The Toy

So it's been a while since I felt the need to update my blog, but the main reason for this is that things have been relatively quiet here. I say that, but I'm still seeing the odd dark shadow, and things are still being moved around, but I'm learning to just get on with my life. Although this seems to mean that I am just spending more time at work, and less time at home.

Last night was the first night in a while where I have felt really disturbed in my sleep, and actually awoke about 8 times in the night, and on 3 of those occasions I felt the need to walk around my house to make sure it was safe and secure.

The first time I was woken by what I thought was someone talking ? for all I know it could of been someone walking past the house or in fact someone being in my garden, as lately the area I live in has suffered some unrest in that people's sheds have been been broken into, as well as theft from cars. The time was around 12:45, and even though it's October, the weather is mild here and people are still visiting the local town, so it's not unusual for people to walk home at that time of night. I did walk around the house and look out the windows just to make sure, but everything seemed OK, so I went back to bed.

The second time I awoke, which was around 3:10am I swear my eye caught a dark shadow figure stood to the left side of the bed, this actually woke me up with a little bit of a shock. It was really odd as I sleep on the right side of the bed, and normally lay looking to the right, but on this occasion I awoke looking to the left, I did a double take as I sat up. I then got out of the bed on the right side, and as I turned around there was nothing, so I put it down to little more than myself being 1/2 asleep.

As I was up I decided to go to the bathroom, and when I opened the bedroom door I was greeted by one of the dogs toys placed near my door. I remember walking past it and thinking it was a little odd, you know the feeling when you just feel unsettled, well it was that kind of a feeling.

I did a quick check around the house and again returned to bed.

It wasn't until this morning when I woke up that I realized that the toy hadn't been there the first time I woke up, and the door was pushed shut. Max (my dog) was in fact asleep all the time in the bedroom.. 

Cold air

The other morning just after getting up I went off to the bathroom to take a wee (like you do), well I had just entered the bathroom when I felt like what can be best described as cold air down one side of my body. It wasn't like a breeze or a "cold blast", it just felt like a pocket of cold air had landed on one side of my body.

I turned to look and the window was shut as was the door, so no real draft could enter the room. I actually shivered it felt so cold, but I refused to leave the bathroom.

The odd thing was today I went into the bathroom to take a photo for the blog post, and when I uploaded the photos to my computer, the photo I took had this funny circle in it.

This is my second bathroom, and the one nearest my office/games room. It genuinely feels like this part of the house is colder, so maybe that explains it.

Overcast Tuesday

So in my previous post I made a comment of very little happening in my home, well I spoke to soon. Although nothing major in itself, and I'm surprised how complacent how relaxed I have become over everything that happens here, well let me explain the latest happening.

On Tuesday (2nd of September) I went into the kitchen at around 22:10 to have a sneaky slice of toast, well as I approached the kitchen top my shadow on the counter top caught my eye, to my shock my shadow became darker and grew in size despite me moving no closer to it.

I stopped and thought as to if I should turn around, but I did in a matter of moments, but nothing was stood behind me.

Well I had my slice of toast and made my way back to the bedroom, as I was getting my stuff ready for bed, and for work the following morning. I couldn't of been in the bedroom for more than 40 seconds when my girlfriend could be heard calling me. Her voice had a sense of urgency about it, so I made my way back towards the kitchen only to find my girlfriend stood in the kitchen doorway and she asked me if I could hear the flapping.

I moved closer to where she was stood, but could hear nothing at all, she said it stopped as I approached the room.

When I asked her to explain what she meant, she said she could hear this odd noise coming from the room, but she felt like it was coming from a wooden ornament on the wall. she went on to say she couldn't explain it really as it didn't make sense, as she knew something couldn't be trapped in the ornament.

I took the ornament off the wall, and looked it over, but nothing struck me to be wrong with it.

The boot

On Monday night (4th August) I was just getting ready for bed, you know the usual things, brush teeth, laying my clothes out for work the next day. Drawing the curtains closed, putting on the T.V. then getting undressed and getting into bed. Well that was fine, and all was normal until I decided to turn the light off followed by the T.V.

As I turned off the T.V. I was convinced that to the right of the screen and on the floor was stood a tall ladies boot. I actually tried to focus on it really hard, but again the boot seemed to just fade out. It's a really hard thing to explain, and I just can't put the correct words to this virtual page. But again it's like a shimmer object, you can kind of see it but not.

Well I turned the light back on, but as I knew in my head, nothing would be there.

The calling

Well for the last 6 weeks I've been awaiting some test results for an MRI scan I had, so to say the least, when the results were given to me it was a welcome relief to myself. I wouldn't consider myself as a worrier at all, but this could of been life changing, and for the worse.

Why am I telling you this you may ask, well it was on Monday (21/07/14) that I had my appointment, and also on Monday night that I was called. Let me set the scene for you.

I had walked into my bathroom to was my face with some cold water as it was rather a hot evening, and after I splashed my face I looked directly into my mirror at my own reflection. I couldn't decide if I wanted to cry with relief or just to carry on and not mention to my girlfriend the severity of the situation. It was at this moment that I heard in my left ear a female voice calling my name.

The way it was done was slightly different to normal in that my name was drawn out, it was made longer which made it sound odd. Also the fact that it felt like it came from someone stood within 4 feet of me, yet I know my girlfriend was in fact in the front room, on the other side of the house.

So with towel in hand and patting my wet face down, I walked to the door way of the front room and asked my girlfriend what did she want. She looked at me puzzled and said "I never called you, maybe it was the ghost". I said "Ha, yeah right, did you call the dog ?" and she said "I was playing with the dog, so might of made some sounds, but I didn't call him". So either these sounds changed when they traveled down my hallway, or my head and ears just messed with me.

My walk back to the bathroom felt rather cold, despite the heat, and more thoughts went through my mind, but not about the voice, about my life and it's direction.

The Stairway

It was before 9pm last night when Max my dog was playing up a little, and by playing up a little I mean he was unsettled and restless, there was no reason for this, he just was ?

Well as the evening went on I became more aware that he was sat looking into the corner of the front room. I kept braking his concentration by throwing his ball into the hall way. But after one throw he never returned to the room, yet oddly for the first time ever he was sniffing at the front door that opens into the hallway. Well I went out into the hallway to see what he was doing, and asked him to return to the front room, but he wasn't having it. So I opened the door to the main front hallway, and he stood sniffing, and then he barked a little, followed by a little growl. I reassured him that nothing was there by walking out into the hallway, and although the hallway is poorly lit I walked to the bottom of the stairway and started to walk up. Max unusually didn't follow me, he decided to stay by the door, at this point I called to him and said "Come on old boy, there's nowt here".

But as I turned to look up the stairs, I saw something in the light. Now this is really hard to describe, and it wasn't like anything you see in a horror film, it was like a shimmer in the like. It was almost like something blurred my vision, really odd, but it seemed to have some kind of form, and moved across the top of the stairs and down towards me.

Well although it sounds really odd I rubbed my eyes, and took out my phone and started to take some photos. Now again I have explained in an earlier post that my phone is an old Nokia E63, and not the best thing, but I had to take or try to take what I was seeing. Looking back on it I did actually feel colder, but didn't put it down to anything other than leaving a warm seat I was sat in.

I will post the 3 photos up unedited, as they were taken off of my phone. Then below them I will post one that I tried to edit in photo shop (not my best skill)

All I have done on these pictures is outline just a slight difference in light within the photo, and I don't know, I'm sat here looking at these thinking maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me. But that doesn't explain the dogs unusual behavior, or the fact that 1. I felt really cold and 2. I saw something in the dark with my own eyes.

Maybe I just need a holiday ? but again, I'm not doing this to make money, or gain attention as I'm anonymous.

The Following

Well here we are again, a new entry, although based on something that happened a over 2 weeks ago.

I must say the main reason for my lack of updates is mainly down to me just trying to get on with my life and the acceptance that something is going on here, but not to allow it to alter my day to day life. So let's rewind a few nights then shall we.

I was up late one evening laid on my bed watching a little T.V. I wasn't watching anything specific just channel hopping really, but as the night drew on I decided to go and get a fresh glass of water to have beside my bed. Well I got up and sat on the edge of the bed, gathered my thoughts, stood up, took a deep breath and turned to my left to head off towards my kitchen.

I hadn't taken more than about 6 steps when I heard behind me a thump on the floor, I continued walking out of the room feeling Max my dog to my left side and walking with me. Well it's funny how things work isn't it, as at that very moment when I entered into my hallway I suddenly thought to myself that in fact Max hadn't been on my bed beside me, at which point Max walked into the hallway to greet me from the front room.

I stopped immediately, turned around and walked back into the bedroom and also took a quick look around the house to make sure no other animal had gotten in. Although I knew all along that nothing could have, and although a very unusual experience, and something that my dog didn't even take any notice of, well I put it aside and thought I must of just been over tired. But in my head I knew otherwise, but can you have ghost dogs ? even if it was a dog.