Rational Explanations or possible woo at work?

[Jenasaurus]

Ok, over the last couple of weeks some strange things have been occuring in my home.

Nothing huge all little things but when they add up they are starting to concern me

1.Sitting in my lounge whilst working from home, I heard a click and a cupboard door swung open on its own

1. On a zoom call on Thursday morning and only one at home when I heard a loud bang, went to investigate and a broom was against a door on the landing that wasnt previously there. I made the noise again by banging it against the door and it had to be done with force to make that noise.

1. I have a hand made christmas santa that my mum made me when I was 3 (I am 55 and my mum died 3 years ago so it means a lot to me) picture of it below, anyway this was placed on my fire place. I noticed last night it was in the middle of the lounge all stood up correctly even the reindeer, which if it had fallen over they would be on their side.

1. Today making some pasta on my gas hob, I turned round to fold up the laundry and noticed everything had gone silent, I went to investigate and found the hob off, not just not working but the switch had turned to the off position. (I was alone in the kitchen)

1. I settled to watch I am a celeb when a message pops on my screen saying there was no internet, so I assumed a power cut, but then realised my DD was watching it in her bedroom and I can access the internet on my laptop.

As I say these things are not hugely worrying on their own, but they are happening often and my DD said that she couldnt find her trainers last week and so had to wear her boots, when she got him the trainers were in the middle of her bedroom, she also hears what sounds like footsteps running towards her door.

What explanation is there do you think?

jeez sorry im no help, but i would be a bit freaked out. I hope someone can come along and offer more reassurance

I think you do become more attuned to stuff when at home alone for prolonged periods. It's not your daughter winding you up is it?

It’s the ghost of the guy who kept ringing your doorbell.

No shes not been there for 2 of the things, she was at work, there is something else too, a beloved painting my DD has that she chose when my mum died of bluebell woods which she has memories with my DM of, the glass broke on it when no one was home, These things alone wouldnt worry me, but all together they seem odd, in particular the gas hob being turned off, I was alone in a small kitchen, no one else in there

@BogRollSpiderLadder

It’s the ghost of the guy who kept ringing your doorbell.

I would have thought the same but that was explained so not linked.

10 years ago in Cornwall with my 17 year old DS we had similar experiences which culminated in us leaving early when the lights went on in the lodge as we were driving off. Are we being followed by something? I am a rational person and actually not scared just wondering whats happening

Do you live in a semi detached or terraced house?

Its a terraced Maisonette over 2 floors, downstairs is a kitchen, lounge, dinning room and upstairs bathroom and 2 bedrooms.

I explained the footsteps my DD heard to her as probably being noise from next door. I got a text from her as I was out at the time, she asked me to come home as there was someone in the house.

You have some minor electrical issues — we’ve just moved into an old house where the lights in one room turn themselves on and off when no one is there, and our electrician says none of the light switches are earthed — and as someone other than you also lives in your house it’s natural things get misplaced.

You had to turn your gas hob off yourself. And the trainers had to be there at the time and so on.
You both seem to be distracted lately. Do you have a CO monitor in the house?
Also, some vibration going on, possibly from next door? That explains the picture's glass and your santa, tbe steps noise and sounding like people are in the house. We had this with neighbours stairs in an old house. Do you have a cat or dog? That could be too. And before you say no, I had one cat in my house several times for days on! One night I woke up to it trying to leave the house through my window. Other I found him hiding under the sofa that I had been steaming for 20 mins or so! I think he most likely lived in that house before and it kept coming in and hiding.

I'm in a semi detached, and the sound proofing is in general very good - we dont hear the neighbour talking or his TV. BUT we do hear random noises from next door really loudly in certain places. So from in our bedroom, the neighbour on his stairs sounds EXACTLY like someone is in our house! When he closes a door hard, we will hear a bang that sounds like it comes from our upstairs.

I think that is the most likely explanation for number 2, not the broom. And the footsteps were either snoise from next door or knocking pipes. Remember, this is the time of year when your heating is on a lot more after being off for much of the summer.
1 was just a vibration or something that jogged the door open enough for it to swing open under gravity.

1. Was you being absent minded. I know you may be sure you didn't turn the job off, but it is so easy to absent mindedly do and forget tiny things like that!

1. Is the most easily explained, complete non event. Devises sometimes lose connection with the wifi. Often very briefly before reconnecting. My phone keeps doing it right no (possibly because dh is using a lot of the wifi gaming right now!)

1. Is the only weird thing in my opinion. Harder to explain, but I would guess your daughter moved it and either forgot, or wont admit it for some reason.

The glass on the picture: the frame was too tight. It's been under strain for a while. The wood frame has expanded recently (this happens with wood over time either due to moisture, heat or both) and the stress eventually exceeded the limits of the glass (which is very brittle and, due to its crystalline structure , undergoes rapid crack propagation when it fractures).

Thing is, once you get jumpy about these things, you tend to notice things you would never normally notice.

Excuse all the typos in my post.
I fear my phone may be possessed by a semi-literate poltergeist!

Thanks all, I guess you could be right about some of the things, the one I am sure about though is I didnt turn the gas hob off, I was bending down getting the clothes out of the tumble dryer and I noticed it had gone silent, turned round and saw the hob was off. I am not scared, just a bit perplexed. thank you for explaining the other things, although the santa and reindeers standing up in the middle of the room was also odd

Number 4 is the only that strikes me but I’d not worry about it.

It reminds me that I was working from home one day and the Internet signal went. I looked at the router, prepared to reset it - and it was switched off at the wall. I had been sitting right there with my laptop, connected to the internet.

While typing the last message on here there was a loud bang like my bathroom door closing, but the landing is in darkness my DD is asleep! I think if there is anything woo going on, it doesnt appreciate me discussing it on here :)

I remember thinking what having alzeimers must have been like for my mum, she frequently would eat ready meals straight from the freezer and all manner of things would be found in odd places which she would deny all knowledge of, I hope this isnt me going the same way :(

If it is something woo, tell it to sod off that you live there and you don't appreciate being messed about.

You could have tangled the hob's control on your clothes or a tea towel when you turned.

@MushMonster

You could have tangled the hob's control on your clothes or a tea towel when you turned.

How?!

More logical than tangling the hob control is that OP switched it off herself and forgot.

It has happened to me with the oven temperature one! That was with the sausage rolls for the Christmas dinner (they came out a bit browner than I wanted them). I put the oven gloves in the handle bar and doing so moved the temperature control up without noticing. It is only an easy turning wheel in mine. Some gas hobs are quite easy to turn too. It depends of which appliance you have really.
Mine turns itself off if water spills, but it is an induction one.

In your shoes, I'd get a nannycam and place it where most of the things are happening.

Why don’t you talk to it and tell it you know it’s there but you’d rather it stopped.

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