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A professional cleaner has said she was scared for her life after hearing 'banging' coming from a client's bedroom. Melissa ditched her regular nine-to-five day job to build her own business Gleaming Cleans. The business , which covers the Whitstable and Herne Bay area of Kent , allows her to have the flexibility of being self-employed and choosing her own hours. But since starting the business, the self-confessed murder documentary fan admitted that one job left her fearing for her life. She described what happened on her TikTok account, @melissads30, where she decided to start a video series called "confessions of a cleaner". The mum-of-two said she was cleaning a man's home cleaning the en-suite when she heard a noise which made her fear for her safety. She said: "I'm cleaning the en-suite and I'm already vigilant, and my brain goes to worst-case scenario all the time. Anyway, I'm in the en-suite and I hear banging and clanging in the bedroom and I'm like 'he's in the bedroom'. "And I think why would he come upstairs to the bedroom while I'm in the en-suite? What is happening? And I thought well this is it isn't it, this is crunch time. Something bad is about to happen. "And I thought it's now or never, fight or flight, and I thought what tools do I have in here. Most of my cleaning tools are downstairs because I hadn't brought them up yet." Melissa's first thought was that she was either going to be starring in a Netflix documentary as the victim that got away, or the documentary would be about her if she didn't fight back. She said: "I just thought, Melissa, this is your time. You're either going to make the Netflix documentary, you're going to be in it or it's going to be about you... And I chose to be in it. "so I picked up whatever I had to had that I could fight back with. Bearing in mind for the last 10 minutes I'm hearing this rattling around in the bedroom and I'm thinking is he getting weapons? Is he getting something together to end me. "I finally pluck up the courage after about 8, 9, or 10 minutes to come out armed. It was the blind moving in the wind that whole time." Other cleaners rushed to the comments to share their own confessions. One person said: "I’m deaf so oblivious to noise, few years ago was on my own in this very large manor house hoovering the very top floor hallway had hoover in one hand and can of polish in the other. "I thought I saw movement so I glanced up but no one was there. I carried on when I looked up again there was a bloke standing in front of me he - got a face full of pledge and me screaming. "It was the grandson, poor bloke only wanted to say hi. After that they always shouted hello super loud and if hoovering waited until I stopped before saying anything!" Another cleaner said: "I was once cleaning a walk in shower and the guy that lived there stepped into the shower with me to see if the shower door was clean enough to see through..." Another commented mentioned how 'sad' it was that women were so scared. He said: "It's really sad to think that in 2025 women are more scared than ever. I kind of understand I'm so scared for my kids at the minute. But to be a woman now and scared on your way to work and on your way home. Every woman should carry that red spray."
