The Monster Downstairs

 I set up a camera last week that was relatively simple to see if anyone was coming in when we were gone.  We've had a couple of strange incidents where we haven't been able to find something or all of a sudden, the item were looking for appears out of nowhere.

Does it sound like I'm paranoid about the monster downstairs?  Yeah.  I am.  He does it to us though.  He hasn't worked in maybe 2 years and even when he had his fake business he was home most of the day.  He would just collect money and never do anything or pay anyone.   He spends most of his days hiding in his apartment or sitting on the porch while the dogs bark at everything and everyone.   

When we had our incident back in late November with him when he had the lights off and a big man in the basement, he said to my mom, "Are you paranoid?" I heard him.  There was something creepy about the way he said it.  My mom responded with two words and went back up the stairs.  One started with the letter "F" and the other started with you.  The monster makes mom salty I guess.  

The last 2 days we had been looking for the mouse to my mom's laptop.  We searched everywhere and it all of a sudden appeared.

Do we think he's been in our apartment?  We don't know. I looked at our lock and it's old so I could see scratches but I think are these scratches old?  

And yesterday, I left the house for a few hours and my mom slept until about noon because she's got a sinus infection as well and trying to get extra sleep.  

I had only turned the camera on when we both left and I hate to think that he was in here when either both of us were sleeping or just my mom.

He's a monster.  I guess I'll find out.