her bf is in the passenger seat telling me to barricade my door in case someone breaks in and tries to go into my room. I begged my mom not to hang up, just as I hear something in the kitchen. I lock my door and remain nearly frozen, save for me texting my best friend, my bf, and another friend to let them know what’s going on.

I block the unknown number out of fear they’d reveal more personal information about me, to me. Plus, the name that the person supposedly had was, coincidentally, the name of a guy that my mom used to know back in the day, who was convicted for doing something awful to his daughter. I hear something in the living room again, and finally my mom and her bf come home. Her bf checks around the house, and my mom takes my phone, looks through the messages while I explain to her what’s going on, and finally, she calls the local police department. They tell her they can’t do anything, since a threat hasn’t explicitly been made. I panic slightly, and then my mom calls my dad and asks him if he knows anything. My dad tells her that he had literally just given my little sister a phone and that the number belonged to her. He then complains that he can’t trust my sister to be respnsible with anything, but tells my mom quickly that he has to go since he’s out with some folks.

That’s all it was. A freaking prank. The noises in the living room were from one of my cats. The name that my sister had randomly chosen to prank me with was merely a coincidence. Yet I worried my friends, my bf, my mom, her bf, and myself by not using my brain. My mom had called the police. All over something that I should’ve just trusted my instincts with. My mom was livid, saying that she’s angry with my dad for not paying closer attention to my sister and giving her a phone when she acts out the way she does. She goes back to the store with her bf, and there I’m left embarrassed. I let my friends and my bf know it was all a prank and that I’m just a paranoid idiot. My best friend told me that I need to try and get back at my sister soon, but my mom says that none of this was funny.

TL;DR I freaked out over a prank that my prank obsessed sister, who had just gotten a new phone, pulled on me, pretending to be a stalker who knew where I lived, and I called my mom home. My mom ended up calling the police, before my dad revealed that it was just my little sister, before frustratedly taking her brand new phone from her.