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Strange neighbours

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Whenthingsgobumpinthenight · 02/04/2021 21:25

Ok, please tell me if you think the house next to us sounds weird or am I just being ridiculous.

We’ve lived in our house for almost 5 months now but never seen our neighbours, not properly. They are very rarely home during the day but home late at night. So far I’ve seen a van half a dozen times pull up at the house with a man in it. He’s never in the house very long 5 -30 mins. DH thought he might be doing work on the house but he’s not there long enough. I have seen a few different cars pulling in and out with a woman driving but I’ve never got a good look at her, once I think there was someone in the passenger side. Again the cars don’t stay long. There seem to be the same 2 cars that tend to park overnight. I only know this because my bedroom over looks their driveway so when I’m closing my blinds at night I can see them, but only ever one at a time. Otherwise I never see them pulling up. The car is always gone before we get up in the mornings. Who ever turns up to the house dosnt until usually 10-11 o’clock at night. There is lots of moving around and banging which goes on quite late sometimes.

Today we saw a different car pull up, for the first time we were stood outside our front door, I was so bloody curious that a walked into the car door my DCs had left open🤦‍♀️ But it’s like they are magic as you never seen anyone going in or out of the actual house.

The other day the windows were open for the first time during the day. Not thrown open like ours and everyone else’s in the street, just slightly open and the curtains were pulled almost closed. At the front of the house I’d get as we have to close ours to block sunlight sometimes but the back of the house was the same. My DH was stood outside talking to our DC the same day and glanced up to see a woman watching them but she shot behind the curtains when she saw him look up. He didn’t get a good look at her.

Last week I was woken up by what appeared to be shouting or screaming coming from the house. At the time I dismissed it as the other side of us, not adjoining, is a student house. They aren’t usually loud but do occasionally like to have a few. When I got up I saw a couple of the students in the front garden and the music from their house was travelling through our open upstairs windows so I put it down to that but now I’m not certain it was the students as they were laughing and loudly chatting, what woke me sounded different.

For some reason my DH seemed to think older kids, high school age lived in the house, he dosnt know why he thought this and can’t remember seeing any, he viewed the house with the landlord and agent so he thinks he may have been told this.

We’ve got quite a good view of a lot of houses all around us from the upstairs of our house and with the nice weather there are lots of people out spending time in gardens, open windows chatting over hedges etc but not with the house right next door. There has been no one in their garden, front or back.

I don’t think I’m a nosy neighbour but I am observant of my surroundings and I like to know faces, I think it’s just natural to recognise movements of people where you live.

So Do you think this is weird, maybe vampires or wizards live there???? Or am I being ridiculous and stop being nosy.

OP posts:
Hawkins001 · 21/04/2021 21:51

I'd guess safe house, used either by military or intelligence services

BlackeyedSusan · 22/04/2021 02:06

My nosy neighbour came out to see if I was ok when I fell over.

My nosy neighbours noticed a gas leak and got it sorted

My nosy neighbours noticed someone had set their cooker on fire, twice and evacuated the block and called out the fire brigade.

My nosy neighbour noticed when a chap fell off their scooter and helped pick them up

My nosy neighbour noticed when a flat was getting burgled and called the coppers, I awoke to a scuffle, coppers wrestling burglar to the ground.

My nosy neighbours noticed we were struggling with a delivery and helped carry it to the flat.

My nosy neighbours helped with my car when it had broken down, twice.

I know loads of their routines, they know ours, you can't help it, walls are thin, we meet in the stairwell, we put bins out, we catch blown away bins, we exchange Christmas cards, we take in parcels etc, we lend garages and share skip/large goods collections. We watch each others kids grow, bit difficult not to. All close together looking over each others garden or flats.

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