Early morning guest,

guest, by Nick, my name is

Early morning guest,

submitted by Genesis.

Hi, Edian, Nick. My name name is Genesis and I love your podcast.

A little backstory, when my husband and I first started living together, we lived at my mother's house.

My mom was living with her partner at the time, but she would stop by from time to time to come see our dogs and wave high. She still had a key to the house by the way, as it was still hers. My husband used to leave for work at 5.45 a.m. and I used to go back to sleep as

soon as he got to work around 6.15 a.m. One morning when I was trying to fall back

asleep I heard my bedroom door open for a couple of seconds and then close as if someone was checking on me.

I was still awake, but for some reason I didn't turn to look.

Mind you, my door didn't have a handle,

so we stuck a folded paper between the door and the door frame,

and I had to push super hard to open it

so it couldn't be the wind.

And it had opened and closed super slowly.

The piece of paper was there when I woke up.

A couple of days later I asked my mom why she stopped by the house so early.

At this point I assumed it was her, because my husband would have been at work by that time.

She told me she hadn't gone home in a couple of weeks. My older sister had something similar

happened to her many times when we first moved into that house.

Her bedroom door would open and close a couple of seconds later.

One night, she woke up to the door closing and she said out loud,

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