A Los Angeles resident recalled the terrible experience of sleeping three feet away from the neighbour’s decomposing corpse in the past few weeks, saying it made her a “nightmare.”
Reagan Bailey When COVID first appeared in 2020, he lived in a small studio apartment of about 250 square feet in the valley.
Bailey, who runs a business, said that she stayed at home “24 hours a day” during the worst of the pandemic. At that time, she began to notice unusual smells, more bugs, and began to show strange symptoms.
In the clips shared by TikTok, you can view here, She told this creepy story, which has been watched more than 7 million times.
She said: “It was around mid-May. I started calling my mother and told her that I really didn’t feel like myself. I mean I had a headache and I didn’t really sleep at night. I felt sick. a lot of.
“To be honest, we all wrote it down because I just felt a little lonely and a little crazy during the quarantine period, just like everyone else. It’s really not like me to be unable to sleep all night, so I think this is really weird. But I still wrote it down because I just thought I was really sad and depressed.”
Baylee added that she noticed more spiders, although she reminded her manager to log them off because of the hot weather. But things got worse, because the bugs are now accompanied by an unpleasant smell, and Bailey said that she also reported to her manager.
“In mid-May, I started complaining that I would smell an unpleasant smell whenever there was a strong wind, but I couldn’t touch it again. This is just something I smell occasionally. To be honest, I’m concerned about this smell. The best description is a bit like a dead fish, so I thought maybe a bird caught a fish, which was the stupidest thing in retrospect because there was no lake near me,” she recalled.
She claimed that because this was the peak of the pandemic, her manager was unwilling to send someone to check it, and Bailey began to worry about her neighbors, Or worry that a dog may be dead.
Bailey said: “I have a very bad feeling. I feel something is wrong. The smell becomes very bad every time the wind blows. I am really, really worried.”
Eventually she called her boyfriend, who told her that the smell was “terrible”.
“This is the middle of the pandemic. We are at home 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so I think I’m used to this smell,” she said. After living with her, he began to experience the same symptoms of nausea and sleep disturbance.
Sure that something happened to her neighbor, she told her manager that she was calling the police for a health check, and they did. “It turns out that he is fine and everything is fine,” she admitted, adding that she is now included in the manager’s bad debt book for “harassing” neighbors.
But Bailey is sure that something is not right, but she said that she recently killed George Freud She said that there were tanks outside her apartment, which affected daily life in the city.
She explained: “It was very busy at the time. To be honest, I complained that smell and some spiders were the least concern for anyone, especially the police.”
As time passed, Baylee continued to try to convince her manager that something was wrong, and she said that the maintenance staff finally came to check the situation.
Within “a few minutes” after his arrival, her most worried thing seemed to be confirmed. “He has already gone up the stairs. He can’t even climb the stairs without starting to vomit. He tore off his mask and he said I was going to get the master key and someone died,” she said.
Bailey continued: “Things went from zero to one hundred really fast… Within a few minutes, eight policemen were collecting information in my apartment, and they said they were about to start breaking in.
“The logical answer is to start with the neighbor who lives on my left because we have already talked to the neighbor who lives on my right. This is when the most disgusting and craziest things happen.”
She said that six police officers pulled out their guns and shouted, “Los Angeles Police Department left, your hand is in their air, you have 30 seconds. We will start the countdown”, and then one of the police officers decided to check whether the door was unlocked.
Bailey recalled: “So the police twisted the door handle and he opened it about an inch. The number of bugs that came out of this unit looked like 1,000 bugs. Thousands of bugs flew out of the unit. They immediately slammed. The sound closed the door. The police demanded a lot of support. The police began to tear off their masks, and many of them vomited from the side of the railing.”
Bailey worried that her neighbor was right, but wrong.She added: “To make a long story short, they said it was The most decaying body They have met before, and they have seen a lot of rotting bodies. I won’t discuss its details in too much detail, especially for human privacy, but we can only say that they are liquefied, at this point they are basically just a skeleton.
“All the symptoms that my boyfriend and I experienced were just because Smoke and toxins released from the body During almost all quarantine periods, natural gas made me very sick. This is the story of how I slept three feet away from my dead neighbor. “
Baylee said that her neighbor was about 74 years old and had chatted with him many times and knew that he had no one to check him. Many people questioned why the manager did not notice that the rent was not paid. Baylee claimed that Los Angeles County’s temporary suspension of evictions was the most likely cause, and this was not a red flag.
She added: “After the autopsy came back a few weeks later, they ruled out that it was not COVID, which is good, but they did say it was a heart attack. I found it very rough, because if he is liquefied and really looks like a skeleton They said he was, how could they be sure that it was a heart attack eight weeks later, because I guess his organs would be eaten at that time.”
Bailey confirmed that she moved out that night after learning that her home might be contaminated by the police.
She said: “They said they probably also sneaked into my apartment, such as microbes and bugs, because I slept only three feet away from his body.
“The only thing that separates my body from me. I sleep there every night. Remember that my apartment has 200 square feet of this thin wall. So they say that most of the wooden furniture has been infected by bugs. They strongly recommend throwing it away. I can drop everything.
“To be honest, I’m really disgusted. I threw away 99% of the things I owned and only kept souvenirs. I moved out that night and left half of my things on the side of the road in Los Angeles. Turn around.”
During the weeks so close to his body, Bailey said that she experienced “nausea, dizziness, insomnia all night, headache, dizziness”.
But fortunately, they disappeared as soon as she left, adding: “Actually, when they found him, the night I left, all these symptoms disappeared. Except for the nightmare that I honestly had at night, There is no lasting effect, and I can’t fall asleep because of fear.
“But it was very fast. To be honest, everything disappeared the night I moved out, so obviously all the gas and toxins released by his body, which was disgusting.”
Bailey shared many clips of these events on social media sites. One of the simple headlines was: “During the quarantine period, I slept three feet away from my dead neighbor for eight weeks.”
The most recent one was shared at the end of July because Bailey tried to answer many questions about this episode.
Troubled_kat thought, “I can’t believe that the police didn’t recognize this smell when they came.”
“After some time in the summer, I smelled death. This is a smell you will never forget,” Carlaghcookie16 admitted.
Although Thelittletoadstool added: “Oh my God, I can’t imagine. Good luck through PTSD from now on.”
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