buy something like thisfor your exterior doors and one for a safe room.
If both you and your significant other heard someone pounding on your door then you have a problem. If you heard footsteps INSIDE in the daytime and could text about it then you have a bigger problem. Add a camera so you can see what’s what. Change your locks and learn to defend yourself.
You need to crack down on the crazy and stop listening to feel-gooders encouraging you to feel that your “feelings” are legitimate and real.
Your brain is making shit up. Tell your brain to STFU.
Yeah, I’m sure that both she and her husband hearing someone pounding on the door in the middle of the night is her brain making something up. But what do I know? I’d just be a feel-gooder encouraging her to put better frigging locks on the doors. :rolleyes:
Yeah, there’s a fallacy of the excluded middle here.
It’s not like the only options are A) I’m crazy OR B) Someone really was in my house.
Although, I do often refer to myself as crazy, I have no history whatsoever of psychosis. 
The door pounding definitely happened. My husband woke up and asked me what I wanted him to do because I was more than a little freaked out. He said he wasn’t going to answer it at 3am because we have no door chain. He checked to make sure his mother was asleep in her bed and not locked outside somehow (she was long gone by the time the footsteps thing happened.) We looked out the window to see if there was a police car out there (I did actually have the police come to my door once because of a theft in the neighborhood a while back, and for some reason their tracking dogs led right to our shed. My guess is the thief was disappointed by whatever he found in there. We also had the police come once because my neighbor is certifiably insane and he was convinced he heard gunshots coming from our house. In that case, we had to go to the police station because we weren’t even in our home at the time.)
I’m sure whatever I heard sounded like what I thought it sounded like. That doesn’t mean that’s what it was. If I keep having other experiences like this, then I’ll worry about my sanity.
The cats are making all kinds of bizarre noises lately so I’m becoming inured to weird sounds already.
At any rate, ya’ll have really convinced me to get a CO detector. I’ve wanted a chain lock on the door for a while, anyway, just so if we get any unexpected visitors I can answer it without making myself too vulnerable to intruders. That metal doorstop looks super fun too.
Fine.
Just write this & put it under a magnet on your fridge.
[spoiler] I Spice Weasel,
Being of sound mind and body, do add the following codicil to my will.
Should I pass at any time between now and 2030, it is my firm wish that NONE of my estate shall go go my cats.
Further, I hereby bequeath all of my cats to The Juggalo Clown College of Cat Juggling.
Signed,
Spice Weasel
Witnessed,
Mr. Spice Weasel
[/spoiler]
I think all of your problems from then on will be solved.
Do your doors have peep holes? You’d do much better to use the peep and yell through the door than to open it a crack with a chain. Chains are not secure and take nothing more than a firm shove to just pull the whole thing, screws and all, out of the door frame. Plus there will be an inevitable issue with more than one person living there with chains on the doors. Someone will get chained out, likely your husband!
We don’t have peep holes. Are those very difficult to install? I’m up for a weekend project.
They’re not hard to install, the only thing that may not be in a general home toolbox is the size drill bit you’ll need. Here’s a link from Home Depot with what’s needed, instructions, and of course links to all the stuff they sell.
As a single woman, I use peep holes and speaking loudly through the door if people get past the “Do Not Disturb” and “No Soliciting” signs. If it ever comes to me needing to open the door to an unknown, you better bet the business end of my 9mm will meet them first.
Sorry, missed the part about the husband confirming weirdness.
Do all that, for sure! :eek:
But since you mentioned cats, I have a funny to tell you. My husband was out of town for work overnight, and just as I was falling asleep, I started hearing noises downstairs. Sounded like Darth Vader mixed with metallic banging noises. I crouched at the top of the stairs, trying to convince myself it was raccoons in the trash or something benign outside. Nope, it’s in the house. Seriously starting to panic. I crept back into my bedroom and grabbed a wire clothes hanger, straightened it out so I could use it to deflect…whatever…and crawled down the stairs in my nightgown like some Hitchcock starlet.
Nothing.
Then the noises, again. I turned the corner, ready to use my homemade whip…Turned out that my 5 y.o. daughter had been watching a live cam of kittens in a shelter earlier that night, and the cats had been asleep (so no sound) but they woke up just as I was going to bed and were playing and so forth.
So I was creeped out by cats who weren’t even my own! :smack:
Hope your situation is that benign. Keep us posted!
This is seriously scary!
Have you explored all of the possibilities. . . I guess you trust Sr. Weasel? I mean, he’s gone, you hear someone in the house, he comes back home and says all the doors were locked. . . did you verify?
Of course I know nothing about you guys, but that’s not a possibility I would totally disregard.
You went through this and DIDN’T call 911?? WTF were you thinking?
I can only imagine that you’re afraid you were hallucinating it, and didn’t want to make what might end up being a false police report.
well 06
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Should it happen again, and you have your phone with you, and assuming your phone has a camera, then start recording video. You’ll have evidence that something was going on, whether it was an intruder or just the cats roughhousing.
