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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To sometimes be scared when I'm alone?

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RevoltingPeasant · 16/02/2011 22:32

This is one of those things that I'd never confess in RL because it makes me sound like I'm 7 but I often wonder if other people feel the same.

Now, I'm an atheist, I don't believe in ghosts or ghoulies or anything like that. Never had a supernatural experience, never 'seen' anything.

But. I live alone (for now) and sometimes... I just have to look behind me to check. Sometimes I just have to go downstairs one more time to look round the living room before I go to bed. Sometimes I freeze when I'm brushing my teeth upstairs and wonder, is that something coming up the stairs?

It's not burglars I'm worried about. It doesn't even have a definite form. It's just something that might be in the mirror, or right behind the just-open bedroom door.

AIBU or do you get that too?

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hatwoman · 16/02/2011 23:22

i get this sometimes but recently dh has started being away regularly and I can't sustain the nervousness - because I know it's silly. I used to keep the landing light on but can turn it off now. however when I take the dog out late at night - literally less than 20 yards from the door and for about 3 minutes I do lock the door. just in case someone sneaks in. I live in a small village and I know this is ridiculous.

MissyKLo · 16/02/2011 23:22

or in the loft looking at ya through a spy hole they have drilled...

iPhoneDrone · 16/02/2011 23:27

argh Missy that actually made me look up

SiriusStar · 16/02/2011 23:28

MissyKlo Did you have to?
IABU for clicking on this thread and then cicking on page 2.

MissyKLo · 16/02/2011 23:33

thump thump thump...

LoisLame · 16/02/2011 23:38

YANBU I try to rationalise by blaming creepy noises on the dog/cats/pet rats.

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RevoltingPeasant · 16/02/2011 23:40

Yeah but Sirius, what would be really creepy would be if it were actually your DH.... When I was little I was convinced for some reason that my sister was possessed and only 'changed' when our parents' backs were turned. God knows why, but I was quite scared of her for several weeks.

Obviously I have an over-active imagination and am a nutter.

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expatinscotland · 16/02/2011 23:46

it's possible the feeling of unease is coming from power cables in your home.

Honeydragon · 16/02/2011 23:58

Expat, Thankyou. I was sure I'd hears that theory before and then convinced myself I must have imagined it.

igetmorelovefromthecat · 16/02/2011 23:58

Well for anyone who cares about the ghosty stuff, I have literally just started writing a blog about all the random spooky stuff in my life, inspired by this very thread!

There is a lot of it though, so you will have to bear with me until it gets interesting (it is only half an hour old at the mo).

The stalker and intruders I can't really go into detail over for I guess you could say legal reasons!

myspookylife.blogspot.com

tulpe · 17/02/2011 00:06

YANBU.......except for the fact that you have now put spooky thoughts in my head, culminating in my jumping and screaming when sodding cat jumped on the bed :o

expatinscotland · 17/02/2011 13:30

It can really depend on your wiring. Just watch 'Ghosthunter' :o, it's something they always check for - the wiring and the plumbing since water is electromagnetic and can cause feeling of, well, hair standing on end, feeling up the back of being watched, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I've had a lot of ghostly experiences, but also firmly believe in first ruling out any possible rational explanation for such feelings.

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RevoltingPeasant · 17/02/2011 13:40

expat... I don't really believe in any of this stuff.... it's more just what gets you creeped out kind of thing!

tbh I've felt like this in every house I've ever lived in, I think I just have an overactive imagination and have watched too many horror movies.

But you have had actual ghostly experiences?

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specialmagiclady · 17/02/2011 13:48

I can't walk past the dark stairwell with the lights off below.

Actually, now I'm mostly living alone I'm much better but for years I couldn't go downstairs to turn a light off, say I'd accidentally left one on in the kitchen. Because the knife-wielding psychopath had put it on to tempt me downstairs...

expatinscotland · 17/02/2011 13:49

I never beleived in it, either, until I was 29 and confronted with irrefutable proof that a man I saw who was as solid or you or me was long dead.

expatinscotland · 17/02/2011 13:51

I've been in places that are centuries old and are peaceful as a newborn baby sleeping in a basket.

I've also been in places that are only 30 years old and I'd not wish to live in them!

The age of a place has nothing to do with it, FWIW.

oldwomaninashoe · 17/02/2011 13:56

I think it is about being comfortable where you live. I couldn't live anywhere where I didn't feel okay.
We moved house twice when I was growing up and I never felt comfortable in the second house, and would go to bed with the lights on!

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