Can a new build be haunted? (Warning woo related thread, if you don’t like it please don’t post)

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So genuine question. I live in a new build house. No one else has lived in the house before, no one’s died in it.

We have motion sensor activated lights in the hallway upstairs and on stairs. A few times now I will notice a light coming from upstairs and thinking I have left a light on go up to discover the motion sensor lights has been activated in one end of the hallway (I have swapped the lights around to see if they are faulty and it’s always the same area they come on in the hallway)

I don’t have any pets (well none that walk around the house freely) and have been in the house alone when this has happened. It also seems to happen late at night. Like between midnight and 3am.

So that’s the only physical evidence I have. The other things I experience in the house are hearing noises, sounds like someone walking in the house (I usually put it down to neighbours) and generally just feeling uncomfortable on the landing, sort of feeling as though I’m being watched and a general heavy sort of feeling in that space (I’m not someone who scares easy).

Anyone else experience anything like that in a new build?

(Again I know this is a woo thread, If you don’t believe please don’t be rude to others that do or me)

My house growing up was quite new. Weird stuff happened

Any idea what purpose the land served before it was built on?

@Dotcheck Really? What kind of stuff?

I don’t know too much on the history of the land. I think it’s just been unused land for a long time. Like woodlands and fields, so nothing exciting lol.

Of course. It depends what it was built on top of.

Any idea of the previous use of that land?

Google the area going back 200 ish years. There could have been old farm cottages that burnt down or something else that happened on the area.

Change your locks and get an electric check done.

Could someone be living in your home without you knowing and coming out at night?

Is the house semi detached or terraced? Could it be the movements of neighbours? I work in a portacabin with motion sensitive lighting but the light comes on in the store cupboard if someone bangs the side of the building.

Yes. we lived in a 1960s build. We then dug up the garden for our extension and discovered a cobblestone courtyard, it was the old
stables of a large house that was at the end of the lane. When we moved into the extension we had a little Victorian boy and another presence that we couldn’t see but could definitely feel. They hadn’t been and were never in the main house just the extension. If we had built a house on the plot then it would have been a new build with ready made occupants.

Yes Iived in a new build got my daughter a suprise bike for Christmas grandparents delivered it late we were all chatting downstairs and I saw bare feet attached to a white nightdress disappear upstairs (it's open plan) I followed to tell my daughter off went into her room to find her fast asleep in dark purple pj's she never had a long white nightdress who the fuck was on the stairs 😀

Yes. There are quite a few new estates built on Saxon and medieval burial grounds & battle fields that could be haunted. I’ve seen a Roman soldier drifting through my garden as I live on the site of an old Roman fort.

Was going to suggest the motion sensor can go off with changes in light levels.

We have a motion sensor birdsong thing that goes off on its own and used to freak me out. But I worked out changes from Sunny to cloudy or vice versa can set out off. Although that's not helpful for the midnight to 3am ones. Sorry.

In the first instance do get it checked by an electrician.

Ask a priest to bless the house, or if you have a Catholic you know ask them to pray and spray Holy water for you.

We were often woken up at the same time of night- to the minute.
Extreme temperature changes - it would go from very cold to very hot within a few minutes ( no drafts ).
It had a very strange atmosphere in certain places.
We found out the builder used wood from an old church to build the house

Are the presense detectors seperate or integrated into the light fitting?

I bloody hope not… That’s a more disturbing thought than a ghost 👀

I will get DP to check the attic when he gets home from work. There’s no other place someone could be.

I think had I not got the sensor lights I wouldn’t even give the uneasy feeling in the hallway a second thought.

And we do have neighbours both sides so I guess at a stretch that might explain the lights… Although if it was the neighbours vibrations triggering them I would have thought it would be happening more frequently than it does…

Some intriguing stories here, makes me feel slightly less crazy for experiencing this lol.

My sister lives in a very old house, and she’s had lots of strange things happen, but you sort of expect it in an old house. Not so much a new build.

White sage all the rooms (incense sticks with this scent work just as well as actual sage if you don’t want the “cultural appropriation” aspect)

my old house (not new bulld) used to have loads of weird electrical happenings with light flickering all the time till I incenced all the rooms and it stopped happening (and taking a bath felt more relaxing too so I don’t know what energy had been lurking in bathroom!)

maybe the builders had a bit of a tiff and left some bad energy, or as others have said might be past land use history, ask your neighbours if they experience similar …. Maybe someone who didn’t want the new build to go ahead cursed the land

either way: cleanse all the rooms with incense/sage. Maybe get some protection crystals to put around doorways to ward off bad energy (I think it’s either black tourmaline or hematite people use)

They are separate lights, rechargeable ones that stick to the skirting board so not connected to the electric system.

Just an alternative and not very woo explanation…could it be a spider running over the sensor? The reason I ask is that we have motion sensor lights too and this kept happening one night. I got up to look (also spooked!) and saw it running across the sensor.

My neighbour has some of those LED lights on his stairs that are like a rope light on the skirting board that are motion sensors. I noticed they came on (through the front door glass) one night when he was away and I shat myself thinking he was being burgled. I messaged him and he said they do it all the time. His neighbour closing a door in their house sets it off! He also has a light on his front door/driveway. He lives facing me. Whenever I walk past my living room or front bedroom window, I set off his light 🤣 It must have a bloody good range on it!

New houses are often a bit crappily built and shake when people move around. They also have deficiencies, including electrical.

I'd be far more inclined to call a sparky than a priest.

Rodents.

I concur with PP, I've yet to be in a new build that wasn't rickety as fuck. Couldn't get a decent nights sleep because the boards moved on their own, the walls were hollow and wind went through them if there was so much as a breeze. You could certainly speak to a Catholic priest about Blessing your house though.