Davis Wahlman was stunned when he heard rustling around in the upper levels of his Green Lake, Washington home Monday night, and pulled on the door to his office, only to find it locked.
In the unusual position of knocking on a door in his own home, he knocked a few times before a woman called out, 'Jimmy? Is that you, Jimmy?' according to KOMO.
Minutes earlier, Wahlman had also heard rummaging around in his attic, and thought that was strange.
But things got even more odd when the noises moved to his office, and then a dark-haired woman opened the door and Wahlman was confronted with the face of a total stranger.
Wahlman, who works for KOMO, said he told the woman, 'Who the heck are you? Why are you in my house?'
The woman then, according to the startled homeowner, insisted it was actually her house.
'This is my house. I live here. I've been here for three days. Jimmy said I could live here, Jimmy said I could stay here,' he said the woman told him.
'It's just weird,' he said of the unexpected encounter.
Wahlman, who had dialed 911 as soon as he heard someone in his office, tried to keep the woman engaged until police could arrive, but because Wahlman says they took almost 20 minutes to get there, the woman absconded before cops showed up.
'I absolutely support the cops, I love the police officers and I’m really happy they did show up, but as I’m telling someone on dispatch that there’s someone in my house, 'Hey, please bring help' and it took 18 minutes - that’s a little disappointing,' he told the outlet.
Cops, however, dispute his account. A spokesperson for the Seattle police said that Wahlman called 911 at 9:01pm and an officer was dispatched at 9:07pm.
However the spokesperson said that at 9:03pm Wahlman said the suspect had disappeared
The rattled homeowner says he has no idea how the woman entered his house, though there was a window screen in his bathtub and his fire escape ladder was hanging from the deck - something the suspect likely found after entering the home.
Wahlman said nothing was stolen and very little was out of place. It's unclear if he was in the home for the entire three days the woman also was 'living' there.
'To come into a house like this, in this neighborhood, that's clearly being lived in that's bold,' he said.
He has since had all of his locks changed.
The suspect is described as having dark, shoulder-length hair, wearing gym pants with a black track-style jacket and a white hood and also had a white-knit cap and carried a backpack.
Police are investigating.
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