I am Not "Woo" at all but this just happened

You don’t believe in all that… righty ho. Well the evidence is staring you in the face.
My DH never believed in all that until in our previous home we had a ‘visit‘ which he didn’t see, but I did, it was a white fuzzy figure beside the bed. I left the bedroom like a marathon runner and he probably still wouldn’t have believed me were it not for the stench of cigarette smoke which was not only overwhelming but it was on my breath too. I’ve never smoked, DH doesn’t smoke, and no one is allowed to smoke in our home.
His sister had died of lung cancer the week before, she’d been a chain smoker. Make of it what you will, but I got someone in to do a spiritual cleansing, it shit me up.

We’ll to be fair, I’m massively sceptical but in all honesty you can’t know that. Just being pedantic here but you honestly can’t be sure of something just because you don’t believe in it. We didn’t ‘believe in’ plenty of things until science was advanced enough to prove to us otherwise. Just saying.

Exactly! Smoke cleansing is a pretty universal practice with each culture having their own variation depending on what grows locally. Sage ( or more correctly, white sage) is a Native American herb and it's been watered down via the internet to also include the culinary sage in Britain.

Take a few lengths of dried bramble, tie them together and set alight. It also doesn't smell great but it's cheap and readily available everywhere. The old name for it is a witches whisk.

The Scots have their own practice of "saining" for which I believe they use juniper

@Elphame - what do you do with the bramble? Burn it?

I think that it would be more effective in getting rid of UK poltergeists, whereas sage would see off those Native American ones.

It does not smell good! It just smells of burnt herbs.

Personally I would save my money and just use bramble as the old folk in the UK used to prior to this new-fangled American idea of sage.

If I was really worried I'd use asafoetida and rotten fish guts ( as recommended in the Apocrypha). That smells bad enough to shift anything!

I bought one. Not sure what I’m meant to do but I must have a try. I just fancied wafting it round and seeing if it smelled good. It’s still sat on the sideboard.

Some of the answers on this thread are comedy gold.

Apparently you’re supposed to say “In the name of God, can I help you?”. Saw a priest on tv years ago advising this. I’d be terrified though. Not at all woo either - but that’s definitely unnerving.

As someone who has in the past been hospitalised and put on anti-psychotics I can absolutely assure you that seeing something with your own eyes is evidence of nothing.

Our missing AirPod, earring and several other little things, often get found in the washing machine filter or rubber seal.

It doesn't sound like a earthquake - I'm not sure sage will save you, but I'd be wafting it around my house anyway

Could you have mice?? They could knock things of shelves and they move quickly. They could have run into you as well. As a student we had a mouse problem. I even moved bedrooms as it was found in my room. But then it followed me downstairs. Found it sitting in my jeans pocket on the chair!! It was fast though and trying to catch it took a while.

I'd have thought most people who have been on MN a while will know what woo is, whether or not there are themselves.

Sage. Match. STAT!!!

Then ring Danny Robbins 😁

If you’re white go investigate.

If you’re black leave immediately, you won’t survive.

🤣

It could be an earthquake, or something to do with the quake in Santorini. In 2004, the evening of Christmas day, at about 6, a picture flew off our conservatory wall. It was of an eagle and our immediate thought was that the poltergeist was back.
The next morning we heard about the earthquake and sunami. Our picture flying off the wall was roughly the time when the earthquake hit and we concluded that it was the result of one of the shocks. The 2004 earthquake literally shook the whole earth.
It's also possible there was a small local earthquake near you. I remember somewhere around 1987 I was standing by my dining table in a midland town and it shook. A few moments later a friend living round the corner rang me and asked if I had felt anything. I said the table shook. She had been scared because her conservatory had shuddered for no reason. Both were the result of a quite small earthquake which made that evening's local news - they do happen here, but they are usually low on the Richter scale.
More likely either of those phenomena than a poltergeist, I think (unless you have teenage children - teenagers attract poltergeist phenomena).

Why wouldn't seeing something several times with your own eyes be evidence enough?

Why would you jump to 'oh i must be imagining my phone levitating' ? Especially if it then flies through the air and lands on the floor.

Surely it makes more sense that there's just some 'woo' shit we can't explain.

Some people will bend over backwards not to believe their own eyes. It's weird.

Shout 'go into the light' and then go stay at a friend's house. 🏠

I experienced quite a lot of poltergeist activity when I was pubescent. It lasted about nine months and then sort of faded away.

It changed my Dad's view of the world as we know it and he was as far from woo as you could get.

Does waving a packet of sage & onion stuffing about count? Anyone? 🤣🤣

It's the pesky Welsh faeries

I blooming love that film, and Sigourney is great in it!

Fuck sake @Tacsi I can't believe you have not done the sensible answer...and...

CALLED THE GHOST BUSTERS!!

They are experts in this field.

HTH x

Old mineworks under your house shifting? Maybe ask local authority to check.

Where is the evidence?. All that has been offered is just narrative at best and hearsay at the worst.