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Am I being haunted?

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windowwhy · 15/09/2022 22:54

Someone pls shed some light on what on earth is going on. Name changed because it's an incredibly outing story if I've told it in real life..

Working from home today and I have two dogs as well as my sisters dog for the morning. On a call and I hear the dogs going crazy downstairs so I peer out of the upstairs window but don't see anything and forget all about it. Go downstairs after 5pm and as I bend down to get a candle out of a drawer I notice that someone has written on the outside of my living room window (which is clearly dirty) with their finger 'next run 15'. It's been written backwards from the outside because I can read it perfectly from in here.

Please share your best guesses as to what on earth is going on?! I assumed it happened earlier when I heard the dogs going but obviously can't be sure. Not impossible that it's been there for ages either and I've just not noticed because it wasn't overly visible from any usual angle

Please convince me I'm not about to be murdered and/or being haunted.

Window cleaner isn't due and not expecting any deliveries. Absolutely bamboozled 😂

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nancydroo · 15/09/2022 22:57

That is scary...Check the loft

windowwhy · 15/09/2022 22:59

DH is working away so it's just me and the dogs until tomorrow.. definitely not checking the loft right now 😂

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nancydroo · 15/09/2022 23:00

windowwhy · 15/09/2022 22:59

DH is working away so it's just me and the dogs until tomorrow.. definitely not checking the loft right now 😂

Very wise. Still, it's freaky.

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FantasylandEnthusiast · 15/09/2022 23:04

Are you a runner?

windowwhy · 15/09/2022 23:05

FantasylandEnthusiast · 15/09/2022 23:04

Are you a runner?

Nope, I done couch25k during the first lockdown but never since

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Cucumberbund · 15/09/2022 23:05

Is your window easily accessible from the road and at the front or it is at the back of your house and inaccessible?

littlemisscreative · 15/09/2022 23:06

OP you gotta draw us a diagram

windowwhy · 15/09/2022 23:07

Cucumberbund · 15/09/2022 23:05

Is your window easily accessible from the road and at the front or it is at the back of your house and inaccessible?

We live close to the end of a cul de sac so accessible from the road but would require coming up our drive. Only about 7 houses after ours and then a dead end, so minimal passing traffic other than our neighbours

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vipersnest1 · 15/09/2022 23:07

Or show us a picture...

Ihatethenewlook · 15/09/2022 23:09

We need the photo!

Juicelooseabootthehoose · 15/09/2022 23:11

Is the window at the front?

I'd be worried about the house being checked out and marked by potential burglars. Not sure why it would be written backwards though. 🤔

ConkerBonkers · 15/09/2022 23:13

Has a delivery from next been left in the bin of number 15 or something like that?

windowwhy · 15/09/2022 23:14

Juicelooseabootthehoose · 15/09/2022 23:11

Is the window at the front?

I'd be worried about the house being checked out and marked by potential burglars. Not sure why it would be written backwards though. 🤔

Yeh window at the front. I thought this too and was worried about the dogs being targeted as it is the window they sit at, but as you say, it's backwards from the outside and also small and I'd say entirely impossible to see from a distance so doesn't really make sense. I can't even see it from in here unless I'm squatting at the right angle

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NancyVicious · 15/09/2022 23:15

Probably just kids messing about, definitely not ghosts

FantasylandEnthusiast · 15/09/2022 23:15

I would assume it was code for someone casing houses to be completely honest. Something similar happened in my area. Just make sure all is locked and you're extra vigilant, two dogs is peace of mind too hopefully 🙏 I would also call non emergency 101 to log it tomorrow, just Incase anyone has similar x

Mushroomlady · 15/09/2022 23:16

Hmmm. Your windows are dirty but you say the window cleaner isn't due ?

windowwhy · 15/09/2022 23:16

I can offer a diagram of my house/street but no picture of the window, I tried for about an hour earlier to get one to send to DH. But the window isn't THAT dirty that it shows in a photo, it was only when I noticed it and the sun was shining on it that it was obvious

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Bestcatmum · 15/09/2022 23:18

Don't check the loft....or the cellar for God's sake.

Infinitemoon · 15/09/2022 23:18

Rub it off and put it on next door's house?

windowwhy · 15/09/2022 23:18

Mushroomlady · 15/09/2022 23:16

Hmmm. Your windows are dirty but you say the window cleaner isn't due ?

Nothing gets by you 😂 We're on week 4 of an every 6 weeks window cleaner round, so enough for there to be dirt/dust to write something in but no window cleaner due yet

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meateatingveggie · 15/09/2022 23:19

Next num 15?

As in a parcel for you at number 15?

RagzRebooted · 15/09/2022 23:19

I think it has always been there, from back when the glass/window was manufactured. Maybe an imprint from something else, or where some kind of wipeable pen was used to write on it. Could have left residue which dirt/moisture has stuck to.

'Next run 15' could mean something in factory terms.

RagzRebooted · 15/09/2022 23:20

I meant to add, it's on the inside of the window. The dogs barking is not related, you linked the two because you saw the writing.

ofwarren · 15/09/2022 23:21

windowwhy · 15/09/2022 23:18

Nothing gets by you 😂 We're on week 4 of an every 6 weeks window cleaner round, so enough for there to be dirt/dust to write something in but no window cleaner due yet

How can your Windows get so dirty in 4 weeks?

OldTinHat · 15/09/2022 23:23

Nope...!