To be scared of my neighbour? Weird noises at nights...

[Mikadua23]

So this is going to be very messy and long..
We moved here 2 years ago, we live in 2 semi detached house and our neighbour is on our right.

We live in cul de sac and the area is very quiet and peaceful.
I dont work right now due to taking care of our young child and being pregnant with our second so I am home all days.

My neighbour is a man in his ( I believe 50s)
He is very shy when you try to say hello but usually kind, we don't have problems and never had.
He lives alone and have no family or friends, nobody ever visited him for the last 2 years..
He was always alone on christmas, easter or other celebrations..
We would check on him through the covid situation when he would not leave his house for few days at all and we would do some food shopping for him, he was very happy with the help.
I would give him christmas cards but never had one back (not that I expected him to give one! I have purerly felt sorry for him)
I would also give him a portion of christmas dinner last year and he was very happy although never really came back with dishes , he just left them outside our door 2 weeks after..

Our landlord did say to us when we first moved here, that our neighbour is weird and nobody in the road likes him but I never asked questions.

I wouldn't care about the way He chose to live if not the fact that he works night shifts every other week and every time he leaves the house, you can hear noises from his house like someone is still inside which is odd because he does live on his own.
As I mentioned before...
He never even had a friend coming over...

We share walls and it usually takes about 5 mins after he leaves around midnight and then you can hear someone coming down the stairs inside his house .

I dont know why, I am scared of this man and always find him a bit weird, it shouldn't really be in my intesrest whats happening inside his house but the whole thing is just odd.

Despite all this..

He never goes anywhere except his job where he works 12 hours shifts around 4 times a week.

Maybe he has an indoor cat

Will be reading about this man in the news in a few years. If he makes you feel scared/hairs go up on back of your neck there probably is something wrong.

When you know he has gone to work you could call the police saying you think there is a burglar next door as you heard crashes and your neighbour lives alone 🤷‍♀️ or something like that

Yes could be a pet?

If you hear them going down the stairs knock on the wall and see if they respond?

It will be the ghost.

Knock on the door and quickly go back in. Watch from the window to see if anyone opens. Although I'll get too scared to do that

Someone living secretly in the loft and coming out to steal food when the coast is clear.

Clearly he’s keeping someone prisoner in there. There is no other explanation. You obviously now need to break in. I’ll just wait here.

An indoor cat? What the hell is he feeding it that the neighbour can hear it coming down the stairs through the walls?
But in all seriousness....probably a ghost. Or someone he's holding captive 😬

I've a large house cat who can open doors by shouldering them and weighs more than I want to think about.I'd definitely hear him through the walls of a house like yours.

If not the ghost, it is the start of one of those horror films. His elderly mother keeps him trapped in the house by pretending to be bed bound, except letting him out to earn money. As soon as he is gone, she crawls downstairs and shit! It’s behind you!

How do you know he never has friends or visitors over, or a girlfriend who visits sometimes? Has he told you himself, or are you just assuming based on community rumours? Surely the most logical explanation is that you don’t know as much about his life as you think you do. I live in a small terraced house, currently work from home all day and during lockdown was essentially in almost all of the time; and I still couldn’t tell you what my neighbours either side do with their lives or whether they have visitors and when.

Placemarking!

I quite like the elderly mother scenario.

You need to get inside the house, bortow some sugar?? Ask him round to fix the electric, just flip a fuse and feign ignorance. Send hubby round to investigate.

Do update us...

Might it be the heating going off and pipes making noises?

Creepy!

Ask one of the other neighbours about him? Say you are concerned about him.

I read a story about A woman who had been living in a room with a man (in a house he shard with his family) for over 10 years without them knowing! She would wander the house when everyone was out but would keep to the room when people were home.

Cats can be surprising loud coming down the stairs. When my own cat comes down the stairs I always think its one of the humans that live here coming down. So I go with cat...or ghost.

Keeping someone prisoner that only comes out when he’s at work.

@ComtesseDeSpair we share house entrance (green patio on front with Windows so everything is on the view, same with the back garden, he has another entrance at the back which goes through our back garden , we have a very awkward fence , in the last 2 years you could actually get to know his routine without trying. Its hard to miss .
He leaves house, comes back 12 hours later and repeat .
On his days off he suits at home with blinds down....
We also share car spaces, there are 2 in total.
One for us and the other for him.
The only person who visit him is the delivery man (We sometimes take his post when asked but then its really difficult to pass it back to our neighbour because he never comes asking for his parcel nor open his door when we try to give it to him.
The parcel usually sits and waits at our house for days

He's not called Mr Rochester is he?

Could easily be a pet though, I have a small dog who sounds more like a large elephant when he runs up and down the stairs.

I stand corrected on the cat scenario. Mine must be light footed...always sneaking up on me the little fluffy 007!

So options are:

giant/big boned cat
Killer granny
Ghost
Hostage

House rabbit.

Or ghost.

Definitely a ghost.

Or ghost house rabbit.

Seriously though, if you think it's a person you should go and knock when creepy neighbour goes out.