A mum from Kent was given anti-psychotic medication and was called ‘crazy’ after insisting she was sure that someone secretly lived in her loft.
Chloe, 31, from Gravesend, faced something out of a horror film – having a stranger secretly live within the safety of your home.
But she was accused of hallucinating and being ‘crazy’ after she insisted someone was secretly living above her flat for months before the police made a chilling discovery.
The mum, who lived in the top-floor apartment in her 20s at the time, noticed the hatch to the loft was mysteriously open one day.
She thought it was ‘strange’ but carried on with her day until later in the evening she thought ‘there’s someone there, they’re looking at me.’
Sharing her bizarre experience on TikTok, Chloe said: ‘I rang my friend who lived below me in the flats and told her there’s someone in my flat.’
‘No one would believe me,’ she said, adding that when ‘I’m laying in bed that evening, I’m hearing footsteps and someone up there.
After another round of ringing friends, she was told again that it was ‘all the voices in your head.’
She kept going on about it to her friends and even mentioned it to a neighbour despite being ‘shut down’ repeatedly.
Eventually, her friends ‘decided that I was going through a psychotic episode,’ and she agreed to go and speak to a doctor, who prescribed her anti-psychotic medicine, which made her feel like ‘a zombie.’
After two months, she experienced the shock of her life when ‘this person is opening the latch blatantly in front of my eyes one night and staring at me.’ She ran out of the flat, and ended up ringing the police, who arrived to inspect the loft.
Chloe said: ‘There was someone there. He was living there and he had loads of bags and backpacks, and he came down.
‘And at this point, all my friends and neighbours from the other flats thought “oh my God, it’s actually true”.’
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The mysterious stranger turned out to be a friend of his neighbour’s, who she believes was homeless.
‘He put him there and was giving him food, and that’s why he was talking down to everyone saying “I can’t hear anything,” and he knew there was someone there,’ Chloe added.
Although her friends refused to believe her, she said she ‘doesn’t blame anyone in my life then,’ and that she was dealing with PTSD and mental health issues at the time.
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