It’s funny how people you’ve seen in your neighborhood every day for a long time can suddenly just disappear one day.

For example, there’s a guy who I’ve seen walking up and down my street for years…and about a month ago, I noticed I haven’t seen him in a few weeks.

And he hasn’t reappeared since!

It’s wild!

He’s been a neighborhood fixture for years and now, no one has any clue what happened to him.

The woman who wrote today’s story talked about why she has a lot of questions because she hasn’t seen her neighbors, who she’s no fan of, for a couple of weeks.

Check out what she had to say about this.

Neighbor From Hell mysteriously absent for 2 weeks.

“My neighbor across the hall lives with her adult son.

We used to be friends but about 5 years ago she abruptly stopped talking to me and started accusing me of smoking in my apartment and training my cat to spy on her.

She sounds. a bit paranoid, don’t you think…?

About a year ago, she put up cameras, one outside her door facing mine, one outside her window facing the front door to the building.

After my car was hit on the street, I got a permit to start parking in the lot behind the building. Within 2 or 3 days of me parking in the back, she put up another camera facing the back parking lot.

A few months ago, the neighbors downstairs who WERE smoking and filling the hallways with smoke got evicted, and I thought that maybe she’d realize that it wasn’t me the whole time and calm down, but she and her son remained hostile and weird.

Told ya so!

I dunno, maybe it was embarrassing to realize they’ve been wrong for 5 years.

Her and her adult son have lived there for almost 10 years. He was 15 when they moved in, and for most of that time he wasn’t allowed to have keys to the apartment. They have a dog, and they only ever left the apartment together. It was VERY rare to see the son outside without her.

Almost a year ago, the son got a job at the supermarket near our apartment and actually flipped off my partner when they were shopping once.

We started seeing the son come home in the mornings. I saw him every morning, waiting to be let inside or walking home from the supermarket.

She’s probably not wrong about this…

For years, partner and I would kinda joke (out of worry) that he was gonna go all Norman Bates and snap one day, because obviously it’s not a healthy relationship and we would hear them fight sometimes.

Their dog, Buster was old, unhealthy and very overweight. She has ability issues and we live on the 2nd floor (no elevator) so I imagine it was difficult at times to get him up and down the stairs.

They used to go outside and just sit in the lawn across the street for a few hours every day. (Which is funny, considering that she yelled at me for “trespassing” for letting my cat in the grass under her window in the lawn in front of our apartments.)

About a week ago, my partner asked me if I’d seen Buster lately, and wondered if he’d passed away. I realized that I hadn’t seen either of them in a long while. We also realized that we haven’t seen the son coming home from work in the morning, or at the supermarket.

This is weird…

Well, it’s now been almost 2 weeks. Haven’t seen them walking the dog, haven’t seen them at all. They were always VERY loud about coming up the stairs and would slam the door aggressively. 4 or 5 days ago I heard music and singing from the apartment, but that’s it.

They have no car, and son can’t drive.

The other weird thing- she would have to take the cameras in from time to time to charge them, and so they’d move around slightly. For a while she had 2 cameras in front and 1 in the back.

Now there’s only one camera in front. And the one in the hallway facing our door had a little motion-sensor light that would come on when we came and went. The camera appears to be off now.

If Buster passed away, I have no idea how they’d take care of the body. Obviously, they could have taken care of it when we weren’t home, maybe they called Animal Services or something.

She’s legit worried about this.

But not seeing either of them for weeks now is troubling.

Yes, they’ve made my living situation miserable, but they’re still humans, my neighbors, and obviously dealing with some major stuff that has nothing to do with me.

I guess I’m just wondering if I should wait til I smell something to do a welfare check? It’s just all very odd.”

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This is a real-life mystery, huh?!?!

I wonder what happened to these two…

Perhaps we’ll never know…

Even though she doesn’t like these neighbors, she’s worried about them…