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!

@ReneBumsWombats To be clear, are you accusing me of being a male poster who is harassing you? Ok, I'll report it.
Obviously, I won't be responding to any further posts.

I’d love to hear more spooky stories. I find them fascinating and I believe for the most part that the people telling them really do believe they saw/witnessed what they say (obviously there are exceptions).

I just remembered one of my own.

I grew up in Australia and my dad was a park ranger, we moved around the outback a lot… one of his postings was based in a desert. There were a few small indigenous communities living there, but scattered over hundreds of kilometers. It was mostly barren and felt incredibly isolated. Dad took myself and my brother camping one day and we found a ruins, likely a colonial settlement. Anyway, we had a look around and came across a very deep hole. We stood around it and a huge blast of air came out of it. It was so weird, like wind had come out of the ground. I’m sure there is probably a scientific explanation but it scared the absolute shit out of me and still gives me chills. The indigenous people my dad knew through his work were always talking about spirits and the warnings they would give if they wanted you out. I think they (the people, not spirits) probably (rightly) wanted him to piss off and leave them to it and all.

Okay, not sure if this thread is dead now, but for what it’s worth- I was enjoying it!

anyway, I have a spooky memory that stayed with me for 25+ years, and have never been able to explain it.

when I was probably around 8 or 9 (now 35) I remember waking in the middle of the night, for no particular reason as such. But DEFINITELY awake.
as I lay there - I saw a book slide out of my bookshelf into mid air, and shake up and down, moving faster than any human could possibly move it. I remember watching it in utter disbelief. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I blinked and blinked several times and could still see the book hovering and shaking up and down.
I called out for my sister, and as soon as I did - the book slowly and calmly slid back into the shelf as if nothing had happened.

sounds crazy I know, but I know what I saw!

still gives me chills to this day!!! 👻

@Rosehugger my favourite post on this thread!

@bemusedmoose the experience at Stonehenge is fascinating - where were they running from / to?

And all of you who've spent the last few pages squabbling - give it a rest now, hey?

Jeez talk about toys out the cot…. Bugger off non believers …. More woo experiences please 👻🤡

Ive recently started watching “slapped ham” on utube, lots of footage of assorts of weird and wonderful woo, from Bigfoot to UFOs to ghost activity … it’s fascinating … must admit about 95% of it is debatable but still spooky … 5% is pretty convincing …. Especially people on security cameras just getting clean knocked off their feet by nothing visible!!

This is quite strange, you should definitely report it to MNHQ as it’s quite a serious suggestion.

You sound nuts.

Oh yeah, love a bit of Slapped Ham. It’s quite addictive.

Please people can we stop the playground bitchery and get back to the topic…

Ahh! should have guessed. Am told it is weird. Still like to go though.

Ooh this sounds amazing op!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneMillionnDollarParanormallChallenge

🤣🤣🤣

I'm one of the posters who was arguing and ruining everything. As an apology I'm posting a link to this thread about creepy things (from another site - not sure if against rules!) which has some real gems in it.

There are spooky and non-spooky creepy stories in it too so something for everyone.

forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1376448/what-is-the-creepiest-thing-to-have-ever-happened-to-you

Honestly, I really don’t see the need to prove the existence of ghosts or not, and both those who say they do not exist or are believers are equally likely to be wrong. There are a lot of recordings of yet unexplained events which are used as evidence by believers or dismissed outright (with no alternative evidence) by non believers.

Can we just be left to enjoy a nice woo thread without people insisting in ruining the fun? At the end of the day the existence of black holes was not proven until last year so there’s a lot of stuff out there that we do not yet have concrete proof or understand.

Are people just very literal?

Yes, and bloody dull wet blankets with it.

Aw I've been saving this thread for when I needed a bit of cheering up. Love spooky stories, and as a pp said, it's a pretty ancient human instinct, to want to tell and listen to people's weird and wonderful tales. What a shame the thread got derailed. I was just wanting some entertainment, not a lecture in "science" ffs.

And you seem to be very invested in starting an argument in an empty room. You don't seem to understand so I will again spell it out, that I think there is a natural, not supernatural explanation for all of this, but that I find people's experiences are odd and interesting, without needing to see on a cameraphone what happened.

If you find people telling these experiences upsetting, I suggest you avoid these threads.

Two in one for my Mumsnet bingo card:

1. ‘starting a fight in an empty room’
2. don’t post on threads where you disagree with someone.

Next (I hope): ‘why do you care so much?’ and ‘are you a man?’. I’m quite disappointed that you missed out ‘you are spectacularly missing the point’ actually.

Ok, humour me, wombat. What do you believe then? People just tell lies?

You guys seem way more invested in complaining that the ‘thread has been ruined’ than in actually enjoying your stories. Nobody has posted any scepticism all day - I doubt anyone is going to now. You could have just enjoyed your ‘woo’ rather than one post after another going ‘please stop all the doubting, PLEASE stop ruining the thread, blah blah blah.’ Nobody was interested anymore. You could have just got on with it.

I haven't been on the thread for a few days, was dismayed at how it had turned out, and was catching up with the new stories and replies. I'll post exactly how I want, cheers.

Please tell me that you do not work in any kind of role where science or logic are required.

Black hole theory didn’t come out of nowhere, you know. It is based on years of observations, measurements and evidence. Ghost enthusiasts demand that we believe their stories despite there being no observations, no evidence. Other than their “I know what I saw!” anecdotes.

If somebody came to you tomorrow with an implausible story, which they were unable or unwilling to evidence, elves living in a tree in their garden for example, would you judge that you were equally likely to be wrong if you disbelieved the story as you would be if you believed it? Really? Or would you say, “where’s the evidence then?”.

By all means enjoy a ‘nice woo thread’ but don’t tell anyone who doesn’t believe in the cheese-throwing haunted fridge that they are just as likely to be wrong as anyone credulously lapping up the tale.

You could just have left the thread and let us to enjoy our nonsense but here you are 😁

Literally this past couple of pages nobody has been stopping you ‘enjoying the thread.’ The last couple of pages is just full of whinging about people posting things they don’t like. And if your enjoyment of flying cheese is genuinely spoiled by someone saying ‘that sounds like a lie’ then it can’t have been great to begin with. Sometimes people will disagree with you. It’s not that big of a deal.

I sometimes wonder if these threads are started deliberately to cause drama/a bunfight though. I mean any op who posts saying they saw cheese flying and a ghost turning on the cooker knows they’ll get replies saying ‘that obviously didn’t happen’ and that those replies will rile up the ‘ooh I love a bit of woo’ types. Same with Dr Exorcist. I mean it’s obvious that post will get ‘you don’t have a medical degree and you’re not an exorcist.’ But it riles people up.