Freaked out: AirTag near my rural property
Posting this to get people’s advice who have had similar experiences and figured out what to do.
I live in a rural area. My closest neighbors are at least 5-10 minute walk away in any direction and nowhere close enough to have their AirTags alert at my property.
Yesterday, I received an AirTag alert saying one was near me starting in the afternoon and it kept sounding well into the evening to where I could hear the noise nearby but I was too scared to go out into the dark to find it (because why would an AirTag be near my rural place, especially at night).
I decided to wait until today during the day time to go investigate, for safety reasons.
In the meantime, I messaged my landlord to see if they have any AirTags here that they did not inform me of, such as in the storage area. Sure enough, they said they do have one on a motorcycle that belongs to them in the storage area.
But it never alerted before for the 3 months I’ve lived here and the map for AirTag shows the AirTag moving in a cyclical, back and forth, pattern and the motorcycle hasn’t been moved since I’ve lived here.
Today, I wake up and decide to look for it since it’s daytime. But now, it won’t allow me to search for it anymore and says it was last seen at 3:20 am.
At this point, I’m thinking it’s either an AirTag placed on a pet or stray animal that roams. Or, my worst fear, is that it is an AirTag on a person and that person was lurking near my rural home until 3:20 am last night.
Has anyone else had a similar scare to this? Were you able to locate the airtag?