AITA for being angry that my roommate was sleeping under my bed for months without telling me?

A Redditor shares a chilling experience involving their roommate, who had secretly been sleeping under their bed for months. The revelation came one night when the user heard noises and discovered their roommate hiding beneath them. Now bombarded by messages from their roommate and mutual friends, the Redditor questions their own reaction and sanity in the face of this bizarre situation. Read the full story below to get the details of this surreal encounter.

‘ AITA for being angry that my roommate was sleeping under my bed for months without telling me?’

I (24M) have lived with my roommate Karl (24M) for 2 years. A few months into rooming with him he told me he was a pansexual. I said ok, cool. I am not interested in that personal information, nor am I judgmental. I said alright.

A few times over the last year he has asked me if I had ever considered “experimenting” with other men. I said nope. Also I said I didn’t feel comfortable with him asking me such a personal question. It’s not like we are close friends, we are only roommates by happenstance basically. Anyway every time I said this he basically said “we’ll see.” I was like, what?

Anyways last night I had a horrifying experience. I heard a noise under my bed. It was movement. At first I thought I was imagining things. But then I heard it again. I thought, oh god, is it a mouse or a r** or some s**t? My god. This was like 3:00 AM. So I got out of bed and looked under with my phone flashlight.

Now this here was the most startling moment of my life. I guess I am lucky because I have never before this moment felt true t**ror and fear as a physical sensation, but I was completely jolted. There under my bed was my roommate staring wide eyed at me, and he SCREECHED when I looked under the bed.
I literally thought I was having a heart attack.

I then just started hearing “sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry”, my roommate crawled out from under the bed crying apologizing over and over. I was so creeped out and afraid that I ran out of the apartment in my pajamas. There was a dunkin donut that was open 24/7 a few blocks away so I just sat in there with a decaf and a breakfast sandwich with my heart thundering away.

My roommate kept texting me asking to talk. I ignored it. In the texts he found a way to horrify me even further. He confessed he had been sleeping under my bed a few nights a week for “three or four months” and that he was doing it to get closer to me and “psychically saturate each other”.

The f**k??? I waited for him to go to work and I ran into the apartment, got my essentials, and left. I am currently crashing with a buddy. Our lease is up in 1 month, my intention is simply to not renew.

This dude is blowing up my phone. And I am getting texts from other people, some friends of mine and some bozos who are friends with him. He is going around telling people I shamed him and that I am rejecting his apologies.

Some people are claiming I am overreacting and invalidating his feelings. Most people agree he was improper but think I should work it out with him and give a second chance because he’s “sensitive”.

I feel like I am losing my mind and I am seriously 20% convinced I am experiencing a long lucid dream of some sort and wondering if I am going to wake up or I am in a coma or something because this s**t is so insane to me. Like not really, but maybe really…I mean what the f**k??? So AITA or is everyone around me a f**king nut?

See what others had to share with OP:

Ser_Sunday −  Dude is not mentally stable and you need to get out of there. Sounds like he’d end up wearing your skin or some s**t to “physically saturate” with you. EDIT: This has become my most upvoted comment ever and I’m not sure how to feel about that.

WinEquivalent4069 −  Yes, you did shame him. Yes, you rejected his apologies. Why? Cause he crossed so many boundaries of common decency, privacy and basic human respect. This is the behavior a predator, a stalker would do. Whatever trust you had with Karl has been broken, shattered into a 1000 pieces. NTA.

MiserableCheddar −  That’s f**king predatory, get a new roommate, if he’s willing to do this then what else has he done?

13surgeries −  Why would ANYONE say you should work it out with someone who was hiding under your bed every night?

she_who_knits −  Everyone around you is a nut. His behavior is criminal stalking. . NTA

GorditaPollo −  Babes, he is dangerous and you’re not safe around this guy. You need someone to escort you back into the house preferably a police officer and to advise him that he has 30 days by law to leave but in your estimation it would be best if he left within the week. You could pick a random on the street as a roommate and have 99% less chance that they’re going to be that unhinged.

1indaT −  This must be fake.

JojokyMonavlco −  I’m a gay man. And this is my advice: Run. Don’t walk. F**king Ruuuuuuuun. To quote whoopi goldberg: you in danger girl

Aedan9 −  Man this didn’t happen so hard it almost went full circle and did in fact happen

tenetsquareapt −  What the actual, ever living, mother have mercy, literal f**k is wrong with that man? Can’t lie, you gotta get the authorities on this. You’ve probably been molested in your sleep by him without you knowing. He probably drugged you before and you have no recollection. That man needs to be put in jail. Pansexual my ass, he’s just rapist and a molester.

NTAH. i hope you’re good. but go to the hospital and to the authorities. Get some evidence of him admitting to doing it clearly in text or recording (if you’re country and or US state allows for one person to record without consent from other parties).

Do you think the Redditor’s reaction to the situation was justified, or should they consider forgiving their roommate? How would you handle a similarly unsettling discovery? Share your thoughts below!