“I Never Saw My Neighbors The Same Way Again”: 55 People Share What They Overheard Through The Wall

Had a couple that moved in next door. Good couple, talked a few times. They had been together for 6 years, both worked odd hours. I shared a wall with their bedroom and mine. First 4 weeks, it was just constant [noise] between 7pm to 2am, every Wednesday night. Finally, I decided to say something about it because the screaming and moaning was disrupting my sleep schedule. It's all fun except when she's screaming so loud that it overcomes my tv's volume in the living room. So I stopped the guy on Friday and told him that [it] is all fun and games, but he needs to keep his woman quiet after 11pm, especially on Wednesday during the middle of the week. It's apartment rules. The guy looks at me and says "I work night shifts from 6pm to 6am Wednesdays."

Two weeks later they moved out, separately.

This is tame, but I still think it's funny. My neighbour's kids' bedroom is right over ours. The older boy isn't a morning person, so his mom used to stomp into their room and wake him with a gentle "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! WAKE UP!"

Eventually I got sick of hearing it, so one morning I stood up in bed and screamed back "I *AM* AWAKE!" Sudden silence, then the sound of feet shuffling out of the room. It was a little childish on my end, but to my credit it worked.

Two neighbours going at it like rabbits. The female participant was especially loud. It was the middle of a humid summer and we live in a place where almost nobody has A/C in their house, so everyone in the neighbourhood probably had their windows open.

Finally we hear another disgruntled neighbour scream from another house "Just shove it in her mouth and shut her up!"

Not weird but amazing.

My upstairs neighbor was a jazz musician. One if my jobs had me work odd hours so I slept late. He would apologize for practicing at 10am. Waking up to the sounds of a world renowned trumpet player is not a bad start to the day.


I would see him coming up the street as we both were returning from business trips.

Me",Oh hey. Where are you coming from?" Him, "Amsterdam, but before that Helsinki and Malta. And a quick stop in Madrid. You?"


"....Danbury....it's like Helsinki...but in Connecticut...and terrible...".

My next-door neighbours are a couple, both of which are opera singers.

They are both professional, and obviously very good, so we get a constant stream of opera through the walls (at sociable hours during the day - they are very polite).

I prefer the Guy's voice compared to his Mrs, but most people have to pay to listen to either of them.

I have IBS and I used to live in an apartment in college that was essentially a house converted into multiple units, and it was horribly built.

I had an IBS attack once that caused me to have multiple bouts of diarrhea. Near the end of one of my sessions, I hear from the other side of the wall "hey man are you okay?" I thought he might be talking to someone in his apartment so I didn't answer, then he said "hello neighbor, one with the God of Thunder being released from [you]: are you okay?"

I said "I think so" then immediately blasted again. I never met that neighbor in person. But I always feared him being able to hear me again until I moved out lmao

My neighbor plays the bagpipes.

He also lives over a km away.

Bagpipes carry far, man.

My neighbors constantly chant "USA! USA!" whenever they party. This is weird because we live in Canada.

I heard our neighbor in a loud voice say, "Where have you been all night? How many boys have you slept with today, huh!?" as their cat is coming home from their door. Days later we learned she's pregnant.

Screaming. Like violent, ridiculous "I'm beating my spouse" *screaming*: "I'LL [END] YOU!!! YOU STUPID PIECE OF [TRASH]!" This went on for ten full minutes. My whole family was on the back deck listening by the end, ready to call the cops. We thought this guy was going to [hurt] his wife and kids.

Then we hear "[FREAKING] SPIDERS, AAAUUUGHHH!"

Someone really, *really* hated spiders, I guess. Enough to alarm the entire neighbourhood.

I lived in a not great neighborhood in college, but there were a lot of families around. We shared a fence with a family with a few boys, all seemingly spaced out in age. One time, the oldest kid was playing basketball with the middle kid, and he yelled at this little kid "WHY ARE YOU SO BAD AT BASKETBALL?!", to which the younger kid responded, with gusto, "I'm 8!".

I about fell out of my chair.

My ex and I shared a duplex with some friends. Private space, but a shared wall is all. Our friend mentioned one time how the walls are pretty good, and he hardly hears us at all and I said "Really? I hear you two yelling at each-other all the time." and his face went white.

Not my direct neighbor but I was taking a walk once and heard someone in their house practicing singing opera. It was beautiful.

Overheard a couple fighting through the wall and the woman screamed, "Do you really want to break up over a Nickelback CD?!".

Not really interesting, more amusing/sad really.

Heard upstairs neighbor (older lady) get into a shouting match with her son and the son's girlfriend. They take it out to the hallway for whatever reason and it's some really loud screaming going on. Mostly the mother and the girlfriend shouting at each other, name calling and such.

Finally the girlfriend has had enough and says this to the boyfriend/son: "You have to choose, me or that [WITCH]!"

To which the poor guy says: "...But... I love my mom..."

The girlfriend storms off and I never see her again.

My mom's neighbor yells constantly and when we first moved in, we were concerned. There was a nice lady living there with her husband and son. The yelling would be a male voice, saying all kinds of awful violent things. The worst insults I've ever heard. It didn't sound like any actual violence was happening, no crashing sounds or screams of fear or anything, just a lot of angry yelling. We were so worried about that woman in the house.

Dude was playing video games the whole time.

Dorm rooms don't have very thick walls. I was studying for finals and my neighbor had her boyfriend over. They got into a very heated argument but I could only hear his voice, never her replies. All of a sudden I hear him shout "it is not my fault you slept with my brother!!" This was met with loud sobbing. I am pretty sure he just left after that.

My neighbors would only argue in english. I live in Germany. Zey were ze most german people ever and were barely able to articulate themselves in english.

I had neighbors who were two guys just out of college. Every weekend they'd have friends over to drink before going out. I have no idea how they fit the two of them in the apartment, much less additional guests, which made this argument during a party even funnier knowing there was nowhere for the other people to hide.

I can hear a man and woman's voice raising, I forget what they were yelling back and forth up until

"You said we were exclusive!"

"We are!"

"Exclusive means you don't see other people you idiot!"

The nerdiest moment in our mid-terrace (where we hear everything):

I'm about to turn on the TV, just to see what's on during a boring Saturday afternoon.

I go into the living room, and I hear my neighbour's TV.

I think "That sounds like the theme from *Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock*."

I turn on the TV.

Yes, it is *Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock*.

Afternoon saved. Thanks, neighbours!