to be petrified of staying in aunts house because it's apparently haunted

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my aunt moved into her current house about 5 years ago. i have visited during the day a couple of times before when staying with other relatives. nice house but very old and does have a bit of a "spooky" feel if you like. my aunt says she has felt, seen and heard things such as footsteps, dark figures, cold spots, the usual sort of thing you would see on most haunted (apparently, i'm too much of a wimp to watch that sort of thing). after researching the house and asking neighbours it turns out that the house is known to be a bit haunted.
now, i don't believe in ghosts and don't want to believe. i believe that all the "experiences" are just the general sort of noises, chills and shadows that you would get in a very unusual old house (it's nearly 600 years old). also, although my aunt is lovely, she is a bit of an attention seeker and has a tendency to exaggerate, so its highly likely that the footsteps she remembers hearing was actually a bit of creaking.
my grandmas 70th birthday party is in a couple of months and we were going to stay at a travelodge (we have stayed there before and it is perfectly fine and clean which is all we need). aunt called last night and spoke to DH who was home and invited us and our DD to stay with her. very kind of her and he said yes.
i was up all last night worrying about staying there. i am petrified of anything paranormal and even though i don't believe when it comes to things like that my mind runs away with itself. i can't watch horror films because i then can't sleep for the next 5 nights. DH said he thought it would be fine because i'd said in other conversations that i didn't believe it was haunted so i'm not mad at him or anything. its mainly the idea of the "unknown" whilst we are all asleep which gets to me. i couldn't sleep last night thinking about it.
i know i am being irrational and daft but i can't bear the idea of staying somewhere haunted overnight. my aunt isn't easily offended and my family is very straight talking, and other members have said "well i'm not staying somewhere overnight that you say is haunted", so it would be ok if i said that. i know it would be silly though.
AIBU to stay in the £25 travelodge for the sake of not worrying about something so daft?

Personally I think it's all a load of bollocks

But the seed has been sewn in your mind now so yes, perhaps a Travelodge is the best thing for you.

For the sake of £25 just stay in the travel lodge and get a good nights sleep.

If you stay at your aunts you will be awake all night and your mind will invent ghosts and the like from the most innocent of noises.

Personally I believe and would love to stay there, but dont put yourself through it!!

worraliberty Personally I think it's all a load of bollocks
agree. and i'm annoyed with myself for being so daft about it

its not haunted, but if you want to throw your cash away its up to you.

I think you do believe, or it wouldn't bother you to stay there

Yes, agree best to stay in the Travelodge and get a decent night's sleep.

(I'm in the would-love-to-stay camp though)

Sleep is priceless. If you won't get a good night there, pay up.

I think you should stay with your aunt. It might cure you of your fear of woo. After all, you don't want your DD catching it, do you?

Woooooooooooooooooo!

No such things as ghosts! Don't let it worry you and dont get tipsy or you will see something!

Old houses are creaky and damp and can be spooky. That's all.

I beleive, and think you do too - hence why you are bit scared at the thought.

Wish one of my family members lived in a 'haunted' house - I'd be asking to visit and stay over all the time

"fear of woo" I love that!

Frontpaw its a family function. trust me i will need to get tipsy.

The fact you were up all night worrying about something that hasn.t happened yet and something you have control over is more worrying. Travel Lodge it is then book it now and tell Aunt it has been booked for ages.

Stay at her house and spend the £25 on wine

If ghosts were that easy to find, 'Most Haunted' wouldn't be half so dull....

Fair enough!

Our old house was haunted. Nuns! Bloomin nuns! Flocks of them! It was a convent waaaay back. Oh and the 3 ex residents, but they didn't really bother anyone much. If you do see something, tell them to bugger off!

the house i used to work in had a lady ghost thing (whatever you want to call it)

my bosses both drs didnt believe in that sort of thing but i saw her and had a few "experiances" with her. She was friendly, meant no harm, did no harm, and i happily house sat there alone, without batting an eye lid

the had extensive building work done, and that was when i experianced her the most, but once it was finished i never experianced her again

that was the 4th ghostly encounter of my life (and before the 1st i was a 100% dis-believer) and other than polter-ghosts (sp?) that i have thankfully had no experiances with (and no wish to) they dont hurt

i would stay there, im sure you will all be fine, and are unlikely to see it anyway

the worst bit. after i had moved out of my parents house they admitted they knew when we moved in that it was supposedly haunted. they never told me or my sister so we wouldn't be scarred. we lived there for 10 years and my mum is still there none of us ever experienced anything. you would think i wouldn't be at all bothered after that.

Did you see the nuns frontpaw?

I used to be scared of nuns when I was little - not ghost ones; real ones. I thought they could glide along and didn't have legs

frontpaw i would have actually pooed my pants.

I lived in a house that the previous tennents moved from because allegedly there was a mean ghost there, I didn't believe it at all. My DS was 3 at that time and used to go up to his room speaking to himself all the time, I thought nothing of it. Then when DH came in from work he used to tell him that XXX had been over, he seriously thought I was having an affair for a while. Then the hot tap started coming on and other weird things started happening like toys and lights switching on etc. It was at that point I started getting a bit freaked. One day after the hot tap coming on for the millionth time I said out loud 'whoever is doing that can you stop putting the hot tap on please my son could hurt himself, thank you' (felt like a muppet but never mind) and I swear the cold tap started coming on after that. Anyway I did a bit of research on the house and discovered it was built on the site of a bakery and the owner of the garage had gone missing, the owners name was the name my son had been saying. The previous tennents had all apparently been sleeping in the living room terrified and the ghost was slamming things about etc but we never had a problem at all he was pretty nice to us. I was sad to move I enjoyed the company in a weird way.

garage???? bakery lol.

When I see a nun I have the urge to yell 'none!' as in Father Ted. I just grin at them instead. Nuns must think I am bonkers.

No, it didn't bother me as I was used to it - mainly you'd see someone walk past one window, then they disappear (the next window was just along the wall, so you'd look to the second window to see who was coming and wait, and wait and wait), shadows coming through open doors and no one being around, clumping noises, sometimes music, rasping breathing noises, and the 'man without a mouth' who used to lean over my bed when I was little.

How could you get used to a man without a mouth?

DP and I stayed in a country house hotel once, after the first night he said he'd seen a ghost cross the room. Told the manager at breakfast and he said oh yes she's a regular visitor, everyone sees her.
The second night I made myself stay awake all night so I could see her but no ghost!
I lost a whole night's sleep for nothing :(

It was just a shadowy man who used to lean over me in my cot-bed. I was more annoyed and was complaining to my sister about it and that's what I called him. I was very little, so I suppose it was 'normal'. I moved into another bedroom after than - the one that wasn't haunted. The haunted one was very very creepy and that where most of the non-nun activity was centred.

The nuns were fine until I saw flippin 'Tales of the Unexpected' - I just remember someone climbing up into an attic, and there was a nun in a rocking chair and when she turned all you could see was red eyes! That, I almost pooed myself at!

Was that the nun who pushed someone down the stairs?

I think that was when my sphenisciphobia started