# Weird issue with Stalker Neighbor, please HELP **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600 "2015-09-17T22:11:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600/21 "2015-09-18T14:49:16Z")
> [@jbubby](#): > > I’m pretty sure he moved his furniture around to match the setup of my apartment so he could be sitting right above me when I watch TV. His bed is directly above mine and he generally goes to bed within minutes of the time I do, after he’s been walking through the bathroom “with me”, and so on. Right now I can tell he is right above me because he’s tapping something on the ceiling, I think he can hear my typing and is maybe annoyed by it?? 😕 He just LOVES when I get a phone call and will roll his office chair to where I’m on the phone and sit there for the entire phone call knocking on the ceiling, if I get loud enough on the call he will start repeating words back to me or even interject himself into my conversation. :mad: OK, this all sounds like a paranoid person talking, but I can understand the identical furniture placement bit. If the apartments have the same layout, it’s entirely plausible that they might have ended up with the same locations for the furniture. I’m thinking of my apartment, and the way I located the sofa, TV, kitchen table, bed and so forth seem to make the most sense given where the walls, doors and windows are. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600/22 "2015-09-18T14:52:07Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I think I’m not following…how can someone mimic the movements of a person they live above? > > I get that other posters are saying this sounds psychiatric in nature…but I’m still stuck on “is this even possible?” > > I’ve had some really horrible neighbors, but no one who stalked me from above. That’s why people say it sounds psychiatric in nature, because it’s so unlikely that it’s possible. I’ve lived in apartments and visited friends’ apartments where you could hear the neighbor above. Sometimes hearing everywhere they walked around the apartment. But I don’t ever remember hearing someone below me. It’s basically impossible for someone above to keep track of and mimic/stalk the person below, unless they had cameras or other surveillance equipment set up. The other options are a psychiatric break, hearing sounds that aren’t there, or misinterpreting sounds (thinking that he’s tapping because he’s annoyed you’re on the phone, but he’s just tapping his foot because he’s restless). ---
**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600/23 "2015-09-18T23:21:47Z")
Once I moved into a new neighborhood, I was convinced that all the neighbors were laughing at me and talking behind my back. Then I realized I was simply being paranoid. Later on I found out I was right ----Roseanne Barr ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600/24 "2015-09-18T23:51:47Z")
> [@jbubby](#): > > 😕 > Is it possible that this isn’t a delusion or paranoia, but simply something that you personally have not experienced? (And if so lucky you. ) Not really. I’ve been both the upstairs and downstairs neighbor. The guy upstairs cannot tell where you are in your apartment. Even more so if you think he’s following you around when his music is loud, there’s no way he can hear you below. The most likely answer, I’m sad to say, is that it’s in your head. Please talk to a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600/25 "2015-09-19T00:35:16Z")
As everyone has said, it’s basically impossible he’s mimicking you like this. Think about it: you say you run fast and stop suddenly and he’s still able to mimic your movement. That would almost be impossible if he was in the room watching you. Please see a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600/26 "2015-09-19T00:48:14Z")
[quote=“delphica, post:15, topic:731600”] I confess I am fascinating/suspect of the similar breathless, Edgar Allen Poe THE BELLS! THE BELLS! tone in all of these OPs, appearing a pretty far distance apart./QUOTE] Thank You! Here is part 1 of that poem: _Hear the sledges with the bells- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells- From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells._ - Edgar Allen Poe ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600/27 "2015-09-19T02:04:12Z")
> [@jbubby](#): > > It’s kind of hard to mistake or imagine the sound of someone right above me knocking, banging, tapping, etc. This is a miserable way to live. Auditory hallucinations are a very common symptom of schizophrenia, as well as the sort of persecution delusions you are experiencing. I can only imagine it would be a terrifying condition to live with. Obviously we don’t know if you have it or not, but if you do you need to get diagnosis and treatment, as it can help tremendously. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600/28 "2015-09-19T03:22:10Z")
You could test the “following you around” part using a shotgun up through the ceiling. If the noise stops after a few rounds, you’ve eliminated that possibility\* \*not actual advice, professional driver, closed course [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-issue-with-stalker-neighbor-please-help/731600.md?page=1)