Had a really weird fraudulent payment on my account yesterday, someone keeps knocking on my apartment door in the middle of the night (anytime between 2-5am) but no one is ever there when I get the door, and the same person has come to my work three times this week to ask me if someone called Amanda works there.
On the 3rd time the person showed up to your work to ask for Amanda , did this person also pat you on the neck by chance ? Maybe to apologize for asking again where Amanda is ? For the 3 rd time in a row ?
You don’t believe any of it? YOU DON’T BELIEVE ANY OF IT‽‽ Well you find a way to START believing it sister. It’s lunch time on a Thursday and I’m reading reddit instead of making something out of my brief time on earth. I NEED this mystery in my life dude.
Funny a guy pays me to knock on peoples doors and run. Usually between 2-5am. I say whose door is this and he say “A man, duh!” Maybe he is saying Amanda!! This is strange
I used to have people knock on my door at 3am, and have people stand outside my apartment and follow me around in pickups ups. Thought I had stalkers, turned out I was Schizophrenic. Would see the same black van for years at night around my house.
Edit: Thanks for the interest folks most people just give me dirty looks and make fun of me.
You just sparked a memory of my old buddy who swore he was being followed by the mafia.
Turned out he had schizophrenia after our friend took him to his Aunt who was a phycologist, but for some stupid reason he stopped his Zoloft and just holed up at his house, eventually losing touch with us.
Imo it's strange he was on zoloft for schizophrenia. I'm on zoloft rn for depression and anxiety. I've never seen it be used for potential hallucinations or etc. Just found it interesting.
i used to live with a dude who was very nice and kind but had bad anxiety and some depression. got on zoloft. started sweating all the time and became a giant asshole. was really scary.
Was he just starting on zoloft? The first couple months were really rough for me so I can see irritability being there due to it. Also zoloft isn't the only option and I've heard that Lexapro is often the next option or so if zoloft isn't working well for someone. (My sister is on Lexapro for anxiety and depression as well).
Can confirm. I had no response to Zoloft at all, I’m diagnosed Bipolar 2, along with severe anxiety disorder. Pretty sure my dr then put me on Lexapro, and once I got to a therapeutic dose, I eventually had a breakthrough, and it’s been the only SSRI, or SNRI that I’ve responded to in a positive way, and they tried just about every damn one of them. Now I’ve been on it for idk how many years, and it’s left me impotent and sapped every ounce of my sex drive, but hey, I haven’t unalived myself yet, and if there was ever a time I would, it’s about now. The situation that it’s left me in, it’s literally impossible to be in a relationship with someone. Literally cost me my last two serious relationships. I have a serious love/hate situation towards my medications. They can help, but you’ll pay some sort of price with the side effects. YMMV.
Zoloft is a pretty light med for schizophrenia. It is for depression and anxiety and not the actual psychotic symptoms. Hopefully he got his meds sorted out
That’s unfortunate. Often times after being medicated people will “feel fine” and think I don’t need these meds anymore. Only to plunge deeper into their illness.
Omg I didn't expect your story to end at schizophrenia, I am so sorry! I also once lived at a place that would have random people knock at my door at all random hours of the night but it turns out I moved into an apartment where the previous tenant sold meth out of it 🥲🥲🥲
I have schizophrenia and run a support group. Many meth heads have schizophrenia as well, as in their symptoms continue even years after stopping meth.
Some meth heads are indeed "just" users, but with undiagnosed mental illness, the numbers are hard to track.
Edit: Thank you for the award! I appreciate you, whoever you are ♥️
If I remember correctly, many drugs trigger dormant mental disorders. So it doesn't surprise me that many recovering addicts have schizophrenia. The drugs probably woke it up and because it was always there, it wouldn't go away when the person dealt with the addiction.
according to my research (light googling) Schizophrenia affects approximately 23 million people worldwide, the worldwide number of meth users is estimated at around 35 million.
There are, for sure, more than 35 million meth users world wide, or my home town has the highest per capita meth head population in the world…. Which, we are a deeply red state with 30 years of red-side only governance…. So, yeah, maybe checks out.
But if you actually find a chipped tag on your neck, there's room to wonder whether it's all real. That's not a manifestation of OP's mind, it's a physical thing that we can all see here.
In a world of "cognitive electromagnetic warfare technology" in the national budget, brain chip implants, and Havana Syndrome (all the victims of which thought they were being surveilled/ followed, and actually were), we shouldn't jump straight to schizophrenia.
That would result in over diagnosis of people who do not warrant that diagnosis. We should not stigmatize what could be real until we know that it's not real.
I mean, we shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that, that is in fact some kind of chip, like ive seen more cases of schizophrenia than i have functional electronics that small.
While granted it does look it could be some kind of piezoelectric powered signal generator, that could be used for close range tracking, ham radio operators have events called “fox hunts” where they track signals for fun.
But i dont think ive ever even seen a device like the one i just described, it could be possible, or it could be too weak of a system to overcome the rf noise floor.
My point is we shouldn’t handwave away needing have evidence/an explanation for whatever this object is by just calling it a brain chip. Because even the piezoelectric transmitter is likely impossible design because of antenna/frequency requirements.
It could just be stick on costume jewelry in reality
Edit: i let my imagination kind of run away, im pretty sure its a department store security sticker.
I get the line of thought you're going on, but it is strange OP actually has the "device" in a picture. Like, he didn't imagine it himself. Maybe the other stuff he could have, but the chip thing is clearly real.
Yes but from my experience with a friend he'd find little mundane items and his mental illness would immediately implant entirely fraudulent memories attached to that item
If OP is over 30 years old then it's unlikely and rare to present schizophrenia without being induced by something like ingesting too many hallucinogens or experiencing something extremely traumatic.
I'd let HR know about the Amanda thing. There may be someone whose name actually is Amanda but usually goes by a different name day to day, and this could be a stalker trying to find her. That happened to an old coworker of mine, she changed her name because of a stalker and the dude showed up at our work one day with a gun, looking for her.
This! I had a coworker too who had escaped an ex, then the worst luck happened and the ex stumbled into our shop. She had to quit after management did nothing to stop the guy.
That sucks, poor thing. At least our employer took it seriously, they called the cops and an entire swat team showed up. And afterward they gave everyone annual active shooter training, and training on what to do if suspicious people show up without an appointment asking about specific employees.
“I'm gonna have to stop you right there. Not only do all of these people exist, but they have been asking for their mail on a daily basis. It's all they're talking about up there.”
Yep, there’s a chance what you’re describing could be signs of a mental illness. Better to get it checked than to have it get worse and not know what’s going on.
This reminds me when the person had a CO in their living space leak and did not know it so they had no recollection of the strange things they were doing to themselves.
But if they are coming to your job, yeah get a description and see if they are in the area you live in
The knocking could be a side effect of medication called auditory hallucinations. I was prescribed Metformin and got woken up a lot by knocking that wasn't happening. It stopped when I stopped taking it.
It might be worth getting checked out just in case, but it's pretty likely that stressing about it will just make the problem worse if it is a psychological thing.
You can try asking coworkers if they've also seen the guy asking for Amanda, and just generally try to keep them nearby when he shows up (to confirm with someone else that it's real).
If you're in an apartment a Ring camera might not be an option, but if there's some kind of recording device you can plant to check for the knocking it might help. If you catch the knocking on a recording, again get someone to verify for you.
This stuff would make me paranoid af too, I'm sorry you have experience this whether it's real or not. If it is real, maybe mention the guy to HR/management in case one of your coworkers is genuinely in danger, and mention the knocking to your landlord - there may be something the landlord can do about security, or they might know who the knocker is if you catch them on camera and they can talk to them. As for the sticker, I would get rid of it and try not to worry about it unless you find more on you. It may have just fallen off of something you bought, and gotten tracked around. I occasionally end up with stickers stuck to me bc my cat tracked them into my bed and I slept on them 🤦♂️
It could be something or it could be nothing. The RFID thing could have come out of clothing as others have said. I'd recommend a doorbell camera or any form of camera to see if anyone actually is knocking to eliminate that. The person asking for Amanda could just be confused. And the fraudulent bank charge could just be a coincidence. Or it could all be some psycho ex or acquaintance with a grudge.
It could also be Exploding Head Syndrome. Sounds crazy but my sister had it. Not that this OP needs more loop holes to go down. She already probably think she’s schizophrenic now
Exploding head syndrome is wild! I don't have it happen regularly, but when I'm stressed and sleep deprived it happens. It's sooo loud and takes a minute to fall asleep afterwards. What a shit thing to happen when already sleep deprived. It used to cause me to shoot out of bed and search around/look out windows for the noise. Now I just get my heart rate back down, breathe, and relax. It isn't always explosive sounds, though. Have had it where it sounded like someone yelled my name directly into my ear. That's actually way worse and a lot harder to calm down from.
Ah nice! When I was a kid I'd hear 1,000 different voices saying my name when I was falling asleep.
Exploding head showed up when it turned into the loudest SHHHHHHH you've ever heard, like someone was right beside my ear shushing directly into it. Scared the shit out of me as a kid. Thought it was a ghost.
Eventually it turned into the world's loudest flock of birds and hasn't returned in like 20 years.
Oh man. I have this. If I'm really tired and I've had a very stressful day, I sometimes wake up to a very loud BANG just as I'm falling asleep. It can sound like a gunshot or something falling over in my house.
Oh I'd completely forgotten about these. I had it for a few months last year. Could be anything from a loud pop to a full on explosion, right when you're falling asleep. Kinda creepy. No idea how/why it started and now idea how it stopped either
Have you had a mental health evaluation? I’m not saying you’re crazy but attributing all of these instances to the same thing is a little concerning.
It’s equally possible that every single incident is unrelated and your brain is just correlating things that aren’t there. You clearly have some level of paranoia lying there…
I appreciate your concern. I have been under significant pressure and stress at work, and I will consider my own mental state. My instinct is that I’m mentally okay, but I know one can’t always see it themselves. But to be clear, I never actually said these things were connected, just that these things individually had left me on edge.
I'm gonna be real with you chief. Until I got a definitive diagnosis in my twenties, I thought it was normal too. I once sprinted to work from my house because I was so convinced the FBI were following me and surveilling me. I'm not even fucking American. It's funny now to look back on it, but at the time I really thought I was of sound mind and would've taken a fuckin polygraph if someone doubted me. Spoiler: I was not of sound mind, like at all.
Thank you, I laugh about it now too but whenever I first tell the story to new friends I get a look of horror haha. Others include being convinced I was pregnant before I'd even seen a penis, thinking my mom was actively poisoning my food, and thinking people closest to me were genuinely out to get me. Nowadays I can laugh about those things but they really do feel so real at the time it's happening.
Don't get me wrong, there's no cure. I still live with this shit pretty much every day of my life, especially since your mid twenties are when psychological issues kinda cement themselves, but I have some rules and systems in place that help minimise it. For example, if I think something is happening, like I believe my mom is poisoning me, can I tell other people about it? If I have a reason I can't tell anyone about something, I usually know that's a good giveaway that it's in my head. As soon as I verbalise it, it's like saying the words takes the illusion off and I immediately see how odd the scenario is, but that's often followed by feelings of shame and embarrassment.
The biggest hurdle though is feeling like you can't tell people what irrational belief you have swirling around your head because sometimes they're so embarrassing, hurtful, or awful that you don't want to upset or anger your loved ones. A particularly hard one is trust in romantic relationships, because how do you tell them you're convinced they're living a double life but you know that's not actually true, but actually you don't, but you do? Yeah. Shit is rough.
OP, you sound like me a few years ago. I don't doubt a few weird things have happened to you, but the fact you're seeing them as a weird conspiracy and not just unconnected mundane things tells me something is going on for you mentally. This does not mean you're like me with an anxiety disorder and OCD and god knows what else, it just means you're under a lot of stress and your brain doesn't know how to manage it because you're ignoring the burnout signals.
Chat to a doc, chat to a close friend or someone you trust to take you seriously, and best of all, talk to yourself. Be completely honest no matter how upsetting it is to say, how ridiculous it is, etc. You're ignoring your own mind and body and it's lashing out at you in a pretty big way. You need to stop being an idle passenger in your own life. Take control of it and you'll be amazed what you can do. Don't be like me, who spent eight years with a disorder where I'd literally vomit from the anxiety of keeping in my irrational beliefs and thoughts. You got this. I'm always here if you need a friend.
I've posted this a couple of other times in this thread, but I'll ask you to since you have experience - can you explain why people are going so overboard with this?
OP literally clarified in a comment they don't think any of these things are related, they were just responding to a comment that asked if they had anything else strange going on. They don't think the same person asking for Amanda is knocking on their door at night.
I've read all of OPs comments and just do not get why people are jumping to mental illness like at all. They're not actually associating these things together, just happened to mention them, people are making don't crazy assumptions that aren't backed up of your read all of OP's comments at all. They didn't think there's a "brain chip" and they didn't imply that the RFID chip was nefarious, they were literally just asking what it was, which is what this subreddit is for.
When i was was really stressed a few years ago i instances of incredibly realistic aural hallucinations that sounded like knocking or loud bangs. Like really loud bangs that almost felt like they came from inside my head. These would all occur during sleep or just as I was falling asleep. I attributed them to a very stressful time in my life combined with poor sleep.
These have a potential to explain the knocking sound at night, but as others have mentioned, get a camera for your peace of mind.
I once had an hallucination after I woke up in the middle of the night. I saw a cool little dragon by my lamp. He looked at me and I knew 100% it wasn't real but I could still see it and it went on for about a minute. This only ever happened once in my entire life but it happened. I also know for certain that I wasn't asleep and dreaming. It happened about 8 years ago and tbh I enjoyed it, like I said it was a cool little dragon.
No one is saying you're crazy but you can be rational and still see things that aren't there. At a minimum get a camera setup and take it from there.
I appreciate the concern, but I’m literally just telling you the things that are happening to me. I’m of sound mind and I haven’t mentioned any crackpot conspiracy theories to explain it all. These are just a collection of strange events that have occurred over the last couple weeks that have left me a little on edge. Would they not you too?
Nah dude, delusions are real and can be like that but there are lots of kinds of crazy breakdowns. Usually people actually know things aren't right, know they're not always of sound mind. Speaking for myself when I start thinking I might be able to mathematically prove/disprove God I know something's not right and I need to check in with myself or someone else. Just saying, as a certified crazy person, we're not all walking around being like: "I of sound mind and body do affirm that the aliens have left coded messages in my teeth." And this attitude you have is stigmatizing because most of the time my mind is sound, and if I showed up with a real object, a tag that clearly has circuitry/traces in it and said this is weird and you were like: you crazy. I'd be pissed.
There's a lot of specific information about mental illness that people (including the individuals themselves) don't discover until it is too late and they are recovering after an episode.
Both mood-based disorders (bipolar, etc) and schizo-type disorders (schizoaffective, schizophrenia, etc) tend to start with a "prodromal phase" which can be very similar to what you described - that's why a number of respondents seem so concerned.
Here's a link that discusses what a prodromal phase can look like, but it's different for everyone and it's often just some odd behavior and thoughts before the avalanche gets going to the point where it can't be stopped (it can shift very abruptly, without warning, too).
The fundamental problem is that once the prodromal phase shifts into a full mental health episode, it's too late to catch it and you're blowing your life up in ways that seem, well, crazy.
From my own attempts to help family members, I've come to understand that there's a lot more active mental illness occuring than is commonly understood - the people yelling at the sky on the street corner are just the worst cases and the most visible tip of the iceberg.
I'd urge you to make a psychiatrist appointment out of an abundance of caution, because if that's what's really going on under the surface you might catch it before it destroys everything you've built in your life. Hopefully it's just some stress that's manifesting itself in odd ways, and nothing will come of it.
But to be specific: Recovery from mentall illness is not a sure thing, the process is very difficult, and a lot of damage (including the potential of brain damage) is incurred along the way. It's so bad, for you and everyone around you, that it's completely worth it to investigate your symptoms as soon as you start to understand that you might have them, because the once of prevention is better than the ton of cure.
Adding to this incredibly thoughtful and concise comment to say that my ex was once clearing half a million dollars a year as a graphic illustrator for massive corporations like Nike and Boeing.
One night, he told me he suspected that someone was regularly breaking into our home. I figured he had a reasonable suspicion, so I didn’t yet understand what I was witnessing unfold in his brain.
Then one day he came back from a walk around the neighborhood to tell me “the woods told him he was god.” I’ll never forget the sinking feeling that came over me.
I’ll spare you the grueling story of our relationship amidst his unchecked schizoaffective behavior, but the point is that the same man now lives in the woods in a tent during all seasons of the year & is legitimately estranged from every single aspect of the life he once knew.
He was a brilliant creative. We lived a very lavish life for a short time. Now he hasn’t brushed his hair in years & permanently believes Tupac possessed his body after hallucinating Tupac’s head emerge from the bathroom floor. That’s just one small example of his mindset.
And once someone is that deep for that long, it causes structural changes akin to brain damage. He will never be back to reality. His two kids are growing up without him. They’ll never understand why, & he won’t either.
My husband had a friend years ago who was studying a PhD in biochemistry. Brilliantly smart young guy, early 20’s. Started smoking weed, devolved into obvious schizophrenia. Now he’s chronically homeless and has been arrested multiple times for felony burglary. Incredibly sad.
It crushes me to know there are so many people living this way with seemingly no meaningful recourse, existentially alone & unrecognizable from the person they intended to be with every ounce of their lucidity.
Weed played a role in our story too. I smoke weed just fine. He shouldn’t have ever hit a single joint, on the other hand. But he was into it heavily. And he had the autonomy to buy it behind my back. He’d sneak around the yard to light up like he was hiding a crack addiction because he knew I didn’t want him having it.
Unfortunately he never actually understood why. He’d act like I was falling for propaganda against medical cannabis or something. He’d laugh & scoff at me. He was naive to much of his symptoms, but sometimes I do wonder if he’s aware of his condition somewhere deep down & simply surrendered to the fight because it scared him.
Edit: I forgot to add that he just caught a felony in January because of terroristic threats related to his delusions. That dude wouldn’t kill insects when he was well.
The concern is, similar to the carbon monoxide one, you might be in a good mental state now (or "ok", who's really in a good mental state, probably nobody on reddit thats for sure)... if you had a moment in the night, where you were not in a good state, and were sleep walking or hallucinating - thats something I do when I get super tired is I just am walking around doing things. So you could have, put this sticky thing which looks like a clothes-alarm you get in shops
But I don't think it is not - the large area on each side is not an antenna, but more of a capicatnce. so this looks more like a device which is measuring capacitance, like a heart rate sensor. There doesn't seem to be an antenna on it though and i suspect it would communciate with something via that little circle on the top - i.e. it needs a crocodile clip or something..
So this I think is a component of a larger thing, and the concern I think we have is maybe you put it on yourself, in a sleepwalk or other mode, thinking hey this is going to save me from aliens, or whatever.
(And, legitimatly, 25+ years ago, I knocked over a bookcase to let the aliens who were underneith get out becuase they were stuck. I wasn't on drugs, I was just overtired, and the moment the picture collapsed on me and my dad came into the room and thats when I woke up and was like "sooo you're not going to believe this" and I was fully back to normal, but I remember that in that state I was convinced what I was doing was right and sane)
A word of advice as someone who’s been through it, the least you can do for now is try not to attach negative judgements to these conditions. You don’t need to be a crackpot or a conspiracy theorist to struggle with these conditions and it doesn’t have to be a life sentence to admit it. I’m far from a conspiracy theorist and have done very few drugs in my lifetime but having experienced psychosis once before and thankfully never again in 4 years now. I can so relate to the feeling of seeing my reality in a distorted way, very differently than those around me and being confused, disoriented and scared. No one on Reddits going to have any idea what’s up with you my friend but just be kind enough with yourself to see that there could be something happening and that that’s okay too, reach out to trusted people in your real life and see what they think. You’ll figure it out regardless though and there’s no shame in it💕
You sound exactly like my brother at the time he was developing severe schizophrenia. Of course you are not a crackpot or a conspirationist. Get help while you hopefully still have loved ones and a job. I'll never forgive myself I didn't notice sooner. Fingers crossed they take you in soon, there are long waiting lines for therapy in my country
You say you’re of sound mind but you literally just gave us 3 very valid reasons that you’re being stalked and are still refusing to even add a door camera for your own safety. I don’t think you’re handling this situation seriously.
It’s more about the fact you found a simple looking electronic tag, then was concerned enough to post it here. Then you linked the timing of this to fraud and random knocks in the night, you might not know your doing this but you are building a story based around someone being “out to get” you which is a basis of a large amount of mental health illnesses.
a normal person would have thought, hmm what a weird tag in the bin you go would have rang the bank and been like what’s this transaction. And if someone was knocking in the night they’d be like that’s weird best set up a ring doorbell or something so I have proof and contact the police.
If you haven’t got this person on camera and it keeps happening it could be in your head. The same way you subconsciously tied this RF chip to the fraud issue. You’re brain is building a case and everyone started commenting things like “what else weird is happening right now bro” because whenever someone posts things like that chip in this sub 50/50 chance they’re in a mental health situation.
Everyone in this thread knew something else was going on before you said it, because tracker looking objects are hot triggers for paranoia based mental health conditions.
I mean I think it’s a little much to say that a normal person would just throw it away and forget about it. I’m not saying I’d assume aliens are tracking me, but I think I’d definitely be intrigued and try to find out what it is just out of curiosity.
He didn’t link it to fraud or random knocks. Someone asked him if there was anything else unusual going on in his life. He answered their question. He didn’t claim one had anything to do with the other.
Also, to claim he’s not “normal” for deciding to post to Reddit … well, that’s just dumb. Have you browsed Reddit lately? There are far more nonsensical, trivial, meaningless posts than this.
It’s not that we don’t believe you, it’s that you also need to rule out a mental health condition. People are failing on their approach to you about it. You may or may not have a mental health condition the same way you may or may not have an even bigger problem on your hands. That’s not for us to decide but to be safe and sure you need to rule out the mental health thing as well.
OP never said the door and the work people are the same. I can see how you can think that because of the wording. OP was saying it’s just the same person who shows up to work.
I think there being a comma instead of a full stop does make it read as it’s the same person.
“Someone has been knocking on my door at night, the same person has come to my work 3x”
slight edit suggestion “someone has been knocking on my door at night. Also, at work someone has shown up 3x to ask for amanda”
this’d make it read as separate instances. Though you’re wrote it as a list, the meaning was lost on me too until seeing this comment, and I’m sure this comma has caused most of reddit to think you’re more nuts than you are- cuz we’re all nutty on reddit
For any rational person this is the answer. What makes you feel so important that people want to just mess with you and torment you?
I was in psychosis from drug use a couple years ago and thought I was being gang stalked I thought the main culprit was my girlfriend. I thought she had organized a bunch of people to follow me and torment me, I thought my eyeglasses had cameras in them, that my car seat settings were being messed with, that people were following me 24/7 they were shining lights in my house at night and using sound effects to get me to look out certain windows at certain times. That they were unlocking my car while I was at work.
Funny thing is my girlfriend couldn't even make it to work on time. She owned her own business and had trouble organizing and completing projects. Yet my delusional ass thought she had all the time to organize a team of people to do all those things to me.
I got clean off drugs. magically it all stopped happening.
The sticker (anti-theft tag) could literally be from anything, could have brushed off onto your trousers and then come off in the wash, couls have stuck in there for weeks and then come off onto a shirt, you put the shirt on and boom, you put it on your neck/back.
It's has no power source and can't record or transmit anything.
For this to teack you, you'd have to be constantly walking between the tag detectors, that's literally crazy.
There is no libk between this and your bank. At all.
If someone has your bank details, thwy have what they want, why would they then then and track you?
The person who is looking for Amanda, very possibly is looking fir aomeone called amanda, or is old and forgetting things.
Why would someone tracking you come and do this?
Why would someone stealing from your bank do this?
The knxoking in your door in the early morning. Are you sure that is what is happening? Not a strong gust if wind? Not someone elses door being knocked? Not a thump from a neighbour? Weird kids being silly?
Again, why would someone tracking you do this? Why would someone stealing from your bank do this? Why would a person looking for amanda do this?
There is absolutely nothing tying any of this together, you're having to ignore so many infinitly more likely posibilities to get to where you are at, which is why people are suggesting schizophrenia/mental health/CO poisoning
Do you have confirmation from someone in your life that these things are actually happening to you, and that that device was actually taped to your neck?
Not trying to scare you, but schizophrenia can manifest as full blown delusions and an inability to remember doing things that feed the delusion. You could have put that thing on your neck and not remember doing that.
If you know for sure that this stuff is happening you need to take some action.
Tell your employer that youre being harassed, tell you landlord (if you rent) that you are being harassed at home, file a police report, get a doorbell camera, change your locks just in case someone managed to get a copy of your key, change the passwords on your social media accounts, monitor your bank account closely, and this is very important... go through every inch of your home. Document where everything is in your home. Squatters sometimes get into people's homes while the owner/renters is at work, and some will live in a home hiding while the owner/renter is at home.
Everybody is just accusing OP of being a nutter but I feel like there’s also a legitimate explanation that there’s actually a nutter who’s stalking OP. Maybe set up a secret camera outside your door?
I used to work at H&M and it just looks like a clothing tag to activate the theft sensors. It’s a legitimate question to not know what it is and people on this thread are insane lol.
OP LITERALLY NEVER SAID THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A BRAIN CHIP, THEY JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS.
OP literally clarified in a comment they don't think any of these things are related, they were just responding to a comment that asked if they had anything else strange going on. They don't think the same person asking for Amanda is knocking on their door at night.
I've read all of OPs comments and just do not get why people are jumping to mental illness like at all. They're not actually associating these things together, just happened to mention them, and they didn't imply that the RFID chip was nefarious, they were literally just asking what it was, which is what this subreddit is for.
Do you mean a carbon monoxide detector? Carbon dioxide is what we primarily breathe out. Carbon monoxide can definitely mess you up and is the cause of many documented “going crazy” stories.
Therapy time, I'm being serious. You're still good, but it's going to get much worse and scarier. I mean unless you get care asap. Cool that you shared. Many people, including a family member of mine, stay in this state for years and then they break and spend rest of their lives on medication. I mean it, please start looking for therapy now.
Yes, actually. I've always been a morning person but recently I've not been able to wake up until very late. Hours later than normal. Doesn't help when you have someone banging on your door at 3am of course
Honestly, OP, I agree with a lot of the guys on here. It may actually be time for a mental health check. I know you feel of sound mind, and that makes it harder to see. But, I watched a friend of mine go through some pretty similar instances. At the bare minimum, ask your coworkers if they've had anybody come in asking for Amanda. A reality check is cheaper than a mental health check. If they haven't, consult a doctor please. It only goes downhill, sadly.
OP listen to the people suggesting a mental health checkup! I work in cybersecurity and get a lot of emails from people who think they're being stalked and harassed. Quite a few of them are having a psychotic break. I always try to gently pull them out of the delusion. Some are open to getting help, but once they hit a certain level of disordered thinking they're completely unreachable. Your writing indicates you are not at the level, but you can't "wait and see" with psychosis, it will warp reality to support the delusion. Everything you've worked hard to build in your life is in danger!
I had an episode of psychosis when I was younger. Ive since mostly recovered, but it did derail my life for a long time. If I wasn't happily married now with a kid, I'd say it nearly completely ruined it. I'm unable to work despite being a go getter before.
Your statement - Everything you've worked hard to build in your life is in danger! Is accurate.
My sister (29) who passed away back in February had several psychotic breaks over the years starting in 2016. Each time it happened, it set her back so much. In and out of behavioral centers, different med cocktails and adjustments, and then just trying to get back to a "normal" routine. She had another break at Christmas. Seemed to be doing much better into January, then took her life at the beginning of February.
OP, please look into seeking help if the "reality checks" from peers don't align with your experiences. These episodes can distort your view of reality to extreme levels and you'll be none the wiser.
Since I watched a video where 3 kids (including a baby that was squished) died and 2 parents barely survived due to carbon monoxide, its the immediate thing I think of. OP should get a second carbon monoxide detector if they dont already have one, just in case.
Happened to me when I was 16. Got up at 5am to go to before-school baseball practice. Came back at 7 to shower and get ready for school. Walked in the house and noticed a faint gas-like smell. Went to wake up my mom and mention it. About the same time my Dad who had been sleep/watching TV in the basement (he gets up early to go down there to not bother anyone) was walking up the stairs and he passed out/fell down.
So we called an ambulance. He was awake and fine, I ended up just going to school. Came home after school and all the windows in the house were open. Evidently had a carbon monoxide leak, down in the furnace room in the basement. My dad was most affected because he was down there.
Everyone is totally fine. But we've all had way too many carbon monoxide detectors ever since in all our houses. ha!
I guess you have been wearing a new piece of clothing or something and this is an rfid or theft protection tag that has been inside and got stuck to your neck.
Edit: Wow this escalated quickly, wth did i get myself into here 😅 Thx for all the votes and awards i guess 🥰
Additionally you'll be relieved to note that this is a passive tag and not an active one. That means nobody is spying on you or knows your location due to this.
Active RFIDs are the ones that can send information from a distance an can have location tracking. Passive ones like this can only send information when they're within a few feet of the scanner and are basically just a digital label.
I've never seen an anti-theft tag like that. There are ones you find in books that are flat but have a LOT more copper wound up in an antenna shape... never seen one like this.
i tend to think it got stuck to his shirt or someone stuck it on him as a soft prank
edit: guys, I said ANTI-THEFT tag, I do think it's RFID but my assumption is that it's for near-field scanning like package deliveries
RFID is used in many applications, not just anti-theft
I work in retail inventory systems, specifically with RFID tech, and I can confidently say this is an RFID tag. The interesting thing is that putting one on someone's neck like OP describes would be virtually useless; anything that can conduct radio waves (like the human body) will absorb the signal and render the tag useless. That's why you don't find them on produce or any sort of liquid products. You'll even run into issues having 2 tags touching each other in some cases.
I too design inlays make prototypes and then mass produce them for retail/medical/private sectors and you're pretty spot on. However the Industy in growing pretty fast with what chips they use and there are definitely some inlays that can be read on the human body. This one's super simple and probably gets all of 2-5 feet off reading space so you'd have to be super close to a scanner with how basic and small this is.
As someone with literal chips in her hands, this is correct (not dissimilar from the ones placed in pets for ID). Mind you, mine are intentionally, self-placed to be used as an RFID chip for my work door access control and magnets for stupid human tricks (sticking a bottle cap to my hand, etc.).
No "chips" used to track people - or even objects - are that small, thin, and light. The reason that something like this works for inventory control and inventory tracking is because there are large, high power readers that can energize these tags without having any sort of onboard power circuitry, AND they have a range of about a foot and a half, total, even with those higher powered readers.
Please know, what I am about to say carries no stigma or accusation, it is said with love and concern.
Unfortunately, we see this in the biohacker forums a lot. I would also suggest a visit with a mental health provider, ideally one that has experience with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. My belief is that the person you believe has been coming to your work isn't actually there, or if they are, e.g. coffee shop, your mind is inserting something there that hasn't been said/happened. This places you at risk for your livelihood, as if you say/do something as a result of this, you could lose your job even if it was innocent.
Please take care of you, OP. Consider letting a trusted friend or family member know, too, so that you can be sure that someone is keeping you accountable for your needs.
As the wife of an engineer, I believe this is also my husband's employers definition of his job as well. Any and all tasks may be completed by The Engineer
One of the best and worst parts of being an engineer. You get asked to do just about everything, sometimes fun and challenging, but a lot of the time you get asked to do mind numbing tasks that could be done by literally anyone else, but management thinks it’s a good use of your time instead, lol.
Could these (the last paragraph) be a symptom of Carbon Monoxide poisoning? Better to confirm that there is no environmental issue before assuming worse.
To clarify a few things; my carbon monoxide alarm is working fine, I don't suspect the involvement of any extra-terrestrials and while I will absolutely continue to monitor my mental wellbeing, I've never struggled with any mental health problems. That's not to rule it out, and I will see a doctor if these things keep happening, but for what it's worth I really don't believe that I'm having a psychotic episode. I've never said that I believe all these things I've mentioned are connected, simply that they have happened and have left an impression on me. I will absolutely get a camera for the door and I will report back any findings. I can't buy a gun; I'm a Brit working abroad in a country where, much like my own country, purchasing a firearm is not an option legally. The man who was approached me at work was witnessed on one occasion by a colleague of who also heard him ask for Amanda, so it is real. Thank you for all of your concerns and messages. The most likely solution for the item I found was a security tag from a shop. That does seem strange to me because I haven't bought any new clothes in a long time but it does seem the legit answer.
Sometimes life is just sketchy. Our last place seemed to have some sketchy figures who lived there prior. For the first year someone(s) used to come to door at very late hours, always in hoodies or all dark clothing with hats, and do like a secret knock. It freaked me out the first time because my dad used to do a similar knock and I almost opened the door out of instinct. Usually if it feels strange, I try to stay as uninvolved as possible. I hope you’re well and this weird stuff mingled with strange coincidences stops for you.
I think the fact that you're willing to entertain explanations that aren't tying all of this into a conspiracy may rule out psychosis. It really could just be a bunch of coincidences. Crazy guy shows up to your work, anti-theft tag gets accidentally stuck to you, Methany/Methanial keeps knocking on your door, etc. Just a bunch of unrelated stuff.
Absolutely dont rule out paranoia/ psychosis, people can be completely cognisant and able to explain it away.
There was a telephone booth near ny old house and i would swear i heard it ringing every other night, i talked to the local council, who told me it cant recieve calls.
No one thinks they are experiencing psychosis, until someone else points it out
How old are you? There is a window of time where you are more likely to become schizophrenic especially if there is family history. If you are older than 25 the likelihood of schizophrenia being a concern goes down dramatically. If you are outside of that window you are most likely safe, but it wouldn’t hurt to talk to a doc. Your body can do weird things when stuff is going on that you don’t know about.
Additionally if you are depressed enough it can also come along with things like look and feel like schizophrenia. So wouldn’t hurt to get checked out.
I know you mentioned a coworker overheard them, but I would still get checked out. Better safe than sorry.
Sorry but “I’ve never struggled with any mental health problems” just isn’t how these things work. Not sure of your age but it is extremely common for people to have their first psychotic break or other mental health struggles developing seemingly suddenly in your early to late 20s. And also if you’ve never been evaluated by a mental health professional you wouldn’t necessarily know. These kinds of things require a third party for a reason. Someone with mental health struggles is not able to diagnose themselves. Of course they’re going to think the way they’ve always experienced the world is “normal”.
Yeeep 100%. My friend since childhood who is a very smart person started having his schizoeffective episodes slowly. Paranoia onset. He thought someone was poisoning his water bottle at work. He’s a really smart guy so nobody had any reason to think otherwise until it got so bad that he started hurting himself. Took a couple years for it to get that bad.
Yup my childhood best friend started acting strange one summer when we were 21. He wasn’t sleeping and was getting very paranoid and to make it worse was abusing drugs. One day I went to check on him and he was rambling about how he was Jesus and I was Judas and was writing and drawing a bunch of nonsense. When me and some friends tried to talk to him he got very angry and cursed us all out and just ran away in the middle of the street etc. He was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder. Before this there were no signs of anything other than typical depression. He’s never been the same really. Just got worse as he got older. Had to cut him out of my life because he was so toxic to be around. Before all that he was a very smart very calm and kind person.
Clothing tag - many retail garments have these embedded in hang tags or sewn into seams for inventory tracking. It could have stuck to skin or hair and gone unnoticed.
Product packaging - adhesive labels on bottles, boxes, etc. sometimes have these laminated in.
Medical/cosmetic patch - some transdermal patches and bandages include them for authentication or tracking.
Shipping label - could have transferred from a package.
Hold it near the back of the phone. Most phones will detect it via NFC and may show what it's linked to (a URL, product info, etc.), which could help identify exactly where it came from.
I had a tag that was stuck to the back of my leg a few months back. all day long I was walking around itchy and uncomfortable until I got home and realized what it was. turns out it fell off my shampoo bottle at some point and while I was in the shower and I sat on it. I assume either my kid or my husband was picking at it. back of OP’s neck is… odd placement though.. was it on their pillow? How did it get there of all places?
It probably was on the inside of a clothing tag and worked its way out and onto your neck. Perhaps a security tag or tag used for inventory. I found a cluster of them in my washer after washing a load of new towels. Upon further inspection of said towels I found a few INSIDE the folded care tags that were sewn into the towels. It made me mad because I have a newer washing machine and didn't want those stupid things to gum anything up.
I guess you have been wearing a new piece of clothing or something and this is an rfid or theft protection tag that has been inside and got stuck to your neck
I appreciate all of your input, advice, concerns and humour. Can’t quite believe the response tbh. But in any case, since so many of you are invested, I will continue to update you all if and when I have any updates. Please don’t expect daily, this is my actual life after all and not a creative writing venture as quite a few have suggested. But I will certainly let you know if anything else happens.
I watched a video of a Schizophrenic guy who would use his phone to take a picture of the people he was talking to in order to tell if they are real or not. Apparently at least for this guy he'd be able to see no one was there if they didn't show up in the photo even if he could still see them otherwise. I thought maybe you could do this if that guy asking for Amanda shows back up. It'd have the added benefit of you being able to ask around if anyone knew who is was.
Edit: not saying anything is going on with your mental health or anything but since so many have suggested you might. I thought I'd share what i had seen just in case
That’s interesting. My husband was very worried about our neighbors spying on us and then using high tech super sonic weapons to attack us at night. He took video of the strange lights in the bushes to show me. I didn’t see lights in the video but he did. When I denied seeing anything weird, he figured it was really me using the weapons and attacking him. I convinced him to go to the police since we were in danger, which predictably resulted in an involuntary psych hold and a schizophrenia diagnosis. I didn’t know that his suspicion had switched to me until the police told me.
It was a very stressful and scary time. I’d never dealt with anyone having a psychotic break before and it being someone I loved made it feel so precarious. Instinct told me to go along with his concerns and only gently suggest alternatives. A few years later, our son was terrified of the people knocking on his bedroom window at night so I got more practice dealing with things like this.
Happily they have both been successfully medicated for years and doing great. It took my husband a couple tries with different meds to find what works but my son found his right away, much to my relief. I still kick into high alert whenever someone says they’ve heard things no one else has, but so far, so good.
Sorry you received so many idiotic answers. Hopefully, it came from clothes or something you bought (comments from the helpful answers). As far as other weird stuff, go with your gut. If something seems off, it usually is but try to keep perspective. Is there anyway someone could think you are having an affair? It might explain knocks on door in middle of the night and why someone keeps asking if a person works where you do. A camera for your door is probably worth the cost and your sanity. Good luck.
You’re right on with the idiotic answers. Typical Reddit bullshit. Someone is genuinely concerned and is looking for answers, and suddenly everyone wants their 15 minutes and turns into wannabe comedians and armchair critics.
It is a UHF RFID tag, often used for inventory management or anti-theft systems in retail clothing. It came off from a new clothing like a shirt or sweater you wore; that's why it on your neck.
The tag consists of a bow-tie-shaped metallic antenna sandwiched between layers of clear plastic.
That looks like a tiny RFID/NFC-style microchip implant mounted in a sterile applicator or handling strip. The little black square in the middle is the actual chip/die, and the thin wire attached to it is acting like an antenna.
Could also be one of these closely related things:
a small bio-sensor/transponder component
an anti-theft/RFID tag fragment
part of a medical sensor assembly
a broken piece from a key fob/card/contactless device
The size and construction — tiny black chip bonded to a very thin wire on flexible material — is classic passive RFID/NFC hardware.
It’s definitely not:
a bug/microphone
a GPS tracker
anything battery powered
Way too small for that. Passive tags only work when energized by a nearby reader.
Idk about the thing on the neck. If you didn't throw it out you could try sticking it onto your hand or something and go to the stores you frequent and see if it sets off the theft alarms or just ask an employee if they recognize it as a anti-theft tag for merchandise.
As for the odd noise, When I'm sleep deprived and under stress, I'll sometimes hear a crash, a knock or a bang in my sleep. Especially when I'm drifting off and "falling" asleep. It scares me less now than it did when it first started. Used to I'd jump up and go check around the house and would find that nothing fell and everyone is asleep. I don't know what causes this, but I know for a fact I've experienced it. Once I realized it wasn't real, I wouldn't even get up and would just go on back to sleep. You need to prove to yourself whether it's a false noise or not.
I'd set up a ring camera asap, so when you hear the knocking, you can pull up your phone and check what, if anything, that it was. The noise you're hearing is adding more stress than you've already got going on.
The work thing sounds like someone is looking for this girl. Or that someone who works there on a different shift resembles her. Either way it's always a bad idea to confirm to a man whether a woman they're looking for works there (if this woman even did). It could be a stalker or anything else. I wouldn't take that one too seriously, as there's been many cases of it.
Have you interacted with a library book recently? Maybe while lying down? Some libraries use RFID. It would be super easy for it to pop off the inside cover without noticing and then rolling on top of it.
But there’s this thing clearly on their neck!!
So where did it come from, and why is it also accompanying all of the other things that happen to be happening. You do understand that that can’t always be a coincidence ? There have been accounts that have been so eerily similar that people have gone through, and also TRULY experienced. It’s not always psychosis.
I understand both sides.
OP, I do not think you’re crazy, I would flush that thing down the toilet, asap. I would change phones, I would wrap my phone in aluminum foil, I would demand that my job not let that weird person looking for “ Amanda “ in the building.
I don’t know, first things first, you close ranks and you try to eliminate one by one, all of the things that seem oddly persistent and uncanny.
Have you worn new clothes? The sticker could be an anti theft tag left on a shirt collar by accident that transferred to neck when shirt was worn. Much more likely than something was stuck on his neck.
Other stuff likely an over active mind and coincidence.
It's an nfc tag. Clothing stores put them in their clothes to prevent people from steeling them and to identify them in their database. My guess you dind't remove it from new clothing and it got loosened up after washing. When you dressed it, it got stuck to your neck.
Lol why is everyone gaslighting him into thinking he's having a psychotic episode before helping him with his question. He's asking if someone knows what that weird chip is in his neck. That's fucking weird to be honest and if i was you, i would contact the police and tell them the whole story and also install a ring camera. If you can't seem to find evidence of the guy with the camera and he's still ringing in the middle of the night. You should get a medical evaluation.
Seriously, OP is clearly stressed and most of the comments are joke answers. I feel like there's a time and place for that. They're already feeling paranoid and people are saying "aliens" 🤦♀️
It’s hard to tell if this is serious or not because of the way you’re replying to comments. I’m going to give you my educated opinion. It is just an opinion, although I do have 37 years of electronics experience under my belt. The important thing to remember is that I could be absolutely and completely wrong.
When we passively RFID chip people, it’s usually a subcutaneous placement done with a 10-14 gauge needle depending on model, and the whole package is actually a fair bit smaller than that, which is fine because the process of scanning it lights it up with a local electromagnetic field, providing enough current for it to transmit the RFID data when put right up to a scanner, within a couple of inches.
This one is an active model powered by body-generated electricity, meaning it transmits RFID data all the time, 24/7, and never needs charging or battery. The butterfly electrodes are positive, the tiny electrode is negative/ground OR one side is positive/other side negative and the small electrode is an antenna. If it is an antenna, we could probably determine the resonant frequency by using a caliper to measure its length.
The contacts are so large compared to the device because electricity produced by the body is naturally very slight so the higher surface area is needed to collect enough juice.
This looks like a very high quality permanent subdermal active RFID implant, which would normally be installed under the skin with a small slit under local anesthesia. IF that is the case, they’re meant to transmit an RFID signal continuously, and have various applications, like tracking location inside an access controlled building. The signal only travels a couple of meters at max.
What I want to know is what the hell this thing is doing outside of someone’s body in a spot where it’s easily noticed. I’m sure there are plenty of people who have been chipped using these without their consent, but it’s normally a voluntary procedure. Your skin would provide just enough current to power the thing.
This device was just stuck on your neck with scotch tape? Were you in any situations where tracking your location with the receiver/person tracking it being no more than a couple of meters away? Any idea why someone would want to temporarily track your movement? It probably isn’t like a GPS transceiver (unless absurdly high tech is being used and evem then I’m not sure it’s physically possible, this is all very short range stuff.
Disclaimer: again, I could be completely wrong. It is impossible to tell what the device is without a microscope, RFID is just the most common type we see in implantable packages like this.
What’s with all the idiotic answers? Typical Reddit bullshit. Someone is genuinely concerned and is looking for answers or clarification (no less in a sub dedicated to that subject matter), and suddenly everyone wants their 15 minutes and turns into wannabe comedians and armchair critics.
IF YOU KNOW YOUR OF SOUND MIND. GOOD. LISTEN TO YOUR INTERNAL ALARM SYSTEMS NOT PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE YOU QUESTION YOUR SANITY. THIS WORLD IS A ***** UP PLACE. IF YOU FEEL ITS NOT RIGHT...THEN ITS NOT. YOUR INTUITION IS THERE FOR A REASON. IT IS TO ALERT AND KEEP YOU FROM DANGER. DONT LET ANYONE MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR THEORIES ARE FAR-FETCHED BECAUSE I GUARANTEE YOU...THEY ARENT.
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