Someone I Don't Know Is Living In My Home!

[NightOwl]

I confess I still jump to my bed after watching a scary movie because there's definitely a monster under there.... I'm 37 btw.

[sahm1225]

I confess I still jump to my bed after watching a scary movie because there's definitely a monster under there.... I'm 37 btw.

Me too and I'm 33! I still leave all the lights on when my DH has to work late.

Here are some ideas:
The missing food - someone forgot they ate it or ate it while sleep walking

The things moved around - could it be the dog moving things or the wind when the dog runs around that is moving things?

When I was little our church told us that the devil/spirits can only hear your words and not read your mind, so if you were ever afraid you were supposed to say 'diablo te repriendo' which translated says "devil, I reprimand you'. But basically tells them to leave you alone.

[CraftyMom]

I'm leaning toward spirits. The only thing saying it isn't is the Burger King bag, which may have been there and no one noticed it before, or may have been moved from somewhere else, or maybe it was your daughter's.

I know I have spirits, and the activity comes in spurts.

It may be a person though, and that would be creepier to me ::

You could try to "talk" to the person by leaving a note where you think they will be, like taped onto the cabinets or something. Ask them why they are there, what their intentions are, etc. Let them know that their secretive ways are creeping you and your family out. Ask if there is anything you can do to help their situation. Ask if it just that they need a place to stay. You could also ask them to leave. Not likely they will respond to any of this, but it doesn't cost anything.

[Tdhmom]

I'm leaning toward spirits. The only thing saying it isn't is the Burger King bag, which may have been there and no one noticed it before, or may have been moved from somewhere else, or maybe it was your daughter's.

I know I have spirits, and the activity comes in spurts.

It may be a person though, and that would be creepier to me ::

You could try to "talk" to the person by leaving a note where you think they will be, like taped onto the cabinets or something. Ask them why they are there, what their intentions are, etc. Let them know that their secretive ways are creeping you and your family out. Ask if there is anything you can do to help their situation. Ask if it just that they need a place to stay. You could also ask them to leave. Not likely they will respond to any of this, but it doesn't cost anything.

I'm curious....what kind of activity goes on???

[Unregistered]

Re: my children need jobs.

My older daughter is in her 3rd year of college and lives an hour away. She comes home to visit occasion. She has worked since she was 12 years old. She started working for and with my sister cleaning houses then was a busser at a restaurant, then was a karate instructor. Then we moved back north, where we are now and she worked for her father cleaning boat parts and doing paperwork at his shop. At that time, we lived close to his shop and she could walk to work. After she started driving, she worked at McDonalds. Her money has been for her to go out with her friends (roller skating, movies, etc.), buy clothes, whatever she wanted. Things that I would not have been able to pay for. Now that she is grown and lives with her boyfriend, of course her money goes towards her house hold needs and occasional outings.

My younger daughter (16 yrs old) has tried to get a job, but because of my daycare hours, I can't get her back and forth to work. She will be able to drive when school starts next year, so she will be able to get a job then. Her father was verbally abusive to her and threatened her bodily harm since she was 3 years old, so she doesn't feel comfortable being around him too often. So she won't work for him. Plus we have moved and live too far away for her to walk to his shop now.

Due to her father being abusive to her, she has always (since 3 yrs old) been afraid to be by herself too long or after dark. Now that we have lived here and she has experienced weird things here, that adds to her fear of being left alone, especially of being alone after dark. She is talking to a counselor about her issues.

My ex doesn't want to be bothered by my daughter or I needing him to help by giving my daughter a ride (she's in sports, she ALWAYS needs a ride in the evenings and often on Saturday too). Since she's afraid of being alone too long, she often gets scared and wants to go to a friends house, or I will take her to a friends' house before I go to work, but she has to get a ride home.

My ex will cuss me out and threaten me if he has to be bothered because I am at work in the evenings or weekends.

So, between my daughter being scared and my ex going off on me, it's not worth me trying to go out to work evenings and weekends. I do occasionally get some evening/weekend daycare kids. But there's not much of a need for that here.

My ex always tells me to go out and get a REAL JOB out of the house. I did that when I moved and had to wait for a new daycare license. I worked a couple of different day jobs trying to get more income and better hours. If I have 2 daycare kids, I make as much as I would going out to work. Plus if I do home daycare, whenever necessary, I can hire my substitute to work for me so I can take my daughter to the doctor/dentist, go up to her school to deal with issues there, etc. So, I make more money and am able to be a mother at the same time if I do daycare. I made less money going out to work and the bosses didn't like me having to take off work to go to my daughter's school, to take her to doctors, the dentist, etc.

I am not stupid and I am not lazy. I am a single mother with pretty much no help from anyone. I have to be full time mother at the same time I am employed full time. My younger daughter has a handful of issues anxiety, depression, unable to sleep at night, anger issues, etc. Most of her issues have to do with the crap her father has put us through. For a couple of years, she told me that she does not want him to be able to get her from school because she was so afraid of being with him alone. He has MAJOR anger issues. Now, she is comfortable to be with him on a slim occasion.

So, I need to stick with doing home daycare during the day and being mom in the evenings and weekends and figure out how to make whatever income I get from my daycare stretch as much as possible. That way my daughter is taken care of and my ex is left alone.

[Unregistered]

We have had all sorts of activity go on.

Before we even moved in, the house was empty for about 2 months. My neighbors said they heard what sounded like a bowling ball being rolled across the upstairs bedroom floors (they are hardwood floors). They say they never saw anyone going in or out of the house.

When we moved in, we piled a bunch of my older daughter's stuff into her room. We all crashed on the mattresses that we threw on the floor in the bigger room next to her room. We all kept hearing her wooden bed slats hitting each other as if someone was bumping into them. But every time we looked in the room, no one was in the room. We also made sure to find the pets (2 cats and 1 dog) none of them were in the room either. So, what was making the bed slats hit each other?

My front house door has been unlocked in the morning when I know I had locked it the night before and my kids said they didn't touch the door overnight. I am a very lenient mother with allowing my kids out late and allowing them to have friends/boyfriends over late. There would be no need for them to lie to me about someone coming or going late at night.

My older daughter heard a female call her dog by name and tell him "you're okay, you're okay". When no one was in the house but her.

My older daughter was dead asleep late at night in the basement, I was up late in the living room doing school work. All of the sudden, she came racing up the steps, her dog following after her, and she was screaming her head off. She said that she was asleep but woke up because she felt like someone was watching her. As soon as she looked to the foot of her bed, she saw a dark shadow of a person walking straight toward the foot of the bed. So she jumped up, screamed and ran upstairs. Now, her dog was laying on the floor right beside her bed and he didn't act like anything happened. He just followed his 'mommy' up the stairs. I immediately went downstairs and looked everywhere, checked the door and windows. I couldn't find anyone or anything, and the door and windows were locked. What did she see? And what made her feel like someone was watching her? And why didn't the dog see/hear/smell anything?

Food has been removed from the pantry numerous times (there is no door on our pantry, really it's just open shelves). And everyone in the house swears that they didn't take/eat that item.

Oh, here's a weird one... My older daughter's bed belongs with the headboard against the far left wall in the basement. Her dog crate belongs about 5 feet in front of the bottom of the basement steps butted up against the front wall. One morning, I opened the basement door because I was going to do laundry. I opened the door and looked down to start going down the steps and I saw at the bottom of the steps was my older daughter's bed lined up perfectly with the bottom wall of the stairwell, and her dog crate was placed at the very bottom of the steps!!! The bed and crate were placed where they completely blocked off the bottom of the stairwell from the basement! From my bedroom upstairs, I can hear things in the basement if they are loud enough. My daughter's headboard and footboard are metal. That room in the basement has a concrete floor with tile on top of the concrete. If you slide the bed across the floor, I would DEFINATELY hear it from my bedroom. In order not to slide the bed, you would need two people to pick the entire bed up at once to move it. I didn't hear anything at all the night that the bed and dog crate were moved! So, who or what moved the bed and crate? And why didn't I hear them being moved through the vent in my bedroom?

We often hear whispering from the basement. Typically we can't make out the words. Last night, I specifically heard a female say, " Just get in the house" But honestly, I was too scared to go to the basement in the middle of the night last night! So I didn't investigate. Without me saying anything about that to my daughter, she told me today that she heard people whispering in the basement from her vent in her room but was too scared to come to my room last night to tell me about it. This morning, I checked out the basement and the door and windows are locked.

Things has stopped for a while, but it started up again a couple of evenings ago when my daughter and I left the house for about an hour. We left around 8pm and got home around 9pm. My daughter locked the front door deadbolt and doorknob like we always do. I actually watched her lock the door; I was waiting for her to lock the door and then give me the keys so I could drive the truck. So, she locked the door, we went out for about an hour and came home. When we came home, the door was open 1/2 inch to an inch! Who unlocked my front door? Yes, it occurred to me later that most people would have called the police if they come home and find their door unlocked. But I'm so used to weird things happening here, that it didn't even come to my mind to call the police!

Another time when my daughter and I went out in the evening... My daughter was in her room. I decided I needed to go to Walmart. I went upstairs, as I came in view of her room, she closed her sketch book and turned it upside down on her pillow. (Her sketch pad is like her diary. She draws her secrets and thoughts rather than writes them and she doesn't like anyone seeing her drawings) So, when she saw me coming to her room, she closed her book and turned it over so I wouldn't see her drawing. I asked if she wanted to go to the store with me. She said yes, and immediately got up and we left, leaving the sketch pad turned over on her pillow. When we got home, it was turned right side up and flipped open to the page she had been drawing on! Who opened her sketch book while we were out of the house?

I have seen shadows - just random dark blobs go up and down my main stairwell from the main floor to the top floor. I have seen a larger shadow in the basement. I tried to make the shadows fit with something that might have happened outside, but I couldn't figure out anything that would have made those shadows.

In the middle of the night, coming through the vent in my bedroom, I have heard, on a few occasions, what sounds like a woman wearing flat dress shoes walking up and down on my basement steps.

Oh, another weird one... Both my younger daughter and I have been laying in bed sometimes asleep and sometimes when we were awake, we have many times felt like someone of a decent weight (like an adult ) sat on the bed beside us or at our feet. Every time, we have looked for our pets and they are never around when it happens.

Another weird one... And I'm sure you will tell me that no matter what, after this one, you would have found a way to move out of here... My daughter was asleep and swears that someone shook her arm and woke her up. No one was there! That one did scare the crap out of her and me and made me mad as hell! I can put up with noises and weird things, but this time something literally had ahold of my daughter! That was one of the times that I told the spirits in the house that they are not welcome here and that in the name of God they were to leave this house and never return and to never bother or come any where near anyone or anything in this house again. We were left alone for a while.

I have waken up in the middle of the night to see what looks like a pair of red eyes in the hallway. No body, no person, just red eyes about where an average 5ft high person's eyes would be. I have also on a couple of times seen orange eyes.

My dog has never really reacted to anything happening here, but he does on occasion, for no apparent reason go to the dining room and lift his nose as straight up as high in the air as he can and sniff all around the air as if he's smelling some new strange scent. But I have checked the whole house including the basement and have never seen anything or anyone when he has done that.

The items that get moved are pretty much always on the kitchen counters or the island in the kitchen. The last thing that was moved is my bottle of liquid dish soap. A day or so ago, it had been moved from the side of the sink to the back of the sink by the sprayer.

My daughter's friends have stopped spending the night here because they would hear whispers from the basement sometimes. They are too scared to sleep here now.

That's all I can think of right now.

[Unregistered]

Oh, I just thought of another one.

A loaf of bread appeared on the pantry shelf! It was a brand that I do not buy and it was a brand new full loaf of bread! I didn't buy it. We don't usually even buy bread. We don't eat sandwiches much at all. One day, my younger daughter went into the kitchen and came right back out and asked me where this loaf of bread came from (because she knew it wasn't the brand I buy). I said, "What loaf of bread? We don't have any bread." She said, "The loaf of bread on the shelf!" So I went to the kitchen, and there it sat! A brand new loaf of bread! Who put the loaf of bread on my pantry shelf?

See, it's random weird stuff that happens here. Sometimes, it seems like spirits/ghosts/demons such as the red eyes, feeling someone sit on the bed, my daughter feeling someone shake her arm, and no one is there. Other times it seems like people such as when food is missing, we actually hear people whispering, or a loaf of bread appears in the pantry.

[SilverSabre25]

sounds almost like a poltergeist.

try a paranormal investigation if it doesn't cost anything.

Smudge/cleanse/whatever.

If you know any clergy well you could possibly ask them to come in and bless/cleanse the home.

[Tdhmom]

I'm scared for you! Holy smokes I can't imagine having to live with that stuff going on. Has your landlord had any other complaints from pervious tenants?

[permanentvacation]

I already asked my preacher (Baptist preacher). He said they don't do things like cleanse houses. He did offer to come over and bless my house though. I also called a Catholic Priest. I told him that I am Baptist, and explained my situation. He also said that they don't ward off spirits from houses, that's something that was done way in the past, he said.

I didn't bother getting my preacher to bless my house. Maybe that would help.

[permanentvacation]

I don't like my landlord and do my best not to talk to him. I don't want to sound prejudice, because I am definitely not, but he is a foreigner and treats women like crap.

I do know a little about the previous tenants from my neighbors. They were HEAVILY into drugs, the neighbors think they might have done meth. They moved out because the police did a big drug raid here. They took out bag after bag of drug paraphernalia.

I believe they were either paranoid (possibly from the drugs they did) or had reason to be scared from something. All of the bedroom doors have an extra latch to lock the doors. The one bedroom door has a pinhole in it at eye level as if someone made a peep hole to see in or out of the bedroom.

[drseuss]

That is Whacked. Out. I would be spending all of my spare time finding a different living arrangement that could accommodate your daycare and your pets. And don't tell your ex about this stuff!

[Josiegirl]

Um wow, just wow!! It gives me the heebee jeebees just reading what's been going on. I'm not sure I believe in ghosts but you've got a very active one if there is such a thing. I would definitely be getting in touch with some paranormal agency or somebody. Isn't there a TV show, ghost chasers or something like that? I'll bet they'd be very interested. But then I guess, going public wouldn't be a very good idea having a daycare to think about.

[Leanna]

I already asked my preacher (Baptist preacher). He said they don't do things like cleanse houses. He did offer to come over and bless my house though. I also called a Catholic Priest. I told him that I am Baptist, and explained my situation. He also said that they don't ward off spirits from houses, that's something that was done way in the past, he said.

I didn't bother getting my preacher to bless my house. Maybe that would help.

I don't like my landlord and do my best not to talk to him. I don't want to sound prejudice, because I am definitely not, but he is a foreigner and treats women like crap.

I do know a little about the previous tenants from my neighbors. They were HEAVILY into drugs, the neighbors think they might have done meth. They moved out because the police did a big drug raid here. They took out bag after bag of drug paraphernalia.

I believe they were either paranoid (possibly from the drugs they did) or had reason to be scared from something. All of the bedroom doors have an extra latch to lock the doors. The one bedroom door has a pinhole in it at eye level as if someone made a peep hole to see in or out of the bedroom.

I am confused :confused:. Are you the OP?

[permanentvacation]

Yes, I am the OP. I accidently posted things on this thread forgetting that I had signed in under my name. I was trying to not let anyone know who I am because this stuff makes me sound crazy and I knew people would be concerned about the daycare kids' safety. But I honestly don't think any harm is going to come to anyone here. I think if whoever/whatever it is in my home wanted to hurt any of us, they would have hurt us by now.