The Shoe Lace

Well, all has thankfully been quiet around my house, so I have had nothing to post about, which in all honesty is a very good thing.

My dog has however gotten up a few times in the night, and wandered off to another room to play with his toys, but I'm used to this happening now, and I tend to think very little of it. The other night he woke up and started to bark whilst standing in the middle of my hall way, well I did a quick check of all the rooms of the house, and a quick perimeter check, and found nothing. So again I put this down to either an animal outside, or the sound of the wind or rain.

So where does that bring me to, well today when I came home from work I went through my normal routine, that includes checking on the dog, making a coffee or cup of tea. That's followed by me checking my porch to see if I had have any post, well today I had nothing, which again is fine by me.

After that I tend to take a shower and have a shave, once I had dried myself off and gotten dressed, I then entered into my computer room to check my e-mails and other things.

Again this is pretty normal of me, but having finished my e-mails I decided to go back to the kitchen and make myself another drink. Well I had only taken about 2 steps into my hallway when I heard this odd clicking sound when I took each step. So I looked down at my feet to see my shoe lace was actually undone ? now I know you may all laugh, but I had only just put my trainers on, and I know the laces were tied.

I know this may seem like a really random post, but it genuinely just happened. I really hope I am not loosing my sense of memory, but which is better ? loosing ones mind or something untying my shoe lace ?

Light Bulbs

Another thing that has become very apparent to me is the amount of light bulbs that blow in this house. Now don't get me wrong the house is old, but all the wiring is up to code and very modern. It's also inspected yearly so it shouldn't really be a problem, but so far I think in under 6 months I have had to replace about 20+ blubs through out the house, even the other night the bulbs on the oven extractor blew up, with a real bang that made my girlfriend jump.

The only bulbs I've not had to change have been in the hallway (famous last words), but the front room and dinning room lights seem to eat them. I don't mind a great deal, but it's the overall cost of the bulbs that gets me, as each unit doesn't require what I would call a standard bulb, so the costs are around £2.99 - £4.99 a unit.

Sorry for the poor quality of the photo above, but my camera was having a funny time focusing when I took that one, again really random. But the pictures show the bulbs I have had to replace in the last 2 months, which again is rather concerning.

The Dogs Toys

So although it's nothing to really wright about, but as I want to document everything that goes on, well I thought I would add it now before I forget. Well yesterday evening around 20:30pm I walked down my hall and into my front room. The plan was to watch a little television, well when I entered into the room the dog was laid on his belly looking into the room, with 3 of his toys placed out in front of him. The placement of the 3 toys formed a perfect arch in front of him, and although I thought nothing of this at the time, as I wright this now I do find that fact a little odd.

Well Max seemed to be looking into the room and I had to call his name a couple of times before I got his attention.

I just wanted to add that the photo above is a recreation gone wrong. Basically I laid out the 3 toys in question from that night, and tried to get Max to lay down like he was when I entered the room the other evening, but he just wouldn't play along. He would sit at best but just wouldn't leave either of the toys alone. Plus as I said above, he was actually laid down looking up into the room, whilst his toys were there in front of him.

The Bathroom Door.

Well this morning was like any other morning in my life, I had awoken just before 7am and proceeded to turn off my alarm just before it went off. I got out of bed and left the gf asleep in bed and dog asleep on the floor.
Now in my house I actually have two bathrooms, one at each end of the house, one is more for showering and the other actually has a bath, well I headed to the one with the bath in it as I planned on having a shave. Well I went into the bathroom, locked the door behind me, then proceeded to use the toilet, I hadn't been in the room for more than maybe 7 minutes when the door handle to the room rattled as if my girlfriend was trying to open the door, I didn't say anything as I was just about to finish. So I literally washed my hands off, dried them and undid the door expecting to be greeted by my girlfriend.

Well to my surprise there was actually nobody stood there, so I figured on the fact my girlfriend had decided to return to the bedroom or had headed off to the other bathroom. So as I walked back to the bedroom I could see she was in bed, so I went and made us both a cup of tea.
When I came into the bedroom she was laid on the bed and the dog was still there in the room, so I patted him on the head and then said to my girlfriend "Sorry I was in the bathroom, but the other one was free", she muttered something and never awoke.
So I watched about 20 minutes of Sky news drank my cup of tea, then began to get dressed for work. At this point my girlfriend said "What were you on about the bathroom", I replied by saying "Well I was in the bathroom when you tried the door, and we do actually have two bathrooms, but you were in bed", her reply was "I never went to the bathroom I was asleep".

At that moment I felt a cold rush come over me, and said "But the door handle rattled", she again told me how she was sleep. I then proceeded to tell her how it must of been the dog that came up and touched the handle My girlfriend then said "Honestly you heard the door handle move", so I just said that I thought it must of been the dog. But I knew deep down that it wasn't and something wasn't right at all.

I text a friend today to share what had happened and they asked if I was scared, but oddly at the time I wasn't due to me thinking it was my girlfriend turning the handle to get in, and not nobody.

The History

One of the things I plan on doing is researching the history of this lovely house. I'm not 100% sure where to start and even if I really want to, but I guess in order to progress with things here I will need to do so, and even at the end of the day nothing comes up, well at least it removes that side of possible events from my research.

The other side of this is, do I actually want to look into the house history, what happens if I do discover something sinister or horrid, would I even want to carry on living here. I suspect so as the house is very nice, and to be frank nothing that bad has really happened yet, It's just been unusual when it has.

Back Problems

This may seems a little limp for me, but I a woke to find some marks on my back, and although they don't seem like much, it just seems rather crazy that they are even there to start with. I have highlighted the obvious ones, but actually my entire back was swollen to a small degree.

I actually have no back pain other than my usual work related back ache. The marks don't seem to be of caused by anything in my bed, so I am at a complete loss as to what caused them to appear.

I guess I may have tried to scratch my own back whilst I was a sleep, that's a possibility, but highly unlikely.

More Bearings

So tonight when I return from work I go through my normal routine which consists of taking the dog out for a quick walk, then taking a shower, followed by either myself or my girlfriend cooking a meal. Well tonight as she is working late I decided to cook a nice meal after my shower.

Now if you can picture the house, basically I have two bathrooms. One has a bath and the other a shower, but both are situated at different ends of the house. My bedroom is situated roughly in the middle of them both. Well I went to the shower room, and turned on the shower, walked back to my bedroom to get my dressing gown, then walked back and took my shower,  nothing unusual in that.

So when I left the shower room and walked back to the bedroom, I stood on a tiny small bearing in the hall way. Now fair enough it could of been tracked into the house, but I had only just walked alone the hall way and didn't notice anything there.

So that now makes around 7 of these little things, and they are very tiny. This time I have kept the bearing and photographed it next to a hazel nut just for scale.

The Mirror

Another thing that seems to happen in this house is the ever increasing amounts of shadow people that are seen. Now I have read these can be down to high blood pressure, or stress, but basically these are the shadows you see out of the corner of your eyes. In my case more my left eye, although I have no idea as to why.

So one of these spots seems to be in the main bedroom, the room is a little cold, but otherwise very large and nice. The attraction of the bedroom is a rather large mirror that dates back a long time. I'm not sure of the exact age but was told it was near to when the house was built. I will often lay in the bed at night time and see dark objects out of the corner of my left eye in the mirror.

I did try to video the mirror once with my mobile phone, but sadly it was just to dark to see anything.

Update

Well last night I was in bed watching a little T.V and I suspect because I had posted about the mirror it was on my mind. Well as I laid there I became every more conscious of the fact that it felt like something was moving in the corner of my eye in the mirror. 
So as I laid looking in the other direction I took a sneaky photo with my Nokia E63 phone. As you can see the photo isn't the best, but upon closer inspection of the photo today, it's apparent that something seems to be in the reflection of the mirror.

Oil & Bearings

This one is really bizarre, but I have to share it with you all.

For the first few weeks of living here I would get random sniffs of oil or some kind of industrial oil smell, but it didn't end there, something really odd was the simple fact I would also find very small ball bearings on the floor in the hall way or in the carpet. I actually thought that maybe the vacuum cleaner was begging to pack up ? or that some of the furniture I had moved in was falling apart. But these bearings were really small, I think in all I found about 7 of them, sadly all of which I threw in the bin. At the time I thought nothing more of it, so it didn't bother me. It's only when I look back it seems to add to the bigger picture.

Somethings Cooking

So again last night I awoke around 00:48, and beside me was my girlfriend fast asleep, and for some odd reason I could smell Shepard's Pie. Now bearing in mind it's January so I haven't any windows open, and also it's the middle of the night. So I get up, and go to the bathroom to have a pee, then I walk around the house just to make sure everything is off and as it should be, and I'm 100% convinced I can smell cooking. Yet apart from my girlfriend in bed and the dog, the house is empty.

Now this isn't the first time this has happened, I already reported a while ago the smell of bacon and cheese in the day time, but there was also one more account of me waking up about a week ago and smelling roast beef in the middle of the night. At the time I put it down to it just being Christmas and the fact that lots of food was around. But after last night I am starting to think that something isn't 100% right.

I'm sure over the next few nights I will awake and smell something again, and if I do I will post it up for you all to read.

The Dream

3rd May 2013

Shortly after viewing the house I was moving into I had a horrible dream, it wasn't a very nice dream at all, and to be truthful one of only a couple of dreams in my life that have actually managed to wake me up in the middle of the night (3:10am).

So why the picture above, basically this is where the dream took place. The dream was pretty straight forward and only consisted of me setting up some furniture in the room pictured, and unbeknown to me as the field of view opened up in my dream, it showed me working, and as the picture moved around to show the cupboard unit (pictured), there was a young boy stood in the room with me that I couldn't see and could only be seen in the mirror. I think I woke up thinking the boy's face changed to something nasty, but I'm not 100% sure that is what actually happened at all, and could of just been how I thought I saw things then.

Needless to say this is the room I have felt to be the strangest of them all, it's actually where I am sat right now typing this out for you to read. The room, despite being fairly small does seem to suffer from temperature changes, but again that could simply be down to the rooms location and nothing other than that.

Arguments & Injuries

So, the festive holiday have been and gone, presents were given and received, friends and family filled the house, and a good time was generally had by all. I say by all, but I can't really include myself as personally I didn't really enjoy any of it. Maybe it's an age thing, but I'm starting to think that it's this house, things in my life have become so negative and suppressive, which is 100% against my normal character as my outlook on life is positive and very constructive.

For the first time in my life I had a "discussion" with my girlfriend about Christmas and the events that took place over it. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a temper and I don't even raise my voice let alone hit or break stuff, but I have just felt like there is this over powering negativity here. It's something I have felt even from walking from one room to another, a very odd sensation. I guess it could just be down to a temperature or different smell in different room that stimulates a memory from my child hood ? I'm not 100% sure. The crazy thing is it's a lovely house in a lovely area of the town I live in. It's very quiet and has lovely views along with being in a very handy location. In fact I couldn't be happier where I live, but it's the first house that I fell has effected my sense of mood.

Another thing that seems to be rather prominent is the amount of unusual injuries I seem to be getting. I'm not even half way through my life yet (in terms of age), but each day I seem to awake with fresh pains? Could it just be the bed I sleep in, or that I am actually getting older. It wasn't long after I moved in here when I picked up an unusual injury to my right knee. I woke up one day and my knee was filled with fluid, and pretty painful. I went to see my doctor who said it was full of fluid and would just have to wait and see what happened. Now despite it being pretty painful, it's still there some 5 months later. Another pain is my right shoulder, it just started hurting beyond understanding, so much so that I cannot raise my right arm much above my shoulder, again my doctor says wait and see ? Another thing is a few very close friends say I look tired, almost as if I am carrying extra weight, meaning extra stress or a weight unseen, something that is making me tired. Which is kind of odd because despite trying to be positive, it's how I feel.

The above picture shows my knee over the different months, and how it has changed in size.

The Little Things

Well Christmas has been and gone, and it was pretty uneventful apart from one small thing, and when I mean small I mean small. My girlfriend and myself had put all of our unwrapped presents on the table in my lounge, as after Christmas passes we tend to write thank you notes to the people that gave us the presents, a little old fashioned, but very thoughtful.

I had actually taken some of my presents out of there boxes, and placed the empty boxes in the dinning room ready for recycling, and had actually thought nothing of this until New Years day.

So, On New Years day my girlfriend had invited her sister in-law around for roast beef, it's a tradition that now goes back some 6-8 years. Dawn who is my girlfriends sister in-law duly came around with her son.They were accompanied by my girlfriends daughter and her boyfriend, and my girlfriends son, girlfriend and baby son. So it was a pretty full house, and a lovely meal that we all enjoyed, but at the table my girlfriend brought up the fact that she was surprised to find that I had put one of the small Christmas decoration ornaments in one of the boxes due to be recycled and sealed up the box. It was only because the box was about to be torn up and flattened that it was found by her.

I spoke up at the table and asked what Christmas ornament was it, and my girlfriend couldn't really remember and was surprised I had actually spoke out about it. I hastened to point out  that I had in fact NOT actually put anything in the box let alone seal any boxes up.

My girlfriend made light of the matter and said it was probably a ghost, but to me the object and story carry's more significance than I want to expand on. For the last two days I have asked my girlfriend if she can remember what the small ornament was, but each day she has come home from work saying "Why is it so important, I simply can't remember what it was". She seems to think it was something off of the Christmas tree, which could be anything from a baubles to an angle. I was actually tempted to unpack all of the Christmas decorations and go through each box until my girlfriend remembered which item it was, but trust me when I say we have lots of boxes.

The crazy thing is, neither of us actually moved the object into the box, and the guests to our house have visited us either side of the event happening.