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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:
GutsyShark · 21/01/2025 09:43

Meltingslush · 21/01/2025 09:20

@Hanto

Sneer as much as you like . Unless you've experienced you don't know what you are talking about.

That’s what I’m going to say to the doctor next time she tells me I’m ill. If she’s never had the disease she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

Meltingslush · 21/01/2025 09:20

@Hanto

Sneer as much as you like . Unless you've experienced you don't know what you are talking about.

Hanto · 20/01/2025 22:54

Meltingslush · 20/01/2025 10:11

Tell the spirit to go into the light . I read somewhere that the spirit is afraid to go into the light . Perhaps get a priest to come to the house and bless it .

It cracks me up that people who wouldn’t set foot inside a church of any stripe from one year to the next default to suggesting ringing up vicars or Catholic priests the second there’s an unsettling creak — as though they’re some kind of sprit equivalent of Rentokill.

lovemetomybones · 20/01/2025 22:30

You need to listen to uncanny on bbc sounds some of the stories, one of the more recent Christmas episodes links very much to what you have said.

I wouldn't leave your children alone in rooms after listening to it. One little two year old asked his mum to stop the lady crying at the end of his bed. She heard a woman singing to him on the baby monitor!

StmMary · 20/01/2025 19:25

Hanto · 20/01/2025 10:09

George?

Can you ‘retire’ from being a clairvoyant?

Edited

Hi yes it means I don't read any more
Yes i still get things coming to me.
It don't leave you.
George, my guiden angel told me he was. once was on that land.. Living along time ago.

GutsyShark · 20/01/2025 15:04

MrsSkylerWhite · 20/01/2025 14:49

In which case, fair enough, you’re consistent @GutsyShark

I’ve been surprised over the years at the number of people who believe in a god or gods but flat out refuse to entertain the idea of ghosts/spirits, etc.

Well I don’t. And believe it or not my original reply was intended to be helpful (admittedly I could and probably should have phrased it in a nicer way) but I think it’s silly to indulge this nonsense and a short sharp shock I think is sometimes useful.

MrsSkylerWhite · 20/01/2025 14:49

In which case, fair enough, you’re consistent @GutsyShark

I’ve been surprised over the years at the number of people who believe in a god or gods but flat out refuse to entertain the idea of ghosts/spirits, etc.

GutsyShark · 20/01/2025 14:17

MrsSkylerWhite · 20/01/2025 14:08

GutsyShark · 18/01/2025 09:36
You know it’s not haunted. Grow up.

Do you have a religious faith, @GutsyShark ?

That’s a rather personal question but no I don’t.

MrsSkylerWhite · 20/01/2025 14:08

GutsyShark · 18/01/2025 09:36
You know it’s not haunted. Grow up.

Do you have a religious faith, @GutsyShark ?

FeetLikeFlippers · 20/01/2025 13:56

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.

How can you tell if someone is a medium?
Check the label in their pants.

doodledee · 20/01/2025 12:33

In a similar thread to carbon monoxide is there any mould in the house?

Dr Shane Rogers, an environmental engineering professor at New York's Clarkson University investigates the link between haunted houses and mould.
He noticed 'strange behaviour' in his children after exposure to mould in his basement, and noticed many of the houses on TV series about ghosts had mould in them.
Apparently some of the symptoms humans experience after mould exposure match those seen in reports of ghost sightings. Aspergillus mould can cause shortness of breath and optic nerve inflammation causing dark shapes to float across the vision. Stachybotrys, or black mould, has been shown to create a 'feeling of fear'.
Doesn't really fit with your experience OP but interesting all the same

Meltingslush · 20/01/2025 10:11

Tell the spirit to go into the light . I read somewhere that the spirit is afraid to go into the light . Perhaps get a priest to come to the house and bless it .

Hanto · 20/01/2025 10:09

StmMary · 20/01/2025 09:45

Hi I'm a retired psychic Clairvoyant and your home needs salt around the outside if you home and on the windowsills..
Then in a loud voice tell the spirt George to go home, go back to your loved ones that have passed.
Tel the old lady that plays tricks with your mind this isn't your house and your child children.. Please leave..
I know it sounds crazy but it does work.
Empty you fears from your mind.
Ask your angel Micheal to help you..
Good luck and good bless.

George?

Can you ‘retire’ from being a clairvoyant?

TheHillsIsLonely · 20/01/2025 09:59

Sceptic by nature, many years spent in a profession operating at forensic levels of detail and analysis, and yet there is a holiday cottage my family and I will never go back to. In addition, after a parent died certain events completely defied our usual logical or 'coincidences' conclusions to anything seemingly woo.

StmMary · 20/01/2025 09:45

rockpops · 18/01/2025 00:10

To add the house is rented as a stop gap between buying as we needed to move to get my son into the school we wanted. We won’t be here by the end of the year luckily*

Hi I'm a retired psychic Clairvoyant and your home needs salt around the outside if you home and on the windowsills..
Then in a loud voice tell the spirt George to go home, go back to your loved ones that have passed.
Tel the old lady that plays tricks with your mind this isn't your house and your child children.. Please leave..
I know it sounds crazy but it does work.
Empty you fears from your mind.
Ask your angel Micheal to help you..
Good luck and good bless.

xILikeJamx · 20/01/2025 09:42

The telling thing with these sorts of tales is that the weird stuff always stops when other people are around

tommyhoundmum · 20/01/2025 09:36

rockpops · 18/01/2025 00:15

I also don’t know the history of the house, all I know is it was built in the 60’s so not very old.

There are things in this life that defy explanation. If it was me I'd go to my local church and talk to a priest, not a lay preacher. There is an exorcism ceremony in the Cof E, I don't know about other religions. The priest could at least visit and bless your house if exorcism is inappropriate.

shellmo4 · 20/01/2025 07:23

Many people are too quick to dismiss these types of phenomena
It's really easy to cleanse your house with a sage dobber, you can get them off ebay. You will also need a bell. You can find lots of different prayers on the Internet to say
You can also put salt in the corners of every room. It does work but you need to speak loudly, open the window in every room as you're doing it as well
There's not harm in trying for under £10.
Good luck 🙂

JustCrow · 20/01/2025 00:18

medianewbie · 19/01/2025 15:20

I'll pm you ( I have quite a few possibly 'traceable' threads on MN atm)

That would be great thanks!

InSearchOfMartin · 19/01/2025 22:48

Contact Danny Robins from the Uncanny podcast.

Hyperquiet · 19/01/2025 22:08

Curtainqueen · 19/01/2025 06:23

Yep. Nothing like an academic for boring a ghost to death.

Lol my bad meant religious scholar

Middleagedspreadisreal · 19/01/2025 21:18

ShirkingFromHome95 · 18/01/2025 00:21

I don't think ghosts are any more real than werewolves or vampires tbh. In any given case it's probs more likely that the person seeing it suffers from mental illness.

Oh, they are. And I'm not mentally ill either.

Lyntill · 19/01/2025 19:31

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?

Just be glad this isn't your forever home! A similar thing happened to us many years ago. We involved the Spiritualist church and they helped us but we moved anyway!
Good luck x

rubberduck22 · 19/01/2025 19:23

Judgejudysno1fan · 18/01/2025 07:30

I have an immediate solution to your problem.
And I'm very serious.
There are spirits and I understand.

Play the quran very loudly throughout the house. You can go on YouTube and find any surahs/chapters being recited.

Look up how to get rid of jinn with holy quran.

Shout Allahu akbar. Play the quran in every room.
Everywhere except the toilet..

In Islam, we do believe in GHosts but we call them jinn. They can move stuff and upset you but they also fear Allah/ God. I appreciate you're probably non Muslim but trust me. Its very real.
Jinns are not people from old days like old soldiers or Henry the 8th but they are spirits and they have their own ways/life/good/bad but we never interact with them, and we believe they are there too just like we belive in God and his angels and heaven.
If you see movement again, shout Allahu akbar and it will stop.i promise you. They will run.
It's happened to people in Muslim countries and Muslim households and even to myself.
They also smell like smoke.
Sorry this has happened but this is the way forward.
Play YouTube of reciting the quran round the house. It is so beautiful and feels like a weight lifted off your shoulders.
Best wishes.

I got goosebumps reading that! 😱

ThisRedLion · 19/01/2025 18:45

Your house is haunted something is trying to get your attention don't give it any there's nothing more scary