Afternoon Activity

Sunday just past (yesterday 29/11/15) was another normal day in this household, and it was the first Sunday in a while where I haven't taken my girlfriend out for breakfast. So both myself and my girlfriend were home pretty much all day. The weather wasn't that good, rain and dark as you would expect for late November, and the day was very relaxed.

Mid afternoon I was in the front room, and my girlfriend was in the kitchen as was the dog, when it seems the dog left the kitchen and stood in the adjoining dinning room and started to bark. Now at that very same moment my girlfriend said that the two kitchen towels that had been stood on top of the fridge for over a week both fell on the floor. It spooked her to some degree as she called me into the kitchen to look.

Now a rational thought would be that the fridge/freezer kicked in and it made them fall off, but our fridge isn't like that, and runs really smooth. Also the larder where the kitchen towels are located has no window, and due to the rain none of the doors or windows in the rest of the house were open. Also they were in fact stood on end, so couldn't of rolled off.

One thing I did notice again was that the temperature in the hallway had dropped rather a lot.

Return of the shadow

Well again it's been a while since I last posted on my blog about the occurrences here, but that's not to be interpenetrated as lack of activity, far from it, I just seem to be in a very busy period of my life. The most recent event was actually last night (18th November 2015), so I thought as I have a spare few minutes today I would share with you what took place.

It was around 8pm and I was in my computer room reading and researching online regarding some components for my car, I was on my own as my girlfriend was working, when I became aware or more of a feeling to be honest that just made me shiver a little, and as I turned to my left I could see on the wall in the hall way a dark oval shape about 5' 10", the only reason it really caught my eye was due to the fact that the shadow that normally rests on the wall is a straight vertical line, as it's a shadow cast from the 90 degree corner in my hall.

I immediately got up to go and step into the hallway to see if perhaps my girlfriend had come home early, but the hallway and the entire house was empty. Even my dog was resting undisturbed on my sofa, which made me think it must of been nothing, as surely he would of noticed something walking past his door.

The Finger

On the 31st of August my girlfriend and myself had invited some of her family around for a meal late in the afternoon. The guest list consisted of my girlfriends daughter (and her boyfriend), her son and his grandson (3 years old), my girlfriends sister in law, and her subsequent son.

So the afternoon had gone really well, and we were all in the dinning room eating and chatting to one another, the grandson was running up and down my hallway screaming and play with my dog. As the ceilings in my place are rather tall you get lots of echo in the hallway, hence why my girlfriends grandson loves making noises in there. 

Well the time must of been around 21:40, maybe even a little later, and my dog had taking himself off to the bedroom to have a rest. I thought nothing unusual about this, and the fact that my girlfriends grandson continued to run around and enjoy himself. But a few moments later he wandered off into the main bedroom to find my dog. Very shortly afterwards he left the bedroom and returned to the dinning room (which sits at the end of the hallway) and slowly approached his dad, at which point he said to his dad "Daddy, an old man was stood in the room shouting at me, and he gave me the finger".

At this point most of the guests tried not to laugh as they only really heard him saying "he gave me the finger" but I heard everything and also watched his actions when he told his dad.

The grandson placed both his hands either side of his mouth to indicate someone shouting, but took his right hand away from his face and pointed it out in front of himself when he said "gave me the finger". The grandson at no point meant "The finger" as in flipping someone off.

My girlfriend heard it as did her sister in law, and her sister in law looked at me, as did my girlfriend, to which she said "Maybe it was the ghost". Her sister in law tried to have a side conversation with me about the house and events, but the other guests tried to "over-talk" our conversation and move it along. It was if people had realize what he meant, and just didn't want to talk about it.

It was only about 10-20 minuets later that everyone decided to make there way home, and left. At this point my girlfriend said to me that she was going to take the dog around the block for some fresh air, and assumed I was going to look for the man, although she knew nobody was in the house.

If I'm brutally honest I got 2/3rds of the way down my hallway, and as I started to approach the bedroom it really felt like a massive weight was around my shoulders, neck and in my head. It actually felt like someone or more than one person was stood right behind me shouting at me, and it made me feel so uncomfortable I just wouldn't turn around.

I still have no real reason as to why this happened, although I am 99% confident that niether of the childs parents would of primed him to say this, and his change in mood was monumental which indecated to me he was 100% sure that he had just been told off or shouted at by an old man.

Phone Call From Zero

On Friday night (28th August) my girlfriend and myself were in the front room watching some evening T.V. I'm not 100% sure of the exact time, but it was around 9:40pm. My girlfriend had the landline phone resting on the side of the chair she was sat in, and I was sat beside her in my own chair.

Well the adverts had just come on and the panel on the phone lite up and the phone display showed zero.  It wasn't an incoming call as the phone never rang, and when I checked with call back it quoted a time from much earlier in the day

Now I know this may sound really crazy, but even my girlfriend said that maybe it was the ghost, but I explained it as being a fault with the phone, but we both saw the phone do it, and both looked at each other.

Reflections

You know sometimes when I'm in the main bedroom alone I really do get this sense of someone actually being stood with me, and sometimes I've actually spoken thinking it was my girlfriend, only to turn around and find myself on my own. I suspect this could just be me again, as I do spend a large amount of my time on my own thinking, but again lately things seem to have been more active in this house.

Another thing I always find myself doing is trying to explain myself to myself, if that makes any sense at all. What I'm trying to say is that I always look around what I am seeing or what I feel, and try to offer myself a real explanation, although sometimes it's just randomly crazy things that I cannot explain. Take yesterday morning (Sunday), I was alone in the bedroom, just tidying up, and it felt like my girlfriend had entered the room, and again when I turned around the room was empty. Yet oddly I keep being drawn to the huge mirror in the room, I know this sounds odd, but it just doesn't feel right some days, and by this I just mean the reflection seems wrong for the room. It's either like the reflection is a little smudged, or the depth just seems wrong along with the brightness. In my mind I have often thought that maybe it's a two way mirror and behind it is a camera crew watching my daily routine, but as the wall it's mounted on backs onto my hallway and forms part of the chimney well I know this is not the case.

It's just uncomfortable some days, which is odd, as it's just furniture.

Press To Flush

So things seem to be happening again around the house, but only little odd things. Today I come home from work and walk into my bathroom to use the shower, when I notice the button on the top of my toilet is raised up, and unscrewed.

Now I know a lot of you are going to think I'm crazy, but I'm not, I just have an eye for detail, and something like this draws my attention. I can also say 100% that the button wasn't unscrewed yesterday as I used the shower in the same room, and would of noticed it then.

The button is meant to sit flush with the top of the toilet like this.

Again it's only a very small detail, but as I now plan on posting everything that happens, well this was one of the first things since Sunday to have happened. Also adding to this, I did ask my girlfriend if she had noticed the button wasn't right, and like myself, she hasn't been here all day, so knew nothing about it.

The Woman At The Window

It seems to have been some time since I last posted on my blog, and if I'm honest my life is really busy at the moment, which is a good thing. But over the last few days I've had a couple of occurrences happen that I thought I would share with you all.

 Saturday 22rd August

Well on Saturday morning I was awake early watching the motorsport on TV, and as it was before 8am I was actually still in bed. I had been awake since around 6:58AM as I can't seem to switch off anymore, and therefore only get about 5-6 hours sleep maximum. Well anyway, I was their in bed and to the right of my TV screen is my bedrooms bay window (ground floor), now as I was watching the TV I became aware of what I thought at first hand was either the gardener or postman standing near my window, this struck me as a little odd as the shadow seemed to be very close to the window, and it wasn't until I took a good look that the shadow seemed to be really faint and like a bad episode of Scooby Doo, I rubbed my eyes and the shadow faded to nothing. At the time I convinced myself that the shadow was either a passer by or just simply a shadow or reflection.


Sunday 23rd August

So on Sunday evening as I walked down my hallway and approached my bedroom I had this really odd sensation that a woman was stood near me, it was either a smell or sense. Then when I turned and entered the room to draw the curtains I could clearly see like a white transparent shape near the corner of the room. I couldn't make out a female in the shape but it was about 5 feet tall, and simply vanished within a fraction of a second.

I was a little taken back by what I had seen, but my mind soon told me that it could of been a car passing by with it's lights on, which caused some kind of reflection inside the room, although I really did feel like I was stood near or could sense a female.

Victorian Man In Black

Well as I've posted before about shadows and an old style tall leather boot in the corner of the bedroom, well it seems the shadow I saw on Sunday (5th July) had a definite form of substance, so let me set the scene.

As I've mentioned before I've been having a few electrical appliance problems in my office/studio, so I was in the room sorting out some cables and removing my Dolby unit, when I saw what can only be described as the darkest shadow yet.

The room is pretty small although I was at the far end of it, then when I approached the center of the room, (with the double doors on my left), it was at this point I saw what can only be described as a very tall shadow which had some kind of form, or my brain made form from a shadow. I had no light's on in either the room or the hallway as it's not getting dark here until around after 9pm, so the shadow wasn't my own.

The odd thing is I'm trying to remember my exact actions, I know I turned to the left and saw what looked like a tall dark hat on top of a tall dark mass, and at first I was actually happy as to what I thought I'd seen. It was like a sense of actual belief but I must of looked away and down towards the floor as I was actually walking forward at the time. It was at this point I almost jumped at the realization as to what I had actually seen, at which point I made my self look back to the open doors. This was all within less than 1 second, yet the shadow had gone. There is a good possible chance I swore as well, but this would of been 2-3 seconds after seeing what I did.

It's kind of odd, as I still don't know if I feel good or bad about this, and will post about it at a later date.

Electrical Faults

You know over the weekend I sat and realized how many electrical appliances have failed since I've lived here, and in my honest opinion it's been far more than I've ever experienced in my life time. The reason I'm posting this is because apart from the odd noise, and shadow (see Victorian Man In Black post) and just odd sensations, things again have quietened down.

But the other afternoon I noticed my Dolby system was making a really unusual sound, it was like an odd interference, which to my ear at a distance sounded like a crackle, it was coming from the front two speakers, but not the center one. I figured the system just needed an unplug, and reset. So I turned it all off and went away to make a cup of tea, to then come back and turn it all back on. Well clearly this action made it worse as now the two rear speakers were also making a really unusual sound, but this time rather than switching it off I decided to turn it up louder than before. I ran a few test sounds through the system, just simple tones to try and clear it, but they all sounded really distorted, but oddly I could just hear this background noise, it was very faint but I could hear it.

I placed my ear really close to front speakers, and to my shock it actually sounded like a voice, it was like sometimes when I pick up the phone here, it sounds like I have a shared line?, although I don't. I couldn't make out any clear words, but the sense of hearing what I thought was voices actually sent a real chill down my spine.

I was interrupted with the land line phone ringing, and one of the features I have is caller display, yet this time it just said "Call", so I answered it thinking it would be a telephone sales call, but it was nothing. Again because I get so many calls like this I didn't really think anything of it. But it wasn't until I went back to my small office/studio that it just all felt really odd.

When I look back over the last couple of years I try to add up all of the electrical things that have failed, I think I've around 3 laptops, 1 mobile phone, 1 domestic phone, a couple of computer components, a games console, and the list goes on, but they have all failed, and all have been new to moving here, it just seems an awful lot.

The under pull

Well isn't it strange, as of late I've had 3 people ask me how have things been in my house, and my reply has been "Pretty quiet apart from the odd shadow", which brings me back to last night.

On Sunday evening I got into bed with a lovely feeling of joy, due to having put new sheets on the bed, which is always a winner to a good nights sleep. Well I had only been in bed for around 8 minutes when it felt like the sheet underneath me was being pulled to the outside edge of the bed, yet oddly I sleep pretty much on the edge of the right hand side.

My mind at first thought it must have been my gf getting into bed to my left, but my legs actually felt like they were pulled to my right. The crazy things about it was, I wasn't even remotely close to falling asleep, and actually made a point of getting out of bed, turning on my light and checking under the covers.

As for my nights sleep, well it seemed I had infinite dreams that lasted 10 minutes at a time, and after each one I awoke. 

Day Time Activity

Well I've decided to take this week off from work, mainly because it's my birthday, and I've got some many things that needed doing around the house, plus I just wanted to relax and enjoy myself a little as the opening part of this year has been hard work.

So I was just in the kitchen making myself a salad wrap, when I heard a door close in the house somewhere. Upon investigation it seems my bathroom door had closed itself, and both the little cupboard doors had opened. This all seemed really random, although it's not the first time this has happened, but it's the first time anything like this has happened in the day time, which has supprised me a little. I quickly nipped off to grab my camera and take some photos to share with you, but as expected there is nothing in the photos other than the area I was talking about.

The crazy thing is none of the windows are open in the house, there is NO drafts what so ever, so unless the house is moving (heck), I'm a little clueless as to what this can be. Whilst I was taking the photos my gf came back from lunch and I explained that this had just happened, and she said that the small doors often open on the cupboard, and is probably because of the towels inside, but as the photos will show, there is a latch on the outside of the door, and a barrel lock on the inside, plus to be honest you have to force the doors open and shut. All of that aside, it doesn't explain why the big bathroom door shut ? the door isn't weighted, nor is the door prone to closing on it's own. If you leave it open, it stays open until you close it, this could be hours or days later.

The other odd thing I noticed in the picture is two of the dogs toys in that area. The dog at the time was on the sofa, and only came to investigate when he heard my lens adjust on my camera. I've never known the dog play or place his toys here, but again it could just be a coincidence.

Toys

It seems to me that most of the posts I put on this blog are all based on events that happen on a Thursday evening when I'm home alone with the dog. I've no understanding as to why this is the case, but like this next event, it took place on a Thursday evening (29/01/15), in my front room, whilst I was home alone.

So, I was sat in my favourite chair in the front room with the dog sat beside me. I wasn't watching anything in particular in fact I think I was waiting for a program to start. Well I'm sat there when all of a sudden one of my (step) grandsons toys makes a noise all on it's own. The toy never moved neither did any of the other toys around it, and if my memory serves me correctly, the toys actually hadn't been played with for 4-5 days.

Now when this happened both myself and the dog genuinely jumped, and my dog slowly crept towards the toy, but remained a good 4ft away from it. I got up to take a look, but the toy made no noise when I shook it. The toy in question is a mini work top, with a drill and saw on it, but all of the toys require a movement of about 2-3" before they make a sound, and as the toy was on top of the others, well I'm still a little confused as to how this could happen.

This photo was taken that evening with my mobile phone.

Sounds of confusion

Again it's been a little while since I last posted on my blog, but as I keep saying, I'm really trying to ignore anything that happens in my home. The shadows seem to still happen, but normally in darkened rooms, and when you walk past them, and I don't mean mine, I mean stood in the rooms away from the walls. The dogs behavior has gotten much better, although he still has a tendency to wander off at night time and play in the front room on his own, he also still looks into space a lot, but only in the front room, but maybe that's just a dog thing ?

The reason I have chosen to update my blog is because this was a new one on me, as it consisted of a sound and nothing else.

So last Friday after work (23/01/15) I came home, made myself a hot drink, then sat at the dinning room table to have a salad wrap (still trying to be healthy). Well I was sat at the table for about 3 minutes, and my dog was sat on the floor beside me, when we both heard this almighty ripping sound in the far corner of the room. It was as if someone had torn a massive poster or large news paper, but had in someway amplified it to a ridiculous volume setting. The dog didn't even hesitate, he jumped, then ran across the room to the corner in question, and I was hot on his tail.

I tapped the wall, and stood there trying to understand what had happened. All of the wall paper was still present and under the corner table was fine. It was just such a random sound to hear, and something that genuinely had me confused for about 4hrs that followed the event.

Some time after wards I was still tapping the wall, and wondered if an animal had slid down the cavity or something, but I just couldn't work it out. I would of left it at just that, but it was as if the sound started in the corner of the room, and just flew towards me. Genuinely really strange and very confusing.