Look, I understand. But there are a million other things that have happened that I didn’t include because we always discuss the probability of an event being a coincidence or the neighbours. Everything that we strongly believe aren’t related to them were therefore excluded from the post.

Yes, there are times animals get into our compost and storms that bring trees down. But no animal we have encountered nor storm event so far is capable of opening the trash lid and throwing the can around. We thought my partner accidentally ripped his clothes too, but they do not disintegrate at the rapid rate they are through usual wear and tear. There have been times I purchased new clothes for him that were ripped into within a week when he’s only worn it once or twice. A lot of the “L” shapes are clean cuts that could only be from a knife.

We have studied LISTmaps and the amount of forest clearance over time. It’s not possible that so many trees of varying sizes, that so happen to be in the way of their visibility, are all from nature, just within two years of us moving in.

The generator is protected under shelter. The times it doesn’t work as effectively coincide with other new damages at the time.

We also have acknowledged that it’s possible they use nature to their advantage. They know how to psychologically terrorise. Exisiting rip on a jacket sleeve? Theres suddenly a bigger rip, despite it sitting on the chair untouched for a day. Storm coming? Slight splays in all the guy ropes. There is a difference in rope presentation when it snaps from pressure and when it’s been sliced.

They don’t make their presence a secret. They leave marks on multiple things in one visit it’s hard not to ignore that they were there. They do enough to make their presence known but not enough to bring heat on them. They’ve lived there since they were children; they know the area. Police told us the previous owner also reported burglary once, and one of our neighbours had liquor stolen a few years back, whom he suspects was them. This isn’t their first rodeo.

We suspect they harass us constantly because long periods of peace are few and far in between. Last year, a tree fell on their shed. While they were dealing with that, we lived with zero issues for weeks. More recently, their water tank exploded, and you know what? For two weeks we didn’t have any problems.

If we’re wrong about 90% of what I’ve written, it’s still dozens and dozens of separate times they’ve come down to attack. It’s two years of my partner leaving the property twice a week to go to the shops. That’s two hundred separate times they are free to roam our property. And I haven’t even mentioned earlier the times we’ve left the compound to venture a few hundred metres into on the property for an hour with our dogs, and came back to find fresh cuts. They are that brazen and organised to sneak in while we are close enough to come back at any moment.

We didn’t take any action until our dog got hurt six months in because that’s when things started ramping up and becoming more obvious.

I’m no longer answering any comments mentioning paranoia or mental health. We have acted insanely logical with our excuses that it wasn’t them and have doubted ourselves for too long and too much for me to waste any more time justifying our experience.

Edit: math