Couple flees $1.3M dream house over creepy letters signed, 'The Watcher'

Fox News ^ | June 24, 2015

[Sopater]

A New Jersey couple is suing the couple that sold them their $1.3 million dream house, along with the realtor and an unidentified alleged stalker dubbed "The Watcher," who they say forced them to flee by sending creepy letters.

The couple, whose names are being withheld out of concern for their safety, received the first of many messages just three days after they plunked down $1.3 million for their new home in the tony New Jersey borough of Westfield, according to their lawsuit, first reported by NJ.com.

"Why are you here? I will find out," read part of the first of “The Watcher’s” letters. "My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. It is now my time."

[from occupied ga]

It really is a great area to live (if you can afford the taxes).

And you don't want to own guns, and you don't want to save money by pumping your own gas, and you want to be in the state most likely to run speed traps, and your really LIKE to pay high taxes and you like to pay high insurance premiums, and you like corrupt local government, etc.

I believe New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the country.

High population density is not a plus

a great infrastructure and more restaurants in my neck of the woods alone for a lifetime of exploring.

WE have extremely different criteria on what makes a good place to live.

[from occupied ga]

Yes I suppose plenty of people like the lack of freedom that living in a high tax police state gives.

[GeronL]

I posted the story link on Twitter with that gif and the words

“It always feels like... somebody’s watching me!”

[DJ MacWoW]

[JohnnyP]

Is that a Guinea Pig?

[DJ MacWoW]

There are beautiful areas all over America, in every state. Why denigrate the beauty of creation with politics? It’s petty.

[truth_seeker]

Interesting real estate question, regarding full disclosure.

Would the seller be expected to disclose “ghosts?”

I’m a California RE Broker, and I don’t know the answer.

[DJ MacWoW]

Hamster.

[Nea Wood]

Hilarious post!

[DJ MacWoW]

I would think that if it’s well known by locals and/or has caused issues, you’d have to disclose the stories.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yeah it was freaky as hell. They use to have all these bizarre TV shows back in the 1970s and they would call them “family movies” and play them during primetime and they would always be bizarre as hell, TV in the 1970s was run by crazy people, it really way. They use to have all these movies of people dying of cancer, or movies about Gargoyles or Demons living in the cellar. It was never an actual “family movie” it was always insane crap. Oh yeah then one called “Ssssss” which was about an evil doctor who turned people into snakes. This show though was about this kid Ronald who accidentally kills this girl so he runs home and tells his mother and she hides him in the wall of their house to hide him from the cops. Then Ronalds mother has to go into the hospital for an operation and she tells him not to come out of the wall until she returns, but the operation goes bad and she dies and Ronald doesn’t know that so he stays in the wall. Then the house is sold and this new family moves in and everything they do he watches them through peepholes as he slowly goes insane. When they leave he comes out of the wall and eats food from the fridge and then he goes back in the wall before they come back, but he’s always watching watching watching them. I remember that movie clear as day, I must have been 11 at the time and I remember getting paranoid as hell someone was watching me from behind the walls LOL!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

LMAO! Here it is! I can’t believe it! LOL!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2l3gp7

[XRdsRev]

No thinking person “likes” a lack of freedom or high taxes. Myself and other like minded New Jerseyans are working to change that.

Despite its drawbacks (and there are many) it’s not anywhere near as draconian as some people think and New Jersey can be a great place to live.

I’ve been to Georgia, have family there and think it is a fine state but like every other place it has problems too. I certainly wouldn’t generalize the entire state of Georgia based on a few select criteria or areas.

[Sopater]

That does sound like an interesting story... I was born in the mid 60s and do remember many of the TV movies from the 70s, but that one escapes me. Thanks for the tip.

[Ransomed]

You are right about the 70s made for TV movies. Sci-fi legend Jack Vance actually wrote the novel ‘Bad Ronald.’ I have always heard the movie adaption is terrible.

Freegards

[Sopater]

Oh great! There goes the rest of my day!

[SamAdams76]

The photo you posted looks like Hong Kong or Tokyo, so you are really being disingenuous and attempting to stereotype us. It would be like if I posted the picture below to show how "people down South" live. Now I've lived in Snellville GA and Huntsville AL so I know better than that. Apparently you do not know the NYC area very well.

[truth_seeker]

Per a prominent legal site, seller and sellers’ agent would be wise to disclose, since a court might order that the deal be “unwound,” etc.

I say “when in doubt, disclose, disclose, disclose.”

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/ghoul-disclosure-must-home-sellers-disclose-paranormal-activity

[from occupied ga]

Why denigrate the beauty of creation with politics?

No one is denigrating the beauty of creation. This is a POLITICAL forum. Why bring non-sequitors into a political discussion? I'm discussing the desirability of living in a liberal tax hell* police state. NJ has a higher per capita tax burden than California. China, Iran, and Russia all have beautiful scenery, but that doesn't exactly make them desirable places to live.

*NJ has the second highest tax burden in the country. Only NY is higher.

[from occupied ga]

Apparently you do not know the NYC area very well.

Lived in the Bronx just south of Yonkers for 3 years. I knew it really well during the Lindsey administration. Doubt if it's changed for the better since then.