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A worried mum has described the time she was branded "crazy" and prescribed anti-psychotic drugs after she told people she believed there was a man living in her loft - only for police to discover he actually was. Chloe, 31, from Gravesend, Kent, recalled her shocking ordeal during a video posted on the social media site TikTok.

The blonde young woman was living in a top-floor flat when she was in her 20s when she started to feel there was someone else living in the space above her. Then one day she noticed the loft hatch was open, and on another occasion she swore she could hear the sound of footsteps.

Chloe said when she rang her friends to tell them everyone "talked her down" and asked her if it could be "voices in her head" and that she was "crazy". Despite the reaction from friends, Chloe made clear she did not blame them for thinking her loft lodger might not be real.

Deciding to see a doctor Chloe told her followers she was given anti-psychotic drugs that worryingly made her feel like a "zombie" and "not even a person" as she recalled just staring at her phone when she received calls.

Chloe added: "I started thinking in my head, 'maybe it's not true'.

"Then this person is opening this latch thing blatantly in front of my eyes one night and he's staring at me... and I'm like screaming, going 'help, help, help', and I've run downstairs and gone to my friend, 'he's in my flat, he's coming, he's coming'.

"'She was like calm down', and I said 'no, I've actually had enough, I see him, I see him with my own eyes, I'm on these anti-psychotics and I'm still seeing him, so if it was in my head, why am I still seeing it?'".

Undeterred Chloe decided to call the police that night in the hope of ending an ordeal which has lasted for two months. The police took her call and came to the flat and got into the loft.

She added: "They've got into the loft and oh my God there was someone there. He was living there, he had loads of bags up there, loads of backpacks and he was come down.

"At this point loads of people from the other flats were like, 'oh my God, it's actually true".

The Sun reports a spokesperson from Moat Housing said: "The safety of our customers is very important to us, as it was at the time of the incident nine years ago.

"Thanks to reports from customers living in the building, we were able to work with the Police to investigate the incident, leading to an arrest.