Her Mom’s Stalker Is The Reason Why She Triple Checks The Locks On Her Door Every Night
Have your parents or family members ever told you a story from their past that you can’t stop thinking about?
One young woman is scarred after hearing a crazy story from her mom that makes her remember to triple check her locks every night.
Her mom was 23-years-old and worked as a bank teller in Illinois in the 80s. She had her own apartment in a building and lived on the ground-level floor.
Every day, she and her co-workers would swoon at a cute guy that always walked past the bank. Finally, after a while, the man entered the bank, introduced himself as Tom, and asked to take her out on a date. She gave Tom her address and had him pick her up for a dinner date at 7:00 pm.
On her date with Tom, she noticed that he was kind of average. He was awkward, nervous, and didn’t have much to say.
When he drove her home, he parked in front of her house and asked if she wanted to go on another date. She politely declined, offering to be friends.
But for two months, she and her coworkers didn’t see Tom walk past the bank after their date night. Since she told him no, she figured that was the end of ever seeing him. But she was wrong.
Months after her date with Tom, she came home one day to find that her apartment had been broken into. Her front door was wide open.
However, the only things that had been messed with and stolen were her underwear. Nothing else had been touched except her underwear drawer. Freaky, much?
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The next day, her father went over and put deadbolt locks on her front and back doors. However, the back door wasn’t as secure.
Since she was in the ground-level apartment, it was attached to the building’s laundry room, which was accessible from the building’s backyard without a key.
A week later, her upstairs neighbor, Janet, tells her that she saw a man trying to get into her apartment while she was at work.
When Janet confronted him, he immediately ran away. She slept at her father’s house that night.
Another month passed without anything freaky happening, so she returned to her apartment. One Friday night, she fell asleep with a fan on.
Around 2:00 am, she woke up to a faint drilling noise. Unable to pinpoint what it was, she tried to fall back asleep.
But then, she noticed that her fan had turned off. The power was out, but when she looked out the window, the houses across the street were lit. Only her building’s power was gone.
Suddenly, she heard someone trying to break into her apartment from the laundry room door. Then, she saw the doorknob turn and someone sticking their hand through the door to undo the chain lock.
She bolted upstairs and ran to Janet’s apartment, where she called the police and stayed in for the rest of the night.
The police couldn’t find anything that night but returned the next morning to find holes drilled into the laundry room door to bypass the deadbolt lock.
Someone had cut the building’s power and phone lines. There were also two peepholes in the laundry room that looked directly into her living room and bedroom. After this awful night, she moved back home.
There were no leads for the police as to who the invasive stalker was until Tom returned to the bank, asking where she was. He said he heard about her break-in, but it was never reported anywhere. How else could he have known?
When the police interrogated him, they found her underwear and some jewelry that she didn’t even realize was missing from her place.
“[Tom] has been in and out of prison,” her daughter explained. “We are just happy he didn’t get to her that night because who knows what would have happened?”
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