Ok... this has freaked me out and I'm pretty chilled

[Clovko]

(NC as I’ve text about this to a few people who haven’t replied yet)

I woke up about twenty min ago, funny feeling and went to check locks downstairs for reassurance (all secure).

There is a note on the kitchen sideboard, lined notebook paper and light blue ball point in blocky neat handwriting. It says:

‘This is your house Kathleen. You live here. David has the front bedroom and your bedroom is at the back. This is your house Kathleen and you can look at the garden.’

Really tidy kitchen, in the middle of an empty side. I went to bed last. Obv I’m not called Kathleen or anything similar and I don’t recognise the handwriting or even the pen ink.

Maybe this will be easier to grasp or solve in the morning? But right now I’m a bit 😳 and unable to sleep...

It's slightly shaky and is clearly an elderly person's handwriting. The larger print used for "you" and "your" does suggest that someone wrote this for Kathleen because she is unsure whose house she's in.

I believe OP too!!
And I work in care. That writing ie very similar to a lot of my residents but they have dementia so wouldn't be leaving notes for someone with dementia. So I have no idea! I hope OP comes back!

Why would you have been frightened to death by a piece of paper in a secure house, @NoSauce?

Why would you have been frightened to death by a piece of paper in a secure house

That wasn’t there when I went to bed? That wasn’t mine or my husbands writing and my children were too young to have written it?

There were five other people in the house, it's not as if OP was trying to cope on her own. Her DH or the older children could well have gone down, seen this bit of paper somewhere and put it on the table.

This is really creepy

@FlamedToACrisp
Quill pens made me snort with laughter

Awful quality notepaper that. Shocking

Does your house have more than one back and front bedroom OP (i'm presuming yes since you have 4 DC)?

There is bound to be a reasonable explanation but i don't think it's been done to specifically reference to your house and you, so probably not done as a prank to scare you if that helps.

The OP has said her dc aren’t old enough to have written it! My bet is still the H trying to be hilarious.

I first read this in the early hours, and lack of sleep made me read it as if the house is called Kathleen and is writing to its owners.

Strange what lack of sleep can do.

I think 'Kathleen' is the electrical fault and 'David' is carbon monoxide. Makes more sense if you read the note with this in mind.

It sounds like someone giving themselves a pep talk...

THIS IS YOUR HOUSE KATHLEEN, NOT MAGGOT DICK DAVE, GO IN YOUR OWN GARDEN IF YOU LIKE.

The handwriting looks like the tooth fairy’s handwriting. She’s always very deliberate with her letter formation so it doesn’t get mistaken for mine.
Maybe someone is trying to disguise their writing?

This is all very intriguing, but the real question is what exactly OP has against ballpoint pens.

Somebody's written that note with their left hand. My moneys on DH.

I'd be thanking Kathleen (in a very round about way!) that my house didn't burn down courtesy of a fishy kettle (or a kettle of fish?)

Very odd.

Note looks like it's been written by an older person

Do you have elderly neighbours?

Are any of your DC old enough to write? How old is the one who isn’t well?

When I had fevers as a kid I used to hallucinate and be convinced things had happened that no one else could verify. It wouldn’t be at all surprising if I’d written a note but had no memory of having written it and for the content to make no sense.

One of my strongest childhood memories never happened according to one of my DBs. To me it’s so real though even though it was a fever-fuelled dream or hallucination. What I’m tryIng to say is could your sick DC have written it?

Op says her dc aren’t old enough to have written it.

By far the most logical explanation is that one of the OP's DC has attempted writing by copying something, and this is the result.

Mysteriously, the OP has not mentioned how old they are, nor why writing she originally described as "blocky, neat handwriting" has evolved by the morning into something different.

I reckon it fell out of a book or something, DH picked it up and put it on the side intending to ask if you know where it’s from.

Off topic but if you bookmark something in the app does it then come up in I'm watching.

Please come back OP and tell us if you've worked it out. Hope you're DC is feeling better tomorrow

@edsheeranpaidmoretaxthanccola You have to swipe the subject heading and tap watch thread. You can then swipe the last read post and tap bookmark.