DELMAR, Del.- Scared to leave their homes. That is how some people living on Pepperbox Road just east of Delmar, Del., say they feel every day.

One neighbor said the harassment started last Thanksgiving with unknown people banging on their homes, walking on their property, peering into their windows and breaking car windshields.

Over the past year, Delaware State Police have not been able to catch any suspects.

People in the community are so afraid; they won't even talk about it. Even police are at a loss for words.

Delaware State Police Sgt. Walter Newton said, "I couldn't even speculate to why somebody would do this. It's bizarre behavior, it's unnerving."

Newton's talking about vandalism and harassment that has been happening for the past year on Pepperbox Road.

People say they are afraid to even leave their homes and they are afraid for their families' lives, because somebody has been taunting them. They are not sure who it is and it's been going on for about a year now.

Police suspect somebody hides in the woods, crawls through people's soybeans, and peers into residents' homes, in what seems to be a normally calm neighborhood.

Although it seems peaceful on the road, police add that the location of the crimes, out in the country, makes it difficult to find and identify these so-called "peeping toms."

"The geographic location- being a very rural area-  if we just have one trooper that goes down there, the person can escape into the woods, bury himself in the leaves until the trooper makes his attempt to locate him and when the trooper leaves, the individual gets up and walks away," Newton said.

Newton said that for now, residents should not confront the person if they see them. Instead, they should call 911 and try and get as much information about what the person looks like.

Newton noted that with winter approaching and the leaves falling off the trees, hopefully that will give them a better visual to locate the trespassers.