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

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Clovko · 29/08/2019 00:19

(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...

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InvisibleWomenMustBeRead · 29/08/2019 17:21

Hope you're ok Op - very strange & I can't think of a logical explanation at all other than your DH playing a prank!

LaurieFairyCake · 29/08/2019 17:22

Possible choices:

  1. Dementia lady has keys, let herself in, left note, then left
  1. It fell out of a book someone lifted down and they may not have noticed it falling out - or it fell to the floor and someone lifted it and put it on the dresser
  1. Aliens
  1. You're Kathleen and you've forgotten
  1. Your DH is Kathleen and you're involved in some weird sex shit we don't want to know about
origamiunicorn · 29/08/2019 18:41

This has been written by somebody with their 'other hand' eg. A right handed person writing with their left hand.

I was about to write that too. That's what my left hand writing looks like.

IdahoGreen · 29/08/2019 18:49

1. Dementia lady has keys, let herself in, left note, then left

When I was little, my father had an elderly female relative with what would now be diagnosed as dementia, who used to periodically 'escape' from her home on the opposite side of the city and show up at my childhood home, where she thought she still lived. Though as far as I know, she'd only spent some time there as a child a good sixty years earlier... It was sad really, but I was only about five or six, and found it quite scary the way she would just come in the back door and take off her coat and start asking crossly why Dan or Anthony weren't in for their dinner, when they'd been dead for decades...

SoupDragon · 29/08/2019 18:54

That writing is far too neat for it to have been written by someone with their "other" hand unless they practise it.

TopBitchoftheWitches · 29/08/2019 18:57

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InfiniteCurve · 29/08/2019 19:11

It's an older persons writing,it looks a bit like my Mum's writing went when she was ill ( this was with brain metastasis from her cancer,so it affected her ability to write,and things like memory and speech). Also if reminds me of writing I've seen at work from elderly clients.
Also Kathleen is an older persons name,unless OP has very well read children I don't think it's a name that would occur to them.
I think either it's fallen out of a book,or someone ( DH,DC) has picked it up outside,brought it home and left it on the counter.
Or the previous owner,now with dementia and stil with old key.
But surely it's (even more!Grin) unlikely that someone with dementia would let themselves in,leave a note,and lock up fully behind them when they left? Wouldn't they either stay or just go?

kenandbarbie · 29/08/2019 19:21

Oooo I wonder where it turned out the note came from?

Clawdy · 29/08/2019 20:02

Weird and also sad.

TheKitchenWitch · 29/08/2019 20:21

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MarshmallowsOnToast · 29/08/2019 21:32

Have we all lost interest now then?

Came on expecting pages & pages but only a few posts.

sweetiepie1979 · 29/08/2019 21:46

It’s me
I’m Kathleen
I’ve come home again
Ohohohoh

NotTonightJosepheen · 29/08/2019 21:54

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Waxlyrically · 29/08/2019 21:57

Could there be a link to this song Lyric?

“Oh! I will take you back, Kathleen
To where your heart will feel no pain
And when the fields are fresh and green
I'll take you to your home again!…”

Cant find anything about David or gardens though - Straws and clutching, sorry !

AlrightOkNow · 29/08/2019 22:05

@Clovko, please come back to update this, there are few people who are being rude in comparison to those genuinely intrigued and invested.

Coincidentally, I know siblings called Kathleen and David. Kathleen has MH issues and has exhibited strange behaviour in the past, note writing, nonsensical phone calls and messages in her own home but it wouldn't explain how it got there anyway. Probably not the same person (unless you live in London outskirts) but MH is another reason for the note as well as dementia.

Couple of questions:

  1. Did you change the locks when you moved in?

  2. Do you know anything about the people who lived there before you? What do your neighbours say about them?

  3. How old is your eldest? Or does your DH have a history with the house - was it inherited? Perhaps he's not bothered as it's from his past?

It could have easily slipped out behind a kitchen cupboard randomly or got there somehow by someone with dementia/MH issues who's left it there somehow and it's slipped out now or used a working key.

Oldest child could have written it as a joke or poetry/song attempt? Or your DH in his youth Grin

On the creepier side, does the garden seem suspicious at all to you? Any opportunity for stalkers to get in and watch your family or hidden bodies? I ask because that was the one line that made me shiver. I would have had to fight the urge to look straight at the garden upon finding the note. That being said, I'd have probably called the police so you're definitely more brave than I am!

QueefLatifah · 29/08/2019 22:06

Leave a note out tonight reminding Kathleen not to shit in your kettle again.

See if there’s a response by morning.

NoSauce · 29/08/2019 22:08

AlrightOkNow bloody hell I hope the OP isn’t reading now after your last paragraph Shock

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 29/08/2019 22:16

Huh, weirdly I also know elderly siblings called David and Kathleen where the sister has MH issues.

Except they live in Lancs!

Maybe there is some secret Masonic group of them Shock

Sarahandco · 29/08/2019 22:27

I think Kathleen has written the note for herself at some point. It's ended up in a library book or something and been smuggled into your house

I think this is the answer? Kathleen's note to herself has come into your house somehow. I had someone elses shopping list in my shopping bag the other day - I think it was in the trolley and was scooped up somehow. Or could have been in a book or or or.

tirednhungry247 · 29/08/2019 23:12

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Clovko · 29/08/2019 23:30

Fucking hell @AlrightOkNow I’ve been keeping to my word but that post is award winningly scary!!

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Clovko · 29/08/2019 23:31

I’ve found an explanation of sorts, but now I’m eyeballing the dark garden that’s wide bloody open to access.

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CustardySergeant · 29/08/2019 23:32

tirednhungry247 The OP said she was hiding the thread because the troll hunting was upsetting her. She posted a photo of the note and I believe her.

CustardySergeant · 29/08/2019 23:33

Oh. Blush Well that was well-timed wasn't it?

IdahoGreen · 29/08/2019 23:35

I’m sure your rational explanation of sorts is correct, OP. Certainly it’s far more likely than sinister watchers in the garden, alerting you helpfully to their presence by leaving you a note. Grin