I just moved out of my mom’s house, and I was going through some of the stuff I found in my room and I found an unusual note. I’m worried that this note might mean what I think it means, and that its true. It’s freaked me out so bad I’m posting it here to see if anyone else has heard of it.

I’m 22M, and the other day I moved out of my mom’s house and got my own place, and with all the stuff I’m moving I’m also doing a lot of cleaning out of shit I didn’t need anymore. <br><br>I’m from a pretty middle class home, and I have a pretty good relationship with my parents, but one thing that was always a little weird was my room growing up. <br><br>When I was little, my dad would always walk around the house at night, before my parents went to bed, and check that all the doors and windows were locked. And every time he did this, no matter how quiet he was he would always wake me up. And he would always insist that I go back to sleep. I don’t know if this is what caused the nightmares, but I was always terrified, and I had nightmares frequently, and one night it got so bad I couldn’t sleep at all, so I waited until my parents were asleep, then I crept into their room and slept on the floor. This became a routine for me, and I never ended up sleeping in my room as a kid, partly because it creeped me out, and partly because I just felt safer in my parents room. <br><br>I don’t know what it was about my room, but it just always gave me bad vibes. One night when I was a little older, I couldn’t sleep, and I heard footsteps walking down the hallway towards my room. Being the scaredy cat kid I was, I hid under the bed and peeked out to see whoever it was, and it was my dad. <br><br>When he walked into my room I immediately turned away afraid that he would see me, but he didn’t seem to have noticed me. I never ended up actually seeing what he did in my room that night, and I haven’t brought it up with my dad because I don’t know what to say, but that experience stuck with me.<br><br>And yesterday when I was cleaning out my room, I found a note hidden deep in my closet. <br><br>The note was from my dad, addressed to me, and all it said was “Don’t worry boy, I kept you safe all these years.”<br><br>I’m not sure what to make of it. I feel like my dad might have some secret about my room. Like maybe he was warding off something evil with some sort of ritual? <br><br>The idea of that sends chills down my spine, but it also makes me feel safe because of the lengths my dad went to protect me.