Something woo happened tonight.

[MissyPants]

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?

I feel like I've time travelled back a few centuries reading most of these replies! Priests, exorcists, Hail Marys; and my personal favourite: the ancient burial ground (they seem to be all over the place according to the credulous!)
This is the mother of a young child; why are you trying to frighten her with the ghosties and the ghoulies?
Don't think there's been sage smudging, though, at least.

OP check the CO monitor, and be aware that new houses take a while - years - to settle. There will be creeks and groans. It could be that sounds are being conducted from neighbours houses. Sometimes metals pick up radio signals. Someone could have been listening to something on their phone outside, next door or nearby. The sound of Daddy snoring. Or just tiredness coupled with imagination.

TBF Catholicism is a type of Cult where lots of people all do what they are told to do. Like most large religions.

Christianity is not the only religion and not the only god. Seek assistance from another deity, there will be one specialised in your current hardship.

The floating down the stairs is a really common memory that I also have - it seems like it might not be a real memory and there could be other explanations. Really interesting to read about!

https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/34336/1/why-we-dreamed-about-floating-down-stairs-when-we-were-kids

I was getting wood in last week from off the drive and a voice in my ear said ‘get a dry one’. Very weird. I was just minding my own business.

😂

Who says she has a landlord?

I don’t say this to minimise what you are experiencing as I have lived in a house where I never felt easy with the atmosphere but the bangs could be timbers settling.

I think you really need to rule things out before going off the deep end here.

It could be exploding head syndrome, sleep paralysis, tinnitus, night terrors, the house settling, high CO levels, echos, etc.

We have occasional woo moments in our home, our children are more receptive to it than us, I think that's quite common.

My husband and I say these two things to help if the energy or things they see worry them:

1. if this is the best they've got, then it's not worth being scared about.

2. if the energy feels unkind, tell it that you don't want it around and politely ask it to go away.

Both seem to help and that pleases me, as I don't think dismissing little people's perceptions or experiences would.

I had night terrors in my last house and sleep paralysis. I was working ft nights, very little sleep in the day. Then this on my first night off,it does correlate with lack of sleep,I worked 2 nights together without sleeping.At the time, I would swear it was all real. DH has the old crone on the chest thing. It's now believed, this is what actually happened when people thought they were abducted by aliens. I also thought that I floated up and down stairs as a child.. I developed tinnitus during Covid in 2023. You wouldn't believe what I can hear at night in bed.. diesel arctic lorry in the bedroom last night, machinery, dishwasher...I can't hear these things even with my hearing aids on.
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I also have tinnitus @Nannyfannybanny , it's grim, isn't it? I also hear machinery sounds, like dishwasher, boiler etc. Oh and I get woken up by non-existent dogs barking!
DD had the most horrific sleep paralysis "demon" episode that seemed to go on for hours... she was so traumatised she left the country (was living in Amsterdam, flew straight back here). She can still remember the demon well... says he had a man bun!

The mind is capable of so many things that were once explained by woo. But people still love to jump straight to woo.

I think you may have a bluetooth speaker somewhere in your house that sometimes pairs to people walking past on the phone for a couple of seconds...

(also distant intermittent whispering can be things like bluetooth headphones asking to be paired if you switch off the device they are paired to, it doesn't always start straight away or run continuously)

I'm an opened minded person and I find the paranormal interesting, but I don't think i really believe in it. What I do believe in is that there's usually a rational explanation for everything, our minds do some strange things sometimes. I watched a grandparent hallucinating, she genuinely believed she couldn't drink a glass of water as she could see a fish in it. I listen to the uncanny podcast on the bbc, I like the fact that they present both the believer and sceptic sides to each story, some really freaky stories though!

You’re obviously in tune to it and children definitely are as they haven’t had society push them away from listening to ourselves yet.
if it’s not something you want, you ca ask it to leave. Just say aloud something like ‘please can you leave this house, I can hear you and now my daughter can hear you and it is frightening her, please will you go elsewhere, thank you’
its energy, it just needs to be moved on. And you can teach your child to not be frightened and that she too has a voice and can ask it to leave her, not talk to her. You can actually make this not woo for her and she can grow up feeling intuned and in charge

Demonic entity in house, deffo.
Leave immediately.

That is fascinating! It's not just millennials who had this floating down the stairs dream though. (As someone suggested in the article.) I am GenX - born mid 1960s, and I had it. Although, someone else in the article further down did say people were talking about this way back - a couple of centuries AD! So like 1800 years ago!!!!!

I also used to dream I was flying above the houses, the woodlands, and the town, sometimes multiple 100s of feet up, looking down on everything, but never, ever in any danger. I have not had this dream since my 30s.

I have actually heard about out of the body experiences, (OOBEs) and astral projections (APs) before but I never put the 'floating in my dreams' and OOBEs and APs together before. Thinking about it, this must have been what it was. I genuinely believe it - and find the thought of it very exciting.

That article has references to multiple scholars and professors and science and physics experts who state that this is what they believe - that people are having these paranomal experiences. (OOBEs and APs.)

So much for the small handful of posters poo-pooing people and their experiences, and saying it's our imagination and laughing and mocking, as if we need help! Top scholars and science experts believe it's true! Sooooo...

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Shamanic flight is interesting to read about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_flight

You should call in the gost preist at your local parish, seriously. Noone ever really dies, and there are 100% energies and spirits on the earth.

The priest will treat it as a cry for help from someone experiencing some kind of MH condition.

Erm. I think you need to read the article again. A couple of people who research dreams and some people theorising alongside Freud 100 years ago are not top scholars and science experts. Please also note the current top scholars attributing it to shared false memory or human grieving.

There have been thousands of pounds offered over decades for any proof of supernatural occurrences. Surely the weirdly self-stacking and talking furniture, the audible voices, the demons and poltergeists would be observable and at least one person would have proven activity and claimed the money. As it stands, nobody has ever proven the existence of paranormal activity or the validity of mediums or angels and so on.

OP, the noises will be your house settling and I'd get your dd's ears checked as well as checking your carbon monoxide alarm.

I am someone who is not sure if I believe or not. However, I have seen a very good medium twice. The second time I was with my DH (saw the medium separately, but in the same location) who is adamant it’s all bull.

My DH got the shock of his life when this medium recounted his childhood due to contact with a certain relative in the afterlife. This is very much information DH keeps to himself and the medium had no way of looking up any info before seeing us as I booked a multi appointment with several friends and he took no information on anyone he would be seeing beforehand other than mine as the person booking the appointment.

Anyway, this medium believes in the fact we have a number of lives we live to teach us the lessons we need until we reach the point of ascension and, for many reasons, not just the above, I believe that this guy is genuinely a legit medium from my interactions with him and having introduced him to people I know for readings!

I say this as maybe it is possible that your daughter was remembering a past life.

OP, respectfully, this shows your poor comprehension, inability to evaluate your sources and cognitive bias. For a start, look at where this article appeared — is it in a credible, peer-reviewed research journal? No, it’s on a fashion website.

Is there any evidence to suggest that Ian Wallace, one of the main ‘experts’ it relies on, is a credible figure in psychology? No, he does ‘dream analysis’ on YouTube and on Steve Wright shows, and writes pop psychology books about making your dreams a reality. His own website is remarkably unforthcoming about where he received his purported psychology degree, far less whether he qualified as a clinical psychologist, or what else he has done to make him an ‘expert’.

Martin Conway, who was a credible psychologist with important peer-reviewed research on memory and cognition, dismisses the flying downstairs dreams as a common false memory. The rest is random Reddit users.

Defo not a squatter as we go in the loft almost every week, no underground storage, and for previous pp's i'm not asleep when I hear things, I'm awake on my own, often when no one is in the house, so not sleep paralysis.

Perhaps it's stress related and I'm going slightly mad, as i am stressed with my uni work, and I know stress can manifest in all kinds of ways.

I'm all for the real world yes. However it's not carbon monoxide levels, with new builds you have a built in detector on the wall where the boiler is, wired up to the mains. We also had a boiler service early December, and we have 2 Angel detectors, one above the boiler and one in the kitchen, they are working as I test them.