There's something weird going on in my house

[horseHorseHorse]

For the last couple of weeks I've been noticing lights on when I come in when I'm 100% sure I've turned them off. Milk out on the side when I'm sure it's been put away. Stuff moved around but not in an obvious way, just a "huh, I could have sworn I left that somewhere else."

Put it down to rushed mornings and my cats playing with stuff.

Been out most of the day, just went into the upstairs bathroom for the first time since this morning and there's blood on the loo tank. Thought it could have come from a cat bringing something in but the door has been closed all day, and it's on the third floor so it's not like they could have got in and out like that. Windows have been closed too.

I have already bought carbon monoxide detectors in addition to the wired in ones. They're all over the house but haven't picked anything up.

Have a loft but the hatch is tiny and doesn't seem to have been disturbed.

Have an internal camera which shows the front door and hall - no activity though it did show my dog going bonkers barking at something outside a couple of times today (though the external camera isn't up yet so I couldn't see what)

Only direct family have keys and they wouldn't do stuff like this. Will be changing the locks tomorrow!

I'm properly creeped out ATM! Husband will be back shortly from work thank god! I'm in the bedroom with the door wedged shut for the moment!

Please someone give me a rational explanation!

OP, why are you so reluctant to consider that you or your husband might have left the milk out? I'm sure the vast majority of people do things like that all the time. It's very easy to forget to turn lights off and to not notice if they are left on when you go out and then come home in daylight, but now it's getting dark earlier, a light will obviously be much more noticeable. I have half a dozen places where I leave my keys and glasses, and frequently think they are not where I left them. But I don't put any things like this down to anything but that I've not got a brilliant memory for some things, and I'm often quite stressed.

Treatening to create a new thread just to try to humiliate the OP is vile and it would only be deleted.
I'm calling you out for that, darling.

The gall of some of these people. Smh.

We had a cat, years ago, who found out how to open the fridge door. We couldn't work out why cooked meat was disappearing, and then we caught her in action. I dread to think what else she had sampled before we found out. There will be a rational explanation, you just need to discover it.

A similar thing happened to neighbours of mine, two young women. They had come home drunk and left their keys in outside of the front door. They found them there in the morning and thought no more of it.
After a while they noticed their food was running low quickly and things were moved or lost. They argued.
One day, one woman stayed home sick and came down late morning to find another neighbour with his feet up, eating and watching TV!
He'd taken the keys, copied and replaced them in the front door and had been letting himself in for months!

I don’t think you are making any of this up OP. Some weird things go on that don’t always have a straight forward explanation. Having someone almost call you a liar because it doesn’t fit their narrative is crazy.

I did not 'treatening' anything.

Nor did I threatening anything like creating a new thread.

OP continues to deny many. many posters who have tried to help with very logical explanations. You can call me out if you like, but it is a bit ridiculous when its OP's thread.

Honestly, where is the OP's engagement here? I can't see it. Darling.

Which is why I posted! I'd absolutely love a simple rational explanation but I can't think of one!

I'm not saying I'm not leaving stuff out or the lights on but it's a bit weird that both my husband and I have suddenly started doing at the exact same time!

My engagement? I have no idea what you mean!

I'm rejecting things that don't make sense to me, like it being the cat. There's no way he could be in the bathroom without me seeing him, then manage to close the door behind him when it opens inwards. And the kittens are too small to do it too.

How does this end? Did the police come? Did you find someone in the attic. I am in total suspense about the explanation. I hope you are ok.

Do you have a downstairs toilet?

Well, it must be an intruder then. One that bleeds over the toilet and leaves the milk out. And moves things around. But doesn't have keys. And it is not your ex who lives in Northumberland or the Isles of Scilly. Or maybe Arbroath or Hyde Park.

So, it has to be something really, really scary. Having eliminated many things, I wonder if it could be in fact a Poltergeist. In that instance it must have lived in your home for many, many years. Even if it is a new home then Poltergeists can still manifest if the house is built overlooking a cemetery. I remember watching a documentary or film about it, by Stephen King I recall.

It could be that. Or...wait, if you live in the country it could be you are near a 'field'? Fields are scary and I remember living next to maize crops and they swayed in the wind. And Mel Gibson was there. I see him now. Circles.

Or maybe it was a Clown. Etc.

Sis? That you? When I was a kid my mum started accusing me and my sister of taking stuff out of the fridge.

We swore blind it wasn't us but mum never believed us. She'd say look, you can have stuff but you need to tell me so I know to get some more. We'd tell her we would do that IF we were taking stuff BUT WE WEREN'T.

Until the day she watched the cat hook her claws into the rubber seal, pull the fridge door open, help herself to a sausage then knock the fridge door shut with her bum!

I'm 50 and I'm still slightly miffed at the false accusations

Most rats have iPhones these days, so it would be a different charger. I guess a rat could be technically challenged or wants to march to his own beat and own an android....🐀📱

But the milk, it would be returned to the fridge for another day. Rats hate the waste/taste of spoiled milk. 🍼😉

@horseHorseHorse Have you noticed any cheese missing? 🧀

Yes, under the stairs.

Maybe its Maybelline.

My cats go to my room and put on some lip gloss, but they only do it after drinking milk. But all before they settle down to watch Wonders of The Universe with Brian Cox.

I'd fully believe it was the big cat or even dog but my freezer is on the bottom, fridge on top and I just don't see how they'd manage it.

Glad your culprit was found though!

I don't understand what that means.

You have an extreme need for attention, don't you? Even if it's negative attention.
Get a hobby, unless being witchy to others IS your hobby, in which case, find a new one.

Your cats have great taste in TV!

Don't worry about it. Someone just needs to go touch grass or something.

My mother never stopped accusing me of "stealing" a square of unsweetened chocolate and eating it. I mean really? I was little and the taste would have made me barf. But, it was gone and I was blamed. It was a lousy square of chocolate and one would have thought it was a full on three-layer chocolate torte or something. 😆🍫

Sorry, haven't read whole thread, but pollen from lilies can resemble tiny flecks of dried blood.

I think it was a comment saying a nest of insects or rats in the plumbing.