September 3, 2026 at 12:20 pm

He’s Convinced His Neighbors Are Spying on His Family—And Desperately Wants Them to Stop

by Matthew Gilligan

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There’s almost nothing quite as uncomfortable as the feeling of being watched.

It’s enough to make anyone uneasy and, if the watcher happens to be a neighbor who lives close to you, it’s can be downright creepy.

That’s what the guy who wrote this story is dealing with and, as you can imagine, he is having a hard time dealing with this reality.

Let’s take a look at what he had to say about this situation.

Upstairs neighbor monitors my movements.

“I don’t know when this started but the neighbors have been “spying“ for lack of a better word on me and my family.

Whenever I open my front door I will hear silent footsteps that inch closer and closer to the window (their window).

The way the apartment is set up has our apartments on opposite facing ends so if I walk out my front door I am on the grass side of the building on flat ground.

It’s not hard for the neighbors to spy on him.

They can see who comes in and out just by looking out their windows.

Their front door is on the opposite end of where my front door is.

When they open their door they are met with the inside of the building so we hardly ever cross paths.

Some people have way too much time on their hands…

They stomp all through the day and night but the moment I or my family starts moving around in the house like opening doors or cooking, I hear footsteps tippy toeing following us in every room we go in.

I get up at 6 am, take a shower get dressed. I pretended like I was headed out like normal. Opened up my door and waited till they tiptoed to ”see” who it is. I waited 4 minutes then they finally resumed normal activity.

Ok now I’m in my bathroom they’re tiptoeing to hear what’s being said (thin walls).

This cannot be a coincidence as it happened many times.

What?!?!

Of course everyone thinks I’m paranoid but the one time I was hanging out in my vehicle I caught the lady taking a picture of my car.

It’s all on dash cam of her coming out the building looking at my vehicle and taking a picture and walking away.

So lately I’ve been parking far away because I have no idea what she is up to.

But this has got to stop. I understand being nosey a few times, but come on. This this getting out of hand.”

Check out what readers on Reddit had to say about this.

This person has an idea…

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Another Reddit user shared their thoughts.

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And another individual didn’t hold back.

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Ugh…this is weird…

And I got pretty uncomfortable just reading it!

It also sounds like this situation could become dangerous.

This guy is tired of dealing with these creepy neighbors!

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