Anyone ever had weird stuff go on in their house?

[Pumpkinz]

In the last week, I've had two loaves of bread go missing from my house (one was in a delivery that I put in the cupboard, just mysteriously disappeared. Another my mum brought me to replace the other one, a loaf of sourdough. Randomly gone). Today I got up in the morning and found a scourer next to my sink. I don't use scourers. Never have. Weird weird weird!

Has anyone ever had something weird happen in their home and found a reasonable explanation for it?

• your mum brought the scourer over to clean pans she had noticed needed scouring
• the bread is in the utility cupboard/under the sink/somewhere random/fridge crisper drawer under the apples; you or your mum placed it there absent mindedly whilst distracted by something

I’d get a camera in case though.

Middle of the night during lockdown my dog went a bit berserk, woofing up a storm. Very very unusual for him and a bit scary for me.
Next morning, there was a bottle of water (not a brand I’d ever heard of) on the sink in the downstairs wc. Just baffling - it just appeared. No visitors due to lockdown and no sign of anyone entering the house in the night.

I came home to find my jewellery all over my bed once. Thought we'd been burgled but we hadn't. Came to the conclusion I must have been sleepwalking and just hadn't noticed it that morning.

Also woke up a few times to find the bedroom curtains open. Asked my husband why they were open and apparently I'd got up and done it in the night. I must have been sleep walking again.

Today I went outside to find my pond fountain perfectly balanced on the edge of the pond. It's not unusual for it to get knocked over by mr frog or the cats who drink out of it, but perfectly balanced right way up on the raised edge of the pond, odd.

Oh and once there were footsteps in my garden the snow. But the gate was locked and they didn't come from the back door (or gate). That freaked me out.

Very odd.

I had a white mouse materialise on a kitchen surface once though.

Wait, that sounds weird.

So I lived with late DP in a big shared house including my young adult sons. (Tres Bohemuan and creative lol) One of them kept reptiles so there was always a stock of frozen white mice tucked hygienically stored in the freezer.

It was a galley kitchen and I was doing a deep clean. I'd been in there all afternoon and one or two people had popped in for drinks etc but only for a few minutes.

We had two fridge freezers so in order to deep clean one, I transferred the contents of one freezer into another. I distinctly remember there were five white mice still in their little body bags.

I popped upstairs for something, and Reptile Boy followed me up to ask why I'd left an unwrapped dead white mouse defrosting on the counter as it was unhygienic, it wasn't snake feeding time and they should be defrosted in the fridge until ready to come out to get to edible temperature as it was summer - I got quite a lecture!

I looked at him as though he had two heads, and said I'd done no such thing as I never fed his reptiles and Eeew - corpse on kitchen counter. So we both went downstairs and sure enough cold stiff critter is laid out on the surface I'd bleached not five minutes before. We then counted the mice in the freezer and there were still five. I hadn't miscounted and he kept close track of numbers anyway.

We did have cats but not with opposable thumbs and it wasn't a fresh wild kill, it was a frozen mouse for snake consumption.

We have never been able to explain that one... .

A couple of weeks ago I got a phone call from a delivery company asking for "Ellie or (fil's name)" to arrange a delivery. Ful had not been involved in the purchase of the thing that was being delivered. It was probably just a mistake as fil has a very common name but still, weird.

Weirdest one though is I got a phone call from a man with a German accent asking for my Dad who has never lived here (first name and surname this time so definitely him, not a mistake). I was a bit freaked out when I said that he doesn't live there and then the man said he knew Dad didn't live there but he knew he was planning on visiting us later, which he was! I asked my dad about it when he turned up but he didn't know anything, weird.

The only other ones were a lady phoning and asking for "Dorothy" and then getting really angry when I said there is nobody called Dorothy here. She started shouting down the phone, accusing me of murdering Dorothy. In hindsight I think she probably had dementia and had dialled the wrong number.

One wasn't weird, just my good feed for the day. Elderly man rings up trying to book the village hall, told him sorry, he had the wrong number. He sighed heavily and told me this is the 4th number he'd tried so I googled the number and read it out to him. He was so pleased. Meanwhile FIL is making dramatic had gestures at me so I do my "no worries, glad to help" thing and hang up. FIL starts giving me a lecture about how I'm not obligated to help random strangers and I should have said wrong number and hung up. My own phone in my own house, unbelievable!

A Polaroid picture of a woman with blonde hair holding a monkey turned up in my daughters room. She was about 2/3.

I contacted everyone, spoke to her nursery - nobody knew her/knew where it came from.

It was in an envelope - just this random picture - looked like she was on holiday.

Odd

If the alarm is switched off I get a notification and it takes a video which points into the kitchen. No way of turning this off unless camera is off. Even if they unplugged the camera there would be a notification that it was no longer connected and the sensors in the kitchen and stairs would alarm.

If you sleep walk, is it the best idea to have a pond?!

you probably misplaced it, put it somewhere you wouldn’t normally put it so now it seems lost. Highly doubt someone is living in your loft. I always lose things, search my place from top to bottom and then find it when I’ve stopped searching. I think it’s because I was looking so frantically that my brain hasn’t registered that what I’m looking for is right in front of me, usually happens when I’m stressed

@HauntedbyMagpies 😂

As far as I know I haven't sleepwalked (sleptwalked?) in years. I went through a phase in my early 20s. No idea why. I find it quite unsettling though. Although if I went in the garden I doubt but my dh would even notice! He'd be busy snoring his head off.

Lots of things happen in my house, have done for about 18 years now. Most recent was a couple of months ago. In our bedroom there is a large, pretty heavy desk. On the desk (among other things) is a lidded storage basket.

Anyway, one day I had put a little pot of grapes on top of this lidded basket, to have as a snack later. I went to put some rubbish in the wastepaper basket, so my back was turned to the desk. As I did so I heard a noise, and turned around to see that the pot had toppled off the basket and rolled half way along the desk.

The pot had been nowhere near the edge of the basket lid, and the bedroom window and door were both shut, and I wasn't touching the desk when it fell. There was - in theory- no way it could have fallen off that basket on its own, without someone or something pushing it, or shaking the desk hard. And yet, that's just what happened.

As I said, that's just one of many strange occurrences.

@Pumpkinz ah right, I get you! That's a good thing though, for sure! I felt a bit bad writing that as it almost sounded like I wanted it to be someone in the attic 😂 But I was just ticking what if boxes off in my head. Such a strange one!

Granite mortar and pestle in the kitchen - the mortar dish is flat and wide. On occasion the pestle starts moving - rolling back and forth in the dish. Gives you a fright when it starts because it makes quite a loud noise. No-one believed me when l told them so l recorded it on my phone. A few other strange goings on - wafts of perfume and cigarette smoke - no smokers in the house.

I'd move out.

Sat in the living room late one night. Hear what sounds like water rushing in from the ceiling. Look up, nothing. Our bathroom is downstairs and it's not raining. The sound moved to ground level and moved across the floor, sounds like a rushing sound of wind combined with the patter of hundreds of feet.

Then it left the room.

No idea what that was! I wasn't scared but was very shaken,

Poor mouse.

I know this wasn't aimed at me, but despite all the odd goings on in our house, nobody has ever come to any harm. Been here 22 years now; I've no intention of moving any time soon! 😅

Strangely enough it’s not scary. The house has a nice atmosphere - it was what attracted us to the place when we bought. It feels more like someone just letting us know they’re here, rather than anything malevolent. If i can find the video l’ll try and upload it.

A lot of weird stuff happened in our flat when I was a child.
My white mouse disappeared from his cage and was found under the hollow ramp of a wooden castle on my chest of drawers.
I was at the front door talking to a friend when I was home alone and we could hear the drawers in my kitchen opening and slamming shut, with the cutlery rattling. My friend said 'If your mum's out, who's doing that?'
I sat on the doorstep until my mum came home.

I still think about the poster whose ironing board just vanished…

I once came home to discover the bath with warm water in it. I'd been out at work all day and was living alone at the time.

@Pumpkinz my 4yr old can walk all the way through the house without setting the alarm off. I've also caught her twice this week stealing bread from the kitchen so I wouldn't be too convinced it isn't your son 😂

No idea about the scourer though 🤷🏻‍♀️

Do you live near a train line or above the tube? Because we get this vibration thing but only when certain extra fast or large trains go past. It's not vibrating enough to feel but something unstably balanced does move/roll. And we're not near enough the line to hear the train, just get this tiniest of vibrations

I live in a house full of people with ADHD. Random stuff turns up in weird places all the time. Pixies could move in and rearrange half the furniture and I don’t think anyone would think anything of it.