To not want to stay in sister’s haunted house?

Holy crap! I've just read that link about the 'creepy forest/dog running off' story. Think I'll going to sleep with the light on tonight!

Used to live in very large old house, in very rural area, many weekend guests. The house came furnished with some paintings, old furniture and was beautiful. Chandeliers with very low voltage bulbs, very dark in evening. Lovely old house. We kept the quirky decor, the house was perfect.

The very few guests who at breakfast excitedly announced -ghosts! thought every cold draught, bird making a noise, creaking door & insisted “saw” people were quickly told off. (And not invited back!)
I’ve 4 kids living in my house, why the EFF would I want guests spouting this crap about haunted house in front on my kids, in the house they live in! Really appalling guest behavior.

We lived there for 20 yrs, no ghosts. None. There was a certain type of woman who had the spiritual experience, ooo I can’t be alone, I’m so frightened, blah blah. Only one elderly male guest saw the “man in the chair”. I shut him down immediately —“There are no ghosts in this house”!!! Who says this in front of small children … there’s a ghost-man in your house sitting in the chairs at night! Wtf?

Many old house issues, banging pipes, bad windows & cold breezes through house, old wiring, fuses that blow, bats etc etc. No ghosts. Just weird house guests.

OP … it’s in your head!

The fact that you think it is means staying there will freak the hell out of you. Any freak, any noise, no matter what it is will play mind games with you. I wouldn't do it for my own sanity as I have good and bad vibes about places and if it's bad I cannot sleep or function there.

Same! Let’s go!

You need to read this just before you go to bed … https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009TAQWKE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I still think of this every now and then 😨

I've never felt more abandoned and betrayed.

OP, we need closure.

Well presumably King Kong has snatched OP and she’s half way up the Empire State Building by now, probably dropped her phone as well, it’s the only reason we were teased with the possibility of a tale then left hanging that I can think of!

My new build is built on the grounds of an old children’s home - I didn’t know until the days leading up to picking up my keys. I had googled my new address to look on street view maps and it came up. They’ve even recycled the house number so my address is exactly the same.

99% of the time I couldn’t feel more relaxed and at home here but if I read a spooky post my house starts to feel scary. What I’m getting at is how much of the fear is just in our minds.

@elQuintoConyo nothing to do with the thread but can I just say I love the boldness of your username? Had a chuckle 🤭

🍿 am here for OP's story (come on!)

So cold windows, draughts, perhaps heating on, which makes floorboards creak. You nephew is probably tuned into ghosts because he's heard adults talking.

Old cottage, beautiful, but quite dark - tiny windows

I’ve just got back from babysitting my cousin’s little boy. I definitely heard a few unexplained creaks. I’d bought him some bubble wands and we stood on the doorstep waving them and then he starting saying about ghosts in the dark
I wouldn’t want to stay there! Even though he very sweetly asked me!

Sorry forget room layouts. Backs to doors are known to invoke fear, windows with no coverings on a dark night... I love finding why we respond to dangers which no longer exist but is buries deep inside our fight flight parts.

Personally I do not believe in ghosts but I do get that you can be freaked out in certain places. If it were me I would try to work it out. A friend son would freak out inher flat so she got a blessing done. The kid wad never freaked out again. I've been freaked because of odd draughts and doors which open the wrong way or pdd noises. Once I've worked it out I stop being freaked by it. Perhaps have a think what it is. Which freaks you our first. Do you believe in ghosts, do you believe someone is looking at you... etc

Why does she need a caretaker? Is this the house?

£500 for a poke around my sister's cool house for a week? Yeah go on and haunt me!

Seriously op. I definitely don't belief in ghosts, obvs. But I do believe in being freaked out. It depends on whether being freaked out for a week is worth £500 to you 🤷‍♀️ If not, then don't do it.

I'm intrigued as to the back story here....

Please come back and share more details, OP!

How very disappointing, I want it to be a proper ghost. One that walks through walls and stands over your bed.

I had this exact scenario! I refused but agreed to have her pets at mine

HELLO, OP! We are waiting and it’s cold! (Disappointed ghost noises!)

I find all of this really fascinating (also an Uncanny listener!) I do not believe in ghosts but there are lots of proven phenomena that can induce feelings of fear in people. Infrasound as PPs have said, or inhaling mould spores which can cause hallucinations, or even architectural features.

Knowing this however, definitely wouldn't make me feel any better late at night in a house that made me feel uncomfortable or frightened so no, I wouldn't do it. I'm sure she could find a professional house sitter for that sort of money.

It's really good there was a documentary also some of the stories seem real one was from someone that lives near me. There was one that was so far fetched the episode about the man that that used a ouigi board. He said he kept getting creepy calls not matter where he went.

I doubt there are ghosts.

There can be places you just feel uncomfortable staying in, that is enough to say no.