An English Gothic nightmare?

(Spacey atmospheric song I love, "Space Lord" by Monster Magnet, featured in the Tallegeda Nights movie)



Can't say much on this forum because of privacy constraints, but let's just say that my day didn't get much better after the slingshot activity in the afternoon.

With maybe a big dose of paranoia and melodrama, I think last night was my most creepiest experience throughout my entire journey and/or the closest I have got to feeling that I was in deep and imminent personal danger. Of course it might be attributable to an overactive imagination, or maybe hearing or watching too many Gothic horror stories, but I was definitely weirded out by a number of things.

Not least was staying somewhere that had bars, and an additional lock, on the bedroom window (but nothing like that on any other windows that I could see), a lockable and soundproof bedroom, and a motion activated sensor in the bedroom which even activated in the very dark room when I moved around in bed during the night ...

Plus there were other things that put me on high alert but mentioning them here would be a matter of interpretation and could be seen as defamatory. The above are concrete facts that can't be disputed.

Let's just say that I didn't sleep well and my adrenaline was running high all night.

I had to really fight my (maybe unrealistic?) sense of panic to remain there until morning and first thing in the morning (waaaaay before my usual wake up time) I made up an excuse to not stay a second night and got the hell out of there.

Hours later in York, with a strong coffee at breakfast, I still felt weirded out. I even had a wine at 11am (never done that before) and was still creeped out. And it is now 6.30pm and that feeling remains.

Or maybe I got it all wrong and they were perfectly normal and nice people and I have now behaved in a very ungracious manner?

Any thoughts?

PS without a word of a lie, I plucked my eyebrows two nights ago and made sure that no grey ones remained (I'm giving away girlie secrets now) - but today I have quite a few grey ones again. Maybe it is true that after a fright your hair can turn grey overnight?