Probably just a hair that has jumped ship from your spouse. Don’t tell me you never noticed the correlation between women growing hairs in odd places and male pattern baldness.
I call these “errant hairs” or “Mutant hairs”. Once, a few years ago I was feeling my neck (don’t know why) and I discover this LONG, LONG hair. Like a foot long. I don’t know how it got that long. It was a faint color, so (hopefully) no one else had been watching its progress as it grew out of my neck. But how bizarre.
And the damned thing still pops up. I just keep tabs on it, and pluck it when it gets long enough for the tweezers to grab. I have a few other mutant hairs that come and go, on various parts of my face. Nothing too horrific, but it REALLY bugs me. This kind of mutant hair crap has been going on since I was quite young so I don’t think it has anything to do with age.
A former coworker had such a problem with facial hair (and she was pre-menopausal) that I swear she could have been a bearded lady had she not kept the mutant hairs at bay. She had a “5 O’Clock shadow” when she let her mutant hair maintenance lapse. I guess it’s genetic with some people. This woman said that her sister had the same problem.
My mom has developed “errant hairs” that grow from her eyebrows. A few sepect hairs that get too long and start to curl down. I always make sure they get removed before she starts to look like a Scotty dog.
Well, how did I do that. It should be, “A few select hairs that get too long…”. I ordinarily would not bother to correct myself, but “sepect” was such a bizarre typo, I doubted anyone would figure out what I really meant.
Carry on!
Heh, my family has this too. My mom calls it the “witch hair”. We get that bristly hair on the same point under the chin. It grows very fast – the first time I got it, I wasn’t in the habit of checking my chin and it was over an inch long! (How did I miss something that long?) Now my compulsion to check and tweeze is nearing obsession.
I guess it’s the family curse. I guess it’s better than, say, lycanthropy.
Yep, that adequately describes how I am too! I once noticed that the mutant hair on my neck had grown to maybe an 1/8 of an inch. (Probably less.) But I could feel it. It tormented me. I had just flown in to LAX to visit the family (and Yosemite, of course). I was in the rental car at the airport, frantically poking at my neck, trying to pluck the damned thing out with my fingernails. When I failed at that, I rushed to my favorite Ralphs grocery store, dug out my tweezers, and plucked the damned thing out in the Ralph’s bathroom. Ah! Satisfaction!
I am so glad to discover that I am not the only one that has this problem. I have a straight, black hair that grows out in the exact mid-point between my eyebrows. As others in this thread have described, it happens overnight, & the first time you notice it, you think, “How could I have missed that inch-long neanderthal hair?” It comes back about every 4-5 days, so I keep an eagle eye out for it.
Ivylass, think of it as an orthogonal beauty mark and flaunt it. 
Well ivylass, I did some searching and think I found an answer:
Adults have two types of hair, vellus and terminal. Vellus hair is soft, fine, colorless, and usually short. In most women, vellus hairs grow on the face, chest, and back and give the impression of “hairless” skin. Terminal hairs are the longer, coarser, darker, and sometimes curly hairs that grows on the scalp, pubic, and armpit areas in both adult men and women. The facial and body hair in men is mostly of the terminal type.
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Most often, excess facial and body hair is the result of abnormally high levels of androgens or male hormones in the blood. Androgens are present in both men and women, but men have much higher levels. These hormones cause hairs to change from vellus to terminal. Once a vellus hair has been transformed to the coarser terminal hair, it usually does not change back. Androgens also cause terminal hairs to grow faster and thicker. Both the ovaries and the adrenals produce androgens. To some degree, estrogens and progesterone, female hormones, prevent the effect of androgens.
I also did some searching about what I described as *Mutant Hairs *, apparently just extra-long vellus hair, but didn’t have any luck there, yet. On the bright side, at least your hairs sound normal? 
Count me in the club of women with Mutant Hairs.
Mine grows right between my boobs. The thickest, darkest hair I’ve got, almost.
I’m dreading 20 years from now. Because if I’m anything like mom and gradma, the Mutant Hairs will find their way to my neck and chin.
Tweezers at the ready!
No kidding. I have the dark hairs under my chin also…and one lone hair on my shoulder. I’m always on the lookout for those evil, evil things.
However, I don’t have it nearly as bad as my sister. She has a Mutant Hair right in the middle of her eyebrow. You’ll just look at her one day and realize that no, that isn’t a hair from the top of her head, it’s in her eyebrow. Very freaky…and vaguely disgusting.
Personally, I just want to know where all the thick black hairs on my head came from. My hair is naturally light brown, but sometimes these superthick black hairs show up. Odd.
So I have an excess of male hormones? Great…Ivylad is going to love that.:rolleyes:
I guess I’ll just make sure the tweezers stay within easy access. I feel like Lady Macbeth “Out out, damned hair!”
Yuppers … since I was 14 (I’m 36 now), I get one long thick black hair that grows from my left forearm. Pluck it, and it’s back in a week.
From puberty, I had a dime-sized spot on my chin where whiskers didn’t grow. Nothing. One morning, about five years ago, I woke up, and … boom! The once barren spot had the same shadow as the rest of my chin and cheeks. Strange.