"The Man in the Window: A True Urban Nightmare"

In 2002, a woman named Annie Andrews moved into a modest house in Rockland, Massachusetts with her two daughters. After losing her husband in a car accident, Annie hoped for a fresh start. But what followed was the kind of horror no one could have imagined—one that still chills the town to this day.

At first, it was small things. Items would disappear and reappear in strange places. Windows that were locked at night were found wide open in the morning. Annie blamed her daughters. The girls insisted it wasn’t them.

Then, late one night, Annie awoke to a tapping sound at her bedroom window. She lived on the second floor.

Fearing for her life, she called the police, but they found no one. Days later, while the family was out, a neighbor called Annie. She said she saw a man staring out from the upstairs window. The house was supposed to be empty.

The police returned. In the attic, hidden behind boxes, they found signs of someone living there: blankets, food wrappers, and even a small radio. He had been watching them… for weeks.

The intruder was a teenager named Daniel LaPlante, a local boy with a troubled past. He had broken into the house and lived undetected in the walls and attic for nearly two months. At night, he would move around the house, watching the family, sometimes even writing threatening messages on the walls with ketchup and mustard.

When arrested, Daniel showed no remorse. The case remains one of the most disturbing examples of real-life home invasion in Massachusetts history.