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!

I can contest to this! Isn't one of the churches said to have a devil or something somewhere in the building?

We used to holiday in Mirepoix and surrounding areas which are very near to Carcassone areas, saw Montsegur etc. Mirepoix is a pretty, quaint medieval village/small town but am sure there are ghosts of some sort there!

! I can contest to this re camping having all the joy squashed from you!

Parents camped when I was a child, from about 5 to teenage years, in France and in UK. For some strange reason I prefer hotels and air b n bs etc now and even parents wouldn't dare camp now! brother and SIL and their young son however love camping!

Well..., I am a women too, ( post menopausal with all the flabby bits) I don't understand where the misogyny comment has come from..
As for being empathic and sensitive...no not me...I have a medical degree and professional and have approached the subject, very much like you ...trying to disprove it all as being codswallop,but ended up very much believing it and then disecting it enough to specialise in the field exorcism...
There is nothing like being levitated until your face is pressing against the ceiling to realise there more out there then what our limited visual spectrum can see..
I mean... even donkeys can see more than we can..

And I'm telling you..I'm old and fat..very fat..anything that can lift my body up and press it against the ceiling deserves a round of applause and given at least some credit to have an existence... the little rascals..

As for Karen's...I just don't like people who go out of there way to be unpleasant to others, like they think they are actually getting browny points for being nasty..
they are clearly miss the point that what goes round comes round and those that have missed that point are going to get a rude awakening some day.

If salt and lavender could be used against Karen's.. then the council would be salting the roads with fragrent seasalt all year round.. lol

I have a medical degree and professional

This is the least believable claim on this entire thread.

A doctor with poor spelling and punctuation?

Being a woman doesn't mean you can't be misogynistic. Even if you are post-menopause and overweight. What on earth has that got to do with it?

You're using nasty misogynistic slurs to try to shut women up. The stereotype and the slur exist and you are weaponising them to try to stop people from telling you you're talking nonsense. It's your right to talk nonsense, it's other people's right to say it's nonsense. Stop trying to silence them with your ignorance and misogyny. Why do you need to resort to hateful shit if you're right?

I have a medical degree

No you haven't.

Good, solid answer!

If anyone thinks that supernatural complains are a mental problem or mass hallucination and only happens if there something wrong with the person having the experience..

Then this article discussing recruitment of Exorcists at the Vatican may give some food for thought.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43697573.amp

Oh, if the RC church believes in exorcism, spirits MUST exist then.
After all, the catholic institution has never told outrageous lies to protect its own interests & prop up its power base in the secular world, has it ...?

Yes, thank goodness a real doctor showed up to explain about exorcism and put all of us silly "Karen's" [sic] in our place.

Great, thanks for this, I’m going in November. Maybe I’ll rethink haha

Can we have the ghost stories back now, please?

Doubters and skeptics - go and be rational elsewhere. 😁

I know a few PPs have mentioned screaming. A barn owl screech sounds exactly like a woman screaming, truly horrible sound!
Years ago we stayed a few nights in a lovely 17th century shepherds cottage in Northumberland. It was on a working farm but a good 10 min walk from the main farm buildings.
As soon as we walked in I felt really uneasy. The walls were 2 foot thick and just had this really odd energy buzzing in them. DH couldnt feel it at all.
Night came and as we were in the dark sky park there were no lights anywhere. It was also December. I have never seen darkness like it, if you opened the door it was like you had dropped off the side of the world. I felt so uneasy I constantly felt like someone was standing behind me or catching things out the corner of my eye. Again DH felt nothing.
When we left, we went up to the farmhouse to hand the keys in. The lady farmer turns to me and says " Did you see the ghost? For some reason only women see it"
I later did some reading and think that as we were up in the Cheviots on top of a hill and the building had 2 foot stone walls it may well have been infrasound. Doesnt seem to be any reason why I should only feel it though as it seems to effect men and women equally.

Try throwing lavender and salts on your computer.

This is the stuff I don’t get on these ‘woo’ threads. As soon as you point out that it’s obviously nonsense featuring an exorcist with a pretend medical degree there will be choruses of ‘go away you’re spoiling the funnnn!’ But why is it fun listening to people just spout nonsense stories? They’re so blatantly untrue. Unless you genuinely believe that poster has a medical degree and was levitated off the ground for lack of a little salt packet.

I don't want to repel the ghosts, I want to encourage them. What do they like? Doughnuts?

What I don't get is there are hundreds of thousands of books, films, plays, stories out there that have been properly constructed, written etc. by people who do this stuff for a living. If you want to read a made-up story about ghosts, why not read a professional one?

Some people are taking this thread way to seriously.

I do like actual well written horror and ghost stories. I just don’t get why people would gush and beg for updates on something obviously fake to the point of begging for an AMA from someone who claims to be an exorcist and says they have a medical degree which is quite obviously fake. And then say people are ‘taking it too seriously’ to mean ‘not pretending there is a grain of truth in op’s made up story.’

People like stories. They like being scared. You might as well tell people to stop going to theme parks.

I think some people are taking this all far too seriously, yes.

Ohhh okay! I didn’t know it was just stories. If it was made more clear that people aren’t trying to pretend these events are true I would have found it so confusing. But when someone is saying they’re an ‘exorcist’ and had a medical degree it’s not obvious that they’re just making up a story for fun - same when they’re calling others arrogant for suggesting that these things are very unlikely to have happened. If it was a case of people just telling silly stories for fun it would of course be a different story.

I also like a good ghost story/horror novel. I just don't like liars. I think we're on the same page here.

I meant, you could try it to repel the doubters and sceptics.

Throw some doughnuts and I'll be here all day.