Midnight. He went in.

The Squatter
Hunter

Ayla couldn't get them out. One man went in. Find out what they were hiding under the floor.

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They're in
my home.

Ayla came home to bury her parents. Strangers were already living in the house she grew up in. The police won't remove them. The courts say wait. At night the neighbors hear digging. At midnight on November 17, someone is going in.

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2219 Calloway Drive

Day 117.
They're still inside.

Ayla grew up in this house. In July she flew home for her parents' funeral and found strangers living in it. They had changed the locks, they showed police a lease "signed" by her father, and they had moved into her childhood bedroom. Everything below was sent to us by Ayla.

Exhibit A

Through her parents' front door

Phone photo through a glass front door of a man in a hoodie sitting on a white sofa inside the house
Oct 28. One of them, on her father's couch. He waved.
Exhibit B

The basement door

VIDEO · 0:47
Blurred phone photo of a padlocked basement door
Ayla went down.

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Her father never locked the basement. Someone does now.
Exhibit C

3:22 AM. From her parents' house.

Voicemail · 0:38
Caller ID: MOM & DAD
"You keep calling them. They keep not coming. We like it here. [inaudible] ...and don't send anyone into the basement."
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117 days.
Nobody came.

  • JUL 13
    Ayla's parents' funeral. The house sits empty.
  • JUL 15
    Her key doesn't work. There are people inside. LOCKS CHANGED
  • AUG 19
    Police come. They show a lease signed by her father, dated after he died. Police leave. CIVIL MATTER
  • SEP 09
    Court date set. Four months away.
  • OCT 28
    One of them is on her father's couch. He waves.
  • NOV 06
    Neighbors hear digging. 2 to 4 AM. Every night.
  • NOV 09
    A voicemail. Caller ID: Mom & Dad.

It's not
one house.

Reported this week by owners who came home to a stranger.

  • 2219 Calloway Dr. Ayla's parents' house. Digging underneath, 2 to 4 AM.day 117
  • Atlanta, GA: 4BR, owner deployed overseasday 41
  • Phoenix, AZ: she came home, locks changedday 12
  • Queens, NY: forged lease shown to policeday 63
  • Houston, TX: he's charging her rentday 29
  • Columbus, OH: her late mother's houseday 88
  • Orlando, FL: two-week vacation, he's still thereday 54
// this section was not written by the owner

The law says wait.
I don't.

On day 118 a detective gave Ayla a number and said, "People around here call him the Squatter Hunter." It was mine.

I remove people from houses that aren't theirs. Most leave quietly. The people at Calloway won't. They aren't there for the house. They're there for what's under it.

— M.
I GO INNOV 17 · 12:00 AM
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What no one
tells you.

You think"I'd just call the police."
RealityHe shows them a lease. It's fake. It doesn't matter. Now it's "civil," and you're the one who has to leave.
You think"It only happens to abandoned houses."
RealityA listing. A rental between tenants. Your mother's house after the funeral. Your house while you're away for two weeks.
You think"Someone will step in."
RealityNobody's coming. Except one man.

Ask anyone
it happened to.

"I was showing the house to a buyer. He was sitting in the living room like he owned it. He smiled at me."Listing agent, California
"The officer said there was nothing he could do. Then someone told me about a man they call the Squatter Hunter."Homeowner, Georgia
"I came home from my father's funeral and my key didn't work. Someone had changed the locks. On my house."Homeowner, Ohio
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