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Someone was in our house last night.

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worried91 · 10/04/2022 10:59

Am so worried and confused about what happened.
1am- DH and I go upto bed, dd1 has popped out to pick up her boyfriend from the pub and bring him back here and dd2 has just arrived home from work. Younger dc have been asleep for hours.
5am- I hear a phone vibrating in the house and what sounds like an alarm, dh puts his ears to the older dc's doors but thinks it's coming from downstairs. Goes down past the (closed?) front door and locates the phone down the back of the couch. Knocks on oldest dd's door and throws the phone to her sleeping boyfriend saying he'd left it downstairs.
8am dd2 goes downstairs for a drink and the front door is wide open. I hear her coming up to check on the little two who are still asleep in bed.
At this point I start getting concerned so go into dd1s room and her boyfriend says the phone isn't his! He thought dh had got confused about who he was giving it to at 5am so just put it under the bed and went back to sleep.
Dh insists the door was closed when he walked past it at 5am (Yale lock no handle so when it's not clicked closed it swings wide open so I believe it was closed)
Back door is locked with the key in the door and the conservatory has an added locking system over the original lock that hasn't been moved.
We live in a nice area, we are on the edge of town with fields all around so you wouldn't walk past our house going anywhere else iyswim, you'd have to be deliberately coming this way.
We rent our house (moved in 18 months ago) so we don't know who all had keys before us which stupidly never crossed my mind until this morning 😕
Nothing seems to have been touched, my bag is over the end of the stairs, the cars and keys are all there and no laptops etc are missing.
I've no idea why anyone would have come in, lost their phone on the couch then left again without us hearing anything.
I'm worried that the person must have still been in the house when dh went downstairs then left the door open when he went out.
The only other thing to add is one night a few weeks ago dd2 came in at 1am then I went out at 5am and the door was wide open. I told her to be more careful when she came in and she insisted that she had closed the door properly but now I'm wondering if someone has done this before.
We've phoned the police who are coming out at some point to talk to us and pick up the phone (phones locked with a gaming picture on the Lock Screen) and will be going to B&Q to get new locks but I feel so on edge wondering what's been going on 😔

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TurningUpMyStereotype · 10/04/2022 11:14

That’s very unsettling OP. But you’re doing the right thing changing the locks and calling the police. Most importantly everyone is ok and nothing seems to have been taken. I think you’ll feel much better when the locks are changed so definitely do it today. Flowers

ItWillBeDone · 10/04/2022 11:16

How weird. Hopefully the phone will lead to whoever it was and quickly be able to put your mind at rest. Changing the locks sounds very sensible though.

TurningUpMyStereotype · 10/04/2022 11:17

Just another thought, do you have any neighbours who have cameras that may have seen anyone on the street or on your driveway?

ENoeuf · 10/04/2022 11:18

Could you also pick up a ring doorbell? So if anyone does try to get in you’ll have footage?

ElenaSt · 10/04/2022 11:18

Drunk person followed them home and tried the door they hadn’t shut properly and crashed out on sofa leaving phone. Woke up to pee and realised they needed to leave and go to their own home. Couldn’t find phone as it had dropped down sofa so they just left.

Phone was ringing as they tried it later to see if they could find it.

That’s the scenario I’m getting rather a than an intruder with bad intent.

Fitterbyfifty · 10/04/2022 11:18

That's unsettling. Definitely change the locks. A few years ago a friend of mine discovered that an ex-tenant had kept his keys and sometimes kipped on the couch if he thought they were away! I wonder if you can find out who the phone belongs to.

ENoeuf · 10/04/2022 11:19

Or : door is unreliable and phone belongs to someone who lost it when visiting ages ago.

Lemonlemon88 · 10/04/2022 11:20

Ooh that's spooky!

longtompot · 10/04/2022 11:20

I initially wondered if dd2 is bringing someone back she doesn't want you to know about, but she noticed the door was open so it couldn't be that. How odd op. Hope you get to the bottom of it

Seeline · 10/04/2022 11:20

Has DD2 been bringing someone home with her without your knowledge? And then they leave in the early hours, don't want to slam the door so it's not shutting properly?

Step1234 · 10/04/2022 11:22

Did your daughter let someone come and crash on your sofa?

BlueSpottedGiraffe · 10/04/2022 11:23

@ENoeuf

Or : door is unreliable and phone belongs to someone who lost it when visiting ages ago.
Assuming it's a smartphone I can't see how this is possible as it would have run out of battery, even with zero use I bet not many smartphones will stay charged for more than a day or two.
MNCar · 10/04/2022 11:23

@ElenaSt

Drunk person followed them home and tried the door they hadn’t shut properly and crashed out on sofa leaving phone. Woke up to pee and realised they needed to leave and go to their own home. Couldn’t find phone as it had dropped down sofa so they just left.

Phone was ringing as they tried it later to see if they could find it.

That’s the scenario I’m getting rather a than an intruder with bad intent.

Hoping it’s more this too.
worried91 · 10/04/2022 11:24

Dd2 definitely never brought anyone home, she was coming back from work while I was getting into bed and I spoke to her quickly out the window as she was on the drive.
The phone had a lot of battery life left so couldn't have been there long plus I would have heard the alarm before if that was the case.
Both dd's were driving so no one could have followed them home.
One of our neighbours has a ring doorbell but it doesn't cover our front.

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BlueSpottedGiraffe · 10/04/2022 11:25

@worried91

Dd2 definitely never brought anyone home, she was coming back from work while I was getting into bed and I spoke to her quickly out the window as she was on the drive. The phone had a lot of battery life left so couldn't have been there long plus I would have heard the alarm before if that was the case. Both dd's were driving so no one could have followed them home. One of our neighbours has a ring doorbell but it doesn't cover our front.
I would still ask to check it as it might have picked up someone walking past their house?
TabithaTittlemouse · 10/04/2022 11:26

I would be unsettled too.

WinterSpringSummerorFall · 10/04/2022 11:30

Amateur detective idea.... take sim out of phone and put it into one of your phones, then call someone to find number? See if you recognise it?

worried91 · 10/04/2022 11:32

I've been over the neighbour with the ring door bell but our cul de sac is more horse shoe shaped (dead end no thorough road) and we are on the side while they are on the bend so miss us completely.
Dds dash cam is supposed to kick in when someone comes near her car but we've checked and there's nothing on that.
Dd1 says she got back before 2am with her boyfriend and there was nothing odd she can think off. She was sober as was driving.

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colosmbo · 10/04/2022 11:33

could you get a ring or similar doorbell

NOTANUM · 10/04/2022 11:33

This is a strange one if nothing was taken but it’ll get sorted out quickly with the phone as evidence.

SolasAnla · 10/04/2022 11:35

Could be a ex-tenant's friend who still has keys, gets drunk, walks "home to sleep it off on a friends sofa" uses keys then wakes up and leaves?

The police should be able to trace at least the original owner of the phone.

But change the locks and check your windows cant be opened from the outside too (even 2nd storey ones).

SergeiL · 10/04/2022 11:36

How strange. Hope there turns out to be a non scary explanation. Something to do with DD I am thinking although surely she wouldn’t let you call the police?

covetingthepreciousthings · 10/04/2022 11:36

Could one of the other DD's have had anyone to sleep over either the prior night or night before that and whoever that was have left their phone?

MadMadMadamMim · 10/04/2022 11:38

I can't get over the fact your DH thought it was acceptable to knock your DD and bf up at 5am and throw a phone at them.

Wtf? They'd only been in for 3 hours. Why on earth would you wake them for this?

Doodar · 10/04/2022 11:38

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