Neighbours with questionable behaviour

PandaX9 wrote: »

... seriously I'd say they're only around 1.3 metres high!...

PandaX9 wrote: »

When I know for a fact he is home, I'll lie on my back or wear a bra.

PandaX9 wrote: »

Did a search there and no similiar threads had come up - however I'n new so it might just be some naïveté on my part (being my first thread and all). If this topic has already been covered - mods feel free to move it elsewhere/delete it

Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else here is or was experienced the curse of creepy neighbours? I don't mind the sterotypical elderly man that lives alone that all the children are scared of etc, I mean neighbours that just seem to have something not quite right about them.. P.S. rant alert, sorry now.

I'll start by saying I've lived in my house ever since I was a baby and live in a lovely little cul de sac with about 15 other houses or so in what is perceived to be quite an affluent area. I know 90% of my neighbours on a friendly basis (help the elderly ones with their shopping, give some of the kids a piece of whatever I'm baking if I'm feeling generous etc) and have never encountered any anti-social behaviour. Our houses are terraced and the garden walls are way below average in height (seriously I'd say they're only around 1.3 metres high!) so whenever I need to go out into my garden, it's pretty much inevitable that I'd bump into one of my neighbours. On the one hand, that's great because I love my left-hand neighbours and often hop over the wall to their house (with an invitation of course) whereas the right-hand side neighbour.. Not so much.

Basically, he's a middle aged guy, jesus he must be about 50 by now but I swear he doesn't age. He doesn't talk to anyone, only leaves his house at night and lives alone. I mean, yeah he's a nice guy but I wouldn't call him harmless altogether.. Whenever I go out into the garden, the small talk is awkward and nearly always focused on the weather and I often just go back inside. And like, if it's an exceptional, one-in-a-year type day in Dublin I'll go out and sunbathe. And if there's nobody from my family home, or the left-side neighbours, I'd do it topless. Usually I'll remember the other guy and prompty crawl back inside, he's made a point of walking outside when I'm sunbathing - naked or not. I've been inside his house once, when I was about 10 and locked out of my own home and the other neighbours were gone, and his house was the most bizarre thing I'd ever seen. He's a hoarder - I mean he literally had no furniture bar an armchair that was falling apart and a 40'' plazma tv.. and then stacks and stacks of yellow newspapers. The entire first floor was made up of newspapers. Looking back on it now, I think he used newspaper as wallpaper..

But besides the feeling that he is constantly watching me I go outside or his unusual comings and goings in the night-time, the thing that creeps me out to no end is the fact that he is constantly in the garden after about 11pm. Every single day. For over 17 years now, rain or shine. He's always moving around soil with a shovel.. I don't understand why he does this only at this night? Coupled with his only leaving/entering his house in the evening as well.. The shovel makes a very distinct sound.

Now, I don't mind him having a hobby and in fact I think gardening is great, it's just that he doesn't seem to be trying to grow anything. His garden is just soil. No grass, no shed, no trees. Just soil. And I always hear the shovel.. He's just moving soil from place to place with a shovel Anytime that I've come out and he's there with his shovel, it's like he's in a trance, doesn't greet anyone and focuses completely on the patces of soil? Honestly, it's freaking me out no end now. It's perfectly possible he's a serial killer however that would probably require him speaking to people in the first place so the other possibility is.. I'm terrified he's killing and burying the neighbourhood cats. I've got 2 cats at the moment, I had one that went missing 5 years ago and several of my neighbor's cats have gone missing. I'm starting to wonder if there's something sinister about his shovelling.

So anyway rant over, I was wondering if anyone else here has/had neighbours with questionable habits and mannerisms ? And am I just paranoid or does my neighbour's behaviour sound totally alien to anyone else :eek:??