A man just walked into my house...

[luciapenguin]

I was upstairs, and went to open the window when I see a man walking out of my house (out of my front garden). I watched him from the window and he didn't go into anyone else's house, and left our street.

I thought it was really odd as he wasn't a Royal Mail postman or anything, but I went downstairs to check whether he had put anything through our letterbox. Nothing there. I opened the door to see if anything he had put in the letterbox had fallen out- again, nothing.

Can anyone think of a logical explanation (I have anxiety) or is this really dodgy?

So he wasn't in your house and how can you be living alone if your parents live with you? As a pp stated, are you always prone to exaggeration?

I walked right into an old lady's house once as a teenager. she crapped herself, I nearly died of fright because it was only when I saw her that I'd realised I'd walked into the wrong house, I ran out screaming I'm sorry wrong house!

I was helping my dads friend move house and he lived one floor above!

Maybe your doorbells's not working. He rang it and then left when no one answered the door

I suspect, are from MNetters in their comfortable, upper middle class areas where things like this never happen.

Sorry to disappoint you op but I live on a council estate in London. Nothing middle class here and I mainly live in black, with hoodies and trainers. Oh and go to posh areas like this. Must make a mental note to stop dressing so dodgy

I can't say where I live as it would massively out me but something dreadful happened recently very near me, involving something similar (sorry this is so vague but it would out me)

Buckingham Palace?

Erm he wasn’t in your house!? I’ve done this plenty of times then realised it was the wrong number or even the wrong road. In fact I even knocked on the wrong house today when taking my daughter to a party but it was the B flat not the A one as the house was split into flats. Easy mistake to make and he didn’t attempt entry so definitely nothing malicious going on here!

Maybe he got caught short and had a wee in your front garden 🤷‍♀️

Yeah, I'm afraid you need to move house. If you go to the outer hebrides the chance of some random going into your garden will significantly decrease, but you will pay more for online delivery.

Years ago, a teenager walked into my back garden. I'm certain that he was up to no good as he had walked down an alleyway, opened our back gate and walked up to the door of the house. He said he was asking if we needed any gardening jobs doing. Yeah, right.

Someone in the front garden? Wouldn't give it a moment's thought.

@DointItForTheKids I know! 😂 I've been trying to work out what it was auto corrected for. Really tickled me Haha

No autocorrect. I genuinely meant to write goth. Maybe the OP lives in Whitby.

Maybe he dropped something and it blew into your garden?

How is anyone supposed to respond when you admit the title is a blatant lie?

@gobbynorthernbird

"Lost goth?" Wins the Internet for me today - bravo 

@gobbynorthernbird fantastic! I hoped it wasn't a mistake

Lost goth! Love it. And now we have a lost OP too!

Oh no the Goth has taken her!

Even using the 'contact us' option on the website is a complete waste of police resources - reporting someone for wandering into and out of a front garden when they have actual crimes to prevent or examine

Since I have lived in this house we have had 2 men ring the doorbell and ask for someone that had never lived here, when I tried to tell them there was another road with a similar name they insisted it was my house.

Have also had things stolen from the front garden which had been left there pending removal to elsewhere, at least twice, and the same people searching our 'safe place'. I knew who they were, recognised them from working in one of the gardens, supposedly a reputable gardening company.

People simply wander in or arrive in vans and take what they can find, happens all over London.

I live in a comfortable middleclass area, and it would bother me!

My guess is that it was an opportunist thief who changed his mind. Reporting it to the non-emergency police is the way to to go. For all you know, they may already have other reports.

Maybe sneaked in for a pee.

Lock the door. Get a spy-hole fitted. No-one should walk into your house without being invited.

I think you're pushing it to say he was in your house.

I understand why you're a bit confused and, whilst it is a bit odd, there could be plenty of rational explanations.

If it were me, I'd be mindful of it and keep my doors locked as I always do but wouldn't be worrying over it.

How has the OP namechanged retrospectively?

ginghamtablecloths
Lock the door. Get a spy-hole fitted. No-one should walk into your house without being invited.

Embarrassingly for you, it's obvious you haven't read beyond the opening post otherwise you would know that the man never entered OP's house, he was in the front garden.