To think our house might be haunted?

[SunBathinginNevada]

I'm a non-believer usually but some weird shit has happened since we moved in 3 weeks ago. The heating keeps turning itself onto the highest setting (it was like a sauna in here yesterday) and we keep finding water splashes up walls when nobody has been in the house.

Last night I went to our bedroom to find all the duvet and pillows off the bed and on the floor. DH swears he didn't do it.

Today I come home from work and my ornamental elephants are laid on their sides with their tusks missing and what appears to be a red liquid leaking from them and onto the carpet. It looks awful. Nobody else has been in the house. AIBU to start wondering if maybe something weird is going on?

I'd share my million with you mome

Apostropheuse I think you may be going in a little strong! My very unwoo mother had one of our houses exorcised as strange things had happened. She maintains to this day it laid spirits to rest and the unsettling things stopped! So clergy do perform exorcisms- this was in sleepy Shropshire not Hollywood!!

I didn't say they would never perform one. I said it was more likely that they wouldn't. They would look at other reasons first. That's just how it works.

Are you an atheist? Or do you go to Church? You seem to be talking with great authority here, so I'm interested to know how you know these 'facts' and are so certain that the clergy would do the above.

To me it sounds like a generalisation. Yes Churches can attract people with mental health issues I'm not denying that and you would need to ask careful questions, if you've never met the individual before but I do go to Church and have done my whole life, so I know that people can come to your house to pray over it, in it, through it. Call it what you will, it can be done and you would be treated respectfully. It is possible to have someone come to your house to pray through it. I know on mn it all sounds a bit woo but it can be done.

I do feel your first comments about it only happening in Hollywood were patronising actually. But perhaps that's my perception. I rarely come on threads like this, perhaps I need to develop a thicker skin?

Thanks Valium.

No I'm not an atheist, I'm a committed Christian and like you have gone to Church all my life.

I apologise if you thought I was patronising in my Hollywood comment. That was not my intention at all. Some people do think it's like Hollywood and they go to the nearest (usually Catholic) priest and think they will perform an exorcism. I am understanding from your last post that you will know better than that.

I have had my houses blessed when I moved into them, so I I'm not saying that those types of things can't be done. That is a very common thing to have done. It's just that it's highly unusual to have a proper bone fide exorcism carried out - certainly in the RC Church. It may be totally different in the Church of England or other denominations. If so, I stand corrected.

If I had name changed I would have been able to explain a little better why I've said what I said, but I want to retain my anonymity. It's not just a random sweeping generalisation though.

Come back op!

Oh and just to correct something...I said exorcisms were mostly carried out in Hollywood, not only.

Just to clarify.

Clergy, and churches do do this stuff. Church of England Churches anyway. They probably only have one or two people in a region that do it.

Other people also do it. non-denominational spiritual folk. Its not that weird. There are ghosts. There is an afterlife. It's perfectly normal albeit rare for stuff to happen. It's quite sad but then so is life sometimes.

at your 'mostly' correction apostropheuse

Omg dying to know what's gone on here...

Sounds like you've got yourselves a boggart....

If I were you I would be hoping it was something paranormal rather than people breaking into your house which is a far more scary prospect imo!!

Whatever it is it sounds very unnerving. There certainly are some things that cannot be explained but I hope you get to the bottom of it.

the fact is that very often people who go to clergy to ask for an exorcism are troubled individuals who are having psychiatric problems. Often on a little probing you discover they have not been taking prescribed medication because they think there's nothing wrong with them. They genuinely believe supernatural things are happening, but in reality they are hallucinating

Are a born again Christian apostrophere ?

Yes to getting to the bottom of it, but do tell us OP please!!!!!!

The ghost must have come back for the OP.

Would it be very tactless to point out that the reason most people no longer believe in the Amityville explanation is not that natural explanations were found for moving ornaments etc, but because one of the persons involved admitted that the whole thing was made up from the start?

Who you gonna call?????

GHOSTBUSTERS

I find it very hard really to believe in ghosts, but I have known severaly sensible logical, reasonable even scientific people who claim to have experienced ghosts (particularly in old houses being altered) that it has opened my mind a little.And then as I said upthread when 2 or our 5 children hit puberty we experienced some strange things particularly while they were sleeping.

How long does it take to order and recieve a few ornamental elephants from Amazon?

ohhh how exciting if a ghost!

But not is your DH gaslighting you!

Or worse an old tenent! Change locks rule out one thing at a time.

Put your phone on record voice mode in the area with most activity and see if voices are picked up?

Otherwise set up your mobile etc to record at night and see what happens.

My friend used to do exorisms he is a Fransican Monk.

marking my place...

Strange that the OP hasn't been back.

Maybe the OP is the ghost . . .

I smell BS...

I did find it amusing that several posters were willing to assume deceit in the shape of an elaborate plot by the poster's dh, any teen children around or even an outside prankster but nobody seemed at all willing to suggest the obvious conclusion.

Surely if we admit the possibility of deceit in the first place, then Ockham's razor demands that we should look for the form that would involve the least effort...