The Silliest Nextdoor Posts I’ve Ever Seen

Anne Marble
4 min readApr 30, 2024

The social networking site Nextdoor has a reputation for people posting paranoid things. They hide it in coded terms, but we know what they mean.

In that paranoia, you can find a rich vein of dark humor. It’s either embrace the dark humor or despair about humanity.

A man’s eye gazing through a peephole in a door. Only the eyebrow, one hazel eye, and the flesh just below the eye are visible.
Photo by Mario Heller on Unsplash.

So I’m counting down (in reverse!) to the silliest Nextdoor posts I’ve encountered.

3) Who Is This Mysterious Woman in the Video?

Once, someone posted a door camera video of a woman filmed in the early hours of the day. The woman was caught on tape as she pulled into their driveway, walked up to their door, rang the bell, waited, and then left.

The member asked their neighbors for advice on what to do next. Should they be worried? Should they call the police?

People speculated about this in dozens of posts. Surely the woman in the video was up to something nefarious!

Then, more reasonable folk (they do exist, even on Nextdoor) pointed out that the woman in the video was wearing scrubs and an ID badge. Clearly, she was a home healthcare worker who went to the wrong address. As someone whose parents were often visited by therapists at home, I recognized the look of a (lost) home healthcare worker right away.

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Anne Marble

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