Weird Flatmate

When you share your house with someone there is an enormous amount of trust that is involved. Plus you should always be able to feel secure in your own home. So what happens when you get that feeling that something isn't quite right? Claire shares her chilling tale...

"I used to always feel like I was being watched when I was in the shower or changing in my bedroom. I’d wake up thinking there was someone in my room. I asked my flatmate if he had been feeling the same way. He just shrugged. A couple months later I was cleaning up, and I put something he left out back in his room. I accidently knocked a folder off his dresser. There were pictures of me! Some Of me in the shower, some of me topless in my room, tons of me sleeping!! He even went as far as to take off my clothes while I was unconsious (I think they were from a night I came home and passed out due to too much partying). It turns out he had set up hidden cameras in my room & shower and was videotaping me, then editing it on his computer and selling it as porn. It was one of the worst experiences of my life, and needless to say, I don’t share a flat with him anymore, I had him arrested."

Poor Claire, I don't blame her for not wanting to live with someone again after that. Nightmare! Has something like this happened to you? What did you do?

COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Nick O'Reilley
EMAIL: etherbunny@hotmail.com
DATE: 2006-05-15 13:53:58
I live in the Us. A few years ago I worked with two girls who lived together & had been friends for a long time. They were heavy duty party girls & were what you would call "fast" & I would call "really, really slutty." One day one of them, whom I will call Meryl, didn't come in to work & the other, whom I will call Carron, said she was really scared.

Meryl had been dating a guy named JJ. Seemed he was cute & was supplying her with pot. Meryl & Carrol had a rotweiller Being as they had this big dog, the girls didn't really think about the lack of locks on their house. Neither the front nor the back door locked properly & they never got the landlord to fix them. Anyone could have gotten into their house at any time, but they thought their dog would scare out any intruder.

Meryl eventually broke up with JJ, but as she wanted to keep receiving drugs, she told him she still wanted to still be "friends" with him.

One day, Merly came home & she saw some stuff had been moved from the shelf in her closet. She called Carron in & they searched the room & they found that a camera had been hidden behind her dresser. They ran the video back to find that JJ had been taping her for some time from the closet, but had moved the camera to film himself molesting Meryl one night when she had come home extremely blitzed & passed out. JJ had been to the house so many times the dog didn't think he was a threat & apparently just ignored him as he came & went. Who knows how long he had been taping her, what had been happening when she was so drunk she passed out (as she often did,) & what JJ had done with the tapes?

Carron immediately had a friend put locks on the doors. Meryl called JJ to accuse him & tell him she would never talk to him again. She didn't want to turn the tapes over to the police because she was afraid of getting in trouble if JJ said she was using drugs, plus she was actually engaged to a guy in another state & she was afraid he would find out & kill both JJ & her.

JJ, being a psycho, of course could not believe that he had done anything wrong or the Meryl could stop loving him. He thought that Carron was responsible for making Meryl stop seeing him, so, still thinking he could come into the house anytime he pleased, he came to the back door & tried to sneak in to talk to Meryl.

When he couldn't, he started screaming at her to let him in. Carron went to the door to tell him to go away. He screamed that he was going to kill Carron so Meryl would be his girlfriend again. Meryl heard all this but she just hid in the basement.

JJ started beating & kicking on the door so hard Carron had to force it back with her body, & she thought it was going to come off the hinges. Eventually some neighbor called out to see what was happening & JJ left, but he repeated the behavior about a week later, swearing he was going to kill Carron.

Carron was getting pretty mad becasue she felt like Meryl's actions were endangering her & Meryl wouldn't do anything, she would just hide & let Carron take the brunt of it. They had no proof to take to the police because Meryl had erased the tapes. I advised Carron that she better call the police next time JJ appeared no matter what, because I thought both of them were going to end up being murdered. Carron confronted Meryl & told her that she had to do something to end the situation.

You will not believe this but it is true. Meryl went to JJ's house to confront him & get some of her possessions back. She got stoned with him, & they agreed to be friends. Carron thought Meryl was completely crazy at the time, but JJ did stop coming around at night.

About two months later, Carron very nonchalantly told me the Meryl was dating JJ again. Carron didn't seem mad or surprised or even like she cared at all. As Meryl had told her, ""JJ was cute & he had great pot." Apparently some of that weed got to Carron in order for her to overlook the fact that JJ had threatened her life over & over again.

This story is completely true. So many mistakes were made, obvioulsy there were much better ways to handle a psycho stalker (like put locks on your doors, call the police, etc.)

But the moral of the story here is: at least Meryl & Carron found each other as roommates. They could have been making two other people so very unhappy & at least they kept JJ entertained for awhile. Who knows who he is harrassing now that they have left the state?

This entry was posted on May 14, 2006 01:09 PM and is filed under Just plain weird, Scary, Secret lives, Sex.