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

[Mister Sir Husband]

Eh.. not really freaked out, just thought it was kinda cool. Was a really good spot though to grow/ store drugs as no one had any chance of finding it. He actually ended up buying the house later on, cut a bigger hole in the fake wall and installed one of those bookcases in front of it with a secret latch to move it. He keeps his safe in there... and a few other things he wants no one to ever find.

I have a small room at the end of a hallway that I would love to do this with someday. I could have a serious man cave in there and nobody would ever know.

[permanentvacation]

! I like your mancave idea! I have always said it would be cool to have a secret room with a door in a wall like you see in movies.

[LysesKids]

Wednesday,

A Wiccan I know told me to get a sage/smudge stick and do something in all 4 corners. But I am a Christian and I'm not sure about doing a Wiccan ritual.

Smudging is also done by Native Americans, not just Wiccans/Witches AND it's not just for home… people do the cleansing ritual on themselves too. I smudge every home I ever lived in after being in one that had bad MoJo. (I didn't even move into this new home until I smudged it just to make sure there was no bad spirits from get go). BTW, I now follow a spiritual path, but grew up in an Anglican home

[NightOwl]

I believe smudging originated with native Americans. Actually, lots of our traditions do. Native American spirituality falls under the pagan "umbrella" and is one of the oldest paths.

[LysesKids]

My first husband was Cherokee… my 2nd was Norse. I've been involved with pow wows for 30 years as I wanted my children to understand their heritage and eventually understood that native spirituality fit me better than the Protestant church I had grown up in. Many of my friends are pagan of some form or another and I tend to attract similar minded childcare families

[NightOwl]

My first husband was Cherokee… my 2nd was Norse. I've been involved with pow wows for 30 years as I wanted my children to understand their heritage and eventually understood that native spirituality fit me better than the Protestant church I had grown up in. Many of my friends are pagan of some form or another and I tend to attract similar minded childcare families

I LOVE a good powwow!!

[SillyGrl]

Welp, I don't have anything productive to say other than I'm sleeping with every light on tonight!!

The house we live in now has a tombstone on the side of the house. Yes. A tombstone. Of a man who was born in 1894. I was told, "It's been there forever!" The date of death is before the date of birth, so I can only assume that it was messed up, and for whatever reason, the man's family decided to keep it. Because what a conversation piece! I have been assured that no one is buried there and there's a stone in the local cemetery that matches the man, with a correct death date on it.

I did live in a house in New York that was very creepy. Ever since then, I get the feeling of houses. I haven't lived in one that was near as creepy as that house. Weird things would happen. We would walk into the house and hear our phone on speaker dialing, or the operator saying the line had been disconnected. Music boxes that would spontaneously play. The dome lights of the cars come on while sitting in the driveway locked. And the feeling of being watched. Definitely don't get that here!

Still sleeping with my lights on, though, I am thoroughly freaked out!

[originalkat]

Do you have flour? Sprinkle that instead of powder to check for footprints. Also I bought door sirens at the $ store they operate by magnets and mount with sticky tape onto doors and windows. When you get a few $$ yo could try those and see if your doors, closet or otherwise, are breached.

Those are some good low cost options.

[DaisyMamma]

See! It does happen where someone lives in the walls! It doesn't happen often and is practically unbelievable when someone first tells you about it, but it does happen!

Wow! Mr. Sir Husband, I bet your friend was scared to death and freaked out when they found that false wall! I don't know what the room sizes should be in this house. I will have to look into that and measure the rooms. I have just been looking for false doors or ways to open a wall.

You said that you're in a townhouse, right? That means your neighbors all have the exact same home/setup, so if someone allows you to tour their home, you can see if anything looks different.

[permanentvacation]

SillyGrl,

I definitely know how you feel!

[permanentvacation]

OriginalKat,

I bought the door chimes/alarms that you are talking about a couple of days ago and put them on all my house doors. I didn't think of putting them on the closet doors. I'll have to get some more and put them on the closets, and the attic door.

[permanentvacation]

Daisymama,

That's true. I can ask my neighbors.

[permanentvacation]

Last night, my 16 year old daughter insisted on sleeping in my bed with me. I have a TWIN sized bed! So we had me, my daughter, and my dog in a twin sized bed! Oh good grief! I told her that was a one night thing; it just doesn't work for me.

I talked to my preacher about all this yesterday. He suggested that I strengthen my faith, remember that the more afraid you are, the more power the demon has over me, and to ask God to cast out the demon rather than me doing so in the Lord's name.

[coolconfidentme]

I bought one of those night cams on Amazon last night & thought of this post. I just want to see what lurks in the night *animal-wise* at my country home.

On a side note, I do own the old county jail & It's full of dead people chatter, . The hair on the back of your neck will stand up in there if you aren't use to it.

[e.j.]

I am getting my food program check soon. I will have to buy the $120 security cameras and put them in the basement.

Given what happened with the baby monitor, I don't think I'd want to watch any footage from a security camera! Personally, I'd save the $120 and put it into savings so I could move out as soon as possible! We've had some creepy things happen around here and we do sleep with the hall light on at night because of that but it's never been quite to the level you describe. I give you credit for hanging in there for as long as you have. I get creeped out reading this thread but I can't stop reading the updates!

Out of curiosity....In any of the other stories you've heard about where a person was secretly living in someone else's home, how long had it gone on before that person was caught? It seems as though 2 years is an awfully long time to be able to live in someone's home uninvited and not be seen coming or going.