Picture this: It's 5 a.m., and you're jolted awake by faint rustling noises from your downstairs bathroom. Curiosity mixed with trepidation forces you to investigate. As you cautiously open the creaking door to the dimly lit lavatory, a chilling sight awaits you. The once-innocent holes in your wall have expanded, growing increasingly larger.
The realization dawns upon you that something sinister is relentlessly clawing its way into your apartment. Your heart pounds in your chest as a sense of dread takes hold.
Then, in a heart-stopping moment, a partially visible hand emerges from the darkness. A stranger's grimy finger, coated in dust, wriggles and contorts as it forcefully breaches your apartment wall during the early morning hours. His relentless determination is palpable as he tries to tear a hole into your bathroom.
Miami New Times reported that around 5:30 a.m. on May 3, officers from the Miami Police Department arrived at the Miro building after a tenant reported the man trying to rip into her bathroom wall. She told police an unknown person was tearing through and asking for help, according to the report.
When police went next door to get to the bottom of the madness, they were told by the group inside that it was a rented Airbnb.
Upon being interviewed, the man who had been clawing at the wall "stated that he was a frequent user of cocaine and must've taken a bad rock that gave him hallucinations and caused him to be paranoid."
"He stated he locked himself inside the downstairs bathroom with the light off, which caused him to panic, and he began to break through the wall in an attempt to get out of the bathroom," the police report states.
He told police that after the harrowing encounter, he asked to be locked in a separate bathroom upstairs because he was having a "bad trip." That's where police initially encountered him: he was confined inside, with a blanket wrapped around a bathroom door handle and tied at the other end to an outside closet.
This is absolutely horrifying.
If I were these people I'd be looking for a new apartment ASAP.
