Family makes terrifying discovery in basement following growing suspicions

A Harding University professor and his family in Arkansas discovered a stranger had been living in their basement after noticing items mysteriously going missing from their home.

Dutch Hoggatt said in an interview with KTHV that he first suspected something was off when he noticed a pair of shoes he normally leaves near the home’s back door were gone.

"I asked my wife if she had thrown them away, and she had not," he told the outlet. "Over time, we noticed that chairs had been moved around in the house. We noticed that some of our food was missing."

Authorities later identified the man as Preston Landis, who had been secretly living inside the home for several days, moving from a crawl space into the basement before the family discovered him.

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Hoggatt and his wife then told their daughter and son-in-law, Cherisee and Mark Gregory.

"I think they thought they were both going crazy. And I’...