Last night the oddest thing happened and I wanted to share it with you to see if anyone has heard of something similar....

We were watching TV last night about 8.30pm and the door buzzed. We were also doing laundry so thought it might be a neighbour asking us to take the clothes out or something.
My boyfriend opened the door and there was a guy coming up the stairs. Now I dont speak fluent german but my boyfriend is swiss and he says the conversation went something like this:
- Can I help you
- I am looking for somewhere to sleep tonight.
- Huh.....
- I am looking for somewhere to sleep tonight, can I stay with you?

.......... at this point i came to the door, the dude was still half way down the stairs and looked totally normal, dressed in white (like a cook), clean cut with dark hair and glasses.........

- No, I think you should leave.

At this point the dude left, my boyfriend explained it to me and we went down to the mainfloor to make sure he was gone. We also made sure the doors downstaris were locked. I popped up to the patio and looked around and he was totally gone.

The oddest thing is that we live in a very quiet part of Kilchberg, a bus comes 2x per hour but no train and we are kinda hidden from the road. There are people coming and going since there is a little restaurant sharing the driveway and there is lots of lighting outside.

Anyway, thought I would share this story. My boyfriend is going to call the landlord and the police tomrorow just to let them know. There was no 'bad feeling' from the dude but one never knows he might have been an axe murder. Personally I never answer the door when home alone but that is more due to my horrible german..... but its a reminder we should all be careful, just in case.

I was well disappointed; I though you being a fellow EF member would have put me up for the night.

wow , quite unsettling. hope you get peace and quiet.

Maybe it was a G G G Ghost

Maybe he was hoping no one was home(perhaps he wanted to steal something?) and that is the excuse he used.

Perhaps he is mentally ill.

Perhaps he lived in the apartment a long time ago and just got confused.

Very strange, curious to see if it has happened to somebody else.

Mmm I have heard in other places that they knock on doors to see if somebody is there and if somebody answers the door they ask for a random person, just checking if somebody is home...on the other hand maybe he was cold? and with this weather I sort of feel sorry for the guy . Still very weird and as a previous poster said maybe mentally challenged?
Hope you guys are safe

This seems like a thread we had somewhere else... Disgusting!

Disgusting? How so?
Its a cause for concern but disgusting is hardly the word I would use.

Maybe, but he was obviously intelligent as he was wearing glasses.

The cook's clothes (if that's what they were) are a dead giveaway that he was at least slightly unhinged. If he was indeed a cook. I took in a cook once, though his arrival was announced and he was a friend of a friend. He ended up sleeping on my kitchen couch for almost a year; no glasses but his IQ is supposedly 150+ and he has a photographic memory. He's now one of my dearest friends and I had to throw the couch away.

Very weird thing to experience, OP- probably best that you contacted the po-pos.

This is why I believe that every apartment door should have an intercom at the buzzer, failing that, a peep hole in your apartment door. Once at your front door, you should NEVER open the door to a stranger, makes no difference if you are home alone or not. A chain on the door doesn't really help. Best policy is just not to open the door.

I have square glass panes beside my door so I can check out everyone first. If I don't do it, I have dogs who will.

Do call the police and give a good description. It's too odd not to report.

You had a couch in your kitchen??

why not?
DB's old?

It was a really big kitchen!