Women Lived a Year Undetected in Man’s Closet

Women Lived a Year Undetected in Man’s Closet

It is a scary thought that someone you do not even know, could be living with you undetected in your own home. That is exactly what happened to one Japanese man recently.

The man was puzzled when he noticed food was missing from his house. Living alone and having never seen a rat, he could not understand how the food was disappearing.

In an effort to figure out what was going on, he set up security cameras around his house that would transmit images to his mobile phone while he was out of the house.

Shortly after setting up the cameras, he noticed some movement through the images and believing it to be a burglar, he called the police. Police where shocked to find the house locked and secure upon arrival, but when they entered the house, they discovered something both amazing and scary at the same time.

“We searched the house … checking everywhere someone could possibly hide,” Itakura said. “When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side.”

a 58 year-old homeless woman had let herself into the home one day, when the owner had failed to lock the door. She moved a futon into the small closet space, took showers, and ate the owners food while living out of the closet undetected for over a year.

The women was arrested and forced to leave the closet that she had come to call her home.