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.

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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.

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26 Comments »

Comment by ~~~~
2008-05-30 11:35:55

that’s damn creepy and sad at the same time.

 
Comment by santokitoki
2008-05-30 11:54:22

Yes, certainly sad as she wasn’t really doing any harm to anyone. I’m not sure I would’ve had her arrested, more so would’ve tried to get her to a homeless shelter or something.

Comment by GRANDMOTHER
2008-06-02 10:34:40

I would have let her stay and do household chores in exchange for room and board. :-)

Comment by Dominica
2008-06-07 16:49:02

Yeah but not eat my food.

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Comment by sick
2008-05-30 16:39:14

wow.. just wow..

 
Comment by Allen
2008-05-30 17:08:28

that guy must have been deaf…

 
Comment by goober
2008-05-30 18:45:10

He misses food
but not a futon !
Sheesh!

 
Comment by darkwing duck
2008-05-30 19:36:39

I’d invite you in but instead I think

could you get that? It’s probably the ‘Homeless? It could be worse!’ Tour

(The man) How would I know, she was homeless I never look at here!

 
Comment by James
2008-05-31 01:14:38

How in the hell could you not notice this? This guy must be the stupidest guy on earth!

 
Comment by HIRRA!!!****
2008-05-31 15:35:17

wow…..when he took his clothes out didn’t he notice someone siiting there….he MUST be da stupidest person…but we can’t say this…cuz probably da girl might have done something tht da guy couldn’t notice she wuz there!!!!!!

Comment by IZHERE
2008-06-01 06:08:09

Maybe she lived in a closet he never went into, most people that live alone have rooms with just junk that they don’t go in unless they have too. Wow, I’m shocked too. I think I’ll go look in my closets & under my beds now!

 
 
Comment by sultan_azteca
2008-06-01 13:08:46

Hard to believe. I will google that story…
I mean, he doesn’t realize a futon is missing, he doesn’t open or check his closet for a full year, he realizes there is food missing only one year later, and everywhere else (kitchen, bedroom and, of all places, bathroom) looks, feels and SMELLS the same as he leaves…
They don’t specify if the guy was a travelling salesman, spending two days a month at home, and he was also deaf/blind. Only then I would buy that!

Comment by sultan_azteca
2008-06-01 13:45:33

I found it here and many other links:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2054057/Homeless-woman-comes-out-of-closet.html

They claim in this link that perhaps she “moved between different addresses in the neighborhood”, but that leaves unexplained how could she get out of/into each one of them without breaking into them or moving without getting caught.

Please, Sun Tzu, spare my life for questioning the veracity of the contents in your page!!!!

 
 
Comment by George
2008-06-01 20:40:09

Admit it it was u. we know u did it

 
Comment by Andriy
2008-06-02 02:37:24

I am surprised to find out in comments that there is lot of people who believe this sort of things! Just look at it logically: how could somebody live in your closet and you wouldn’t notice that???

 
Comment by Matsuri
2008-06-02 03:22:39

I’m too surprised…I mean 1 year? That man got no sense at all

 
Comment by Vito Brasilian
2008-06-02 15:25:38

I think this woman is ninja!

Comment by yuu
2008-06-22 12:36:53

fixed: I think this woman is a homeless ninja!

 
 
Comment by Jim
2008-06-03 02:24:18

She was careful to brush the toiletbowl clean with his toothbrush!

 
Comment by Dominica
2008-06-07 16:46:15

People don’t look in their closets anymore!!

 
Comment by smartguy
2008-06-22 12:18:29

Lucky it was Japan. In China, that crime is punishable by execution.

 
Comment by Jason
2008-07-20 07:10:21

did she tea her christmas dinner in there?

 
Comment by Jason
2008-07-20 07:11:35

so how did she get the christmas tree in there without bits getting into bits that only smelly fish reside

 
Comment by Jason
2008-07-20 07:12:49

she teaed her peas off the plate at the wall and caught them in her gob as a christmas party trick

 
Comment by Jason
2008-07-20 07:13:36

i have a 3 door closet for rent but the other 6 kids might drive u mad

Comment by Sarah
2008-07-27 18:28:37

aw dad please dont tell them we have a closet for rent i was planning in moving in there in a couple of months, christmas tree tea peas and all, well there goes your surprise birthday party i was gonna hold in there.

 
 
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