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author: MikeO541
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 06, 2024, 09:47:15 pm
content: I have an upstairs neighbor using a device to somehow follow me all over my apartment. I have considered: Vibration sensors, Tomographic sensors, thermal devices, or possibly some type of black market equipment. Can anybody with experience with these devices tell me what he is using? Is there a way to jam or block that device? Thank you for your help! #neighbor #second #floor #device #follow #around #thermal #sensors #vibration #tomographic #upstairs #second #floor

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2024, 09:52:07 pm
content: Get help from a mental health professional.

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2024, 09:57:39 pm
content: How does he follow? What does follow mean in this context?

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2024, 10:13:08 pm
content: Try some curtains on your glass ceiling

author: Andy Chee
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2024, 10:39:05 pm
content: Quote from: MikeO541 on March 06, 2024, 09:47:15 pmIs this neighbor an actual physical human living in the apartment above you? Or are you using the term "upstairs neighbor" as a metaphor?And how did you find out they were following you? Given that you haven't found the device, I take it that the neighbor has somehow verbally communicated to you and told you that they were following you?Answering these questions may point towards the correct course of action.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 06, 2024, 10:43:54 pm
content: Quote from: MikeO541 on March 06, 2024, 09:47:15 pmI'm not sure if you're a troll or if you are genuinely suffering from distress.What you describe seems quite unusual but I'll stop short of saying delusional as I'm not there. I would suggest in the first instance, your local law enforcement may be of assistance. You might also want to speak with a medical professional and get some of your thoughts out in the open so that a proper diagnosis of your situation can be made. There is little I, or anyone else on this forum can do to assist you.(Also hashtags have no function here, they are mostly a Twitter thing.)

author: AndyBeez
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2024, 11:07:57 pm
content: The guy upstairs might just be pressing his ear to the floor?

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 02:45:44 am
content: Quote from: MikeO541 on March 06, 2024, 09:47:15 pmOne close relative believed the government was spying on him, was subsequently diagnosed with schizophrenia. Sadly, he is no longer with us.You might want to do yourself a favour and seek medical attention. If you also believe the Illuminati is real, then definitely see a psychiatrist, because your perception of reality is badly distorted.I had an electronics engineering friend who was an Illuminati believing conspiracy theorist who also believed the government was spying on him. He believed all Alex Jones's lies, and the earth is flat, there is no such thing as satellites, man has never been into space, the moon landing was fake etc. As a result, he lost all of his friends, lost his job, lost his marriage, lost his house, lost everything. I suspect he may have come to his senses after Alex Jones was exposed as a fraud, and maybe through sheer embarrassment of being a fool he contacts no-one, not even his brother, and lives like a hermit. He would have done well to swallow his pride, realise something is wrong with his mind, and sought medical attention long ago.

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 02:51:09 am
content: Remember ...“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

author: Circlotron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 04:08:18 am
content: Could a thermal imaging camera track the movements of someone living on the floor below you? Can't imagine it sensing through a concrete floor, but a wooden floor maybe?

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 05:16:59 am
content: Get help dude. Find someone you trust and ask for help.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 05:51:52 am
content: Quote from: Circlotron on March 07, 2024, 04:08:18 amNot sure about concrete or wood but in Hollywood it works through steel doors.

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 07:29:48 am
content: This feels strangely familiar...https://www.eevblog.com/forum/rf-microwave/what-are-they-using-on-me/https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/neighbor-harassment-need-some-help-please!!!/https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/request-for-knowledge-troubles-at-home/https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/can-i-pay-someone-$500-to-measure-frequencies/I'm sure we have had more of these. And I'm sure there are more to come. It's distressing.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 07:40:11 am
content: while its a little strange people on this forum have a hard time believing that its hard (or impossible) to get a ... obsessive stalker ..... I feel like someone is making these series of threads in order to troll. they all have a uninspired banal feel to them.also the government spies on people, its called being under investigation. Rare (unless it was in the USSR, then it was common). The government won't intimidate you AND spy on you though, it makes arrests harder, unless there just going psycho (i.e. angry at journalist, opposition party, etc). For instance, hong kong media.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 07:49:31 am
content: Oh good god, not another one of these threads! has the world gone mad, because I have not!, wait... what's that tapping I hear...........

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 07:50:17 am
content: maybe your ex girlfriend is drinking heavily and decided to knock on your window

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 07:50:57 am
content: Quote from: Bud on March 07, 2024, 05:51:52 amThis troupe is rather overused in films, plenty of examples on youtube of how poorly it really works.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 07:52:10 am
content: Quote from: coppercone2 on March 07, 2024, 07:50:17 amHow do you know I have am ex girlfriend, who are you, what do you want from me?

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 07:54:36 am
content: maybe someone fudged a social security number in a police investigation and you got tied to those missing documents at that place you used to live by 5 years ago

author: eutectique
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 12:10:03 pm
content: A WiFi router and a bit of neural networkery can do wonders:https://www.sify.com/technology/this-neural-network-uses-wifi-to-see-through-walls/

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2024, 01:20:58 pm
content: Quote from: eutectique on March 07, 2024, 12:10:03 pmThat article is a gross misrepresentation of theactual work. No walls were seen through in the conduction of these experiments. See the experimental setup as illustrated in the actual paper below. I will make a mental note to never trust anything from siy.com...

author: dramacydal1
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 07:10:47 pm
content: People "LISTEN UP" let's stop with the mental health jokes. Unless you have the credentials to diagnose someone as having a disorder in the DSM5 you should really stop and pump your breaks because you sound real stupid fixing your lips too even suggest such a thing to another person. Okay secondly, This issue is really happening to allot of people living in apartment units all over the globe, the very same issue is happening to me right now and I'm very uncomfortable. I don't have mental illness, I work at one of the largest psychiatric institutions west of the Mississippi are hospital has just over a thousand beds. It's actually a campus to state-run facility. It is used to be called a Western State. Insane asylum but to since change names it was open in 1871 and I have been an employee there 21 years. So I work around mental illness and I can tell you this is not mental illness now. There was a time where I would be like. Okay. Yeah stepping on a little mental illness there. You should probably see somebody, but I have the education to know that I'm not qualified to diagnose anybody and I am not able to make such a statement and just hope that they would get help. But it's a real thing and now since it's happening to me and I've been going through it, I would like to tell all of you guys. Please understand that it's real. This is a nightmare. This is reality. It's not play play. It's not oh my God wearing a tin foil hat pointing at the ceiling and saying oh they're following me. They're following me. No, this situation is actually happening where the neighbor is following me around while I'm in my apartment. The reason I know is I can hear their footsteps directly above my head. That's how thin our ceiling is and they're walking in sync with me. If I stop and turn around and walk the other way they stop with me and walk the other way. I can hear them stomping and or stepping above my head. I can hear them in the bathroom stepping above my head while I'm sitting on the toilet. That's an intimate moment and these people are sick enough to do it now. There are devices out there that can be used to detect another person in between floors and I have a heated reflective ceilings or whatever so there's metal up there as well but it's very thin. And yeah they're detecting me downstairs. Not only me, but I have two other family members that are living in the apartment with me that have been getting the same treatment. They're following them. The neighbor upstairs is problematic. We don't know this person very well, but we've had two run-ins about their stomping and running around in the apartment and as soon as we said something then it was hell ever since. I wish I knew what sensor or device the neighbor upstairs uses to detect our movements so I could try to prevent it. I have learned that the device their using is sensitive to mirrors, reflection and a simply metal cookie sheet pan. You know those mirror sheets that have the sticky backing you can apply to the wall a closet door... It has a reflective side 6"x9" you can buy on Amazon in bundles like 30 in a pack their sensor does not work if you reflect the beam back at them so I tiled my entire bedroom ceiling " Yes I know that's a lot and it's kind of pricey but they're also quite decorative because you don't have to peel off the backing. You can leave it as it is and it's kind of like a cream color. So if you tile your ceiling it will blend in with your other paint and it actually like looks kind of cute" and they do not follow me into the bedroom anymore as they can't detect me. The sensor does not like laser beams, you can get those handheld laser pointer the green kind with the attachment which makes the beam wider you can point that at the ceiling and they can't detect you. You will know it's working because you will hear the person STEP OUT OF THE WAY, TRYING TO FIND A LOCATION OUT OF THE LASERS BEAM TO RELOCATE YOU. I went from being terrorized by my neighbor to pissing off my neighbor because now she can't detect where I'm at because I always got that laser going on a reflective beam reflecting it right back at her but and I can just hear her stomping aggressively in the apartment upstairs so it's pissing her off and I'm smiling. But before I came to this little remedy I was very distraught and on the verge of losing it I thought I was actually going crazy. But no this is not mental illness. This is reality people. I tried to get my management to help me and because it's something that's not talked about my management will not help me with it and I'm sure they thought I was crazy. But it's a shame that managers have not woke up and saw that this is really happening, but also too. I think maybe they have. they just don't have a legal stand to do anything about it. You know there's no way to actually prove it unless your manager is actually standing in your apartment and watching it happen. That's another idea. Try to get video and sound of how you're believing somebody above you is following you. Usually it's like footsteps. Make sure you're in the video and you're detailed and explaining what's happening. And if you can get somebody from management to come by your place, have them quietly stand in the corner or somewhere that's out of the way and they can observe what's happening to you but have them come in. Maybe your back door or door where your upstairs neighbor is not going to know that the Management's arriving. Just be very discreet about it and be serious about it and keep a lock. Keep a log on it happening when it's happening, what time of day and how you're feeling about it? Because you may need to bring a lawsuit against that person and don't even think about contacting law enforcement because they will not help you. They'll just think you're crazy and they'll mark your location. They'll mark your address as having possibly mental illness at the location so you're not taken seriously. Yeah it's that that happens but okay so I hope this helps someone. But yeah people talking about mental illness and making jokes and laughing about this. They need to knock it off because unless it's happening to them they have no f****** clue on how it feels or what it makes a person go through. I.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 07:39:28 pm
content: Please urgently seek medical help.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 08:01:22 pm
content: If one wants ones post to be taken seriously, the posting should belegible.Big blocks of uninterrupted text cannot be read, so most readers will give up.With the formatting imposed by this site, you should make a new line after almost every sentence.This is especially true when making extraordinary claims (even if they are true).I was lucky when living in apartments that the people above me were quiet, but I know the others exist.

author: Kim Christensen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 08:31:59 pm
content: So lets just imagine for a second that the person above youis"following" you...What possible purpose could this serve? Seems like a waste of time for the person above.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 10:47:07 pm
content: There are so many sc*d-up people out there that I wouldn't necessarily be hugely surprised if some were doing just that. Neighbors "spying" on others are a thing, and someone pretty deranged and living in an apartment building trying to spy on people just above or below isn't something that I would find unbelievable.Technically speaking, thermal cameras would probably do the job. Or mmWave radar(s).As a corollary of the quote posted earlier, just because you're *not* paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you either.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 11:28:57 pm
content: @dramacydal1I disagree. Whilst there are a lot of "opinions" out there, you don't have to be a mental health professional to know a thing or two about mental health. For example, I was a police officer for over 14 years and I've dealt with my fair share of mental health patients, hospitals and received countless hours of training.Likewise, people who might have friends or family members who suffer from a form of mental illness have pretty good insight into these conditions and know a lot more than average Joe in the street.Take all advice with a grain of salt, but allow everyone the opportunity to have their say. On this forum, we operate under the laws and morales of Australia where, with a few exceptions, anything goes. You don't have to like (or even read) what has been posted.

author: Kim Christensen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 11:57:15 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 01, 2024, 10:47:07 pmYes, but how boring. Just some blobs moving around. I don't know, but if I was going to stalk someone, I'd find other ways like planting audio bugs, cameras, etc within their unit. Or finding some way to hack their computer, baby monitor, door cam, etc... Or even a tiny camera on a stick/thread that could be raised/lowered from a balcony/window to peer into the unit above/below.If I was really psycho, I'd be drilling small holes to put cameras and microphones through the floor or ceiling. But thermal/mmWave images? Nah.