To start yet another WOOO thread?

[katemiddletonsothermum]

We have an open fire. I'd made a nice fire up out of wood and logs. DH put another log on the fire as I was putting DS to bed.

I came down, stoked up the fire a bit and there was a lightbulb in the fire. Yes. A glass lightbulb. I shouted at DH a bit, ie wtaf you ss this could explode in my face blah blah - but he categorically denied putting the lightbulb in the fire. I know he's been working hard lately but surely no one would be that stupid? He thinks it fell down the chimney (we have jackdaws who often send us little presents of walnuts and bits of dried bread) - but if it had fallen down the chimney then it would have smashed to smithereens.

Our house is over 200 years old. I've never noticed anything woo before. But this is odd.

What the hell happened tonight?

OK - the wood.

I ordered the wood from a log supplier. It arrived in a pallet. My neighbour and I unloaded the pallet and then stacked up the wood in the wood shelter. There was no lightbulb.

Husband brought in a couple of baskets' worth of logs over the weekend. He loaded them up in a garden trug and unloaded them again in our indoor log basket. There was no lightbulb.

I cleaned out the grate from a previous fire, vacuumed it out. There was no lightbulb. I remade the fire, lit it, put on 3 logs. There was no lightbulb.

DH added ONE log. He claims there was no lightbulb. But when I checked on the fire 5 seconds later THERE WAS THE LIGHTBULB.

Also, we went to stay with MIL at the weekend and the three of us (me, DH, DS) were sleeping in the same room. I woke up in the pitch dark and heard someone moving around the room. I thought it was DS getting up to go to the loo, but then I heard him snoring in his bed. I thought it might be DH but then I heard him snoring next to me. There was still the sound of someone moving round the room.

IF it was MIL then I'll fucking do my nut.

Furiosa the crazy old demon lady I had conjured up in my mind is nothing compared to that! Perhaps it's a good idea if I do sleep with the light on...

FluffyPingPong

Perhaps it's a good idea if I do sleep with the light on…

Well how else are you supposed to keep it from coming into your bedroom?

OP, it is obvious. It ain't no lightbulb.

It

is

an

ORB!!!!

I can even see ghostly fingers surrounding it.

AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!

Where's Derek Acorah? And Sam? And the spirits that always have a scouse accent for some reason.

I've come home a few times to find the lightbulb in my room is not in the light but is in various other places in the room (including nearly on my pillow one day .) It's still in the light fitting where it should be today though so it's not travelled further afield to your burner.
Obviously are some spooky light bulbs about.

*neatly on my pillow

Hmmm muddle, wonder if anyone can shed some light...

Ho Ho the puns are out tonight.

I showed DH this thread. He is very upset that you all think it was him.

A haunted light bulb?
A possessed light bulb?
Have you still got the light bulb?
Hearing someone moving about in your room, now that is woo

What does dp think happened, does he have a theory?

Squishy that's very creepy

DH thinks the lightbulb fell down the chimney. Carried there by a bird. Must be a f big bird.

If so, why didn't it smash? It had to fall nearly 30 feet.

I would love someone to rationalise this away please. This happened 10 years ago. We moved into an old rental home that had a gas stovetop. It didn't have an ignition button, you had to turn the gas on then light it with matches. One time I turned the gas on and got ready to light it, but it ignited itself. My ds said Wow mummy that was magic! We had lights turn on and off themselves also. I don't know if there is a way it could have ignited itself.

Oooh I have one!
Was going to start a thread but chickened out.
Dd and I were glittering pine cones alone in the house, sat at kitchen table. Rain lashing down outside.
From nowhere was a really really loud whistling, but like happy tuneful whistling. I swear it was in the room and me and dd sat boltupright and stared at each other.
She asked how I did that. I bloody well did not!
I had to phone dh to calm myself down

Also last year we ended up with my grandads chair from my dad. It's a big old cosy Victoria thing so put it in dd bedroom to read stories in. The first night we snuggled into it and 2 year old dd said 'hello!' To the corner of her bedroom shudder when I asked who she was talking to she said 'the tall man with big ears' and waved!
My grandad died when I was a baby but was tall and slim with big stickey out ears.

I am very unwoo but those couple of things got me!

mermaid - electrical arcs can start fires. Maybe the fire and the lights are connected? Is it possible the stovetop used to have an ignition? Our stove is like that, someone removed it for some unknown reason but you can still find some wires.