This happened in a hotel room in Thailand - at the U-Thong Inn in Ayutthaya.

My son and I had arrived in Bangkok the previous day and had travelled by train north to Ayutthaya, the ancient capital of Thailand.

After an afternoon of siteseeing the jetlag was catching up with us. We had an early dinner in the restaurant, and by 7pm we were so tired we went to bed.

 I'd heard about problems with theft in hotel rooms in Thailand, so I had diligently put all our valuables etc in the safe, while keeping ready money under my pillow. I locked the door and put the safety latch on as well, switched off all the lights and went to sleep. About 2 am I slowly woke up with the overwhelming sensation that there was someone in the room with us.

As with being woken from a deep sleep it took a few minutes for me to fully gain consciousness and when I did finally open my eyes I was stunned to find every single light in the room on - overhead, wall, table and even the bathroom light was on.

I gingerly got up and summoned the courage to check the bathroom but there was no living person in the room. I checked the door, which was locked exactly as it had been when I went to bed, and the safe appeared to be untouched. I just wrote it off to a power surge - the overhead electricity wires in Thailand look pretty dodgy.

 The next night my son woke me up in the middle of the night claiming that there was someone in the room. After reassuring him that there was no one but us in the room I glanced at the travel clock and noted the time - same time as the previous night - 2 am. Although my son didn't make a big deal out of it, he was obviously affected enough to point out to me the next afternoon that the door to our room was a light pine model versus the dark teak doors of all the other rooms.

This replacement door indicated I suspect that someone died unexpectedly/suddenly or more likely suicided. The original door obviously was broken down for staff & police to get into the room

I had to stop him telling the front desk staff that the room was haunted, which I'm sure they were fully aware of, from the nervous looks on their faces. They probably thought it was ok to put farangs in the haunted room versus superstitious Thais.