To consider we may have a ghost..?

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DH obv think I am AIBU but we live in a cottage built in 1856 and the incidents so far:

Hearing footsteps on stairs thinking it's our DCs only to find them fast asleep. Happens a lot!

DCs special 'taggies' (comfort blanket) disappearing for days, only to reappear in really obvious places we have looked at before.

DD's electric toothbrush turning itself on at 3 am in the morning. Bzzzzzz.

A friend convinced she saw a Childs face peering through our bannisters. DCs def in bed at the time.

DD 5yrs old saying 'who is the little boy that came to stay last night?' No little boy was staying!

I dont know. Possibly some could be explained but the toothbrush and footsteps freaks me out! Even DH has heard them, checked kids who are fast asleep and stated 'that's weird'.

I do believe in ghosts ive seen enough and felt enough.But what gets me are the non believers who have an experience and suddenly they are the experts.

If you choose not to believe thats down to you but dont be putting down people who do believe.

No, I have not considered that. Since its patent nonsense and I'm not a gullible woo-mongerer.

I've seen a few ghosts as has my nana and can honestly say I've never wanted to see one and I hope I never see one again

It's a good job I'm fairly ethical really. But if my finances get much more desperate I really will have to consider setting up as a woo-monger, the amount of gullible twats there are out there.

Stayed in a house once where we heard children crying, constantly went to check and all the children were sleeping. Hard to convince people who insist on not believing in the possibility of something supernatural how disturbing it is. I am open-minded about it. Brother in law was a adamant 'load of superstitious shit' type until we stayed there and is no less certain but hated admitting he couldn't find another explanation.

Never understand why people who are sure they don't believe use such aggressive language 'gullible twats' etc. Live and let live...or not...woooo

No neuromantic I'm not arrogant at all. I know what footsteps on a wooden floor sound like and that was what I heard, repeatedly, walking right up behind me and back for 5 minutes. It wasn't subtle at all. What do you think it could be then in the absence of a person walking up and down on a wooden floor?

anything else but a ghost. Your own imagination, auditory hallucinations, you were asleep...any rational sensible logical explanation you like, but not silly explanation of "it must be a ghost"

yabu. Ghosts are not real.

I'm quite happy being a gullible woo monger. I'd rather that than be a cold and patronising cynic. Theres something nice about the unknown and fantasy that you can escape to, rather than hard rationalism. Each to their own.

I'm with you, quietlyafraid . :)

Ok we will agree to disagree. I know what I heard, was not expecting it or ill or asleep, I was sat there at 4pm in daylight drinking tea and marking maths books.

If you need to live in a fantasy world fair play to you. Some of us just work with actual reality.

cba to read all through the thread, but my toothbrush used to turn itself on and off before eventually dying completely. Send it back to the manufacturer and they will hopefully replace it for you.

That's the toohtbrush issue sorted, anyway :)

Fantasy has its place in this world. I think a lack of imagination and ability to sometime escape to that, means you are missing out of one of the wonderful things of being human. Living and working in reality does not exclude you from this magic.

Why don't we all ban Santa and be miserable gits. Thats real. Santa gives magic to both children and adults.

There is NOTHING wrong with it, provided you know where to draw the line and let it take over your life, in the case of psychics ripping you off.

Crikey, not personal or judgemental at all then neuromantic now who is being arrogant!

One can have a wonderful imagination without buying the nonsense. The trick is to know that fantasy isn't true is all.
And how small minded of you to assume that a person who doesn't beleive in rubbish like ghosts can't provide magic and wonder to children, such as santa stories.

I do not believe in ghosts, for I am a Boffin.

However I do think there are natural phenomena and psychological phemomena we don't quite understand fully yet, and this makes people think wierd stuff is happening.

I have also lived in a very old house where incredibly wierd things took place over a number of years, that challenged my skepticism. Things like you are describing.

If you go through the motions of some kind of cleansing process, being it talking to thin air and telling the ghost to go away, dinging bells and lighting smudge sticks in the corners of the room, or getting a local vicar to say prayers in the house, it seems to me that this will deal with the headology aspect of this nicely, and things may settle down.

ROFLMFAO!!!

Oh dear. To be called smalled minded by a wonderfully hypocritical individual.

Priceless.

Congrats that was my laugh of the afternoon.

I don't think it's entirely fair to say that those of us who believe in supernatural things " need to live in a fantasy world." It is what we believe to be true. It is reality.

Well you are. You jumped right to "lets all ban santa then and be miserable gits". Small minded AND predictable.

I don't think " you were asleep" is a rational or sensible explanation

So many non-believers. Did you know that everytime someone says they dont believe in ghosts, one ceases to exist?

I do believe in ghosts, I do, I do.

more sensible than "it was a dead person...wooooo"

It's not a dead person. Things like footsteps are a replay of something that happened there. There's no spirit. It's a sort of warp in space/time.