Has anybody ever lived in a haunted house?

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I was talking to a friend a few days ago about previous houses I have lived in, and how really strange things happened. She mentioned that I must have really bad luck for so many houses to have been haunted, and it got me wondering if I do, or if lots of others have lived in houses where things happen that are spooky.

In one house when I was little my mum would tidy my toys each morning, but by the time I got back from school they'd all be set out like I'd been playing with them, even though I wasn't in the house. I used to talk to an old lady in this room, although I don't remember actually talking to her, my mum told me this. I remember being scared in the room in the nighttime, but I can't recall why. My parents would hear music coming from the attic and found a music box up there and paintings of a man and woman. The music was coming from the music box, and when they got rid of the music box and pictures they still heard the music occasionally. My dad even went up to the attic to look round and check there wasnt another one, and there wasn't.

In another house my parents used to see people walking around, including my dad seeing a man walk through a wall and also 5 people coming down the stairs together he always refused to believe in ghosts before that when my mum would tell him she thought she'd seen people. But he admitted he couldn't explain seeing those so he had to believe her in the end. I didn't see anyone in this house, and my parents never told me what they seen, but the year or two we lived there I had terrible nightmares.

In yet another house I seen a little boy, it was almost like he was trying to play hide and seek with me, ducking behind things and popping back out. I won't lie I was scared, even though I remember him smiling, so he didn't feel bad, just playful. I only seen him once, so maybe he knew he'd scared me. My mum seen feet at the top of the stairs in that house as she was walking up them, they walked into her room on the left but no one was there when she went in. Me and my dad always got a horrible feeling in the dining room of that house, and would only go in there in the daytime when others were there, neither of us would stay in there at the table alone and would leave when others did. We would also hear banging and scraping from upstairs in that house when no one was up there.

When I had my own first house I had it blessed by a priest as I was worried. Nothing ever happened there. Having it blessed made me feel a bit better though.

More things happened in the houses, they are the things I can remember right now.

Has anyone else lived in haunted houses, and if so would you like to share some of what you experienced?

One of my student houses had a "poltergeist". We would laugh it off, but there was some bloody strange things happening sometimes. The most memorial was a plate that had been on the middle of the kitchen table smashing on the floor just after we left the kitchen. It was scary at all, just wierd stuff sometimes.

With DH being in the Army there was also all the base ghosts which are sad stories really. So many young people who never got to grow up.

When I was a child we moved to an old house and the dog refused to go into one of the bedrooms to the point he bit my brother when he tried to carry him in, this was a well trained dog, my dad was a police handler and this was his retiree. A few years ago I read that they had found a child in the chimney breast of that bedroom when renovating it, a poor chimney sweep boy. At the time we didn't think about it being haunted but it was a bloody miserable house and always felt cold even though in the mid 80s, it unusually had full central heating and wall to wall woolen carpets.

Honestly, OP, this sounds like half-remembered, half-imagined stuff of the kind that is typical of a small child, and superstitious, suggestible parents who should really have kept their feelings about the 'horrible' dining room etc away from a gullible small child, who internalised them.

When I was younger I lived in a pub. It’s actually been in the local paper many times for being the most haunted pub in the area.
one night we all heard (my parents & sibling) smashing glass, we thought we were being broken into. When my dad went down stairs every glass had been moved from overhead and lined up along the floor. That freaked us all out, there was absolutely no possible reason why that happened. We had a dog called Sally and she came to sleep with me that night.
The basement was also petrifying, Sally would growl and get so nervous when she saw people open the door to go down. When the brewery came to change the beers We had to lock her in the other room as she found it too stressful.

Yes! So when I was 16 or so we moved into a Victorian property with my mum, stepdad and younger siblings. So many weird things occurred over the years. My brother routinely heard someone running up and down the stairs each night at 3am (he ended up plugging himself into his Walkman most nights in the end cos he was so freaked out!) My brother had a friend sleep over one night and he heard it too - the next morning he said he wasn't ever coming to stay over again! I was always too scared to verify (my bedroom was much father down away from the stairs.)

My younger sisters cot would mysteriously be made up every morning, and I know for a fact my mum hadn't done it as she was often straight downstairs with the younger kids and stepdad at work. We frequently saw shadows walk past the living room door. I once heard the door slam and someone run upstairs.... I was home alone. My stepdad used to say it was all a load of crap but recently admitted he saw and heard things too, but didn't want to scare us!

It's all genuine and I've never forgotten. Funnily enough the couple who sold the house to my mum and stepdad said they'd had a medium friend who said there was a ghost of a young maid in the house which would explain the cot being made up! I like how they kept that quiet until the sale We never felt threatened, it was just odd. Moved away for uni and never experienced anything like it again.

This is a fair comment @MouthfulofMidwinter , as most of the things are from when I was really young.

Some of these stories sound scarier than mine. So sad about the child in the chimney breast ☹️

This is a fair comment @MouthfulofMidwinter , as most of the things are from when I was really young.

Some of these stories sound scarier than mine. So sad about the child in the chimney breast ☹️

Yes; my parents house was an old vicarage farm built in 1855.

My mum had a spooky moment. She was poorly in bed, and half asleep. She said she felt someone tucking her in. All around the sides of her body. My mum thought it was my dad, but when she woke up and told my dad how sweet it was, he said it wasn't him!!

I also had a moment where my door to my bedroom kept opening and shutting; spooky thing is, it had a proper latch with a key (like a front door) so no one could be opening it unless from the inside. I only had the key!

There was a lot of history there, a young girl had drowned in a well late 1800's on the land.

When we were decorating, we found a lot of 'nazi' memorabilia too. Also under the wallpaper lots of 'heil hitler' in pencil with the dates etc. Fascinating really.

Sorry, OP, I didn't mean to come across as snide, and I'm genuinely interested in what people interpret as supernatural phenomena -- it's just that I would discount stuff from childhood, because imaginative small children don't have a firm grasp of where imagination ends and the world begins, and when you factor in normal childhood fears of the dark, bad dreams etc. Especially if parents were 'seeing' things too, and contributing to you being frightened.

No. No one has ever lived in a haunted house.

@MouthfulofMidwinter it's ok, I never took your reply as snidey don't worry 🙂 @Crampo your reply made me laugh in a good way, very straight and to the point 😁

I get that lots of people don't believe, and also that lots of stories may be misremembered, easily explained, or in some cases completely made up. They are interesting to read though, I think so anyway. Hopefully others will enjoy reading them and sharing their own.

I appreciate all the stories that have been shared, especially the ones where you also know a bit of the history of the houses, so thank you to everyone who's shared so far.

Strange things used to happen in a house DH and I lived in when we were first together. I wonder now if those experiences were more to do with us - lots going on at that time, than to do with the house itself. I have been back to that house many times and the atmosphere is very peaceful.

I quite enjoy reading the unexplained board. I've not really had anything happen albeit we did live in a very old cottage for a
While built in 1500's. It always felt odd but never saw anything myself.

I remember something on MN before in a similar thread and they'd lived in a house that they rented, off the kitchen was a nook I think and it turned out that when they moved out there was no nook (think they spoke to the next occupants) .. there was no picture or mention of it in the details of the place either ... it was really bizarre!

I do think OP you've had a load of experiences ... are your family quite woo?

@custardbear I vaguely remember the thread with the nook that you are talking about. That was an interesting thread from what I remember.

I love the kind of threads where people find spooky secret rooms too, so if anyone has found a secret room feel free to share that too ☺️

My mum is quite woo woo she refused to look round a house they'd gone to view once because she felt watched inside it. She wouldn't even go upstairs.

I have seen things all of my life in quite a few houses but nothing that felt sinister. My children also used to see things when they were very young but thankfully nothing now. The story of 5 people walking down the stairs was very interesting this kind of thing happened to a family member. They were living in a terraced house and when he came home he opened the door to a room full of people talking. He went out closed the door thinking he walked in to the wrong house he went back in when he seen the door number the room was still full but nobody looked at him. He walked upstairs and came back down straight away and they were all gone.

😳 He was brave walking back in and up the stairs wasn't he. I'd have shut the door and considered the ghosts now owned the house if I seen a room full of them.

The last house I lived in, at least 200 years old, strange things happened, the light in living room wouldn't work when we first moved in when I turned it on, only for my son. Upstairs one day alone no windows or doors open but the kitchen door slammed with force. Salt and pepper grinder moving in front of me, like was being tilted round in a circle, back door sounding like it was opening but no one there.

In my childhood house, I would regularly hear someone call my name when no one else around, scratching in the corner of my bedroom at night, used to terrify me as well as seeing bright colours come out of walls.

I think the scratching sound would scare me more than anything else ☹️

Lived in a 400 year old farmhouse and experienced a number of strange things:
Hearing footsteps coming up the stairs, this was almost daily (no CH, wooden stair)
Outline of a person from knees up, seen by three generations of the family (upper floor was higher than original floor so presumably it was standing on the lower one?)
Face pushed against the side door glass from outside with hands either side at night (seen by vicar friend, visitors x 3 and the cleaner. No one there.)
Black cat walked along passageway and through closed door - we didn’t have cats, never saw one around the place outside.
Dogs refused to go into one downstairs room, would growl etc. Ceiling light would regularly swing wildly although no droughts etc.
One bedroom door with original latch would regularly swing open despite being firmly shut and you would hear the click as the latch was pressed down (this completely freaked me out every time it happens 🫣)

Draughts ffs!

I'm not sure if I believe in "ghosts" but the house I lived in from age 10 to 15 was weird. It was an old Victorian house that used to be a sweet shop.

I always felt like someone was watching me from the landing when I went down the stairs and would always run like the wind to the bottom! When I was 15 we moved house. On our last night in the house, my bedroom door kept me awake all night creaking back and forth which it had never done before. In the morning my mum asked why I'd been running up and down the landing as she'd heard footsteps, I hadn't left my bed all night. After we moved my mum told me she was convinced she had seen the ghost of a man in her bedroom one night, she slept with the light on for months afterwards.

Probably logical explanations for everything but it always had a strange feeling in that house. Never lived anywhere like that before or since. I'm in a new build flat now so hauntings very unlikely!

I lived in a house where something went up and down the stairs all night. Bloody horrible.

Is that a fact? Or just your self important opinion?

I lived in an old Victorian house. There were a lot of weird shenanigans that went on. Me and my sister were terrified living there. Couldn't wait to move out.
Once, we left the kitchen for a couple of minutes and when we returned all the cupboard doors were open. No one else was there and no need for all the cupboard doors to be open.

I bought a famous haunted house. I was woken every night for four years. Couldn't get workman, the whole village knew, we didn't. The previous owners children wouldn't go in if their parents weren't there. Our son slept with us until he was 6. I wouldn't live in that house again if you paid me. My nieces and nephews loved it but it sent me doolally pop.
I had two priests in and a mystic Meg. Turns out a skeleton was taken out of the wall twenty years before we bought it. The Coroner confirmed height, sex, age. It all matched the visions. I am even scared of pictures of the bloody place.
The only funny thing was the estate agent was chased by our Mr Ghost. EA was an arse so that was the stuff of legends.