Fun part first: http://www.send-file.com/processing/download.asp?id=69B7D9476853FE15
So during the last perhaps 6 weeks, my family has gotten a few calls from this rather disturbed individual all around 3AM-4AM. All the calls follow a pattern: at first, it sounds like perhaps he is just some angry neighbor with a noise complaint (preface: not our neighbor, but a neighbor of a house we own, which he refers to from time to time). Except the ‘noise complaint’ is irrational for any number of reasons (i.e. last time he said that someone was playing “graveyard creep music out of speakers in the window pointed at him”. His diction is particularly odd, he mixes sentences and phrases in illogical ways, which seems indicative of some sort of mental issue. For instance, in the new message he says “you’ve got your noise pollution going on” or a better example “its a form of persecution and it will not go unchallenged”. Notice how the phrasing of these things (there are even better examples too, but they escape me, needless to say theres something odd about the way he attempts to connect words and phrases) seems off? He also never wants to discuss the problem, just likes rambling about it incoherently.
So after talking about noise, the caller consistently starts rambling about jews (we are indeed jewish, as to how the caller knows this is absolutely a mystery), the bible, the holocaust etc. Gradually the conversations degrades into quasi-threats and incoherent nonsense.
The last few times, this morning included, I’ve dialed the ‘call trace’ sequence on my phone immediately after the call. My understanding of this feature is that the phone company is then able to figure out who is calling (but will only provide that info to the cops).
So can anyone provide any insight into what we’re dealing with here or how we should proceed? Being a student, I’ve always been awake for the calls, but he is sometimes waking other people in the house, and definitely creaping us out (he knows where we live, he knows random stuff about us, he is either mentally ill or a terrific actor, and he won’t stop calling us).
Oh and re: noise complaints, while I can’t categorically rule them out, having talked to the guy, I’m confident he’s off his rocker, and that any rational angry neighbor would sound very very different (also we have a handful of tenants and they are all very conservative young professionals, either doctors, lawyers or one ceo, not the late-night ‘graveyard music crowd’.
If I’ve left anything else out please let me know (oh and we think he got our number from an ‘apt for rent’ sign).
If we goto the police, what might they do?