I feel like my neighbor is watching me.
I (19F) moved out of my parents house and into an apartment early May of this year. After the first night in my new apartment, I woke up and saw a note slide under my door. I figured it was from the landlord, as the card in it said "Cheers" like it was a celebration thing. But when I opened it, a one dollar bill fell out and I was met with a front and back handwritten note.
Now I know this community specifically states person to person contact stories only, and don't worry... It will come to that. This is just the start of my creepy encounter.
The note was from my neighbor directly across from me. For starters, I'm not entirely sure how old this guy is. I've seen him and to me it looks like he could be in his early to mid forties. As I can't post the picture of the note, I will just give a rundown of what was on it.
He first dates it at the top, plus his full signature. In the first part he just mentions that he hasn't had a chance to introduce himself and figured it would be a good idea to stick a note under my door. As for the base of the note? Well... He basically gave a whole rundown about how he went to a different state to meet a girl and that girl later ditched him, and accused him of stealing. I didn't understand why he was telling me this... But then he said that he has some of the girls clothes, and wanted to give them to me.
Another thing he mentioned was that he has keys that he "believes belong to my apartment". That was very unsettling to hear. I ended up contacting the landlord and letting her know about the key situation. I am unsure if that got resolved. The end of the note was all his socials, plus his phone number. He had given me a blank paper in case I were to write back. Of course I didn't.
Now a few weeks after this note situation, I hadn't gotten any other ones. I had been keeping to myself, not talking to any of my neighbors. I'm just not a social person. But I did start noticing that whenever I would walk out of my apartment, he would as well. He would stare at me, then walk away in the other direction. I found it odd after about the 5th time it happened.
Subtle things like this would occur over the months, but fast forward to now. So I am a very careful person when it comes to safety. I make sure that my door is locked every single night. Recently I've noticed that every time I wake up and go out of my bedroom, I see that the front door is unlocked. The first time it happened, I thought maybe I forgot to lock it the night before. The next couple of days, I made sure to lock the door and remember for sure that I did so. But it kept happening. I would wake up, see the lock turned the opposite way.
I don't know if I'm going crazy, or if this neighbor of mine is actually watching me. Am I just overthinking it?
I'm thinking of buying an alarm system for the door. When I do that, I will update if anything else happens.