This just happened less than two hours ago. First of all, I am a student. At approximately 11:30 AM I decided to walk to campus (right next to where I live) to get some work done for a project. After one hour (at 12:20 AM), I was done and was walking to my apartment building. As I approached the main building door, I saw a guy walking past me (facing me) so he was walking the other direction.
Anyways I continued to approach the building door and opened it then walked up the stairs and stood in front of my apartment door looking for the keys in my pocket. Mind you that there was absolutely no one around except him and I in the street. While getting my keys I suddenly heard the building door open and heard heavy and fast footsteps climbing up the stairs. I don’t know why but I did not get a good feeling and I panicked, I managed to quickly unlock my door and go inside and immediately locked the door behind me.
I looked straight through the door eye hole and found the same guy who just passed me, he just missed me by a second. He walked through the hallway and then went downstairs again and left. I do not think this was a coincidence. He does not live in our building, and he was originally walking in the other direction. It terrifies me to think what could have happened if I had not closed the door on time before he could come upstairs. I seriously wish our apartment building had surveillance cameras or at least only allowed tenants to access the building.
– Anonymous
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