To believe my house is haunted?

How old is your baby? I ask because post-parting mental health is a more likely explanation than haunting, so maybe speak to your health visitor?

Why? Why would any ghost or being do these things? If they wanted to alert you to their presence and have the ability to turn things on and tip objects etc why don’t they pick up a pen and write? If they can giggle etc then why don’t they talk to you?
Please don’t worry. It takes ages to get used to the noises and quirks of a new house. Whilst I believe in an after life I do not believe in ghosts or that dead people can contact us. If you establish it firmly in your mind that it is all rubbish you will start to see rational explanations for everything.

Hi @rockpops

We moved into our home many years ago. We are staunch sceptics, and believe me, we are more concerned with the living than the possible activities of the dead.

However...the morning after we moved into our new home. All the cupboard doors in the kitchen were wide open, and the tap was on full force in the bathroom. We accused each other of the wrongdoing and was mad at each other for a minute. Until we realise it wasn't us.

There was always a strong smell of tobacco (we are non-smokers). The backroom was always very uninviting and constantly dark, no matter how bright we make it with the lights. Random toys in the children's room would come on at night (no batteries), and footsteps would be heard moving around in the dining room (we have wood flooring, so a very distinctive sound). Our bedroom, though calming, at times made us feel uncomfortable. And sometimes, when we were in the dining room, it would seem as if there was smoke in the air, just a faint wisp.

Decided to dig a little deeper about our home (built in 1890). Found out that the family that lived in the home before, had lived there all their lives...and both the husband and wife died in the house. The husband was a smoker, and the wife was known as a great cook. Husband died in the back room of our home. The wife in our current bedroom.

We still live in the house, spent a lot on repairs and restructuring, but it's still a beautiful home. And yes, there are still things that happen, but we know what it could be and are okay with it. We were told at the time to get a priest when our son told us to, 'tell the people in the room to stop talking' (he was very young and he was playing on his own in his room) as it could be dangerous. It hasn't been. But we do get a surprise event every now and then.

Nevertheless, my story differs from yours in that the activity that you are experiencing is directed at you. This is something a little different.

Maybe to set your mind at rest, you could find out a little more about the property or the grounds first. But as this is a temporary situation, and you don't intend to stay, you may need to consider if this is something you can live with for the interim.

Don't be a twat, just keep reading.

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.

Sorry but there is no way a deceased person with no muscles, cartilage and bones can move an inanimate object - it's just not physically possible.
Have you got an infestation OP ?

PP 'sounded like someone putting away a shop in a mood' is a great description. I can imagine exactly. Not what I'd want in a holiday home though!

Can you expand on what you experienced I'm genuinely interested.

People saying that ghosts are not real have never experienced them. I lived in a haunted house for nearly 13 years, our whole family experienced things, even my extended family and ex boyfriends that didn't live there. Lots of people refused to come into our house for this reason. It still affects me now.

Have you checked to see if the house has been built on an old indian burial ground?
Next thing to check - has anyone died there in tragic circumstances?
Is the rent to good to be true, ie about half market rate of similar properties?
Do the neighbours give you pitying looks or icy stares, has a grizzled old man told you to be careful?
Do people whisper about you in the local shop?
If none of these apply your house probably isn't haunted!!!

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Beat me to it

These things have likely all happened in other environments, OP, except you haven’t paid them any mind because you didn’t have the belief that you were living in a haunted house. Now you do believe this so you are going to attribute everything to it.

Everything in your post has an explanation. Appliances can turn themselves on and off with power surges, overloaded circuits and stuck loops – have you had an electrical survey? (if you care to). Things used to turn on or off in our house when we first moved in – it was an overloaded circuit.

We also had a shower that has turned itself on – it’s because the mains water is too high a bar for the shower pipes.

I don’t see anything that weird about anything you’ve written. But I do understand getting the heebiejeebies sometimes and it isn’t pleasant.

Every Church of England diocese has access to an exorcist. Contact your local vicar and go from there. A close friend was the diocesan exorcist locally.

I think even to make yourself feel better, you might need to call a priest to bless the house.

When I was a teenager, I used to hear someone breathing in my bedroom for years. It made my hair stand on end but I never felt it was threatening. It was very creepy though. I told my mum and she came to my bedroom one night and told it to go away and never come back. I never heard it again.

We have had unexplained banging and crashing in a holiday house. The owners mother lived there for years and told us it was haunted. We heard the banging before she told us that.

I don’t believe in such things but honestly there was no explanation. Sounded like someone putting away a shop in a mood. No it wasn’t pipes..

Call Danny Robins

Love a woo story,I'm ok with it as long it's not me experiencing bumps in the night of the spooky variety.👻

Do people do that?!

Same, sat here in the dark remembering every creepy thing that has happened to me 😆.

A couple of years ago I moved into my house and was regularly up in the night with my 1 year old at the time. For two nights in a row, part way through the night I began to smell unknown perfume when lying in my bed. I hadn't worn perfume since before covid, and it wasn't my one.

We had been moved in for some time at that point, hadn't any clothes near the bed it could be from, and no boxes with perfume in. I even smelt the carpet next to the bed thinking maybe it was old scent that had somehow laid in the carpet and been disturbed but no where and nothing else smelt. It did scare me, so i said out loud that I wanted to be alone with my son please and thankfully that never happened again. The woman who used to live here died years before her husband so I doubt anything could have stayed in the carpet for that long but who knows!

No new advice OP, i'd get the carbon monoxide monitor anyway for peace of mind, just like you would a fire alarm. I'd start turning stuff off at the plug like the pp suggested and the next time something happens I would politely ask for 'them' not to do it anymore as it is scaring you. Whether it is real or works as a placebo, may make you feel better .

Much like the electrical items that switch themselves on randomly, something appears to be malfunctioning.

You need to see a doctor.
Have some tests done.

FFS, why did i read this. I'm feeding the baby and the bloody monitor started beeping loudly. However, It was a low battery. Still scared the shit out of me. Light is now on. 😅

I believe you. Stuff like that happened in one of the houses I lived in.
It scared the shit out of me until one day I got angry and stood up to it and asked it to leave me alone, you can't scare me anymore and please leave.
And it did! Try that, if not definitely get a pastor or priest in for sure.