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!

Silly mistake. Maybe they were concussed by the cheese slices.

I'm an exorcist by profession.
Just ignore the activity as much as possible.
You have encountered residential spirits.
They will mess around abit and then they will do it to the next holiday makers.

Don't talk to them or focus on the activities...act like you have room mates but are giving them the silent treatment.

If your bothered..
You can clean surfaces as you go along by adding pink salt or sea salt to a bowl of water after cleaning with detergent.

Just a wipe over of the surfaces.

Also lavender essential oils added to the salt is very effective .

As is lavender sprigs in the corner of the rooms. Then leave on thursday after a nice break.
The less attention you give them though..the better.

Please could you start your own thread! An AMA would be amazing. I am intrigued!

Oh yes, that would be great.

Read it again, particularly the second paragraph.

Noooo - a torch is more atmospheric.
Or, better still - a candelabra!

😂😂😂

You’re very invested in describing anyone who doesn’t share your ghost/‘ghosts in people’s minds’ enthusiasm as ‘limited of thinking’ or unable to read, aren’t you? Why is that, I wonder? No confidence in the strength of your argument?

I guess it depends on point of view really. To me, ‘in someone’s head’ is incompatible with ‘really exists.’ Of course their thoughts and feelings still exist, but it’s a hallucination and not a ghost throwing things. Otherwise my career at Hogwarts or my son’s life as a world famous explorer ‘really exist.’ Of course they didn’t happen and there’s no verifiable proof, but only the hard of thinking would deny that I was the Charms Professor for four years.

Especially the sentence about ‘people may be lying’ etc. If someone is lying or hallucinating that is an explanation for the phenomena but it doesn’t prove the existence of ghosts - it just proves that people sometimes lie!

Good points, @Kanaloa .
Also, I for one believe that you were Charms Professor 👌

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Brilliant!

Only the very limited of thinking would deny that the many, many ... experiences I've had with Ewan Mcgregor and River Phoenix really exist.

Thing is kanaloa there's a lot of unexplainable things that people can't prove happened or prove how they happened. We just say woo as a way of describing it as weird.

In my case I can't explain how a hairbrush that had been missing for days just randomly turned up in the middle of the hallway we walked down umpteen times a day whilst ds and I were in the same room.

The plastic mini clipboard that was in the kitchen that the top snapped off of hours later and the top flying across the kitchen could be explained by over heating or something.

But both happened within hours of each other and both happened over a few days where things weren't quite right. Mainly ds was extremely out of sorts.

To me it's woo because I can't explain it but that doesn't mean there isn't an explanation of how the missing hairbrush turned up!

and of course I have no evidence because I just picked up the brush mightily confused yet pleased to have it and just threw the plastic clipboard in the bin whilst looking around to see if there was any reason it could have happened. And a photo wouldn't have proved how it happened - it would just have been a photo of objects alongside my explanation of how they got there.

Some people say it’s a soft subject but I think the ability to levitate cheese at unsuspecting muggles from beneath my invisibility cloak is an important life skill. Every OWL student under my teaching had to sneak into a French holiday let and levitate things, it was part of the exam.

😂

Of course they happened. In your head of course so you won’t be able to provide a snap of you and River drinking champagne in Miami one beautiful summer night. That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen though.

Please tell us more & do an AMA!

Love this thread OP, I'm a believer! 👻🧀

Is that your approach to exorcism? I doesn’t sound very effective.

Oh! Where?

I've experiences sleep paralysis, too and it IS terrifying!

You feel so helpless and vulnerable.

I used to live in a 16th century rural cottage, and various things would happen. We'd hear voices upstairs when no one was there, footsteps running across the floor upstairs. In the central downstairs area as you enter the cottage (it used to be part dairy at the one end, part living quarters in the other end) I often walked through a patch that smelt of roses, but if I went back to look for the smell, it was totally gone. When leaving the tiny sitting room, several times I had that sensation you get when you almost walk into someone - no one there, but I late found out that was where the original front door into the living quarters had been. Sitting in one particular corner of the sitting room would evoke a sense of melancholy which lifted off you moved. This turned out to be where the original staircase had been.
Weirdest of all, was the sitting room door. A big, old and very heavy oak door with a lift-latch. It naturally swung slowly shut unless l wedged it open. But needed an extra shovecto code fully enough to latch. During our first winter there (we'd moved in in August) I started to have the door pushed to of an evening, to keep it a little warmer. The door started slowly opening, so I'd get up, walk over and push it to it's almost shut position. It happened a few times and at first I wondered if it was my children playing games, but they were sound asleep. On one particular evening, it started happening and I was annoyed and spoke out loud, "will you just leave the door alone!" The door swiftly shut so hard that it latched closed. It also took a bit of effort to lift the latch again, but it never did it again!

Utterly agree @FootontheHeartbreak

Bonkers advice from@Hannah1234567890

@FootontheHeartbreak You like Kate Bush?

Hello! FishWoman!

”A team of scientists” 😂

This is all so wonderfully dappy, and completely unrelated to real life.

As opposed to cheese magically flying from a fridge and cookers turning on and off independently. Not sure why I’m the ‘dappy’ one when people are literally queuing up to gush over this nonsense that’s blatantly not true.

Goosebumps! What a nice story