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I think someone’s been in my flat when I’m out

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Jenasaurus · 27/08/2019 22:01

I went to a BBQ in Saturday night and received a strange text from my DD who was home in her bedroom. She told me to stop stomping around as she was tired. I replied that I was miles away at a BBQ and she must have heard the neighbours

I thought no more of it and then I noticed someone today has come in and put a package on my bed and turned my fan on. Nothings been taken. Again my DD said she heard the door go and someone walking around and assumed it was me. But I have only just back from London

My DD is quite worried as she said it was so obviously someone in the flat she assumes it was me. She said I should get the locks changed as she thinks the former owners who lived here in 2016 could still have a key or even given it to someone else. It hasn’t even occurred to me to change the locks when I bought the flat. I guess that’s what I will have to do but how very odd. Nothing has been taken and they weren’t quiet about it.

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DavetheCat2001 · 27/08/2019 23:02
Hmm
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Jenasaurus · 27/08/2019 23:02

I did wonder but he doesn’t have a key and he lives miles away

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HiItsClemFandango · 27/08/2019 23:02

That's great news OP 🙂

ASauvignonADay · 27/08/2019 23:03

Very creepy! I'd definitely ring 101

PuzzledObserver · 27/08/2019 23:04

OK, lets assume it is a neighbour who still has a key from previous occupier. Firstly - as soon as the property changed hands, you would make the new occupants aware you had a key and give it back. Or if for some reason you kept it and thought, I can use this to put this parcel in their flat, you would surely leave it in the hall or living room, not the bedroom. And you would leave them a note to say you had been in.

If you did not do any of these things, you would be a weird stalky person who needs reporting to the police.

HiItsClemFandango · 27/08/2019 23:04

Definitely replace batteries in your ring doorbell and change locks

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Jenasaurus · 27/08/2019 23:04

As far as I know he is dating 2 other women at his work so has moved on and I doubt would do something like this

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ThierryEnnui · 27/08/2019 23:04

I’d be calling an emergency locksmith.

colourlessgreenidea · 27/08/2019 23:06

It must be connected. Surely you wouldn't be targeted twice by 2 unconnected people.

Indeed. If not connected to the doorbell ringers, it could be your abusive ex, or the person who hacked your dating profile. Or more worryingly, maybe the man who followed your daughter into the toilets in McDonalds.

You need to get your Ring doorbell up and running ASAP, and you need to contact the police. Hasn’t your daughter got an injunction against your ex (or was that a different poster)? If someone is breaking in while your daughter is home alone, and she has potentially got a stalker, this urgently needs to be a police matter.

Totototoro · 27/08/2019 23:06

Scary Shock

SirJamesTalbotAndHisSpeculum · 27/08/2019 23:06

Are you absolutely sure that it couldn't be the ex?

It sounds very fishy to me.

If he's bonkers enough it could be him?

SirJamesTalbotAndHisSpeculum · 27/08/2019 23:08

If not connected to the doorbell ringers, it could be your abusive ex, or the person who hacked your dating profile. Or more worryingly, maybe the man who followed your daughter into the toilets in McDonalds

That's a lot of scary possibles in two people's lives, OP.

Cherrysoup · 27/08/2019 23:10

Surely OP can leave a key in the door to prevent anyone coming in as opposed to paying £££ for an emergency locksmith?

yunalis · 27/08/2019 23:10

There was a post a bit like this on reddit a while back and it turned out to be carbon monoxide. He was doing all the weird stuff himself but didn't remember.

SmellbowSpaceBowl · 27/08/2019 23:10

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FattyPeddledFuriously999 · 27/08/2019 23:11

Or could this be a sneaky advert for Ring Doorbells (it got me googling them anyway!)

isthisit42 · 27/08/2019 23:12

If you have a door wedge put that behind the front door to prevent it being opened if someone does have a key. In case you don't have a chain or it's flimsy.

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Jenasaurus · 27/08/2019 23:12

It definitely won’t be my DC father. He is out of the picture completely. My more recent ex has definitely moved on and we have no contact. I think there will be an innocent explanation to this really I do

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SmellbowSpaceBowl · 27/08/2019 23:12

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ReTooth · 27/08/2019 23:14

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colourlessgreenidea · 27/08/2019 23:15

I think there will be an innocent explanation to this really I do

You said that about the previous incidents too, but it’s not normal for these many strange things to keep happening to the same person. It’s really not.

DavetheCat2001 · 27/08/2019 23:16

Such a lot of strange things happening.....

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Jenasaurus · 27/08/2019 23:16

I have been forgetting stuff a lot lately and I have had a few times where I can tell my DD is frustrated with me for not remembering she has told me something only for me to ask again about the same thing. But in this scenario DD heard someone in the flat when I was out. It was just finding the package on my bed rather worried me. I assumed my DD had put it there.

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Gruzinkerbell1 · 27/08/2019 23:16

I can’t believe how casual you are about someone stomping around your house and going through your bedroom! Especially given the huge list of weirdos in your life.

colourlessgreenidea · 27/08/2019 23:16

What happened with the colleague who was bullying you? Was he sacked or reprimanded in any way? He could have a grudge against you.

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