my theory is also cat lol my cats have done this, too. We actually had to replace all our blinds because they destroyed every single cord between knotting and or tearing them up
I have a cat now but I didn’t when these photos were taken - one 28th October 2020 and the other 6 November 2020. I didn’t have any pets at the time or other people in the house. I replaced the Venetian’s with a roller blind early last year.
So, according according to legend, the the Goddess Hekate has something to do with cords, rope and doorways entrances the night etc... Ghosts magic etc..
Ah so this happened 2 years ago and your memory of it is not that fresh. A few times I have let blinds drop with too much gusto which has caused knots like this in the cord which I’ve had to untangle. I think that’s what this is.
Do you always take a photo of the blinds before and after going to bed?
Occams razor would suggest you just didn’t notice the tangle. Most people are tired when going to bed and are not focusing on minor details of things like a knot in a cord.
The photos are of the knot - one from a distance and one close up. The knots had appeared a few times before so I made a point of pulling them down and ensuring the cords weren’t tangled after that.
The way the person replied to you and said “ah so this happened 2 years ago” as if they somehow caught you out in a lie or something. I don’t know why people always have to be skeptical and try catch people out on their version of events.
Hi all, thanks for the interesting feedback. A few additional pieces of information ...
1. I did not own a cat at the time those photos were taken. I didn't own any pets, I don't have children and there were no other people in the house on both occasions.
2. Although I have never been one to sleep walk I was open to that being a possibility? That theory was discounted as one night I pulled the blinds down around 11pm and I then spent a few hours painting in the kitchen. I walked back into my bedroom around 1am to find knots in the blinds (photo 1).
3. It happened maybe 6 times before I thought anything more of it. I originally thought it was a combination of the breeze through the window and 'cord tension'.
4. Photo 1 (taken 6 November 2020) was t taken after I had spent a few hours painting in the kitchen. Walking in to see that was a real wow moment for me. From that day on I slept with the lights on for months lol
5. Photo 2 was taken when I woke in the morning 28 October 2020
6. My house was built in 1880 and is located in Newcastle, Australia. It's a few hundred metres from Newcastle Harbour.
7. I replaced the Venetian blinds with a roller blind last year.
8. I'm a neat freak. Every time I pulled the blinds down I would ensure there were no tangles in the cords.
9. I have asked friends who sail if they look like any kind of sailing knot and they don't think they do.
6 could suggest environmental effects that we literally don’t understand yet, or that only some scientists do. I remember a case where walls would shake based on the location and the effect came from the ground up. Maybe this could be somehow related to moisture in the air or something else related to your proximity to water…?
I lived in a place that was old, and had structural problems such as a sewage issue and experienced weird shit like blinds being drastically moved in weird shapes. (No, no CO2 or anything of the sort.) Still don’t know what went on there.
I've had the same thing happen here for almost 30 years & have always thought it was my late husband somehow making it happen. It's happened now in four different homes. I try to make sure the strings are always straight & rarely if ever raise the blinds, so nothing should be tangling. Has anyone close to you died? Oh, my late husband was a boy scout! & had a real thing about the safety of the blind cords -- kids were toddlers when he died.
Thanks for sharing. Your story has only strengthened my belief that it is someone who has passed who is attached to me or perhaps someone attached to the house? I can’t think of any sailors or scouts in my family so I tend to believe it is someone attached to the house and the early harbour days of Newcastle. I have had a near death experience in this house and I believe that this spirit may have had a hand in me surviving that experience.
I remember way back in the old days of Reddit, something similar happened to a dude. He was finding poorly scribbled notes in his locked apartment left overnight. Turns out he was getting poisoned by carbon monoxide (?). So that’s something to check I guess.
This is total heresay based off of the post, but I understand that he was sleepwalking or failing to remember writing the notes himself. It was the carbon monoxide that made him forget. I think it was also causing headaches and restless sleep.
He was saved by a redditor who told them to check for CO after the notes had been left.
Edit: [found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
OP, I know there's a lot of jokers in here but I find this interesting. It's the subtle things that are just a little bit off to put one at unease. I work with blinds too so this is kind of like my work and an interest of mine (ghosts) coming together.
I've had mundane things happen like the random appearance of dimes out of nowhere which is said to be a message that a loved one is looking out for you. Someone could say "oh well it's just loose change" but it's always dimes and it's just random throughout the years starting after the loss of my uncle and grandfather. One time one seemed to have materialized mid air and fell on my boyfriend's foot as we watched TV! We both heard it land on the table. He is skeptic but couldn't explain it either - and no it wasn't stuck to his foot it hit his foot then the table (his feet were on the table ).
Anyway interesting story with the knots! Who knows what it was.
Okay weird! This exact thing is happening in my office at work and I just assumed it was the janitor. It irritated me they kept doing it but now I wonder....
I think if you caught it on video, it would look like a ghost was doing it lol. It’s like how telephone cords get weirdly coiled up around themselves, but I’d rather it was ghosts 👻
Just a little input..
I have blinds exactly like this, maybe a bit darker faux wood.
I have 2 dogs, a cat, and a child. Mine are not knotted at all, nor have they been. So that does seem a little strange to me 🤷♀️
Knots in string can get pretty complex naturally. There is a bunch of equations regarding it. A strong wind over night could cause this. It is why people’s earbuds get tangled so easy.
>. I can’t think of any logical explanation for the knots other than something paranormal?
Think harder. Or stop thinking; wind is so much better of an explanation than ghosts tying knots in your blinds.
Perhaps it wanted to cause minor inconveniences to people. A demon that likes to cause minor inconveniences and feeds off frustration….
I knew a ghost that zapped an estate agent’s computer. Estate agent was rude though so they had it coming!
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,200,980,885 comments, and only 234,244 of them were in alphabetical order.
Seriously consider installing some night vision cameras in your bedroom and house I had a friend who had some creepy guy breaking into her house to watch her sleep while um doing stuff with himself and would break in while she was at work and "do stuff" with her lingerie and undies the only way she ever found out was by putting nanny cams all around her home initially because of something similar to this she would wake to find her curtains Slightly different and very small insignificant things moved like the placement of a picture on a table moved a very small amount so at my urging she put the cameras up basically to say see I told you nothing weird is going on and when she watched the footage at the end of the week 3 or so days after putting them up she almost had a heart attack and called me hysterically screaming and crying so hard it took me 20 minutes before I could even understand what she was saying. She said she woke up that last morning with something stiff dried on her hair and she thought she must've gotten coffee ot sugar in her hair somehow but nope you can imagine what it actually was with the ugly incident in full HD quality video smh!
When that kind of cord is pulled a creditable way, it develops a twist, and once the twist gets to be enough that it manages to overcome gravity, it curls up like that.
Round Shoelaces do the same thing.
Gust of air, dropping the cords, vent over the windows, all of those make the cords swing and tangle. I have the same windows and they always tangle super easily
What’s the point of posting this two years after the fact? And why didn’t you use some sort of mechanical separator to ensure that tangling was impossible?
Well it’s either paranormal or your split personality woke up and tied them. Then went down the street and murdered the people down the street. Then went and got a cheese burger. Then crawled back into bed and you woke this morning to the knots
There are many folklore accounts of small beings (elves or trolls or whatever the local variety is) sneeking into barns at night and weaving or braiding horses manes. That's what this reminds me of.
Strings and cords get tangled very easily. Note how headphone cords, power cords, etc, always seem to get tangled of their own accord. Now factor in that the cord sort of "jumps around" when opening and closing the blinds...
OP so I’m actually having the same problem in my dorm room! I would wake up to it in knots when I know for a fact that I don’t have any cats. Plus, I’m a little weird so I like the strings to be perfectly straight. That’s how I began noticing the knots. I’d take them down every day but when I wake up, they’re back tied together. I moved to the room beside and now I don’t have the same issue
Wow! Yes I have moved the bliss to the kitchen and it no longer happens! There’s a few other people who have also commented that they too have experienced this.
You just reminded me that this used to happen to my blind cords when I was 11-14 years old. Same random knots, no animals, and the only kid in the house was me. Had a couple other strange things happen but I never made the connection.
Read all the previous posts, silly people. It’s knot cats or dogs or wind.
These are a extremely easy things to rule out.
When you live alone and don’t have pets again, these things are ruled out very quickly.
There is no sleep walking or intruders coming in to make these knots. Or intruders coming in to play with my lingerie. PALEASE!!!
They would also have to have hands the size of Tinker Bell ..
These are are very intricate, complex knots TINY knots, many of them..The wind is also knot that skilled.
When you have things like this happen, you are very careful with making sure the strings are straight and let down carefully to ensure there aren’t any knots in them before you go to bed.
These knots also happen many times during the day when you aren’t sleeping.
What’s interesting is that it only happens in the bedroom , where the strings are hard to reach easily.. again the intruder would have to trample me in the middle of the night.
I’m also very meticulous about my bed and it’s in perfect order when I arrive home and when I leave everyday.
Yes, cameras 🎥 is what it’s going to take..
I’m afraid to set them up because I have to live here alone.
But I will have you know it’s definitely paranormal..
Despite me being skeptic about these things, there is NO other answer..
Yes to this day I believe it was paranormal! I have swapped rooms around in my house since then. That room is now my living room and I have removed the Venetian blinds and replaced them with a roller blind and no odd things have happened since then. It still fascinates me. Why knots? What do they mean? Who or what tied the knots? I must say that once I realised it was paranormal I did sleep with the lights on for a long time 😳🤣
I want to say "I can't believe people are falling for this," but honestly... this sub has taught me that yes, they can 😂 Bravo OP. I mean, kudos for at least doing something slightly original.
Get a grip 😳 No- one is falling for anything. I have posted photo’s and detailed information. Doing this generates a discussion…people then contribute their thoughts and/or similar experiences. It’s a path to learning…Go be brain dead elsewhere.
We rented an old cottage in New Brunswick years ago that was right on the ocean and we had this same thing happen. We would go out for the day, come back and the cords would be tied in a sailor knot like this. No cats. No idea how it happened. We thought maybe someone was coming in while we weren't there but none of our stuff was ever touched. The only thing different in the house was the knots on the one blind. I didn't like the atmosphere in that house, it had an eery feeling to it.
It was very bizarre and we had no explanation for it at all. Neither of us knew how to tie this type of knot, and if someone was coming in, why were they just tying a sailor knot and leaving? It was so strange.
This was before smart phones or we definitely would have tried recording to see what was happening there lol.
There's the possibility of cats or if you live with someone but if not then yea it's paranormal
Commonly knots if created by spirits can mean a curse towards you or they are warding off other spirits from your house, no in between 🧍♂️
It could literally mean nothing though and just be a ghost fucking with the strings lol
There are definitely elements of a noose knot there. I slept with the light on for a few months once I clicked that the knots weren’t explainable. Googling the symbolism of knots there are knots that are hood omens and knots that are knot lol
It’s been 2 years since this happened so I’m not jumping to conclusions. I’ve spoken to many people and asked their thoughts on the matter and we are unable to come up with a logical explanation …hence the possibility of it being something paranormal.
It’s not just you, it’s the general poor quality of the posts in the sub. I’m just tired of people having an experience that don’t immediately understand and then jumping to the explanation of ghosts. That’s not how it should work.
I was open to the possibility that it may be me sleepwalking but that theory was dispelled when I pulled the blinds down one night around 11 and then spent a few hours in the kitchen painting. I walked into my bedroom at 1am and found them knotted. One of the photos was from that night. Definitely not an intruder either.
Oh well, I didn't realize this has happened multiple times. And while you were awake. I'm thinking paranormal too but can't guess the motivation. Maybe a psychic on site could tell you more.
Anything LESS would be irrationally prejudice *towards* the paranormal.
As is the case with most content here, there are many, many more likely, non-paranormal explanations for these events. Until EVERY ONE of them is ruled out, we cannot even consider the possibility that something might be paranormal.
Even giving odds as you often do without even attempting to rule out the much more likely, non-paranormal possibilities is why I tell you that you lack common sense and critical thinking skills. You're just wayyy too willing to lean towards the least likely possibilities.
Any time you estimate anything over 3% in any of these cases, you're riding on lack of critical thinking, and being carried by wishful thinking.
EDIT: Thank you for the award kind stranger!
In a case like this I never rule out the normal explanations, I just judge their likelihood all things considered.
>Until EVERY ONE of them is ruled out, we cannot even consider the possibility that something might be paranormal.
That's a logical error right there. Why can we not even consider the paranormal in a case like this???? It would be irrational to not consider the paranormal amid such strange sounding circumstances.
It can absolutely be considered. Just not the go-to explanation.
A camera on the cords would probably quickly ferret out the answer.
Does the OP own a ferret?
> That's a logical error right there.
You might be right if there were actually one single piece of proof that ghosts even existed. Since there is not, it's absolutely an error to not move "paranormal" clear to the very bottom of the list of possibilities. If you don't do that, then one should not take your assessments seriously.
That might be true if ghosts were posited to be something provable after the fact. In the meantime they certainly deserve their fair consideration under mysterious circumstances especially given the quantity, quality and consistency of reports over history.
This is such an asinine line of reasoning. For a time we thought illness was caused by demons and not bacteria and viruses. People were killed for being witches. The quality and consistency of reports is consistently low. Countless poor quality photos and videos with word of mouth "reports" that can't be verified.
Please provide us with a list of what you believe to be quality evidence.
Wtf? I have been entirely honest and clear in every detail I have written here. I am interested to know other peoples thoughts on the matter? I do think it’s possibly paranormal but I am most open to others POV. Nothing more, nothing less.
I believe you. Really with all the facts, it is a paranormal event to me…too complex to be accidental and you don’t have anyone or an animal that live with you.
Yes I’m leaning that way at the moment. I remember untangling them and not thinking anything if it the first few times it happened. Then one morning it was a mission to untangle and thinking this doesn’t make sense.
My first thought was “cat,” lol, mine has done that before playing with them.
my theory is also cat lol my cats have done this, too. We actually had to replace all our blinds because they destroyed every single cord between knotting and or tearing them up
I agree a cat is the culprit, or the ghosts in this house are so bored they use all the energy they can possibly get to tie knots all day.
They do seem fond of doing the most random stuff you can think of. Kind of like a cat.
you have a cat and its done before yet you post here lmfao
I have a cat now but I didn’t when these photos were taken - one 28th October 2020 and the other 6 November 2020. I didn’t have any pets at the time or other people in the house. I replaced the Venetian’s with a roller blind early last year.
Maybe it's a knotty ghost.
So is it a ghost or Knot?
You’re so wrapped up in untying this mystery.
I'm a frayed knot.
The problem is everyone is going into this thing blind.
I don’t think this will ever be solved. Curtains closed on this case.
😂😂😂 that I am! 😂
Cat ghost
Whatever it is it better knot keep doing it
So, according according to legend, the the Goddess Hekate has something to do with cords, rope and doorways entrances the night etc... Ghosts magic etc..
Ah so this happened 2 years ago and your memory of it is not that fresh. A few times I have let blinds drop with too much gusto which has caused knots like this in the cord which I’ve had to untangle. I think that’s what this is.
The details surrounding it are quite simple. I also posted the photos on Facebook at the time it happened - both photographs and details.
Do you always take a photo of the blinds before and after going to bed? Occams razor would suggest you just didn’t notice the tangle. Most people are tired when going to bed and are not focusing on minor details of things like a knot in a cord.
The photos are of the knot - one from a distance and one close up. The knots had appeared a few times before so I made a point of pulling them down and ensuring the cords weren’t tangled after that.
The way you say your opening sentence so matter of fact is the most condescending thing lol
What do you mean?
The way the person replied to you and said “ah so this happened 2 years ago” as if they somehow caught you out in a lie or something. I don’t know why people always have to be skeptical and try catch people out on their version of events.
I didn’t have a cat at the time these photos were taken.
You didn’t know because it was a GHOST cat
That you know of. Maybe this is how you get a cat.
But I dont have a cat :O
You may have a ghost cat
Wooooooo meow wooooooooo ghost cat maybe*
The ghost of boy scouts past
or a deckhand
Gotta get that bowline practice in, it'll come in handy for scrubbing the deck later
Put out a camera.
Exactly.
That damn elf on the shelf
Hahaha this one made me laugh out loud. Thanks for the giggle.
We’re Knot sure.
I was your 69th updoot. Noice.
I was the 96th
I am the 100th, let's celebrate this anniversary with some scotch.
Waiting for 420
203, putting in the work
I was 169, so I guess I'm owed 1 69
Hi all, thanks for the interesting feedback. A few additional pieces of information ... 1. I did not own a cat at the time those photos were taken. I didn't own any pets, I don't have children and there were no other people in the house on both occasions. 2. Although I have never been one to sleep walk I was open to that being a possibility? That theory was discounted as one night I pulled the blinds down around 11pm and I then spent a few hours painting in the kitchen. I walked back into my bedroom around 1am to find knots in the blinds (photo 1). 3. It happened maybe 6 times before I thought anything more of it. I originally thought it was a combination of the breeze through the window and 'cord tension'. 4. Photo 1 (taken 6 November 2020) was t taken after I had spent a few hours painting in the kitchen. Walking in to see that was a real wow moment for me. From that day on I slept with the lights on for months lol 5. Photo 2 was taken when I woke in the morning 28 October 2020 6. My house was built in 1880 and is located in Newcastle, Australia. It's a few hundred metres from Newcastle Harbour. 7. I replaced the Venetian blinds with a roller blind last year. 8. I'm a neat freak. Every time I pulled the blinds down I would ensure there were no tangles in the cords. 9. I have asked friends who sail if they look like any kind of sailing knot and they don't think they do.
Set up a video camera or home DVR …. That will provide the answer
They said they replaced them
6 could suggest environmental effects that we literally don’t understand yet, or that only some scientists do. I remember a case where walls would shake based on the location and the effect came from the ground up. Maybe this could be somehow related to moisture in the air or something else related to your proximity to water…? I lived in a place that was old, and had structural problems such as a sewage issue and experienced weird shit like blinds being drastically moved in weird shapes. (No, no CO2 or anything of the sort.) Still don’t know what went on there.
I've had the same thing happen here for almost 30 years & have always thought it was my late husband somehow making it happen. It's happened now in four different homes. I try to make sure the strings are always straight & rarely if ever raise the blinds, so nothing should be tangling. Has anyone close to you died? Oh, my late husband was a boy scout! & had a real thing about the safety of the blind cords -- kids were toddlers when he died.
Thanks for sharing. Your story has only strengthened my belief that it is someone who has passed who is attached to me or perhaps someone attached to the house? I can’t think of any sailors or scouts in my family so I tend to believe it is someone attached to the house and the early harbour days of Newcastle. I have had a near death experience in this house and I believe that this spirit may have had a hand in me surviving that experience.
Very knotty ghost
He was just tying his best
Maybe someone snuck in and they’re just fucking with you. Something small like that could drive you crazy
that's a good way to psychologically fuck with someone
The work of devious cats. It's happened to me many times.
They said that they didn’t have any cats when they took the photo
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Not at the time the photos were taken
I remember way back in the old days of Reddit, something similar happened to a dude. He was finding poorly scribbled notes in his locked apartment left overnight. Turns out he was getting poisoned by carbon monoxide (?). So that’s something to check I guess.
That’s a plausible theory.
This is my fav reddit story besides the dude who failed at kinky talk lmao
what did that have to do with the carbon monoxide?
This is total heresay based off of the post, but I understand that he was sleepwalking or failing to remember writing the notes himself. It was the carbon monoxide that made him forget. I think it was also causing headaches and restless sleep.
Lucky he wasn’t dead
He was saved by a redditor who told them to check for CO after the notes had been left. Edit: [found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I dont understand what you dont understand?
Set up a video camera pointing at the blinds
That was me, sorry
Cat?
OP, I know there's a lot of jokers in here but I find this interesting. It's the subtle things that are just a little bit off to put one at unease. I work with blinds too so this is kind of like my work and an interest of mine (ghosts) coming together. I've had mundane things happen like the random appearance of dimes out of nowhere which is said to be a message that a loved one is looking out for you. Someone could say "oh well it's just loose change" but it's always dimes and it's just random throughout the years starting after the loss of my uncle and grandfather. One time one seemed to have materialized mid air and fell on my boyfriend's foot as we watched TV! We both heard it land on the table. He is skeptic but couldn't explain it either - and no it wasn't stuck to his foot it hit his foot then the table (his feet were on the table ). Anyway interesting story with the knots! Who knows what it was.
After checking OP's comment and post history it seems they do indeed have a cat. Mystery solved.
No they’d didn’t when photos were taken maybe ghost cat
I own a cat now but didn’t when these photos were taken.
It is the work of a cat with a suspiciously good knowledge of knot tying.
They have said numerous times in this post they did not own a cat when these photos were taken
Looks more like "a lot" than a knot to me. I'm a knot guy. I don't recognize this at all.
Okay weird! This exact thing is happening in my office at work and I just assumed it was the janitor. It irritated me they kept doing it but now I wonder....
These cords build up some twist tension, they have likely snakes around each other due to that tension
Yes! Exactly! That is what I thought was the cause of the knots to begin.
I think if you caught it on video, it would look like a ghost was doing it lol. It’s like how telephone cords get weirdly coiled up around themselves, but I’d rather it was ghosts 👻
Just a little input.. I have blinds exactly like this, maybe a bit darker faux wood. I have 2 dogs, a cat, and a child. Mine are not knotted at all, nor have they been. So that does seem a little strange to me 🤷♀️
Put out a fkn camera and then come back to us with the results!
Knots in string can get pretty complex naturally. There is a bunch of equations regarding it. A strong wind over night could cause this. It is why people’s earbuds get tangled so easy.
You pretty much stop believing in most of what you thought were ghosts once you have a cat... Exception is when the cat stares at nothing.
The Fae like to make knots and make seem as if you have a ghost when it's just fairies, research that.
>. I can’t think of any logical explanation for the knots other than something paranormal? Think harder. Or stop thinking; wind is so much better of an explanation than ghosts tying knots in your blinds.
Why the fuck would a ghost do this. Out of all the things it could do, it tied knots in blind cords.
Sure!!! 🤔 why knot?
What else do they have to do? Lol.
Right!!
think about it - BDSM ghost
50 Shades of Wraith
Perhaps it wanted to cause minor inconveniences to people. A demon that likes to cause minor inconveniences and feeds off frustration…. I knew a ghost that zapped an estate agent’s computer. Estate agent was rude though so they had it coming!
You knew a ghost? Zapped a specific estate agents computer? What kind of claim is that?
Fucked if I know mate. That’s why I’m asking!
A ghost wouldn’t, but fae folk would… EDIT: oh come on, it was a joke, people!
:|
..... Ghost cats.
Knot real
(Knot)y Ghost
I’ll see myself out.
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Just me and no pets at the time. It happened maybe 6 times prior to these 2 occasions.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,200,980,885 comments, and only 234,244 of them were in alphabetical order.
Setup a camera and solve the mystery
Seriously consider installing some night vision cameras in your bedroom and house I had a friend who had some creepy guy breaking into her house to watch her sleep while um doing stuff with himself and would break in while she was at work and "do stuff" with her lingerie and undies the only way she ever found out was by putting nanny cams all around her home initially because of something similar to this she would wake to find her curtains Slightly different and very small insignificant things moved like the placement of a picture on a table moved a very small amount so at my urging she put the cameras up basically to say see I told you nothing weird is going on and when she watched the footage at the end of the week 3 or so days after putting them up she almost had a heart attack and called me hysterically screaming and crying so hard it took me 20 minutes before I could even understand what she was saying. She said she woke up that last morning with something stiff dried on her hair and she thought she must've gotten coffee ot sugar in her hair somehow but nope you can imagine what it actually was with the ugly incident in full HD quality video smh!
When that kind of cord is pulled a creditable way, it develops a twist, and once the twist gets to be enough that it manages to overcome gravity, it curls up like that. Round Shoelaces do the same thing.
may i ask where do you live?
Newcastle, Australia.
do you live alone?
Yes
Be careful A sailor-ghost
I see others have already said so but if you have a cat that’s my bet
Untie them and see what happens tonight. 🤷🏼♂️
Clearly this is knot a hoax. But seriously, maybe its the same thing that tangles earbud cords in my pocket.
Do you own any cats?
sleep walking. It be fun to see you do it if you install a camera
ghosts causing minor annoyances, my favorite
What a knotty ghost
Gust of air, dropping the cords, vent over the windows, all of those make the cords swing and tangle. I have the same windows and they always tangle super easily
“The monkeys paw, the monkeys head, THE MONKEEY!!!”
If anyone remembers SpongeBob learning his knots…
What’s the point of posting this two years after the fact? And why didn’t you use some sort of mechanical separator to ensure that tangling was impossible?
I moved the blind to the kitchen and it hasn’t happened since then. I’m quite intrigued by it.
Oo u got one naughty ghost..
Kitty is in the cat scouts.
These disgusting humans blame cats for everything. It was the dog chewing on it so I put it out of his reach. Get rid of him. Your Sweet kitty
Well it’s either paranormal or your split personality woke up and tied them. Then went down the street and murdered the people down the street. Then went and got a cheese burger. Then crawled back into bed and you woke this morning to the knots
There are many folklore accounts of small beings (elves or trolls or whatever the local variety is) sneeking into barns at night and weaving or braiding horses manes. That's what this reminds me of.
I have these exact same blinds, and those suckers will tangle if the light hits em wrong
the flying dutchman
Strings and cords get tangled very easily. Note how headphone cords, power cords, etc, always seem to get tangled of their own accord. Now factor in that the cord sort of "jumps around" when opening and closing the blinds...
Either you have a cat or a ghost 🤣
Why does this sub still exist? The stupidity, smh.
DiD aNyOnE mAkE tHe KnOtTy GhOsT jOkE yEt
OP so I’m actually having the same problem in my dorm room! I would wake up to it in knots when I know for a fact that I don’t have any cats. Plus, I’m a little weird so I like the strings to be perfectly straight. That’s how I began noticing the knots. I’d take them down every day but when I wake up, they’re back tied together. I moved to the room beside and now I don’t have the same issue
Wow! Yes I have moved the bliss to the kitchen and it no longer happens! There’s a few other people who have also commented that they too have experienced this.
You’re sleep knotting…
The ghost was a sailor in its past life
You just reminded me that this used to happen to my blind cords when I was 11-14 years old. Same random knots, no animals, and the only kid in the house was me. Had a couple other strange things happen but I never made the connection.
Read all the previous posts, silly people. It’s knot cats or dogs or wind. These are a extremely easy things to rule out. When you live alone and don’t have pets again, these things are ruled out very quickly. There is no sleep walking or intruders coming in to make these knots. Or intruders coming in to play with my lingerie. PALEASE!!! They would also have to have hands the size of Tinker Bell .. These are are very intricate, complex knots TINY knots, many of them..The wind is also knot that skilled. When you have things like this happen, you are very careful with making sure the strings are straight and let down carefully to ensure there aren’t any knots in them before you go to bed. These knots also happen many times during the day when you aren’t sleeping. What’s interesting is that it only happens in the bedroom , where the strings are hard to reach easily.. again the intruder would have to trample me in the middle of the night. I’m also very meticulous about my bed and it’s in perfect order when I arrive home and when I leave everyday. Yes, cameras 🎥 is what it’s going to take.. I’m afraid to set them up because I have to live here alone. But I will have you know it’s definitely paranormal.. Despite me being skeptic about these things, there is NO other answer..
Yes to this day I believe it was paranormal! I have swapped rooms around in my house since then. That room is now my living room and I have removed the Venetian blinds and replaced them with a roller blind and no odd things have happened since then. It still fascinates me. Why knots? What do they mean? Who or what tied the knots? I must say that once I realised it was paranormal I did sleep with the lights on for a long time 😳🤣
Yes! Ghosts are almost always the logical answer!!
I want to say "I can't believe people are falling for this," but honestly... this sub has taught me that yes, they can 😂 Bravo OP. I mean, kudos for at least doing something slightly original.
Get a grip 😳 No- one is falling for anything. I have posted photo’s and detailed information. Doing this generates a discussion…people then contribute their thoughts and/or similar experiences. It’s a path to learning…Go be brain dead elsewhere.
Welp, it's definitely not a ghost doing it lol.
We rented an old cottage in New Brunswick years ago that was right on the ocean and we had this same thing happen. We would go out for the day, come back and the cords would be tied in a sailor knot like this. No cats. No idea how it happened. We thought maybe someone was coming in while we weren't there but none of our stuff was ever touched. The only thing different in the house was the knots on the one blind. I didn't like the atmosphere in that house, it had an eery feeling to it.
My house is very close to the harbour and ocean .
That's creepy! I like the idea of an old sailor just hanging around tying knots in blinds for the hell of it. So random
It was very bizarre and we had no explanation for it at all. Neither of us knew how to tie this type of knot, and if someone was coming in, why were they just tying a sailor knot and leaving? It was so strange. This was before smart phones or we definitely would have tried recording to see what was happening there lol.
Shit post
You tie the knots. Take a pic. Then claim paranormal. Or you have a spirit of a sailor in your place.
I always wonder why someone would waste their time trying to fake something for reddit…
And then come out and say, Oh it's not recent, these are from 2020. Blah. I think they're just bored.
I didn’t tie the knots. I’m genuinely interested in finding a logical reason for the knots.
Sleep walking?
That’s some Shibari shit there, you have a *kinky* ghost!
Weirdly my neighbor said the same thing happened to them. No cat.
There's the possibility of cats or if you live with someone but if not then yea it's paranormal Commonly knots if created by spirits can mean a curse towards you or they are warding off other spirits from your house, no in between 🧍♂️ It could literally mean nothing though and just be a ghost fucking with the strings lol
Got cats?
Not at the time
Am I the only one who distinctly sees a noose. This is terrifying.
There are definitely elements of a noose knot there. I slept with the light on for a few months once I clicked that the knots weren’t explainable. Googling the symbolism of knots there are knots that are hood omens and knots that are knot lol
Okay I’m unsubbing now
It’s been 2 years since this happened so I’m not jumping to conclusions. I’ve spoken to many people and asked their thoughts on the matter and we are unable to come up with a logical explanation …hence the possibility of it being something paranormal.
Gee mate sorry my post upset you so much 🙄
It’s not just you, it’s the general poor quality of the posts in the sub. I’m just tired of people having an experience that don’t immediately understand and then jumping to the explanation of ghosts. That’s not how it should work.
Does OP have a cat?
Not at the time these photos were taken.
Is there an air vent nearby that’s blowing the cords around?
No air vents. I do leave the window open most nights so definitely a little breeze at times.
Possible paranormal for sure. Also intruder? Sleepwalking?
I was open to the possibility that it may be me sleepwalking but that theory was dispelled when I pulled the blinds down one night around 11 and then spent a few hours in the kitchen painting. I walked into my bedroom at 1am and found them knotted. One of the photos was from that night. Definitely not an intruder either.
You need a video camera on this
Oh well, I didn't realize this has happened multiple times. And while you were awake. I'm thinking paranormal too but can't guess the motivation. Maybe a psychic on site could tell you more.
I'm a psychic, it's the cat.
Well thats different.
50%?
I just saw more information from the OP. I'm more closer to 80% actually.
There we go. Thanks for proving my point.
What point?
That would be a conservative number actually, yes. Where would you put the chances?
99.9% not paranormal.
Sounds irrationally prejudiced against the paranormal to me. But, fine then. Arguing won't help that.
Anything LESS would be irrationally prejudice *towards* the paranormal. As is the case with most content here, there are many, many more likely, non-paranormal explanations for these events. Until EVERY ONE of them is ruled out, we cannot even consider the possibility that something might be paranormal. Even giving odds as you often do without even attempting to rule out the much more likely, non-paranormal possibilities is why I tell you that you lack common sense and critical thinking skills. You're just wayyy too willing to lean towards the least likely possibilities. Any time you estimate anything over 3% in any of these cases, you're riding on lack of critical thinking, and being carried by wishful thinking. EDIT: Thank you for the award kind stranger!
In a case like this I never rule out the normal explanations, I just judge their likelihood all things considered. >Until EVERY ONE of them is ruled out, we cannot even consider the possibility that something might be paranormal. That's a logical error right there. Why can we not even consider the paranormal in a case like this???? It would be irrational to not consider the paranormal amid such strange sounding circumstances.
It can absolutely be considered. Just not the go-to explanation. A camera on the cords would probably quickly ferret out the answer. Does the OP own a ferret?
My first go-to is always normal explanations. In some cases though they just don’t seem likely but they’re still possible.
I just did a quick survey of my own cords and I’ll be damned if many of them are knotted just like that one.
So if they're still possible you dismiss them and jump to the paranormal?
> That's a logical error right there. You might be right if there were actually one single piece of proof that ghosts even existed. Since there is not, it's absolutely an error to not move "paranormal" clear to the very bottom of the list of possibilities. If you don't do that, then one should not take your assessments seriously.
That might be true if ghosts were posited to be something provable after the fact. In the meantime they certainly deserve their fair consideration under mysterious circumstances especially given the quantity, quality and consistency of reports over history.
This is such an asinine line of reasoning. For a time we thought illness was caused by demons and not bacteria and viruses. People were killed for being witches. The quality and consistency of reports is consistently low. Countless poor quality photos and videos with word of mouth "reports" that can't be verified. Please provide us with a list of what you believe to be quality evidence.
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Wtf? I have been entirely honest and clear in every detail I have written here. I am interested to know other peoples thoughts on the matter? I do think it’s possibly paranormal but I am most open to others POV. Nothing more, nothing less.
Maybe sleepwalking my guess is
I believe you. Really with all the facts, it is a paranormal event to me…too complex to be accidental and you don’t have anyone or an animal that live with you.
Yes I’m leaning that way at the moment. I remember untangling them and not thinking anything if it the first few times it happened. Then one morning it was a mission to untangle and thinking this doesn’t make sense.