Things that go bump in the night.....

I'm certain I sound crazy, but I'm telling the God's honest truth.

I think I'm being haunted by a man.

It all started on the first day I was in the hospital after Hannah's birth. The room I was staying in had a pink glider rocker on the other side of the bed by the TV, it was in this glider rocker I first noticed him.

I had been in the bathroom taking care of the normal health related things you take care of after the birth of a baby, moving extremely slowly, and still feeling the effects of the morphine that had been administered in my epidural. As I was exiting the bathroom something caught my eye, I saw a man sitting in the glider rocker. I knew it wasn't Charlie, he had left with Jessica to get something to eat from the hospital cafeteria leaving me all alone in the room with Hannah. I glanced at Hannah's bassinet, briefly, before returning my focus to the glider rocker.

The occupant was gone!

At first I thought it was the drugs and the fact that I was extremely tired. I couldn't possibly have seen someone sitting there when there was, in fact, nobody in the room but me and Hannah.

But I kept seeing him.

On one occasion I literally screamed out in fright sending a nurse running into my room. I had lied to her and told her I had startled myself when I saw a spider. How was I going to explain that I was seeing a ghost in my room?

It wasn't until Charlie had mentioned he could have sworn there had been a man in my room when he arrived one morning only to discover the room was empty that I gave it serious consideration.

I confided in him the feeling I had that someone was there and that I was certain I had seen him.

I was surprised to hear him tell me he believed me. I wondered if it was the room that was haunted, once we had been moved to the pediatrics unit everything seemed to be normal.

I have since discovered that 'the ghost' is at my house too.

Charlie and I have been referring to our guest as 'the ghost', not quite sure what to make of it all. So many weird things happen now, things we can not explain.

For instance, the satellite receiver. On a million occasions I have turned it off, as well as the tv, and left to go to class or go to town only to return home and find it is back on again. Just yesterday Charlie and I had gone to town and found the satellite on again when we returned. It has become almost a game with us, will it or won't it? We make bets when we leave the house whether or not the satellite will be on when we get home.

But the weird thing is, it never happens at night. I had first played with the idea there was something wrong with the receiver and it would turn itself back on after a certain period of time or that a timer was set.

I don't think that is the case, however.

I have intentionally left the tv and satellite off all day several times and it has never turned itself on in my presence, just as it has never turned itself on during the night.

My car has also begun to act weird. I'm still undecided as to whether I have an electrical problem or a spiritual problem. My headlights like to turn themselves on when nobody is around, several times I have been up in the middle of the night and seen them on. The car has also decided to start locking itself at will. This I have posted about previously, that being the first incident. Just last Wednesday it happened again, this time under completely different circumstances. I had been in class and was returning to my car to leave, using the keyless remote to unlock the doors.

I know they were open, I had opened the passenger side door and placed my books on the seat without a problem. Once I had walked around the car to get into the drivers side the doors were again locked. Again I used the keyless remote to unlock the car, listening to ensure the locks clicked open.

Click.

I grabbed the handle only to find it was once again locked. I stood there dumbfounded, was I ever going to get into my car? This time I used my key and opened the door immediately.

Then there are the little things that are happening. Like, the vacuum cleaner just turning itself off while you are using it. Or, my stereo switching to mute when there isn't even a mute button on it, anywhere.

So many things I can't explain.

I was freaked out today by Thomas, he had told me he was playing with a man who was standing next to him, he said it was his audience. I didn't know what to think. Was he making it up? Did he really see someone? When I asked him what he looked like he told me the man was invisible and there were other women there too.

I have no idea what to make of all this, other then, I wonder what will happen next.