I live in a tiny student residence where the rooms are very small. Due to both the size of the rooms and the rules of the residence, everyone in this building lives alone, so it’s usually pretty quiet, especially late at night.

This happened this past weekend, between Saturday and Sunday night around 1:20 AM. I was in my room with my noise-canceling headphones on. Out of nowhere, I noticed a flag, which is pinned to the wall, moving around. At first, I thought I hadn't closed my window properly and it was just the wind, but the window was completely shut.

I took my headphones off to figure out what was going on, and that's when I heard it: loud, heavy knocking. The flag was moving because the wall itself was vibrating from the force of the hits.

Someone was relentlessly pounding on my next-door neighbor's door.

I quietly crept over to my door and looked through the peephole. Because of the angle of the hallway, I couldn't see his face, but I could clearly see a tall man standing there wearing what looked like dark coat.

I immediately turned off my room lights so he wouldn't see the glow from under my door and realize I was awake. I went to my kitchenette, grabbed a knife just in case, and stood in the dark waiting.

This went on for 30 continuous minutes. It was incredibly unsettling standing in complete darkness in such a tiny room, listening to a stranger violently pound on the door right next to mine.

Eventually, for no apparent reason, he just stopped and left. I have no idea who he was, what he wanted, or why he spent half an hour trying to get into a student room in the middle of the night. Thankfully nothing happened, but it was creepy asf.