I opened my door and...

[VaughanJB]

there she was again today. I was going to the mail room and when I opened my door to go out, there she was, just standing there. I jumped a mile because I didn't expect to see her and I immediately went back into my apartment and locked the door. The police were called and came. They talked with her for over an hour and then left.

I won't do a restaining order as she lives here and an order wouldn't work. I'll be viligent and careful.

I must have missed a previous discussion because I'm not entirely sure what this is about. I assume you're being harassed by a neighbor? What have the Police advised? If you're not feeling safe in your home then I'd follow all professional advice. Something like a Restraining Order may well make no difference to her actions, but it does increase the repercussions of her ignoring it. Perhaps consequences is the only way to win.

 

[CallMeKate]

I must have missed a previous discussion because I'm not entirely sure what this is about. I assume you're being harassed by a neighbor?

Much more than that. The neighbor knew things about Dusty and her son going back years that no one could have known. Claimed to have some creepy similarities, even dads at Pearl Harbor... same birthday... well, lot's of stuff. Dossier level. It's not all in this thread, but the first one from last weekend. @VaughanJB

 

[VaughanJB]

Much more than that. The neighbor knew things about Dusty and her son going back years that no one could have known. Claimed to have some creepy similarities, even dads at Pearl Harbor... same birthday... well, lot's of stuff. Dossier level. It's not all in this thread, but the first one from last weekend. @VaughanJB

Yikes, thanks for the details.

Well, this sounds very weird.

I'd definitely be doing everything under the law that is possible, because the only other certain way to end it is to move home yourself.

 

[CallMeKate]

Yikes, thanks for the details.
Well, this sounds very weird.

Yep, weird. If you have time, read the other thread sometime... creepy stuff. It's... let me go find it...
Weird visit this afternoon

 

[Jules]

Dusty, when you were with your ex and you were investigated and watched continually, do you think this is where she might have managed to get some detailed history of you that she shouldn’t have kept. Then she started digging more, for some unknown reason.

Are you managing to sleep. Keep your door reinforced all the time and always have your cellphone handy.

 

[hollydolly]

Sounds very much like BPD: A person wanting to be another person can be a symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), which involves a desperate fear of abandonment and a fragile sense of self. They may "latch onto" others to regulate their emotions and avoid feeling incomplete, sometimes leading to "chameleon-like" behavior and idealizing or devaluing relationships.

yes but that doesn't explain how this woman knew so much about Dusty, her background, her relatives...etc... from a completely different other place... where Dusty lived previously ...and further to that this woman has only lived in Dusty apartment block for a short time...

 

[dusty]

Dusty, when you were with your ex and you were investigated and watched continually, do you think this is where she might have managed to get some detailed history of you that she shouldn’t have kept. Then she started digging more, for some unknown reason.

Are you managing to sleep. Keep your door reinforced all the time and always have your cellphone handy.

When I was with the ex I only saw men agents. Unless she was assigned to watch my ex, I don't see how she would get the info. I am sleeping but awaken quickly if there is a noise. Thanks for asking.

 

[dusty]

My ex was invited to join the Secret Service right after his tour in Nam, he got out in 1972. He agreed. They put him in their 'school' and taught him who knows what. He was at Quantico. When he was in Nam he was a dust off medic, did swift water rescue and other things I was never told about till much later.

He was also married when I married him but I did not know. (After the divorce I started to dig into some things and I actually got a copy of a deed to a house he and his wife had bought in 1983 (while he and I were married) in Sandstone VA with her signing her name and 'his wife' after that) The agency was always around, he was always flying off for 2 weeks at a time for work and I was a stay at home, volunteering. I knew there was something and when I asked he told me to stop asking so many questions and everything would be fine.



There are so many things in the same vein I could relate but I won't because I just don't want to remember.

 

[Imogene]

Given what you wrote in your post number 58, my uneducated guess is that there is a strong connection between your past and this woman who is knocking at your door and seems to know everything about you. That would be the only way she would know things about you that the average person wouldn’t know.

The next thing to question is, why is she so interested. Does she think you have money that she’s entitled to or, in her mind, is there’s some act of revenge that she feels she needs to wrongly enact?

 

[Pepper]

Dusty. Maybe woman knows so much about you from information she got from a medium. Not joking.

 

[Magna-Carta]

What I find interesting -- fascinating in fact -- is that dusty has mentioned Pearl Harbor at least seven times in other threads, often referencing her father being there and sharing other intriguing details.

Now we have this thread, which is the second one involving the same stranger who visited dusty. The first thread of the stranger being the “Weird visit this afternoon.” thread. In that earlier thread, the visitor allegedly claimed a personal connection with dusty through Pearl Harbor, even sharing a birthday and other details that seemed to mirror dusty’s own background or family memberes.

I can’t help but wonder if there’ll be a third iteration of this story -- perhaps in a new thread, continuing the same encounter or expanding on it. Where eact posts adds more mystery and raises more questions than it answers. And infinitum. Oh how the plot thickens, yet in some ways becomes clearer.

 

[WheatenLover]

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID):
Also known as multiple personality disorder, people with DID experience distinct personalities (alters) with different behaviors, memories, and thought patterns. This can manifest as wanting to be or taking on the identity of another person.

This is extremely rare. It gained popularity as a diagnosis after the book Sybil was published. Sybil was later discredited and the number of people who had DID diminished accordingly.

 

[Magna-Carta]

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID):
Also known as multiple personality disorder, people with DID experience distinct personalities (alters) with different behaviors, memories, and thought patterns. This can manifest as wanting to be or taking on the identity of another person.

Yes, I’ve inadvertently been involved with people who exhibit this type of thing. One in particular -- who may still be active on this site under a number of different names -- had several distinct alters, but all of a similar theme. The hundreds of messages I exchanged with this person in my PM's could probably fill a small book.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

It appears to be recognized by the Cleveland Clinic and the National Institutes of Health.

 

[Sunny]

Although I've found this story intriguing and pretty alarming, it does raise some questions. Some aspects of the story don't exactly hold together. I apologize to dusty if this is all 100% true, but on social media, we all have to be a little bit cautious about accepting people's identities, experiences, dangers, etc.

One question occurs to me: although at first I thought this could be an identity theft story, why would the thief be so open and blatant about who she is, where she lives, and so on? Wouldn't she be more likely to keep the lowest profile imaginable? From dusty's description, this woman is constantly in her face, always calling attention to herself. And why hang around near her door, like a ghost? If dusty received a warning from her bank, for instance, that something appeared to be identity theft, who would be the first suspect who popped into her mind?

And like Magna-Carta, I have to wonder why all the mention of Pearl Harbor. So there might be more to this story than we thought. We need more information.

 

[dusty]

Well first of all this woman was on my door for several hours knocking and scratching. I have lived her 6 yrs and never had this hppen before. If she was an identify thief she has all she needs to know, so why come to me and tell me?? And as for my bank, nothing has happened there so she doesn't want my money. Do't ask me what her game is, I only know that she scared me shitless.

As for Pearl Harbor, yes I mention it because my father was berthed right next to the arizona and that attack changed him forever. I was not born yet, but he named me after the Enola Gay...do you know what that was?? I didn't ike that much. He came back a dangerous man carrying a gun everywhere and a knife he had at Pearl. I was scared of him as were my brothers. Yet my Navel Commander brother went to Pearl every year to pay homage...he lives in Kentucky, or did.

I have sought none of these people in my life out. I guess I just got lucky.