5. We heard a woman on the baby monitor tell our son to hush.
“A few weeks after our daughter was born we had a really hard night with her not settling. She was in her basket beside our bed and her brother (3) was in his bedroom.
She finally fell asleep around 5.30am and our son woke up shortly after. We could hear him singing through the baby monitor which we still used on him as he’d begun sleepwalking. We were both lying in bed silently listening to our son when a female voice on the baby monitor did a loud ‘SHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!’
My SO leapt up and ran through to our son’s room and I heard my son ask “Daddy, who was that?!” He told him it was me but our son insisted it came from the foot of his bed.
Since then we’ve both heard what sounds like someone walking up the corridor when everyone is in bed and I’ve experienced a strange feeling where if you leave the flat and have to go back in for something the atmosphere changes from happy family home to terrifying. If I do forget something after going out, if it’s not absolute essential, I won’t go back in.”