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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 😔

OP posts:
Comvit · 12/04/2022 09:52

This thread is the very best of MN distilled. I love it.

OP, an update please.

PoleFairy · 12/04/2022 10:36

If it wasnt for the phone I would think someone just left the door open at some point. Your house sounds like my in laws when i was dating DH. Me and DH pretty much lived there, as did BIL and his GF at the time and then my now SIL. DH and I were 22 and he worked at a pub, BIL and his GF were 20 and she worked at a pub. SIL was 18 and clubbing. We were always in and out in early hours of morning. They had an internal door that (like a second front door from porch into main house) that once shut you couldn't open from the front door side, only from the inside of the house. We were forever locking each other out at 3am having thought we were the last ones coming in. Of course no one ever thought it was them

containsnuts · 12/04/2022 10:41

One of your DC's brought someone back. They sat on the couch for a bit and the phone fell out without them realising. They left and the door was closed gently and quiety so as not to wake you, but it wasn't closed properly and later popped open itself. You woke up with the sound of the phone going off. DC doesn't want to admit to having someone back for whatever reason.

Blondeshavemorefun · 12/04/2022 10:42

Such a shame you gave phone to the police

ladydimitrescu · 12/04/2022 10:50

We have to know more 😩

Changechangychange · 12/04/2022 11:18

@thestraitofillinois

In keeping with the tradition of mumsnet LTB, I would expand on what PP said about someone in the house having a secret, second phone.

The most obvious answer is often the truth. The phone was already in the house and someone forgot to turn it off and put it back in its hiding place. Look at who found it.

OP, if your DH has a burner phone he is using for an affair, and set an alarm on it for five am, then went downstairs to get it and handed it to somebody else, instead of just switching the alarm off and pocketing it you should LTB for being too stupid to breathe.
VerifiedBot2351 · 12/04/2022 11:29

Someone is in the loft, for sure!

Bangolads · 12/04/2022 11:31

Some people just come to mumsnet to find fault with everyone- some of the replies here are case in point. Absolute wallies🤣🤦🏼‍♀️ I’m genuinely embarrassed for you. I hope you’re get to the bottom of it OP- sounds horribly worrying.

ElenaSt · 12/04/2022 11:38

How many people set their alarm for 5.00am?

Are we perhaps looking for a Milk Man? In which case, has the Op herself been up to no good and is trying to cover her tracks?

OutlookStalking · 12/04/2022 12:12

I am posting purely for an update...

QueenWatevraWaNabi · 12/04/2022 12:14

Husband is in the loft. His identical long lost twin is living in the house and it's his phone. He had to pretend it wasn't so nobody got suspicious.

Or one of the kids had someone back.

TreacheryPepper · 12/04/2022 12:32

[quote ElenaSt]How many people set their alarm for 5.00am?

Are we perhaps looking for a Milk Man? In which case, has the Op herself been up to no good and is trying to cover her tracks?

[/quote] Unfortunately I get up at 5am on work days. Loads of healthcare shifts start at 7am.

I don't imagine we'll get another update now the phone has been handed in, so I'll have to wonder about this for ever. A couple of years ago there was a thread where an outside tap was found turned on regularly. There were all sorts of madcap theories, but it was never resolved.

feraldiggy · 12/04/2022 12:51

Money on the mobile phone being someone's secret phone!

NoCleverNickname · 12/04/2022 12:53

Just a quick point. Yale locks, especially the older type, are incredibly easy to open, depending on the door type and door jamb, with a piece of credit card type plastic. People can even utilise plastic bottles (cut up) to jimmy those kinds of locks.

Really, Yale locks should only be used with a 5 point mortice lock.

Geneticsbunny · 12/04/2022 12:53

I listen to way too many true crime things but I would be checking the loft space just in case someone is living up there...

Hmm1234 · 12/04/2022 12:57

Nothing to be worried about I think your daughter and BF had a few extra mates back from the pub. Grin

LondonQueen · 12/04/2022 13:09

@feraldiggy

Money on the mobile phone being someone's secret phone!
That was my first thought too!
catsoop · 12/04/2022 13:31

[quote ElenaSt]How many people set their alarm for 5.00am?

Are we perhaps looking for a Milk Man? In which case, has the Op herself been up to no good and is trying to cover her tracks?

[/quote] People who work shifts! I know scummy shift workers aren't really acknowledged by MN but unfortunately some people do have to work shifts that require an alarm for 5am... Some of them may even post on mumsnet!! 😲 Shameless! I tell ya.
IcedOatLatte · 12/04/2022 13:46

[quote ElenaSt]How many people set their alarm for 5.00am?

Are we perhaps looking for a Milk Man? In which case, has the Op herself been up to no good and is trying to cover her tracks?

[/quote] If this thread is anything to go by drug dealers, loft dwellers and anyone with secret phone might need a wake up call at 5am on a Sunday

in the real world someone who works an early shift or has to get to the airpory maybe

Which has just made me think that it could be a paperboy who has to get to the newsagents for all the heavy Sunday papers. Are any of your DCs friendly with the local paper boy @worried91?

Beautiful3 · 12/04/2022 13:55

It might be a previous tenant coming home after a night out. When they wake up sober, realising they no longer live there, they scarper.

Beautiful3 · 12/04/2022 13:56

I'd change the locks, front and back.

skeetroots · 12/04/2022 14:19

Posting for update

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 12/04/2022 14:20

@Beautiful3

I'd change the locks, front and back.
And if you have side door I would change that lock too. Wink
NoCleverNickname · 12/04/2022 14:28

According to my DH, people living in lofts used to be a "thing" back in the 70's in the UK.

In which case, I should imagine that the person living in the OP's loft is very old! Apparently a law came in where people had to make sure that their loft had a dividing wall between the houses as there would be whole families living above rows of terraced houses.

I wonder if OP has had any Saga magazines (are they still a thing in the UK?) delivered (by the now phoneless paper boy) or found any hearing aids or zimmer frames around the house. Because her loft dweller must be at least 65!!

Beautiful3 · 12/04/2022 14:34

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles 😂

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