21 Y.O. Reveals How She Caught Her 73 Y.O. Stalker Neighbor, Shares Details Of The Story In Her Viral TikTok Video
Wherever you decide to live, there is a huge chance that you’ll end up having a neighbor. And experience shows that there are all kinds of neighbors: those who say “hello” every morning and are genuinely friendly and the ones who make you want to move out as soon as possible. It seems that there is also a third “category” of neighbors. The ones that you might never actually see or meet. And this sure sounds great for those who don’t really want to get involved in any neighborhood drama. But what if one day you find out that your quiet neighbor is actually stalking you?
TikTok user @seejoyy decided to share her first New York apartment story and why she had to move out from there. The video that now has 1.2M views tells a story of how she found out that her neighbor was actually stalking her.
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This young woman living in NYC decided to share her experience of confronting her 73-year-old neighbor who was stalking her
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@seejoy, whose real name is Catherine, as she later reveals in her video, started her story by stating that she has to share her story just to make sure that she understands how real it is. She was living in an apartment, located in Brooklyn, for 3 years. In a later video, she showed the condition of the apartment and that she was going to move out from it anyway. And it seems that stalker neighbor made things move faster.
Catherine revealed that she has been living in her first NYC apartment for 3 years now
The woman got suspicious when her neighbor addressed her as Catherine
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Catherine starts her story by telling that she had a few noise complaints from her old, 73-year-old neighbor who she’d never actually met. After this, she received a note from him, but she didn’t think much of it as she thought it was funny and this was the way how this old man decided to express his anger. The note stated: “Dear Catherine, word’s getting around that you’re a floozy who can’t keep it in their pants.” What she was aware of is that he addressed her by her actual name, not by the one she was called on a daily basis.
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The story reached its peak when she found him standing in her apartment while she was sleeping. Catherine woke up immediately and told the man to leave. After this, she called her parents and the police. When the police came, they at first had trouble with getting into his apartment. But according to the TikToker, they finally arrested him.
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The young woman was taken back to her parents’ home, where she found out that her creepy neighbor was actually sending her multiple notes, similar to the one she got after noise complaints. These messages sent directly to her previous house in Long Island made her speculate that he might have been coming to her apartment while she was gone or when she was sleeping and going through her personal belongings.
In her following video, she shared that now she is safe and ready to move out of her apartment. What do you think about this situation? Leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
Once the woman came back home, she found out that there were multiple notes sent by the neighbor directly to her parents house
She now can only speculate whether this man used to go to her apartment when she was gone or asleep
You can check out the video below!
@seejoyy here’s a 3 minute story time about what happened to me today his name is gary and he’s 73 #nyc #nycstory
People online were very concerned about the whole situation and were happy that the woman is now safe
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Share on FacebookNot that she’s lying of course but her parents never told her about the postcards? I would have thought they would tell her immediately so she could be careful
They could have thought it would just make her worried.
Load More Replies...I didn't know at the time but figured out my old land lord oils go into my ex bf apt when we weren't there. I'd noticed a few things moved around. But figured my kitten at the time was playing around. But one day I decided to change out our locks because my ex bf lost a key. So I'd get two new ones w a new handset. I left the deadbolt because we locked that at night Well one day at like 11am I'm home an can see the stairs up to our place. I see him walking up them. I'm in my night clothes playing on the computer. I turn the sound off an it's dark so he can't see in an me inside as he passes up to the door. I hear him put his key in an start forcing on the door. Like he thinks it's stuck. He tries the deadbolt which I had locked an can unlock that. Now I'm scared he will break the door in. To get in? For what? Finally he relooks the deadbolt an leaves. I can see him trying to look in the window. He left. My kitten meanwhile was at my feet trembling. He must have hurt her
When we were out. Ladies please just change the locks or add one u can use as backup in case this happens. That old guy might have had a key to help the old tenant an never returned it. I hope they arrest him.
Load More Replies...Some guy sneaking into my bedroom while I'm asleep is my worst nightmare. Literally - when I'm stressed out or running a temperature, that's my recurring night terror. Sometimes he's just standing there, but if it's a REALLY bad dream he violently rips the covers off me, and it feels so real. It's horrible. :(
"I don't use the doorknob, I use the lock as the door k**b. Like I'm in London" Like you're in London?? I don't get this bit at all, what am I missing?
In some countries, the doorknob does not have a spring, so when you turn it to open the door, the little knobby thing that normally in canada and the US comes back out to slide into the wall when you close the door, does not. So for whatever reason they just use the deadbolt. You see it a lot in movies, too. It's strange, but eh! Shows some of the difference between parts of the world.
Load More Replies...I was stalked by an old man once and he sent notes to my dad in another city!! Telling him I do drugs and smoke cigarettes. I knew who it was when I saw the hand writing because he wrote like a child and this note was the same writing. I don’t know how he got my dads address I never lived in that house. I was a beer girl at a golf course and he would drive around the golf course and wait on side street til I drove by then he would move to the next place he could see me. He would stand next to his car sometimes and wave as I went by. Creepy as hell! Funny how they send notes to parents
They want to hurt you, so they send the notes hoping your parents will get angry with you. It's part of their ploy to isolate their victims.
Load More Replies...And don't think you are ok if you are disabled. I use store scooters because I have bad hips and a bad back. A guy was following me out to my car...started trying to chat me up. Normally I don't mind, but I got a creepy vibe from him. Que my adult autistic son getting out of the car as I approached. My son is 5'10" and weighs 385 lbs. The guy did an about face and headed to his car on the other side of the lot.
this is y im happy me and my husband have an appartment in his parents basement. i dont need to worry about a creepy neighbor or anything like that wen my husband goes on a trip or something and im home alone. i live in long island and i have never found nyc a good place to live. unless ur a millionare or have alot of money and have one of those fancy loft rooftop type places ur more then likely to have a creepy neighbor or 2. my friend live in the city for awhile and shed get love letters from a guy a few apartments down from hers. everyday she got one for a year after never responding he went to her apartment to confront her about. he somehow knew everything about her and turned out he was breaking into her apartment wen she wasnt home. she moved back to long island after that and thankfully unlike the girl here he didnt kno her parents address so she never heard from him again.
Why the hell did her parents not protect her? They should have asked her about the weird post cards coming to their house so they all could have ended it there, or they could have installed cameras or something. That's so weird to me! My dad would have rushed over immediately and asked me why the hell he was receiving weird cryptic letters about me and we would have figured out what to do from there.
Hi! This story is about me(: I never told my parents about the post cards I got because I didn’t wanna worry them. They didn’t tell me about the letters they got because my brother actually found them and didn’t want to show me because I was struggling with the loss of my late boyfriend.
Load More Replies...Imagine what he has done in the past, when he was younger and more physically fit. Run that man's DNA
He's 72, which DOES NOT mean he's a crippled old man. She looks like a small woman and he could easily overpower her.
Load More Replies...I feel like this goes way beyond stalking. He's judging her and insulting her and actually openly contacting her and her family back home. Can't believe the parents didn't call the police right away. What a vile man.
I had to disbelieve someone who claims to have had a traumatic experience, but some of this story is weird. She wakes up to find a man who has broken into her apartment and she screams then calls her parents first, not the police? She and her parents receive creepy postcards and none of them thinks it worth mentioning to each other or the police? If this story is true (and not made up and posted for 'Likes") I hope the criminal is in prison and is named and shamed in the media so his friends, family and future neighbours are aware of his tendencies.
tbf, if I receive random postcards dissing my daughter who is living cities away, I would have suspected AH relatives first rather than *what if* she has a weird stalker neighbour who somehow found my address? I wouldnt bother telling her cause its silly and not worth starting a witch hunt among family.
Load More Replies...It could be as simple as him having a key. If he was friends with the old tenant, they may have given him one. Landlords should change locks between tenants but they don't always bother.
Load More Replies...Lot of people seem to think you solve this issue with a firearm. In Brooklyn? Not likely.
There are people in this world who, though older, are still very dangerous. Do not mistake old for decrepit. Do not mistake old for charming.
What the hell does "I use the lock as a doorknob" mean? How was he getting into her apartment?
Why the hell did the parents not tell her they got these notes?!
Terrified! I too think the parents should have told her about the mail they received. How did this character get the parents address he must have been entering the poor girls apartment when she wasn't home. Apartment living is so dangerous, you don't know what kind of people are your neighbors. I would assume this fellow has a criminal past, just by his cunning ways it would be interesting to know the final outcome of this brave girls situation.
There was no social media when my ex stalked me and left weird s**t in my car in the 90s. Just my friend strongly urging him to move along.
And further, yes anyone can use a knife or some other weapon to hurt another person. But being that he is old, he's probably not as likely to be physical, as he would have been in youth or middle age. He would also more likely to be caught. He was after all dumb enough to write postcards to her parents, left fingerprints all around her home etc. I'm done with this subject and don't appreciate anyone making nasty comments to me. I said what I said.
I know some pretty strong 72 year olds. Don't discount someone's age these days.
Load More Replies...I hate to break it to people but it's super easy to get people's addresses without breaking into someone's apartment. Ancestry.com is one way
So he's older than you and you don't think he can hurt you? How stupid are you? All he would have had to do is pick up a kitchen knife while she was sleeping.
Load More Replies...Which will do what exactly? If he is standing in her apartment while she is asleep, he would grab the gun first. You do know that guns don't shoot automatically at intruders while you're asleep, right?
Load More Replies...Is it easy for you to kill people? Years back, I got a fright from someone following me. I could have seen myself threatening him with a gun, just so he could feel the same fear I did. That fantasy never ended with killing. These days, I'd be much happier having stalkers taken off the streets.
Load More Replies...Not that she’s lying of course but her parents never told her about the postcards? I would have thought they would tell her immediately so she could be careful
They could have thought it would just make her worried.
Load More Replies...I didn't know at the time but figured out my old land lord oils go into my ex bf apt when we weren't there. I'd noticed a few things moved around. But figured my kitten at the time was playing around. But one day I decided to change out our locks because my ex bf lost a key. So I'd get two new ones w a new handset. I left the deadbolt because we locked that at night Well one day at like 11am I'm home an can see the stairs up to our place. I see him walking up them. I'm in my night clothes playing on the computer. I turn the sound off an it's dark so he can't see in an me inside as he passes up to the door. I hear him put his key in an start forcing on the door. Like he thinks it's stuck. He tries the deadbolt which I had locked an can unlock that. Now I'm scared he will break the door in. To get in? For what? Finally he relooks the deadbolt an leaves. I can see him trying to look in the window. He left. My kitten meanwhile was at my feet trembling. He must have hurt her
When we were out. Ladies please just change the locks or add one u can use as backup in case this happens. That old guy might have had a key to help the old tenant an never returned it. I hope they arrest him.
Load More Replies...Some guy sneaking into my bedroom while I'm asleep is my worst nightmare. Literally - when I'm stressed out or running a temperature, that's my recurring night terror. Sometimes he's just standing there, but if it's a REALLY bad dream he violently rips the covers off me, and it feels so real. It's horrible. :(
"I don't use the doorknob, I use the lock as the door k**b. Like I'm in London" Like you're in London?? I don't get this bit at all, what am I missing?
In some countries, the doorknob does not have a spring, so when you turn it to open the door, the little knobby thing that normally in canada and the US comes back out to slide into the wall when you close the door, does not. So for whatever reason they just use the deadbolt. You see it a lot in movies, too. It's strange, but eh! Shows some of the difference between parts of the world.
Load More Replies...I was stalked by an old man once and he sent notes to my dad in another city!! Telling him I do drugs and smoke cigarettes. I knew who it was when I saw the hand writing because he wrote like a child and this note was the same writing. I don’t know how he got my dads address I never lived in that house. I was a beer girl at a golf course and he would drive around the golf course and wait on side street til I drove by then he would move to the next place he could see me. He would stand next to his car sometimes and wave as I went by. Creepy as hell! Funny how they send notes to parents
They want to hurt you, so they send the notes hoping your parents will get angry with you. It's part of their ploy to isolate their victims.
Load More Replies...And don't think you are ok if you are disabled. I use store scooters because I have bad hips and a bad back. A guy was following me out to my car...started trying to chat me up. Normally I don't mind, but I got a creepy vibe from him. Que my adult autistic son getting out of the car as I approached. My son is 5'10" and weighs 385 lbs. The guy did an about face and headed to his car on the other side of the lot.
this is y im happy me and my husband have an appartment in his parents basement. i dont need to worry about a creepy neighbor or anything like that wen my husband goes on a trip or something and im home alone. i live in long island and i have never found nyc a good place to live. unless ur a millionare or have alot of money and have one of those fancy loft rooftop type places ur more then likely to have a creepy neighbor or 2. my friend live in the city for awhile and shed get love letters from a guy a few apartments down from hers. everyday she got one for a year after never responding he went to her apartment to confront her about. he somehow knew everything about her and turned out he was breaking into her apartment wen she wasnt home. she moved back to long island after that and thankfully unlike the girl here he didnt kno her parents address so she never heard from him again.
Why the hell did her parents not protect her? They should have asked her about the weird post cards coming to their house so they all could have ended it there, or they could have installed cameras or something. That's so weird to me! My dad would have rushed over immediately and asked me why the hell he was receiving weird cryptic letters about me and we would have figured out what to do from there.
Hi! This story is about me(: I never told my parents about the post cards I got because I didn’t wanna worry them. They didn’t tell me about the letters they got because my brother actually found them and didn’t want to show me because I was struggling with the loss of my late boyfriend.
Load More Replies...Imagine what he has done in the past, when he was younger and more physically fit. Run that man's DNA
He's 72, which DOES NOT mean he's a crippled old man. She looks like a small woman and he could easily overpower her.
Load More Replies...I feel like this goes way beyond stalking. He's judging her and insulting her and actually openly contacting her and her family back home. Can't believe the parents didn't call the police right away. What a vile man.
I had to disbelieve someone who claims to have had a traumatic experience, but some of this story is weird. She wakes up to find a man who has broken into her apartment and she screams then calls her parents first, not the police? She and her parents receive creepy postcards and none of them thinks it worth mentioning to each other or the police? If this story is true (and not made up and posted for 'Likes") I hope the criminal is in prison and is named and shamed in the media so his friends, family and future neighbours are aware of his tendencies.
tbf, if I receive random postcards dissing my daughter who is living cities away, I would have suspected AH relatives first rather than *what if* she has a weird stalker neighbour who somehow found my address? I wouldnt bother telling her cause its silly and not worth starting a witch hunt among family.
Load More Replies...It could be as simple as him having a key. If he was friends with the old tenant, they may have given him one. Landlords should change locks between tenants but they don't always bother.
Load More Replies...Lot of people seem to think you solve this issue with a firearm. In Brooklyn? Not likely.
There are people in this world who, though older, are still very dangerous. Do not mistake old for decrepit. Do not mistake old for charming.
What the hell does "I use the lock as a doorknob" mean? How was he getting into her apartment?
Why the hell did the parents not tell her they got these notes?!
Terrified! I too think the parents should have told her about the mail they received. How did this character get the parents address he must have been entering the poor girls apartment when she wasn't home. Apartment living is so dangerous, you don't know what kind of people are your neighbors. I would assume this fellow has a criminal past, just by his cunning ways it would be interesting to know the final outcome of this brave girls situation.
There was no social media when my ex stalked me and left weird s**t in my car in the 90s. Just my friend strongly urging him to move along.
And further, yes anyone can use a knife or some other weapon to hurt another person. But being that he is old, he's probably not as likely to be physical, as he would have been in youth or middle age. He would also more likely to be caught. He was after all dumb enough to write postcards to her parents, left fingerprints all around her home etc. I'm done with this subject and don't appreciate anyone making nasty comments to me. I said what I said.
I know some pretty strong 72 year olds. Don't discount someone's age these days.
Load More Replies...I hate to break it to people but it's super easy to get people's addresses without breaking into someone's apartment. Ancestry.com is one way
So he's older than you and you don't think he can hurt you? How stupid are you? All he would have had to do is pick up a kitchen knife while she was sleeping.
Load More Replies...Which will do what exactly? If he is standing in her apartment while she is asleep, he would grab the gun first. You do know that guns don't shoot automatically at intruders while you're asleep, right?
Load More Replies...Is it easy for you to kill people? Years back, I got a fright from someone following me. I could have seen myself threatening him with a gun, just so he could feel the same fear I did. That fantasy never ended with killing. These days, I'd be much happier having stalkers taken off the streets.
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