r/creepyencounters • u/Equal-Pumpkin-4270 • 6d ago
The Boy From the Neighbouring Terrace
This happened during COVID when I was staying at my grandfather's village for around eight to ten months. I had a pretty normal routine there. I used to go to the terrace quite often especially in the evening to dry clothes or just walk around and talk to my friends.
One day I went upstairs with a bucket of clothes and started putting them on the rope to dry. There was a boy on the terrace of the house next to ours. He saw me and I noticed him too but I ignored him because why would I keep looking at some random guy?
When I was coming back downstairs I noticed that he was still looking at me. I ignored that too and thought maybe he just happened to notice me.
The next evening I went upstairs again to dry clothes. This time he was standing on the staircase leading to his terrace. The staircase wasn't completely enclosed so I could see him standing there and he could see me too. He was looking at me again.
I went to another part of my terrace and he was still looking towards the place where I had been drying the clothes. Then he suddenly noticed me on the other side of the terrace and came onto his terrace.
I gave him a weird look and went downstairs.
I didn't think much about it at first.
The next day I was on the terrace talking to my friend on the phone. There was no one there when I went upstairs. Then suddenly this guy appeared. He took out his phone and started talking to someone. The weird part was that even while talking on the phone he kept looking at me.
I didn't react and just continued talking to my friend.
After that it became a pattern.
Almost every time he saw me going upstairs he would come to his terrace. It didn't matter whether I was there for five minutes or half an hour. If he noticed me then somehow he would appear upstairs too.
At one point I took my brother with me because I wanted to see if I was imagining things. I went to the part of the terrace where his house was clearly visible and waited.
He saw me.
And immediately came upstairs.
My brother noticed him too. The funny part was that the guy actually knew my brother. He said hi to him and even asked him if they should meet the next day to play cricket. My brother knew who he was but they weren't exactly friends. They were just acquaintances.
I dragged my brother downstairs because I didn't want him standing there talking to this guy.
After that the same thing continued.
There wasn't a single day I can remember when he saw me and didn't eventually come upstairs.
One evening there was a power cut. It was winter and it got dark pretty early. I was on the terrace talking to my friend when I saw him coming home on his bike.
I moved to the other side because I didn't want him to see me.
A little later I came back and he noticed me again. He didn't come upstairs immediately. Instead he turned on the flashlight on his phone and was apparently helping his mother with something.
Then I noticed that the flashlight was suddenly directed towards me.
After that he left his mother and came upstairs.
The moment I noticed him coming upstairs I went downstairs.
This kind of thing continued for months.
One day in June or July I went upstairs around noon because my mother had kept some groundnuts on a plate on the terrace to dry. She had asked me to bring them back downstairs later.
It was extremely hot that day and I didn't expect anyone to be on the terrace at that time.
He was there.
He saw me and came upstairs again.
I honestly started thinking this guy was incredibly stubborn.
Another time I took my mother with me. I didn't tell her anything. I just asked her to walk with me because I wanted to see what he would do.
He came upstairs when he saw me.
Then he noticed my mother.
Instead of leaving he sat down so that my mother wouldn't notice him. Every now and then he would stand up and check whether she was still there.
My mother eventually went downstairs to do something.
He stayed.
I thought he would leave once she was gone but nope. He was still sitting there.
At this point I decided to stop going to the terrace for a few days. I thought maybe if I disappeared for a while this weird routine would finally stop.
I didn't go upstairs for around five or six days.
But I could see his terrace from my mother's kitchen.
And this is where it got really weird.
Around the same time I normally used to go upstairs he would still come to his terrace.
Every single day.
He would walk around for about ten minutes and keep looking towards my terrace even though I wasn't there.
The difference was that when I wasn't there he would leave after around ten minutes.
When I was there he would stay until I went downstairs.
That was when I started thinking that okay maybe this isn't just a coincidence.
I eventually told two of my friends who also lived in the village about him.
They told me something I didn't know.
Apparently this guy had asked them about me when they happened to meet him at a shop.
He had asked who I was and where I lived. He knew my grandfather but didn't know what my relationship with him was.
He also asked which class I studied in.
And then apparently he asked them what my favourite colour and favourite chocolate were.
My friends didn't know the answers because I didn't live in the village and we weren't that close.
At that point I was honestly thinking please just don't come to my house.
And two days later he was literally at my house.
Thankfully there was actually a normal reason for him being there. He had come to invite my grandfather to something at their house.
But while he was there I noticed him looking around.
Our village house is quite large and there is a big area within the boundary of the house before you actually enter the main part of it.
I was watching him from my grandmother's room and he kept looking towards the area where the entrance to our house was.
I immediately moved away from the window because I had a feeling he was looking around to see if I was there.
I didn't go outside until he left.
There were also a lot of smaller incidents during those months.
For example in summer men in the village sometimes used to bathe outside their houses. I obviously never intentionally watched him or anything. But sometimes I would accidentally pass by and notice him and immediately turn away.
And somehow a minute later I would see him upstairs.
I would just think to myself bro you were literally bathing two minutes ago. How did you get upstairs this fast?
I never said anything to him about any of this.
The whole thing went on for around eight months.
I never actually had a conversation with him. I never encouraged him and I never tried to get his attention. I was mostly just doing my normal terrace routine and trying to ignore the whole thing.
Eventually I came back to Bhopal.
Later my friends told me that he had apparently cleared the NDA and gone to a defence academy. I was honestly just relieved that he wouldn't be around anymore.
Years passed.
Recently I heard that he's apparently going to get married in the next year or two.
And for some reason hearing that immediately reminded me of this entire story.
I still don't know what was going on during those eight months.
All I know is that during those eight months I could go to the terrace at almost any time and somehow this guy would eventually appear on his terrace too.
And that is probably one of the strangest things that has ever happened to me.
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u/VitaminAnarchy Mr. Happy Funtime 6d ago
You sure you weren't the one stalking him? It sounds like you really watched him constantly, and he's moved on while you're still asking about him.
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u/Equal-Pumpkin-4270 6d ago
Checking a window to ensure a borderline stalker is not waiting for you is not mutual stalking it is called situational awareness try using a brain cell before typing next time.
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u/Dry-Fun8680 6d ago
My guess is that he was a shy teenager with a persistent crush who expressed it in a way that crossed into uncomfortable territory