Our homes are where many of us are at our most comfortable, and that wouldn't be possible if they also weren't the places we feel the safest.
Unfortunately, the world doesn't have any shortage of things to be worried about, and it's not hard to see why the ones that can affect us in our sanctuaries would scare us the most.
But while some home hazards like fires and carbon monoxide leaks can both be detected by machines and happen without anyone's deliberate actions, there's something particularly harrowing about the idea of someone forcing their way in.
And as one Ohio woman discovered, that fear becomes all the more gripping when an intruder is discovered near the children in a household.