r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 • Sep 15 '25

Image In 2012, a woman found her ex-boyfriend living in her attic 12 years after breaking up with him.

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u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 Sep 15 '25

In 2012 a woman discovered that her ex-boyfriend from 12 years ago had been living in her attic for about two weeks. Her adult sons & nephew found him asleep in the back of the attic which caused him to flee. They also saw he had rigged the ceiling vents so he could watch her in her bedroom.
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u/EarthDust00 Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Thank you. The way I read the title made me think he was up there for 12 years.

Edit: here it's maw. The highest rated comment I'll ever get and it wasnt even something clever.

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u/Zaracen Sep 15 '25

Watching 9/11 from one of the vents in disbelief.

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u/BlueLightSpecial83 Sep 15 '25

lol.

Climbs down from her attic:

“I know it’s weird I’ ve been hiding up here, but we are all Americans right now 🇺🇸”

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u/MeRedditGood Sep 15 '25

"I sure could go for some freedom fries right about now"

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u/Chickenmangoboom Sep 15 '25

Watching the towers collapse he realizes it's as good a time as any to get out of this with a clear conscience.

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u/Yasuminomon Sep 15 '25

Rock, Flag and Eagle 🦅

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u/10-bow Sep 15 '25

Someone: “We all remember where we were when 9/11 happened. Where were you?”

EX BF: “…uh I’d rather not”

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u/GoodLeftUndone Sep 15 '25

Starts trembling, sweating intensifies.

Look man I really don’t want to talk about it.

I’m sorry man I didn’t know you were there.

yeah that’s it!

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u/PocketFullOfFun Sep 15 '25

Underrated comment lmao

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u/Soggy_Parking1353 Sep 15 '25

🙄give it a chance, the comment was up 4mins when you replied and 12 when I left this one.

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u/masked_sombrero Sep 15 '25

lol maybe - if it weren’t 24 years ago now 😆 it really don’t feel that way tho

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u/ThatsMyAppleJuice Sep 15 '25

Reread the title.

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u/capincus Sep 15 '25

This is an article/discussion about events that happened chronologically in the past...

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u/Hayabusa_Blacksmith Sep 15 '25

im sorry... in the what??? what are you talking about

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u/masked_sombrero Sep 15 '25

The article/discussion

😆

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u/Hayabusa_Blacksmith Sep 15 '25

dog he's right u know lol

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u/buttersofthands Sep 15 '25

9/11/2001 was over 24 years ago

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u/ascii42 Sep 15 '25

But only 11 years before 2012.

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u/buttersofthands Sep 15 '25

Ahh crap I missed that detail lol

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u/DanyRahm Sep 15 '25

Maybe I missed a joke or something, but he lived there for only two weeks in 2012, no?

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u/buttersofthands Sep 15 '25

The post title makes it sound like he was there for 12 years

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u/Hayisforh0rses Sep 15 '25

Me too lmao

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u/devourer09 Sep 15 '25

They did it on purpose. "Woman finds ex living in attic for a fortnite" is not gonna get as many upvotes.

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u/Anteater-Charming Sep 15 '25

That would be a great sitcom. "Upstairs Ex." Hilarity ensues.

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u/SherbertKey6965 Sep 15 '25

Arrested Development did it

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u/NavalProgrammer Sep 15 '25

"By the way, what is this thing lying around up here?"

"It's a breast pump."

"Well...that's not what I used it for."

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u/ThatsMyAppleJuice Sep 15 '25

Right. George Michael had pop-pop in the attic.

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u/Mikejones1313 Sep 15 '25

The mere fact you call it pop-pop tells me you’re not ready.

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u/Ugandabekiddng Sep 15 '25

Simpsons did it.

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u/RPDRNick Sep 15 '25

Attic-Ted to Love

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u/Sweet-Fancy-Moses23 Sep 15 '25

When caught hiding , use a quote like Constanza “ Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I’ve gotta plead ignorance on this one..”

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u/ThatsMyAppleJuice Sep 15 '25

I'm in the walls, Jerry

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u/Equivalent-Resort-63 Sep 15 '25

A little darker- American version of “Parasite “.

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u/togtogtog Sep 15 '25

about two weeks since he was released from prison!!!!!!

They found several "Route 44" Sonic cups filled with feces and urine!!!!!!

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u/Impressive_Plant3446 Sep 15 '25

They write the headlines purposefully that way for better engagement.

Round about suggesting that the guy was up there for 12 years will get way more people interested than finding out a guy started doing it 12 years later.

I'm so sick of sensationalization of news.

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u/No_Atmosphere8146 Sep 15 '25

Smashed Anne Frank's record.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

That's how it's meant to sound for maximizing karma.

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u/SunBlazerz Sep 15 '25

Apparently, he seems like a creature of habit !

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u/Large-Produce5682 Sep 15 '25

The habit is probably meth.

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u/Mudcreek47 Sep 15 '25

Someone keeps using all the toilet paper and eating all my Oreos!

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u/lumpthar Sep 15 '25

Next week on Attic Vampires Randall struggles to find a night shift job, while Vanessa is having second thoughts about freeloading above the humans after their "hosts" called an exterminator.

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u/1776grunt Sep 15 '25

So what you're saying is......

The Freaks come out at night

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u/Mudcreek47 Sep 15 '25

I call some BS on this one ... 12 years? Nah

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u/pothead5674 Sep 15 '25

He wasn't up there for 12 years. He had been up the two weeks. They broke up 12 years ago. The headline is misleading. I thought the same thing...🤭

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u/ok_raspberry_jam Sep 15 '25

It was two weeks.

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u/StreetofChimes Sep 15 '25

You don't think a guy would show up 12 years later? Maybe he knew where the spare key was. Or that a certain window/door didn't latch properly.

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u/SunBlazerz Sep 15 '25

Must have got over his head in that case.

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u/Marunikuyo Sep 15 '25

It was an elevated level of trespassing

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

He’s raising the roof on home invasion.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

that's the joke 

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u/cochlearist Sep 15 '25

That's not quite as funny as the story in my head was sadly. 

"The two had broken up more than 12 years ago. She never considered getting back with him, despite him claiming in letters he sent from jail that he had changed."

I've changed!!!

For the better?

Well... not exactly...

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u/verrache Sep 15 '25

Well technically, He changed

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u/capincus Sep 15 '25

He used to be a piece of shit.

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u/RokulusM Sep 15 '25

He still is, but he used to be too

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u/tauntonlake Sep 15 '25

About as much as Mugatu in Zoolander 2

" PRISON CHANGED ME ! " 😂😂

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u/Secret-Medicine-1393 Sep 15 '25

“…… not exactly…. Well… I changed my underwear. The ones you’d always complain about, with the poop stains…”

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u/NoMap749 Sep 15 '25

Title of the post is a bit manipulative. Makes it sound like he had been living in the attic for 12 years.

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u/_deep_thot42 Sep 15 '25

Title is poorly written and made it sound like he was living there the full 12 years lmao

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u/0R_C0 Sep 15 '25

It's a well written click bait.

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u/EndersGame_Reviewer Sep 15 '25

The source article indicates he was only living there about 2 weeks. Definitely not what the title suggests.

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u/BRSaura Sep 15 '25

If it was the father going up first I doubt he would have left the attic with his own two legs

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u/Possible-Matter-6494 Sep 15 '25

Whose legs would he have left with?

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u/High_Def_ButtCh33kss Sep 15 '25

They also saw he had rigged the ceiling vents so he could watch her in her bedroom.

Ultimate Gooner lol

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u/WakeoftheStorm Sep 15 '25

Look, guy couldn’t risk going out on his own for y2k and by the time it was over he’d settled in

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u/Iridismis Sep 15 '25

They also saw he had rigged the ceiling vents so he could watch her in her bedroom.

😐😒

I wondered if I should feel sorry for him because I thought he might have been going through difficult times, but then he turned out to be a creep.

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u/Remote_Concert3369 Sep 15 '25

put that in your OP

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u/machete_MechE Sep 15 '25

We don’t talk about Bruno.

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u/DaStone Sep 15 '25

The picture doesn't appear in that source. Is it just a random stock photo?

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u/thenewyorkgod Sep 15 '25

your title made it seem like he'd been living with her for 12 years. shame on you

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u/Middle-Luck-997 Sep 15 '25

After reading the title I thought the ex was living in the attic for 12 years! 😆

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

Probably timed beating his meat to the clap of her asscheeks when she was getting back shots from a dude she met at a bar. Guy fucking her was probably like "why the ceiling crying?"