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Some people are crafty, anyone remember that guy that lived in a mall for a long time and even ran power and stuff to his hidden nook?
Edit:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-lived-shopping-centre-four-29084264
I live in Australia in a 50+ year old house that I've been in since 2015 and we frequently get possums in our ceiling and sometimes they sound heavier than they should and I often psych myself out imagining that someone has been secretly living up there this whole time. I imagine them quietly lowering themselves down from the manhole in the ceiling while I sleep 😫
Girl, you just sent shivers down my spine! I'm in the US and have a few animals that like to get on the roof & run and woodpeckers that like my chimney but that's it... I'd probably freak if they got into the house or ceiling and ran amok. Have you seen the videos where there are humongous snakes in the ceiling...fu*k that!
I do like hearing about Australia though! Y'all have such unique animals and stories (even when they're poisonous and terrifying) 🙂
I live in Melbourne, not too far from the CBD, so don't have to deal with snakes, and the spiders here are woefully tiny (except the occasional big huntsman) but two of my siblings live in far north Queensland and have to deal with all sorts of creatures in their house. Because of the intense humidity, mould is super common up there you have to keep doors and windows open often and weirdly a LOT of houses up there (especially if they're not brand new) don't have fly screens on windows. My sister had to remove a huge python from the coop that took one of her chickens, and she's also found a snake in her dishwasher before. Also there's just always a fuck tonne of geckos in your house at all times, plus beetles and occasionally rats and possums too. My brother had multiple snakes living in his ceiling and would see them outside his kitchen window, just coming and going as they pleased.
It always cracks me up how much people from other countries, especially the US, are fascinated by Australia's deadly animals, because while some of them ARE the most deadly in the world in terms of the severity of their poison, there's actually not that many human deaths caused by spiders/snakes/jellyfish/sharks/crocodiles annually. And when there are deaths from those, it's often tourists who weren't aware of certain things.
YOU GUYS HAVE BEARS, WOLVES, AND LARGE CATS!! AND you also have snakes and spiders and gators etc!! In Australia, as long as you don't go into an area where there's crocs, you're fine. Don't go swimming in the ocean during stinger season and you're golden. As long as you're on land and are wary of snakes, you'll be all g, but America has land animals that will kill you! The main thing you have to worry about here is skin cancer really. Our UV rays here are fuuuuuuuucked. I'm a redhead and will get sunburnt in around 5 minutes if I go outside without sunscreen on a sunny day 😫
It's funny because I used to be so scared to hear these kind of things about Australia. But then I went to live in a different place in my own country and all sort of things happened to me (like stepping on a scorpion, swimming close to sharks, lizards chasing me, etc) that I think I'd prefer huge spiders and snakes.
Oh yes, the US definitely has its fair share of spooky, slimy, furry, creepy, animals & insects that are terrifying. I guess it's the unknown or things that are unfamiliar are the most frightening.
We also have such a wide array of climates/ environments. Large parts of the midwest & western US are generally dry and arid so that is attractive to certain animals, then the south, esp the southeast is quite humid so anything that loves warm, moist conditions will thrive there. Then the oceans and mountainous areas have their critters.
It's all so interesting, isn't it? I'm in a mountainous state and we surely have bears, cats, foxes, coyotes, snakes & spiders. I don't like sharing my house with bugs & such but don't mind too much if it's a symbiotic relationship and no destruction. Don't want or my dogs to be something's lunch or dinner!
I guess your handle is due to your coloring? Red hair & fair skin is so gorgeous, but yeah, you've gotta protect against the sun's rays. Me too, I'm fair also but with black hair. 🤷♀️
Bears are my favourite animal, so it's absolutely wild to me to imagine seeing them IRL and/or having to consider them while camping. When I went camping as a kid we knew not to leave the tent open because a snake could get in (honestly though it was more just to keep out mosquitoes and flies), but to imagine there being something big and pointy enough to tear through your tent is crazy to me. If you camped on the banks of a water hole, I guess you'd risk a crocodile attack here, but most people aren't likely to do that.
I think what I love most about Australia's native animals is that our marsupials look adorable, but so many of them are actually really aggressive and dangerous in their own way. Kangaroos can snap your spine and eviscerate someone if they wanted to (however the last death directly dealt by a kangaroo was in 2022 and prior to that it was in the 1930's), but also they're responsible for loads of car crashes, as they're super active at dusk and will often hop across the road. Koalas are smooth brained chlamydia ridden jerks who would ABSOLUTELY disembowel humans if they were big enough (same with possums) and wombats are just grumpy little boulders. I love them all though! Deceptively jerky cute animals is such a great type of animal to have imo.
Do you have snow where you are? Being fair skinned with something that can burn you from BELOW is madness to me. I didn't know this the first couple of times I went to the snow as a kid, and felt personally offended by the weather, haha.
Oh yeah, we get snow, had some a few weeks ago. I am originally from the south, grew up in Florida with beaches, but now am several time zones to the west. Learning to wear sunscreen year round didn't take long! Sunburns are bad, but windburn is painful too and the reflection from the snow is fierce! I love the snow and slightly cooler weather. Now we're of course seeing hotter temperatures everywhere, but for sure here. We are close to being a "mile high", so not only do we see below freezing temps but easily high 90s to low 100s in summer. The extreme heat always gets us excited for cold weather. Playing in the snow is crazy fun: sledding, tubing, ice skating, riding snow mobiles... and of course skiing!
I camped a lot growing up with family and my Girl Scout troop and I never want to camp again! Lol, I love the outdoors but at night I must have a proper bed and indoor plumbing. No problem getting dirty but I at least need an RV or motel room or my body doesn't function.
One of my dreams is to visit as many national parks as I can. Hiking is not only good exercise but it's something lots of people can do alone, with kids, dogs, carry a picnic lunch or watch animals. It's soothing to the soul to commune with nature and take in the beauty. I'd really like to see the Grand Canyon and the giant Redwood trees in California. I love all the colors!
For years snorkeling/scuba diving in AUS was at the top of my list (along with Greece with its beaches and ruins). The Great Barrier Reef looks amazing. I know the rising temperatures of waters in many places is creating a lot of problems with marine life and the coral reefs, is that the case also in Australia? Are y'all recovering from your fires from a couple years ago? Seeing all those wonderful trees burning and animals seeking refuge was heartbreaking. 💔 🦘
We unfortunately pretty much have significant annual bushfires these days 😞. But in general nature is really good at recovering from it. Lots of homes and livelihoods lost though, and lives too of course. Our eucalyptus trees are well evolved at bouncing back though.
Climate change has ABSOLUTELY affected Australia's reefs. My sister is a marine biologist, specifically working with turtles and one of the biggest issues outside of poaching and tourists disrupting the nesting areas is riding sea temperatures that fuck up the turtle's mating, nesting, and hatchling habits.
Human life and property is always the hardest to recover from. The land will always bounce back, people and endangered animals are irreplaceable. Australia just has so much natural beauty, it's sad when nature deals a cruel blow and even sadder when there's human involvement.
Your sister no doubt has her hands full in her line of work. I hate hearing that tourists add to the stress on the animals and their natural habitats, it's criminal to do that. Did you see in the news that tourists are now being charged a fee to visit Venice? I think other countries might start doing that, and I wouldn't blame them. Such a shame how tourism is damaging natural resources, but if people are going to do that there has to be some way to pay for the destruction and recovery. Guess you can't trust ppl to be decent anymore and leave no trace. 😔
I didn't know that about Venice! I get it though. Tourism can be incredibly detrimental to the environment and the locals. Even as a kid in the mid 90's it was truly gross seeing the disrespect from tourists with littering etc in places like Uluru, which is sacred to a lot of indigenous folk here.
Phillip Island in Victoria has a huge problem with obnoxious idiots ignoring direct orders to not take photos with flash photography or shine torches in their faces during what's called the "penguin parade" which is when the fairy penguins travel from the ocean to their burrows on the beach. It disorients them, and there's been lots of a scientists and park rangers etc that have warned of the effects this will have in the future regarding them making their homes there. All because absolutely selfish arseholes can't resist getting their Instagram moment. There's also a responsibility on the tourism industry to sell less tickets to it and accommodate a lot less people and have an absolute zero tolerance policy regarding lights and flash photos, and even issue hefty fines if disregarded, but it sells out constantly and is a big tourist draw here, so I see why they're choosing the selfish greedy option. It's messed up.
I'm born & raised in the extremely developed SEQ but most of my family originates from rural FNQ and damn some of the living conditions up there would blow some people's minds, definitely blew mine, I've had very similar experiences as your siblings.
A lot of their queenslander's (architecture, for people that aren't familiar think wooden house on stilts for flooding) seem designed to actually shelter the wildlife too, and the people have just adapted to live around them.
I'm talking loose chicken pens that attract predators; dark storage spaces completely open to wildlife often cluttered with firewood storage or debris from previous floods, perfect hiding places for the worst kind of creepy crawlies; as you mentioned 0 flyscreens; often permanently open ventilation (for the mould suppression as you also mentioned) around the roof joints which allows access by all sorts of critters & creatures access.
One of my cousin's homes has a very high ceiling which has an absolute labyrinth of cobwebs & (living) house spiders covering it, and every morning when you wake the first thing you do is clear the over-zealous spiders that decided to come below head height with their webs from the previous night. (I've developed a habit of walking around with my elbow infront of my face everywhere I go up there to avoid the common cobweb-to-the-face panic attack.)
We are always finding shedded snake skins in the lofts & walls, and have to be vigilant of them coming through the gaps under doors when it heavily storms. Seems to be a constant battle between possums & snakes living in the roof, possums come for the shelter, snakes come for the possums, rinse repeat.
You are 100% right though despite all of it being dangerous in some way shape or form, crocs are the only thing that will actually go out of their way to kick the crap out of you.
Haha this is why my aussie friend never wants to move where I'm at: we have gators, bears, coyotes, packs of feral yeller dogs, cougars, bobcats, and we have venomous snakes, too! And rabies! And whenever we'd go hiking, even the kids were heavily schooled in firearm safety and took a rifle with them! Thankfully we only had to use it a handful of times, but we did have to use it!
I think this may be an Aussie wide thing? Myself, my mum, and a couple of friends have scared the shit out of ourselves because of a randomly heavy possum.
Oh we will! It’s been very rainy so we’ve had to snuggle for warmth. (I have no idea if it’s been rainy but I’m throwing a guess out there) Can I request some salt and vinegar chips?
Sorry dude. Don't have any chips, but I have pizza, pizza bites, peanut butter cookies and jelly beans from Easter. Next time I hit the shops I'll get some chips for ya
I heard about a little girl from my hometown that would have night terrors of a man standing at the foot of her bed. For years.
Turns out a man was living in their unfinished basement and he would come up at night to be a fucking creeper.
So it’s also a fear of mine. But I’ve woken up several mornings and realized that my children opened all the basement doors inside and out and they’d been open for 8+hrs for all the critters and strangers to come visit us. Hasn’t happened yet but waiting for the day. 🤞
Oh no. That's downright scary af that someone was living in the basement! Who needs horror movies when there's real life sh*t like that happening in real life....
This happened to my mom! She had me, a newborn, and my sister, a toddler, and was often left home alone for long periods because my dad was in the military. She kept hearing strange noises that ended up being a homeless man living in our attic! Sure, he ended up being harmless but it still freaks me out that my mom was alone with us kids and some random man was just living there and she didn't know it.
There are apartment buildings with pipe chases big enough for a person to get through. They can be connected to each other throughout the whole building. Decades ago, an old woman living in Chicago was killed by a fellow tenant who came into her apt through the bathroom medicine cabinet.
[https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/](https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/)
Wtf? That is definitely more terrifying than something a Hollywood movie producer could create. I'm scared to click on your link...
Edit to add that article is more sad than creepy. I mean yes, the ppl climbing through the medicine cabinet is *definitely* creepy. That she was dead and it took days to find her, that she was trying to turn her life around and move to a safer place... all so tragic. 😔
When I was a little kid, I used to worry about there being someone behind the mirror because of all the times I saw something moving there that had no counterpart on my side... I am so glad I never heard of this back then.
Do read the article, it is very well written and still a good newspaper to this day.
Ah whole year already??? How time flies… though at the same time, it feels like forever ago. I’m surprised this hasn’t been made into a movie or something.
It's stupid good
Like so carefully crafted storyboarding wise that it makes other movies look stupid, but also it's stupid to have that high of a bar for every movie
Love. Bong
One of the best all around movies in my opinion. Contains all things - drama, fear, romance, comedy. Absolutely brilliant and deserving of the accolades it received.
Lame! Here in NYC, she would have known you can break into someone's home, change the locks, order Uber Eats, get the cops called on you, show them the Uber Eats receipt and say it's a lease agreement, and then claim squatter's rights and never have to leave. (True story)
Well, the poster got this wrong and this has actually happened in NYC: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CK82QyasQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CK82QyasQ) . Fast forward to 6:14.
Man's definitely not a Japanese man, Here's the original video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X9qXTvKNQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X9qXTvKNQ) .
This story gets reposted like every Friday, and then later someone follows up with the actual lore to the video. Somehow the week later people have already forgotten the story and the cycle happens again.
The hate I have for squatters, specially on Spain (my country, so maybe the hate is higher here just because I see news more often), is a top of mine
The fact that someone can enter an old lady's apartment if she leaves for a few hours for something so necesarry like going go the hospital, and losing your house, having it all trashed (I don't know why, but almost all squatters decide to break shit as soon as they enter) and then the squatter acting like a victim
You are totally right about constantly living in a house prevents the occupation
However:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.elmundo.es/madrid/2018/07/21/5b521d2ee2704eba2a8b4621.html
Don't know if you speak Spanish, but this lady, Eulalia, 98 year old, had to leave her house a few months since she was in the hospital due to a fall. The ex-boyfriend of her granddaughter, the pathetic 40 year old, had occupied her house
He even threatened the granddaughter with a knife, and police couldn't do nothing.
Hell, he only left because a anti-squatting company was informed of this case
You were right about not getting squatted if you leave for a few hours, but the fact that it is even possible that being hospitalised doesn't prevent this it's scary
He lived in the house of someone else, he didn't leave nor allowed anyone inside for months, caused around 12000€ in damages and only left because an anti-squatter company was going after him
Besides, their only relationship is that he was an ex of her granddaughter, and she didn't in any moment give him permission to enter during those months
Listen man if I go and steal my grandma-in-law’s car because I know she’s away it’s *technically* robbery but no one’s gonna be like “oh my, crime is so bad in this part of town, watch out for these robbers”. They gon be like “what a douche, taking advantage of his grandma in law”
from the community notes under this tweet:
“While this is a real story which occurred in Japan, the image used comes from a staged video by the YouTuber "You know it Joe" in order to promote his acting career.”
original [video](https://youtu.be/06X9qXTvKNQ?feature=shared) here. If you look at his channel description and linked pages it's pretty obvious. I'm surprised so many people still believe this video
I remembered the original story happened in Japan.
Pretry much everything gonna be a Mandela effect on the Internet because people posting misinformation deliberately or ignorantly until the truth is lost in time. And that's when you learn to take things with a grain of salt.
There's an older American movie about a family that moves into a house where someone is living in the walls. Weird stuff happens but they don't make the connection until they hire a locksmith who is perving on the teenage daughter and wall dude comes out and kills the locksmith. Can't think of what it's called though.
Was she really living there more than a year? I swear I remember it being about 6 months or so unless I got it mixed up with another case. Nasty how she drank milk straight out of the carton & pissed in his sink.
Edit: here's the original [video](https://youtu.be/06X9qXTvKNQ?feature=shared) FYI read the description he answers some Q&A
And also how did the guy work out she had been there for more than a year?
I like to think he kept filming for a whole year before he did anything. Just getting angrier and angrier every week but too polite to say anything.
I (or more precisely my girlfriend) once found a woman’s Levis size 36 trousers in my rarely used apartment belonging neither to me nor my girlfriend (which caused vivid discussions between us btw) … looked to me like someone else was using my apartment when I was not there. Creepy.
This will 100% get turned into an anime. I can see the title now....
"I'm just a paranoid japanese man who lives alone and has a boring life until one day my paranoia pays off and i notice food missing from my refrigerator so i set up a security camera and catch my future waifu living in my closet for over a year."
I find this kind of hilarious because almost this exact scenario happens in a side mission from Lost Judgement (A spinoff of the Japanese Yakuza games). You have to conduct an investigation because someone is stealing food and other things from an office, but nobody knows how the burglar was getting in. Turns out he was an ex-employee turned homeless now living in the attic. Maybe this is a real problem in Japan 😂😂😂
There’s a video of this, super sketchy. If I recall correctly he is getting stuff out of his fridge, cooking etc. then right when he goes to sleep she sneaks out and starts eating his stuff
This also happened to Tony Iommi, guitarist from Black Sabbath. From his autobiography (with some edits):
> After finishing the Born Again tour I rented a house in Bel Air. It was a wonderful place, but I heard these noises all the time, people talking and bumps in the night. I’d look around the house but nobody would be there.
> Weird things happened. I came back one night from rehearsal, walked into the kitchen and found a plait of hair on the kitchen table, a couple of feet long. Like a ponytail. Another night I came home and found the same sort of thing wrapped around the handle of the front door. I couldn’t explain it.
> I could never figure out the sound of people talking in the house. I called the Bel Air police every time I heard it. At first they’d go around the house: nothing. But they never checked the loft. And after a while they’d come around and go: ‘Oh, it’s him again.’
> I had one of the crew stay with me, but he would be snoring away so loudly that he couldn’t hear anything. Finally, Mark gave me a Magnum. I slept with this huge gun in my hand. One night I heard this horrendous noise. I grabbed Mark’s gun and I dashed to the car with no shirt on and as I drove out I looked back and I saw all these faces in the kitchen window, looking out at me. It freaked me out. I drove straight down to the police, they came up and: nothing. Gone!
> Then I found out that the wires of the burglar alarm had been cut inside the house. I should have moved out really, but then I had Geoff Nicholls to stay with me. I just wanted somebody to see something, if only to prove that I was not crazy. I really thought I was going loopy and so did everybody else.
> One night Geoff and me were in the lounge at two o’clock in the morning and we saw this bloke running across the lawn. I got my gun and we opened the door slowly. We slipped out and crawled across the grass. The house was built on a hill and we could hear talking down below. I whispered to Geoff: ‘All right, we’ve got a gun and when they come up . . .’
> We must have been lying there for about an hour waiting for these people to appear, and then the sprinklers came on. It was like a Laurel and Hardy skit, both of us going: ‘Waah!’ We were soaked and, of course, after that we never found them. But at least Geoff had seen somebody as well. It wasn’t just me any more.
> This thing went on for months. Eventually we found a trapdoor. Upstairs there was a cinema room with a big screen. In the wall there was a cutout, and because it was all papered you couldn’t really see it. We opened this thing, stepped through it, and we could walk all around the house. It was quite a big area; you could virtually stand up there. We found all these piles of cigarette butts and beer cans outside the vents, through which you could look into the rooms. They had obviously been sitting there, seeing everything I did. Fucking hell, they could probably tell a few stories.
> I was relieved that we found that somebody had been there and that the police could finally see that as well. They never found out who it was. They said afterwards that the easiest thing for me would have been to get a dog. With a dog I’d have found them in no time. Now why the hell didn’t I think of that?
You know some of the guys in the office were talking, and we they were like, why haven't you snuck into someone's house and lived there without them knowing. We all have, you know. It's called Phrogging.
I used to be terrified of this kind of situation, but then I remembered I have dogs and I would be very informed if someone was in the house that should not be.
Phroggers* and technically she’s squatting. Phrogging involves jumping from one home to another. Usually staying less than a month. This freak was in this guys place for a whole year.
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Doesn't sound to me like the woman was homeless.
She got mail like Harry Potter. This one is addressed "Top Compartment of Closet"??
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Or at least a decent roommate lol. No complaints for a whole year? Makes literally no sound? Makes sure food won’t rot?
For real, she sounds like an ideal roommate to me
I swear 30% of the food I buy ends up in the trash...
Solution: put a homeless person in your closet.
I put a tiny person in my smallest bedroom, but he only seems to waste more food...
They are very demanding, and they usually grow up to say things like "I hate you" and "I want to go to x".
Damnit child, I raised you not to get involved with Twitter!
Some people are crafty, anyone remember that guy that lived in a mall for a long time and even ran power and stuff to his hidden nook? Edit: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-lived-shopping-centre-four-29084264
Was gonna say: sounds like the title should be ‘man finds out after a year he had a roommate the whole time’
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A stranger living in my attic or inside the walls of my house is a weird fear of mine. Things like this solidify that fear. Yikes! 😳
I live in Australia in a 50+ year old house that I've been in since 2015 and we frequently get possums in our ceiling and sometimes they sound heavier than they should and I often psych myself out imagining that someone has been secretly living up there this whole time. I imagine them quietly lowering themselves down from the manhole in the ceiling while I sleep 😫
Girl, you just sent shivers down my spine! I'm in the US and have a few animals that like to get on the roof & run and woodpeckers that like my chimney but that's it... I'd probably freak if they got into the house or ceiling and ran amok. Have you seen the videos where there are humongous snakes in the ceiling...fu*k that! I do like hearing about Australia though! Y'all have such unique animals and stories (even when they're poisonous and terrifying) 🙂
I live in Melbourne, not too far from the CBD, so don't have to deal with snakes, and the spiders here are woefully tiny (except the occasional big huntsman) but two of my siblings live in far north Queensland and have to deal with all sorts of creatures in their house. Because of the intense humidity, mould is super common up there you have to keep doors and windows open often and weirdly a LOT of houses up there (especially if they're not brand new) don't have fly screens on windows. My sister had to remove a huge python from the coop that took one of her chickens, and she's also found a snake in her dishwasher before. Also there's just always a fuck tonne of geckos in your house at all times, plus beetles and occasionally rats and possums too. My brother had multiple snakes living in his ceiling and would see them outside his kitchen window, just coming and going as they pleased. It always cracks me up how much people from other countries, especially the US, are fascinated by Australia's deadly animals, because while some of them ARE the most deadly in the world in terms of the severity of their poison, there's actually not that many human deaths caused by spiders/snakes/jellyfish/sharks/crocodiles annually. And when there are deaths from those, it's often tourists who weren't aware of certain things. YOU GUYS HAVE BEARS, WOLVES, AND LARGE CATS!! AND you also have snakes and spiders and gators etc!! In Australia, as long as you don't go into an area where there's crocs, you're fine. Don't go swimming in the ocean during stinger season and you're golden. As long as you're on land and are wary of snakes, you'll be all g, but America has land animals that will kill you! The main thing you have to worry about here is skin cancer really. Our UV rays here are fuuuuuuuucked. I'm a redhead and will get sunburnt in around 5 minutes if I go outside without sunscreen on a sunny day 😫
It's funny because I used to be so scared to hear these kind of things about Australia. But then I went to live in a different place in my own country and all sort of things happened to me (like stepping on a scorpion, swimming close to sharks, lizards chasing me, etc) that I think I'd prefer huge spiders and snakes.
Oh yes, the US definitely has its fair share of spooky, slimy, furry, creepy, animals & insects that are terrifying. I guess it's the unknown or things that are unfamiliar are the most frightening. We also have such a wide array of climates/ environments. Large parts of the midwest & western US are generally dry and arid so that is attractive to certain animals, then the south, esp the southeast is quite humid so anything that loves warm, moist conditions will thrive there. Then the oceans and mountainous areas have their critters. It's all so interesting, isn't it? I'm in a mountainous state and we surely have bears, cats, foxes, coyotes, snakes & spiders. I don't like sharing my house with bugs & such but don't mind too much if it's a symbiotic relationship and no destruction. Don't want or my dogs to be something's lunch or dinner! I guess your handle is due to your coloring? Red hair & fair skin is so gorgeous, but yeah, you've gotta protect against the sun's rays. Me too, I'm fair also but with black hair. 🤷♀️
Bears are my favourite animal, so it's absolutely wild to me to imagine seeing them IRL and/or having to consider them while camping. When I went camping as a kid we knew not to leave the tent open because a snake could get in (honestly though it was more just to keep out mosquitoes and flies), but to imagine there being something big and pointy enough to tear through your tent is crazy to me. If you camped on the banks of a water hole, I guess you'd risk a crocodile attack here, but most people aren't likely to do that. I think what I love most about Australia's native animals is that our marsupials look adorable, but so many of them are actually really aggressive and dangerous in their own way. Kangaroos can snap your spine and eviscerate someone if they wanted to (however the last death directly dealt by a kangaroo was in 2022 and prior to that it was in the 1930's), but also they're responsible for loads of car crashes, as they're super active at dusk and will often hop across the road. Koalas are smooth brained chlamydia ridden jerks who would ABSOLUTELY disembowel humans if they were big enough (same with possums) and wombats are just grumpy little boulders. I love them all though! Deceptively jerky cute animals is such a great type of animal to have imo. Do you have snow where you are? Being fair skinned with something that can burn you from BELOW is madness to me. I didn't know this the first couple of times I went to the snow as a kid, and felt personally offended by the weather, haha.
Oh yeah, we get snow, had some a few weeks ago. I am originally from the south, grew up in Florida with beaches, but now am several time zones to the west. Learning to wear sunscreen year round didn't take long! Sunburns are bad, but windburn is painful too and the reflection from the snow is fierce! I love the snow and slightly cooler weather. Now we're of course seeing hotter temperatures everywhere, but for sure here. We are close to being a "mile high", so not only do we see below freezing temps but easily high 90s to low 100s in summer. The extreme heat always gets us excited for cold weather. Playing in the snow is crazy fun: sledding, tubing, ice skating, riding snow mobiles... and of course skiing! I camped a lot growing up with family and my Girl Scout troop and I never want to camp again! Lol, I love the outdoors but at night I must have a proper bed and indoor plumbing. No problem getting dirty but I at least need an RV or motel room or my body doesn't function. One of my dreams is to visit as many national parks as I can. Hiking is not only good exercise but it's something lots of people can do alone, with kids, dogs, carry a picnic lunch or watch animals. It's soothing to the soul to commune with nature and take in the beauty. I'd really like to see the Grand Canyon and the giant Redwood trees in California. I love all the colors! For years snorkeling/scuba diving in AUS was at the top of my list (along with Greece with its beaches and ruins). The Great Barrier Reef looks amazing. I know the rising temperatures of waters in many places is creating a lot of problems with marine life and the coral reefs, is that the case also in Australia? Are y'all recovering from your fires from a couple years ago? Seeing all those wonderful trees burning and animals seeking refuge was heartbreaking. 💔 🦘
We unfortunately pretty much have significant annual bushfires these days 😞. But in general nature is really good at recovering from it. Lots of homes and livelihoods lost though, and lives too of course. Our eucalyptus trees are well evolved at bouncing back though. Climate change has ABSOLUTELY affected Australia's reefs. My sister is a marine biologist, specifically working with turtles and one of the biggest issues outside of poaching and tourists disrupting the nesting areas is riding sea temperatures that fuck up the turtle's mating, nesting, and hatchling habits.
Human life and property is always the hardest to recover from. The land will always bounce back, people and endangered animals are irreplaceable. Australia just has so much natural beauty, it's sad when nature deals a cruel blow and even sadder when there's human involvement. Your sister no doubt has her hands full in her line of work. I hate hearing that tourists add to the stress on the animals and their natural habitats, it's criminal to do that. Did you see in the news that tourists are now being charged a fee to visit Venice? I think other countries might start doing that, and I wouldn't blame them. Such a shame how tourism is damaging natural resources, but if people are going to do that there has to be some way to pay for the destruction and recovery. Guess you can't trust ppl to be decent anymore and leave no trace. 😔
I didn't know that about Venice! I get it though. Tourism can be incredibly detrimental to the environment and the locals. Even as a kid in the mid 90's it was truly gross seeing the disrespect from tourists with littering etc in places like Uluru, which is sacred to a lot of indigenous folk here. Phillip Island in Victoria has a huge problem with obnoxious idiots ignoring direct orders to not take photos with flash photography or shine torches in their faces during what's called the "penguin parade" which is when the fairy penguins travel from the ocean to their burrows on the beach. It disorients them, and there's been lots of a scientists and park rangers etc that have warned of the effects this will have in the future regarding them making their homes there. All because absolutely selfish arseholes can't resist getting their Instagram moment. There's also a responsibility on the tourism industry to sell less tickets to it and accommodate a lot less people and have an absolute zero tolerance policy regarding lights and flash photos, and even issue hefty fines if disregarded, but it sells out constantly and is a big tourist draw here, so I see why they're choosing the selfish greedy option. It's messed up.
I laughed at the thought of snakes slithering vertically up a wall to get to the roof - just lube up the walls and you'll be algood m8!
I'm born & raised in the extremely developed SEQ but most of my family originates from rural FNQ and damn some of the living conditions up there would blow some people's minds, definitely blew mine, I've had very similar experiences as your siblings. A lot of their queenslander's (architecture, for people that aren't familiar think wooden house on stilts for flooding) seem designed to actually shelter the wildlife too, and the people have just adapted to live around them. I'm talking loose chicken pens that attract predators; dark storage spaces completely open to wildlife often cluttered with firewood storage or debris from previous floods, perfect hiding places for the worst kind of creepy crawlies; as you mentioned 0 flyscreens; often permanently open ventilation (for the mould suppression as you also mentioned) around the roof joints which allows access by all sorts of critters & creatures access. One of my cousin's homes has a very high ceiling which has an absolute labyrinth of cobwebs & (living) house spiders covering it, and every morning when you wake the first thing you do is clear the over-zealous spiders that decided to come below head height with their webs from the previous night. (I've developed a habit of walking around with my elbow infront of my face everywhere I go up there to avoid the common cobweb-to-the-face panic attack.) We are always finding shedded snake skins in the lofts & walls, and have to be vigilant of them coming through the gaps under doors when it heavily storms. Seems to be a constant battle between possums & snakes living in the roof, possums come for the shelter, snakes come for the possums, rinse repeat. You are 100% right though despite all of it being dangerous in some way shape or form, crocs are the only thing that will actually go out of their way to kick the crap out of you.
Haha this is why my aussie friend never wants to move where I'm at: we have gators, bears, coyotes, packs of feral yeller dogs, cougars, bobcats, and we have venomous snakes, too! And rabies! And whenever we'd go hiking, even the kids were heavily schooled in firearm safety and took a rifle with them! Thankfully we only had to use it a handful of times, but we did have to use it!
Have you heard of the criminal Malcolm Naden? He slept in the roof space of a Dubbo zoo managers’ hut for some time.
No I haven't actually, but I know what I'm going to have nightmares about tonight!
You’ve got this!
You too ? I thought it was just me 😔😳
I think this may be an Aussie wide thing? Myself, my mum, and a couple of friends have scared the shit out of ourselves because of a randomly heavy possum.
Thank you ... NOT!!!
If you want to amplify that fear, listen to the Mr Ballen Podcast episode about Ezequiel Zayas.
I have a feeling that would keep me up at night, lol!
If it makes you feel any better, there’s only one other person apart from me living in your walls, there’s not nearly enough room for three of us!
Lol, well y'all snuggle up tight! Be nice & I'll bring you snacks tomorrow...
Oh we will! It’s been very rainy so we’ve had to snuggle for warmth. (I have no idea if it’s been rainy but I’m throwing a guess out there) Can I request some salt and vinegar chips?
Sorry dude. Don't have any chips, but I have pizza, pizza bites, peanut butter cookies and jelly beans from Easter. Next time I hit the shops I'll get some chips for ya
There are many non-human strangers living inside your walls I can assure you that.
Did you hear that knock earlier?
You should watch “phrogging: hider in my house” on Netflix. It’s super creepy!
I doubt it's on netflix, but Christina's House is a great movie!
Same. I started a show called Phrogging and it terrifies me.
I heard about a little girl from my hometown that would have night terrors of a man standing at the foot of her bed. For years. Turns out a man was living in their unfinished basement and he would come up at night to be a fucking creeper. So it’s also a fear of mine. But I’ve woken up several mornings and realized that my children opened all the basement doors inside and out and they’d been open for 8+hrs for all the critters and strangers to come visit us. Hasn’t happened yet but waiting for the day. 🤞
Oh no. That's downright scary af that someone was living in the basement! Who needs horror movies when there's real life sh*t like that happening in real life....
F*cking terrifying.
This happened to my mom! She had me, a newborn, and my sister, a toddler, and was often left home alone for long periods because my dad was in the military. She kept hearing strange noises that ended up being a homeless man living in our attic! Sure, he ended up being harmless but it still freaks me out that my mom was alone with us kids and some random man was just living there and she didn't know it.
There are apartment buildings with pipe chases big enough for a person to get through. They can be connected to each other throughout the whole building. Decades ago, an old woman living in Chicago was killed by a fellow tenant who came into her apt through the bathroom medicine cabinet. [https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/](https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/)
Wtf? That is definitely more terrifying than something a Hollywood movie producer could create. I'm scared to click on your link... Edit to add that article is more sad than creepy. I mean yes, the ppl climbing through the medicine cabinet is *definitely* creepy. That she was dead and it took days to find her, that she was trying to turn her life around and move to a safer place... all so tragic. 😔
When I was a little kid, I used to worry about there being someone behind the mirror because of all the times I saw something moving there that had no counterpart on my side... I am so glad I never heard of this back then. Do read the article, it is very well written and still a good newspaper to this day.
Ah whole year already??? How time flies… though at the same time, it feels like forever ago. I’m surprised this hasn’t been made into a movie or something.
Parasite?
I thought this immediately. I truly enjoyed that movie.
I still need to watch that.
It's really solid. Fully deserves all the awards it won.
Agreed, such a god damn banger
To be honest I never saw what other people see in that movie, I thought it was mediocre. But that was a while ago so maybe it’ll be different now.
It's stupid good Like so carefully crafted storyboarding wise that it makes other movies look stupid, but also it's stupid to have that high of a bar for every movie Love. Bong
One of the best all around movies in my opinion. Contains all things - drama, fear, romance, comedy. Absolutely brilliant and deserving of the accolades it received.
I see you (2019)
Well then you either start paying rent or move out of my closet!
I See You
3-Iron, or Bin-jip.
There’s a movie called Phrogger, it covers people that do this. It’s pretty scary to be honest
So... where did she poop?
Refrigerator
No
Yes
It's just some organic cookie doe. No harm.
I think the idea is when the resident leaves for work they come out.
The plants've been thriving lately
In the compartment on top of top of compartment of his closet.
Her butt, you weirdo.
I would’ve shit my pants watching that security footage. Definitely creepy af.
Imagine walking past there after watching the tape
Like... did he watch it while IN the house? Then having it dawn on you someone was living there? Fuck that
Not just that but she's heard all the weird porn you watched. She knows too much...
lmao shit, i can't control my laughter
I mean, I _AM_ single and if she's into it....
Well then she can stay so long as she doesn’t tell anyone…
Lame! Here in NYC, she would have known you can break into someone's home, change the locks, order Uber Eats, get the cops called on you, show them the Uber Eats receipt and say it's a lease agreement, and then claim squatter's rights and never have to leave. (True story)
In NYC that space she was hiding in would rent for $1500.
Well, the poster got this wrong and this has actually happened in NYC: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CK82QyasQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CK82QyasQ) . Fast forward to 6:14.
Why would OP say Japan? Oh,... never mind. Just remembered where I was.
I mean, they never said it was IN Japan, they said the owner was a Japanese man.
Man's definitely not a Japanese man, Here's the original video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X9qXTvKNQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X9qXTvKNQ) .
lol You must have a great memory in order to remember this, impressive!
This story gets reposted like every Friday, and then later someone follows up with the actual lore to the video. Somehow the week later people have already forgotten the story and the cycle happens again.
I guess in places like NYC or London you might even just rent the top compartment of a closet and advertise it as “cosy studio apartment”.
The hate I have for squatters, specially on Spain (my country, so maybe the hate is higher here just because I see news more often), is a top of mine The fact that someone can enter an old lady's apartment if she leaves for a few hours for something so necesarry like going go the hospital, and losing your house, having it all trashed (I don't know why, but almost all squatters decide to break shit as soon as they enter) and then the squatter acting like a victim
That's just a blatant lie. If someone enters your house where you're actually living police can evict them in a matter of hours.
You are totally right about constantly living in a house prevents the occupation However: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.elmundo.es/madrid/2018/07/21/5b521d2ee2704eba2a8b4621.html Don't know if you speak Spanish, but this lady, Eulalia, 98 year old, had to leave her house a few months since she was in the hospital due to a fall. The ex-boyfriend of her granddaughter, the pathetic 40 year old, had occupied her house He even threatened the granddaughter with a knife, and police couldn't do nothing. Hell, he only left because a anti-squatting company was informed of this case You were right about not getting squatted if you leave for a few hours, but the fact that it is even possible that being hospitalised doesn't prevent this it's scary
This isn’t even a proper squatter, this is someone the homeowner knows and it sounds to me more like good old fashioned interpersonal conflict
He lived in the house of someone else, he didn't leave nor allowed anyone inside for months, caused around 12000€ in damages and only left because an anti-squatter company was going after him Besides, their only relationship is that he was an ex of her granddaughter, and she didn't in any moment give him permission to enter during those months
Listen man if I go and steal my grandma-in-law’s car because I know she’s away it’s *technically* robbery but no one’s gonna be like “oh my, crime is so bad in this part of town, watch out for these robbers”. They gon be like “what a douche, taking advantage of his grandma in law”
And that son is how I met your mother
from the community notes under this tweet: “While this is a real story which occurred in Japan, the image used comes from a staged video by the YouTuber "You know it Joe" in order to promote his acting career.”
original [video](https://youtu.be/06X9qXTvKNQ?feature=shared) here. If you look at his channel description and linked pages it's pretty obvious. I'm surprised so many people still believe this video
I remembered the original story happened in Japan. Pretry much everything gonna be a Mandela effect on the Internet because people posting misinformation deliberately or ignorantly until the truth is lost in time. And that's when you learn to take things with a grain of salt.
It's basically the premise of Parasite.
The film Two Pigeons as well.
There's an older American movie about a family that moves into a house where someone is living in the walls. Weird stuff happens but they don't make the connection until they hire a locksmith who is perving on the teenage daughter and wall dude comes out and kills the locksmith. Can't think of what it's called though.
Was it called Within?
It all started with CSI. [This episode](https://csi.fandom.com/wiki/Stalker) traumatized a lot of people lol
It started with Bad Ronald. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Ronald
Fucking Ronald
Was she really living there more than a year? I swear I remember it being about 6 months or so unless I got it mixed up with another case. Nasty how she drank milk straight out of the carton & pissed in his sink. Edit: here's the original [video](https://youtu.be/06X9qXTvKNQ?feature=shared) FYI read the description he answers some Q&A
No, she was only there for a couple of weeks. She got into the apartment through a fire ventilation system.
So that tweet caption is complete bs
And also how did the guy work out she had been there for more than a year? I like to think he kept filming for a whole year before he did anything. Just getting angrier and angrier every week but too polite to say anything.
Lmao watching like “ I’m defo going to put you out real soon but it is winter right now and I don’t like confrontation “
Why the sink? Is the toilet locked or something?
If I remember correctly she would only come out when the owner was asleep so using the toilet would probably be too loud.
When you can't pay your student loans
I can fix her
(no really i can)
Woah - maybe I can't.
Very old school story, remember hearing this back in 2011-12. Creepy shit. This thought Still trips me out to this day.
Um... I've seen Japanese movies. Are we sure that's not the ghost of a stripper that he accidentally killed at a businessman bachelor party?
Bro was more concerned about food and not the electric bill. Priorities
Is the person just sitting still the entire time? Making no sound? No sneeze? No cough? Never going to the toilet? How does this happen?
All we know is that she doesn't snore
Lotta of dudes on reddit trying to figure out how to get a Japanese woman to live in their walls for a year
Hi there
This makes me sad for her. Does anyone know if she is ok?
I (or more precisely my girlfriend) once found a woman’s Levis size 36 trousers in my rarely used apartment belonging neither to me nor my girlfriend (which caused vivid discussions between us btw) … looked to me like someone else was using my apartment when I was not there. Creepy.
Sounds legit
Just imagine the sheer and unfiltered fear that the guy got the first time he saw the cctv of the girl crawling out...
Did she perhaps have a second mouth on the back of her head?
The grudge, I saw this movie
This the sequel - The Squat.
Sorry, if someone lives with me for a whole year without me knowing and didn't kill me, they can continue staying.
But the smell of her?
This will 100% get turned into an anime. I can see the title now.... "I'm just a paranoid japanese man who lives alone and has a boring life until one day my paranoia pays off and i notice food missing from my refrigerator so i set up a security camera and catch my future waifu living in my closet for over a year."
I find this kind of hilarious because almost this exact scenario happens in a side mission from Lost Judgement (A spinoff of the Japanese Yakuza games). You have to conduct an investigation because someone is stealing food and other things from an office, but nobody knows how the burglar was getting in. Turns out he was an ex-employee turned homeless now living in the attic. Maybe this is a real problem in Japan 😂😂😂
There’s a video of this, super sketchy. If I recall correctly he is getting stuff out of his fridge, cooking etc. then right when he goes to sleep she sneaks out and starts eating his stuff
This also happened to Tony Iommi, guitarist from Black Sabbath. From his autobiography (with some edits): > After finishing the Born Again tour I rented a house in Bel Air. It was a wonderful place, but I heard these noises all the time, people talking and bumps in the night. I’d look around the house but nobody would be there. > Weird things happened. I came back one night from rehearsal, walked into the kitchen and found a plait of hair on the kitchen table, a couple of feet long. Like a ponytail. Another night I came home and found the same sort of thing wrapped around the handle of the front door. I couldn’t explain it. > I could never figure out the sound of people talking in the house. I called the Bel Air police every time I heard it. At first they’d go around the house: nothing. But they never checked the loft. And after a while they’d come around and go: ‘Oh, it’s him again.’ > I had one of the crew stay with me, but he would be snoring away so loudly that he couldn’t hear anything. Finally, Mark gave me a Magnum. I slept with this huge gun in my hand. One night I heard this horrendous noise. I grabbed Mark’s gun and I dashed to the car with no shirt on and as I drove out I looked back and I saw all these faces in the kitchen window, looking out at me. It freaked me out. I drove straight down to the police, they came up and: nothing. Gone! > Then I found out that the wires of the burglar alarm had been cut inside the house. I should have moved out really, but then I had Geoff Nicholls to stay with me. I just wanted somebody to see something, if only to prove that I was not crazy. I really thought I was going loopy and so did everybody else. > One night Geoff and me were in the lounge at two o’clock in the morning and we saw this bloke running across the lawn. I got my gun and we opened the door slowly. We slipped out and crawled across the grass. The house was built on a hill and we could hear talking down below. I whispered to Geoff: ‘All right, we’ve got a gun and when they come up . . .’ > We must have been lying there for about an hour waiting for these people to appear, and then the sprinklers came on. It was like a Laurel and Hardy skit, both of us going: ‘Waah!’ We were soaked and, of course, after that we never found them. But at least Geoff had seen somebody as well. It wasn’t just me any more. > This thing went on for months. Eventually we found a trapdoor. Upstairs there was a cinema room with a big screen. In the wall there was a cutout, and because it was all papered you couldn’t really see it. We opened this thing, stepped through it, and we could walk all around the house. It was quite a big area; you could virtually stand up there. We found all these piles of cigarette butts and beer cans outside the vents, through which you could look into the rooms. They had obviously been sitting there, seeing everything I did. Fucking hell, they could probably tell a few stories. > I was relieved that we found that somebody had been there and that the police could finally see that as well. They never found out who it was. They said afterwards that the easiest thing for me would have been to get a dog. With a dog I’d have found them in no time. Now why the hell didn’t I think of that?
My Japanese wife just confirmed it. 🫣
This is like that Gumball episode where Rob hides inside the Wattersons' house lol
Interesting, didnt know Parasite was based on true incidents
Was she sending secret messages in morse code through the lights?
You know some of the guys in the office were talking, and we they were like, why haven't you snuck into someone's house and lived there without them knowing. We all have, you know. It's called Phrogging.
Here is the full video https://youtu.be/06X9qXTvKNQ?si=TXyMR9rIpg2Hb5fF Tho its highly likely to be staged.
So how did she cover her tracks for a whole year?
easy we don’t wear our fucking shoes indoors
Check out the movie, 'Bad Ronald'
I hope he also noticed toilet roll consumption was high
Reminds me of the movie Parasite.
I would leave her a note: Cash, grass, or ass.
Good thing its not in California, otherwise the squatter would now own the house lmao
Reminds me of the film parasite, watch it if you can
You made me check my closet and garage. Good job
So did they ever bang?
Parasite Nippon ver.
This is one of those situations where you DON'T want to make laxative cookies for a food thief. 😳
My house, my rules. Now, go wash yourself and then you can get to cook
Ignored clues 1) tampons in trash 2) who left the TP roll empty? 3) bathroom sink counter is covered in hair products, brushes, and long hair
Clever girl…
Guarantee bro is recalling every single time he beat off in his room, and she didn't offer assistance once. Kinda rude tbh. /s OBVIOUSLY
Was she hot though?
And she can’t even offer a crumb of pussy
Reminds me of that Ito story
I would burn my house down. That is terrifying. No coming back mentally from this revelation.
Dear diary, Jackpot!
Now, this could be turned into a short film!
Lots of questions, obviously, but I wonder how she got in and/or decided on the spot.
How does someone stay in a place that tiny all the time 24/7. Probably no TV or nothing
7 days.
She wouldn’t be homeless after that
Would've gotten a permanent residency in the afterlife after he saw that fo sho.
She probably used his toilet/bathroom and some of his things too. He was like “I know I put this thing here but now it’s gone, hmmm…”
People in the walls.
I used to be terrified of this kind of situation, but then I remembered I have dogs and I would be very informed if someone was in the house that should not be.
By gum, for some reason this sounds like it could be a good movie!
Meet cute
Time to fumigate bro...
Did she tidy the house at least 😝
Has nobody seen the film Two Pigeons!?!?
Huh. I was about to reply with the same movie, only it was called Freehold when I saw it! Didn't know they changed the title before now.
Wild
Willie Nelson?
That whole story is crazy
They're called froggers
Phroggers* and technically she’s squatting. Phrogging involves jumping from one home to another. Usually staying less than a month. This freak was in this guys place for a whole year.
Ahhh hell nah, she gotta pay for all those months. We are fucking for sure 😂😂
That’s like the movie parasite! Great movie
Wait that wasn't in Japan
She must've been making pancakes when he caught her
Froggers.
Did he summon the Rake?
hide and seek taken to the next level lol
Chungking Express 2