A woman has shared a chilling story of a time a maintenance man who was doing work in her apartment building, allegedly tried to break into her home.

Bee, a 36-year-old from Louisiana, recounted the bizarre story to BuzzFeed. She told the outlet that around 7:30 AM, work was being carried out in the neighboring units.

She later received a message from one of the workers, which simply read: "How [you] doing?"

Bee initially thought he was messaging to inform her that he might need access to her apartment to carry out some works.

So, she responded: "I'm alright. Are you about to tell me you need to come to the apartment?"

However, the nature of his message was evidently not work-related as he then replied: "Yes just [to] see [your] face."

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The man added: "I miss [you]."

At a loss for words, Bee simply wrote back: "Oh lol."

Then in three separate messages, the maintenance man wrote: "Yeah can I come in?"

To which Bee responded: "No sir."

In an interview with BuzzFeed, Bee explained: "When I responded 'oh lol,' it was the same as an in real life nervous chuckle. I literally did not know how else to respond to that kind of message from a person I was not interested in. Even the nicest person can be harmful."

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But despite her clear discomfort in the situation, the man persisted, arguing that he should be let in "coz I'm here" before sending her a laughing emoji.

He then creepily tells the lone woman: "I'm coming in".

Despite Bee warning him not to do it, the man tells her that he has "just opened [the door]" adding another laughing emoji.

Even after she tells him that she will call the police on him, he sends yet another laughing emoji, before telling her: "I'm in the [next] apartment."

He then tells her to "stop tripping".

"Got [you]," he writes and then adds: "Hope everything is fine".

Bee explained to BuzzFeed that she broke the lease a month later and blocked the man. "I felt unsafe, [so] I moved as soon as I had the resources to do so," she said.

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Woman shares creepy text exchange with her apartment building's maintenance man: 'I'm coming in'