Woman shares chilling encounter on Facebook

RCMP says matter is isolated incident

A Bay Roberts woman and her children had quite a scare over the Christmas holidays.

A mother from Bay Roberts went on Facebook to express her concerns over an incident she had in her home recently, involving a stranger in her backyard, dressed in a black coat, cap and sunglasses.

The Facebook post, which garnered more than 5,000 shares as of Thursday, states that the first instance of the sighting came from her threeyear-old daughter, only a couple days before Christmas, who said she had woken up in the early hours of the morning to a man peering in through her window.

At the time, the woman discarded it as a bad dream, and tucked her daughter back into bed.

However, as she writes in the post, her opinion on the matter changed drastically about a week later, at 4 a.m. on Jan. 2, when she had a similar experience.

“When I walked out of my room to go into the kitchen there was a man standing outside my front door wearing all black,” she wrote. “He had on a black coat, a black hat and a black pair of sun glasses, when I seen him he had obviously seen me too but didn’t budge from my door until I went into the room to wake up my boyfriend, we both came back out and he was gone.”

The woman said she and her boyfriend immediately called the police.

Sgt. Brent Hillier of the Bay Roberts RCMP told The Compass that the incident was reported to them as a suspicious person, but no home invasion occurred, or was attempted.

The woman also stated in the Facebook post that after questioning her daughter, the description of what the young girl had seen matched the man she had seen outside her kitchen window.

“When I asked my daughter about it she said the same things, he was wearing all black and had black eyes (sunglasses) when I asked her what the man done she put her finger up to her lip and said shh,” she wrote.

An inspection of the outside of the house by the woman and her boyfriend found footprints leading to each window, as well as the basement door, but did not lead to anywhere specific beyond that.

While the RCMP described the matter as an isolated incident, the woman urged fellow residents in the area to keep their doors locked.