Shitting a brick over my lovely abode being haunted....

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Argh!

I hate spooky. I hate ghosts. I am a big, feart scaredy- cat!

So it has come to my attention that my humble abode is indeed haunted
Several have said they have heard / experienced strange noises / seen things.

Help! AIBU to want to move dh, dd and I out?

Strange noise: all things expand and contract with heating and cooling, older houses have more wear and tear and quite often make noises. Walls, roof, water pipes and cooling light fittings after they have been switched off. Then of course there are living things that create noise mice, rats, cockroaches and birds walking around on the roof. There are sooooo many things that it could be. Very strange noises can be heard at night when other background noise is less (cars etc), things like wind turbines or reflected noise of traffic thats far away.

Ok Worra I'll try harder. I thought I cleverly implied that I believed ghosts could eat chocolate and steal wine.

Second attempt - I'm a complete sceptic but I did once wake up in a guest house to see a lady holding lots of freshly picked flowers at the bottom of my bed. The room was freezing and dp walked straight through her! (triumphant ending! And this is in no way a true story and it will never happen to anyone else who stays in a particular guest house in Oban. Nope, not ever. )

You can't be admitted to A&E if you're DEAD though.

We live in a 'haunted' house. Sure it makes a bit of a noise at times but it was built in 1700 and has no foundations, so it moves a bit. We tend to notice the noises at night when it is quiet. Neither me nor the children are at all worried and I quite like the age and quirkiness of our house.

My opinion is that if you are not bothered, then the 'ghosts' quickly turn back into just random noises that you learn to ignore.

Was the woman naked APlace?

It always amuses me that clothes also manage to 'pass to the other side'

I'm also slightly amused that ghosts only ever haunt very old buildings

Is a 7th floor council flat off the A13 in Dagenham not good enough for them?

Ghosts are just a places memories of a particular event. They can't hurt you.

Apparently spirits can. But are they really going to go to all that effort to come across and bother you? I'd rather be eating cheesecake and drinking wine whilst laughing in my other spirit friends than think 'lets go scare a human'.

Can gin think?

There's a spirit in my fridge

Its presence seems to have reduced since last Monday.

No wonder I had a hangover.

I love reading these sceptics that always try and rationalise the behaviour of ghosts. I dare say if they were visited during the the night and a phantom stood at the end of the bed and said, "Good evening madam, as you can clearly see, I am a ghost", they'd probably put it down to a swarm of masonary bees taking the shape of a person and buzzing out noises that sounded like words.

Come on Plodding, what spooky events have spooked you?

If a phantom stood at the end of the bed and said, "Good evening madam, as you can clearly see, I am a ghost", I would assume I hadn't quite woken up. Sorry to disappoint you I used to have night terrors, which made me very aware of parasomnia.

A swarm of masonry bees would be be a much more likely explanation than a ghost as bees,unlike ghosts,actually exist.

That or sleep paralysis.

Huh, bunch of spectre sceptics.

I'm completely open minded on this since there's so much we don't know - OH used to swear there was a "presence" in the (very old) school where he taught, but never said this to colleagues in case they thought him mad

Somehow that seemed a shame, and I'll say to you what I said to him: try to regard it in a friendly way and not really of any more importance than the weather

...wanders back out of thread thinking its probably a bit of settlement...

Give us some examples OP, you can't just say your house is haunted then wander off :)

What have people been experiencing?

What have you experienced?

Ghosts can only scare you if you believe in them.

onetiredmummy - She said too much. She's been taken. You'll not hear from her again. Maybe whenever you switch on an electrical appliance you may hear her in the form of white noise, uttering the words in a sheepy voice, "leeeeeeeeeeaaaave theeeeeeeee baaaaaaaaastaaaaaard"."

Yes yes yes worra! Similarly it's always Victorians. It's never brown suited travelling salesman from the 60's, or cavemen!

Handy thought: things that don't exist don't exist. Have a nice day.

Lots of houses have noises at night, they creak as they cool down.

Head - a friend of mine is haunted by a milkman from the 1950s.

She also sees The Little People in her garden, and can shrink herself to less than the size of a daisy. She's very sweet but I don't know her husband stands her

neiljames why would she have turned into a sheep?!

Arf at the thought of Mumsnet bleating from the toaster.