A 32-year-old woman wrote to our editorial team to share her unbelievable story with a shocking twist. She described how her boyfriend of 5 years began acting strangely after they moved in together, to the point where she even started doubting her sanity. But thanks to technology, and specifically a nanny cam, she finally discovered what was really going on.

She explained that her boyfriend had problems with his apartment due to renovations, so she offered him to stay at her place for a few weeks. Her sister, who she usually lived with, was traveling at the time.

Everything seemed fine at first, and living together helped her boyfriend deal with his jealousy, which had been a problem before. But then, something strange started happening.

She wrote, “Since we moved in together, my things started disappearing and then reappearing the next day in the exact same spot. Documents, household items, and even food would go missing and come back. It wasn’t just me misplacing things. I would check a spot, see the item was gone, and then it would magically appear the next day.”

One day, her chocolate bars went missing from the kitchen, and when she asked her boyfriend, he claimed he hadn’t seen them. Later, when the chocolates reappeared, he acted clueless.

At first, she thought it was some strange joke, but it kept happening—even with items belonging to her friends. Important documents would disappear, too. She started to question her own sanity but deep down, she knew her boyfriend was behind it, even though she couldn’t understand why.

The woman continued her story, saying, “I started reading about gaslighting and decided to buy a nanny cam. While waiting for it to arrive, something went missing again—a book I had ordered for my dad and planned to give him the next day.”

As expected, the book was gone the next morning. She ignored it, and her boyfriend reacted strangely, even asking her if she had taken the book with her. She pretended not to know what he was talking about and left.

When she got home, the book was back on her desk. Her boyfriend walked by and pointed out the book, saying it was the one he had mentioned earlier. He seemed upset that she didn’t make a big deal out of it.

When the nanny cam finally arrived, she set it up while her boyfriend was at work. She put a letter she needed for work on her table. It went missing a few hours later and reappeared the next day. When she checked the camera footage, she saw her boyfriend taking the letter, hiding it, and then bringing it back.

She wrote, “After seeing this, I decided not to confront him. I was scared of his reaction and had already decided to break up with him as soon as possible.”

At first, she thought he might have kleptomania, was playing a weird prank, or was just messing with her stuff out of frustration. But after breaking up with him and getting him out of her apartment, she realized the truth: he was trying to isolate her from her friends and family and control her.

She remembered his jealousy and other things he had done in the past and realized that he was trying to make her doubt her sanity. His goal was to make her question her own thoughts and decisions, so she would become submissive and dependent on him.