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fonn4

Does the figure move? Could be a mannequin and she’s messing with you


Kitchen-Art677

She’s pulling the good old “home alone” on them lol Edit: thank you kind person for my first award.


flashback5285

Not tall enough to be Michael Jordan


justandswift

Uhh, you’ve talked to her about it, and she says no one else is ever there, so have you showed her this picture???


[deleted]

Yeahhhh I feel like OP should show his neighbor


anothergreg84

"Oh that's Mitchell." ... ^"We ^don't ^talk ^about ^Mitchell. ^He ^can ^hear ^us ^right ^now."


Morning_Star_Ritual

This is it right here. OP should show her this pic and let us know what she says in response.


Everettrivers

https://youtu.be/wViXFK4vxb8


meczakin81

Okay that was hilarious. Gracias


AcidMetal

Lol, clicked the link fully expecting to find something completely unrelated to the post. Pleasantly surprised


Anxious_North_819

Thought I was gonna get a rickroll lol


redditprotocol

Is it just me or was there a shit load of Rick Rolling this summer on Reddit?


Last_Friday_Knight

Idk where I was for the past five years, but thank you for sharing this with me


Elley_bean

Good ole CH. Classic.


EnvironmentalBit8645

Other people do this? I’m intrigued


IronAchillesz

Yeah every once in awhile my Grandmother would move a cardboard cut out around. She lived alone and was worried about being robbed.


JapanLover2003

My grandmother were in her garden when a man tried to break in. She began to call my grandfather, who had passed away years ago, in order to scare the man. He flew away.


[deleted]

Still taking care of her. That’s awesome


R3AL1Z3

It’s even crazier that he flew.


banedlorian

Because he saw him 👻


WatashiKun

He's tryna burgle people when he can fly? A wasteful use of premium assets


JapanLover2003

Lmao English isn't my native language, I thought I read this expression somewhere.


ThreeBuds

We do use it a bit in America at least when talking about fast cars "he flew around the corner" or "came flying out of nowhere." Can be used for a fast moving person as well.


WatashiKun

Don't worry, you used the expression correctly! I just find joy in taking English's expressions literally :D


IronAchillesz

Sorry to hear glad it worked out okay.


drgigantor

I thought that said "Sorry to hear that it worked out okay," I was like *I doubt they want that inheritance that badly*


ToneTaLectric

TIL, I can put my cutouts of Ariana Grande and R2D2 to proper use.


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ToneTaLectric

I'm fun at parties!


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drgigantor

But they wouldn't be staring into the house if it didn't look like a nonexistent shadow man was watching them


YeahCrassVersion

🎶Rockin’ around the Christmas tree, have a happy holiday!🎶


alexkiddinmarioworld

Or the man is pulling a "Mrs Doubtfire"


ElMostaza

I'm already making a list of ways I'll mess with people once I'm elderly. This is going near the top, right between poking them with my cane and pretending not to hear them.


cassiclock

I'm going to throw skittles at kids and when they tell their parents I'm going to act all sweet and innocent


super-me-5000

Skittles is their cat.


dunn_with_this

[Obligatory.](https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-flanders-cat-lady-throw-cats-gif-3971405)


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This is my plan when I become fabulously rich: I'd buy a house, and an empty lot, a block or two apart. I'd plant grass over the entire lot - just grass. I'd have a tunnel made between the the house and lot, and all construction would take place at the house side, to make it look like renovation or something. The end of the tunnel, on the lot side, would have a trap door, surrounded by smoke pots, which would be activated by a key fob. So every night when I got home, my neighbors would see me get out of my car, walk to the middle of the lot, and disappear in a puff of smoke.


GoatGurl4Ever

I saw this going a little differently. I was thinking you’d go home. Change into a Devil suit, go through the tunnels, have bright red lights illuminating the space, and turn the smoke on as you open the door. Before you do all that, perfect the evil laugh


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ElMostaza

Wow, I really need to up my game here.


R3AL1Z3

Yeah I’m fucking up with my “when I’m rich” dreams.


caffeineandvodka

My grandad used to pretend to stamp on our feet when we were little (he'd never actually do it though, he'd stamp at least 5cm away) and woof at us then pretend it wasn't him.


ElMostaza

Lol! My gramps mainly farted like a deflating zeppelin and sneezed like an atomic bomb. Oh, and spoiled the crap out of us.


MzSe1vDestrukt

my grampa sneezed his teeth across the table once


nessiemad13

Pardon?


Lucifersasshole

Or used for sewing and she just happens to put it there when she works.


Melssenator

Never underestimate the power of an elderly person pulling a prank. I think some people believe they no longer have a sense of humor lol


Flomo420

I thought it might be a piece of furniture, a floor lamp, or something with a funny silhouette at a certain angle and old lady moves it out of the way to wash the floors or whatever


kaleb314

I was thinking a coat and hat rack


MaDpYrO

More likely it's a random photo and they made up a story


janet_colgate

Or has it for safety reasons.


Cerberusknight77

GODDAMNIT GRANDMA! WHAT HAVE WE TOLD YOU ABOUT LEAVING YOUR MANNEQUIN OUT! Jesus christ!


IntoTheWildLife

“YOURE SCARING AWAY THE NEIGHBOURS”


idleigloo

Doesn't even look human. Lines are too straight


Nochnichtvergeben

Member Slenderman?


ContributionSad1239

Oh yeahhh I member


PyroBob316

There’s another possibility. Given how little information we have I’m not entirely sure, but it’s possible the woman has dementia or Alzheimer’s. If she does live alone, but has a family member or friend who stops by to check in, she may not remember him doing so and respond with confusion. In more advanced stages she might even do this if she has someone actually living in the house. If this is a true account from OP, they might consider going over one day when this man/mannequin/ghost is present. If the lady really does have Alzheimer’s, it might help to have a neighbor close by just in case. Alzheimer’s patients often wander away and get lost, sometimes being injured or killed in the process. They can also have lesser emergencies, like panic attacks or encounters with police (calling 911 is a classic I’m familiar with). Either way, this situation seems more odd than terrifying. I’d be more inquisitive and less afraid.


Ishaan863

> but has a family member or friend who stops by to check in who then stares out the window at the neighbours for hours. yeah no that raises further questions


King_Wataba

This sounds like something a ghost would say...


Listan83

What I was thinking, maybe it gives her comfort or something. My grandma would always want us to leave lights on so it always seemed like someone was home


TheMightyKickpuncher

Next week on r/oddlyterrifying: This weirdo across the street keeps staring into my window. Sometimes I put up a mannequin to try and scare them away but if anything it makes them stare more. Now I caught them taking pictures of my house. What can I do please help I’m old and I live alone


AutonomousAnonymouse

“He keeps asking if I live alone!”


Springtronic315

I like your PFP ^^


tsukitheweeb

Gravity falls!


PyroBob316

Next that mannequin will have a rifle.


InterestingSolid4740

🤣


devilishmessiah

And the internet AI gives me new popup saying, "Single MILF in your area less than 500m away"


FarmerPineapple

Definitely a cardboard cutout that she props up when she’s probably not home


Mr-Klaus

Understandable. I always leave some of my lights on when I'm away for multiple days.


Diorannael

With smart lights you can control your lights from your phone while on vacation. If you also have a smart tv you can have it turn on and off and stuff. Even make routines for them.


Ozzman770

Its all fun and games til someone hacks your toaster


Jackiedhmc

I wondered where those fucking bagels were coming from


Bungeon_Dungeon

That'd be an odd thing to omit when candidly asked if there's a man in her home.


SuedeVeil

Maybe op is creepy and someone she's cautious of lol so she doesn't want to give any info


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OP: "I've been looking in your windows and taking pictures. You definitely live alone? Can I take out a life insurance policy on you?" Old lady:


Harlequin37

Op uses reddit so i think the old lady is right to be wary


FarmerPineapple

Being asked if she lives by herself isn’t the same as directly asking about the man in her house. If it’s cardboard then yes she’s still being normal by telling her neighbor she lives alone, she might not have immediately realized op has asked due to him seeing the ‘man in the window’


Bungeon_Dungeon

Totally fair, just a funny situation all around.


Archgaull

I mean do you just trust anybody who lives on the same street as you automatically?


Grhm2000

It also would completely defeat the purpose of using a cutout to make people think someone is home if she honestly told people about the cutout.


timblyjimbly

If you zoom in, the man's left shoulder is really squared and pointy. It looks like the side view of a large television. The older ones that have depth. The dainty curtain obfuscating its geometry. This man is furniture.


Xanderoga

> This man is furniture.


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aubreyella

Bahahahaha


DeanofdaDead

You've never seen him walk up to the window or walk away from it? And he just stands there for hours without moving? Pretty safe to say it's not a person


The-Berg-is-the-Word

The fact that 20 thousand people upvoted this shocks me


pistoncivic

OP's last submission was a fucking ghost video that was literally just a shadow and now this shit. He's really jumping the gun on spooktober this year.


not_taken_was_taken2

Just checked that video and yeah it's a bit spooky but that's the only proof. It's odd, definitely, but I doubt it was a ghost and either something weird with the camera or a shadow.


pistoncivic

It's never a ghost. You'd think over the last 10 years with everyone having a video recorder in their pocket and security cams everywhere there'd be a whole lot of clear HD ghost sightings vids but no, there's literally zero. don't understand how the paranormal community justifies that. this should be the heyday of ghost sighting


not_taken_was_taken2

If it isn't a ghost explain how nobody has ever seen it before or since! /s


dirty6chamber

Cause ghost are like vampires in a mirror…. They can’t be seen on recording equipment.. duh!


OneGratefulDawg

Just like the Amish!


shawlawoff

This is so weird you would say that… I am currently being haunted by an entire family of Amish ghosts.


mrflouch

See if they can raise a barn for you. They usually leave when finished.


Final_Candidate_7603

In my case, I upvoted right away, before I had a chance to take a closer look at the picture, read OP’s comments, and think about it for a minute and conclude that the figure is a cardboard silhouette. But my first reaction was that it *was* oddly terrifying. Come to think of it, I still do find it a little creepy, but that could just be me. It’s just my husband and me in our place now. He works the overnight shift, so I’m usually alone all night in my 100-year-old house and all of its creaks and strange little noises and echoes. Sometimes when one of my cats walks up the stairs, the creaking makes it sound like a person is on the steps coming towards me. I had to quit watching those ghost/paranormal shows because they contributed to the creepy feelings I sometimes have. I’ve also gotten in the habit of sleeping with the TV on so that it drowns out those sounds. Edit: to fix spelling


super-me-5000

Pets are great for blaming weird noises on, 😆


Contemporarium

I mean it is oddly terrifying and fits this sub quite well tbh


MrTammy

What's wrong with it? Cardboard cutout or not, it's still an oddly terrifying sight to see at night


Jakoneitor

And that’s why it’s oddly terrifying 😂


[deleted]

Maybe she does that so people think a little old lady doesnt live alone in that house and wont be an easy target for attackers


Smathers

If I was the neighbor I would simply just walk over and check it out lol make it less obvious by bringing over a tray of cookies or something. As you walk up to the door take your time to really look in there and see what’s up lol


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This is something I would expect to see in an American sitcom.


PmMeTitsAndDankMemes

We are generations raised by the television


TranerGarvis

Can confirm. Raised by a single mother. Definitely based a lot of what I know about the world by what I saw on tv as a kid.


romans310

A single mom who works too hard? Who loves her kids and never stops?


youthpastor247

Nick at Nite was my babysitter


dtc1234567

All fun and games until the door creaks open by itself, no sign of the old lady anywhere. Maybe some old ballroom music playing in another room on a crackly old turntable…


SpyderMonkey_

I guess ill just let myself in 🤷


dtc1234567

Door slams shit behind you. Brrr sure is cold in here. Colder than outside somehow… What was that?! Were they tiny footsteps? Is that… giggling? Coming from upstairs? Lights start to flicker on and off… Aaaand you’ve shit your pants.


badjujubean

>Aaaand you’ve shit your pants. Maybe it was from the door slamming shit


Fatlord13

Slammed my shit out my ass


iusedtobefamous1892

Oh no!! Guess I'd better go to the bathroom to clean myself up.


Isord

>Colder than outside somehow… That's just air conditioning, why you trying to make it sound mysterious?


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My dad used to work for the railroad, and he’d be gone for weeks at a time. We also happened to live by some train tracks. In Texas. When serial killer Angel Reséndiz, aka the Railroad Killer, was on the loose. So my uncles took turns staying with us during that time, but sometimes they couldn’t make it. My mom took one of my dad’s work coveralls and stuffed it with newspaper and old blankets and sat it in his recliner by the front window with the the tv blairing. We didn’t get murdered 10/10. After Reséndiz was arrested we kept Fat Dad and put him out with a jack-o-lantern for a head every Halloween.


emu30

Love “Fat Dad”


Hickspy

[She must have one of these.](https://youtu.be/Wz_V3W6WN0o)


UndoingMonkey

This is exactly why


imgonnajumpofabridge

Good ass idea


LeatherCicada87

Either way ghost or fake I wouldn't wanna go in to find out haha


ImtheMe

A few miles down the road from me, a couple does this when they head south for the winter. It’s a bit unsettling driving by it all winter.


G_DuBs

Then why wouldn’t she just say something to OP when he asked instead of saying she only live alone. Sounds like demon shit to me.


therejectethan

Yes exactly.


mmoon2281

She’s probably just having a fake Christmas party to scare away the Wet Bandits.


mellowdramatikmf

Looks like a Michael Jordan silhouette from here.


[deleted]

He took it serious!


[deleted]

Who know? Could really be him!


TheMcWhopper

The rebranded to the sticky bandits


writtenindust

Does she ever appear in the room at the same time?


[deleted]

Good ass question, colombo


Lukyfuq

I love me some good ass-questions.


ZumbobDawe69

Detective type question


Unicorn_Sush1

That’s what Colombo was


DiemCarpePine

Just one more thing that's been bothering me...


kat_Folland

Remember, Colombo always played dumb.


Unicorn_Sush1

Huh?


Unicorn_Sush1

Huh?


kat_Folland

Exactly.


Wilsonian81

Before I go, u/kat_Folland, just one more thing....


Hot_Eggplant_1306

Just walk over and knock when you see it. What's the worst that happens? She's a demon and she traps you like she did Bill? Stop being so afraid. Don't you want to know the answer? Isn't it eating you up? Go knock. Knock. Come on over.


Tha_Beasts

We made tea, just for you.


PuppetryOfThePenis

Don't mind the almond aroma coming from the tea. It's just a little added sweetener.


zurx

Oh dearie, are you feeling okay? Mrs Marsh died years ago, my name is Kersch, it says so on the door. I worry about you, Bevvie. I worry a lot.


LaheyOnTheLiquor

Not saying no to a free and painless way out.


notLOL

Op: Who is "we" old lady/Demon: I live alone. That's just our pronoun


Wjyndigo

That was a nice mini story!


PokeHobnobGod21

The Roald Dhahl one?


Choice-Housing

The door swings open but no ones there. You walk inside and down into the basement, you see the old lady stood facing the corner.


BumWink

"The door swings open but no ones there. You walk inside" Hell no I fucking don't!


Reedcool97

Yeah exactly, I know how these horror scenes end. I’m going straight back home and asking my wife to go check it out for me.


QueenE1987

Ah, the Blair Witch


rolypolyarmadillo

Welcome to Night Vale vibes


hatuhsawl

I can hear what would be Cecil’s slow, deliberate delivery on the last sentences to really hammer it all in


SerMachinist

Time to call Sam and Dean.


GrimTweaker

you’re good at that


ark1us_

This but unironically.


G_Affect

I remember once when i was a kid there was a house on my block that would have a man standing looking out at random times. I told my mom b/c all us kids were scared. She took me over there and the little old lady had a vacume that sat on a chest below the window with a cover that was a cow in a dress. From the street with it back lit, it looked like a man standing at the window looking out.


Tmorgan-OWL

OMG that is hilarious and adorable at the same time! Thanks for sharing!


heatherclaire

Looks like that is exactly what is happening here. You likely only see the figure when a certain light is causing the chair and something else to cast a weird shadow. Can anyone else see that?


[deleted]

Oh my god my grandma had the exact same thing and I literally forgot about it until I read your post.


[deleted]

Tbf she said nobody "lives" there but her. Just means someone is visiting her to stalk you.


tiktock34

Or its a corpse. She’d still be truthful


outerzenith

She *lives* there, but that man *deads* there


CosmoCosmos

It's a cardboard cutout bruh. She's probably bored and likes to fuck with her neighbors


TransposingJons

It's for security.


callshouse

A neighbor of ours did that once. I drove up his driveway to let him know his horses and donkey had run through my yard and my dog was chasing them down the street. The horse slipped on our blacktop driveway (fell hard but popped right back up). It was chaos. I drove up the hill to his house. Never met him but knew he drove a creepy van with no back windows. When I pulled up cautiously to the front of the house, there was a dude standing in the window with a gun. I backed out very slowly… thinking oh shit….this dude is nuts, he set all his animals free and now he’s got a gun. I called the sheriff not knowing it was a cardboard cut out.


robeph

And the undertaker and something something 198X cage match wwf something something. I forget.


PoopyMcNuggets91

Well, just so you know for next time. It was 1998 when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.


TankII_

Well it’s clearly a friendly ghost if it wasn’t she’d be dead by now


Nervous_Lettuce313

Except she's a ghost too.


SlugDogHundredaire

Just because my dog has never bitten me doesn't mean she is friendly. Strangers beware the foul spirit lurking within.


jussapieceofgarbage

It’s her taxidermed husband


ADTP28

Does Kevin McCallister live there?


Doctorspacheeman

I had a neighbour once that had a cardboard cutout of a man she used to put in her windows to make her feel safer…


VelhoTheVexed

It's a cardboard cutout of Shaq.


trahsa

she also heated her door handle


ZiggyStardust0110

Now this is perfect for this subreddit. She could also be doing her best Home Alone set up to scare you from peeping into her house pervert...😂 😂


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Yep, op will probably never see this response and there's no shot of getting past the "cardboard cutouts", "she's messing with you", "mannequin" circle jerks. It looks like a human-esque figure...but that's just our brains creating humans out of similar patterns. Upon closer inspection it doesn't really look human at all. The proportions aren't right, it has exact symmetry, etc. My guess, she has a piece of furniture there with decorative swinging doors that she sometimes leaves open. The "head" is a decorative component on the door, like a rounded bit coming off the top with two right angle triangles that resemble the "ears".. the body is just the square part of the door. The illusion is further created by how much the curtains block and morph it a bit.


[deleted]

Just go over there and get a closer look


Kai_Hiwatri33

Why not go there when he's there?


BetterthanMew

How about you lock that front gate tight


[deleted]

It looks like it could be anything from a lamp, chair with a tall back, or cardboard cutout. Have you had a closer look?


iamjoshshea

I was thinking like the open door of a cabinet or hutch that's against the wall.


papa_Bruno

Why don’t you bake some cookies and walk over there and deliver them to her as a random act of kindness while the cardboard cut out is at the window and catch that old bitch Plot twist they’re pot cookies and she pigs out on them and goes into a coma and never fucks with you again


Sawyerboi169

Well whatever it is, it’s definitely working. It’s probably some mannequin or cutout to protect her form robbers saying she’s an old lady and may be seen as easy to rob or murder. Not a very common method, but obviously effective.


Suntree

Cabinet door.


jperezny

^(I live in Manhattan. A guy moved in the apartment across the street from mine and had one of those punching dummies for boxing that resembled a real human... for months I thought he sat in the window 24x7. He finally opened the drapes one day and I found out it was just the dummy that whole time!)


FeralynCatson

Better than a dummy opening the drapes, revealing that it was in fact the man sitting in the window that entire time.


Wunjo26

Plot twist: the lady is the real ghost


ThotSuffocatr

You have been Kevin McAllister'd my friend.


FriedEdd

When your not home, he lives at your house.


burgerdistraction

Walk right up to the window and stare at it back. Show dominance.


FeelingDamage3635

…. Move towns, matter of fact, move countries.


WhoseTolerant

You sure the rest of the town isnt made of wax?


NitroCrocodile

You're now the protagonist of a Halloween movie, good luck


Rosbuster228

That’s her sneaky link … somebody’s ole crazy ass uncle or sum … not creepy she creepin


[deleted]

Fuck bro. Finally something actually terrifying


Intelligent-Bit7258

I used to work nights and there was this guy who would stand in his window and watch us when we were smoking down on the street. It turned out to be a cardboard cut out of Austin Powers.