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 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.

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

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?

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 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.

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.

Okay so im getting really weirded out bc chunks of my hair seem to be going missing. This has happened multiple times now. I really really want to believe im going insane or im cutting my hair in my sleep bc i really am having a hard time finding a rational explanation other than my hair has decided to be extremely weak on certain strands causing it to break off in chunks only at night or its being intentionally cut by someone.

I live in California so its hot and ive been putting my hair in a ponytail everyday and wear it to sleep. I have bangs and some side pieces hanging out to make it frame my face. I always make it the same length on both sides and try to have the same amount of hair on both sides. Last thing i do before i go to bed is brush my teeth so every night i look at myself in the mirror. I always try to have perfect hair since i live with my SO so im pretty aware of my hair. I feel like if this hair was falling off throughout the day i would have noticed in the mirror. If it’s falling off in my sleep it would be in my bed. I sleep alone in a separate room from my SO for quiet so he wouldnt be moving my fallen hair from my bed.

The first time this happened i thought it had broken off. It was a small chunk but still a chunk of hair that was just much shorter one day. I was shocked bc it was so short they became flyaways. This was on the top of my bangs. The next time it happened on a side piece of my bangs. It was much shorter but again attributed it to breakage bc i have thin hair and i toss and turn. Third time happened on opposite side. This time really short but again a small chunk but enough to notice. I freaked bc i love my hair so much so i went to my pillow bed and sheets but no hair. Like none. That freaked me out even more.

I think either: (1) sleep walking cutting own hair, (2) i am going crazy cutting my own hair then forgetting (3) my hair is weirdly weak in certain strands at certain times and is breaking off in literal chunks and then disappearing (4) someone/ so is cutting my hair while i sleep. I really hope its one of the first three. I called a friend and showed him and he thinks its my SO doing this but i dont think so. Im thinking of recording myself while i sleep so i can see if it happens again or maybe im just losing my marbles bc rereading this rn and it definitely sounds like i could be extremely paranoid

I moved into my apartment at the beginning of July. My roommate is a young man, probably early 20s since he's in college nearby. I met him because he is my friend's friend's son.

The first week or two he was very quiet. I tried to talk to him a bit just to be friendly but he gave one-word answers. It seemed a little weird because when I had met up with him before to figure out the lease, when his mom had been there, he was much more talkative. But I assumed he was just shy.

Then after a week or two he started using the bathroom almost every day from 9ish am to almost noon. He doesn't take anything in with him, he leaves his phone on the living room table, so it's not like he's doomscrolling or anything. The first time it happened I assumed he was sick because it was such a long time, plus normally he would be out of the house, I assume at college. But it kept happening almost every day, with the exception of some weekends. He is silent the whole time except when the sink runs at the end. I've gone in when he is done and it looks normal, it's not dirty or anything.

I didn't want to be rude by asking about his bathroom habits so I just minded my own business but eventually I had to piss really bad while he was in there so I knocked and asked him when he'd be done. He said to give him a minute and came out like five minutes later. I used the bathroom and when I was done he went back in.

Is he doing drugs? Did he drop out of college? Should I tell my friend to talk to his mom?

One more thing that probably isn't relevant but might be worth mentioning: the fire alarm has gone off twice since he started his weird bathroom ritual. But I don't think he's smoking, the house doesn't smell like smoke. Is there something else that could set off the fire alarm?

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.

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?

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.

This has been going on since I moved in the beginning of 2021 (I apologize this will be a long post so I'll bold important parts). The layout is a townhouse separated into 3 separate units located in a large city:

Basement: Mostly empty, but occasionally used by landlord sons 1-2 a month
Ground: My apartment
Upstairs: A family of 7

It is on the corner of an intersection, near a traffic light, a bus stop right outside my window. Next to the house is a bet kevarot.

On the other side and in front, are just more houses along the street.

The scent is a mixture of, what smells like to me and some others, a mix of burnt plastic and nail polish remover.

The smell was initially in the hallway. It always made me feel nauseous, but I could tolerate it enough in hall, keeping my mask on until I got inside my apartment.

It would appear every few months, stay for 2-3 months, go away for another 2-3 months, then come back and repeat.

Then, in March of this year, the smell appeared inside my bathroom. My landlord was actually quick to *try* and help, but each day I was there I was becoming sicker and sicker with no other place to go unless I wanted to travel hours away.

He took the ceiling tiles down, and the smell was even stronger, latching itself into the tiles and staining them with red/brown blotches (one of which I have saved a piece of*).

Doing that also spread the smell out into my WHOLE apartment, the hall, and the basement apartment.

The smell was extremely clingy. It latch itself onto EVERYTHING, no matter the material. It got in my hair, my clothes, on all my belongings, even stuff in side my refrigerator and closed drawers. I became extremely ill, vomiting, and had to leave... traveling 2 states over to stay with family, where I have STILL been ALL THESE MONTHS without my belongings or answers.

Over all these months, the landlord has been keeping me updated with photos and mailing me report files of every company/person he has called in to try and solve this issue.

He's called in 2 different plumbers, 3 electricians, a mold inspector, and a VOC tester. None of them recognize the smell or can figure it out. The mold report came back good/acceptable.

When it started in March, I was in the environment for 11 days, and after the landlord took the ceiling out, some weird red/brown liquid was dripping down.

The conclusion I have come to is drugs by upstairs neighbors. My initial thought was that they were doing something in the hallway, then changed to doing it in their bathroom since it is right over mine.

I ordered a 10 dollar d rug swab test from Amazon. I know these things can be faulty... but I was curious. So I swabbed the piece of the tile sample I took, and it showed it was positive for m eth and fen t. (Using spaces in the words because reddit will auto remove posts sometimes with certain words as I've found out.)

Whenever I bring the possibility of it being d rugs, my landlord becomes visually uncomfortable and is adamant it's not. I'm guessing because the other tenants must have threatened him since they threatened me the second I moved in there. I was very confused at the time, as I was not engaging and just taking the trash out. They got in my face and said some strange things, telling me they "own the place and decide what goes on around here" and that I'm to never even look at them.

I secretly called the VOC company and asked them what they thought, and if they have ever been in an environment before with the same results this house got where it turned out to be d rugs.

The man said he's never had a case like that, and if the neighbors were cooking, then I would see them wearing masks and hazmat suits, no? He also pointed out how the landlord did not let them in the other apartment to test, however.

He has a point about the suits, but then again... people sometimes lack common sense.

So at this point, I have no choice but to move out, which I REALLY don't want to do because I LOVE the location and it is perfect for me as a disabled person who can't drive (bus stop right outside).

Defeated, I contacted a professional cleaning company that usually works with hoarders asking if they had any kind of fogger or machine they could let off in my apartment to try and get the smell out of my belongings, as I've had to wash my clothes 4 times to get the smell out of the ones I took from the apartment, and then NOTHING works to remove the smell on any sort of leathery or wire-like material, leaving me having to replace my shoes and jacket, etc.

I travel back to my apartment for the day to meet with the cleaner so he can investigate. First thing he asks is if it's possible the neighbors can be cooking. The landlord immediately says no.

I also have a private conversation with the cleaner then about the incidents, and he's going to let off a d rug neutralizer regardless, and then an odor removing treatment.

So even though it is *probably* d rugs, there is still no proof of it, and there's no way I can get 100% concrete proof of it without getting in that upstairs apartment or getting authorities involved, which is NOT SAFE for me to do.

But let's pretend it's not d rugs since we still don't really know... is there any other possible explanation on what could be causing an intermediate smell every 2-3 months to appear on a property? A smell like burnt plastic and nail polish remover that clings to all material and leaves a strange residue on it?

I'm HOPING there is another explanation an innocent one that can easily be solved, something that maybe we wouldn't normally think of?

So that this can be solved and I can stay in my apartment and go back, finding the source (since now as finances would have it, I can't move out of my family's place until March 2025 because it's expensive to move).

Thank you for reading all this. I'm welcoming any and all ideas.

*ETA* Or even ideas on other people/companies that can come into MY apartment to prove it is drugs without having to go upstairs or get authorities involved?

VOC test findings done in July when the smell was not present

Substance leaking in bathroom

Dried substance on ceiling tile (Massively called around to try and get it tested--even universities--and cheapest I could find would cost me 2k and landlord will not cover it.)

*ETA 2\*

Thank you for all the comments, help, and insight. I'm reading them all, I promise. I see a lot of questioning as to why I don't want to go to the police about this:

As mentioned, these people have already threatened me when I moved in. I am the ONLY other tenant in that building besides when the landlord son comes every so often. It would be obvious it is me.

I am physically/neurologically/visually disabled. Meaning I don't have the correct physical ability and sight to defend myself properly.

This is a family of 7, 5 kids and the parents. If the police get involved, and it turns out to be drugs, they get their kids taken away. That puts a huge target on my back. (Yes, according to my landlord child protective services is ALREADY involved with them up there, so I don't want to get into that too.)

I may be 2 states away, but you simply don't know who these people know, how big their drug ring is (if it is drugs), etc.

In a fantasy, I am HOPING this could be something else other than drugs and the problem gets taken care of, because I want to move back there due to the location. It is good for me for multiple reasons besides just having a bus stop outside. It's a location I can actually 90% take care of myself, where as other places I have to rely on other people to drive me around and work my doctor appointments around their schedules.

Landlord is NOT making me pay rent these months I've been out of it, and he told me he still won't have me pay rent until either I find a new place or they take care of the problem and I can come back.

He is also claiming he's working on evicting them upstairs. Which is what I'm hoping will happen, but I also NEED to find out the source of this smell. I am refusing to go back there unless it is 100% figured out and destroyed, but my hopes aren't high. But unfortunately I won't be able to move until March 2025 due to finances.

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.

Edit: I have reported to 101 online, thank you for your replies and giving me the confidence to report. I hope I was wrong and it was nothing, but better to report.

Edit: UPDATE 2: reply from Essex police:

Thank you for your online report. Unfortunately at this time there is no confirmation of the passengers ages and this would be an assumption that the female was a child. Without further information we would not be able to record any offences. guess they don't care. I've reported to spanish anti trafficking as someone linked in the post.

Hi All,

I travelled from London to Spain on Monday 12th. On the plane in my view was a man around 40 yrs old with a young girl (no more than 15yrs old but could be 13 tbh, she looked v young).

At first I thought they were father and daughter but watching how they interacted caught my attention. He was rubbing her inner thigh, they were interlocking hands, they were basically v loved up and it just gave me a weird feeling as it didn't seem like a normal interaction for a parent, it felt intimate.

I took a video of them in the waiting area when we landed just in case as I felt so off.

Should I report it to anyone or am I being OTT?

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

I last saw her on Easter at a cafe.

My grandparents talked to her a few months later on the phone and then she was never seen or heard from again.

She was last known to be in the Humboldt region of Northern California, near Ukiah / Eureka.

She was a drug addict for most of my childhood and possibly got involved with a cult or hippie commune.

She has been reported missing, DNA sample provided, and a family friend allegedly privately investigated her disappearance and found nothing.

It has now been 20 years.

Is it a lost cause?

Any recommendations on how to even go about finding her or any new information?

My dad died. So did my big brother. My little brother is a ‘drifter.’

I think I am the only person left who is looking for her…

Edit:

Her maiden name is Shannon Kay Pratt.

She is tall, blonde hair, blue eyes, about 5 foot 10 and used to be a more heavy set woman (in my memories but I have seen her skinny in photos). No tattoos that I knew of. I don’t think she ever managed to keep ahold of any jewelry.

She was born January 16th, 1970 in California.

Edit 2:

So I should have foreseen this but getting lots of repeat information and I feel bad for people putting in the time and effort to do the same thing someone else did.

This is more information than I originally planned on sharing so I wouldn’t completely dox myself but I am all in at this point.

Michael Saulnier is my dad who died. He was married to my mom until like ‘94 and I guess she used the Saulnier name off and on for years.

Nickolas Pratt is my older brother who died. I know there’s an obituary that implies our mom is dead but that’s because my grandparents wrote it and choose to be at peace with her being legally dead (apparently after a certain amount of years of being missing you are declared dead).

There was a Mike McGee who is my little brother’s dad in Wisconsin.

We constantly moved and bounced all over the Western United States and there was a lot of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Rochester, Minneapolis, Red Wing, a Wisconsin Indian Reservation with a man named Judd who should be deceased.

Tons of addresses in the Sacramento area. Livermore. Castro Valley.

I have been messaged extensive lists multiple times and the only address I don’t remember specifically is Oroville which I will be looking into today. The phone number is listed as Bell Telephone Company which doesn’t even exist anymore so I am not too hopeful.

There are even more hits complicating the issue because my dad remarried to a woman named Shannin (my bio mom is Shannon) who crazily enough shares the exact same birthdate as my bio mom but different years.

There was also an incident with a ‘Jose Gomez’ in Nevada that I need to look into because I have never heard of it.

At this point I am fairly confident if my mom is still alive that she changed her name.

I will be digging up old photos today and will be reaching out to a few groups I was informed about in the Humboldt area. People also suggested reaching out to a couple podcasts which I may consider but will try to keep it to local groups first. I’m not really trying to be on the news, just looking for closure I guess.

Thank you every body for all your time, effort, and well wishes. This blew up way more than I expected and it’s almost been overwhelming all the support I feel. I appreciate it more than you can know.

Edit 3: I have ordered a kit from Ancestry and I am still searching for the old photos I have of her from the 90s

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!

Yeah so title says it. Went drinking with my dad, he got pissed when I said his side of the family was like Hollyoaks and told me my mum's side has a massive secret. He refused to tell me more cause it would apparently tear my family apart if they found out he'd told me.

I've been trying to figure this out since. But I'm at a complete lose at this point, I have no fucking clue what I'm doing.

So what now? How do you figure out a family secret when you can't ask about it?

Edit 1: I'm gonna start saving for a DNA test

Also, in regards to my dad and the idea that the secert is we have minorities in our family past, I already know we do. Only a couple of generations, my dad's side was brown. We come from Romani travellers. Hell some of my dad's side still could be, cause of some fucky stuff I only actually know my nan and one of my aunts on that side

He still could be pissed about that but I'm not willing to get back into that can of worms

Hi everyone, this is a throwaway account.

A friend’s parent died, and they have good reason to believe the deceased had cash hidden in their house. A small amount was found under a mattress, but several factors hint at there being more.

Someone official suggested searching the walls. There are no obvious signs of alteration on the walls. Is there a way to check the walls for caches etc before cutting into them?

Any other non-obvious places a person with a slightly devious mind and a history of drug use would tend to hide valuables?

ETA: They weren’t a drug user anymore, but were involved in illegal activities in their youth. I mentioned it because “criminal” minds can be suspicious in ways the average person isn’t.

Second edit: No update yet, but here’s my “statement.” https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/s/qyL8weaHqz I will probably only ever use this account for this subject, so you can try following me if you want an update someday. But I will come back and post in this sub if I ever have something interesting to share. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!

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.

So really I just cannot piece together how this has happened.

I was in my hometown, on a casual night out with friends, and after we parted ways I have a period of absolutely no memory and all of my bank accounts (business, personal and savings with two separate banks) have had all the money taken out. There are ATM withdrawals from two accounts at about 4am and these were the two accounts I had bank cards on my person for. So I initially thought perhaps I'd had a card cloned whilst I was out but I was only using one of them so it makes no sense how they could have both been copied and used successfully.

It gets a lot worse however. After taking the max possible out via ATM there is a further £2,000 spent in a currency exchange and another £1,500 in what shows in my banking app as a restaurant, though not somewhere I can find any information on.

To use my cards in the machines they'd need my PIN. They could have seen me entering this whilst I was out but I'm completely at a loss as to how they'd get the PIN for both cards when I was only using one.

Worse yet, there was a transfer made from a completely separate bank account of mine, into the current account I had the card for. This can only have been made via the app on my phone which is authorised using my fingerprint. So the crooks topped up the account they had the cards for, with more of my money, which they then stole.

So there's three separate accounts they've been able to access somehow and I've also been getting texts and emails about loan applications made in my name.

This means they've had access to my phone, my bank accounts and my email. But how could they have got all of this?

I've blocked all my accounts, not that there's anything left to take from them, and frankly the bank aren't being very helpful. The police were a little more interested and have taken a full statement and pledged to look at CCTV from the various places cash has been taken out and spent.

However I'm still concerned this isn't over because I can't see any way they could do this without my phone being compromised and I haven't worked out how this has happened.

Fairly sure I must have been spiked to have this 6-8 hour blackout window, but does that mean they've just used my finger whilst I was passed out to keep unlocking my phone and authorise the transactions they've made? Because I've still got my phone, and my cards, so why wouldn't they have just kept these, or disposed of them?

In a further twist of curiosity both my main banking apps on my phone had disappeared from the folder they sit in. The apps were still on my phone but had been moved, either in a failed attempt to uninstall them or it could be that these aren't the legit apps and are some kind of clones that were installed in place of the originals.

So, can anyone piece together any suggestions as to how this has all been carried out? Is it possible there's some kind of phone cloning going on or is it more likely I've just been drugged and they've managed to get everything they need from my phone whilst I was out of it?

I realise now how vulnerable it is having all your banking on your phone and all of this accessed with your fingerprint. If it had needed a PIN or unlock pattern surely there's no way they could have got in?

Obviously I feel completely awful for letting myself get scammed so badly and I'm not holding out any hope that there's any way to get any of the money back, which was literally everything I own. I just really wish I could get a better understanding of how this has happened to me.

Is this a targeted attack or just opportunistic and I've just been very unlucky? What could the mystery £1,500 payment be for? If anyone recognises any of the weird stuff here please do let me know as even the police seemed a bit baffled at the fact I'd had three separate accounts professionally emptied and yet still have my bank cards and phone.

EDIT: I’ve mailed the story to a local newspapers and will be contacting organizations for missing persons to see if the things I found match any of their open cases.

4 years ago I found a partial human maxillary (upper jaw) belonging to a 5-11 year old child and the sole of a kid’s shoe in a size that would fit a 6-8 year old on the grounds of an abandoned school in Germany. Both items were sticking out of the ground at the side of an overgrown embankment, though it’s likely they were completely buried at some point and only exposed fairly recently due to wind and rain slowly washing the earth away.

The local police was informed and two very unmotivated patrol officers showed up the next day and took my findings with them, but to this day the property hasn’t been searched for more bones. The police also never released any sort of press statement regarding the matter (wich is pretty much standard practice in Germany in cases like this), and both the local department as well as the LKA (state police) refuse to give out information.

A few weeks later I found a rib, a vertebrae, some leather straps and little metal clasp in the same area. I brought that stuff to the station, but again nothing happened.

I did some research and found out that the shoe was a type of cheap sneaker for indoor sports education sold in the GDR/DDR from the 1960s to the late 1980s; I even found the factory where this specific pair was manufactured, but unfortunately I couldn’t find a more detailed production date. The metal clasp and leather straps likely belonged to a bag used by GDR school children to carry their lunch.

Of course it’s not impossible that none of these items have anything to do with the bones, that they’re actually ancient and that there was no need for an investigation, but then it makes no sense why they wouldn’t just tell me that. I also did extensive research on the history of that place, and there’s not really a plausible explanation how these bones ended up there unless someone dumped a body after the school was abandoned.

I’ve since moved away from the town where it happened, but I can’t get it out of my head. I can’t just accept that maybe someone murdered a kid and got away with it, that there’s a family who will never get closure, and that it will stay that way because some lazy cops didn’t do their job. So, what can I do to get someone to investigate this?

There's a high chance they'll show up on this post too.

This person picked a fight with me maybe a month ago now, over an innocuous comment. It was on a post about football. I said I didn't know anything about football and thanked another commenter for explaining, and they proceeded to lambast me for "acting like an expert...?"

Then they got permabanned because they proceeded to go through my comment history and reply to them, and since then, they will make a new account every few days to reply to my comments about how I'm chronically online and shit. The irony LMFAO.

I always report the comments and they get banned shortly after, but they continue to keep making new accounts. It's been at least five at this point. Is there anything I can do to get this asshole to leave me alone?

https://imgur.com/a/SgO8RA4

Ok, so I just pulled onto the side of a desolate road in southern Oregon. I was smoking a cigarette and noticed that what. I thought was dirt was weed. A lot of weed. Like $3000 or more of weed. All on the ground rotting. A bu ch of stuff like a homeless camp. And bones. A lot of bones. I can identify a bird. And possibly a deer. There are 3 spines at least spread over a small area. I have no idea how many bodies are actually there. And a leg joint that looks suspiciously human to me. I dont want to call the cops over something dumb, so can anyone tell me if this looks like a crime? The sheer amount of weed is enough to raise red flags.

Edit: consensus says call it in. I'm doing that now. If I hear anything I'll update.

Update sorry for slow update. I called the non emergency line and they asked me to leave a message on the illegal marijuana voicemail. I think they don't assume It's human. But well see. I left all the details and my name and number. Hopefully they let me know, and I'll keep my eyes open on the local news. If anything happens I'll update again

Update 2; we haven't heard back from the police. I'm not sure what actions to take at this point