Somone coming into my house...

flossyblog

alyth wrote: »

Flossy I so wish I hadn't read that - last night I was convinced that he was hiding in attic!!!! I used to think this place was haunted, things like pictures being moved slightly, cup in the wrong place - it was obviously him all along.

It's the proving it that's the difficult part - I know and the police know that it was him, but there's no evidence to take him to court.

I'll wait and see whether he makes as appearance in this shop this weekend - hopefully not.

Sorry about that. I don't want to freak you out, but people who do this are not all there. I would just check the place out thoroughly, sorry to say this because as it is a bit freaky but it has been know for weirdos to put camera's etc in.

Errata

flossyblog wrote: »

Sorry about that. I don't want to freak you out, but people who do this are not all there. I would just check the place out thoroughly, sorry to say this because as it is a bit freaky but it has been know for weirdos to put camera's etc in.

Blimey Floss, you're freaking me out now :rotfl: and all I have to protect me is a useless lapdog of a terrier who would hide behind me

flossyblog

Errata wrote: »

You sure about that ? When there was seriously good DNA evidence on a lot of the tissues ? When they knew which neighbour it was ? How did the neigbour get into their attic without them noticing ? I'm presuming it happened several times and it seems quite a bizarre story

This happened in 1992. He got in from his attic space to theirs, in some terraces house there are no internal walls which seperate each house. Yeah they knew of the neighbour, a really weird bloke, and not one easily intimidated either. those kind never are.

DNA was still in it's infancy as far as police investigations were concerned

I'm sorry for freaking everyone out, but forewarned is forearmed.

alyth

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Alyth - you have changed the locks is there any other way he could get in? Semi-rhetorical question - I think it is just the oh crikey - shivers - kicking in.

No there's no other way - windows are kept locked apart from certain ones in the event of a fire, no way of getting into the attic (I hope!!) other than from the house. I'll still be sleeping with the phone and the carving knife for a while though.

And it does make you wary - of everything. Out with the dog earlier, and you become a lot more aware of your surroundings. I'll be a bit more warry with customers than I would be normally I think!

redstararnie76

I've just found your thread and read through it. Many years ago when I was in my early twenties and living on my own, I got stalked by a customer of the shop where I worked. It really freaked me out and I didn't cope very well with it. He used to come in the shop where I worked, and he tried to get my address out of the other members of staff - made out that he had been to school with me ( I went to school hundreds of miles away). In the end I did tell a couple of my work colleagues and it turned out that they had already guessed what was going on and didn't want to mention it for fear of embarrassing me. Talking about it was the best thing I did, from then on, the other members of staff would deal with him so that I didn't have too (indeed I used to find myself called away to deal with very random problems that suddenly required my attention!).

tandraig

hi Alyth - feeling better today hun?
I was picturing a sad lonely old man and this geezer has a wife??? well i hope she was there when the police questioned him - I bet she is punishing him more severely than you or the law can!
as Errata says - dont go down the 'did i encourage him' route. all you did was treat him as a friend!!! the rest of it was all in his mind.
I very much doubt that he will have the front to say anything to you - after all - everything he has previously said and done has been behind your back hasnt it?
the other posters are quite right about getting your version out first! nothing worse than malicous gossip started by someone with an axe to grind - if most or all the village know the truth fromthe horses mouth - then his version will be a non-starter.

Errata

alyth wrote: »

No there's no other way - windows are kept locked apart from certain ones in the event of a fire, no way of getting into the attic (I hope!!) other than from the house. I'll still be sleeping with the phone and the carving knife for a while though.

And it does make you wary - of everything. Out with the dog earlier, and you become a lot more aware of your surroundings. I'll be a bit more warry with customers than I would be normally I think!

Hyper vigilance is a pretty normal reaction in your situation, it should start to burn itself out naturally and fade away completely. Just make sure it doesn't start to get out of hand and if it does, some support would be helpful.

carefullycautious

Just read this thread. Thank god you called in the police. Dont wish to frighten you any more but I am very suspicious about this man befriending your dog?

Speaks volumes that he want the dog friendly so that the dog wont defend you.

Just what was he planning for his next move.

Sorry to sound dramatic but you have so done the right thing changing locks etc

ali-t

Like some of the other posters this thread is giving me the creeps as there are so many weirdos out there but I suppose you don't see it if you don't look for it and you had no reason to look for it alyth. My rottie puts the fear into me when we are out as he is hyper vigilant and quite reactive in the dark and has me panicking that every weirdo in town is stalking me.

I would also be sleeping with a few weapons near me just in case. hopefully it is just a lonely old man who misses spending time with your dog rather than anything more sinister.

MrsE_2

carefullycautious wrote: »

Just read this thread. Thank god you called in the police. Dont wish to frighten you any more but I am very suspicious about this man befriending your dog?

Speaks volumes that he want the dog friendly so that the dog wont defend you.

Just what was he planning for his next move.

Sorry to sound dramatic but you have so done the right thing changing locks etc

I really don't think this & the loft story were necessary on this thread!

What are you trying to do?

Its in hand with the police, shes changed her locks.

Grow up & show some sensitivity.