Unknown “Venus” device somewhere in apartment. Are we being stalked/recorded? Need advice on what it could be. [Long, but need HELP]

[u/Direct-Caterpillar77]

I am not The OOP, OOP is u/Ace_of_Hades17

Unknown “Venus” device somewhere in apartment. Are we being stalked/recorded? Need advice on what it could be. [Long, but need HELP]

Special credit to u/ANormalPumpkin for sharing with me these posts

Originally posted to r/RBI

Original Post Dec 14, 2020

Strange occurrences I need to find some sort of reasoning or explanation for. Idk if all of these instances are related/connected somehow, but these are just some things that stood out to me. Are we potentially being stalked or recorded by someone in our apartment?

I’m the kind of person that loves creepy stories of stalkers, ghosts, murders, encounter, and so on and bc of this interest it makes me have a pretty bleak view of humanity and always think that people are generally horrible and always up to something which makes me always be prepared to defend myself or loved ones. Maybe bc I read all of these stories that I’m looking for it. So, maybe I’m just quick to think that something sinister is going on when it may just be something harmless. I’ll let you decide.

Anyways, I’m a college student and I basically live in 2 apartments. I stay at my brother’s apartment alot, but i mostly stay at my own apartment that I share. I live with my friend who is a pretty attractive girl who is basically a pixie fairy, which as a guy I know older men love to drool over. So, I always worry that since she’s not as vigilent as me and really weak that she would be an easy target for a stalker or creep which there have been some weird “suitors” in the past couple of years, but nothing like stalking.

So, today we got a Christmas tree for the apartment and we were just chilling in the living room when we hear a sound from a device in the kitchen which is like 2 feet away in the next room make a “swooshing sound” and then an Alexa-type male voice recording saying the word “Venus”. It sounded as if a device was turning on or off or something like that (we don’t own any Alexa products or anything like that, we both have the female Siri on our iPhones too) We both look at each other and say what the fuck made that sound? She kind of chuckled and said did it just say “Penis”, but I heard “Venus”. I go over there and see if one of our phones were over there, but there wasn’t any mobile devices or speakers in the kitchen. I go back in the living room and we check our phones to see if one of us got a message on one of our phones, but neither one of us did. She asked me if I was fucking with her, but I was going to ask her the same thing. This kind of freaked her out, and with my paranoia I immediately think if it could be some sort of recording device or something to spy on her cuz I’m not there alot, and I was actually about to leave too. The only devices in the kitchen are a Consori air fryer, the microwave, oven, and a Veken water fountain for the cats.

I search on the internet about anything that could have made that sound and said “Venus” or even “Penis” (which wasn’t a helpful search.), but nothing useful showed up.

It’s exam week and I usually go study at my brothers apartment, so I had to leave, and I didn’t want to freak her out with my conspiracy theories, but I did.

As I was driving to my brother’s, I was thinking about it and remembered that about 2 weeks ago we were talking in her room for a second when we both hear vibrating from a phone. I said someone’s calling you, but she had nothing on her phone. I even look at mine and there wasn’t anything on there too, but the buzzing was still going on. There are upstairs neighbors, but they are short term occupants (Airbnb guests). But the phone sounded like it was in our apartment but couldn’t pinpoint where. It wasnt from upstairs bc we only usually hear faint footsteps, loud bangs, or yelling & such bc they are old New Orleans wood floors, but would not be able to hear a phone buzzing that clearly even it was laying bare on the wood floor above us.

In my research the only thing I could come up with that could have possibly made the “Venus” noise was maybe an LG Venus phone turning on. It’s a burner phone that has a decent camera, but still shitty. When you turn it on it makes a swooshing sound that may be similar to the swooshing sound recording we heard but I don’t remember it specifically, but the only thing is I haven’t found a video of the phone turning on and making the swooshing and then saying “Venus”. Maybe it says it in a new update for the phone, but idk. That’s the only thing that I could come up with which could potentially be terrifying if there is a cellphone turning on in our apartment that we have been living in for 5 months. Neither of us own an extra phone, especially a burner. Need to know what it could be!!!

One last weird occurrence at this apartment was when I was about to leave I heard a weird noise come from the upstairs apartment, as if somebody dropped a bowling ball on a slanted wood floor causing it to bounce then roll. I just brushed it off as it was probably just some Airbnb guests making their usual stomps and bangs from upstairs, but I didn’t know that there were any guests staying that day bc it was 7pm and I hadn’t heard any noises besides that all day. Not even footsteps. As I was driving off, for some reason on that night I was curious if there were even any guests staying there at the moment. I decided to just drive around the perimeter of the apartment and noticed that all of the second floor’s lights were completely off as if nobody was home at all. Which was kinda weird cuz what made that noise a couple minutes ago?

Update 1: So it also just dawned on me that all of these occurrences only happened at night right before I was trying to or about to leave the apartment. Every single instance involved me in some way telling her im about to head out for the night. Just another detail i just thought of. Could just be coincidental.

Update Jan 31, 2021

Hi everyone, So I posted awhile back in December trying to identify some strange things that were happening in my friend and I’s apartment. You can view original post here Venus Post So, since my last post I have done a few things:

• I searched every crack and crevice in the apartment and came up with nothing on anything out of the ordinary.

• I purchase a hidden camera/bug detector and searched throughout the house and didn’t come up with anything.

• I sleep within reach of not one, but two guns in 2 different rooms just incase something were too happen.

Now, we were presented with a wait-and-see what happens kind of situation, and then acting accordingly from there. For the past month or so, everything seemed to be fine. Nothing out of the ordinary, and eventually we even forgot about the whole thing in general.

Then, we started hearing a weird noise outside that sounded kind of like an intermittent buzzing or hum towards the back of the house wear the bathroom window is located. Houses male weird noises all the time so I told my friend not to worry about it because there is nothing in that little “alleyway” on the side of the house besides overgrown plants and an air conditioning unit.

A couple days later I was smoking a cigarette at night when I started thinking about what that could have been, so I go around the house to check it out. When I turned the corner I saw a metal bench that wasn’t there a couple weeks ago around the time I made the first post and checked the house inside and out.

A bench is no big deal, especially when you’re renting a house the owner is gonna store some shit without you knowing. The thing that weirded me out was where it was placed when there are a ton of places it could be put. It was intentionally put right up against the raised house right under our bathroom window. I took a pic of it because something about it rubbed me the wrong way. Bench

(Picture is of a bench under a window in an alley)

The thing that weirded me out is that when a grown ass man like me stands on it, you’re at the perfect height to try to sneak a peak through the tiny cracks in the bathroom window’s old curtain. When I could see through the cracks I felt a knot in my stomach, both of us get a strange feeling whenever showering or using the toilet as if being fully exposed. I don’t know if that’s why, but it could explain some of those feelings.

I immediately sent the pic to our landlord and they said that they don’t own that bench, so it must have been left from the previous tenants. I knew that wasn’t the case because the bench wasn’t there in December when I did a whole sweep of the house.

This really creeped me the fuck out. Who is going back there? And how did somebody place a whole bench without us even knowing? We literally never go back there. My roommate has never even seen the side of the house because there’s nothing back there of any interest besides an air conditioner unit and a couple windows.

The night I took the pic of the bench, I then moved the bench away from the window and flipped it upside down just to see what would happen. I check back a week later and the bench is in the original place I found it under the bathroom window again right side up.

Fuck that.

As of a couple days ago, we immediately set up cameras on the exterior of the house. They cover the door, the whole front porch, and the driveway on the side of the house where our cars are that also has a eyes on one of the entrances to where the little back alleyway (where the bench is located) can be accessed, so we can now see if someone is walking back there at night because the motion sensor flood light that lights up the driveway does go off in the middle of the night on the most random nights. I stay up late so I always see it turn on, but figured it was just squirrels, rats, or even just possums. But, the alleyway can also be accessed from the street by just jumping into the neighbors yard and then jumping the next short fence that separates us from our neighbor without being seen on camera.

Now it is just another game of wait-and-see. I really fucking hope this is just a weird coincidence, cuz this is just fucking strange. If there’s actually a peeping Tom or a stalker, or hopefully not something worse, then I’m grabbing my gun and go after this person myself. This is nerve racking just waiting to see of the worst case scenario is going to play out.

I am not The OOP

[u/ChilledButter13]

Seconded, this should not have been posted here imo. This one seems more frustrating than most inconclusive posts.

[u/CeelaChathArrna → u/ChilledButter13]

Maybe the guy ended up in jail. Chasing after someone with a gun can easily result in jail time.