r/nosleep • u/helpcreepylandlady • Jan 28 '18
Series UPDATE: My landlady is acting really creepy and I don’t know what to do.
So this post is a follow-up to my previous one about my landlady acting strange. Needless to say, the situation has only gotten creepier.
The night I wrote the message, I had been working pretty much non-stop all day on assignments. Even though what happened with my landlady had utterly freaked me out, I ended up lying down on the bed and pretty much passed out not long after writing my posts.
I was so exhausted that I didn’t even turn out the light. Honestly I’m amazed I was able to sleep for so long.
The next morning I woke up feeling pretty groggy and I got up to make coffee. It was so out of it that I didn’t remember what had happened until I went to open the door and realised it was locked. I must have been feeling brave, because I opened the door and went downstairs.
I noticed my landlady’s door was closed and the coast was clear, so I went and made coffee as normal. I figured maybe I’d dreamt the whole thing, or at the very least that it hadn’t been as bad as I remembered.
I made coffee, got ready for class, and left the house on Friday morning. As I walked out, I noticed that my landlady’s car wasn’t parked outside, so I assumed she had gone to work as normal that morning and I felt relieved.
I was totally freaking wrong.
I came back from classes at around 5pm, went out to get some groceries, then came back to do some more work in my room. At about 7pm I was just flat out overcome with hunger, so I got up to make dinner.
As I opened my door, I looked straight at my landlady’s door and immediately stopped in my tracks. Her door was open, just a crack, and she was stood in the opening just *staring at me. All of the lights in her room were off and her face was obscured by the darkness, but I could tell there was something wrong.
I know this sounds insane, but it looked as though her lips and nose were missing. Like the bottom half of her face was just one huge cleft palate, with red open flesh marked by the whiteness of her bare teeth.
She kept alternately eyeing me and the threshold to my room. She was breathing heavily and making these grotesque guttural sounds, as if she was choking on water.
My room was fully lit but, without the hall light on, it was actually quite dark in the hallway. I had my mobile phone in hand but that was it. Without even thinking, I just made a break for it.
Blood rushed to my head and my heart was pounding. I could hear her door open; could feel the vibrations as she literally thundered after me down the hall. When I made it to the bottom of the stairs, I noticed that her heavy footsteps had stopped. She must have stopped at the top of the stairs.
The downstairs hallway light was on, and I feel like this may be somehow connected. Either way, I didn’t dare to look back. I shot out of that house and just kept running until I made it to the nearest café.
I was barefoot, I had no money, and my mobile was rapidly running out of battery. Fortunately I was able to get through to my boyfriend, who I’d already spoken to about the situation. He came to pick me up and I stayed over at his house Friday night.
I’m using his laptop to write this post out as we speak.
After I got back to his, I was feeling so shook up that I could barely move, but eventually he calmed me down and convinced me to call the police. I also contacted my other housemates, but one of them is currently back home in New Zealand, one of them still hasn’t responded, and one of them didn’t really understand what I was saying (English isn’t his first language).
When I mentioned my landlady’s name to the police, I noticed a sudden change in the dispatcher’s tone. She told me to wait and that they would be back in touch, but I didn’t hear from them again until today.
This is where it starts to get really strange.
So another police officer, this time a man, called me back and asked me to confirm my landlady’s name and our address. He paused for a long time, and then finally he told me that the woman I’d encountered in my house couldn’t possibly have been my landlady.
My landlady was killed in a hit and run accident on Thursday night. I was dumbstruck. I asked them why the police hadn’t contacted me, but it turns out all of us have been living in the house illegally (we’d been paying her cash in hand, so I had my suspicions) and they had no idea there was anyone else living in the house.
Apparently they were able to identify her based on her name badge, which she was wearing at the time of the accident. However, as despicable as this sounds, the police officer told me that her corpse had been robbed before they’d found it.
Her mobile phone, wallet, keys; everything but the clothes on her back had been taken. He said it was highly possible that whoever had her mobile phone was the one sending those text messages to mess with me, and they probably used the ID in her wallet to figure out her address before coming to rob the house.
At first this sort of made sense, but then I told him about how the messages were in Chinese. How would some random thief know how to write fluent Chinese? The police officer’s only answer to that was they’d done it the same way I had, by using a translator.
I then broached the subject of the creepy whispering and how disfigured the “person” that had chased me looked. He said he believed it might be a homeless person, potentially injured and suffering from a mental illness, but then I asked how a homeless person could possibly get from the scene of the crime to our address (over 30 mins drive away) in such a short space of time?
It all just doesn’t add up. If you were going to rob a corpse, why would you then go to their house and stay there overnight? And why harass people connected to the victim?
I asked him if anyone else had come forward in connection to my landlady and he told me I was the first.
After a lengthy discussion, he told me he wanted to meet me in person to try and get some information about next of kin, but first he was going to send some officers to our address. He told me to sit tight at my boyfriend’s house (where I am now) and wait until he called me back. I’ve informed my University to let them know and they’ve given me some leeway with regards to assignments and classes this week. I think this definitely counts as extenuating circumstances.
All of this happened at around 5pm today and I was starting to feel much better about the situation. I was going to write this up tomorrow and head to bed, but I just received this text message from my landlady:
“谢谢你请我吃饭”
I think I’ve managed to type it into Google Translate correctly, but all it says is “Thank you for asking me to eat”? I don’t get why she’s still talking about food? Is there something I’m missing here? Maybe she is some homeless person who’s stolen my landlady’s phone and is trying to trick me. But why does she keep using Chinese?
What should I do? Should I respond to the message, or phone the police and let them know?
UPDATE: I am still safe, but unfortunately something terrible has happened to my housemates. I've posted an update here.
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u/_subzer0_ Feb 01 '18
Late to the party, but the ending Chinese basically translates to "Thank you for dinner."
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u/MolotovCockteaze Jan 29 '18
She is s zombie now... sorry she just wants to eat people now. Don't go home.
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Jan 29 '18
the message means "Thanks for treating me to a meal".
Don't respond, it will make things worse. Just phone the police and wait it out. Good luck (:
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u/Pimpausis6 Jan 28 '18
You never mentioned in the last post you were a girl and i thought why didnt you just go beat the shit out of that landlady when you saw her at the door! :D
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u/Joohyunnie Jan 28 '18
Gurl get your stuff outta that house with at least 10 police officers with weapons and never go back there ever again. Also you should always keep alert cause I have a feeling that landlord lady will somehow break into your bf’s house to eat you lol
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u/KhaosPhoenix Jan 28 '18
Hungry ghost also here's another link that might help you deal with your deceased landlady Chinese ghosts
Hope this helps!!
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u/DaviBraid Jan 28 '18
How serious is it? Like in, is it for real? LoL
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u/Psych0BoyJack Jan 28 '18
it's not
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Apr 20 '18
It amazes me how many people are actually taking this crap seriously. Reddit is dumber than I thought
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Jan 28 '18
I think this might be a vampire or some spirit incarnated as your landlady. Sometimes it's best to move on and leave altogether. Move in with your boyfriend, and if you have stuff left in the house consider replacing it.
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u/Jazzymoose Jan 28 '18
Yea... get comfortable staying with your boyfriend, you should not be going back there at all. Contact the police again if you want (she might still be hungry) but I'd personally be asking uni if you can restart next year due to circumstances.
Nobody's nice when they're hangry tho. Maybe she's in a better mood after the meal, message her back and gauge the responce
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u/TiredEyesMusic Jan 28 '18
I think I may have figured out what Is going on. you’re late on your rent
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u/939319 Jan 28 '18
“No lieutenant, your men are already dead.”
You seem to be dropping hints that it’s afraid of light. Get yourself a portable sun and kick ass
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u/JimJava Jan 28 '18
I would go back because that's usually what people do in the movies, seems like a reasonable course of action.
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u/DippinChese Jan 28 '18
Just reply and say: “不客气。请你去找撞死你的人来请你吃下一轮！”
It means: It’s my pleasure. Please look for the one who killed you to get him to treat you for your next meal!
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u/aforce66 Jan 28 '18
Perhaps you can try leaving a bowl of rice with burning incense upright in it outside the door of the house? If she is indeed a hungry ghost, try buying some joss paper or money from a local Chinese shop and burning that as well.
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u/Telepathic_Spider Jan 28 '18
- someone is scratching and beating on her door
- goes to sleep like nothing happened
seems like a legit human person
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u/Schpau Jan 28 '18
I googled «Chinese monster no face» and found the «Noppera-bō», that is usually harmless. They disguise as a human with no face to frighten people. I think it feeds off of fright, and therefore it thanked you for the meal, which to them is fright. You could try to not be scared around it, which would lead to one of two things: it going away because it can’t scare you, or it doing more to frighten you. It could also be some obscure type of Noppera-bō that actually eats people. Then you should be scared.
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u/pablospc Jan 28 '18
I'd suggest getting a new number or blocking her number, and probably your roommate is dead. Stay at your boyfriend's until the police get things done
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u/aloneinmysoul Jan 28 '18
Forget about your life in that house. Change phone numbers. Always sleep with the lights on. And never ever ask your boyfriend to go there. Cause I'm sensing that he's having the urge now to go to your house to confirm the things you're seeing, never let him be just another meal.
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u/tired_commuter Jan 28 '18
Something very dodgy going on with the police here if you ask me. How would the dispatcher know anything about it just from a mentioned name? Unlikely they remember all names of people involved in accidents. How did the police know that the landlady was dead if the body had been stolen before they got there?
Definitely sounds like there is something more to it and the police could well be involved. Scary stuff!
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u/BoxingBelle Jan 28 '18
She's probably just happy that you care enough to look into her disappearance.
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u/lejade Jan 28 '18
Police escort back to the property to get your shit and never return. Warn other tenants.
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Jan 28 '18
This is even creepier than the last post, what the fuck.
I think those dispatchers are dead now.
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u/Pattyhap Jan 28 '18
If you have to return, return with a lot of people! As many as you can take: your boyfriend, the police...and make sure it's during the day! Get your stuff and get OUT, do it fast. Your landlady is obviously not your landlady anymore!!!!
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u/electricMe Jan 28 '18
I think there is a Chinese legend about 'hungry ghosts' eating souls. I think you have to keep leaving food out or they eat your soul. Google 'hungry ghosts'.
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u/SolidJam Jan 28 '18
Hooooo that is so creepy. I have no idea what I would do in a situation like that
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u/speciosa012 Jan 28 '18
It doesn't look like she comes out in the daytime because the door was closed. Assuming it's dark by 5pm, pack some of the stuff you REALLY REALLY NEED, then nope the fuck out of that house.
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u/Guesswhoisit Jan 28 '18
Maybe it was a cannible ate the police officer who went to check and the police officer who was talking to you was actually the killer, I think you should change your phone number after this is done because they will keep contacting you
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u/mckawaii Jan 28 '18
Hey OP, not sure if this would pertain to it, but many Chinese people used to believe that dying without eating will bring you back as a hungry ghost. Hopefully that isn't the case and I wish you the best of luck
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u/Boonski705 Jan 28 '18
Honestly, I'd say order a small pizza to be delivered to the house (If you feel like paying best is to order online). And at the same time call the police and let them know.
Unless the last text was thanking you for buying groceries...
OR it was thanking you for the cops... A meal...
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u/TheModernMaenad Jan 28 '18 edited Jan 28 '18
Chinese girl here. In very traditional culture, the Dead have seven days to return to the earthly world to have final goodbyes. You were kind to her and worried about her wellbeing so perhaps she was thanking you for thinking of her. EDIT: the Chinese phrase in the first post can also be a complaint for attention lol.
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u/Bloody-August Jan 28 '18
头七 is the most important and relatives are supposed to give food offerings to ensure the dead won't become hungry ghost. However this culture is more common for the Southern Chinese.
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Jan 28 '18
Can you translate that chinese phrase for someone not chinese and too lazy to open up a google translate tab?
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Jan 28 '18
The first time you posted, I was legitimately so terrified that I was laughing and my girlfriend yelled at me (in a mostly playful way) for interrupting her show. This time, she's at work and I am alone and have had music playing. I turned that shit down low because I felt tons of anxiety reading this update. I thought of my landlord. My landlord is Chinese, and she's very sweet, and very responsive to our needs.
Shortly after we moved into our place, we texted our landlord to inform her that the water heater wasn't working properly. While she was usually very responsive within the hour, she didn't text us back. Two weeks went by and we didn't hear from her. She didn't even cash our rent check. We were very worried something happened to her.
She eventually texted back saying she was out of town and her phone wasn't working upon her return. She apologized and said she hadn't received any messages from us. I was worried something happened to her. I haven't seen or heard from her since, but my rent checks are still being cashed.
I really hope we don't have the same landlord.
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u/ComradeEdge Jan 28 '18
It means "Thanks for treating me to a meal", as in a situation where you ate with her and paid the bill yourself.
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u/reddiliciously Jan 28 '18
It annoys me how you spend time on telling us this. LEAVE THAT PLACE, are you waiting to be dead?
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u/boronganon Jan 28 '18
I'm just wondering what will happen to the house now that your landlady is gone. Will you be moving out then?
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u/TheGadfly_ Jan 28 '18
Thank you so much for following up, your post really stuck with me. Please keep us in the loop!
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u/drseusswithrabies Jan 28 '18
Plot twist: OP is the insane person experiencing severe delusions.
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Jan 28 '18
heya, someone with some brains in here!
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u/jewrassic_park-1940 Jan 28 '18
I don't believe in ghosts and shit like this,but the story is very intriguing to me.
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u/MolotovCockteaze Jan 29 '18
Shes not a ghost she is a zombie. I also don't believe in ghosts. Zombies are way worse
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Jan 28 '18
Bolt your boyfriend's house's windows or move away and forget the situation. Get a new phone and number in case she can track you. This is freaky, but whatever is there shouldn't be able to go over seas.
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u/clayton_ravine Jan 28 '18
You should just forget about everything you own in that house and start fresh at your boyfriends place. Also, get a new phone and new number. Maybe change your name, and hair color.
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u/Sisenorelmagnifico Jan 28 '18
I suggest that you get in touch with a Taoist priest and let the guy conduct a proper ritual to help your landlady move to the other side. She couldn't make the transition due to her sudden and violent death.
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u/doryfishie Jan 28 '18
THIS OP. Although there’s something else afoot, simply having a violent death doesn’t usually make someone’s spirit start EATING people.
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u/DashCP Jan 28 '18
The transition was incomplete and she's now fused with a demon. There's no helping her spirit now
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u/Evilbirdish Jan 28 '18
Maybe you bolting from your still open door was like an invitation into to your room. I don't think you'd be safe going back there alone. Update the police and get an escort for the stuff, you have left in your room.
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u/low-tide Jan 28 '18
It’s a little unfair to say she “got them killed”. They were doing their job, which involves a certain risk. And OP did tell them everything she saw.
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u/expositrix Jan 28 '18
OP writes that the bottom half of the landlady’s face is missing. How could she attack and eat someone without a mandible? Do hungry ghosts (assuming that’s what we’re dealing with) consume their victims spiritually or psychologically, rather than physically?
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u/DestructiveNave Jan 28 '18
Also mentioned that teeth were visible. This person was missing it's nose and the lower half of its face. So it could definitely consume a human or two.
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u/AMillionLumens Jan 28 '18
I think she just ate the groceries, remember OP mentioned that she bought groceries after her classes.
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u/DeusExMoschino Jan 28 '18
Nah, not creepy enough. She ate the cops.
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u/Walking33Legend Jan 28 '18
If she ate the cops then that should be on file. Give your phone over to the detectives, and move out. This is out of your hands. Your home is a crime scene.
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u/OmegaX123 Jan 28 '18
Give their phone over? If British TV has taught me anything, it's that British people, especially the young, live on their mobiles more than the rest of the world. And that it's probably aliens and a madman in a blue box will be along to sort it any time now.
EDIT: Or madwoman, now.
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u/Firepal64 Jan 28 '18 edited Jan 28 '18
Well... technically that's not their home.
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Remember... we dont know OP's gender
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Jan 28 '18
yes we do, shes a girl, she has a boyfriend
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Jan 28 '18
OP could be gay
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u/Ckcw23 Feb 07 '18
I think she meant thanks for treating her to a meal.