To pack up and go home at stupid o'clock?

[HarlettOScara]

We are currently staying in a holiday let at the coast for a few days.

I am awake with DD (6 weeks) as she needed fed and I was getting ready to lift her out of her crib when the light in the ensuite flashed on and off a couple of times which freaked me out a little. Then there's a loud repeated beeping noise coming from the hallway. I kick DP out of bed to go and investigate and it transpires that there has been some sort of power surge which has affected the house's fire alarm system. Then the power goes off completely...ok, no big deal. Annoying and awkward in an unfamiliar property but a quick call to the power company confirms that they are aware of the fault in the area and power should be restored by 5am.

So, I finish feeding DD and, using the pitiful glow of light from my iPhone for light, I go to put her back down in her crib. I place the phone on the bedside cabinet and just as I'm getting up off the bed with DD the phone flies off the cabinet and disappears behind the bed. The cabinet is a good foot or do from me so I definitely didn't knock it down, nor did it just fall, it flew behind the bed and ended up all the way over on the floor on DP's side of the bed. That's over 4 feet from where I set it.

I know many people believe Apple is the work of the devil but my iPhone is possessed, isn't it? Either that or the holiday home is built on an ancient Indian burial ground because I believe there are loads of those on Ireland

I am not a believer in all things woo but this has freaked me out to the extent that I am considering packing up the car and driving home to civilisation in the pissing rain. AIBU?

And what do I do if it turns out my iPhone is indeed possessed? Does Apple's Genius Bar service offer a gadget exorcism service?

'Scuse any typos. Blame the demonic phone. Knew I should have got an android phone instead.

How the fuckety fuck did you manage to retrieve it in the dark? Or did you just hold out your hand and it flew back into it?

Seriously though, sounds a bit freaky but so long as you're all warm enough and there's no actual danger, I'd stay put at least until daylight and then make a decision in the cold light of day.

Plus chat to the owners, maybe, and see if the house actually has a poltergeist, and is it generally friendly. :)

You're tired. You're in an unfamiliar place and the lights are out. Snuggle down with Dh and you'll be fine in the morning.

Similar once happened to me - it was in daylight so I could see was that what had happened was one of those loops of ribbon in my clothes used to keep it on a coat hanger had got caught on the door handle and I was unable to move forward further than its length. If I had been in the dark in an unfamiliar place I may well have got a wiggins and thought unseen hands were pulling me back or something.

Honestly, you're fine.

Also get Dh to find and check the trip switch on the fuse box. You could be sitting in the dark for no reason if it tripped when the power cut started.

The screen was still on so we could see it glowing.

I'm guessing the owner may not be thrilled at discussing paranormal activity in their holiday home at 3am but I shall certainly mention it when we return the keys.

Thank fuck we're due to go home tomorrow anyway. This 'staycation' had only served to reinforce my view that holidays should only ever involve plane travel and luxury hotels.

DP is almost deaf in one ear so he's able to block out the infernal beeping of the fire alarm and is snoozing beside me while I quietly freak out. I should leave the bastard, shouldn't I?

DD is also sleeping in a rare settled-in-crib-on-first-attempt shocker which convinces me that other worldly forces are at work here. Although, frankly, if they can get DD to settle that quickly every time, I may invite them home with me.

Alas, definitely not the trip switch. The power company confirmed that the electricity is out across most of the area.

Aaaaaargh! Double post. My phone is definitely possessed Possibly by the same entity that afflicts Chaos's phone

Why why did I read?? Am up in our holiday house feeding DD2 (11wks) DH is upstairs in a different room with DD2 who has ddcided she has to sleep with a grown up PROBABLY because she's afraid of my demonic iPhone I now realise.

I'd cutch the little one up best to DH and spend the night glaring suspiciously at the phone then consider an upgrade to a Samsung Galaxy tomorrow that's what DH has probably why DD1 chose him

Oh. My. Fucking. God. You can see a double post, but I can't. That definitely proves it. I am going to pack my car and get out of there right now.

Argh DD1, decided and next

See possessed damn you op!

And if you don't leave the bastard, I will.

Thank god I've got an Android.

The real question is what possessed you to take a six week old baby for a holiday.

It'll be a lot easier than taking a 17 year old, I can tell you!

so very true there...

iPhones are very shiny. Your holiday home is on a tilt.

I'm worried we haven't heard back from you OP... Has the poltergeist dragged your entire family into a parallel universe?!

You survive the night OP

Definitely not been dragged off to a parallel universe. A parallel universe would have a better 3G signal than this godforsaken backwater rural idyll.

If we do have a poltergeist, it seriously needs to up its game as, aside from levitating iPhone and spookily easily settled baby, the rest of the night was rather pedestrian.

Still glad to be going home though if only for the reliable Internet connection

And it will not surprise the more experienced parents to learn that the decision to take a newbirn on holiday was conceived before her arrival when the most oft uttered phrase between DP and I was 'how hard can it be?'

Oh good. What a relief.
But how do we know it's really you talking? You could be possessed or anything

Glad you're ok, Harlett!

Could it be that the top of the bedside cabinet is sloping and the phone slid down and fell off? If the top were highly polished, that could easily happen.

No, cabinet perfectly flat and phone had sat on it for several nights before it decided to fly across the room

Safely home now to my non-haunted house with wonderfully speedy and reliable wifi