Anyone ever had weird stuff go on in their house?

My sister and I have banned each other from saying this word out loud. We always say 'the P word'! 🤣

Poltergeist.

Here's my weird one

DH and I were at my parent's house, he was painting their bedroom for them while I chatted to them downstairs. Our children were at school.

It got to the time where they were going to get home from school (by bus and taxi) but DH wasn't quite finished so he said he'd drive me home (10 minutes away) then go back to my parent's and finish, this is what he did.

I got home unlocked the door let myself in. 5 minutes later all the children came home, 2 youngest dds went in living room, teenage dd and ds went straight upstairs.

I started cooking the tea, while it cooked I was leaning up against the counter on my phone. When the tea was ready I put my phone down and dished up, called children and they grabbed their food and sat down with it eating. Then I sat with them at the table to chat.

Just then DH came in front door said can I borrow your phone I want to look something up (Ebay because he hasn't got the app) I was like yeah it's on the side and pointed, he said where? I got up rolling my eyes thinking I was just going to grab it..it was gone! Picked up tea towel, not underneath, checked pockets, chairs etc looked bloody everywhere! Said to ds ring my phone for me! He did, couldn't hear it ringing...totally confused couldn't believe it!

Anyway DH was like don't worry about it I'm going down the shed (bottom of the garden where he's allowed to smoke!).
He unlocked the back door went through it down to the shed.

I carried on looking for my phone just couldn't understand it was driving me mad!!

A minute later, DH came in the back door...found your phone!!

Where was it??

On the table in my shed!!

Wtf???? Can't explain it in any way, unbelievable. Too mundane to be made up! Not exactly a scary tale but so so weird. Have got many similar tales over the years, my family seems to be a magnet for stuff like this.

Truly!
Something similar happened a few years ago when I moved back in with my dear mum (who we tragically lost to covid).

Both of us woke up to a packet of biscuits opened and eaten, packet and crumbs were left on the kitchen counter.
The dishdrainer had been moved and the mop was in the middle of the kitchen, propped against the table (I've posted about this previously). Like the mop and jalapeños situation now, no understanding of how this could happen. No one had or has access, windows closed and small flats so easy to search.

I'm not spooked but maybe because the items are so random and slightly comical (I mean, who wants a jar of jalapeños or a manky mop)...more of a head scratcher 😬

@murmuration - The notice made a joke about the door being alarmed or at least a bit worried.

It's often the really banal things that spook you the most!

Danny Robbins (of Uncanny fame) said that one of the stories that had unsettled him was about a friend, a young man who lived alone in a small flat and had left his jeans on the bedroom chair one night (as he usually did). When he woke up they were gone, never to be found again. It was a tiny flat, there was nowhere else he'd have left them, he ALWAYS left them there etc etc.

It's that kind of thing...how do you explain it?

There are only 2 possibilities: either it's supernatural or someone got into the flat and took them. Both of these are horrible!

The strangest thing on the thread to me so far is that @missb10 had to post on a two month old thread due to a notice on a door at a university. What did the notice say?

My bathroom mop just disappeared. Absolutely no rhyme or reason for anyone to throw it out, I live with DH and DD7. Not many visitors (and who and how would anyone walk out with a mop?!)

We've all looked everywhere, no where to be seen.

A few days later, opened a jar of jalapeños and put it in the fridge.
Looked in fridge the next day to use them for lunch sandwich, no where to be found. Checked bins, shelves, cupboards, literally couldn't find it!

I have been known to put things in the wrong places, car keys in the fridge and butter in the drawer by the door, how I had both in my hands at the same time I'm not sure. It's thinking about one thing while doing another and being distracted (I tell myself that anyway). I assume you've looked in all the likely and unlikely places.

Poltergeist? I sometimes joke we have one, things that go bump in other rooms, things that fall when no ones around, things you can't find that must be there.

We took in a stray cat about 13 years ago and had him as a pet. He was a very pampered puss for the year we had him but he died suddenly. We buried him and went to the beach that night to throw some stones in the water and say our thought out loud to our cat. When we drove home, we walked through the front doors and found two fluffy white feathers in his cat bed. No one had been home at the time.

Oh ho ho - YES!

We had some classic poltergeist activity about 15 years ago. We are both sceptical people - but we know what we saw, which included 2 instances of objects moving before our eyes. We both saw these things, and they occurred just after one of us had made a complacent statement - such as 'Oh thank goodness all that nonsense has stopped!'. I'm still sceptical but I'm careful what I say while in the house now. And I won't spend a night alone - it affected me strongly.

Lots and lots of minor incidents - bizarre and some quite ridiculous, and a strained atmosphere in the house at the time. If you believe what some people say - that PA is related to an unhappy teenager (especially a girl) in the house, then that would fit our experience.

My daughter also shocked us at roughly the same time with what seems to have been a telepathic incident. My husband was in the sitting room with her (both reading) when a very, very obscure short story he'd read years before by a forgotten author (titled Winterwood) suddenly came into his mind. He had no idea why. My daughter, who couldn't possibly have heard of it, suddenly looked up at him and said 'Winterwood!' When he asked her why she said it she was a baffled as him. It really freaked him out, and still does!

I think that girl might be a bit of a witch...

I think we can do things on autopilot without thinking at times and then later on it confuses us.

Rats are very good at moving things around, especially bread. I’ve caught them mid-carrying bread rolls before.

So is your house alarmed? Or just a bit worried? (Sorry just had to post this due to a notice on a door at university).

We are forever losing shit. We joke that we have a kleptomaniac ghost in the house 🤣.

It's a running joke now that whenever me or my husband can't find something we look at the ceiling and scold the 'ghost' and demand they stop playing silly buggers and give it back.

I think that things can be right in front of you sometimes and you can't see them. If you think you've looked somewhere your brain goes nope, not there. If something isn't where you thought you left it you don't see it. Your brain sees what it expects to see. Just like reading back what you've written. Your brain reads what it thinks you wrote. That's why writers need proof readers because you often don't catch your mistakes. You read what you believe is there.

One time we were doing some DIY and the hammer 'vanished'. We did our scolding the ghost thing (we think we are funny but we are not) and next thing we know it's right there.

Did the 'ghost' take it and return it?
Of course not. 🤣

We were convinced it was somewhere else in the room and just didn't see it.

Until we took that second to be daft, sort of a reset I suppose? Fresh eyes, bit of daftness. Then we noticed it. Right where it had been since whichever one of us who had it last put it there.

It's a quirk of the human brain. Especially with the mundane.
You see what you expect to see. You read what you expect to read. You hear what you expect to hear.

Re nowhere in the house, nobody could have taken it etc I lost a rocking chair in a house move.

A teddy bear that was given when I was born has disappeared. I am convinced it's in my sister's house, she's adamant it's not.

I lost a couple of thousand pounds worth of resin jewellery stock. (I make jewellery)

We turned the house and the shed upside down. Went room by room. Methodically checked everything. Moved everything. It was nowhere. Three years later we're clearing and dismantling the shed and what do we find? A huge plastic box filled with my jewellery.

We had never seen it because we were convinced it was sealed in a big bag. We had seen the box but not seen the box iyswim.

We were looking for a bag. We had tunnel vision re that bag. I could describe it! So we didn't see the box. We looked at it, we moved it, but we didn't see it.

Imo people have too much faith in themselves when it comes to seeing what's in front of them.

Don't trust your eyes, basically.

My Mum's house has weird goings on!
She used to wear an eternity ring if my Nan's after she died. After several years it snapped sk Mum put it away in a ring box in a drawer.
Took her shopping one day, when we got back the ring was sitting on the cushion on the settee.
Another time, she went to the bathroom and when she went back into the living room, there was brown goo running down the wall from the ceiling to the mantlepiece above the fireplace. Coving all around the top of the walls so it couldn't come from the loft,and there was no way it could come through the coving anyway. Nothing else on the wall or ceiling, my brother checked the loft and there was nothing. The goo was about the consistency of honey but didn't smell of anything. It's only happened the once and has never happened again.

Someone on here suggested it could have been an audio clip from that film. Creepy as hell!

Isn't that the plot of 2001: A Space Odyssey 😂

Oh, I also had an experience where Alexa randomly, without any prompting, began singing Daisy Daisy, becoming increasingly demonic in tone. Freaked ds and I out so much that we completely removed Alexa and she's not been switched on since!

Dsis used to find used Teabags in random corners of her kitchen. She'd go to bed at night and everything was normal, then wake the next day and find a teabag in the corner of the room.

A friend of mine had a hairdryer go missing. I mean, totally disappear. She turned the house upside down looking for it. She lives alone, too. Even when she moved house and packed everything away for the move, it never turned up.

Came home after being away for a couple of days, during which time we had physically turned off the robot vacuum cleaner. Decided not to switch it on that evening because the house was clean. Looked at cleaner... it was turned on already. No-one had touched it. Definitely off when we came in. Next day spotted that OH had left the microwave door open in the kitchen (again). Decided to leave it open because it was full of condensation inside. Turned away to fridge, turned back and door was shut. No memory of closing it at all

Now I know in both cases it was just a brain fart, but there's still a little part that wonders...

No, nothing like that. It does make me jump when the house is quiet and it starts. It’s on the counter in the corner of the kitchen and when it starts it’s sudden, and seems deliberate - the pestle rolls from one side of the dish to the other and makes a fair bit of noise. Similar to another posters’ experience, l’ve actually called out that l know someone is there, and the movement stops. Our dog occasionally goes and sits in that corner and barks, or whines, looking up at the counter. We get random wafts of perfume/cigarette smoke too - the air moves as though someone has walked through the room and left the odour behind them.

Not much to say, really! I’ve had a loud hammering once on my bedroom door, when DH was downstairs watching TV and I was in bed.

Then the bedroom door was pushed open once - it couldn’t have opened randomly because it was a new door and we had a new bedroom carpet, and we were in the phase when the carpet pile is still a bit high so it takes extra effort to push the door open. But it just…opened.

Then at Christmas I was baking in the kitchen and saw the silhouetted figure of a man cross the hall from the foot of the stairs to the living room door. I thought it was DH, then I remembered he was in the garden, which he still was (I checked).

And then tonight DH said ‘I saw something cross the hallway.’ I panicked and thought he meant a mouse! I was relieved when he said he thought it was our guest 😂

Could it be a rats or some other larger rodent moving things around?

I had a couple of things like that happen. Then I had a friend sleep over and found out that I sometimes sleep walk.

I had no idea.