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AIBU?

aibu to be afraid to sleep in my own bedroom after what happened last night?

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Rebecca2014 · 26/07/2014 08:29

I have never believed in ghosts and everything that has happened to me I always thought there is a reasonable explanation, even if I can't think of one! Something happened last night which has really freaked me out and I really need to be talked down.

Since I moved into this house a year ago I have noticed strange things, for example a few times there has been a loud bang coming from upstairs. I always run up there, expecting to see something that has crashed to the floor but nothing...nothing to say why the loud bang happened and I always think "Well I am sure there is an explanation to why this has happened, its not a ghost!"

I seen things move in front of my eyes, the most recent was my daughter ride on toy which moved forward on its own. "It must be gravity or the wind?" Even though window closed and I was sat on the sofa.

What happened last night was the freakiest thing I have ever experienced in my life. I was alone in my bedroom at night, door closed. I was woken up by what sounded like a female snoring or deep breathing, it echoes. I just sat up in bed and thought my little daughter had come into my bedroom and was asleep on the floor, I looked at the floor and no one there. The sound is still coming from the corner of the room, I opened my curtain and the sound is not coming from outside. I start getting freaked out now and switch on the light, the sound is still coming. I open my bedroom door, ready call to my husband downstairs asleep on the sofa and the sound just stopped.

I think could this sound be coming from my husband snoring downstairs? but the voice was definitely female and when I went downstairs my husband is not snoring, just sleeping soundlessly like he usually does.

My husband will not be home till Sunday and I am so scared to be alone in my bedroom tonight. I am just thinking if it was a ghost then she was mocking me snoring? or was trying to scare me and if that was the case then that just makes me even more afraid. Can someone please talk me down? ghosts do not exist and there must be an explanation for that sound in my room? Has what I wrote sound crazy and I need to get over myself.

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londonrach · 26/07/2014 08:32

Hugs. Ghosts can't hurt you.

Icimoi · 26/07/2014 08:35

What "voice" are you talking about? How can you tell whether snoring is male or female?

sonjadog · 26/07/2014 08:37

Does your property join on to others? It could be sound carrying.

backbystealth · 26/07/2014 08:37

So your husband's just away tonight and back tomorrow?

Can you stay at someone else's, sibling/parent? Or have someone stay with you and down a few vinos?!

I don't believe in ghosts but am still a big cowardly custard so I understand your fear.

I bet it was your husband you know - you probably disturbed his snoring when you went downstairs.

Hope you are ok x

abigamarone · 26/07/2014 08:41

Snoring doesn't have a gender - I used to hear my cat snoring in the bathroom from my bedroomed and in the dead of night I'd hear the old neighbour snores through the wall.

TurboWithAKick · 26/07/2014 08:42

Baby monitor?
It was your daughter...
A neighbour

Sound carries

TurboWithAKick · 26/07/2014 08:43

When you usually hear that bang... Does it come from your room?

kali110 · 26/07/2014 08:44

I had same thing happened to me last week! I walked all round my house checking there was moone in the house!Freaked hell out of me!it took me ages to go to sleep.im a wimp !

Rebecca2014 · 26/07/2014 08:45

It did sound like a female voice...but our property is joined so maybe it was a neighbour? though I never heard them before snoring and why would it just stop when I open the bedroom door? It never started up again once I did that.

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TurboWithAKick · 26/07/2014 08:46

It was the door! Slowly creaking in a breeze

Rebecca2014 · 26/07/2014 08:46

When you usually hear that bang... Does it come from your room?
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Yes it does.

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backbystealth · 26/07/2014 08:48

Rebecca - might well have been a neighbour. Some people snore INCREDIBLY LOUDLY. I have a friend you could hear from the moon. My husband's loud too. And my FIL. Actually, why do I know so many snorers?

fieldfare · 26/07/2014 08:52

If you're in a terraced house then sound does carry. Especially at night when the daytime sounds have quietened and everyone has settled down for the evening.

gimcrack · 26/07/2014 08:55

Probably neighbour. If there's a chimney breast, sound can travel weirdly al

gimcrack · 26/07/2014 08:55

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gimcrack · 26/07/2014 08:56

Argh, stupid phone! Sound can travel along it so it sounds like it's in your room.

HPparent · 26/07/2014 08:57

When I first moved into my home I heard someone coughing and sighing in my bedroom. I never heard it again though we did have instances of the lights in the hall going on and off for no apparent reason. In the end an electrician replaced the wiring and it stopped!

As for the noise I heard, we traced the former occupants of the house - built 1870s and one did die of influenza. Perhaps it was him. We also traced families that were successful and we assume happy. People often remark that our place has a good atmosphere.

At the end if the day ghosts - even if they exist - can't hurt you.

FlankShaftMcWap · 26/07/2014 08:58

I hate to say it, but wasps can make a sound that is incredibly like snoring... We had a similar sound when we had a nest in our walls. I would rather a ghost tbh!

tobeabat · 26/07/2014 09:05

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BakeOLiteGirl · 26/07/2014 09:12

I'm not an attention seeking wooist, but I did have a ghost at one point. We got through it.

But we could also hear the neighbour snoring through the wall.

Perhaps some column A and Column B.

superstarheartbreaker · 26/07/2014 09:14

I lived with a ghost. It was fine and much nicer than my previous flat mates! The living are far more scary!

Middleagedmotheroftwo · 26/07/2014 09:20

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GHOSTS!
Just because you can't explain something doesn't mean there isn't a rational explanation, just that you don't know what it is.

Honestly ghosts aren't even the last thing I would think of if I heard bangs/snoring type noises etc. I'd just think it was a strange noise and crack on with whatever I was doing.

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amy83firsttimer · 26/07/2014 09:29

If both you and next door are sleeping with bedroom windows open the sounds will be next door I'm sure. I'm in a mid-terrace and can hear throats being cleared, light switches, alarm clocks and babies!

cashmiriana · 26/07/2014 09:35

When I was at university, if the people who occupied the rooms on either side of me had their windows open, the sound carried so clearly that I could hear them brushing their teeth, and typing! It was just the way the layout of the building plus open windows and still heat in the summer all combined. (it also meant I could hear every second of one neighbour's rather colourful sex life, which I could have done without.)

InSummer · 26/07/2014 09:40

Honestly, you'll be fine.

My last house and current one are corner plots and we get a lot of sound carrying. We are basically surrounded and when everything is quiet at night it's hard to tell where a sound is coming from.

Does your neighbour have a child? Could be the banging is them dropping a toy or similar.

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