To think our house might be haunted?

[SunBathinginNevada]

I'm a non-believer usually but some weird shit has happened since we moved in 3 weeks ago. The heating keeps turning itself onto the highest setting (it was like a sauna in here yesterday) and we keep finding water splashes up walls when nobody has been in the house.

Last night I went to our bedroom to find all the duvet and pillows off the bed and on the floor. DH swears he didn't do it.

Today I come home from work and my ornamental elephants are laid on their sides with their tusks missing and what appears to be a red liquid leaking from them and onto the carpet. It looks awful. Nobody else has been in the house. AIBU to start wondering if maybe something weird is going on?

[GoshlyoHeavens]

Heating = fixable

Bedding = doesn't matter

Bleeding ornamental elaphants = AAAAGGGGHHHH

[expatinscotland]

It's an elephant-hating gnome.

[Gruntfuttock]

"It's an elephant-hating gnome."

I think so too, and they're murder to get rid of, but do not worry because help is available www.perpetualkid.com/gnome-be-gone-bobby.aspx

[Gruntfuttock]

I've just realised that they're ^^ no longer available, so sorry, but you're doomed.

HTH

[PiratesLifeForMe]

Ooh intrigued!! My heating used to come on in the middle of the night but that was definitely a dodgy timer.. All the bedding off the bed & the elephant massacre....that's another matter!

Get a ghost-cam set up Paranormal Activity stylee...

[captainBeaky]

Hmmm, nice try! Trunkless elephants mwahhahahahah

[hellymelly]

I believe in ghosts but I would be very scared that someone could have come in and done all that. The elephant thing is horrible. I would call the rozzers asap, and get them on to it, and then maybe set up a camera too.

[captainBeaky]

people are believing this?

[Solo]

What reason is there not to captainBeaky?

[expatinscotland]

You know, this woman on Channel 4 has aliens who come in and mess with her ornaments, too. The world abounds with beings who travel millions of miles to participate in ornament abuse.

There you have it: it's aliens.

[scripsi]

Could you get in some cameras and not tell DH that you're doing that? You should at least change the locks ASAP.

[mercury7]

p'rhaps you've got one of these ghosts?

newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/25/watch-spinning-statue-at-manchester-museum-mystifies-staff/

[saintlyjimjams]

Change locks & get a camera

[HeadfirstForHalos]

If you are being serious then I echo what everyone else has said, change the locks!!

[lessonsintightropes]

We had a 'ghost' in an old rental place - would come home and the cleaning had been done; once beds had been slept in when we'd made them before leaving the house; keys moved from room to room. Once we came back and the floor had just been mopped. Weird and a bit scary but at least more helpful than bleeding elephants!

[TimeofChange]

If, after changing the locks, the wierd stuff continues, then the Spiritualist Church will have people who can help you.

I think they would be better than the CoE or RC vicars & priests.

They will ask it to leave and release it.

[DawnOfTheDee]

It's Pipes! Ruuuuunnnnnn.........

[Buswanker]

I guess as your house is quite new you don't have shared loft space?
I agree to check it's not your husband or someone else, also agree with camera hidden away (don't tell anyone else you are doing it)
When I was a kid my brother rearranged all my slyvanian families into dead positions in my dolls house so it looked like a massacre in every room. Even the grandma hamster thingy was murdered in the attic conversion :(
I am a bit woo so would be interested to hear spooky views on what it could be in your house.

[Shutupanddrive]

Change the locks and send DH into the attic to make sure no-one is living there

[microserf]

Another believer in general things woo that thinks someone has keys to your house. I would have dh check all access points and hides holes and get front and back door lock changed. I think someone is in the house.

[dubstarr73]

I am woo but it sounds like someone joking.It just seems to far fetched.If someone was living in your attic that would really be drawing attention to themselves.

I think its someone closer to home

[xylem8]

Do you have any pre-teens?

[BehindLockNumberNine]

I too am more inclined to think that it is a person rather than a ghost (as much as I would love to believe ghosts exist, they fascinate me too )
However, if it is a person than I would see this as more than just messing about or someone joking about. Breaking the tusks off your ornamental elephants and dousing them in red liquid is more than just a harmless prank. It is wilful damage and I would interpret it as threatening.

Get the cctv set up (don't even tell dh) and see what's going on.

[xylem8]

I ask about preteens because we experienced some weird things when 2 of our DC were approaching puberty

[MummyPig24]

Creepy!!