45 Times Neighbors Did Something So Strange It Had To Be Shared

I was the weird neighbor, when I was about 10 I lived in a wooded and rural place. There were pastures, cows and houses mostly and a lot of woods mostly between properties. I would frequently trespass because I was exploring and I mostly had it in my head that my neighbors wouldn't care because I was a child.

One day, I had gotten lost, an event that only happened once, but I knew i was way further north than I'd ever been and a road used by semi trucks was to the west. So I headed west until i could hear the road and then went south, knowing I would soon recognize where I was. However I came upon two men, one old and one young, with a tractor and trailer just working the land clearing the brush. I tucked myself down into some growth and watched for a bit, calculating a path around them (the whole area was tall grass and stick like trees) and I almost made it. On the other side of them were my woods, familiar. Right before getting out of their sight, I had popped up to look at them and the young guy and I made direct eye contact. I immediately dropped and scuttled off. I still think about him lol. Just out there helping dad or grandpa and this little girl with wild hair and probably dirty just popping around like a prairie dog and then disappearing into the woods. I hope he's OK lol.

I live in a condo complex, and for one summer, every day around 430-435ish, a woman driving a small Honda civic would honk her horn furiously for about ten seconds or so, stop her vehicle, and then she would roll down her window and let out a primal scream before driving off at a normal pace. I always felt as though it was directed at one of my neighbors, but never knew which one.

Changed the bird feeders naked. That particular neighbor was in her mid 70s.

Neighbour cutting his grass in the middle of a massive thunderstorm. Like, the biggest storm that season. Just out there. Push mowin’ his lawn.

I live in an apartment complex and one of my neighbours whistles nursery rhymes while walking around late at night. Normally wheels on the bus. I can’t be sure but I think he does it just slightly too slow so you can’t tell why it’s creepy but it really is, especially at 2 am. I do know him, and he’s nice, I think he just babysits his grandkids a lot. I do keep an eye on the local news in case the only lead is that the suspect whistled nursery rhymes when leaving the scene. I would be straight on that stuff.

Go to their car to fill up their cup. I'm assuming their alcohol was stashed there.

This occurred in the Winter in Michigan when it was dark as night before school. i went out to the bus stop when I was in middle school, i was probably in 6th or 7th grade. It was right in front of my house and my next door neighbors had a nearly identical house just flipped around.

He was sitting in the front room, light on with the curtains open which I knew to be the den in our home. The neighbor was a pastor or some man of the cloth, he was sitting in a recliner or chair buck naked. He noticed that I had just spotted him from the bus stop across the street and he ran out of that room and up the stairs. I don’t recall him speaking to me from that day til they moved away.

Lawn shower. Picture a hairy, round, bald man having a shower from the hose in his underwear on the front lawn. Idk if he thought no one was watching or not, but it was seen and my eyes haven’t been the same since.

I discovered my neighbours are into pup play one night when I went to take the bins out at 2am and saw them going for a walk around the cricket oval across the road.

Lovely couple. Well behaved puppy.

I saw my neighbor climb up on his roof to spray a hornets nest and then get attacked by said hornets and almost fall off his roof. He was swatting at them and moving erratically. Then he just disappeared. His wife and (grown) kids were on the ground watching him so I knew he had other eyes on him. Twenty minutes later he appeared in the back yard with large red welts all over his head and face.

My sister's neighbor is a elderly lady and she cuts her grass with regular hand scissors, I'm talking bent over for hours on end just chomping away!

The other day, I saw a dad loading up the family mini van with kids. He was wearing a shirt and tighty whities. I had to do a double take to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. Sure enough, no pants lol maybe he just had a crazy morning with the kids?

I was out in my yard, and the guy next door was in his garage, yelling at someone. It sounded like a fight where he was loud and the other person wasn’t. It took me a good few minutes to realize he was yelling at the radio. Which was on a Christian station.

My neighbor (woman in her 60s) has OCD and possibly Tourettes. She has a fixation about her yard and can't have even a single leaf on her lawn for any amount of time, but she will spend hours at a time out there picking them up one by one rather than dealing with them more efficiently. She also doesn't like to be observed by others, so she does a lot of her lawn care after dark. Not an uncommon sight to see a headlamp bouncing around her yard at midnight while she picks up leaves one by one and places them into a bucket.

Anyway, one night last summer I was putting my 6 year old to bed when we heard grunting and swearing and weird ripping noises right outside his bedroom window, which is a shared space between our houses. My son was terrified and thought it was a monster. Nope, just our crazy neighbor, who'd decided she also couldn't tolerate OUR leaves or the weeds growing on the side of our house, so she waited until after dark and took it upon herself to rip them out with her bare hands and dump them in a heap on our front lawn. Fun times! She also purposely lit her willow tree on fire last fall. A beautiful old tree that had been there for decades but just had the audacity to drop leaves on her lawn.

Kissing his windows or licking, still not sure what he was upto and I pretended I saw nothing, never asked about it.

Scream at a crow for cawing. Bro leaned out his 2nd floor bedroom window to shriek at a crow. The crow did not care.

I live near an elderly couple on the spectrum, and one day I come home from dropping my son off at school and running errands, and the wife is standing on my deck, right next to the living room, looking into my house like she’s waiting for something. My partner was home at the time so I was confused why she was just standing there, he would have answered had she knocked. I go to greet her, and she starts listing off every pattern of colors from our Christmas tree, how many times each color appeared, and at which part of the tree. We got black out curtains that same day lol.

I live in a sketchy neighborhood.

I once watched two random dudes use a can of spray on hair with each other. Apparently they had hot dates or something.

Watering her plants in heavy rain, and on a separate occasion using her leaf blower in her driveway while we were in the middle of about a week of 40+ mph winds.

Watched my trashy neighbors have a screaming match and one of them angrily skate away on rollerblades.