Find Out if People Have Read Your Diary
Generally after writing into your diary, you hide it in your special 'hiding spot', where no one can read it. After all, a diary is your private book, a place where you can express your innermost thoughts and feelings, and no one but you is expected to read it. Sometimes you are in a hurry, jot something into the diary, the doorbell rings, and you rush out with a friend. You never give a second thought to the diary, that is sitting in the middle of your bed. When you return, something looks funny, the book looks like it has been moved. The hair trick just might tell you if the book has been not only moved, but read by someone other than you!
Steps
- Pluck a hair from your head. The longer the better; most people won't notice anyway.
- Position the hair over the opening edge of the diary. Drape it loosely.
- Leave.
- On returning, check whether the hair is still there, (if not blown off). Easy.
- If you suspect someone has read something in your diary already, and you cannot use the hair trick for whatever reason, try incorporating some things you wrote into conversation with that person. For example, if you wrote about your friend's dog, strike up a conversation about how you love dogs. Use a few quotes.
- If they act suspiciously or respond with a quote or main idea from your diary, you may want to confront them about it.
Tips
- If you don't feel like pulling out a hair, put your diary underneath other papers, but leave a scrap of the cover visible. Then take a photograph of your desk or wherever you left it. If, when you return the angles have changed (which is nearly impossible to avoid without a copy of the picture) someone has been reading your diary. For shame!
- When quoting, don't use too much. Say a sentence or two, but not the whole page.
- Don't make it obviously fixed into place. Sellotape is not a good idea.
- Sometimes the hair moves on its own, so make sure that you aren't too exact or paranoid.
- Don't show people that you know they have read your diary unless you have full proof. Otherwise, they may stop and you'll never be able to prove it.
- If you have a desk in your bedroom you could tape your diary to the bottom.
Warnings
- A hidden camera could also tell the owner of the diary if it was messed with, without accusing incorrectly and making a public mistake by accident.
- Keep in mind that when hinting at someone, they may not have read it, but still share some opinions expressed in what you wrote. Make sure you are completely sure that they are guilty before accusing them of anything.
- Don't go around accusing people if there is no evidence of the diary being messed with.
- Wind may have blown the hair off too.
Things You'll Need
- A piece of hair
- A diary
- A Secret Place
