The Game: The Stalker

The middle-aged, heavy-set man with dark hair, seldom spoke more than a word. He always watched Serena when he smoked outside in his yard. He smoked across the street facing her front door, while waiting for his bus. He came up behind her in the grocery store, checked her open purse and disappeared, when she saw him.

It soon became apparent that stalking was his game, a game without players. It was fun for him, but it terrified Serena.

“Get out of here!” a man’s low voice commanded one morning, as Serena stood beside her car. She turned to see who was speaking. She saw the man bending down in front of his house. He was trying to stay out of her line of vision, but he was too late. She had spotted him holding his cell phone.

“Get out of here!” that same voice commanded moments later, when she turned on the television in her living room. Suddenly, she realized the voice transmission had come through his cell phone frequency.

Soon, she found other victims including teenage girls.

“Who is this?” a young girl’s voice cried out. “When is this going to end?”

Listening to her words transmitted on incoming airwaves above the sounds of a television program, Serena sensed her fear and desperation.

“How many others is he traumatizing?”  

Over the next few days while listening closely, Serena heard numerous abusive messages above the voices on the television in her living room and bedroom. The living room radio on her cd player conveyed similar messages, as did her bedroom radio. The taped messages came through loud and clear.

Driving past his house one morning, a derogatory message came through her car radio. The second time, it was at almost the same spot.

On her way home a few days later, Serena saw a high communication tower. Looking at the location of the tower in relation to her home, it lined up perfectly with a huge iron cross on the top of a nearby church.  

When consulted about what was happening, the cable company suggested the possibility of radio-television-telephone frequency interference, advising her that adapters operating on different frequencies might help.

Serena had her doubts as this man was obviously a stalker.