EPTEvent 1: [spook level: minor] Get back home 11:30pm yesterday. At 12:10 approximately, the doorbell starts ringing for no reason for 20 seconds then stops. I'm shit scared so I go upstairs and get my hammer and then look out of the window for any perhaps crazy person trying to get me to open the door so they can go clockwork orange on me. I can't see properly because of the overhang of the front porch so I end up calling the police. I ask them if I should go outside to see who's there and they say definitely don't. He gets ready to send a car to help and with the confidence of him being on the line, I go to the front room which has a clear view of the porch. There's no one there. And I am scouting below the window to see if the perp has hidden. I am worried he is trying to get into the side passage but anyway while I am looking at the door, with the police guy on the phone, the bell goes off again and kind of goes spastic. So I tell the police guy it's not a perp it's just the bell so I'm sorry for wasting his time and he says good I'll cancel the police car.
I call my dad who's on holiday and he advises that I just disconnect the doorbell so I do that. Pretty scary to be honest when this has never happened in 15 years of living in the house. But I figure of course it could happen.
Event 2: [spook level: intermediate] Today. I was planning on leaving for London to do some law study in the library at my law school. I got up quite late on account of being on edge the night before. So I'm not sure if I should go and then my gf calls me to say she is too ill to come into London and that seals it for me. I decide to stay home and maybe hit the gym a bit later to work out my tension. At 6pm just as it starts to get dark, after I have been feeling that the day was pretty good, my gf messages me on fb saying 'why aren't you picking up your phone?'. I say I've heard nothing from my house phone, she replies that she called 3 times.
I check my phone and sure enough it's engaged. I go around the house taking each phone off the hook and replacing it. Still no luck, and my house phone is out of commission. Now I feel really isolated and kind of on edge again. Because this has never happened before and I later checked the talk talk (phone provider) forums and they say it's quite a serious thing that could take an engineer callout to fix (something to do with the exchange). Bugger. Just as I could do with a call from someone to comfort me!
Event 3: [spook level: Amnesia] As I was searching for the phones, I checked out the phone in my room. I picked it up and WTF. There was a number pre dialled. I shit you not, it was 666. That spun me out something fierce. What's more, I'd encountered that number a few times the night before, playing football manager and doing other things where random numbers just appeared as 666. So now I was really on edge and kind of shut down. My mobile curiously drained from 20% battery to 0% in about 20 seconds just as I went outside to call my mum and be like 'mum...fuckkkk' lol.
So that sucked. I basically just sat in the front room really horrified and kind of shocked. It was weird because I barely wanted to be in the house. I just opened the front door and kind of hung in the opening. People were coming past and my neighbours arrived home, but I just felt it would be a bit weird and silly to tell them that I was shit scared and some weird coincidences had befallen me.
Conclusion: so I actually took a while to build up the courage to go upstairs (I know ridiculous right) and get all my stuff, and threw it into my bro's car. And I plugged my gf's address into the GPS. I've just passed my test (less than 10 drives alone) but I was so desperate to get away from my house that I was prepared to drive on the motorway for the first time, and what's more in the dark. So you can imagine my pulse was racing the whole time. I don't think I've ever been more uncomfortable save for in a nightmare.
Anyway I'd like to get you guys' opinions on what the hell you would do in my shoes...
Poll: What would you do?
Chalk it up to coincidence and continue with the evening unhindered (20)
77%
Get the hell out of the house (3)
12%
Call a priest and get him to bring extra holy water (3)
12%
26 total votes
Get the hell out of the house (3)
Call a priest and get him to bring extra holy water (3)
26 total votes
Your vote: What would you do?
(Vote): Chalk it up to coincidence and continue with the evening unhindered
(Vote): Get the hell out of the house
(Vote): Call a priest and get him to bring extra holy water
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