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Something woo happened tonight.

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MissyPants · 21/02/2026 01:25

As the title suggests, and I'm not sure what to think of it, so opinions welcome.
Tonight whilst my daughter (3) was in the living room, she came running up to me in the kitchen and asked me what that noise was in her ear as it wasn't daddy. I asked her what she meant, and she said something said (made said sound) in her ear, and what was it as it wasn't daddy. I thought it was a toy on the sofa so I turned it off. A few minutes later she came running back up to me in the kitchen again and said it happened again, who was it because it isn't daddy (he was upstairs asleep). So, I just turned the tv off and we went to bed.

Now, when I have been in the house alone sometimes I hear sounds or spoken words, but mistook this for being tired, as I'm often up late doing my uni work. I also sometimes feel cold brushes of air, or really loud bangs upstairs, like something has fallen off a wall or something, each time I've gone upstairs to check and nothing is out of place or has fallen. I'm only questioning all of this now because of what my 3 year old told me tonight. I do believe she wouldn't make this up, she was genuinely frightened as to who made the spoken sound in her ear. She was adamant something said something in her ear.

We live in a new build, first occupants, so not haunted. Also no one has died recently.
What do you think?

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LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 21/02/2026 23:18

Twodogsisbetterthanone · 21/02/2026 23:10

Somewhere I used to work had a ghost that would speak right into your ear, usually your own name. Everyone had it happen at some point. I had it three times in five years. One member of staff had a very unusual Irish name, and even she had it!

Gosh, that sounds quite scary! Shock

Nutmuncher · 21/02/2026 23:27

Be careful OP.

If it’s a male voice whispering randomly at a 3 yr old and you’re hearing loud banging sounds it may not be benign, it could be a poltergeist. I’ve experienced odd things to know the woo is real and a family member actually had an incredibly distressing poltergeist or demon experience involving furniture being stacked in bizarre formations, moving objects, talking furniture (yes!) and other happenings.

Go over any odd things that you’ve dismissed recently, as you say it’s a puzzle to figure out what it actually is. Strange smells? Things not being where you expect them to be? Unexpectedly Rotten food?

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 21/02/2026 23:30

@Nutmuncher 😱

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PurpleLovecats · 21/02/2026 23:32

Poor kid. I have angels that visit me and talk to me constantly. It’s such a burden. I really hope they don’t start to badger her, she’s too young.

Nutmuncher · 21/02/2026 23:44

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 21/02/2026 23:30

@Nutmuncher 😱

It reads like some teenage ghost story bollocks 😅 and maybe had others not been witness to the family members occurrences I’d probably think oh someone’s been on the wine. But it actually happened and truly frightened an otherwise levelheaded perfectly normal person into seeking the help of a priest to deal with a bad spirit.

BoundaryGirl3939 · 21/02/2026 23:59

Never had an evil experience but I believe it exists in another realm that can get close to some people for some reason

My aunt sought the help of a priest as something was knocking down ornaments and mini statues on her mantlepiece.

I did have a weird experience 3 nights in a row last summer where I was woken by something unexpected at the same time every night...the first night was an unexpected phonecall, the 2nd night was the dog barking for no apparent reason. On the 3rd night I knew something was going to happen. Low and behold I woke to something incessantly tapping on the bedroom window. Pulled the curtains and it was a magpie or blackbird tapping on glass. I'm based in Ireland and in my 40 years, a bird has never ever done...nevermind at night. I was freaked.

I had been praying the psalms in the nights preceding it though so maybe it was a sign.

WhenRealityHits · 22/02/2026 00:03

It could be any number of things depending on what type of property you live in and how old it is. Old houses make noises all the time with wind coming the chimney, various plumbing noises, draughty windows or doors, etc.
If you live in a semi-D or an apartment, the noise could be coming from a neighbour's property.

Do you own the property or are you renting?
If the latter, I would start checking for hidden cameras.

WhenRealityHits · 22/02/2026 00:04

Twodogsisbetterthanone · 21/02/2026 23:10

Somewhere I used to work had a ghost that would speak right into your ear, usually your own name. Everyone had it happen at some point. I had it three times in five years. One member of staff had a very unusual Irish name, and even she had it!

A hidden device would be my guess with someone having a laugh.

DobbysFlappyEars · 22/02/2026 00:05

BrokenWingsCantFly · 21/02/2026 02:45

That does sound terrifying. Well done being so calm. This is what your daughter needs to support her.

I have had my fare share of haunting experiences when younger at many houses. All different in how it was presented. You grow less susceptible as you get older. I last witnessed things when I was 26 but continued living in that house, where I had previously saw a lot, for 5 years after the last event. Only witnessed hearing something in the house prior, it sounded like a man trying to connect via a broken radio directly in my head, but at the same time could have been behind me. Does this sound like what your daughter experienced?

All you can do is support, listen and believe her. Reassure her that it is nothing dangerous

I agree that when I’ve heard of things like this happening, the experiences often become less acute as the person gets older. I’m not naturally inclined to woo AT ALL but the weird things I’ve heard about have almost all involved very young children.

My younger sister predicted a few deaths with alarming accuracy at the age of about 4. I remember once we visited a friend and they had a young cat, and on the way home, we were saying ‘wasn’t the cat lovely,’ and she got very upset and said it is going to die. She woke up the next day terribly upset, saying the cat is dead- lo and behold, friends call, and poor cat has been hit and killed by a car. I remember her doing it again with a friend’s rabbit (prediction made when the rabbit was still demonstrably alive, so it’s not like she somehow found out before we did) and it was eaten by a fox in short order. Apparently there were other occasions but those are the ones I remember clearly.

She only did this for a very brief period and has shown no signs of clairvoyant powers since!

My DS also went through a brief stage of appearing to see ‘very scary men’ in random places that nobody else could see, at around the same age. Once, we went to a playground, and he started screaming and ran away, saying he could see ‘horrible men’ coming out of the ground 😬 There was also an excruciatingly embarrassing incident visiting the Cutty Sark when he also said he could see people nobody else could see, and was so hysterical trying to get out that we had to leave almost as soon as we arrived. The entire phase lasted about 6 months and we’ve never had another incident. It was extremely unnerving to witness and I saw absolutely nothing in any of these places- not even a weird feeling or anything.

I’m still not sure if I believe that they saw or experienced something otherworldly or whether it was just coincidence/extremely vivid imagination, but it was odd! It is odd though that you have heard sounds too OP.

Letsformanallegiance · 22/02/2026 00:05

I’m Muslim and we believe this to be jinn activity. Happened to me in various forms. Play ‘The 4 Quls’ and ‘Surah Baqarah’ on YouTube and you shouldn’t have much bother afterwards. Even if you are not Muslim these verses are powerful.

WhenRealityHits · 22/02/2026 00:06

Nutmuncher · 21/02/2026 23:27

Be careful OP.

If it’s a male voice whispering randomly at a 3 yr old and you’re hearing loud banging sounds it may not be benign, it could be a poltergeist. I’ve experienced odd things to know the woo is real and a family member actually had an incredibly distressing poltergeist or demon experience involving furniture being stacked in bizarre formations, moving objects, talking furniture (yes!) and other happenings.

Go over any odd things that you’ve dismissed recently, as you say it’s a puzzle to figure out what it actually is. Strange smells? Things not being where you expect them to be? Unexpectedly Rotten food?

If it's a male voice, it's the landlord who's hidden a device that needs to be located and removed.

No such thing as poltergeists.

Nutmuncher · 22/02/2026 00:37

WhenRealityHits · 22/02/2026 00:06

If it's a male voice, it's the landlord who's hidden a device that needs to be located and removed.

No such thing as poltergeists.

If That’s what you choose to believe then so be it. Experience tells me otherwise…

CantBreathe90 · 22/02/2026 00:43

Don't over-think it. It's probably nothing, but on the off-chance it IS a ghost, it's doing no harm and the more you pay it attention, the worse it potentially could be. It's one of those situations where ignoring it really will make the problem go away.

HerosUncle · 22/02/2026 00:45

ThatFairy · 21/02/2026 01:28

I think that because there is more than one witness to this is that it's really happening. I've read about sort of lines or small zones in the world where there is heightened paranormal activity. Maybe do some research into your area ? Could be interesting. Me and a friend have seen a ghost before at the same time. We screamed and ran away.

A ghost! What like in a sheet over someone's head

WhenRealityHits · 22/02/2026 00:48

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BluTangClan · 22/02/2026 01:01

"Bloody 'ell Ken!"

ThatFairy · 22/02/2026 01:31

Mindfulmother01 · 21/02/2026 21:14

Would love to hear more about this?!

Ok then. I can tell you about the night I met the entity.

I was about 24. I was laying in bed in my room at my mother's house that she kept for me. I was listening to the sleep hypnosis video on YouTube, and I could hear my mother and little sister talking in the next room, which didn't have a carpet down and so their voices sort of echoed. Listening to the video, opening my eyes and closing them, when I started to feel sort of strange about what I was listening to. The "creator" was almost demanding, "listen to my command," there was something very off. She didn't usually sound like this, she was soft spoken, and she sounded very cold. But, I trusted her, and so I followed her instructions.

She talked about measuring my breaths, and about the subconscious mind. And in the second moment, my mother was standing in front of me, only it wasn't my mother. I had not shut my eyes. The woman who was not quite my mother; different hairstyle, spike- like shoulders, slimmed figure... Smiled at me. There was a mischievous, manic glint in her eyes. She was having fun. I lay frozen, staring at this not quite human creature, and listened to my mother and sister's conversation echoing through from the next room. They spoke loudly, animatedly. The creature flashed out of appearance.

I stared at the wall, my body frozen. Then, slowly I got out of bed. I felt a ripping sensation, like velcro, and knew I had entered the out of body state. I had done this before. I didn't look at my sleeping body behind me on the bed. I never much liked to. A strange, high energy sensation gripped me around the waist, at the solar plexus. There was a voice in my left ear :" I'm only going to say this once- focus on the mandala. In front of my eyes, in the vast blackness, was a massive... circle... Within this circle were universes upon universes. There were animals, there was water, there were stars and suns and moons and planets, perhaps there was everything, and I saw everything at once, and my memory is not sophisticated enough to have retained it's entirely.

I was distracted by a funny, happy sensation around the edges of my solar plexus chakra. I said to the voice, "What is that ?"

The male replied sharply, "It's energy transference. Ignore it." But my whole body was suddenly rushing with euphoria, and I couldn't. I felt like I was swimming, I felt like I was being pulled away. I lost the ability to think. And just as suddenly, it stopped, and I was standing in the hallway in the dark. I could still hear my mother and sister's mundane, lucid, just normal every day type of conversation. I think they were laughing. It was jarring that they were there like that, and I was there like this. Because what this was, is that I was looking at my mother and my sister, but it wasn't them. They grinned in the darkness, and I knew they were demons.

I rushed down the stairs. They cornered me in the living room. Pretending to be them. Instinctively, I pretended not to know. Talking to them tentatively, normally, as they lightly and joyfully smiled and teased and started to ridicule me. All the while, calculating how I could escape that house. At some point I ran, down the hall and for the front door. But they were too fast. I ran back up the stairs. My "little sister," still with that sadistic smile on her face- she was enjoying my terror, my horror- faced me on the landing.

My last bet, was to jump from over the banister. If I hit the ground, I would wake up in real life and I would be safe. But as I sprang to move, she caught me, around the waist. Hands on each side of my waist. It hurt. Very, very, badly. It was like electrocution and too hard tickling there was a current running between us. I think what happened next, is that I "passed out" from the pain and woke up in my bed with only mi utes having passed. My sister and my mother continued their lively conversation.

That was about eleven years ago. Sometimes when I get sleep paralysis, there is an entity there, hurting me in my waist. In my solar plexus chakra. I learned to fight back. The last time I was hurt in a lucid dream, the entities were digger g their fingers into my neck. This happened last night. I said to them, this is my dream, and I am in control. I fought them off. Im not sure if this dream is connected to my entity, or if it is just a reflection of the subconscious trauma. But I won the fight. And for a rare short time, I enjoyed freedom to explore my lucid dream.

ThatFairy · 22/02/2026 01:46

illbetheresunorrain · 21/02/2026 22:08

Do you want a prayer partner?

Okay

ThatFairy · 22/02/2026 01:51

HerosUncle · 22/02/2026 00:45

A ghost! What like in a sheet over someone's head

It was a young girl in transparent white and grey hanging from a tree. Sadly. You did ask.

theworldisadarkplace · 22/02/2026 07:42

When my DS was 3 he came downstairs into the lounge with me. As we walked past the sofa I saw him give a double - take. Once we were in the kitchen he asked who the black man on the sofa was.
The sofa was empty and there was nothing nearby that could have been mistaken for a human figure.
It was a modern house and we'd not experienced anything strange in it before or after this. But it was very odd experience.

Nutmuncher · 22/02/2026 08:33

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You Obviously do not believe, which is fine. Until I had my first experience I was a skeptic too. The reason the family member had to get a priest involved was because other family members saw the same things happen before their very eyes, they witnessed it first hand and it scared them prompting her to speak to someone, clearly no mental health episode or over active imagination.

HerosUncle · 22/02/2026 08:43

ThatFairy · 21/02/2026 19:48

I get sleep paralysis on a semi- regular basis. Sometimes there is an entity there. It hurts me by digging it's fingers into my waist or neck. Sometimes it is so so painful and uncomfortable and it feels like I'm being electrocuted. Once, I felt it's fingers stabbing into my waist, and I grabbed it by the wrist and said, "I will hurt you." I looked into it's face. It's features were all blurred out. It had very long, dark hair.

The crazy thing about this, is how it started. The first time I met this "entity" whatever it really is, was after I fell asleep listening to a sleep hypnosis video to induce lucid dreaming...
I won't go into all the details here because it would make a very long read. But in short. I looked into the video and found the actual creator saying (I used to listen to the actual creators videos all the time) the real creator was saying in a video, that she had had a lot of complaints, similar to what happened to me, but that that hadn't been her video, that it was an impersonator with almost exactly the same Youtube username, that had used a computer to steal and mimic her voice.

She said she had done some digging and found out that this "troll" per se, was a witch living in Australia. And I've been haunted ever since. I once asked a psychiatrist for help, but she couldn't do much about it.

That is horrible.

BeanQuisine · 22/02/2026 08:45

This reminds me of a very spooky event that occurred to me when sharing a house with two other girls in my student days. We all experienced it and none of us could think of a "natural" explanation.

Seemed to be a nice enough old 19th century terrace house in rather run down condition, but we enjoyed ourselves there. That is, up until one night, when each of us, in turn, was subject to an eerie voice - a little boy's voice, by the sound of it, although it could have been a girl - whispering the same simple phrase in our left ears: "I think..."

That was it, just "I think..." Remembering it now, I still feel the goosebumps.

The next night, the same eerie voice, but this time in our right ears, saying, simply: "...you stink."

Was it a naughty ghost, or just having fun? And why was that simple cheeky phrase - "I think you stink" - separated by a whole day, and delivered in different ears?

I don't suppose we'll ever know.

AStonedRose · 22/02/2026 08:47

I wouldn't assume, just because it's a new build, that the house isn't haunted. Could it be built on an ancient burial ground, for example?

Any other paranormal sounds or events? Such as creaking stairs, or the carbon monoxide detector going off on its own?

notnorman · 22/02/2026 08:55

SeashellHouse · 21/02/2026 22:43

It really is. It has no occult powers.

millions of catholics would disagree

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