I'm a middle-aged man who works from home. I work from the top floor of a split-level house and have a window next to me that always has the curtains open.

Sometimes I work nights for deploying software and don't think to shut my curtains.

You know how if it's dark outside and your light is on? People can kind of see in, but you can't see out.

Well, one night I was working and obviously focused on what I was doing,

as well as on a group call centering around the deployment.

So I was not looking out the window periodically or anything.

So I don't know how long this lady was standing in my yard looking through my window.

But when the call was over, I turned off the lights, and she was right there.

She looked normal. Suburban mom looking lady just standing there staring into my

window. I don't believe that she was just looking at my house in general or anything because she was clearly looking up

and right at my window. I wanted to believe she was one of those people who were always

spamming you with offers to buy your house or fix your roof

after hail damage or whatever.

But it was like 9.30 PM.

It was completely dark outside. again she was intently just staring through my window.

What was so jarring was how normal she looked though.

I live in an okay neighborhood,

but there is a homeless population in the nearby woods.

But this woman did not look homeless.

She looked like one of the ladies who would walk their kids to

school every day. Just a typical suburbanite lady. I am the type to kind of

slowly try and figure things out before acting. So I just waited. I was

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