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to think we're all going to be mudered?

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Objection · 30/12/2013 20:27

I'm away for the Christmas period working for the family I Nanny for at the weekend. We are staying in a mansion/log cabin on the top of a mountain - very very secluded.

On the first night, I heard very light knocking in my room. Quite distinctive as knocking - like one of the kids wanted me. But the kids are on the opposite side of the house and there was no one around. This happened twice (early morning) but I was so tired I didn't think much of it.

The next morning it turned out that everyone in the House had heard the three light knocks at least once in the night.

I checked outside all the windows and there were recent animal prints (think Elk and Bear) and human foot prints circling the house. no one in our group had been outside at all and the prints didn't match anyone's shoes.

Second night, three light knocks again in the dead of night. Everyone heard them at different times.

Third night (last night) the knocks happened again and the four year old boy I look after starts talking about the "blood man" that only he can see being in the House Shock he keeps singing songs about the Blood Man.

AIBU in thinking that we're living some crazy horror film?

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JesusInTheCabbageVan · 31/12/2013 11:08

Love how the first post after the OP just says: murdered and nothing more. Poor OP must have thought Blood Man was on here, till she spotted the typo.

SabrinaMulhollandJjones · 31/12/2013 11:18

I can't be the only one wanting to spend next Christmas with Daniel Craig in a log cabin in Colorado, can I?

The bears would be a concern though...

PublicEnemyNumeroUno · 31/12/2013 11:32

This thread has given me the willies

DIYapprentice · 31/12/2013 11:46

Oh for heavens sakes, they're not foot prints, that's just the imprint left on the snow from the dripping icicles which form from the snow on the roof as it melts a little when the sun hits them!!!!

(Or am I talking too much common sense here??!!)

Grennie · 31/12/2013 11:56

Are you the prettiest one? The prettiest one never dies first. If you are not....

Grennie · 31/12/2013 12:00

Actually, the children never die. Stay close to them at all times and you will be fine.

softlysoftly · 31/12/2013 12:04

What time is it there now? It's just so very selfish to have a lazy lie in and not let us know which family member the 4 year old knocked off didn't make it.

BlameItOnTheBogey · 31/12/2013 12:06

It's only 5am in Colorado softly...

openerofjars · 31/12/2013 12:10

No news yet?

She'll be hiding under a bed with the possessed 4yo. Brr.

AnAdventureInCakeAndWine · 31/12/2013 12:11

But ghost killers always strike in the middle of the night. OP could at least have taken a few minutes to log on and update us while she was hiding under her bed in terror. If she'd had the presence of mind to start this thread in Chat she could have uploaded blurry photos of the killer's feet and everything.

KateAdiesEarrings · 31/12/2013 12:14

Ah but DIYapprentice that doesn't explain the knocking or the blood man obsessed 4-yr-old Wink

tombakerscarf · 31/12/2013 12:17

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LadyJx · 31/12/2013 12:20

Glad I read this thread this morning :-)

LadyJx · 31/12/2013 12:22

Glad I read this thread this morning :-)

3FrenchHenD19s · 31/12/2013 12:26

Not another woo though preferring the term willies thread I'm obsessed with checking up on.

I've only just got over the 'there's a ghost in my office' one.

MammaTJ · 31/12/2013 12:38

I'm fairly sure I hope you'll make it out alive.

frizzcat · 31/12/2013 13:06

Sorry if anyone has suggested this but I got to page 11 last night and then passed out ..... Probably from nervous exhaustion at reading this thread.

Right, my suggestion. Objection do you have a special significant other in your life? Or a special wants to be significant in your life other?

I'm just wondering if they've sent The Milktray Man?

He does like a pair of skis, the poor sod could have been wandering around in the dark (he only operates in the dark) with only his black Farah trousers and black polo neck for company?
The knocking you've heard is him, tapping the walls looking for your secret passage that last bit sounds wrong, so he can slip unnoticed into your bedroom leave the chocolates, and then jump out of the window with no parachute and a knife gripped in his teeth

RedToothBrush · 31/12/2013 13:12

Just thinking how everyone on this thread will react when the OP doesn't post today...

...it'll be some time before the bodies are discovered and the story makes the news.

Danann · 31/12/2013 13:17

The first set of foot prints look the same as prints in the mud outside where my dog is an idiot got excited and forgot how to walk properly so either its Wolves/coyotes/big cats trying to work out how to get in to eat you whatever you have in the cupboards or it's a very excited werewolf.

Or more sensibly could there be a security guard/police man wandering round to check on you with his big Alsatian because you are so isolated?

notoneforselfies · 31/12/2013 13:25

I was taught drama by the milk tray man Grin
Marking place for news...

frizzcat · 31/12/2013 13:28

So you learned a lot of dive-roll-cover moves then notonefirselfies

notoneforselfies · 31/12/2013 13:29

I have a fairly extensive repertoire, yes...

AmberLeaf · 31/12/2013 13:35

Nearly breakfast time in Colorado OP...hurry up and let us know you are still alive...or eating a box of Milk Tray Grin

MrsLaceyTaserTheThird · 31/12/2013 13:44

I was deeply immersed in this thread this morning, when a delivery man rang the doorbell, 3 feet from my ear I shrieked and jumped about 3 feet in the air.

CheeseStrawWars · 31/12/2013 13:50

"there is a single track of prints leading from the woods to the house"

If there is a single set of tracks to the house then whoever made the tracks did not go back into the woods, and must therefore still be in/near the house. It's the family messing about, surely. Easy enough to walk backwards through the snow, and then retrace your steps so it looks like a trail to the house. Surely if you had your kids up in a cabin and there was even the suspicion of something untoward, it would be taken much more seriously and investigated far more thoroughly than the OP's family appears to be doing.