Alone in living room just heard a voice

[IncessantNameChanger]

My house is a bit weird. This isn't the first weird thing we have experienced. Just sat in living room alone. Someone has just said hello. I can hear my adult son upstairs chatting on his game. This was in the room I'm in and none of the kids voices. So weird. Just before I heard someone moving glasses in the kitchen but no one was in there. I'm a scientist so don't really belive in ghosts. But this creepy. I feel OK. It's not the first weird thing and it's not just me that hear things.

For good measure the house is on Chapel land. What the hell was it? I have seen a "ghost" twice before, two within the same hour but I knew they was brain farts ( well not sure the first was). So I'm non beliver ( I think) but I heard it very clearly.

Are you near a window and actually heard someone walking past your window?

Psychosis?

Are you semi detached? I've heard weird noises when sat in the living room like talking only to realise it's the neighbours and the sound is travelling through the walls!

We are detached, off the road via a long drive.

I feel fine. Nothing else recently like this has happened. When I saw someone before it was years ago. I have a bit of a cold but thats it. It wasn't a voice I recognised.

Before when we heard a voice it was me and dh. We heard someone say goodnight. That was upstairs and the side of the house where its just bottom of our neighbours garden. So that made no sence..they would had to be stood at the bottom of their garden and climbed over our fence to be saying goodbye there. Then walked over our drive. Our house only has one neighbour and that's a good 10m from us. This was in the living room. Definitely in the same room. No alexa etc in there.

If it’s a spook it isn’t up to much, it can only manage one word now and again. Have you watched Ghosts on BBC?

I would be booking an appointment with my GP.

There are many medical reasons people start to hear voices. Ghosts not among them.

Sometimes I hear someone say ‘Mam?’ when I’m alone in the house. I think I’m so programmed to hear it that I just imagine it.
My house is built on what used to be a children’s home where some children sadly suffered from abuse but I’ve never seen or heard anything that would worry me.

I wouldn’t think too much about hearing hello as it could come from anywhere outside.

I think I told my gp when I saw something walk through my house a few years ago. Absolutely not interested. I think he was thinking more crazy than any possible brain malfunction.

My teen son who is very sensible hears lots of things. He heard someone open and slam the bifold doors and throw keys in the dinning room table. Someone jumping on my bed when we was both very close to my bedroom door. Someone knocking on his bedroom wall ( it's upstairs we are detached and set back). No trees or anything by that wall.

Mind you my gp 90% of the time brushes off most of the things I say. He said my headaches was all in my head, but a second opinion thought I had symptoms of a brain tumour and sent me for a mri straight away

Check your carbon monoxide monitor OP

Psychosis, rats scraping in the wall, old house making noises, misinterpreting a sound outside like a fox or cat. Lots of options. I think ghost is the least likely, we would have found evidence with all the technology we have now if they were real. They seem to more be the brains way of making sense of unknown noises or misinterpretations of sight.

This happened to me last year lived in the house for over 20 years and others have seen a man in the house.I lay down at 3.30am fully awake and I heard a man saying hi five times the last time quieter. I did not look around I was on my own in the room. Although I know a man has been seen multiple times in the house there has never been a bad feeling. Rather than a ghost I was thinking it was my ring camera being hacked especially saying the word hi. I had my laptop, iPad and phone on in the room.It was more in the direction of the iPad that was left down next to the bed near me. I have the ring app on this and my phone.

Similarly @IncessantNameChanger I have heard a voice in our house. The two times was a gentle warning about closing doors. Like you it's a detached house and no passers by. Sometimes I feel a presence but in a good way.

Last year I found out that the elderly couple from whom we bought our house was the husband and his second wife/step mum. His first wife had died tragically from cancer when there were three children under five.

I think she pops back sometimes.

I am very sane and rational but there you go.

Maybe your son's headphones disconnected for a sec and you heard the other person.

Otherwise could you have fallen asleep without noticing and dreamt it.

Well, ghosts cannot exist. So at least you know it's not one of those.

Could someone be living in a crawl space?

I've had several cats that can say hello, lots of birds can say hello and my sister has an English Bull Terrier that says hello and uses it as a greeting.

It's Gary Busey.

Are you sure you weren't getting a bit tired and had one of those waking dreams? I have them occasionally. I heard a voice say Are you sleeping? I replied Yes and remembered nothing else until morning. I was lying on the sofa watching TV and obviously drifting off.

When this makes me jump it's usually one of DD's air pods that she's left lying around

I definitely wasn't falling asleep as I was sat right on the edge of the sofa ready to get up. We have ring but it's not on my phone only dhs. Ds was upstairs and his room with the door shut ( I can hear him shouting when he games, I presume so his mate in America can hear him without the power of the Internet). Definitely sounded like it was in the room with me.

Carbon monoxide alarm is a good idea. I will check it still works. No one in our loft space as there is intermittently a animal up there. I'd take a ghost over a rat anytime!

There was no weird feeling, i wasn't particularly scared either. Definitely had the former owners die here and one neighbour died and not found for a few months. I belive weird things happen when your a teen. Definitely had poltergeist type experiences as a kid as a teen but I think that's coming from the person. It's not supernatural.

Still this is a worry as I'm half convinced I have CJD or early onset dementia. But it's a one off. When I saw the person walk through my house years ago, again I was calm. I followed them and knew they wouldn't be there. I was worried about my mum at that time

We had a power cut recently (in the evening). The dog was barking and just as I clicked the flash on my phone a voice said firmly "stop" and the dog stopped barking and froze on the spot and hit her tail between her legs.

I've not thought about it too much or even mentioned it to anyone else.

Auditory hallucinations are not that uncommon (or visual hallucinations, I have had these half a dozen times in my lifetime).

I had a friend who was alone in her flat and once very clearly heard someone say her ( very unusual in the UK) name.

I get auditory hallucinations and I think it's fairly common and benign. The most frequent one is the sound of the doorbell, usually as I'm waking up. Which is really annoying as I can't tell whether it was an hallucination or being woken by a real person ringing my real doorbell so I have to get up and check. I occasionally hear a voice, usually someone I know. Once I was getting up from my desk and groaning because my legs were sore from a workout and I heard my personal trainer right behind me saying his usual "it's all good". I told him about it the next time I saw him and, when he'd stopped laughing so hard he could barely breathe, he agreed to stay out of my head and I never heard him again.

The weird one in your house OP is the time that you and your DH both heard the same thing, that's not an auditory hallucination.

Yes when and we both heard it we just looked at each other like WTAF? Unless our neighbour was at the bottom of the garden in the pitch black.

It's weird it was to one side, the side away from the window and towards the part of the room that I can't see when sitting down ( high sideboard behind the sofa then the dining table) which I guess my brain more likely thought was a voice rather than in my vision. If it was in front of me I'd be more inclined to be freaked out.

Carbon monoxide alarm is working much to my amazement as I rarely check it.

Let's hope is a one off and I'm not going mad. Visual things are easier to explain away I think. When I saw the person, I could just about work out that it was a hoody on the back of chair but it was a major brain leap as it took up the entire door frame in my mind and moving with legs, in reality it was to low down and too short, but I could work out it started from looking like a part of a person.