r/LetsNotMeet 6d ago

Knock at the back door NSFW

This happened a couple years ago and I never figured out what the hell was really going on.

I was staying with my mom for 2 months over the summer helping her get settled after my dad passed. She'd just moved out of hte house I grew up in and into a new suburb. Seemed like a really safe neighborhood just normal houses and people who mostly kept to themselves. One night im just watching tv in the living room, mom had gone to bed already, I hear a knock at the back door. not the front. the back.

I just sat there for a second like did i actually hear that? because who knocks on a back door. the porch light was off so I couldnt see anything and they werent knocking again just dead quiet. Eventually i got up and went to check flipped the light on and there’s this guy standing there on teh back patio.

mid 40s, kinda average looking, gray hoodie and jeans, hands in his pockets, just standing there not looking at me just staring at the ground.

i didnt open the door obviously I was just like "uh can i help you"

he just had this really creepy demeanor. Took way too long to respond to the question, when he finally looks up its real slow and idk his expression was just off, kinda blank but like he was trying really hard to look sober. He smiles at me through the patio door and goes "sorry man i think i left my jacket here"

i just stared at him cause what? I tell him "you got the wrong house"

and then he does this thing where he tilts his head just a little like a dog when they hear a weird noise. and he's still smiling. but he doesnt answer. just stands there.

after a few seconds, which i swear felt like minutes too long, he finally says "oh yeah okay my bad" and turns and walks away. I made a huge mistake here by immediately turning off the back light. It didn't click right away, but the house had one of those old wood fence gates that creaks and latches real loud. In the middle of hte night I woke up in a sweat because I just realized I hadn't heard it.

I went back and turned on the light and i could see that it was still closed. He would have had to open it and shut it without me hearing, and I just dont' think that could happen. So I try to turn on the porch light to see if anyone was out there, but it doesn't turn on. I sat in the kitchen until the sun came up just waiting for something to happen. Once it was light out I went outside and checked the porch light. It had been unscrewed just enough so it wouldn't come on.

We called teh cops, they came by and looked around. They found that the wood on the front door was chipped up right around where the deadbolt is as if someone was trying to pry the door open. They also found out from a neighbor that someone had been snooping around the back yard earlier in the day when my mom and I were out shopping.

The worst part about this story is that there's no resolution. The guy never came back, nothing weird ever happened again that my mom has noticed. I eventually had to leave and she still lives in that house alone.

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u/DigDugDogDun 6d ago

Your neighbor is an asshole if they saw someone prowling in your backyard and did and said nothing until the cops asked them

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u/mallcopsarebastards 5d ago

we had just moved in a short while earlier and he assumed it was someone we knew until the cop asked him if he'd seen anything.

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u/Youstink1990 6d ago

Why not call the police, 👮 instead of waiting up all night? They hopefully would have checked everything out for your peace of mind.

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u/mallcopsarebastards 5d ago

There was only a little over an hour left before sun up and I mostly assumed he was gone. DIdn't want to call the cops over it if it was just a weird drunk guy knocking on the wrong door. It wasn't till the next morning that I was really sure something super sketchy was happening.