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 grew up in a house that was rumoured to be haunted and we had a few strange experiences. That said, hearing voices that aren't there is a symptom of a few mental health conditions

I used to be a staunch non-believer, but I've had a few things happen. Most notably, I heard my OH shout my name in a panicky voice while our son was in the bath. I shot up thr stairs to see what was wrong and he looked at me like I was a lunatic. Then another time when i was putting our son to bed, I heard him call and called back, then he called again. And I decided to text him and ask if he'd called me. Again, he said no and he was sitting round the corner from where I'd supposedly heard the voice, so wouldn't he have heard it, too?

Then a fee weeks later, he called downstairs to ask if I had called him! I said... did you heard me call you? And he admitted he had.

Then I was awake in bed, it was between 3:30 and 4am. I heard a whistle. And, while I was trying to work out what it was - too late for a neighbour, too early for a bird, and it didn't sound like a bird, I then heard a male laugh as though someone was pleased that they had pranked me - like a proper " he he he" chuckle.

Anyway, that all is to say that I have experienced things also. I went all round the house the day after I heard the chuckling and said you're not welcome here. I've not heard anything else since.

In your position, I would again go from room to room, and say that your daughter has been scared and so you're not welcome to stay.

Not when you know her backstory.
The RCC is responsible for a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world for centuries.

The people were. Not the church. There is a difference between the people and the spiritual and sacramental body that is the Catholic church.

Nope, detached, all on our own!
No toxic mould that I'm aware of!

Smudge the house. Announce no spirits are welcome. Children see and hear things that adults don't, believe her.

Simple auditory hallucinations are pretty common in children and many report them. I doubt it will happen again.

Get some sage or palo santo. Burn in each corner of the house. And say out loud, whatever is here, you cannot stay, move on.

I remember when dd was at primary school she went through a stage of being scared to go in the bathroom as she thought she heard someone whisper her name in her ear in there.

When we moved into our 1900s terrace I felt a presence. Not a bad one as I suspect yours isn't either. I sat on the bed and had a chat with them, saying they were welcome to stay but no nonsense. If however they wanted to leave they had our blessing. Worth a try!

They can be indicative of burnout/high levels of stress too. I saw a black cat on the stairs of my flat building several times before a breakdown. (No cat!)

Children are more susceptible to hearing and seeing paranormal activity

stop with the nonsense.

Children have over-active imaginations - The Salem Witch Trials is a case in point.

I listened to a testimony very recently of a pastor who was contacted about strange happenings in a house surrounding a family and their child. Long story short, it turned out the SIL was a witch and had been bringing toys to the house and this opened a doorway to the demonic realm. Pastor identified the problem and they got rid of the toys and the family moved house without informing the SIL. Whether you believe or not, I would go and see a local vicar/pastor/priest willing to come into your house and pray to find the source. Innocuous items can act as doorways for the spirit realm if someone has bad intentions.

They're more susceptible to ear infections affecting perception of sounds and their location without realising that their hearing is at least temporarily affected by them.

I've got tinnitus and moderate hearing loss on one side. There's a cat water fountain in the kitchen that sounds to me as though there's a river running outside the front of the house and sometimes, it sounds as though DP has said something, but it's actually the TV (and vice versa). We also make jokes about a ghost cat because it sounds like something has just jumped down from the bed or in the kitchen when the actual cat is right in front of us. It's going to be the building settling, next door dropping something in one of their rooms or a crow on the roof, not the spiritual essence of Fluffymog the Third paying a visit to where she was last treated as royalty.

Just because it's a new build doesn't mean anything .. time lapses or areas where you live may have some history on the area.
My son was 3 I was getting him out of the bath he was wrapped in a towel .. suddenly just said " mummy who is that little girl " my daughter who was 5 had passed in the years previous ..
I believe .....

You need, Barry Sue & lan, from Help my House is Haunted. They will sort things out for you

What utter baloney. X

I recently found out that the Church of England still has a responsible person in each diocese for dealing with similar issues. I can't remember what it's called nowadays, not exorcism, something else. But, if you contact your local Anglican priest s/he will be able to direct you to the relevant person to help you with your situation.

When our brains are tired, any white noise, pr absence of noise where you might hear your own bodily functions, or drafts in the house are harder for your brain to interpret, so it tries to fill in the gaps and sometimes this can be voices.

It's a common phenomena with people losing their hearing too, and cognitive decline, but it does still happen to normal, healthy people when they're tired, stressed, overwhelmed or hyperaroused by environmental noise.

Similarly I always hear a baby crying when the tv is on too low for me to properly hear words, or when taps or showers are running, or a fan is on. This started when DS was a baby so it cut a lot of dish washing and showers very short as it piqued my anxiety, but over time I have come to realise it is just a processing delay within my own brain.

Some people hear full sentences. Our neighbour over the road thought he heard my nannan shout "never darken our doorstep again!" From outside his window. In the middle of the night. It caused some arguments but it turns out in his case it was a symptom of hearing loss.

My DC had some woo moments at age 3 too. It’s a strange age because you trust them but they are unreliable witnesses so hard to know what to believe.

My DC started telling us all about his Grandpa being in his bedroom - his Grandpa died about 6 weeks before he was born and we don’t have any photos of him in the house. We asked his Grandma if she had been talking about him to our DC but she says no. This went on sporadically over a few months and then stopped. All very eerie at the time.

This is fascinating but also scary as hell 😮

Just try not to worry... 😂😂😂

Your house has a draft.
Voices are probably either coming from next door or outside.
The banging noise is probably heat expansion/contraction - usually either floors or vents but can be other materials depending on your home construction.
There are NO ghosts.

That's the most sensible suggestion on this thread.