The Uninvited Guest - House 104: Early Days

The Uninvited Guest - House 104: Early Days: Early Days After a few weeks we got an indescribable smell in the entrance hall area and on the landing.   Convinced that we had pack...

Early Days

Early Days

After a few weeks we got an indescribable smell in the entrance hall area and on the landing.  Convinced that we had packed a perishable under the stairs we went about removing everything.  We found nothing.  The smell disappeared after about four days.

Cameras, clocks, controllers and anything containing batteries seemed to be using a lot of batteries.  Each week during the grocery shopping we spent a small fortune restocking batteries.  When we replaced the camera and controllers we opted for the rechargeable kind to try and reduce the cost of batteries.

A few weeks after moving when watching television in the sitting room I noticed a figure moving along the hall.  This figure was tall and thin.  I thought it was my eyes playing tricks.  This figure continues to pass through the hall on a regular basis still to this day.  By regular I mean every day to each month.

About six months after moving in I heard my son whom was three at the time talking away in his room.  Thinking that one of his sisters was with him I paid no attention to it.  When I called the children for lunch I noticed that the girls did not come from upstairs but from the back garden.  I asked whom he was talking to and he replied ‘My Ghost Brothers’.  The girls and daddy started laughing and slagging him.  I was not so dismissive of it as I had seen the shadowy figure for the last several months but I had not spoken of it to anyone.  The ‘My Ghost Brother’ updates remained until he was about seven.  He spoke less and less as time went by and now at eleven never speaks of it.

On the landing even though we had hick double glazing it was often felt several degrees colder than even the external temperature.  We installed a radiator at the top of the stairs but this did not solve the problem.  Draught excluders, extra insulation and heavier curtains were installed but nothing resulted in retaining the heat in the house.  It often felt like this even during the summer.

It was around nine months after we moved in that the first items started to go missing.  It ranged    from jewellery, money, passports, driving licences, letters and photographs.   I am an organised person by my nature with an indexed filing box for all the important documents.  I could always put my hand on what was required at a moments notice. 

When items started going missing, I dismissed it as age and kids, but when items started to reappear in the most obvious of places I then began to think the kids or my husband were playing tricks on me.  This progressed in severity to me actually thinking that my husband was trying to commit me to a mental institution. 

One time we had gone travelling in June, we returned and the passports were replaced in the filing box.  We planned to go away in September again and in August been the organised person I thought I was, I went to retrieve them and leave in an area that they would be handy for packing.  The passports were all there except for mine.  I spent the next two weeks searching every inch of the house to no avail.  I eventually gave up and applied for a replacement one.  It arrived one day to spare.  Several days after we returned from the holiday my original passport was found sitting on the unit in the dinning room.  This area had been searched and cleaned several times since it went missing.  No one had an explanation.