So, our home seems to have otherworldly doppelgangers?
New here, and figured what the heck, I'll share and maybe feel like I'm not the only one!
Husband and I live in remote, rural Ireland. The house isn't old -- only about 25 years -- but the land was once part of a larger family property... if that's relevant.
We've been here for around eight years, and have repeatedly heard, seen, and even interacted with each other, when it definitely hasn't been us. (And yes, we have carbon monoxide detectors, and all that fun stuff.)
A few instances:
We've eaten dinner on the couch, he's fall asleep, and woke up to find me sleeping there. He'd try to wake me up and get me to go to bed, I'd tell him no, I'm staying there, and he'd go upstairs to find me happily and obliviously asleep in bed already. That's happened more than once. He's also seen me sitting on the couch while I'm actually in the office.
There's a wall separating the kitchen from the living room, and he's often heard me walking into the kitchen behind him, talking, only to turn around and I'm definitely not there. That's happened a LOT, that we've heard each other -- even had full conversations around a wall, or from separate rooms -- only to find the other isn't there. And it's not just us. My dog very, very rarely leaves my side, and we've both heard him talking to us from the den outside my office. It's so clear and loud that it's woken her up from a sound sleep, and she starts chattering away like it's him. He's been nowhere around.
For months, if he would wake up first and go downstairs, it would be a matter of a few minutes before I'd hear what sounded exactly like his footsteps coming back up the stairs, only it would keep going completely regularly well beyond the number of stairs we actually have. I legit thought he was just messing with me, but guarantees he's not.
The most... unsettling weirdness happens in the back hallway. The back door leads to a short hall, with the laundry room and bathroom off one side, pantry off the other side. He's said he's seen a woman with long, wet-looking, blonde hair standing outside the laundry room, which is freaky enough, considering the property lies alongside a major river. I haven't seen anything *knocks on wood* but my cat refuses to let me go in the hallway by myself. It doesn't matter where he is or what he's doing, when I go in the hall, he's there. When I shower, he sits outside the bathroom door, waits, and then goes about his little kitty business once I leave. Doing laundry? He's there, just watching.
It's the only place in the house he's so fanatical about, and I'm kind of all right with it. The only time I've felt something that felt like a threat was when I was in the bathroom, brushing my teeth. Husband was out in his workshop, just me and the animals. Something grabbed the door from the outside and yanked on it, and it rattled like it was locked. A few angry bangs on the door, my dog lost her mind, and the cat's refused to leave me alone there since.
We've seen and heard other things, but that's the general idea of it. He was a complete, absolute, and unconditional skeptic until we moved here -- and this is the third house we've lived in together. We've had the same cat in all three houses, too, and he's never done anything of the sort before. (New dog, so to her, I suppose this is all pretty normal.) Any thoughts or similar stories would be appreciated!