Am I being haunted?

[windowwhy]

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 😂

That is scary...Check the loft

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.

Are you a runner?

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

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

OP you gotta draw us a diagram

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

Or show us a picture...

We need the photo!

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. 🤔

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

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

Probably just kids messing about, definitely not ghosts

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

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

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

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

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

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

Next num 15?

As in a parcel for you at number 15?

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.

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.

How can your Windows get so dirty in 4 weeks?

Nope...!