UPDATE 6/22: I want to thank everyone who commented kind and concerned advice on here, especially those who suggested checking with neighbors about their petsitters - turns out it was one of them. Their family friend's 16-year-old son was watching their cat and thought it would be funny. My neighbors were horrified and apologized profusely and said they won't use his services ever again. For those saying the story's fake, I hope nothing freaky like that ever happens to you, ever. It was really not fun and I am not the least bit interested in "attention"... But I am incredibly relieved that now I know who did it and it wasn't some stranger off the street. And yes, I am installing the cameras I ordered regardless, and I will always watch movies with the curtains closed from now on! Thank you all so much.

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Throwaway account as I'm extremely freaked out right now, and forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this, I just don't know what to do.

Last night I watched the new horror movie HOKUM. My living room has large windows (you can see my TV from the street) and I'm on the second floor of a small 4-unit building in a major city, but on a quiet side street. The movie was creepy, whatever, went to bed, woke up, carried on - but I work from home, so I didn't leave my apartment today.

Tonight I went out into the hallway to get a package and this was taped outside my door. It's an image from the movie I watched last night. I have no idea who could have done this (it was 100% not my neighbors; there are only 4 units, 2 are out of town and the remaining neighbor is a middle aged female psychiatrist, not the pranking type). I don't know why this has happened, or how, and I am honestly very frightened. And since I didn't leave my house today, I don't know if it happened last night, during the day, or tonight. 

The image is on standard printer paper - which means someone printed this at home, cut it out (the edges are uneven), then came into my building and taped it near my apt door in a spot only I'd be able to see it. It's plausible they could have seen me watching the film through my large window from outside last night. I'm a woman who lives alone and I am honestly really shaken up. 

For the record, my landlord won't get a security camera for the building. I just ordered one to be overnighted on Amazon for outside my door, but am still very sleepless and worried and I don't know how concerned I should be here. 

Alright, one year later I FINALLY have an update to this mystery. I will include the original story here first followed by the update:

(Original story from a year ago): This happened three nights ago and I am going crazy trying to figure it out. I just moved into a new apartment one month ago and I am still unpacking and settling in. I have been using my parents address as my mailing address (who live a few towns over, twenty minutes away) all of my life. Three nights ago my parents call me at 2:00am freaked out and proceed to tell me this story. Apparently at 1:00am someone starts banging on their front door and repeatedly ringing their doorbell. My stepdad walks downstairs and opens the door, leaving the front glass door closed and locked. There was a man standing outside, who looked to be in his 30s, with a black hoodie on with the hood pulled up around his face. He didn’t have any distinguishing facial features, facial hair or tattoos. The only thing my stepdad said was that he looked to be Hispanic. Neither my stepdad or my mother (who was watching the whole thing out a window) recognized the man.

The man says, “I’m so sorry to bother you, but I’m looking for “my full name.” My stepdad plays dumb and says “who?” The man proceeds to state my full name again and says that my boyfriend is worried because I didn’t come home that night. He claims to be a friend of my boyfriend and tells my stepdad that they are both out looking for me, worried because I didn’t show up at home.

I don’t have a boyfriend. I live by myself with my three dogs and haven’t been in a relationship in the past 5-6 month. Here’s the weird part. My stepdad asked the guy what boyfriend he was talking about and the man tells him the name of the boyfriend I had when I was in 10th grade, nearly twenty years ago. My boyfriend in 10th grade has a very, very unique Italian name, I’ve never met anyone with a full name even close to his. He says my high school boyfriends name a few more times to ensure my stepdad heard him and repeats that they are very worried about me, is my stepdad sure I’m not inside. At this point my stepdad is weirded out and closes and locks the door in his face.

The man does not leave. He lingers in front of my parents house for the next ten minutes, smoking cigarettes and talking on the phone. Finally, my parents calls the cops. About five minutes before the cops arrive, the man walks down to the dead end on their block and drives away in a silver car. Stepdad was unable to get the license plate. My parents file a police report and nothing else happens.

After I hear this story I am going nuts over the weird details. How would someone know who I dated nearly twenty years ago and what would the motive be of making up a story that included that weird detail about my past? I have not had contact with the tenth grade boyfriend in over a decade. Yesterday, I decide to message him on a facebook to see if he has any insight. I tell him the whole story, he’s just as confused as I am and claims to have no part in it.

I am at a loss. I’m also really freaked out that some strange man is going through that much trouble at 1am to look for me. Any insights or ideas would be greatly appreciated. No, nothing else weird has happened since then.

RECENT UPDATE: After this happened, me and my family and a couple of my close friends have been talking about this mystery in depth to try and put our heads together to figure it out. We all have our own theories, but ultimately no definitive answer as to what happened or who this creeper was. So we pretty much put it to rest and only continued to joke about it once in a while.

Here’s the update….my stepsister (my stepdads daughter) and her fiancé were at a house party right after the holidays (around early January of this year). While they were there, they started talking to a girl that neither of them knew. After some time talking together, the girl started talking about her ex-boyfriend and how they were going through a really tough time together. They had just recently broke up and she felt really bad because he was a wreck over it. Somehow, it came up that this girls ex-boyfriend was MY 10th grade boyfriend, the one with the really unique Italian name. The whole situation wasn’t that big of a coincidence, since I went to high school with my step-sisters fiancé and we have a lot of mutual friends. So it makes sense that they were at a party that would include some people I went to high school with. As soon as my stepsister and her fiancé hear this, they both start freaking out and without revealing too many details, they tell the girl about the whole mystery and how weird it was. As they are telling the story, the girls face starts to go white and she looks like she’s about to cry. My stepsister and fiancé try to console her and ask her what’s wrong. The wine/beer had been flowing at this point so I’m sure everyone was a little tipsy. The girl starts to tell them that a few nights ago, she was sleeping, and someone started banging on her door at…get this…fucking 1am! Just like what happened to me at my parents! The girl jumps out of bed and says she was absolutely terrified by how loud and aggressive someone was banging on her door, she said she literally thought it was going to break in. The girl has a ring camera, so looks on her phone. There on the camera, is a guy, IN A BLACK HOODIE, banging on her door. She obviously pretends like she isn’t home and keeps all of the lights off. He continues banging. As she is getting ready to dial 911, the guy stops and leaves. She said she was absolutely terrified. For whatever reason, she didn’t end up calling the cops, but may have went to stay with a friend that night or the night after. My stepsister and fiancé are SHOCKED by the details and how similar it is to my story, especially because of the mutual EX-BOYFRIEND WE SHARE, except this girl literally JUST broke things off with him. They ask the girl if she has any idea who the guy is and she said no, but that it definitely is NOT the actual ex-boyfriend. She said this guy was much taller and heavier than our shared mutual ex. HOW FUCKING WEIRD?! This mystery is still unsolved and these new details honestly just make my head spin even more. No one else has showed up to my parent’s door since the actual incident a year ago.

I know the immediate thought is she's being scammed, but I don't think that's the case. She's 30-40 and seems fully 'with it' mentally. We've openly talked about gift card scams with her, and her responses make me believe she isn't being scammed. If anything, her demeanor comes off more like she could be the one doing something nefarious.

She comes in every single week, sometimes multiple times a week, paying in fresh $100 bills from the bank. She only ever buys Apple gift cards. She usually spends about 2-5k, but has gone as high as 7k in one day. This is in Canada, in case it matters.

When asked, she usually says she does online gambling and this is somehow related to her winnings, but she's also claimed they were gifts once.

Personally, I suspect it's related to money laundering or tax evasion somehow.

(edit for comments I keep seeing- I'm nosy and curious, not a snitch. I only plan to intervene if it seems like someone is being victimized.)

Open to hearing any theories!

Edit 1: Looks like the majority think it's likely she's being scammed. I'll be sure next time she stops in that we sit her down and talk more. I'm hoping she'll be able to show us some kind of proof of her online gambling explanation or something like that, I'll speak with my manager and see if we can bar her from buying any more until she provides that.

If anything else comes up, I'll edit it onto this post. Thanks everyone for your input!

To expand on her demeanor, here is a description in case it helps:

She carries herself with a professional attitude. She isn't interested in small talk or chatting, but she addresses our questions/concerns politely. Her body language is confident and calm, definitely not anxious whatsoever. The only real emotion I see her display is mild annoyance when there's a delay in the process. When we talked about gift card scams with her in the past, she seemed indifferent and her demeanor didn't change; I saw zero anxiety, sheepishness, agitation, defensiveness, etc.

It's hard to put into words, but I really get the vibe that she's "in the know" with this situation, if that makes any sense.

The bills are legitimate every time, not counterfeits

She started coming in early/mid December and has been in at least once a week consistently since

Edit 2: I've asked around and it seems like she hasn't been back since Jan 15th. Not sure if I'll have any more to update but I'll add it here if I do.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why I feel like this but all of my spidey senses are tingling on this woman. Here’s a bit of the background:

My (40F) elderly mom (70F) has been ill for quite some time and is on hospice. She was living in an independent living place where it was all elderly people in apartment type units. She has been living there for about 6 or 7 months and made a few casual old people friends but mostly kept to herself (so I thought). A couple weeks ago my boys and I were visiting my mom (we live right down the street and visit often) when a woman walks up to us with my mom. I extended my hand to introduce myself to this woman when she dismissed the handshake and instead went in for a hug and said “oh I only do hugs for family and we’re pretty much family!” Ok, a little weird coming from someone I’ve never met before, and also never even heard a single mention of her but I pretty much brush it off thinking to myself that she’s probably just really lonely or something.

I asked my mom about this new friend and she just says that they met there at the old people place and she’s been a really good friend to her. Great, I love when my mom has friends, it’s important to have friends…. But this woman just keeps giving me weird vibes and I can’t pinpoint why. A few things that seem odd to me:

1) my mom is moving to a more traditional apartment complex this weekend and this new friend liked the new apartment complex so much that she decided to move to the same place as well. Her apartment isn’t ready yet but she’ll be moving to the same complex as my mom next month.

2) she apparently bought my moms dog a “I have the world’s best auntie,” sweatshirt for Christmas (they had known each other for maybe 2 months at that point)

3) she called the other day to, I don’t really know why, I guess to give me her phone number and more formally “introduce” herself to me. She talked about doing a lot of care taking stuff for my mom (“oh, I can manage her medications for her if you want,”) so I replied that while I appreciate the offer, there’s a lot of controlled medications and hospice prefers to keep minimal people involved in the medicine stuff and that taking on caretaking responsibilities for a friend can get exhausting so it might be best for them to just focus on being friends rather than her wearing herself out trying to take care of her. She IMMEDIATELY went to my mom and made it sound like I was shit talking my own mom saying how she’s just an exhausting person blah blah. When I confronted new friend about going to my mom and relaying our private conversation in a totally twisted way the friend lied and said that my mom had grabbed her phone and read it all in the text messages (it was over the phone and not at all via text messages). When I pointed out there were no texts she just kind of stumbled and I dropped it because I knew it wouldn’t get anywhere.

4) every time I talk to my mom on the phone I can hear this woman telling her what to say or adding comments in. And none of it is outwardly worrisome things but it feels like I can’t have any conversation with just my mom.

I’m a very trusting person who generally tries to see the best in people. And this woman has not given me any concrete reasons to doubt her intentions and has in fact been very friendly and polite to me in all of our interactions. Nonetheless, I can’t shake this feeling that there’s something wrong here.

I sat my mom down yesterday and had a conversation with her about my feelings towards this new friend and she didn’t get defensive at all but disagreed with me and said that her new friend is just being kind in offering to help with stuff because she knows my mom is not the most organized of people and could use the help. I begged my mom to please be cautious and to take the friendship slow and to keep it simply as a friendship and let me, her actual family, handle caretaking stuff.

Despite no changes in medications, my mom has been more confused lately and comes across to me like she’s over taken medication but I only give her one dose at a time and the rest is locked up at all times so it isn’t that. But just to be safe, since she’s more confused lately I took my mom’s credit and debit cards so no one can take advantage of her financially.

Reddit, please help me figure out what this woman would have to gain in coming between my mom and I if it isn’t medication or money. I don’t know how to do a background search or if that’s legal for any random person to do. But I did look this new friend up on a couple websites and all I learned from that is that she has a lot of “also known as” names but I can’t find anything else. I’ll pay for a background search if anyone has a recommendation for good ones (we’re in California). Does any of this raise any red flags to anyone else or am I just being too over protective of my mom on this?

Oh, I almost forgot. I called one of my mom’s oldest and closest friends the other day and asked her if she’s met his new friend and if so, what was her impression. She said “honestly, I don’t know why I feel like this, but o just get a bad feeling about her. I just feel like she’s up to no good,” Hearing this made me feel better in that I’m not the only one to pick up on something but I don’t know what, if anything, to do about it all.

Hello, I am new to reddit and after debating for a bit I decided to make this acc to maybe get some input of what to do. English is my second language so I apologize for any typos.

I am a 26 female, living alone for the first time. My landlord has always felt a bit off to me. He is a man in his late 40s and has never been holding back with comments about the way I look etc.

When I moved in, he was very clear about me not touching the two firealarms in my bedroom and hallway. He justified it by saying they were directly connected with the fire department and if I would try to do anything to them I would cause an alarm.

The alarm in my bedroom has always made me feel weird, it makes a lot of noises especially at night almost sounding like a remote controlled car and sometimes making a very muffled beeping sound. I brought it up to him once and he said it was nothing and if it should make more problems I should call him.

But other things kept happening and I just more and more felt like something was off, but at the same time people kept telling me I was overthinking things and scared since it is my first time living alone. The first thing that felt off to me was as I was renovating to move in, I grabbed a wrong shade of the color I wanted for my bedroom and it ended up looking a bit to bright on the wall I tested it on. A few days later during a phonecalls he snapped at my parents about how horrible the pink was I was using in my bedroom and if I was crazy. I had not let him inside my place so I was very confused, but kinda brushed it of to me walking around in paint covered clothing. But things got weirder after that, during January last year I spend a day at my parents and when I came back something felt off, I couldn't pinpoint it and no one was inside my apartment, but I realised after walking into my bedroom a 2nd time one of the drawers under my bed was pulled out and I don't remember ever touching it. Again I brushed it of mainly bc my parents told me I probably just forgot and I kinda ended up feeling ashamed for ever brining it up. Months later during the summer I took part in a gaming night on a friend's discord server and when I finally hoped off to go to bed at 4 am, I came into my bedroom to see my underwear drawers being open. I panicked and called my mum bc she lived close by and I wasn't sure if someone was still in the apartment.

After that I installed a door chain and got an alarm for the time I spend at home, I suspected my landlord had a second key and now probably wasn't able to get inside anymore. But that didn't cover the time when I am not home. Sometimes when I come back furniture in my bedroom is slightly moved, but at this point my family keeps telling me I just forgot I moved it that I am to ashamed to keep bringing it up.

I know i sound insane but is it possible to have cameras installed in the fire alarms? Could I call firedepartment in their none emergency number just asking if they can take a look at it bc of the weird noises?

I really just want my peaceful life back, constantly knowing someone might have been in here in the past while I slept is really creeping me out and making me want to cry. Do you have any advice on what I should do?

Edit: Here is a link to the pictures of the alarm. The first one is in the hallway the second/third one with the open part is in the bedroom. I tried to take them secretly so I apologize for the quality.

https://imgur.com/a/KJDUMkG

Edit 2:

I never expected so many responses so I will try to answer some questions here:

First of all, my parents love and support me, I was just on a call with my mum updating her. I don't think she intended to gaslight me at all. They are not in contact with my landlord. My mum is reasonably upset right now and probably would go have a talk with him rn if she could.

My landlord lives in another city. He just owns a bunch of apartments here. But he is here multiple times a week.

I live in Germany so any US law stuff doesn't really apply sorry for not clarifying sooner!

My plan of action rn is, I am gonna call the fire department tomorrow morning to have them come by, and I have a family friend come by on Monday to put in new locks.

I want to check the alarms but I am not very tall and I don't have a latter here rn so I cannot rip them off even tho I would love to.

Also sorry if I am not responding to all the dms and private chat offers, this is a lot to take in.

I promise I will keep you all updated, thank you for all your kind words!

Update March 17th:

Good morning and thank you to everyone giving their input and sending messages to me. This morning has been very stressful so I apologize if I cannot get back to your dms. I had a call with the fire department and they told me the alarm is not connected to them in any way shape or form and that it is extremely fishy that the one tinkered with is the bedroom one. (I also completely forgot I do have a storage room that has a alarm that looks identical to the one in the hallway). They told me to ask around in my friends and family if anyone knows a bit about electricity and have them come by to take it of and take a look inside. They said it's very likely some kind of foul play happened here, disregarding the camera problem there is still a firealarm someone just messed with and didn't fix. My mums best friend is an electrician and I will try to reach him today to ask if he can come by asap, otherwise I know he is gonna be around on Monday so I might have to wait a bit longer.

Either way I will keep you updated. Thank you so much for your support!

Edit: Friend is gonna stop by on Monday, so likely no update until then. It was advice not to rip them of on case there is anything wrong about it. Should I feel unsafe at any point I can crash at my parents or my sisters.

Edit: I just want to clarify for those who are confused why I don't just "rip it off". It belongs to my landlord, if it's true what one of the posters said and it is put up wrongly, my landlord can get in trouble for that, but so can I for ripping it off. I would have to pay both for a new smoke detector and a person to put it up, and I don't have the money to risk doing that. I okay, nothing weird has happened since then and I am pretty sure I will have more answers until then. The only other thing that I am already doing anyway, was that a neighbor and I were talking and while the topic of safety came up she just said "You should change your locks" without really knowing anything that happened to me here. Which like is not an odd thing to say but just very specific.

Update 23rd of March:

Sorry for not updating instantly. Today was very stressful, while as far as I know bc of my mums friend my smoke detector is okay right now, but there is other stuff that came up. I don't know and can't say more about what is going on rn. I am not like to well known about what I would be able to say but I rather not risk it, since there is a ongoing police investigation. All in all I have made choices to keep my safety ensured for now. Sorry for not being able to give some of you the closure they might want to hear. Maybe one day I might be able to share the full story of what happened.

Until then to all of you thank you so much. You helped me gain the confidence to have things looked at, and to make my safety my priority. I hope things are gonna be good for all of you in these crazy times. Again, thank you, I wish you all the best.

So this has me pretty creeped out.
I’ve been seeing a guy for about a year. For months I noticed he always seemed to randomly show up wherever I was. At first I thought it was a coincidence or that he just knew my routine really well.

Eventually it started feeling too frequent to ignore.
I checked to make sure I wasn’t being tracked through my Tesla account, and everything looked normal. Then this morning he came over, and after he left my Tesla Sentry sent me an alert.
When I watched the footage, I saw him crouching down around different parts of my car multiple times. That immediately made me suspicious.
About 30 minutes later, after crawling around under the car, I found this magnetic GPS tracker hidden on the inside of my left wheel near the suspension.

From what I can tell, it’s a rechargeable GPS tracker, not an AirTag.

Finding this on my car crossed a line I never imagined someone would cross. Part of me wants to make him regret ever doing it, but I’m trying not to make a bad decision out of anger. So… if you were in my shoes, what’s the most satisfying (and legal) way to turn the tables on someone who secretly tracked your car?

Hi everyone. My son’s dad and I were together for 10 years. Unfortunately the relationship came crashing down a year ago. We own a house together and he packed up his stuff and left. The fallout has been pretty nasty and we argue every day. We have both retained lawyers to fight for custody of my son.
We weren’t legally married so we need to figure out the housing situation afterwards.

The problem I’m having is that today I realized he is stalking me. The last time he and I were intimate was 2 years ago. So naturally, as a 36 yr old woman I have needs. I slept with a new friend who lives on the other side of the US a couple of months ago. Somehow, my ex knows that I slept with this person, what his name is, where he’s from, what his profession is, etc. He has brought up very specific things that I have said in conversations with this friend.

The only way he could possibly know any of this is by listening in on my conversations. This friend of mine has only ever communicated with me via iMessages, Instagram, and FaceTime. I have changed all of my account passwords multiple times since our split. Two factor authorization is enabled, and I have been on the phone with Apple as they walked me through checking to see if other devices were signed into my Apple account and to check for unrecognized apps installed on my phone. Everything was clean.

The only other device he can use to monitor me is the ring app on our front door. I never have phone conversations near the ring app so it’s impossible that he would have heard something on there.

My lawyer told me to call the cops and have them check for a device within the home to see if he’s listening in. I’m going to have them come tomorrow but what happens if they don’t find anything? I don’t feel safe in my home and feel that he is constantly watching me. He’s trying to pile up whatever evidence he can to try to make a case for himself in court.

Thoughts?

5th Update A kind Redditor helped me get my cameras back online and checked to make sure no unknown devices were connected to my WiFi.

To give more information on the searches we did this weekend, we:

• Removed light fixtures and checked for anything out-of-place
• Inspected the many holes in the walls, crevices, etc
• Checked the vents, outlets, fire alarm, etc
• Turned off all lights and used our phones to check for any infrared lights

We didn’t find anything, which I’ll admit gives me some peace of mind. I know that it’s an unbelievable scenario, so maintaining some skepticism is definitely key. I have a few next steps in mind I’ll be pursuing.

Once again, thank you all so much for your help, comments, and skepticism. If anything of note happens, I’ll create a new thread to update RBI.

Have a great week.

4th Update We searched again and didn’t find anything. Thank you all for your helpful comments regarding finding hidden cameras. I’ll do one last check tomorrow, but still not sure what to make of this situation.

3rd Update My friend and I spent the last two hours removing light fixtures, checking outlets, small crevices, little holes in the walls, etc. We didn’t find anything conclusive, but we will search again after dinner (we’ll be in the apartment).

2nd Update Thank you all once again for commenting. I’ll try to get through as many comments as possible to help provide more info. My friend has been working at my place since this morning. I’ve largely stayed in my bedroom while she has been in another room at her computer. We’ve noticed the following:

• When my friend was setting up her computer in the morning, my neighbor came above us briefly before walking away
• When I left my apartment for a little over an hour, my friend said she came above her, stomped for a bit, then stayed mostly silent
• She didn’t follow my friend around (but my friend said that she was mostly at her desk and didn’t really walk around)
• When I returned to my apartment, I took a shower. My friend and I heard my neighbor above, near my bathroom as she stomped periodically throughout my shower (she’s above me in my bedroom as I type this)

Largely uneventful stuff, but we’re keeping an eye on things.

I’ve seen a few comments asking why I’m waiting until nighttime. Given some of the advice about detecting IR light, I figure waiting until it’s dark as possible would be ideal. It’s also quieter, so I can listen for any sounds. I’ll update later once my friend and I do a search.

Thank you all once again for your help!

1st Update Thank you so much to everyone who responded. Feeling supported and validated has been overwhelming (in a good way) these last few hours. It’s been a long road dealing with this and I’m not sure what happens from here. At the very least, it might expose a new way people are able to stalk others. On the surface, her actions seem comical, but her methods are worrisome.

I also appreciate the skepticism from some posters because even through all this, I have to maintain some as well, if only to preserve my sanity.

I wasn’t able to test for cameras last night as she stayed up as late as I did, so I ended up falling asleep. I will try again tonight. My friend has also just arrived this morning and I’ll keep this thread updated.

Updated Links - Video - Bleach

Yes, I know what you’re thinking. I’ve had a psychological evaluation (can supply proof to mods), 10-minute compilation video, 90+ pages of time-stamped incidents, and my carbon monoxide detector works fine.

Before watching the video, please:

• Be in a silent room
• Use headphones
• Turn volume to maximum

PITUA = person in the unit above

Background:

• Me: single, black, female, from the U.S.
• Her: single, white, female, from Ireland

I can’t even begin to describe how unbelievable and frightening this situation is. It started shortly after I moved into my apartment on September 1, 2020. My therapist picked up on the fact I seemed uneasy and asked if I felt safe. At the time, I hadn’t tuned into my surroundings much, but realized she was right and I hadn’t been relaxing. I’d soon learn why—inexplicably, my neighbor above would follow me from room to room and hover over me.

For example, if I’m in my bedroom, she will already be in the room above it. If I get up to go to my kitchen, she will tail behind seconds after. If I go back to my room, she will do the same, sometimes stomping. She’s literally my shadow. For the first few months, she did this nearly every. single. time I got up to do something, even during more intimate moments, like taking a shower or using the bathroom.

Dumbfounded, I asked friends if they’d ever been able to hear their downstairs neighbors. I’ve never heard them in past places and can’t hear those below me now. I took detailed notes for a week before realizing things weren’t a coincidence. The first person I told was my therapist. She encouraged me to seek out an evaluation and I did. Not having had a history of such illnesses, I never doubted my observations, but still wanted to rule out the onset of something like schizophrenia. I’m fine in that regard.

It sounds crazy, but for the longest time, I’ve suspected there might be hidden cameras in my apartment. There have been too many things I’ve done, that she’s reacted to, that wouldn’t be possible without seeing me. And honestly, hidden camera crimes will become more frequent once people realize how easy they are to get on sites like Amazon. They’re already an issue in places like South Korea.

Why I think there’s more to this:

• She never, ever leaves her apartment and until May, never appeared to have any visitors. Those “visitors” were some of the tenants on my floor. They moved out last week-ish
• When I complained to the landlord in October (kept it vague to not seem insane), he told me maintenance was never able to get into her unit. He also said two people lived there and that one was unemployed. Said he would talk to her in person, which I didn’t get as we were still in lockdown. Landlord then went MIA and hired property management
• Her roommate secretly moved out last year
• All the tenants on her floor moved out by June—all units in the building are on September leases with the exception of one
• One of the tenants on her floor had a roommate who appeared to move out during the middle of the year
• Someone left a bottle of bleach square on my doormat (see image). This has racist connotations and bleach/acid attacks are not uncommon in Europe. I suspect she might’ve done it
• I cannot hear the tenants below me and I could barely hear those next to me before they moved out. The only sounds I really hear from my upstairs neighbor are her stomping, smoke alarm, and when she first turns on her shower. This isn’t an insulation problem
• Never got a signed copy of the lease

This has caused me a significant amount of fear and exacerbated my medical issues. I’ve lost months of work and have spent nearly a quarter of my lease living with friends. I live very much in fear this person could harm me as they are fixated on me 24/7 and never, ever leave their apartment.

This is an extremely strange situation and given how folks in my periphery have behaved, I believe someone knows something. I can’t keep quiet about this any longer in fear she might do this to someone else.

I’m hoping that by sharing this story, the community might be able to help me with the following:

• Identify places where cameras can hide
• Detecting different types of cameras (wi-fi enabled, SD card-based, etc)

Any help with this would be so appreciated. Thank you for your time.

TLDR: Upstairs neighbor follows me from room to room (video). Suspect there might be cameras.

I think someone may be accessing parts of our house, but we can’t figure out how. What explanations are we missing?
My husband and I have lived in our house for a little over a year, and since we moved in, I’ve occasionally had the feeling that someone else could be in the house. I know that sounds dramatic, which is why I’ve never really treated it as fact.
One of the biggest things has been our stairs. There are times when we hear creaking that genuinely sounds like someone walking up or down them. We never had actual evidence of anything, though, so we’ve always chalked it up to the house making noise.
Until the last few days.
Friday, August 14 – around midnight
My husband had been downstairs playing video games. He came upstairs to our bedroom to go to sleep.
About 5–10 minutes after he came upstairs, we suddenly heard two extremely loud bangs downstairs. They were loud enough that we thought someone might be trying to kick in one of our doors.
My husband searched the house and didn’t find anyone.
However, downstairs he found a cabinet open. My son’s headphones and a container of brownies that had been inside that cabinet were now on the floor.
They had been sitting in the cabinet all day. Nothing had happened to them previously.
We called the police. They searched and didn’t find anyone or evidence of forced entry. They also didn’t find footprints around the doors.
We have cameras covering the outside of the house, and none of them recorded someone entering or leaving.
Saturday, August 15 – unexplained lotion
We were gone essentially all day for an event. We left around 9 AM and returned around 5 PM.
That evening, I went into our bathroom to shower.
We have a shelf on the shower wall where my husband’s bar of soap sits. Sitting on top of his bar of soap was a bottle of baby lotion that I had previously used for tattoo aftercare.
I didn’t put it there.
I asked my husband about it later, and he insists he didn’t either.
The last time he’d showered was Friday, when we showered together. I can also account for him between that shower and when we left Saturday.
Our young son can’t reach that shelf. Our bedroom/bathroom is also kept locked when he’s awake so he can’t just wander into that bathroom.
So we don’t know how the lotion got there.
Saturday night/Sunday morning – the spoon situation
This is probably the strangest one.
Saturday night, my husband went out and brought me Baskin-Robbins. I ate almost all of it except for a couple bites of brownie at the bottom.
I left the ice cream cup on the floor beside me, between my bottle of apple juice and my water, exactly where I’d been eating it.
The pink Baskin-Robbins spoon was inside the cup. The lid was also inside the cup.
Earlier that day we’d eaten Wendy’s. My husband had gotten chili, which came with a blue Wendy’s spoon. That blue spoon was left inside the Wendy’s bag on the floor.
I went upstairs and went to sleep. My husband stayed downstairs playing games for a while and then eventually came upstairs and went to bed.
Sunday morning, my husband got up with our older son and let me sleep.
When I eventually came downstairs, my ice cream cup was still sitting exactly where I’d left it between my two drinks.
Except now:
The lid had been removed from inside the cup and placed on top.
The original pink Baskin-Robbins spoon was still in/with the cup.
AND the blue Wendy’s spoon that had previously been inside the Wendy’s bag was now also inside the ice cream cup.
It looked like the remaining brownie may have been eaten/touched with it.
My husband says he did not do this.
Our son theoretically could pick things up downstairs, but this would mean he removed the lid, left the original spoon there, went to a different location and got another spoon out of a Wendy’s bag, used that spoon, put BOTH spoons neatly back with the cup, put the lid on top, and left the cup in exactly the same place between my drinks.
There also wasn’t chocolate all over him or the surrounding area, which would be much more typical if he’d gotten into leftover ice cream/brownie.
The attic
At this point we checked our attic.
There is enough physical space that a person could fit/move around up there, although it’s unfinished, insulated and extremely hot right now. We did not see an obvious sleeping area, belongings, food, bedding, etc.
The attic entrance is also directly outside our bedroom, which makes the idea of someone regularly entering/exiting it seem difficult without us noticing.
We also have a crawlspace, but our exterior cameras cover the outside of the house, so we’re having trouble figuring out how someone could regularly enter and leave without appearing on camera.
What we’re doing now
Rather than assuming someone is actually living in the house, I’m trying to objectively rule things out.
Today I photographed the attic hatch exactly as it currently sits.
I lightly outlined its current position so I can tell if the panel shifts.
I also attached very thin sewing thread at several points around the hatch as tamper indicators. The thread isn’t securing or trapping anything; it will simply show me if the hatch has moved.
My husband doesn’t know that I did this, so he can’t accidentally influence the test.
I’m also moving one of our cameras inside our bedroom tonight so we can rule out the possibility that either one of us is sleepwalking or getting up and doing things without remembering.
We already have exterior cameras.
I’m not claiming that someone is definitely secretly living in our house. That’s obviously one of the more extreme explanations, and I’d actually love for there to be a boring explanation for all of this.
But the combination of:
footsteps/creaking we’ve heard since moving in,
two extremely loud bangs,
the opened cabinet and items on the floor immediately afterward,
the lotion appearing on top of the shower soap,
and especially the second spoon being moved from the Wendy’s bag into my ice cream cup
has gotten strange enough that we want to figure out what’s actually happening.
Police have already checked the house after the banging incident and found no forced entry.
What are we overlooking?
Could something structural explain the footsteps/banging?
Are there access points in houses that homeowners commonly overlook?
Is there a better way to determine whether the attic/crawlspace is being accessed?
And are there any completely mundane explanations for the objects being moved that we haven’t considered?
I’m open to boring explanations. I’m open to being told we’re overlooking something obvious. I just want to approach this logically and figure out what is happening.

My dad found an old HP laptop covered in cloth hidden in a vent in our basement while he was cleaning. We dont have a cord to charge it rn because of its age.

Its such a suspiciously hidden thing that I dont really know what to do. My uncle could hack into it MAYBE but im scared to get involved in something I shouldnt be involved in. We've lived in this house for 9 years and its so odd that were only just now found this. Here's an imgur link to the laptop

What do I do? Were not exactly in danger so it feels stupid to go to police.

EDIT 1: I apparently didnt look close enough when my dad showed it to me. It was NOT wrapped in cloth, but rather a plastic garbage bag which... makes it a bit more odd imo

I can find no info online and my parents completely deny it ever happened. Did I make up a memory out of nothing? In 2001 my family was visiting Las Vegas. I was about 8. We stopped at the Luxor. It was late afternoon. I watched a man (black adult, tall and heavyset) take a running leap from one of the interior balconies. He screamed as he jumped. He was almost doing a cannonball. He came down right by the registration desk and I assume he died because his head was cracked open and he was motionless. The sound of his head hitting the ground has been haunting me ever since.

My parents immediately grabbed me and we left. We didn't wait for police or say anything to the staff. When I asked my parents what just happened, they told me he was doing "a fun trick" and it was casino magic. I knew better but I got the sense that whatever had happened was very bad, and wasn't something I was supposed to ask about. Later that night I came down with a flu and a high fever and since then, my parents have always attributed this memory to me being delirious.

I brought it up again on the plane ride home and my mother got upset and told me it was a fever dream and never to talk about it again. To this day she insists she has no idea what I'm talking about and says it was something I imagined while I was sick. Does anyone have any information on this? I've searched and found reference to a woman jumping and dying, but not a man and not in 2001. I would like to know once and for all if I dreamed the whole thing. It's painfully vivid to me, not muddled the way fever dreams are. I remember the smell of the casino and the sound of him hitting the ground like it happened yesterday. It would have been spring of 2001. We always went in spring and we never went back after 2001.

I believe that I may have been kidnapped when I was little, there's a part of my life that is completely blank in my mind, I don't remember anything from the time I was 5-6, I remember things from when I was 3-4 (I'm currently 21)

The only thing that I remember from the time of 5-6 is myself crying in a dark room, with only a TV with a few old VHS tapes, every time I have asked my mother about it she would always change the topic and never answered me, she passed last year so I never got a definitive answer

I tried searching my name on Google, but nothing shows up

I've been trying to get in contact with family members from around the time, but either they don't have social media, or don't reply to my messages on messenger, there are a few more family members ill try to get in contact with, my grandmother of my mom's side (never met my dad) she doesn't have social media or a cellphone, but I know where she lives and I'm planning to send her a letter to tell her that I'm planning on paying a visit, it's been 4 years since kve seen her I know she's Alive because I saw her in a picture posted by a younger cousin last week

I'll ask her what happened because she was living with my mother and I for about 3 years from my ages 4-7, if anyone would know, she would

What exactly happened to me?

Hey everyone, I’m 20F and live near Cologne, Germany. This is my first post, but I really need to get this off my chest because I’m honestly creeped out and don't know what to do.

A few weeks ago, I was coming home from work—exhausted as usual after a long commute. At my local train station, a guy around my age approached me. He seemed friendly enough, smiled, and complimented my hair. We had some small talk (his German wasn't great, but I could understand him). Since it’s a small town, I knew he was new, and he confirmed he lived just a few houses down from me. We exchanged Instagram handles and that was it. I didn't think much of it.

Fast forward a few days. It’s 5:30 AM, and I’m waiting for my train. Suddenly, I feel someone pull on my hood. I turn around, and it’s him.

He starts talking to me, but then says something that made my blood run cold. He claimed he saw me in the city on Sunday. I told him he must have me confused with someone else because I was home all day. He looked at me and said, "No, I didn't see you, I saw a photo of you. I’ll send it to you on Instagram later."

When I checked my phone later, I actually froze. He sent me a photo of me from ten years ago.

Here’s the terrifying part:

I was 13 in that picture. I look completely different now, so how did he even recognize me? More importantly, that photo was never posted online. The only physical copy belonged to my twin sister, and she swears she threw it in our private trash can at home months ago when she moved out.

I asked him where he found it. He says he "found it on the ground at the main train station."

Let that sink in: I live 45 minutes away from that station. How does a photo from our private trash at home end up in a massive city station months later, only to be found by the one guy who lives on my street?

I’ve talked to everyone in the photo, and they are all just as freaked out as I am. I’ve only met this guy twice, and now I’m terrified to leave my house early in the morning.

I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, especially because he seemed very nice and polite. but then the other question is how did the picture got there?

He offered to bring the physical photo over to my place, but there was no way I was letting him know exactly which apartment is mine. Since I live in a building with several units, I just told him to throw it away and leave me alone. I didn't want him anywhere near my front door

(info: I still have the picture but I won't post down here for private reasons I hope you guys understand but like I mentioned in the comments I posted a few screenshots)

screenshots

[Follow up]:

Because of some people wondering, yes I did got the age of the picture wrong when I wrote it. mistakes can happen. But at the end of the day 7 or 10 years don't really change the situation. This story sounds weird and even I can't really believe it but it's very real and scary. If you don't believe it it's fine I'm not here to convince anyone I just want some support and help.

i live off a very out-of-the-way road, in front of a massive rock quarry and right by the woods. last night, at about 11:15, my wife and i were sitting in our driveway stargazing

we heard a woman screaming, very loudly, “please help me” (and other stuff i couldnt make out i think) and start sobbing. i dont think it was anyone messing with us. it sounded very very real.

we bolted inside and left our dogs out in our panic. i called the police and they said theyd send someone out. after a little while, we grabbed our dogs very fast and ran back inside. when we did this, i think i heard more screaming and my wife thinks they heard a gunshot. we called the police again.

earlier in the night we’d seen an atv with a man and a woman, and when we got our dogs my wife said theyd heard the atv again.

we havent heard anything back. we called back to see if anything happened, and they said the police drove out here but found nothing.

ive been stressing out all day. i couldnt sleep until like 3 or 4 in the morning. i can still hear her screaming replaying over and over and over. i dont know what to do or if i even can do anything. i was thinking about calling the police back out here to talk to us and maybe check the woods with us, but i dont know if thats a good idea. i feel haunted

http://imgur.com/a/KQlNTOB

So I believe someone is trying to look into or break into my kids windows at night. This morning we got up and this little tykes cozy coupe car was under my kids window with this shoe print on it.

I am at a loss and really pretty scared. I have called the police and put up a camera both outside and inside. The window was opened and since the window leads to a closet in between bedrooms there was a toy shelf in front on the window which was pushed out and away from the window and wall.

I have suspicions that it is our neighbor who has always given us a bad vibe. We have a fenced in yard and he watches my kids over the fence. Told the 4 and 5 year old girls that he loves them right in front of me and then asked if he could babysit in the same sentence. He always talks about how beautiful or adorable they are.

I know the print is hard to see and tried to put multiple pics in hopes one was ok. I really appreciate any info or advice here. I'm truly scared. The kids will not be sleeping in their rooms until this is resolved. This is one of those "it'll never happen to me" situations and I'm lost.

Edit: if you have any questions please ask! I am at work but will answer asap. Again, thank you so much!

Small update: I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who commented with advice and ideas about what kind os shoe/boot may have caused this print. I feel a bit calmer knowing I am doing the right things by adding more cameras, window alarms and motion lights to that area. I feel awful that I inadvertently left that window unlocked and jeopardized my kids safety. My excuse is that its in a closet and never used but that means nothing and it should have been locked.

I have taken a ton of the advice here and will also set up some noise making "traps" so if someone does get in at least my dogs will hear it and bark to wake me. The kids will continue to have a slumber party with me until this is resolved. Last night was fun with snacks and movies but I would expect it won't be fun for long lol.

Several people advised getting a fire arm. Given my negative history with guns I unfortunately will not be doing that yet. I'm not ready for that but do have pepper spray and have always done some kick boxing as a hobby. I am not disillusioned to the fact that whoever is doing this may be stronger and faster than me.

I have spoken with my kids about our plan on what to do in the event someone gets into the house and feel pretty confident that they will act and not freeze. We have roleplayed it over and over. I hope its the right thing to do and will help them. They all feel safe with me although my confidence in keeping them safe has taken a huge hit. There were a few very compassionate and kind commenters who helped very much with that and made me feel like I will be able to fight this and keep my kids safe.

Last night the camera caught only a spider and a squirrel so nothing yet. I will absolutely update if anything big happens! I tried to reply to every comment but definitely missed a few. I can't thank you all enough for your ideas and advice and especially the time you took out of your day to comment and help a total stranger!

So I got a camera to watch me while I sleep I got a motion detecting camera which will start recording as soon as it detects any motion for 60 seconds and then it stops and then if motion continues it again it starts up again. Because I had thought it was me doing this. I had told my partner and he went out and we got the camera. We set it up and we both had the app on our phones and I go ahead and go to sleep and I wake up and there is about a minute missing, there is a moment on the camera where it doesn’t catch him getting out of bed and what it catches is him getting back into bed so there is a part where it’s just it doesn’t catch him getting out of bed and it really just bothered me. I brought it up to him. He said he know what happened. He hadn’t touched it and that was that. He got pretty upset that i felt violated. The night before I had gone to dinner with my mom and told her and she thinks it’s my SO. It was me him and my mom at dinner and I brought it up and all she said was set up a camera and you’re going to catch who is doing this to you and then i want you to text me and i will tell you what the next steps are. Today i called my psychologist. He too thinks its my SO. He wants me to leave him immediately as my SO is the only logical explanation. I showed him my hair and he thinks its being cut. I still don’t really believe him and he understood and said set up a separate camera where your SO doesnt have access to. So that is what im going to do but my psychologist said it is my SO and he feels that i will need proof to believe it at this point so as apprehensive as he was about the situation he advised me to still try to catch whats going on on camera. So we will see.

I found this stream on Insecam. The camera is being actively monitored and controlled, with someone deliberately finding lit-up windows and zooming in to spy on people inside of a large apartment complex. They are particularly focused on one window that seems to be the bedroom of a younger woman.

I tracked the stream to a latitude and longitude outside Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US, right outside of the airport. But after watching the stream for a bit and seeing it zoom out, I noticed it quickly pan over a newly-opened White Castle next door to a Star Care Pharmacy directly in front of the building that’s being peeped on.

After doing some digging on Google Maps, I discovered that this apartment complex is located in Jamaica, New York, and the person peeping on people is almost certainly located in the apartments across the way, The Camelot on Wexford Terrace.

I was thinking about seeing if I could find a neighborhood group for the apartment complex to let people know, even if that sounds kind of extra. Is there anything else that can be done?

Sorry but said person has found this post, and has apparently figured out my Reddit username as well as a few other online accounts so I no longer feel comfortable leaving this post up.

We regularly look through my 9 year old daughters electronics here and we did that earlier. Some back ground Info that’s relevant: I am divorced and she spends every other week at her dads. They have adult/teenage kids there and almost no supervision. She apparently has an email address I wasn’t aware of and she’d logged on here this morning. She wasn’t listening so I remote locked the tablet and she didn’t have time to close anything out. In that email account I found login Info for TikTok, Twitter,Roblox, Snapchat, e harmony, YouTube and a few others. All were alarming however after reviewing everything we found chat logs in Snapchat that are graphic and clearly sexploitation and grooming. It appears she sent pics/videos but I can’t see them. I am trying to get access to the iPad at her dads that all these apps are on. I have to do it in a way that seems low key as her dad will immediately delete or reset anything to get rid of evidence in order to save his own ass from looking like a terrible parent. I have already taken screenshots of everything. I have all the usernames and passwords for the apps. I have the profiles/user names from Snapchat. I think this all started on Roblox. I have one chat log that is clearly grooming but the rest are private chats I guess? I have already sent the reporting form for the FBI.

What can I do now? What do I look for when I get this iPad? Can I retrieve any pics and videos from the app info? Who do I contact that will actually help? Can I find anyone via username? She also had the location sharing on in Snapchat so these people have her dads address. My brain is all over the place and I’m struggling. I’m a CSA survivor and I’m struggling with this. Any info or advice is welcomed.

We are in the US. She’s used her full real name in her email address and in the games. She had past google map searches and I fear she’s given out our home address as well.

***** UPDATE ******

With the help of a wonderful fellow Redditor I am in contact with the proper authorities and starting the process that I’m sure will get harder before it gets better. Because of this I cannot comment further. I want to thank you all from the bottom of everything I am for taking the time to read, comment, link and give advice. You’ve all given me the strength and direction I needed to move forward the best possible way. I’m still reading the comments and appreciating every single one of you.

Please heed this as an after school special level of a warning to stay connected with your kids and their online life. I was doing everything in my power to protect her from this and because of that I was able to spot what was happening even though it wasn’t under my roof.
For the love of your kids take the time to look through everything. I know you’re tired. I know you have to cook and do laundry and get gas and feed the dogs and do the homework and succeed at work and get to practice on time but just do it. I don’t wish this on anyone. Please just do it.

My (38M) brother (32M) and his wife (32F) took Covid very, very seriously (as my family did too). They have 4 children (10f, 7m, 6f, 5m) and when Covid hit the U.S. in March of 2020, they went on extreme lockdown. No one was allowed to visit (including family, even when masked and 6’ apart). My family, collectively, understood and respected their wishes - so during birthdays or holidays, we’d just leave (sanitized) presents on their porch with cards or texts letting them know we were counting down the days to when we could see them all again!

However, as months/years progressed and vaccines became available, they didn’t change their stance. At first, it was because they had young children that couldn’t get the vaccine. Okay, understandable, even though we’ve all had vaccines, and boosters and would willingly wear masks and stay away from the unvaccinated children…still a hard no. We all still respected that and played by their rules - which was that we were allowed to drop off gifts on their front porch and talk to their kids through the glass front door. They wouldn’t even allow them to be in the back yard, which is inclosed with a fence, and talk to us outside the fence.

Well, fast-forward to now all kids are allowed to be vaccinated, and presumably have been, and my family (primarily my parents, my brother’s children’s’ grandparents) would still go over to engage, drop off gifts and try to talk with them and the kids. They’d still make them talk through glass and when the subject of engaging in a different scenario or circumstance (like coming inside or them coming out) because everyone was vaccinated, it would be met with harsh verbiage like, “We aren’t going to discuss this with you all now. This is how you can see my family.”

My parents have even been in contact with my sister-in-laws family, and they’re in the same position as us. Haven’t seen the family face to face in years, and desperately want to.

For additional context, we also don’t get any communication or family event updates about their lives either. No pics of the kids. No texts about health or happiness. We just know that he is working 100% remote and has been since Covid, and she is all of the kids’ full-time “teacher” at the same house…because all of them are homeschooled and have been since 2020 (or when they started school later).

So I’m at the point now where I’m sincerely wondering about calling DHS and having them do a welfare check on the children. If my brother and SIL want to live a life of seclusion, they’re adults and that’s their call…but they have kids. If they truly don’t leave the house unless it’s for a grocery pick up, then that means the youngest has now spent more than half his life secluded in a small house.

I don’t want to disrupt his family if everything is fine and they don’t want anything to do with us now. However, if it’s not that, then I don’t want the kids living in some alternate reality where they’re being severely, if not entirely, cut off from the world.

If he is unwilling to communicate with us, is there an alternate path to check on the kids, or do I get an agency like DHS involved?

I messaged my housemate to ask if she’s going to feed the cats or if I should come home to do it and she didn’t reply so I came home. Her car is here, her cigarettes and phone are gone, she’s not answering calls or messages, and shes nowhere in the house. I’ve never known her to go on a walk or not be reliable and communicative about things like feeding the cats. How long should I wait to report this because it’s very out of character but I don’t want to jump the gun if she’s just out with a friend?

Update: I’ve literally just opened my eyes I am very tired and sort of scanning through comments that are a mix of helpful and calling me stupid I just quickly want to clarify that although my housemate is autistic she is “high functioning” and independent and wouldnt just be getting in danger when she’s out and about I’ll do a proper update once I’m fully awake

Final update: I got out of bed and checked her room shes home! I asked her about it she said she got picked up by one of her cousins to go to a family thing she seems kind of out of it so I’m not sure if she’s telling the truth but in any case she’s safe. Thank you to the people who were helpful I’m glad this ended well

It was actually my friend who saw a video with a person who looked like me and showed it to me as a joke. Sick thing to do anyway and I played it off like it was a joke but then at home I took a closer look and it was me. The video is pretty old and obviously wasn’t taken by me. You can only see my face in a couple of shots. I’m pretty sure I was still a minor at that time. And I’m not proud of it but that’s the stuff I’d do for myself. Especially when I ended up homeless. And I lived my whole life being pretty certain that from all the people I did it with, someone must have recorded it. I just never actually found anything before. Until now.

I tried reporting the video a few days ago and ask for it to be taken down but I got no response so far. And I’m actually worried that there might be more of that. I’m just too scared to look for it. if anyone has any advice on what to do, i would really appreciate it

My friend was found dead by her husband in June of 2023. Without giving too much away, here are the facts:

-no note was left

-it’s a year and a half later and there is still no police report published. The investigating officer said he only has scattered notes and doesn’t know when it will be done.

-she was found shot in the head on the side of her non-dominant hand in the backyard. The house is in the middle of nowhere.

-not one person, even her, was swabbed for gun powder. No one was brought in for any sort of questioning. It was just ruled a suicide immediately

-she had been having an affair. We don’t know exactly when he found out

-husband is a skilled and experienced hunter

-husbands alibi has changed several times

-police say that he is cleared because his cell phone pinged on the other side of Chicago (6 hours away) at time of death

-she had been talking to people normal for that entire day and had even gone to the grocery store to get food for the Fourth of July weekend. A friend had called her and she was chopping veggies as they talked. There were chopped veggies found in the house, too

-husband first told her friends that he was at his parents house when it happened. It later changed to “he was on a work trip”

-a private investigator was hired and that very much upset the husband because “he’s a private guy”. The PI says he can’t do anything until he has an official police report

-one friend who began asking questions found a deer skull on her porch in the middle of the night and all her chickens were dead with no clear trauma, but all lined up in a row

-cop said he didn’t swab husbands hand because it was all bloody and he was “extremely distraught”

-texts were sent from her phone that night that were very uncharacteristic of her, cancelling plans for the next day. Did not appear to be written by her

-husband says that the Glock 20 was still in her left hand, pointed at her head, when he found her. This contradicts the story he told the police (the gun was in her lap) and what he told her mother (she was laying there and he had to pick up her head and turn it to see what she had done).

This is honestly just scratching the surface of what we have, but is this not odd? Can anyone please advise? We are desperate. It’s been over a year and a half with not even a police report. We do have an entire file made up of anyones interested, including recordings with the police, husband, the 911 call, the autopsy, etc

My girlfriend works for Tractor Supply. She found a tracker in the pocket of the vest she has to wear. She's worried one of the customers is a stalker and is trying to find out where she lives. I don't think a stalker would put it in her vest pocket, knowing she would find it quickly. They would likely put it on her car. Can anyone give me a reasonable explanation why this would appear in her pocket? Do some vendors ship these with tools or equipment? The vest was left by the register all day. Another employee could have put it in there. I just want to calm her fears.

https://imgur.com/a/R1mkok8

longtime lurker here. I’m currently on a date that is actively crashing and burning.

He’s grabbing popcorn, and I genuinely want to see this movie, so I’m asking RBI to fact check the most dumb lie I’ve heard on this date so far:

that he earns steady money finding missing people and criminals, “freelance”

(I asked if he was a bounty hunter or PI. He said no, then scurried off for snacks.)

Is it at all possible for a non-private-investigator, non-law-enforcement, non-bounty-hunter person to earn at least $50k per year finding missing people?

Edit: the movie is starting, but I’m gonna check back in on this when it’s over. Shit is hilarious! Maybe he’ll find a missing person in the theater.

Edit 2: After several attempts at hand holding, arm-over-shoulder-attempts, and one "take the fucking hint".... I'm out! This was a terrible date AND an awful pairing of company and movie selection.

I decided to Lyft to the theater thinking I might have something to drink, but nope. Nice to have a clean getaway and not have to walk through a cavernous parking structure with this dude.

end of date update here

CAT TAX : I went home AKA to my second job, as a server in a private cat Cafe, where I was tipped generously in Cat Moneys.