Bit of woo going on at holiday home

[MushyWoo]

Nc'd for this as it's outing.

We arrived at our holiday home in France late on Thursday night to find that it's a (stunning) very old cottage, I would guess 300-400 years at least.

First thing that happened was that my husband plugged his phone in before going to bed and left it on the bedside table. Woke up the next morning to find the phone still there but the charger unplugged and on the floor in the middle of the bedroom a few feet away. Also, during the night, I could hear kids talking, but when I got up to check they were all fast asleep, and I could still hear the talking coming from somewhere in the house as I stood there.

Similar thing the next night, I could hear my daughter's distinct voice, except when my husband went to check the kids were all fast asleep, and I could still hear the talking. The house is very rural and isolated so not from outside, and everything else was switched off.

The morning after this, we were up at 6am to travel somewhere and as I stood in the kitchen brushing my daughter's hair, the electric oven knob turned itself to the autocook setting and began heating up. Bothyself and my daughter were watching it as it happened.

After that, we were away overnight and only returned last night. Today, I opened the fridge and a pack of cheese slices came flying off a perfectly level shelf and past my head.

There have been other corner of the eye things and random stuff moving (that may or may not be down to the kids, of course). I'm not frightened, it's more of a loaded atmosphere than outright sinister. But blimey, we've only been here 2 full days so far so it's a bit much!!

Anyway, tell me yours so that I can feel a bit better about mine 🙂 We're not headed home til Thursday so have a bit to go yet!

@SpookyButTrue - well that was lucky that the ghost was C of E.
@Iloveethnotekbags - your husband has an evil twin.

Haha 😄

This was my thought when I read that post by Kanaloa.

Who gets to say what is and isn't woo? Dan Ackroyd? 😁

At least 3 times we were woken by a bang so loud that we actually ‘felt’ it and we both did. I swore it was a large 5ft mirror I had which had fallen over-but no there was nothing. Twice more this happened and there was no evidence of anything falling, DH would get his torch and search the entire house.

The torch lends a nice Scooby-Doo touch, but did DH not think to just switch the lights on in his "typical suburban 1970's home"?

I don’t think that ‘woo’ is quantifiable but verification (no inverted commas required) of supernatural phenomena, in order to stand up, would have to take place under lab or lab-like conditions in the presence of disinterested observers.

Otherwise you get the people desperately invested in ghosts being real filming things themselves and saying. “I know what I saw!” etc etc. What could go wrong with that? There are no instances of frauds faking supernatural happenings, are there? Er…

That nobody has ever managed to record supernatural phenomena scientifically should tell you something. Are the spooks shy? If so, why do they throw cheese slices out of fridges or sit at the bar in ancient Essex taverns dressed like Blackbeard or drive a car impersonating a married Torquay coach driver? Surely if they are doing that sort of thing regularly they wouldn’t mind demonstrating that they are real to scientists. Perhaps there is a ghost code of conduct, like fight club or something.

@meatyryvita + @Oestrogelsmuggler

Sorry only just come back to thread. It was in a small town near

Oh my goodness - i've just googled the place because i didn't know if it was actually Northants or Oxfordshire and it comes straight up on google with references to hauntings on trip advisor!!

I really didn't expect that. We stayed there in about 2007. Have driven past since because we live about 30 mins away but that's all. Wow.

Going in for a read later. See if any of the experiences were like ours!

I lived in a 12th century house in Kent. One day I was standing at kitchen sink and a lady in Edwardian Dress went past window and disappeared through hedging & just as you see ghosts on tv like an apparition but clear to see and like just gliding I was so shocked my darling mother was staying and I ran to tell her and she told me that she'd seen it many times but didn't tell me because OH travelled away a lot on business and she didn't want me to be frightened. Evidence life after death in my opinion maybe we are honoured to witness it.If a bit scary!!

Sounds like a friendly sort just getting on with it's life after death. Cant remember the film, Nicole Kidman i think - where they whole family is dead but they dont know it and they think they are haunted but it turns out new people have moved in after the family's death and it's the family who are ghosts. Neither can see each other. Both just getting on with the every day stuff in their home.

Had a bunch of woo happen to me, too long to list but i had a phase where £1 would turn up on my desk every other day. I would go to sleep with an empty desk and in the morning a £1 was in the same place every time for no reason and not the same one as i would always put it in my wallet. Quite sad that ghost stopped visiting!

I got of the school bus in my teens and my dad was at the bus stop waiting for me, he waved and smiled. He died when i was a toddler.

My daughter was about 2.5 when she said she liked the smiley man on the stairs that watched her play. She described my dad exactly. She has never seen a picture as i dont have one and my mum never has photos so she wouldnt know what he looked like and didnt know he was dead.

Horrific experience at The Avenue near Stonehenge. I was taking photos and all of a sudden there was screaming and a crying man being chased by a shrieking crowd with weapons ran straight at and right through me. They were all dressed in drab woollen saxon type clothes. I collapsed to the ground and my mum and sister who hadnt wanted to leave the car said i was blueish white and stone cold when they got to me. They said they saw nothing but that just before i collapsed the warm summer day suddenly turned ice cold. My camera roll was blank when i checked it - nothing on it all all, not even from before the woo. I can still see it in my head even though it was more than 25 years ago - ive refused to ever go back there.

Big believer in the unknown so happy to welcome it as long as it's not like my henge experience! No amount of sage would cleanse that sucker!

Personally i would have a chat with them - see if they are aware people are there or not and try to see who they were. I'm far too curious to just leave it.

According to one poster up thread, a ghost was scared off by her baby having colic.

So flitting between life and death, parting the shadowy curtain between realms, actually being dead... all fine.

Baby crying - aaarghhhh run away.

Well considering there’s been five incidents in two days (two of which involving genuine telekineses) a team of scientists could probably confirm that it’s the first ever genuine supernatural activity. They would probably need to prove it with some sort of recording equipment and have a team of people to stand in evidence. Since it’s happening so much they wouldn’t have a problem proving it quickly. Then I imagine they’d start some sort of research into how it was happening.

I’m still curious as to why op is so busy enjoying her holiday when a spirit is turning the cooker on and off. It’s a health & safety hazard but she doesn’t seem too worried. I mean what if the ghost turns the hob on in the night then forgets about it? You know, cooking chips then drifting off type of thing. It could mean death for the whole family. Surely that would put you off enjoying your holiday?

I don't know why people are desperate for everything to be proven. There are explanations for all the phenomena, though some are harder to explain that others. It's not a case of capturing evidence on camera or it doesn't exist.

Ghosts exist - but in people's minds. Either as a product of grief, belief, collectively as a a result of collective hysteria/fear/atmospheric or environmental conditions. You may as well ask someone to film a hallucination with a camera phone.

People may be lying, amplifying, misremembering, telling a good yarn or using confirmation bias but a lot of people are telling what they believe to be their experience.

These threads always have the limited of thinking turning up with Did You Not Have Your Cameraphone?

I love this post.

[Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO]

MACBETH Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!

LADY MACBETH Think of this, good peers,
HAVE NONE OF YE GOT YER PHONE?

when you next open the fridge, please do it Caerphilly
otherwise there could be de-Brie everywhere
It seems like this ghost is disappointed with your husband allowing inferior cheese in the house, it's probably saying "how dairy?"

I’m dying 🤣🤣🤣

You win! That was Brielliant.

Hahaha! Excellent!

This post really made me laugh, for all the wrong reasons. This bit is my favourite:

You may as well ask someone to film a hallucination with a camera phone.

🤣

For me it’s referring to the sceptics as ‘hard of thinking’ on a thread where the op says the cooker is turning on at will (by ghost) but she’s ‘too busy enjoying her holiday’ to be concerned about that. As if anybody who really thought that was happening would just have a jolly old holiday anyway.

I’m not sure how skeptical it is to think that an oven turning on is a holiday-stoppingly big deal.

An oven that turns on and heats up independently, powered by a ghost that has already chucked dairy products at you?

Wouldn’t you be concerned at a cooker that turns on and off as it pleases? It’s dangerous. Especially if you really believe a supernatural entity is behind it.

why thank you!
just had a thought, maybe the ghost is trying to tell you that it's Nacho fridge?

Far more likely the previous occupants or the cleaner accidentally left it on timer.