Something a bit wooo just happened

Doesn’t everybody know that all toy and ornamental creatures come alive after midnight but cannot allow any grown up to see them? The cuckoo was therefore flying around and the hare jumping about on the floor when you unexpectedly went downstairs in the early hours. The cuckoo knocked the clock hands on his way back into the clock and the hare left it too late to jump onto the mantlepiece, turning into stone mid jump thus falling to the floor and smashing. Simples.

There is always a logical explanation for things moving or going bump in the night.
I sometimes hear my doorbell, there is nobody there, the bell is wifi and operates via a unit plugged into a socket. If there is a power interruption or rain gets into the bell it causes It to ring.
Loud bumps, during the night, are usually things falling over in a cupboard like a brush or heavy book. A frequent incident in our house is those adhesive LED lights, stuck to shelf or wall, they dry out and drop down causing domino effect with other items.

Reminds me of a post I started a few months ago when my alarm clock suddenly lost an hour and I got up late.
Clever people on here said the battery needs changing .

More in heaven and earth Horatio!

Well I did find missing piece of jigsaw on my easy chair one morning, and as the table where I do the jigsaw is the other side of the room and as far as I know it wasn't there when I went to bed, it felt bit like a woo moment.

I was pleased to read that someone else gets up during the night for a cup of tea and toast and occupation when they cant sleep. Thought it was only me. I do colouring which when viewed in the morning isn't anything special but keeps me from just laying in bed staring into the darkness and listening to LBC!!

starbird I agree!
A bit like the Nutcracker

Saggi I sympathise. Whenever my husband drops/breaks/knocks things off surfaces he blames the inanimate object thereby making said object sentient as in “I didn’t do anything. It just fell off” ?

I had a porcelain figurine called The Brothers, (I have 2 sons) on the mantle piece. On returning from holiday one time I noticed it had split into 2 complete halves from top to bottom, still standing upright. No-one had been in the house while we were away. I even phoned the manufacturer to ask if they could explain what had happened but they had no explanation. Oh, and my son's hadn't fallen out either!

There's a lot of mileage here - a film about grannies and their woo moments (starring all those elderly actresses you can't quite name). Plus George Clooney of course. These occurrences are probably some kind of subversive plot, or else another dementia test (but more subtle than "who's the prime minister?" and "what year is it?")

PS Sorry - I'm on my third glass of red.

It IS (nearly) the weekend.

Ha @ Chewbacca ! Welcome to my mysterious world - Objects move about or go missing and light bulbs pop a lot in my house I just think things happen at times beyond our control and just put them on ignore- just one of them isn't it-

I have a touch lamp on a chest in a corner of my bedroom. Last saturday in the middle of the night it turned itself on, twice, and woke me up. Since then, it's come on 3 or 4 times so I have now unplugged it. Saturday would have been my 45th wedding anniversary and although I'm a level headed down to earth character, I keep wondering if its a 'sign' from DH. Ok, I know it isn't because I don't believe in all that mumbo jumbo, but it could be, couldn't it ......? There has to be a logical reason and that's not it.... is it?

How can we be sure it isn't a sign Marmight?
I'm not saying it is, but.......
We think that we are so clever and can say with certainty that it can't be anything other wordly.
We can't be certain though, because we just don't know everything.

Marmight I have had the same problem with an annoying touchlight, they are complicated little so and so’s and can just go wrong easily.Buy a new one.

^ and light bulbs pop a lot in my house^

This happens in my house too! I have a central light, that has a sort of dish shaped light shade under it; that I don't use very much (prefer the lamps or wall lights). But on more than a couple of occassions, the whole lightbulb just jumps out of the bayonet fitting and then rolls around noisily in the light shade. Always frightens the bejaysus out of me! And it happens in the same room that the hare was broken in and the cuckoo clock hands fell down.

wish I hadn't started this now, it's getting worse!

Oh Chewy. I bet you never imagined you would get so many posts! ?

Is this Chewbacca a suspiciously new poster I wonder?
Posting an unlikely scenario which gets worse and worse!
Do your onesie or plimsolls move about on their own during the night, hmmmm?
See me immediately in The Argy for a talking to and a pint.

you may well be right lemon, I hadn't considered that as a possibility until you mentioned it. What if I'm not really writing this post? What if my hare smashing, clock hand interfering, light bulb popping poltergiest has taken over my laptop and is actually writing this?

If this is possible; that means that all the daft threads about getting off on scaring grannies on the phone and demanding sole ownership of GC on Christmas Day, might also be written by poltergiests? Just think.... all those poor people with haunted laptops and iPhones.... that's really woo, now.

Oh Marmight, you’ve reminded me. My bedside touchlamp kept switching on in the middle of the night - just after my mum had died - for three nights running I seem to remember. I was just thinking of replacing it and it stopped doing it. I did wonder if ........

Do you have an Elf on the Shelf? I’ve heard that they get up to all sorts. Mine is fine, just moves from Shelf to Shelf and brings chocolate coins for my grandchildren but my daughter’s is the elf from hell and she finds a different disaster every morning. This morning she found him inside an upturned bag of flour, having the time of his life, playing in the “snow”. What a mess and she was particularly narked as the cleaner had just been in.
Just a thought...

Many, many years I was staying with my Aunt who lived in a very old cottage. During the night I was awoken by a noise which was the metal door latch (depending on your age some of you might know what this is) on the old wooden bedroom being opened. The thing was it was being ‘opened’ at such speed repeatedly it was not possible for a human to do it at that speed. I dove under the bedclothes- my dog joined me! The following morning I told my Aunt about the happening, she said, ‘oh, that’ll be Keith’. He had died not long before this happened.

‘oh, that’ll be Keith’. He had died not long before this happened

But who was Keith?

Perhaps it was the ghost of Christmas past.

PS Sorry - I'm on my third glass of red
Jennygran; You must be a careful drinker! You posted at 20.36 and yet only on your 3rd. red. It must have been a pretty rough red, or perhaps you use pint-size glasses, the ones with handles!
Have a good day and watch your step!