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To believe my house is haunted?

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rockpops · 18/01/2025 00:02

Moved to a new house 2 months ago. Felt lovely and inviting upon viewing and certainly didn’t feel any bad energy.

About a week after moving in things started happening! At 6pm every evening I would hear things, first the dishes being moved around in the sink, then a cupboard poor upstairs being slammed shut, loud bang in bedroom I heard from monitor that make her wake jump and woke her up, then one evening I was on the phone to my mum talking about what’s been happening I said to her “as long as it doesn’t scare me I don’t mind” and right in front of me my daughters baby monitor turned itself on and started beeping loudly like the battery was low but it wasn’t. The monitor wasn’t plugged in or charging and the camera upstairs was turned off! When I looked at the time it was 6.02pm! My blood literally went cold was so scared.

Then my son had left this robot fish toy on my bedside table, it only starts moving in water. I was talking to DP from the bedroom he was in another room and this fish starts flapping. I shouted “oh my god”, it stopped then did one last flap before fully stopping. Again this toy has never just turned itself on and there was no water on the table. Shortly after this I was standing at my sons bedroom door and I could see smoke in his room, I panicked and ran in as was sure there was a fire but then it was gone.

Christmas Eve I was wrapping some last minute presents upstairs and I had my daughters monitor on with white noise in the background so couldn’t hear properly but thought I could hear talking. First I thought it was just the neighbours then I turned the monitor down and realised the TV was on that had been turned off and was playing Maria Kerry all I want for Christmas is you. I was the only one awake and when I tell you I was petrified to go downstairs that is an understatement! So I went down to turn it off with my hairs standing up all over my body and said out loud “Merry Christmas, but you need to leave me alone” then right after I said it one of the presents piled under the tree fell for where it was placed. I froze in absolute terror. We then had family staying for a while so thing went quiet.

After they left one night I hear a noise and had no idea what is what went downstairs there was no noise so checked all the rooms and the shower has turned itself on (slow flowing but still on) but wasn’t turned on at the nob. I stood there staring at it for a while trying to figure it out and turning the non off and on but it wasn’t stopping. I walked out the bathroom to get DP and it stopped. Another time I was in my sons bed with him trying to get him to take an afternoon nap and his box of Lego tipped over on the floor and went all over the floor. It was on top of another box but has never done that and he’s had those boxes for years!

Last night was my scariest experience yet!!! I got up to pee in the night at around 1am went I got back into bed I could hear a a faint giggle and muffled talking very low from the corner of my bedroom next to the window I thought maybe it’s just the neighbours but then the muffled talking moved next to the bedroom door and then I hear a loud bang that made me jump out of my skin right next to my head. When mustered up the courage to look what it was my phone has “fallen” off my bedside table onto the floor and must have hit my daughter’s next to me cot. I was scared stiff in bed then my dog starting barking down stairs and once he starts he goes on and on until someone sees to him so I had to go down even though I was too scared to. I went down tried to settled him in his bed then noticed the TV was on again!! I’ve had this TV for about 10 years it has never ever turned itself on! Apart from these two occasions in this house but never in my old house. Wtf is going on. There is no way all of these are just little coincidences, I tried to explain it away at first but feel like that’s not even possible anymore. What do I do? Do I get a priest in?

Oh there was another occasion where I was trying to fall asleep and heard in the corner of the room a pop like when someone puts their finger cheek and out again to make a pop sound. It was as clear as day I even got up to try and recreate the sound with stuff in the room but I have nothing that could make that sound. My DP doesn’t believe in this type of stuff and it seems like it’s just doing it to me as my son has never said he’s seen or heard anything. I also keep having nightmares.

Any advice? Has anyone dealt with similar?

OP posts:
rockpops · 18/01/2025 05:15

(Ps: renting to get into a school is horrible behaviour - but that's an aside)

We’re buying in this area. House purchase fell through so we decided to rent in this area to make sure we could apply on time. What would be even more horrible than your opinion would be driving 40 minutes each way to get my son to school and back 5 days a week 🙃 and waiting years to get him into one of the two small local primary schools.

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GRex · 18/01/2025 04:09

When we moved into this house, the living room felt a bit weird and seemed like it made noise. The electrician found ropy wiring in the plaster of one wall. I would get a plumber to check the gas plus shower and an electrician to check the electrics. Multiple of your events suggest an incident with one or the other, possibly both in a rental.

LostittoBostik · 18/01/2025 03:56

Also are you sleep deprived? I suffer from auditory hallucinations when I'm in severe sleep deprivation - it happened to me loads when I had a newborn. One is like a loud bang or crack just as I'm falling asleep. If you google it you'll find this is really common.

LostittoBostik · 18/01/2025 03:52

Get a priest in if it helps you but this is all your anxiety talking. Moving house is stressful!

"We then had family staying for a while so thing went quiet."

That tells you everything you need to know. You're finding a nonexistent pattern in the random. Those flappy fish go off all the time for no reason (we've got one). Phones fall of bedside tables.

(Ps: renting to get into a school is horrible behaviour - but that's an aside)

MalleusMaleficarumm · 18/01/2025 03:42

yes because ghosts aren’t real.

It’s a series of coincidences, Houses creak and move and toys can malfunction. I have a tv that turns itself on but it’s because the remote is sticky and the buttons get stuck.

Deebee90 · 18/01/2025 03:01

Well I didn’t need to read that at 3am. Urgh burn your house down and run away. That place has a nasty spirit attached to it 100%

timetodecide2345 · 18/01/2025 02:42

You will get the dismissive crew on here. No real solution just outright unhelpfulness.

It's scaring you and you feel it's also potentially going to harm your child. Have you spoken with the landlord about your experiences? What about contacting a previous tenant?

13Ghosts · 18/01/2025 02:36

Is your TV switched off at the socket? If not start doing that.

Change the channel/frequency on your baby monitor

Check the draught excluders on your doors and windows

Bleed your radiators

Keep the dog in your bedroom with you at night

Get a humidifier to reduce the static electricity in your house

ETA Get an EMF meter

rockpops · 18/01/2025 02:27

Maria Kerry 🫠😂 my post was too long to read back for typos so thank you to anyone who’s actually read in full. I get it I know many people don’t believe in such things but I’ve genuinely never experienced anything like this before

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TellMeDinosaurFacts · 18/01/2025 02:24

Dodgy electrics was my first thought- for the 'pop' sound as well as things turning on.

CoachCarter · 18/01/2025 02:19

Thought of this as soon as I read your post.

To believe my house is haunted?
SnowFrogJelly · 18/01/2025 01:28

Give your head a wobble

SnowFrogJelly · 18/01/2025 01:27

AConcernedCitizen · 18/01/2025 00:39

Ghosts aren't real...but maybe Santa got stuck up the chimney?

😂

Hanto · 18/01/2025 01:24

Christmasbear1 · 18/01/2025 00:48

Not sure why everyone is being so dismissive. I would get a local priest to come bless the house.

Because it’s clearly dodgy electrics and poor insulation you often get in a house that’s been rented out for a long time, unfamiliar noises in a new environment, minor coincidences and a freaked-out OP who’s adding two and two and making about 17. Baby monitors are notorious for picking up other signals. Dogs go mental in new environments

She’s not thinking straight — she says her child’s Lego box tipped over, and said that although it was on top of another box, he’d ’had those boxes for years’, which she appears to think means it has to have been supernatural. But they’ve only lived in this house two months, so obviously someone carried the Lego boxes from the old house and stacked them in the new house. Possibly not very securely. Etc.

Bbq1 · 18/01/2025 01:17

Sounds very unnerving. I would get a priest in.

I hope Maria Kerry was a typo

Hanto · 18/01/2025 01:12

malmi · 18/01/2025 01:04

Get a carbon monoxide detector

Then get a medium if you can afford one.

If you can't then try a small.

I only just got that. 😀

MoonWoman69 · 18/01/2025 01:10

There's too much going on for coincidences. Good job it's just a stop gap.
Ask out loud for them to leave you alone, you mean them no harm and thatyou won't be bothering them for long. Good luck ❤

JustCrow · 18/01/2025 01:08

Get a grip.

malmi · 18/01/2025 01:04

Get a carbon monoxide detector

Then get a medium if you can afford one.

If you can't then try a small.

PebbleDashAtOne · 18/01/2025 00:59

Please check that your carbon monoxide detectors are working properly.

Christmasbear1 · 18/01/2025 00:48

Not sure why everyone is being so dismissive. I would get a local priest to come bless the house.

Mademetoxic · 18/01/2025 00:44

What are we on tonight?

MsPavlichenko · 18/01/2025 00:42

Yes, you are being unreasonable. Your house is not haunted.

Hanto · 18/01/2025 00:42

When we moved to this house I kept thinking I saw someone passing the kitchen window out of the corner of my eye at the same time of evening, but there was nowhere for them to go, and we had an electronic gate at the front. It used to give me a jolt, as I was here alone with a young child a lot. I realised once I’d calmed down about it that it was the skinny tree near the house that, when the light was at a particular angle and it was breezy enough to blow clouds across, sent a skinny shadow racing across the grass that looked like a person passing if you saw it in your peripheral vision.

Our house had a murder in it, and has an endless succession of weird draughts, creaks and weird noises, but that’s because it’s old. It definitely isn’t haunted!

AConcernedCitizen · 18/01/2025 00:39

Ghosts aren't real...but maybe Santa got stuck up the chimney?