Who is walking past my house at 3am?

[dottydally]

So having exhausted all of our own theories, I wonder if MN has any good ideas.

About 6 weeks ago I bought a Ring doorbell. I'm expecting a baby in a few weeks and I'm already excited about knowing whether it's worth getting up to answer the door.

The strange bit, though, is that since having the doorbell I've noticed that someone keeps walking past my house at 3:25am. I live at the end of a cul-de-sac so it's not a through road. Theres a green out of the front of my house which separates the path running along the front of me/my neighbours and the roadway. The mystery walker is always wearing a high-vis jacket and only usually walks one way (into the dead end). It is always bang on 3:25am.

I am the last house on my row and I've already spoken to the house in the very end of the cul-de-sac and it's not them.

I wondered about the milkman but I know he comes about 5:15 as he often meets my other half.

It's not every day, but averages 3 times per week. Not always the same day.

The most recent time the camera caught them was 3:15am yesterday morning. They were 10 minutes early and this time walked both ways past my house, with a torch shining on the floor as they walked back. There is approx 20 seconds between them walking past the first and second time.

So, wise MN, any good ideas? Or am I going to have to camp out at my window from 3am tomorrow in the hope of seeing them?!

@mizzmelli no one I mention it to ever heard of Spring Heeled Jack!!! You are my favourite human right now....

Is it The KLF? anyone under say 35 probably won't know who this is. I'm glad to be amongst friends

Thank you PaulH & Notta and yes Boosey I sadly feel you're right!

@CasanovaFrankenstein did they drive an ice cream van then?

-/ sings -/ they're justified
And they're aiiiincent

I don't think Spring Heeled Jack would be caught dead in a high vis jacket.

Still no update?
I'm so over invested in this
(now humming the tune....... getting odd looks)

sadly it [the doorbell] doesn't pick up movement on the other side of the grass at night. It's quite a large grassed area!

And there's the answer, the chap is doing a circular route, and walking back up on the far side. And the one night he came back, he had dropped something and was looking for it.

Biddie "(now humming the tune....... getting odd looks)"

JUST ROLL IT FROM THE TOP

AutumnRose1

Anyone else beginning to think op investigated further and has been sucked down to the underworld?
Even if she just opened the window, that could be seen as an invite to a vampire. Hi viz is the new black & red.

dottydally any new developments on the mystery walker? I sooo want to know what’s the story.
I hope your pregnancy is going well and you are managing to get proper sleep in preparation for the (hopefully not that many) interrupted nights ahead.

I'm starting to wonder if this is very clever marketing from Ring Doorbells? I've never fancied one before but I've ow started to seriously consider one

My phone thinks I need one - I've now got an ad for one!

I've a feeling this is going to be like the Victorian safe. We will never get an answer.

It's a milkman. Ours comes between 1-3 am and wears a head torch. He parks at end of road and walks up presumably not to wake residents.
A relative once mistook him for a burglar and chased him with a golf club. How we laugh about that story!

I'm starting to wonder if this is very clever marketing from Ring Doorbells

Well yes indeed!

I mean without an OP, whos so worried yet not bothered to check.

How worried in all honesty, and how nonsense anyway! Just because she cant see someone walk back the other way

TBH its put me off the things, recording everything goes by, its a bloody privacy liberty recording unsuspecting members of the public.

Like there isn't already enough of that. Perhaps OP would like to share the pics of this innocent man wandering passed her house at night???

I think she's been kidnapped

By the KLF

Now I want a Ring doorbell!

I’d love that @dottydally
It’d be an eye opener if nothing else.

Oh god should’ve tagged @Biddie191

I know it's been 3 months but I thought I should come back! Our lovely baby Dotty was born in November so while I wasn't kidnapped life has been a bit of a whirlwind.

It turns out (rather boringly) that we actually have two milkmen who come to our cul-de-sac. The one my DP meets at 5am delivers to a house across the street and the one setting off my doorbell at 3am visits our neighbours (the ones I had asked about the mysterious visitor - even she didn't think about her milkman!).

I only realised because I went and spoke to the house at the other end of our road who also have a Ring doorbell. I probably seemed a bit odd but they were lovely about it and we could see their camera capturing the milk float on its way it just before the man sets off my camera. I blame my nerves on pregnancy hormones!!

Aww congratulations!

Congratulations on your baby girl,it will be a whirlwind for a fair few years.it's great when the op comes back with an update

Was he in The Full Monty? He must be moonlighting as a stripper and comes home from the club he's just stripped at.