To think there's someone in my house

[AtSea1979]

Sat downstairs heard a strange noise sounded like an window or door suddenly banging or rattling, then a series of thuds. I convinced myself it was the neighbours as they are attached. Kept hearing rattling/banging so went to investigate.
Checked front door, locked. Checked kitchen. Back door unlocked so locked it.
Checked my bedroomas, no probs. Checked DS bedroom and his window is wide open with the safety catch off and he's snoring away.
Has someone broke in? Have they left out the back door? Are they hiding in my wardrobe?

Ha, used to live close to Bath, now NE USA!

Yes it had a warning shot over its head, and I was ready for the next one not to be a warning shot!

Hope you're asleep by now. I don't know where you are but where I am it's stormy tonight, I'm still downstairs and I can hear my open bedroom window moving in the wind. DH and the kids are up there - we've been here 15 years now so I know the sound. If it's not your windows it could be next door'. No opportunist is going to be hiding for this long. If they were hell bent hell would have happened by now. It's just the wind.

I fell asleep with light one. DD just woke me saying "what's that noise"?
Made me jump out my skin when she silently appeared beside me and again when she said about the noise. Just done another look round the house. It's not totally uncommon for DD to do this.
Wind is still howling. Forgot to mention, we live next to a building site (last new build on row - more being built around us) so perhaps something has whipped up in air from there.

Hoping you get some sleep tonight

Hope you're all okay! Too late now maybe but I would get the kids to stay in the same room as me

My first thought is that hopefully you're OK OP - none of us want to read an S.O.S. from any MN'er but FFS woman, how anyone could cower in their own beds whilst their DC sleep separately from them is totally beyond me.

Again, I hope you're all ok.

You probably heard a tarp or something from the building site banging in the wind.

Hope you got some sleep. Why are some people trying to make OP feel guilty? Ridiculous.

Over the years, we've had posts of real emergency and MN'ers respond well. Some responses have literally been life-saving.

OP had genuine fear (from reading her postings) and not just "Ooh I'm scared of the storm" type postings.

But stayed in her bed with her DC separated in their own rooms. Of course, she didn't actually state ages and certainly her DC could be strapping 6ft second rows for their local rugby team.

I live just a stone's throw from an infamous murder case - Mum, Nan and two little girls under 10, so maybe this strikes a nerve a bit.

Because the rational part of the OP's brain knows that the overwhelmingly likelihood is that it was nothing dangerous and her children are absolutely fine. Going in and waking them up or bringing them to her bed is totally unnecessary.

Well that was the worse nights sleep but on the bright side, all is well. I'll be having a word with DS when he's up about opening his window and I'll be checking the doors are locked more often.

Morning OP. Glad everything is OK.

A plant growing up the side of the house can be really noisy. Our rambling rose often knocks on the door!

Also, houses creak in a footstep pattern as they cool at night. The floorboards and pipes contract.

What's the point of telling the OP how terrible she is for staying in her own room because she was frightened?

Glad you're all ok OP.

Oh god I read this imagining some sort of scene from Luther. I think I would have been awake all night trembling like Scooby Doo. Glad you're ok!

It was obvious that it was the wind that made the noise and posters on here delighted in whipping the op up into a frenzy of panic and making her feel guilty for not pulling her kids out of bed and driving to the supermarket

Glad you're ok OP
I'm also relieved I didn't read this thread last night, on m hoppy own overnight during awful storms,pregnant with two children under four 😱

New builds are scary when building work is still going on. I live on s site and one night in the winter I was walking from the station and suddenly felt really spooked. It was dark, the wind was whistling through the half built homes, thebfksgs were flapping and clanging in the wind...something felt off though. Then i heard an owl in the distance and nearly filled my pants, belted along the road as if I was being chased.

Probably nothing but that feeling in awful.

You know the worlds gone mad when someone suspects they have an intruder and instead of calling the police they share the news with an Internet forum

I'm sure if the OP had actually thought for a second her and her DC's lives were in danger, then she would have done something.

Kudos to her for not wasting police time over normal late-night anxiety.

Op when I was 15 my parents moved into a new build house with houses still being built next to us, someone tried to break in when I was home alone at 5pm. You NEED to up your security. PLEASE!

20 years later I'm still paranoid

I think that the op posted on here rather than ringing the police or grabbing her kids because she knew, deep down, that she was being irrational and just wanted reassurance. Unfortunately she got a fair bit of scorn and panic too!!

You know the worlds gone mad when someone suspects they have an intruder and instead of calling the police they share the news with an Internet forumhmm

And there have been quite a few posters with medical problems who air them here first for advice?.