Wasn’t there a case in Japan where somebody secretly lived in somebody else’s closet for ages?
My late mother used to tell a story:
An elderly relative lived in a terraced house (I think they are ‘row’ houses in the US). Although the house was small, two rooms on each floor with an outside toilet, her health was such that she had a bed downstairs and very rarely went upstairs.
One day she heard strange noises, but when she went up to investigate there was nothing to see. The noises persisted so she called in the Council vermin guy, who went up to check the loft. He was pretty shocked to find several beds up there. Apparently the owner of the end house had opened a hole in the wall between each of the lofts and was renting out beds to poor immigrant workers.
3 whole bedrooms??? I have 3 bedrooms and an office. I’m shocked I don’t get lost in this mansion.
I blame it on poor role models like Goldilocks or Hansel & Gretel before kids are old enough to consider the ethical ramifications of such misconduct…!
“But officer, they were eating my house…!”
An episode of *Castle *featured this. An employee of a newspaper noted when subscribers in good neighborhoods would pause the subscription to go on vacation. He would move into their house or apartment, photograph everything, live there for a couple of weeks, and then use the photographs to restore everything to the way it was before, so the owners would have no clue that he had been there. The photographs became important evidence in a murder later on. But the concept was interesting, as the employee had no residence of his own, he would just live for three or four weeks at a time in each house.