I should put these events into chronological order so that you (and anyone else interested in the subject of civilian spies ala Stasi) can understand the tactics. I came to my own understanding by actually having to experience them firsthand.
I knew nothing about civilian stalking until I stumbled onto the above websites in September. Reading the experiences of other people around the world cleared-up about 2 years worth of confusion and irritation. I do not frequent these sites, nor do I agree with all of their explanations. I do agree with the (inescapable) conclusion that this is most definately a mind game.
I am a rational person - not given to paranoid delusions. I am also aware of the fallability of the human mind. I am also aware of the ever-tightening, invisible controls on a distracted population who won't care about this sort of thing until it's too late.
First things first. Is it my imagination? The physical evidence of tampering is clear. I'll stay in confusion forever if I doubt my own eyes. The pattern is clear, as witnessed by others in the same situation. If the operators of this website never heard of a "troll", they would spend all of their time in useless argument and nothing would be accomplished. They MUST accept the reality of "trolls" before they can deal with them. And they do. Quickly and efficiently. And this is good. Once you see something for what it is, you take action...
Yes. I have cameras.
The most active person in my immediate environment is the man next door. He is "a troll", if you will. I did not notice him when he moved in two years ago. What I did notice (at first) was the unusual absence of sounds. He was completely, eerily silent. No water. No dishes. No toilet. No shower. No doors closing. No tv. No phone. No voices. Not one single sound. This continues to the very day.
I have lived in apartments for years. This is not normal. This is someone who is intentially creating anxiety on an extremely subtle level. I saw on the above websites that this is one of the tactics.
As I have mentioned before, he always walked out his door just before me. After a while I realized that he wouldn't leave while I was in the shower, so he wasn't "sneaking" out the door. He would always leave while I was in the kitchen, and so I always heard him. Another tactic. I become unconsiously aware that his actions are triggered by me. A mind game.
My schedule changes and he adjusts accordingly. No matter what time I leave, he goes through the exact same routine. I take a shower, get dressed, step into the kitchen - he opens his door, steps into the hallway, closes his door so that I can hear it and leaves. Any person with any intelligence will eventually put 2 and 2 together. This guy is waaaay too synchronized with my actions. I begin to feel irritated.
I put a camera in my living room and turn on the recorder every day before I leave for work. This is more than a year ago, before I understand ANY of this. I think it's just some weirdo next door. One day, when reviewing the tape I see that the recorder was unplugged and then plugged in again. The tape will show this gap in the squiggly, twisted images in a small section of tape between where the recording stopped and where it began again. I test this by turning on the recorder, unplugging it, then plugging it in again and get the same effect. No other appliance shows evidence of a power outage (blinking digital clocks, etc..)
Other things are happening in the meantime. Things I've already mentioned in previous posts. After the light bulb incident I go the building manager and insist he look into whatever is going on with this guy next door because I don't feel like my apartment is secure. When I'm at work, and the (perfectly normal) people across the hall are at work, ANYBODY could go into these apartments. He offers to put a camera in the hallway. Good.
He's in his apartment while the manager is drilling through the wall (in my apartment) and intalling the camera under the heating vent in the hallway. The camera is connected to a time-lapse recorder. After the manager leaves, the guy (about 65 years old) comes out into the hallway with his back to the camera, bends over to tie his shoes and I can see him looking between his legs at the camera. He knows the camera is there. This was August 01.
All is well in my apartment (no signs of intrusion). My car is still being entered at night. The guy is still crossing my path everywhere in the building, the parking lot - even standing in front of me in line at the grocery store.
And now the woman who moved in below me is running her water for 7, 8, 12 hours straight. I don't make the connection. I don't even realize it's coming from below. I think the guy next door has changed his MO. No noise to constant noise.
One day I happened to walk past her door while the water is running and I hear her kitchen faucet on. I walk by again a few hours later and it's still on. I realize that she is the one who's running the water. She will also open and close her bedroom (sliding) closet door 40 or 50 times in a row. I make a connection between the two, but can't explain it to myself. I just sense these two people are connected. Working in tandem. Sounds ridiculous I know, but remember the trolls. You have to see the pattern.
Fast forward to September. I'm kicking around on the web. I end up at keelynet (?). I don't know anything about this site, but they had a bunch of physics-related links. I click on few and end up at one site that had a whole host of links relating to physics, health, mind-control, government, religion, etc.. One of the links was labeled "Gangstalking". I ignored it because it sounded weird and negative. Never heard of such a thing. Back and forth I went and eventually I did click on that link.
I was stunned. I saw descriptions of these stalkers. How they behaved. How they operated. I felt like it was 1984 all over again. Jesus. Is this what's happening? Is this possible? Why? It doesn't make sense! To destroy me? This is insane!
A week later I'm preparing to leave for Florida. Now the guy is following me very closely. No more covertness. The day before I leave I have many errands. Every time I walk out the door he follows me out. About 6 times that day. I have this on tape. At one point during this day (between the back and forth trips I was making - him following) he went out to the parking lot. I was gathering some things to throw away - minor items - and when I walked out to the trash he was standing in the parking lot. I knew by the camera that he had left an hour before. He was just standing out there.
As I walked toward him I said, "Are you waiting for me?" "what?" "I said, Are you waiting for me?" And I just stood there right in front of him and waited for an answer. He just grinned and looked away. I threw the trash bag into the dumpster and walked over to my car and leaned against it. I stood there and watched him. He walked around a bit, avoiding eye contact and then walked back into the building.
I leave for Florida a week later. Cameras on. (hallway and my bedroom - have my own time-lapse recorder at this point) Tapes recording. (they'll go for weeks if needed) I return home and see the toilet paper. The candy wrappers. The two perfectly round dirt spots on the carpet that were not there when I left. Nothing in range of the cameras. How are they getting in here?
FINALLY, 2 weeks ago I tape every single possible entry point between his apartment and mine (cabinets, windows, the other apartment entry door that is not seen by the hallway camera) and there is no sign of entry. (That refrigerator dial incident happened just 3 weeks ago) I have effectively stopped them. The only way they can get in is through the door which is being recorded 24hrs a day.
Last week the manager called to say that he was going to pick up the camera and recorder. He was doing this because I called him in September (before I understood anything) and told him to take the camera. I just couldn't get anything on tape and I couldn't try to explain my suspicions to him. It was just too bizaare. These entries into my home and my car are just calling cards. "We were here." What do I say? "Someone came in here and unwrapped my candy!" Of course, the candy isn't the point. The point is... someone is coming into my home. The candy and the toilet paper and the myriad other things are just messages. Messages that very few people will take seriously. And I know this.
Not coincidentally, the very day that the manager says he'll be coming over to get the camera - at 2:00pm - the guy next door has a visitor. This man arrives in his apartment at 1:30pm. Call me crazy, but I think they're just waiting for that camera to go. What they don't realize is that the day before I replaced the manager's camera in the hallway with my own camera.
I have a recording of these two men stepping into the hallway (after the buiding manager has left with his camera) and the FIRST thing they both do is look directly at the area under the heating vent to see if the camera is still there. The visitor motions at different areas on the ceiling, at the lighting, at my door and they talk for a while.
I have been reading a lot throughout the forum trying to get some handle on how to deal with this. I'm staying objective and diligent. People I know don't really understand how something like this could be possible. They have no idea how bad things really are.
Yes. I have a camera. Thank you for your suggestion. This site really is helping me.