(3) Creepy STALKER Stories [Insane Neighbor & MORE!]

[Music] I'm really writing this as a way to vent because I'm in a bit of a situation here and I feel really stuck any advice is appreciated but I'm not sure there's anything that can be said that will actually help I'm going to start from the beginning this is a Story 2 years in the making so I'll be as thorough as possible in 2019 I graduated with my Master's Degree and moved to a relatively rural area for my PhD thinking that we'd make an investment the intent was to rent it out once I complet in

my PhD this house was only a block away from a dive bar where my dad was able to make some pretty good friends he introduced me to everyone and everyone let me know that I would be so happy in my new house because the nextd door neighbor was the absolute nicest guy you could ever meet so we met the neighbor and he did seem nice enough he suggested that we exchange numbers in case I ever needed anything and I thought that was a good idea what the worst that could happen a few days later my

dad left to go back to his house in another state and I was left to my own devices literally the day after he left it started my neighbor texted me while I was away and let me know that he had left a gift for me on the front porch in this text exchange he started using pet names like sweety and cutie when I got back home I discovered he'd left a hand paint feeding dish for my cats in my mailbox at this point I wasn't that alarmed he was just being nice I thought the next

day he sent me more messages with pet names and I took the opportunity to make sure he knew I was not interested in anything romantic he replied back with a rambling message about how all a person ever needs his friends and that he would like to be friends with me after that he would send me texts frequently everything from inviting me to go fishing to telling me that he left more gifts on my porch I would often not reply or would tell him that I was busy I didn't want to be rude but I also

had no interest in any sort of relationship with him other than being neighborly one night I received a text from the manager of the bar down the street letting me know that if my neighbor knocked on my door I shouldn't answer she then told me that my neighbor had walked down to the bar with a hatchet and told the bartender he was hearing voices that got louder as he approached the bar he threatened to kill somebody with a hatchet if the voices didn't stop they called the police and the police confiscated the hatchet from him

but there were no arrests made she told me that the police said my neighbor was on meth after that night I tried to keep my distance from him even more but things only escalated from there one day I went out to my car to find a dead squirrel in my driveway the squirrel had obviously been run over and was moved to be right next to my driver's side door I just stepped over it got on my car and left when I returned home that day the carcass was gone shortly after I got a text from

my neighbor that said someone put a dead squirrel in your driveway don't worry I moved it for you I felt like this was a weird way to word this and I suspected that he was the one who had put it there not long after this I walked out of my house to see that he had placed an unspent shotgun shell on the bricks of his front yard he came out and told me that served as a warning for anyone walking between our houses for the next couple of months I did my best to avoid him

he would text me inviting me over and I would always come up with some excuse or just ignore him completely I wanted to remain cordial since he was my neighbor but to be honest this was getting very annoying and I was uncomfortable he would text me as soon as I got home telling me that he was watching me come and go from my house around Halloween he handcrafted a large casket and wrote here lies the last son of a [ __ ] who played mind games November 2012 what the [ __ ] and during this

time he was still sending me texts eventually I got fed up with this [ __ ] and stopped replying completely less than 2 weeks after I stopped responding he threw a 50lb flower pot at my front door I called the police who advised me to get a no contact order a few days later while I was watching watching TV a notification popped up that my neighbor was trying to cast a video to my screen I declined it and filed another police report during this time I had begun the process of getting a no contact order

from my neighbor I saw three different victim Advocates who told me different things I went for an out of town conference and during that time someone had attempted to break into my house I had a security system so while they didn't succeed I was aware that somebody had tried after the conference I came home to the entire world shutting down because of the pandemic and I would be trapped in my home with my stalker right next door fortunately the court proceedings for my protection order weren't delayed right before court he sent me a text telling

me that he was sorry for what he had done and that he could tell when he saw me at the side that he had made me feel uncomfortable he then went on to say that he could tell my hair has gotten longer and I looked beautiful none of this dissuaded my decision I went to court and provided all the evidence I had the timeline of the events and laid out everything that had happened since I moved in I told the judge that I suspected him of attempting to break into my house while I was out

of town the kicker was he didn't deny any of it he actually told the judge that he took full accountability for everything he said that he was in recovery and was trying to turn over a new Leaf he didn't oppose the protection order at all so in March of 2020 he actually received the no contact order for stalking everything was pretty quiet for a while I mean he still did some weird [ __ ] but that's because he was just a weird guy it wasn't anything that made me fear for my safety that is until

he got on drugs again at this time we found another unspent shotgun showcasing in my flower bed it was consistent with the one he had previously used to send a warning this occurred a couple of months after I started dating my boyfriend and I suspected it was a warning to him because of this and for a variety of other reasons my boyfriend moved in with me the process was very quick but everything turned out fine we were still together and were as happy as we could be with our relationship on New Year's Eve of 2021

I was awoken by yelling I turned on my security cameras and got footage of my neighbor sticking his head out of his window and screaming obscenities at my bedroom for about 7 minutes that doesn't seem like a very long time but when your stalker is screaming threats and obscenity 7 minutes is an eternity he said happy [ __ ] New Year and then shouted that he was going to blow up his house with his gas line I called the police who responded they told me that since he never said my name I can't prove it

was a violation of the protection order the officer said and I quote there's nothing illegal about yelling in your own house they left without even talking to him all I could do at this point was do my best to avoid him I parked on the street because my driveway is pretty close to his front porch I got used to living with my curtains drawn I always made sure my cameras were charged all five of them I spent over $1,000 on those cameras every inch of my yard it was covered since then he has been seen

by me and other neighbors talking to people who aren't there going outside and screaming nonsense things like I have Cheerios on my necklace huh I'm not even joking this basically brings me to what happened last week in the morning I was getting ready for the day when I heard screaming someone is going to die over the sweatshirt I turned on the cameras and got footage of my neighbor walking around the alleyway behind my house screaming are you [ __ ] proud how about I go get my shotgun I'll get everyone all fired up I immediately

called the police once again they didn't charge him with a violation of the protection order instead they gave him an ordinance violation for disturbing the peace the police told me that it seems like he's off of his medication again and that was that they left last night I was awoken to a hammering outside of my window at 1:00 a.m. he was cutting down his privacy fence I called the police for a noise complaint and they just told him to stop and that was it as I write this he is still outside continuing to cut down

his privacy fence this means the privacy fence only stands about 3 ft tall now this was the one thing that made me feel relatively safe about hanging out in my own backyard and now that's gone all I have to say is that I'm [ __ ] tired I just want to live in a house where I can be sure that my neighbor is not going to try to kill me where I can feel confident that no one's going to try to break in my boyfriend and I are currently trying to buy a new house but

it's been difficult I'm a PhD student and I'm not making very much money renting won't work because I have four cats plus my partner's cat and dog finding a place to rent with so many animals is difficult if not impossible I refuseed to rehome them so it's partially my fault that I'm stuck in the situation my dad has agreed to co-sign another mortgage and I've gotten a second job we should be able to save up enough money within a few months but until then we're stuck I just don't know what else to do and I

figured that I would just write the this to vent everything out if you've made it this far thanks for listening there's still so many instances that I've left out I'm just so exhausted of this whole thing when I was 15 I lived in a very rural area about 20 minutes outside of an actual town I was home from School alone one day when a white car pulled up in front of our mailbox and stopped I was upstairs in my room and I could see from my window but I didn't know who was in the car

whoever it was just sat there for several minutes without getting out of the vehicle it was long enough to creep me out they then drove away we weren't super close to our neighbors but we weren't miles and miles apart either I remembered that one of our neighbors a bit down the road was selling their house I chalked it up to a potential buyer having the wrong address or was simply checking out the neighborhood and I thought nothing else of it fast forward about a week or so it was a Friday night and I had gone

downtown to see the premiere of a movie with my boyfriend at the time I remember it was a special occasion and I begged my parents constantly for weeks to push my curfew back so I could see this film it would be over well past 1:00 a.m. and it took about 20 minutes to get home from there they were reluctant but finally agreed when the movie was over my boyfriend Jason and I walked slowly back to the truck it was a very well-lit safe area so we stood around in the parking area trying to push curfew

for as long as possible there weren't many vehic Les around at the time but I realized the car parked straight across from us was that same white car that I had seen at my house a week earlier the engine was running and there was a man sat in the driver's seat maybe in his mid-30s and he was just staring at us but as I continued to look at him he turned on his brights and sped out of the parking lot almost running into Jason's truck in the process I obviously had a horrible feeling about this

and asked Jason to take me home right away as we pulled out we saw the white car parked across the street from the movie theater all the lights were off but the driver was still inside but thankfully he didn't follow us so we drove the rest of the way back to my house a bit shaken I had no idea at that moment but this was the start of three long and torturous years of being stalked by this man a while after the parking lot situation the encounters became more frequent and stranger and I hated to

go anywhere alone at the time I never knew when or where this person would pop up or how much time passed between encounters it became clear he was watching me all the time because he only made himself known when I was alone where with my boyfriend never with my parents or any other friends I was worried that none of my friends would believe me for some reason so I kept this between Jason and my family until one day my friend Rachel who lived 5 miles away from me began telling me about this creepy guy who

showed up at her house over the weekend Rachel's father worked on Saturdays so she was home alone with another friend of hers Megan everything was normal until around dusk when they began to smell cigarette smoke my heart began racing when I heard that because by this time that was becoming an everyday occurrence for me I was smelling cigarette smoke and finding cigarette butts around my house even though no one in my family smoked and I could never trace the source I had a nagging feeling of course that Rachel's experience was connected to my stalker but

I had no confirmation so as Rachel and Megan were looking for the source of the smoke Rachel realized that she had left a back window open and the smell was coming in from the back porch they peered through the window to see somebody standing on her back porch she quickly goes to close and lock the window she then explains that the man turns around and looks straight at her with his dead eyes Megan immediately calls the police as Rachel continued standing there looking at the man in shock as he smirked at her he finished his

cigarette and calmly got up and walked away the police came and found no trace of him except for the cigarette butts he left on the porch and scattered around the backyard indicating that he had been there for quite some time I immediately began to describe the creep in the white car and Rachel confirmed it was the same man she hadn't seen a white car guessing that he had parked it down the road and had walked down Rachel's almost mile long driveway or had navigated through the woods to get to her house as time went on

my stories were well documented with the police department but every time they came out the man was long gone I have to give them credit though because because they never doubted the validity of my stories and always tried to show up quickly as it was becoming apparent this guy knew what he was doing and wasn't planning on being caught anytime soon we also began to suspect that the man had a police scanner in his car one night almost 2 years after the Rachel incident Jason and I were heading home a bit early from a date

my parents had gone out as well that night and we had a strict rule that we could couldn't be home alone with no adults so Jason and I began to talk in the driveway since my dad had called and said that they were about 20 minutes out we were too scared given the circumstances to get out of the truck and we kept our eyes peeled but we figured 20 minutes wasn't that long not even a minute later we saw headlights turn on in the bushes across the street from my driveway this freak had backed his

car into the bushes and waited for us to come home Jason immediately called the cops and I called my dad who is literally flying home at this point as the man revved up his engine and flashed his lights he then proceeded to get out of his car and walked toward us I'll never forget how he was so slow methodical and emotionless it felt like he was living out his own SL Lasher film I was sobbing we had all the doors locked of course as the man walked up to the passenger side where I was sitting

and stood only a couple of feet away from my window just staring at me he never made a move for the door he simply just stood there completely still and stared his eyes were like black holes Jason was a baseball player and had been keeping a bat in his back seat for moments exactly like this one he pulled me toward him and away from the window and grabbed his Bat but the man outside didn't Flinch he switched his gaze to the bat for a few seconds then a Sinister disgusting smile spread across his face he

then walked back to his car and drove away it seemed like 40 minutes had passed but it couldn't have been no longer than 5 because the man was gone for a couple of minutes before my dad drove into the driveway doing about 80 the cops were unable to track him down that night there's a lot more to the story such as leaving dead animals outside of our front door and Shining flashlights into our windows in the middle of the night but nothing anyone did could trip this guy up my family has tried everything my older

brother had even desperately tried to chase this man through the woods behind our house one night and lost him the police wanted to help but they had no idea who this man was and I doubt a restraining order would have done me any good perhaps the creepiest part of all this was that in the 3 years that this was going on he never spoke a single word then one day just as quickly as he showed up there wasn't a single trace of of him he had completely disappeared just like that I don't know if he

died or was arrested for some other crime or just lost interest even though that seemed highly unlikely but we simply never saw him again and it's been about 10 years stalkers come in all shapes and forms and many times they do not look like what you see in the movies they can be completely normal on the outside however this man's behavior was something exactly like what you would see in a horror film there was something in his eyes that was pure evil enough to make your stomach turn he made my life extremely stressful and terrifying

on a day-to-day basis and even now living in a different state I sometimes have expect him to show up again [Music] this was back around 2004 when online dating wasn't as prevalent as it is now I had met and gone on dates with a few local guys but nothing had come of it one evening when I was searching through profiles I happened upon somebody who was my age and had almost identical tastes in music hobbies and interests as I did I message him and we started to chat he seemed interesting enough so we agreed to

meet up for coffee downtown I didn't notice anything off-putting at first as we ordered our coffee and hung out for a while we talked about mundane things and I found out he was a medical student at a local University he seemed like a normal guy until we finished our coffee and he told me he wanted to go for a walk around the city it was around this time that I noticed his demeanor began to change he seemed to grow tense and he got this look in his eye he kept rubbing his hands over his thighs

as if to dry off sweaty Palms he became very quiet and I started to get nervous I noticed that when we were strolling he was leading me further and further away from the populated downtown area my attempts to continue the conversation were met with half responses and mumbl his behavior was becoming increasingly alarming I suggested that we needed to go back toward the downtown area and I turned around and started to head back in the other direction when he reached out and grabbed my arm no wait can we sit down for a second there's something

important I need to tell you alarm Bells were going off of my head like crazy I knew that I had to get away from the sky but by this point we were far enough away from the downtown crowd that there would be nobody to come to my immediate aid I was in shock and I numbly allowed him to guide us over to a bench and sit down he still had a hold of my arm he stared at me in a way that I can only describe as a predator eyeballing its prey he then proudly disclosed

to me that he had been watching me for a very very long time he began to Rattle off all this information that he had been Gathering about me he knew which bars I went to and the friends that I would hang out with what I like to talk and laugh about with others and that he would just hang back in the crowd watching me he knew where I lived and he knew where and when I would work what school I attended and what classes I had he said that he had been following me for quite

some time and then he said he found me on that dating site and that he specifically tailored his profile to mirror mine so that he could finally get me still clutching my arm he slid his hand over to squeeze my thigh now that I have you I'm never going to let go the whole time this guy was rambling I was acting nonchalant and nodding like none of this was a big deal while in I was freaking out I had discreetly pulled out my phone and was texting one of my guy friends that I was in

danger and needed help fast one of them responded that he was in that area and he raced over to where I was my heart was pounding as I saw my friend's truck coming down the street I waited until he was close enough and I ripped myself away from the grip of the creepy stalker and began to run the guy began chasing after me screaming obscenities I could feel that he was gaining on me and I threw myself into the bed of my friend's truck and he immediately sped [Applause] away the creepy guy was still on

the sidewalk shouting and swearing this was the last time I fooled around with online dating I have no idea what this creepy guy was intending to do but I've never been more terrified in my life there's always a reason to be afraid [Music]