Strange happenings in the bathroom!

My children’s’ three furbies used to give me the screaming heebie jeebies on many an occasion. All I had to do was walk into the bedroom and they’d start chattering to each other ?

A few months after my husband died, I went to stay for a week with friends in Denmark. Arriving home I found the 42" tv lying on the floor - the stand had snapped and it had fallen about 2' catching the side of the table it was stood on. Nothing else was disturbed, no other evidence of a break in.

Also we had a set of keys we kept in the kitchen to locking the back door. Those disappeared too! My daughter told me that it was my husband who was expressing his disapproval of me going away on my own! Those keys are still missing 18 months later!

They are hypnopompic or hypnogogic auditory hallucinations.
Hypnopompic is when you are waking up; hypnogogic when you are falling asleep.
^It is sometimes called 'exploding head syndrome' tchshock!
They are surprisingly common.

Thanks for that, Fanny. "Exploding head syndrome" is me to a tee, I think, in every respect!

When my youngest daughter was at high school, she brought home a 'smart' baby doll for the weekend. (I think it was a lesson on the reality of motherhood.)

It cried regularly (and loudly) when needing a feed or change.

After one sleepless night, she abandoned it on the landing, of course. At bedtime, I buried it deep inside the laundry basket, to muffle it's sound.

At 4 am I was roughly shaken awake by our family dog. He'd tipped over the basket, retrieved the 'baby' - and placed it on my pillow!

I don’t have anything constructive to say other than that really made me chuckle!! We all know it’s just an object but then allow our minds to wander to these crazy ideas - I would be the same ?

Pammie
Have you tried communicating with your ghost?
I wish I had said something when I saw my first one. I knew who it was, it was my boyfriends late father.
The second one was a cat. That was odd.

Smart TV’s & PVR’s update themselves each night (usually at 2am. or 3am. I was unsettled until I realised this.

@Petra No we’ve not tried communication, although I must say I’ve been tempted, but not quite brave enough yet, in case we get something affirmative !!

My husband died unexpectedly nearly four years ago and my only other ‘paranormal’ experience was a couple of days after he died - I was lying in bed one night, weeping and felt a ‘presence’ in the room. I felt the end of the bed move - the mattress depressed as though someone had sat down on it. I asked if it was him, got nothing back but still felt the presence. A few minutes later the bed moved again, just as though someone had moved off the mattress. To this day I can’t explain it but I like to think it was my husband trying to let me know he was there - perhaps trying to comfort me. I moved to my new home after meeting my partner - from the home I shared with my husband. I have wondered if it’s him, trying to let me know he’s looking after us.

Sparklefizz
I have a colour printer which tend to print out the document 24 hours later at a time of its choosing. I think it's to do with being wireless and going through the router. It was only a cheap printer!

We have a TV (not used, unplugged) it scared the life out of us, after it was switched off it would suddenly boom out with a few seconds of a programme!! Would Scare the S**t out of a burglar!!

Ha ha he just looks a bit vacant.

midgey

I have a tv that turns itself on in the middle of the night! Nothing worse than being deeply asleep and suddenly hearing a spooky film?

This was happening to me too - driving me nuts to hear it suddenly switch on around 3.00am. OH was sick of being blamed.

Finally sussed that the culprit was ME - without realising it.

I can pre-set reminders to make my TV switch over to a particular programme .................... BUT, I was accidentally switching it to 'Series Link'. This meant that whenever that particular programme was scheduled, my TV would switch over to it OR - if the TV was switched off - it would actually switch the TV ON ........................ no matter what time of day, or night .

Even now, I'm not 100% when I've managed to switch to 'Series Link', so have to keep double-checking the 'Schedule List' that's hidden somewhere in the 'Settings' - or is it hidden in 'Source' .

Husband bought his eldest a Teddy Ruxpin when he was little; it drove hubby mad and he hated it. It was forever randomly going off and unnerved him. Eventually he took the batteries out and threw it in the dustbin, as hubby put the lid down he said, “that should shut you up” and Teddy Ruxpin opened his eyes and said, “absolutely”! Hubby has been deeply mistrustful of anything similar since...

Cathymum.
Yes it is you, DON'T panic, and the subconcious part of the human brain that does not have the abilty to 'photocopy.'
Don't we all at some time say we don't remember doing that? This is one of those moments when at a time you may have had more interesting issues on your mind not giving a second thought to Father Xmas who doesn't appear to like being moved {grin}

That Santa needs to socialise, put him in the kitchen, he'll be happier having his hat tapped more often.

Oh Mamma66 that sounds awfully spooky! ?

Camelotclub

Sparklefizz
I have a colour printer which tend to print out the document 24 hours later at a time of its choosing. I think it's to do with being wireless and going through the router. It was only a cheap printer!

Ah! Thank you.

I have Tinnitus so often get strange squeaks and whistles in the night. I do tend to ignore them now but in the beginning it was very strange .

I once came downstairs in the morning to find that my sewing machine had started running in the night and was jammed with tangled threads but still trying to move. It turned out it had been left plugged in and something which normally stops it going when not being pressed had burnt out in the foot pedal causing it to go without being pressed! I had to buy a new foot pedal and remember to always unplug it when not in use! Nothing spooky, just a lesson learned.

Outofstepwithhumanity, I was just going to post about TV's turning themselves on, as our one did that when new. DH had to 'program'? a different time for updating.

Hetty58

When my youngest daughter was at high school, she brought home a 'smart' baby doll for the weekend. (I think it was a lesson on the reality of motherhood.)

It cried regularly (and loudly) when needing a feed or change.

After one sleepless night, she abandoned it on the landing, of course. At bedtime, I buried it deep inside the laundry basket, to muffle it's sound.

At 4 am I was roughly shaken awake by our family dog. He'd tipped over the basket, retrieved the 'baby' - and placed it on my pillow!

I love your dog Hetty.

I’ve had the tv turning itself on in the middle of the night. Switching off at the socket sorted that.
My strangest experience was with my iPad.
I was doing a bit of surfing one evening when I suddenly heard a conversation between a couple discussing a film they’d seen coming from my iPad. It only lasted a minute or so but gave me the heeby jeebies.
NobodyI’ve spoken to about it has any ideas what could have caused it. Any GNs experienced this?

I had a bag of toys l kept in my wardrobe ready for when l looked after DGS l opened the door one particular day to hear a voice announcing 'I love you' took me a minute to realise my wardrobe didn't actually love me but l had inadvertently left one of his toys switched on lol

Our alexa is always giving comments even when no one has spoken. We never know what about because it is such a surprise at the time.

My parents enjoyed buying antique curios. One time they bought an old toasting fork. It had a bent prong, which they carefully straightened and hung it on the wall as an ornament. Soon after, they noticed the prong had bent itself again. After they straightened it and it bent again they got the creeps and threw it out.