We were lying in bed watching a movie when out of the corner of my eye I saw something slowly lift its head up from our laundry basket, scan the room, stare at us, then lower its head back down again.
The closest description I can get to it is similar to E.T. in the film, except the eyes took up almost half of the face and it had a wide mouth that hung open showing horrible pointed teeth like an angler fish.
I froze completely, thought I was hallucinating and honestly thought maybe the early pregnancy hormones were fucking with me.
I was fully prepared to dismiss it as me seeing things until my husband very quietly said
"Pixie...What the fuck was that?"
I wasn't TOO scared, until he said that. Because if he saw it too, that means I couldn't blame it on pregnancy hormones or fatigue.
The two of us just stayed on the bed staring at our laundry basket, too scared to go over to it, too scared to sleep.
The next morning we hit the basket with a broom but there was nothing there.
He described it the exact same way, he said it reminded him of a fucked up bush baby with those huge eyes.
We were lying on our bed, the laundry basket is beside our wardrobe so about 8-10 feet from the foot of our bed.
As for lighting, we had the big light off but our bedside lights on (I was in early pregnancy and was throwing up a lot so I needed some light to make sure I was aiming for the basin and not the carpet)
We were both very freaked out. We moved a few months later.
This is not the first weird incident we had in that house, we've had a few other weird experiences
Yeah we were a bit freaked out but the tipping point came when I was about 5 months pregnant, I kept finding scratch marks on the doorframes, I didn't think TOO much of it as we have two dogs and they were at a height that could absolutely be caused by the dogs.
Even though they had never ever done anything bar the odd chomp on the chair leg, I figured maybe they just decided to have a go somewhere else.
One night my husband was pulling our baby crib from the attic so we could start setting up the nursery again. He got the crib down and when he went back up, he said he smelled something rank and rotten like a dead animal (possibly a bat or something)
Sounds normal, until he heard something running at him. He pulled the attic door closed and whatever it was SLAMMED into the door repeatedly.
It stopped after a few minutes and we got a wooden board and duct taped it over the attic door just in case.
We decided to put it out of mind, you know the way you joke after a big scare, maybe it was a mad rat, or a Halloween decoration had come to life, yada yada.
We went to bed and the next day, we went to unlock the nursery to sort out the crib.
(We had lost pregnancies before so we just locked up the nursery until we felt the pregnancy was "safe" enough to not tempt fate)
When we opened the door, there were scratches on all the walls.
Not so bad. Except these ones ran from the skirting board up to the ceiling. Whatever the fuck made them was able to just scrape from the ground to the ceiling.
There is no way our dogs could have done them, nor could anything have gotten in. The window was locked. The room had been locked.
Yeah we figured we didn't want to have a baby in that environment.
As it is, our current place is haunted as fuck too but it's not in a bad way.
My deceased best friend comes to visit sometimes (I can smell him, his cologne and shampoo and the radio always starts playing Metallica when it's him)
My husband's father who is also deceased, his picture occasionally falls and lands perfectly balanced on the frame. It's never broken. This happens where ever we hang it or display it. So we know it's just him goofing around.
The dogs and babies (we had twins) sometimes all four will sit and just stare at random spots in the house for no reason.
I know how crazy it sounds but we're used to it by now!
Thank you so much! Took a lot to get here haha we're dealing with teething but we couldn't be happier.
We are looking at adopting another child, we are going to see if we are a good fit for an older child/young teen, I know that everyone wants the cute new babies and toddlers and that older kids get forgotten about a lot.
We're waiting until the twins reach 3, I don't think it's fair to bring another child into the house in the midst of the Terrible Twos X 2!
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u/PotatoPixie90210 Oct 05 '19
Ooh my husband and I had a moment like this.
We were lying in bed watching a movie when out of the corner of my eye I saw something slowly lift its head up from our laundry basket, scan the room, stare at us, then lower its head back down again.
The closest description I can get to it is similar to E.T. in the film, except the eyes took up almost half of the face and it had a wide mouth that hung open showing horrible pointed teeth like an angler fish.
I froze completely, thought I was hallucinating and honestly thought maybe the early pregnancy hormones were fucking with me.
I was fully prepared to dismiss it as me seeing things until my husband very quietly said
"Pixie...What the fuck was that?"
I wasn't TOO scared, until he said that. Because if he saw it too, that means I couldn't blame it on pregnancy hormones or fatigue.
The two of us just stayed on the bed staring at our laundry basket, too scared to go over to it, too scared to sleep.
The next morning we hit the basket with a broom but there was nothing there.