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A bad neighbour can make your life a nightmare. But the stories featured in Netflix’s upcoming true-crime series Worst Neighbor Ever suggest things can get a lot worse than loud music or rows over parking. Yes, imagine your worst neighbour and multiply that by a hundred.

The new docuseries is coming to Netflix on July 1st and looks at four real-life cases where run-ins with neighbours ended up turning into criminal investigations. Produced by Blumhouse Television, Worst Neighbor Ever combines first-hand accounts along with detective interviews, body cam footage, and reenactments to bring together events that shook not just one or two people but an entire community.

And if you take a look at the trailer, you will do nothing but wonder how normal everything seems at first. The people featured in the series talk about neighbourhoods that looked no different from any others. The streets were as normal as they could get. Most of them assumed that if they ever had a disagreement with a neighbour, it’d stay exactly that: a disagreement.

According to the residents sharing their stories, that’s not what happened. One woman recalls a neighbour whose behaviour became impossible to ignore. She claims he mowed the lawn naked and even followed her to the supermarket. Another resident describes repeated disturbances at her home, including constant banging and kicking at the front door.

The series doesn’t treat these incidents like minor annoyances. Instead, they are presented as the starting point for stories that ended up going in much darker directions.

One of the cases featured in the trailer involves an explosion that caused major damage in a residential area. Residents describe an incident that affected far more than one household… It left an entire neighbourhood dealing with the aftermath. Footage shown in the trailer highlights the scale of the destruction while those involved share what happened.

Another investigation showed things few people would ever expect to find next door. A detective featured in the series says officers discovered heroin, methamphetamine, counterfeit federal credentials, and 16 firearms during a police raid. The way things take a dark turn is this one. will give you chills.

One story appears to be even darker than the other. A participant recalls a case that initially looked like fraud before investigators found themselves looking into a homicide. Netflix hasn’t revealed much about that particular episode yet, but the trailer suggests it will be one of the most serious stories covered across the four-part series.

The show is the latest entry in Netflix’s growing “Worst Ever” franchise. Earlier instalments focused on roommates and former partners whose actions concealed criminal behaviour. Those series found an audience by looking at relationships that most people think they understand. Worst Neighbor Ever applies the same idea to the people living right next door.

That’s what gives the series its angle. Neighbours sit somewhere between strangers and acquaintances. The stories featured in Worst Neighbor Ever suggest that surface-level familiarity can sometimes hide things nobody sees coming.

Worst Neighbor Ever arrives on Netflix on July 1, bringing viewers four stories that turned ordinary neighbourhoods into the centre of criminal investigations.