To believe my house is haunted?

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

Highly unlikely that Stephen Hawking would conclude that @Hanto, given that he was interested in String Theory, Dark Matter and Blackholes and what our Universe contains. If he'd argue that Strings collide would you snort derisively at that and pat yourself on your back by upholding your own superior belief system that there's no more for us to discover?

There was a good old sneer from another poster earlier ( sorry I forget your name ) who wondered if their own fixed mindset could be fixed by waving some sage around. Well, maybe. What works for some people doesn't work for others. Sage, prayer, manifestation, the Higgs Boson, to each their own.

I'm firmly in the "more things in heaven and earth" camp given some of the weird stuff I've experienced, so I have sympathy for the OP and as am baffled as many others by the dogmatic and dismissive attitudes of some, but hey ho, each to their own.

I'm convinced that quantum entanglement etc is a thing. My most recent experience concerns a dream I had, that involved an underground station, goats that lived there that I was interested in petting, followed by an encounter on the street outside with a priest in high church regalia and a nun. I woke up very 🤔 then didn't think much of it.

Day or two later, running errands for my Dad, I dropped into a charity shop and overheard an exchange between two women, all about a knitting pattern for toy goats, because one woman's daughter works with urban goats in the area and she wanted to knit some. I was a bit eh? How odd. Shrugged it off. Ten minutes later, idling in Boots waiting for my Dad's prescription I glanced across the aisle and there's a nun doing her shopping. I have never seen a nun in the wild in that part of the town. One thing adjacent to my dream - fine, coincidence. But two???

Although I'm slightly into the esoteric, if it's some sort of sign, it's wasted on me, although taking unholy orders and raising goats in seclusion would be fine with me right now.

Highly unlikely that Stephen Hawking would conclude that @Hanto, given that he was interested in String Theory, Dark Matter and Blackholes and what our Universe contains. If he'd argue that Strings collide would you snort derisively at that and pat yourself on your back by upholding your own superior belief system that there's no more for us to discover?

There was a good old sneer from another poster earlier ( sorry I forget your name ) who wondered if their own fixed mindset could be fixed by waving some sage around. Well, maybe. What works for some people doesn't work for others. Sage, prayer, manifestation, the Higgs Boson, to each their own.

Name of this academic book please?

I wonder if any theoretical physicists who support String Theory and the proposal of multiple dimensions would get told they're mentally ill if they suggested these unexplained phenomena were related. Brian Cox is one, Stephen Hawking was another.

To me it just sounds like a collection of explainable things that have understandably given you the creeps. It' is unnerving when appliances randomly turn on by themselves, I've had it with our TV before and it was down to the kids setting a timer for 3am in the morning!! It kept coming on full blast too!! I'll be honest I was scared stiff till I realised what had happened 🙈.
As for toys turning on by themselves I've got 4 kids and about a billion toys! This has happened several times always the creepiest sounding ones too! I'm sure the toy manufacturers do it on purpose to scare the shit out of parents 🤣.
I would as others have suggested check your wiring and make sure carbon monoxide monitors are working. If you still feel things aren't right get the house blessed.

There are issues in my house. Ages ago I asked the local minister to visit but she just laughed (which made me feel ridiculous). Then o discovered my house had been mentioned in an academic book about haunting. FFS.

Everyone seems to be fixated on ghosts.
Why assume that paranormal events are caused by the dead?
We live in an extraordinary world, with things seen and unseen, some of which occasionally interact with us. Whether you try to explain by science or by woo, it doesn't matter.
I am always amused by those who insist bombastically that there are no such things. Perhaps they are protesting too much?

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?

I have several ghost stories, some which could be explained others not.
Several were before camera phones existed.
Others where it happened so quickly that there’s no chance to whip a phone out.

One is going on now but happens infrequently and undramatically and there is no way of getting footage of it without installing night vision cctv (although if someone wants to buy one for me I’ll happily set it up!).

No film is going to confirm or deny existence of ghosts. Phone camera quality isn’t always good, particularly at night or at a distance. If the image is too good it isn’t believed because AI or photoshop.

That’d be v boring though. If I was a ghost id be door slamming and chucking vases at every opportunity just to pas the time.

All of the people with detailed ghost stories, do you have it on camera? This is surely the first thing you would do, rather than hearing it every night, and wondering what it is.