Creepy·
THE PEEPHOLE TERROR
An apartment tenant documents a persistent peephole tampering that escalates in danger, prompting quick maintenance responses while she prepares to install a Ring camera to protect herself.
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Someone keeps tampering with an apartment door's peephole, and the latest damage has the tenant "honestly scared for my life right now."
The poster says they and their boyfriend have lived in the apartment for about six weeks, and by their own description, they're about as unremarkable as neighbors come. "We're just regular people who will work all day, make our dinner, watch a show to unwind, and hit the bed," they wrote. "We aren't party animals," they added, noting that even when they do drink, they're considerate about it.
But ever since they moved in, something has been wrong with the door.
The peephole has been tampered with repeatedly. At first, it was simply colored over with black Sharpie marker. The poster submitted a maintenance request, the peephole was fixed, and then it happened again. And again.
This time, though, the damage looks different. The poster says it has "clearly escalated to something else," and whatever was used seems to have changed the peephole in a more serious way. Their first guess was that it might be "super glue or hot glue," but friends pushed back on that idea, saying no type of glue "could do this kind of damage."
The apartment management is already in the loop. The poster says "management is well aware of the issue and have been prompt about it," and maintenance has responded quickly each time the problem was reported. But that hasn't stopped the repeated tampering.
Now the poster is trying to get some kind of backup in place before the next incident. They've ordered a Ring camera, which is set to be installed on Thursday.
Until then, the door remains the problem. It's not just a nuisance anymore, at least not to the person living behind it. The poster's fear is on the record in plain language: they are "honestly scared for my life right now," and the apartment's peephole has become the center of that fear.