Think I just saw a ghost....

[Badtasteflump]

And feel a bit creeped out. DH is being no help whatsoever as he is a total sceptic.

Was in the kitchen - dining room is through a doorway. Light was off in dining room. Heard the sound of somebody heading my way - we have an old house with creaky floorboards - you can’t sneak anywhere . So I looked up and saw what I presumed to be DH or DS (ie a tall man) standing near the doorway in the dining room, then walk away to my right. The only thing that way is another room (our summer sitting room) and conservatory, and door to the garden. I wondered what they were doing in the dark so went to see but nobody was in there and the back door was locked. Immediately felt a bit freaked out so went into the front room where DH has apparently not moved from the spot for two hours (rugby on so I believe him). I went upstairs and DS is in his room engrosed in an online game and hasn’t been downstairs.

I know you can imagine things out of the corner of your eye but this was clearer than that - I looked right at somebody walking off. And I only looked because I heard them!

Check that nothing has been stolen!

How long have you been in the house OP?

Honestly I’d be far more worried that it was a real live person!

I would also be more worried it was a real person, as far as I'm aware ghosts don't make noises

I saw something similar a pair of legs disappearing up my stairs about 10 years ago we were having work done in the kitchen assumed it was one of the guys (they were close friends of ours) but when I walked into the kitchen they were both there didn't think to much more about it thought I'd been seeing things until I realised my partners psp and some other bits had been taken. I'd be more worried about burglar than ghost however I've been watching haunting of hill house lately so I'd probably be bricking it right now if I saw that

Oh fuck thanks for that - now I’m freaked in a whole new way . When I saw him/it I followed through into the rooms he went towards but there was noone there! I checked the back door (locked, key out of the way), behind the curtains and the furniture . Definitely nobody there, alive or otherwise. Fuuuuuck.

I was hoping for a few ‘Don’t worry, it’s your imagination...blah blah’ posts . Ghosts can do footsteps can’t they? Have lived here about 14 years btw...

Totally believe you!

I’ve seen a ghost walk past the crack of a door when I was at college. It was my friends house dating back to mid 18th century. I was in her bedroom, heard a noise on the landing, looked up at the door and saw something move past the full length of the crack between the door and frame. I called out (to my friend) but no reply, so I went to have a look and she (the only other person in the house) was downstairs in the shower. Another time in that house I was in her bed and the floor boards next to me started making all sorts of noises (it was about 4am), that scared the shit out of me so I pretended to be asleep! 👻

Urgh I’ve been watching the Hill House too - maybe I’ve freaked my brain out...

And on the subject of how long I’ve lived here - when we first moved in there were a few weird instances. I woke up on probably about ten different times to see a man standing at the end of the bed. Then one day I was in the house on my own during the day, bending over the bed changing the sheets and something smacked my arse - hard enough to hurt and make a smack noise. I know that sounds nuts but it happened!

This was all within a year of moving in. Nothing has happened for years. I put the man at the end of the bed down to night terrors or sleep paralysis, and the smacked bum down to a tendon going ping - or something

More likely to be a product of your fevered imagination if you have only ever noticed something a couple of times 14 years ago and once just now?

Its not that I don't believe in ghosts - its just that if you have one, wouldn't it put in a regular appearance?

I heard footsteps coming up the stairs once. I was ill in bed; my sister was downstairs making us some tea. There was only us in the house.

The footsteps were slow and somewhat heavy. I imagined DSis was carrying the two cups carefully. They got to my doorway at the top of the stairs and stopped. I called out to her when no-one came in - no answer.

I hopped out of bed and went to open the door for her. No-one there. She was still downstairs. Both front and back door were locked.

Mind, I can also remember having a conversation with someone who was outside the bathroom door. I couldn't have said whether it was my DBro or DSis, as actually it didn't, on reflection, sound like either of them. Both were downstairs and looked alarmingly blank when I returned back downstairs asking who had been up there talking to me. We were the only ones home.

We had many incidences like that. Was an old house, very, um, characterful Sure yours is fine though

I was hoping for a few ‘Don’t worry, it’s your imagination...blah blah’ posts

Sorry OP You sounded so clear that you weren’t imagining it, so I figured the next most logical explanation (if it definitely wasn’t your DH or DS) was that it was somebody else!

Bolt your back door.

As a kid, I was voted to make a pot of tea while we were all sitting in the living room watching TV. Went through to the kitchen - so through the hall with parquet floor, through the morning room (used to be the kitchen before the house was extended) down the step into the kitchen. Proceeded the well-worn ritual of making a round of tea.

As I was standing there idly watching the kettle boil, I heard the floorboards in the morning room creaking. One after the other, then stopping at the step. "Is that you, DBro2?" I queried somewhat jovially (was glad of the company, making tea was dull). There was silence. I moved from the corner of the kitchen where I was towards the doorway: nobody. Empty space. I stared back at the doorway feeling ill with the shock, then ran through - how, I have no idea - and pelted into the living room. DMum said "Oh! You're white as sheet!" as I hurled myself behind the sofa.

I believe someone else had to finish the tea making.

Bolt your back door

I am actually scared of you now tea . You sounded like a voiceover for a horror film...

I love a good ghost story but not when it’s me!

I used to get my hair pulled a lot at our old flat!
And I saw/felt an old man sit on my bed more than once!

It’s an image and aural event captured in the fabric that makes up your house and played back under specific environmental conditions. Very rare, but that’s what ‘ghosts’ are. Nothing conscious about them.

I've told this before. We had my in-laws staying with us one weekend a few years ago. At about 3 in the morning I was vaguely aware of someone walking into our room - I felt the movement of air as the door opened, and I opened my eyes briefly to see FIL (or a tall man) standing by the bed.

I couldn't be arsed to wake up properly and deal with whatever petty complaint he had, and DH was fast asleep next to me, so swiftly shut my eyes again and breathed deeply. He stood there for about 30 seconds but at last went out again.

In the morning I casually asked if FIL had slept alright, and he said that yes, unusually he'd slept right through and hadn't got up once...

It won't be a ghost because ghosts don't exist.

Ha ha! Sorry, Badtasteflump!