For the last 2 years someone has been putting fruit, vegetables and other odd things in my private driveway. Ive had weird produce like potatoes , full heads of cauliflower, squash and what not placed in the middle of my driveway and didn’t put much mind into. But the more frequent it became the more I started noticing it. Now whoever it is , is perching full bagels and now a pomegranate and orange against my garage door. I ended up getting a trail cam to try to see whoever has been doing it and it gets more mysterious cuz the stuff continues to show up and no footage of who it placing it there . The last 3 items I’ve received was a full loaf of bread a donut and a single sock. I don’t know what I’m trying to achieve here just thought I’d share the Asheville weirdness.
Someone’s been putting fruits vegetables and other odd things in my private driveway for over 2 years
in AshevilleThat is a really cool story! Crows are very smart birds.
Omg I'm tearing up. I've been wanting crow friends so badly and I'm going to put out a tarp right now. Maybe I can attract them with some snacks...
Do you think peanuts would attract bears? I haven't had any here since last summer but I'd prefer not to...
I haven't had trouble with peanuts attracting bears but since bears do go after bird feeders sometimes, I guess they would go after peanuts too. Maybe just put out a few peanuts when you see the crows.
Crows are known to leave gifts for people they like. Incredibly smart birds.
However I cannot imagine the size crow that could deliver a full head of cauliflower!
I love this story!
This is a great story. r/crowbro would love it!
You should try leaving something out in return. See what happens.
This makes my heart so happy! I have crows that frequent my yard and for a while I was trying to gain their favor by leaving them food outside. I wasn't super successful but this has inspired me to try again.
“What? (Crows) can’t carry coconuts!”
This could very well be the answer. I'm from Alaska and ravens would do weird stuff like hording odd items in odd places. I saw one would steal small kids toys and deposit them under a tree in my backyard. Almost every day I would find these small happy meal like toys under a spruce tree in my backyard. There was not a nest there and there's no rhyme or reason for why this bird wanted all this stuff in my backyard. It perplexed me for months until I watched it under the tree rearranging it's toys.
Unless a “sock” is some new fruit that I haven’t heard about, that item crosses the creep line.
Right so when I first saw it it was sitting on the top of my gate and because it was so high up I thought it was a rotting walnut that fell off our tree but then it was in front of my camera the next day and yeah it was a sock
Crusty sock?
Look into a camera that records 24/7 or is more sensitive. Even if it saved footage for 24hours you could at least look back and get something. Otherwise they could just keep throwing stuff off or whatever they’re doing to avoid setting off the trail cam. Ring has motion sensor lights/cameras like you have over a garage door that wire in for $180.
Yeah I’m def looking into more cameras but the it doesn’t seem like all of it is being thrown over it’s way to far to throw something over and land perfect perched against my garage some of this stuff is definitely getting placed there by a person
The ring garage light camera I have for my backyard catches squirrels on it daily, my neighbors who mess with our stuff on our property line, and even large trucks that drive down the street behind us. I have it on the highest sensitivity setting and it would definitely go off from anyone coming within maybe 100ft or so of it. Might be a good start. $200 on amazon maybe cheaper elsewhere
Wyze cameras are a great deal. Can get most of them for less than $50 & if you add an SD card it will record 24/7. The subscriptions are cheap and they allow the event detection stuff but even just the base cameras and SD cards do a decent job.
Can confirm. Wyze rocks.
Consider cameras and some visible "No Trespassing" signs as well.
The story is fake or the trail cam would have caught the action.
My neighborhood is pretty fucking funny a couple of days ago I wake up to a familiar bass pattern. Shit was shaking my place and finally the chorus kicks in and it’s WAP blasting at 9am I wake up kinda confused then I’m just laughing my ass off and this shit is coming from 3 houses over
Do you happen to be British?
How do I sign up for the free groceries in my driveway? Shits expensive these days.
Befriend the crows,squirrels, and other woodland creatures like the laundry gnomes! (I’m assuming that’s where the sock came from)
Or get fun neighbors that like messing with you.
It's somebody you know screwing with you. I had a co-worker do this to another coworker for a year, placing random items on his desk. Drove him nearly insane trying to figure it out
At this point it’s such a talking point with co-workers and what not I probably already sound insane 🤣
Is it possible that this happened a couple of times and now your coworkers are doing it?
This whole thread is being circulated in a group chat as we speak lmao
…does this imply that OP is now a liberated house elf?
1000%. They’re free.
Best answer.
now this is what i’m here for
It’s a crow that is obsessed with you.
If you need a ring cam, I will give you a free one. I was stalked for 2 years and this story gives me a deep gut reaction. As innocuous as it may seem, this is disturbing behavior and sometimes these things escalate. Repeated behaviors like this are used to remind the target that the person is present. It’s obviously not something a “normal” person would do and odd, invasive behaviors are a way that someone (who might be stalking you) exerts control over their targets.
My other theory is you have an unhoused person living somewhere in the bushes near you. They perhaps get some free produce and bakery goods and leave it at your house thinking it’s a gesture of kindness or gratitude. Still, that it’s done secretly, frequently, and progressively more invasive is concerning.
Feel free to DM me if you would like another camera.
My wife had a stalker with Huntington's for 6 years. He's probably still alive, I won't stop being paranoid while he is alive. Because he is terminal they will not do anything to stop him. I'd settle for some kind of monitor to tell us where he is, but apparently its so sad my wife was expected to endure the thinly veiled rape/murder dillusions whenever the mood struck.
Even after we got married, it wasn't until we had kids and I told her the rules were changing that his family finally took action, they were fully aware and completely content with allowing him to stalk her. Some of it was similar to this, he would send robo texts or junk mail from throw away addresses, but it wasn't real, like there was always something barely hidden so we could figure out it was him.
I’m sorry you went through that. I had an ex boyfriend in college that kept showing up uninvited. He was overall harmless- mostly it was just embarrassing- but it changed the way I look at things like this.
…I got nothing over here, but eagerly awaiting an update. Stay safe OP, that sounds like some Monkeypaw Productions type of shit.
Edit: Don’t eat that pomegranate. That’s how they got Persephone.
It's now March 11, and according to Kevin Hart we can bet on this shit now, and I'm betting racoon in a Gucci suit.
🤣🤣🤣
Even Gronk says it’s awesome.
That's GOLD 🥇🪙!
Yeah it started getting me a little worried when they started perching the stuff up against the garage cuz before they would just leave it in the middle of the driveway now it’s right against my placed and seems pretty targeted. They aren’t doing anything wrong in my mind I find it strange and just want to know who is doing it
I think the weirdest thing that happened was I wake up look at my cams and early morning a full loaf of bread was put outside no detection of who put it there. One minutes it’s not there and 3 minutes later it’s just there. Squirrels have been chewing on the thing for awhile once I look out and see it for myself. I go back on my camera log that’s attached to my phone trying to figure the shit out and I look back out my window and the bread is gone. When I went back out to grab my camera to plug into my computer I see the bread right in front of my camera shit gave me chills
This is incredibly disturbing. As are the responses that think this is cute. Glad that the one person who was stalked weighed in with voice of reason.
1-If not Asheville and if not "fruits and vegetables" people would not find this harmless or without cause for concern.
2-Crows can't carry a head of cauliflower or a loaf of bread.
3-Assuming you are a woman. Also, that after 2 years the experience with the bread caused you to post.
4-As person who was stalked said, behavior like this escalates (and even bread example IS escalation. As is the putting things AGAINST your garage door.).
5-Somehow you have been dismissing and minimizing this. Guessing responses here - which don't reflect your gut feeling, will cause you to actually start to take your inner response more seriously.
6-You live alone. First thing. You are a woman. These things matter. You are up a drive.
Call police, say this is not an emergency but you'd like advice. You need help taking this seriously.
7-Borrow someone's dog for a number of nights. Get help understanding how bread and person placing can not appear. Get recording equipment that prevents this. Get flood light. Post no trespassing. Consider seriously that someone has - for 2 years- been doing this. If you have no idea who it is, and no sign of any unhoused on your property - then, someone you do not know is consistently - 2 times a week!!!!!!!!! (and then the bread thing!!!) - doing this.
None of the responders consider - WHO would do this- in terms of WHAT impact this has on owner. This, that the person doing it is in some way continuing - more than once a week to make their presence known, ever closer and ever more mysterious ways ON ANOTHER's property. IN DISREGARD OF homeowner. If it were knocking, I doubt you'd all find it so harmless.
Take it seriously. And for all who answer "it is only bread and fruit" you really are missing the point.
Thank you. I have been thinking all day about going back and deleting the comment because it this is such a joke to so many people, it seems. In fact, I came back to the thread to delete but then I saw your comment.
It’s also really important to understand that whoever does this sees these items as gifts or something that they are doing for OP, for which they will feel owed something, e.g. “look at all the produce and bread I brought you, how could you tell me to go away?” This can cause escalation to violence or new, scarier ways to stalk and harass.
Not to mention, OP hasn’t seen the person. That’s a control mechanism too because this person is probably an expert on OP, OP schedule, and OP’s residence.
People who have not experienced stalking have a difficult time conceptualizing what it’s like and if this is a joke post or it is some animal like people believe, I would rather err on the side of protecting OP and taking this seriously than laughing it off.
Asheville PD and the Sheriffs Department helped me immensely. If OP reads this and wants help or someone to talk to who’s been stalked, survived, and worked like hell to overcome the effects of it, I’m available.
You state it all perfectly.
Thank you for having the strength to post and post again when people really are ignorant.
You have done a great job and offered for OP to reach out if she wishes to consider the things you state SO clearly. The level of control in this entire situation.
I believe her posting IS a wish for validation of what she has been brushing under rug and I am grateful you gave her the validation.
I am so glad the police were supportive of you and I wish you an ever better experience of safety in the world. How fortunate the ignorant are to really not get it.
I mean, imagine if this was meat being left… People would be horrified and warning OP to watch out.
Or in my case, vinyl records and boxes full of candy for my children. It’s all the same and it’s disturbing. It’s pervasive after awhile and it’s absolutely meant to conceal an attempt to erode one’s sense of security under the thin veil of unsolicited gifts.
Thanks for understanding.
Exactly! Had headline read- dead meat left on drive for 2 years and now against garage door.
That is part of the point. The way OP posted is part of her being of the controlled state. The objects themselves "harmless".
We can understand how scary it would be for her to wake up. Hoping your bravery in sharing, suggestion she can reach out to you and encouragement that police were helpful will enable her to begin to emerge from the state of denial.
Her post seems a first step to taking it seriously. Unfortunately, the nature of how she posted only encouraged the "no big deal" response of posters.
The waking up takes time and you did all you could!
I don't know what the path is for you, so I am not sure what to wish you - but I am glad it sounds you are more out than in!
Thanks, last contact was the first week of November, pretty much the minute my original protective order expired but also provided a reason for a judge to extend it two years. I hope that simple fact will help people understand these obsessions are dangerous.
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Like the person who says it might be a cat!?? This thread is just insane.
I will continue you to wish brave you you safety in the days, weeks and years to come. I can't pretend to know what it will take to ever get to feel safe again.
Thanks for the bravery in sharing in such a clueless space and I do hope you someday share with the world - when it is time.
Re “borrow a dog” I thought this too. and @OP- I would gladly bring my very barky beagle mix and/or nut bag barky heeler puppy to visit. They hear things in the woods all day, every day and would be grateful for a mission.
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You've got a crow that thinks you need food more than flashy stuff. Or you've got a spun out Ashevillian that thinks they are a crow.
Now I can't un-imagine some wook named Crow making rounds in the night like a demented Johnny Appleseed
🤣😂 I’m pretty sure I have met a few like that. Definitely know a few that go by crow. I’d probably hang out with him. Sounds like a friendly fellow.
But the wooks I hang out with would be leaving nugs, and Scooby snacks, and maybe a few glass pieces on your porch. (I’m the one who likes leaving shiny glass things around for people to find)
Is the stuff packaged at all? Is it possible it could be a raccoon or something taking someone’s compost and eating it in your driveway?
Do you live with anyone? How often does this happen? Do the items typically show up around the same time/day? How close do you live to your neighbors? Are you close with any of your neighbors? Who all did you tell about the trail cam?
I live by myself it happens once or twice a week I have neighbors but this stuff has been happening before they moved in. I’m not close with any of my neighbors but we all know each other. And the only person that knows about my trail cam is my friend who recommended it to me that moved here recently
See if any neighbors have cameras. Even though yours isn't picking something up maybe theirs might around the same time. Otherwise I'd think an animal.
Clearly Bigfoot leaving you some gifts
I was about to ask if the property is near a forest…?
Screw bike lines,more this.
Its the matrix messing with you.
Are you being stalked by a giant crow?
Could be a cat. We had a neighborhood cat that use to steal people's shoes and bring them to his owners house. Constant nextdoor notifications!
That’s really strange. How are they bypassing getting picked up by the trail cams? Have you eaten the items (I wouldn’t)? Maybe they think your house is someone else’s?
No lol I would never I’m confused as well I was wondering if it was an animal at first but the items are becoming to big and strange. There is a possibility they are aware of the cam and getting behind it but now it’s not making sense cuz some of the stuff has appeared right in front of the camera and it’s not capturing the moment it was placed there
That sounds extremely stressful honestly. Maybe you can get one of those automatic floodlights that are motion activated. If they’re coming at night, it could startle them. I would be decking out my house with security cameras bc of the random person
Sounds like stalking
That’s where my minds going but have no clue who would be doing the said stalking
I think it’s more likely an animal. Don’t get yourself worked up yet.
Poltergeist perhaps?
You also didn’t happen to get a cheese grater a while ago by chance did you? Some unknown being made mine disappear a year or so ago. Zero explanation.
I wish I’m a cook my friend always makes a joke maybe it’s intergalactic beings giving me supplies to make them a meal 🤣
Were you whistling at night?
Wild stuff. My guess is someone has a crush on you and this is their weird way of expressing it. The sock is a little concerning. Like they are wanting to share their musk with you.
Does someone have the mistaken impression that you’re hungry or need a little help right now?
Weird is something happening like that maybe..once and a while. Two years is messed up.
Is no one going to ask OP if they eat the food?
He said he doesn't, lol. It's somewhere upthread.
I recently saw a tik Tok about a persons cat who brought them the most random of things to there front door, fingers crossed for you that you were just gifted a cat through the cat distribution and that you don't have a creeper.
I also wondered cat. But full loaf of bread is weird.
I would have thought that you have a cool crow friend that is leaving these for you, but I’m not sure if a crow can fly with a whole head of cauliflower. But crows can actually bond with people and will bring you things. Usually small items they find.
Crow would be cool but yeah some of these items are a bit to hefty for a crow to fly around with and it has left stuff while it’s raining outside.
Sorry I thought you were hungry
It's a freed house elf who wants to work for you.
“For god’s sake, please stop bringing me useful items for free!”
What flavor of donut?
Ya got produce ghosts dog. Shit just happens sometimes
A sock!! Dolby you are free!
What flavor is the donut? Asking for a friend.
Someone put your address on a food bank distribution list
I'm going with racoon or cat... trying to make a stockpile in a place they feel safe. I live in the woods of chapel hill.. I know I have a racoon family as well as a coyote family that take things from the compost near me and stock pile them under my deck....ive seen the tracks but I've never seen them do it... but it's pretty routine. that's the safe answer.... the much less safe answer is mastermind stalker however... you said you have no idea whom would be stalking or why🤔🤔
Raccoon, I agree!
That's awesome. I don't know the answer but I want to know. Please keep us updated .
I blame the crystal vortex
Welcome to weird ashville
Have you made any coven of witches angry? Are the leaving crystals yet?
Otherwise I would blame psychosis.
Love it...must be a Firestorm Book fan/employee!
Am I understanding correctly, it went on for 2 years before you installed a camera?
Right lol, I'm struggling to believe this story.
Annnnnnd that is the reason there are so many creepy documentaries on Netflix.
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So you have a camera on where they put the items, but they just magically appear? Post the video then and collect your $1million for proving ghosts are real
Could be someone is checking to see if anyone is living there.
I’d wager that it’s a bird (crow) dropping items
That's why we say "Keep Asheville Weird" !!
What you have there is a classic ‘stalk’er (prob of the bean variety but that’s just a guess)
What’s the expiration date on the bread? Is it fresh or old?
It could be the fae. Or some elemental forest spirit. I kid, but it’s still a fun idea.
I’m from TN and there’s a place near me called Booger Hollow that’s named for the hairy “wood boogers” which reportedly lived there. They have a local tradition of leaving gifts of food at the wood line and receiving gifts back like fruits, rock stacks and antlers. It sounds a lot like Bigfoot honestly.
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Lmao my grandfather had a giant garden, and would do this to all of his neighbors. He lived by himself for around 7 years and grew enough produce he rarely bought any at the store. The neighbors would go get their paper and find all kinds of veggies and pickled items on their porch. 75 year old ninja.
I recommend getting the police involved and maybe ask for PI recommendations? Also, look into motion detection cameras that start recording immediately when motion is detected. Your safety comes first. I’m rooting for you!
Have you left a note where the things are being placed?
And they live rent free in your head because of it.
I'd say a crow or a dog. 😂 We have a dog around our area that has brought the weirdest stuff to our yard. Small trash can, whole bag of baking potatoes, 2 live newborn kittens, goose and chicken eggs unharmed, the occasional animal bone or skull. I never know what I'm going to discover. I always wonder if it's just us or if the dog drops stuff at other houses too.
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Update ever since I made this post I haven’t had anything left in my driveway. I almost feel as whoever was doing it saw this post. Thank you for all the advice and responses crazy to see this small Reddit post reach almost 100k views. Il update you all of if anything new pops up
I mean how long have you lived here? Sounds like someone is trying to be your friend to me - I think it's pretty cute - if nothing is going missing or no one is being hurt - i doubt someone is stalking you tbh. They may just be carrying along a funny joke or maybe it's a ghost.
I’ve live there for 8 years like I said nothing that I’ve experienced have been negative. More playful than anything but the long run of the event has been strange to me. Especially being it’s a gravel driveway and long. Ive been at my place with the windows open haven’t heard a thing and then sometimes the stuff appears. It’s more of an oddity i can’t explain that I’ve been trying to solve for a year
I had a reserved carrell in the library as a grad student doing thesis research and someone would periodically leave notes on my desk or in my books. I never saw this person. At first the notes were sweet and complimentary but then they got bolder and started to suggest meeting up at various places. I never responded and never went to the meeting “appointments”. I figured if it was all normal and aboveboard they could just catch me at my carrell one day while I was working. The notes started to get angry and taunting, “why didn’t you come? Are you too scared?” My reaction went from feeling flattered and intrigued to nervous and, in the end, frightened. I stopped going to the library at night, then I stopped going to the second floor (where my carrell was located) and eventually just stopped going there completely. I couldn’t concentrate anymore. I’d feel a breeze and the hair on the back of my neck would prickle. I’d go in the stacks and sense eyes boring into me from behind. I had lost my sense of safety. It was bad enough this happened at the library. I can’t imagine how much more frightening it would have been if the notes were dropped off at my home.
Stay safe, OP! I hope you find out who your “benefactor” is and I hope it’s benign.
You've possibly pissed a neighbor off that is throwing the shit there. Hence no trail cam. At some point-in-time, you have irritated someone, and apparently they hold a grudge really well.
Most obvious way to handle this? Wait em out. You physically sit there and wait for an object to magically appear. I'm assuming it is happening at night.
Moral of the story is... You pissed someone off and they are fucking with you now. Probably some wax or nextdoor/facebook drama that has now manifested itself in your real life.
EDIT: Firearms are easy to get, and if someone is trespassing, you can politely tell them to gtfo. If they don't comply, you were in imminent fear for your personal safety and thought you saw them going for a gun. Problem solved.
EDIT 2: The way this world is headed, y'all better get ready to put shooting a motherfucker or two in your headspace, otherwise, you're gonna be Haitian food.
EDIT 3: Traffic incident, someone saw you turn, and has pin pointed the vehicle that vexxed them. There are a lot of ways these things transpire.
You’re compost pile must be really healthy
Idk dude you live in the south now it’s common for neighbors to share produce they probably don’t want to disrespect you in any way like making you think they think you can’t afford what they’re giving you, so the gifts are anonymous. Just roll with it and don’t be suspicious of people who are generous and kind
I don’t know what fairy tale you living in this thing doesn’t typically happen. And leaving bread and donuts and a single sock on a gravel driveway isn’t really a great gift to receive
I have to share this story here, because I wonder if you might have a fairly large crow or raven leaving stuff for you. My husband once spread a tarp in our backyard to dry out, and the crows LOVED it, because they could throw bugs on top of it to feast, and the bugs could not burrow away or hide in the grass. It was out there with crows all over it for a couple of days. He went out to collect the tarp and mow the lawn. He'd left the cover off of the riding mower the night before, and in the seat there were two walnuts and a cluster of berries on a small branch. He thought it was odd, as we don't have walnut trees or berries, but just cleaned it off and carried on. The next time he spread a tarp out, crows were again all over it. At that time, I found a deer neckbone and a shiny metal bolt on the lawnmower seat. We realized that the crows were leaving items there, but only when my husband spread a tarp out. We suspect that the crows were "thanking" him or "paying" him for spreading the tarp, as he was the one who also mowed the lawn, which they must have observed.