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.