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!

Interesting.
Flying cheese and other incidents that break the laws of physics, but you won't film anything because you're enjoying your holiday?
Ok.

I love this!

Too busy having a holiday and making cheese sandwiches.

Aren't you worried that 'something' might attach itself to you and become a rather unwanted cheese flinging souvenir back home?

We stayed in a 400 year old cottage in Somerset one year. Our bedroom had 2 doors, one which we kept open as children were next door and my in laws and aunty were further away. Yes the house creaked, but there were footsteps every night through our bedroom. My in laws had a roll top bath that they used and said weird things had happened whilst they there in the bathroom, they felt they were being watched and touched. When we returned I looked into the history of the house and found out that someone had taken their own life by drowning in the bath. I slept cuddled up to my DH every night, I was so scared. DC never felt or saw anything, nor did my Aunt. It was certainly a strange place, never felt homely.

Op please let us know of anything else I find it fascinating.

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OP, what is the house built of?

OP this is terrifying, please film!

Am loving this thread. I had a weird apparition of my friend by my bed one night many years ago. She was kind of shimmery white and anxiously trying to tell me something. I awoke scared out of my wits and knocked the metal lamp over with a loud clunk, looked over and was fast asleep in bed. I went to the loo, came back and she was fully awake, bolt upright in bed, apologising for waking me up when she just tripped over the fan heater (which was directly between our beds). The next day she maintained it was she, who made the noise and was very adamant about it. I absolutely can’t explain that one.

Does no one remember when there was so much more variety of foods in France than the U.K.? There still is for certain fresh produce but there was a time, when France was light years ahead. Cheese slices in France is a totally normal purchase. Imo cheese slices came from the continent, probably France, as they have a lot of cheese slices there. The only cheese slices in the U.K. back in the day were processed cheese and we never used to have them in the U.K. Dh buys cheese slices. Guess what nationality he is. I otoh am British and had never bought them until we met.

Pissing myself at the snobbery deriding the OP’s cheese choice! She knows what her dc will eat.

@SisterRuth please tell us the story!!!

I think you should email the Uncanny BBC podcast!

Also think the house needs rewiring.

You need to say to the ‘ghost’ “thank you for letting us stay here, please let us enjoy our holiday” that might stop it (being serious btw) but they may only understand French!

I was co-sleeping with 3yo DS in a 1960s French house many years ago. Pitch black. I woke up because someone was whispering in my ear and stroking my arm. In the morning, the bedside lamp on ds' side was on.

DS was - is - a noisy bugger, and sure as eggs are eggs, if he's awake, everyone is awake! He was on my left, the whisper/stroke was in my right. He wouldn't have been able to find the lamp on-switch in the dark.

No one else was in the house.

Weirdly, I didn't feel spooked, didn't feel a drop in temperature, I felt very calm. I had a chat with thin air, and didn't experience anything else. I have been back many times and felt nothing.

The area has a ton of Cathar history, between Carcassonne and the Pyrenees.

I'm totally non-woo, but still say hello into the ether whenever we go back, just to be on the safe side.

Zero flying cheese incidents!

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My in-laws stayed somewhere called Carberry Tower recently and fil got woken up in the middle of the night by someone kicking him out of bed (not the mil!). The next morning he was in the room alone and the radio turned on by itself. He was shitting himself. 😁 The mil laughingly told the staff what had happened and they said it happened all the time, in that same order on the floor they were staying in. It’s meant to be a ghost of a girl.

Omg I am crying at the fridge rejecting the cheese slices 😂

Try doing a steak well-done on the cooker and see what happens. Maybe the knob will switch itself off?

I grew up in a very old house where local rumour had it, a girl was murdered. We saw plenty of objects move by themselves over the years. We also has a few sightings by visitors andstrange noises but we just got used to her in the end

Similar thing happened to us as a pp upthread.

We were in a cottage in Somerset for a holiday. On the first night we were woken by what we thought was a scream. (Could have been an animal outside - we'll never know.) I had practically jumped out of my skin - we looked at each other for what seemed like ages and listened in the darkness and silence.

Then my husband went to the bathroom. He was sleeping on 'his side of the bed' which was nearest the door. Since I was now wide awake, I decided I would use the bathroom so I rolled over his side of the bed and went out of the room. My husband went back to the bedroom.

When I was going back to the bedroom I could make out my husband stood at the window with his elbows on the window sill looking out - I assumed he was looking for what had made the noise. So, to save me walking past him and going around the bed, I thought I'd jump in his side and roll back over to my side.

I jumped heavily (due to youth and exuberance) and landed on top of my husband who was just starting to relax and get back to sleep. I frightened him half to death as he had not heard me coming back.

When I explained that there was someone stood peering out of the window, neither of us slept for the rest of the night.

Other things happened during our stay. Things 'moved' while we were out - which we put down to the owners (who were staying in a caravan in the garden). Then when we were leaving, my husband had just loaded the car, the house door was wide open, we had checked we had not left anything and were just heading towards the open door when it slammed shut (no wind).

Again, we looked at each other and for a while we daren't move.

We told friends and family what had happened and they booked the cottage and stayed there - similar things happened. A chair would be tipped over was the most common occurrence. The same chair that we picked up when we arrived. It was on the landing near the bedroom we slept in.

The French fridge rejecting the plastic cheese is one of the funniest things I’ve read on here. 😂

I stayed in a shepherds hut last year that appeared to have a ‘resident’. Every time one of us turned our back a window or door would open, our phones would move from one bed to another, pillows were off beds and on to floors, and one morning the camping stove switched itself on and the empty frying pan was sizzling away.

Sounds like dodgy electrics.....

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I'm simply saying that if you really did want to explain something away, then you could probably find some excuse for it like shifting foundations beneath the fridge or something equally unlikely.

It's more likely than it being a ghost.

It's probably too haunted to live in so they've rented it out as a holiday home. Rather you than me OP.