Kate Hackett
TikToker @seejoyy (Catherine) shared her first New York apartment story and why she left that unit in a now-viral TikTok video that has over 1.2 million views. The long and the short of it: she had to leave because her neighbor was stalking her.
Catherine began by explaining that she lived in a Brooklyn apartment for three years. She had plans to leave anyway but the neighbor accelerated her efforts.
She said:
I have to talk about this because if I don’t talk about it then I’m gonna think it never happened. But it happened. I’m pretty sure that I live in a movie. I’m 21, I’ve been living in the same apartment in Brooklyn since I was 19.
And I have this neighbor, he’s this old man. I heard him coughing a lot but I never really met him.
A few weeks ago, I got a noise complaint because I had some people over. Then a few weeks after that I got another note under my door and it said “Dear Catherine”, which is my full name.
I don’t go by Catherine.
seejoyy / TikTok
It said : “Dear Catherine, word’s getting around that you’re a floozy who can’t keep it in their pants.”
I didn’t think anything of this note because I thought it was funny, just like an old, cranky man.
Until this morning happened. I always lock my door, every night. I don’t use my doorknob, I use the lock as the doorknob. …I woke up at 7 because I heard a sound, and I got up and turned around and this man was standing in my apartment, just like. Staring at me, watching me sleep.
So at this point, I got up and I screamed at him to get out. He left and so I started calling my parents and they told me to call the cops. So I called the cops and about 7 cops showed up to my apartment building.
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The police first had issues getting into the man’s apartment but they did arrest him. And here it gets WILD:
When Catherine went back to her parents’ house, she found out that the neighbor had sent MULTIPLE creepy notes similar to the one she received about being a “floozy”. The messages were sent to her PREVIOUS HOME in Long Island, which made Catherine suspect that he may have entered her apartment multiple times.
