Weird Neighbor

I'm not sure I have ever wrote about my freaky neighbor that lives directly behind me or not, but here goes.

This new neighbor moved in behind us just before the hurricanes in 2004. Our first meeting was when hubby and I were installing our privacy fence. He walks up and asks us straight out," Are you installing that fence because of me and my dogs?" We were a bit taken back as my husband and I have always wanted a privacy fence for our back yard, 1 because of some very wicked little girls that use to come in our back yard to give my youngest down the road, sneak in our house..(long story), it wasn't because of the new neighbor. We were like," No...we have been wanting a privacy fence for a while now and were just now able to afford to do it." I had met his wife a few days before that, well..I didn't know it was her till I seen her in her back yard afterwards. She came knocking on my front door.

I answered the door, " Hello?"

Woman, " Do you have a daycare?"

Me: "No"

Woman: "Then what are all those toys doing in your backyard?"

Me:" Um, those are my kid's toys. "

Woman: " Are you sure you don't have a daycare?"

Me: " uh..yeah."

Woman: " I just don't understand why you have all those toys in the back yard. Do you know where a daycare is around here?"

Me: " I have 3 children, those are their toys. I use to use the kindercare around the corner. It's a really good daycare."

Woman: " ok, thanks."

She got in her car and walk away. I thought...Weird encounter.

Just after the hurricanes my 15 year old daughter and my grandmother were walking down the street behind us. You get cabin fever after hurricanes, so you walk alot more to get the sunlight back on your face and feel the free air blowing in your hair.

As they walked past neighbors house, he comes out walks right up to my daughter and says: "Your a really pretty girl."

Gram standing by my daughter just looks on, watching...

Daughter, "Thank you"

Neighbor: "You live behind me right?"

Daughter: " Um..yeah I think so"

Neighbor: " Yeah, you do. I've seen you laying out in the back yard. Your very, very pretty."

Daughter: " Thanks"

Gram: " Come On Winter, let's go."

Neighbor ignoring Gram: " That's a very pretty name, if you ever want to come back and see me, you can."

Daughter: " Um..I'm only 15 and I'm gay."

Gram: " I think you need to stay away fron my Granddaughter. Come on Winter."

At some point neighbors wife left. I heard through the neighborhood grape vine She left him, took her kids and was claiming he was a child molestor. Now thinking him a child molestor was not hard for me to believe, but this was gossip...still I had that gut feeling that he was weird to say the least.

Now, before the old neighbor moved out, he had large, very large bushes planted all along his property line. They gave us "some" privacy between the two homes. Not long after the neighbor had the encounter with my daughter 4 of those bushes disappeared. Yes, we had our privacy fence, but the way our house sits and his, you could see through the "hole" from the missing bushes straight into his porch and into his Kitchen and bedroom. This weirded me out, especially when one night I emerged from my bathroom after taking a shower, I walked past my bedroom window. The curtains were not shut all the way and I looked out to see straight into his porch and kitchen. I shut the curtains immediately. Thank God I still had a towel around me.

I told my husband I felt he removed the bushes to spy on us and my daughter. My husband thought I was exaggerating. My family thinks I go off the deep end alot of times. I am suspicuous of people around me...with my history, how could I be any different? I stuck to my guns.

As far as I know my daughter has never seen this man up since. That was 3 years ago. She moved out last year 3 weeks befor her 18th birthday. Since her last encounter, she has changed quite a bit. She has went from blonde to brunette (her some what natural color). My daughter has just recently moved back home. She seen him the other day in a store around the corner.

She walks in...He's standing at the counter.

Neighbor," I know who you are! You live right behind me. You have a pool now."

Winter: " um..yeah"

He goes on to explain every new detail of our back yard.

Neighbor:" You should come see me sometime."

Winter finsihes her purchase and looks at him: " Um..I'm GAY. Thanks, but NO THANKS."


She comes home all freaked out. Tells me of the encounter then states: "Mom, I think that guy is spying on us."

Me: Umm...YEAH, I have just been telling everyone for years now that he has and he is weird.

I know this is mean, but we joked about being careful in the backyard. Never bend over and especially never while alone.

My husband was in the yard later and I yelled out the window," Be careful..you might be being watched.....Oh and don't bend over.

My husband comes back in a few minutes later and tells me," He was in his back yard when you hollered that."

I didn't care. I think the man is a pervert and I want him to know we are aware of him watching us. I wanted him to know I was aware of him coming on to my daughter. What I really wanted to do was march right up to his front door and tell him in no uncertain terms that if he even looked at my daughter or any of my children again he might just wake up dickless. I thought what I hollered across the back yard was way better, not as satisfying, but way less violent.



This man also breeds dogs in his back yard. They are very loud, barking, yelping dogs. In the afternoon it is worse. I think it is when he gets home. There is always this loud cracking sound followed by a pup wailing like he just recieved an injury that was life threatening. My daughter swears he is having sex with the dogs cause they whimper and wine all the time. I think she may be going over board here, but I do suspect they are not being cared for, even possibly abused.

I have complained somewhat loudly in my back yard about the noise...umm...several hundred times. I can't even get in the pool without the adult daogs standing at the fence and barking non stop.

Neighbor must have finally over heard my complaints. We heard him last night blastinging an air horn everytime the dogs barked. I guess he is trying to train them not to bark. The horn, from what I gather, causes them pain. I'm not sure this is not abuse. I am sure the horn is more annoying than they dogs barking. I'm thinking he is training me to like them barking better than the air horn.

There was a week a couple of months ago, before my daughter moved in, that we would heard a woman crying..loudly. It was so loud and urgent that I thought someone got hurt. I walked to my patio doors and listened. I heard a man holler, "Get back in the house!" I was very unnerved. I told my husband about it. I was like, What do you do? Do you call the police and what do you say to them? Do you say, um..I think my perverted neighbor is hurting, killing or holding hostage a female in his house? Is he in a new relationship? Did they just have an arguement and no violence was involved? This went on for about a week and always around the same time, between 10:30 am and 12 noon. Weird huh? I am hoping against hope that the woman is alright and did not end up as dog food. I am hoping my imagination is getting the better of me. I hope that everything I think about this man is unfounded and I am an awful person for thinking it....that would be better than the latter. I would rather be a bad neighbor than right.....