I'll start off by saying I don't live in the nicest area it's not crime ridden but I don't feel comfortable around any of the people in my town or apartment building including my building security guard who spends most of his time sleeping so last night I was getting ready to go to bed I turned off my TV and a/c and it was completely silent in the living room I was sitting on the couch and heard people talking from what sounded like the back balcony next to me nothing unusual there sound permeates our windows easily I guess but I had never heard anyone speaking so clearly before I kept playing around on my phone and for some reason I just got weirded out by the tone of the men speaking to each other I heard the word ransom and my ears perk up I began heavily eavesdropping she won't be looking for me she knows you the ransom was supposed to happen tonight it's still can come 5 a.m. this place is like The Walking Dead people start checking their doors and shit there's no security in any of the buildings at that time I also heard snippets of them talking about a neighbor they had seen walking around naked after she showered and one of the men telling the other ones something along the lines of I'd invite her over while you're gone next week buy her a bottle of wine get her drunk but she's yours so I won't do that as I thought was particularly weird it all ended bizarrely when one of the men who I learned lives a few floors below came to the apartment next to mine and started banging on the door I called security and heard the man mentioning it was about my neighbor's dog who I didn't hear bark at all so I'm not sure why he would need to bang on his door so loud at 3:00 a.m. anyway I'm terrified to leave the apartments and son knowing there are creepy neighbors who might be planning something involving a ransom in my building it's 2003 and I was six years old at a time I lived in a small condo one-bedroom one-bathroom a connected living room with a kitchen and a spiral staircase with random miscellaneous things stored under it I was living with my dad at the time as my mom was out of the picture it was Saturday and I remember specifically watching code-named kids next door on TV in my bedroom after waking up my dad worked during the day but was nice enough to leave the TV on with Cartoon Network playing which he knew was my favorite channel during a commercial break I got up to go to the bathroom and even though I knew I was home alone I closed the door behind me out of habit and boy am I glad I did that as I am in the bathroom I heard the sound of my incredibly noisy spiral stairs that can be heard literally across the condo begin to rapidly make noise that got quieter over the course of about two seconds tell me that whatever made the noise was going downstairs fast I was getting pretty scared as I knew my dad was long gone I walk out of the bathroom and look over the three foot long railing across from the bathroom all of a sudden out of nowhere I see an afraid looking man looking into my living room while sting hidden under the stairs being terrified and still in the bathroom I made a distinct effort to be quiet I knew he couldn't hear me but he most likely knew I was in the apartment I remember thinking I had two options yell at him to leave which could end badly in so many ways or hide and waited odd for as long as I can I waited for what felt like hours but in reality was about 20 minutes until I heard shuffling downstairs for about a minute and then the sound I was spraying for the front door opening I was still extremely skeptical even thinking it was a trap to lure me downstairs so I stayed put upstairs for the rest of the day until my dad finally came home hours later I didn't tell him about the incident thinking he would be mad I didn't approach the man now I realize he would never ask me to do that but at the time that was what I was thinking nothing valuable was missing from the house and I have no idea why or how this man got in regardless I sure as hell made sure to check under the stairs every morning when I walked down for the next four years of living in that condo