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?

Beat me to it.

This sounds terrifying! Can you share more about what you experienced?

Off the back of a thread on here last week I listened to The Witch Farm on bbc sounds. It’s absolutely fascinating and very well done. I would definitely recommend if you have any interest in this kind of thing, even as a sceptic.

My best friend had a house which had the front door opening directly into the hall, and a couple of meters down the hall, the living room door was on the right. Before the living room door - about 1 meter away from the front door - was a window with frosted glass which looked into the living room. You couldn’t see clearly through the glass as it was frosted but you could clearly see shapes.

Through that window I saw, on multiple occasions, the figure of a person walk by as if they’d just come through the door, but the front door hadn’t opened.

The first time I saw it, I thought it was her older brother. I saw him walk past the window, but when I went to the living room door to say hi, there was absolutely nobody there (and nowhere else for him to have gone along that short portion of hall).

If not disturbed by someone trying to say hi, you could sometimes hear footsteps going up the stairs after the future had walked past the window (the hall led the stairs, on the left, or led off down to a kitchen/garden etc on the right. It was as if someone was eternally entering the house and going upstairs.

My friend was so unbothered by this as it had been happening her whole life. I remember being sort of surprised, interested, excited even by it, but never scared - whatever it was didn’t feel like a negative energy, the house always felt cosy and nice and welcoming.

I’m no expert but I’ve watched a fair few paranormal investigations and heard or something called ‘residual energy’ where an event that happened in a persons life can be played out like this over and over again - it’s not necessarily an intelligent, conscious spirit but just an event being played out. I wondered if it was like this. Perhaps acting out a day which was important in the persons life but which we won’t even really know about. Again, I’m no expert, but that sort of explains why it didn’t feel negative and why it just kept entering the house and walking up the stairs like that.

One other weird thing that happened in the house was that my friends mum would hear a child crying and rush to my friends room at night but she’d be fast asleep.

there's no such thing as a haunted house
Superstitious BS

I have seen two shadow men in my house years ago about 1986. My son was about 7 at the time and I was a single mom. I just went into my bedroom and got in bed. I looked out into the hallway and I saw two 3D shadow men. They were wearing the suits with the long coats and top hats. They looked like they were straight out of the late 1800s and wearing what Abe Lincoln would have worn. I could see them straight on. It was like two men from the 1800s were walking down the streets on a sunny day and their shadows were walking down my hallway only they were 3D not flat. They both turned their heads at the same time and looked in my room and then turned back and went down the hall. I was scared because I thought real men were in my house. I got up went and checked my son and checked every window and door but everything was locked up and they were no where in site. I never knew what they were until 2006 when my husband passed and all kinds of things started happening. I met him in 1997. I did research on After Death Communication and came across shadow people. I finally knew what I had seen back in 1986. They weren't trying to scare me or anything. They just turned their heads, looked in my bedroom and walked on. 🚶‍♀️ I never saw them again. No, I wasn't sleeping. I had just gotten into 🛌.