Feeling uncomfortable inside my home

[Honeybee85]

I live in a 3 bedroom house with DH and DS (3 months old baby). I haven’t lived here for very long as I moved in with DH (it’s his parents old home) and though I never really loved the place, until recently I felt OK here. The house is about 30 years old, built for DH’s parents, no strange history attached to this place.

About 2 weeks ago, I was resting on the bed alone and DH was downstairs with the baby. I had nearly fallen asleep as I felt twice as if someone was touching my legs. I didn’t think much of it as I assumed it was my imagination running wild because of that strange twilight zone between being awake / asleep.

Until today. I was home alone and feeding the baby in the kitchen. Baby was happily drinking his milk and gazing around as he always does when he suddenly latched off the bottle and screamed very loud (he seemed very scared) for a few seconds. He kept staring at one spot in particular as he was screaming and started drinking his milk again after those seconds like nothing had . He has never done anything like this before and it was very strange and scary moment.

I texted my best friend after that to tell her about what had happened today and that I felt very strange about it. I didn’t mention the leg touching incident and I have also not told her before about it. My friend has stayed over at our home about 2 weeks ago and after agreeing that what happened today was very scary, she admitted that she had a weird incident at our home during our stay that she had not mentioned so far. As she was trying to fall asleep on the guest bed, whilst laying on her stomach, she had felt someone pushing her on her lower back to the bed. That was all, she did not feel any scary presence she said, but it was very weird.

I start to feel uncomfortable now, esspecially since my son seems to be scared of whatever it is that is inside our home.

Does anyone have any experience with such things and how to handle this? I am honestly starting to feel a bit scared about what might be going on here.

Both the sensations you and your friend felt can easily be explained by your mind nodding off and your body experiencing a form of jerk/sleep start.

Occurs when our muscles contract involuntarily, jolting us awake
Is an evolutionary adaptation that allowed us to check we were safe.

A common sensation is to feel that someone is lifting you up whilst you are asleep.

However, I cannot explain your baby’s behaviour and imagine he must be possessed. Whatever you do, don’t buy him a tricycle and allow him to ride it indoors.

However

You are subconsciously doing the same as a child that sees a monster in the dark where there’s a pile of clothes with the lights on, you don’t as yet have a valid explanation so your mind is telling you it’s supernatural.

I do think soola raises a valid point though. Does your dp announce his entrance to a room with ‘here’s Johnny’?

@Soola 😂😂😂😂
Yup, as from tonight I’ll start bathing him in Holy Water. I heard it might help.

On a rather serious note, thanks to everyone suggesting sleep paralysis. I had not heard of it before but it surely does sound like a logical explanation. Thanks a lot xxx

My first house, I lived there alone, tiny old terraced cottage.
I often sensed a presence of a man in my bedroom. He would stand at the end of my bed and occasionally he would lie next to me.
I am not a 'woo' person, but this happened, randomly, over the years I lived there on my own.
I then met (now)XH - he is even more sceptical than me, and I never mentioned the feelings I had had; but one night, very early on, he said to me that he'd felt something in the night, a weight in the bed between us - I had felt the same too that night but hadn't told him about the previous experiences.
I have never felt anything like it anywhere else in my life.
There was def something in that room.

I had a really vivid dream about a ghost last night and woke up with a jolt, then got scared to go to the loo. I'm blaming this thread.

@HJWT - smelling smoke when there isn't any can be a sign of having a brain tumour.

@wowfudge well he doesn't have one of those but he does have a bent spine and lots of slipped discs! 🤔