You can call me paranoid and a busybody but I really think that my next door neighbours are aliens. And I don’t think I am making things up. They have shifted from somewhere and have been staying for about a year now and I realized that there is something very weird about them. No, I don’t mean the funny kind of weird. They don’t talk to you except the occasional hellos or goodbyes. Even if you invited them for dinner, they will always refuse. You know, the very secretly kind. And worse, they (all of them) rarely leave their house at all. The children would return home immediately after school. They are a family of six, 2 parents and 4 kids. Of course, this is all an assumption that they are actually kids.

First of all, they don’t sleep. I am serious. Last month when I was doing overtime at my workplace for about a month or so I would come home very late (like midnight or so) and I saw that their lights are always on. And when I leave work very early in the morning, their lights are still on as well. I know what you must be thinking but there are movement about in their house. You can see the humanoid shadows that expands and contacts at will and these shadows will dart around frequently. Nearly every night I will hear some hammering and pounding from next door. Sometimes I would even see flashes of bright light coming from their house.

So I naturally became very curious and started to watch their movements in and out of their house. It seems that once in a while, they would bring back some shiny metal piece. I have no idea where they got it from, but I know it is big. And they do take a lot of effort to hide it under a canvas or something. But once they reach the door, they have to remove the canvas in order to fit into their door and I saw it - shiny metal. Frequently I would see other equipment like radios, various wires, power stuff and so on being delivered to their house too.

So I have come to an conclusion - They are Aliens whom have crash landed and they are now desperately trying to build a space ship and escape from us crazy humans. I mean, if you are living with disgusting humans who can’t even pee properly, won’t you try to build a space ship and flee this planet? I would. I am thinking of offering my skills as an engineer and help them reconstruct their space ship and maybe they will take me along.

I also note that they don’t speak much. Usually they will whistle here and there. I bet that’s how they communicate with each other, using another wavelength which our ears cannot decipher. It’s too bad that I don’t whistle very well.