The writing is on the wall

So Sunday morning I go into my front room to open the curtains and upon doing so I notice on the wall near the T.V (right in my eye line) some odd looking marks on the wall. Now I've tried my hardest to capture the markings with my camera, but I found it really hard getting a photo without editing it in photoshop.

At first I thought to myself it's probably the result of my grandson, but upon reflection, he hasn't actually visited the house for over a week, and even then if had drawn on the wall we would of noticed it as it's right next to the T.V.

I can't make anything out in the sense of it being a word, but I will post it anyway, and put it down to one of the oddities of living here.

All Hallows' Evening

Yes - Yes I know it's been a fair while, but again to be honest I'm trying to write less about what's going on around me and within this house, and to concentrate on the positives in my life, and my many hobbies. Plus apart from the odd noise or shadow nothing really has happened, which brings me around to last weekends events.

So last weekend it was Halloween here in the U.K. and although I don't do a great deal to celebrate the date apart from the odd candle and watching a film on T.V, we don't even get trick or treaters approaching the house ( I suspect because we are near the top of a step hill), so yes, we don't do much. Anyway, the evening before Halloween I was woken up around 3:48am by someone banging, it was 3 heavy thumps. I got straight out of bed and did the usual rounds i.e. checking the doors and windows, and although I knew the sound came from within the house, well it could of been one of a few things, so I got back into bed and fell back asleep.

Later that day I was in the main bedroom, and although it wasn't actually very late it had been a hard day at work, and I was ready for bed, but as I sat on the side of the bed I heard the door handle on the bathroom door rattle followed by the door slamming, and I genuinely mean slamming shut. Now again to be 100% honest this has happened before, but that was due to the bathroom window being left open. The thing that made me take note was the fact I knew the bathroom window was in fact shut, and the only reason I know that was because, 1. I shut it, and 2. The reason it was shut is due to the drain near the bathroom window being partially blocked and smelling pretty bad. The crazy thing was I still got up and walked to the bathroom to double check, and I went into the room only to be greeted by a closed window and little else.

That leaves me with the Saturday after Halloween, well the day had been a good day, I had family around, and things seemed fine. Then as the evening drew in I had a few guests around for tea, again very normal in my house. Basically I left all the guests in the main front room and walked off to the bedroom to close the curtains (to keep the heat in), so it was mid evening at best. Well I walked into the bedroom, put a cloth on the end of the bed, and instead of walking to the window bay to close the curtains I did a swift 180 degree turn only to be greeted by one of my wardrobe doors being fully open, which was closed when I just walked past.

I closed the door and left the room heading back out to the main front room.

Now the following day I tried to recreate the door opening, I had the door partially open, 1/2 open, closed, I even jumped up and down on the floor yet nothing, I couldn't recreate the door opening, let alone even moving in the slightest. The door doesn't swing shut, it doesn't fall open, so I've no idea as to what was going on.I don't think the calender event had anything to do with what happened over those few days, and the only thing that comes to mind is that if there is actually something here, well it's after attention. The only reason I say this is that it all feels very cliche, and by that I mean I can have people here and nothing happens, yet I wander off on my own and something happens, random.

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.