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

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KeepOnPloddingOn · 30/05/2014 15:45

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?

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CottonbudCatastrophe · 30/05/2014 19:52

Sceptical, bespectacled spectre inspectors.

That may be the new password for my wifi.

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KeepOnPloddingOn · 30/05/2014 19:57

Sorry for delayed reply:

I hear running around all the time. I assumed it was my neighbours daughter - as we are semi detached. But I feel it isnt as it is constant and she is often out.

I have saw somethin flash by my mirror and my mum jumped from my bed once and screamed 'whos that' at the mirror and then said she thought the reflection of my dressing gown was a person ..? (Seemingly to calm me down)

My brother once stayed here and said he came down stairs to a jar of salt all over the floor somehow.

My mum has also stayed and heard creaks in middle of night. Our electric often switches off for no reason ( wires have been checked)

We also often think we see something at the window and when we look there is nothin there - three people hve stated they do the same when in my living room.

I don't feel threatened but when I am alone and it is pitch black because my electric has gone off one again I do feel scared.

I often thought it was all stuff that can be explained but now others have commented too. (One is a sceptic too)

Our house is a new build too , it's not old and creaky. Eek.

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KeepOnPloddingOn · 30/05/2014 20:00

By the way I am in no way a psychopath / psychotic - and neither are my family. I genuinely have experienced these things. I am worried it is a spirit following me as in my last flat a tap would turn on by themselves in middle of night and I would always have to turn off when I woke :/

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mercibucket · 30/05/2014 20:08

doesnt sound remotely scary or ghosty to me
things to check. . .
appliances esp kettle toaster and hairdryer making electric flip
or newbuild - get them back to check everything!
newbuild semi = hearing noises. sorry but get used to it. next doors boiler. next door walking around
newbuild also = settling noises

neiljames77 · 30/05/2014 20:09

KeepOnPloddingOn - Allow me to put your mind at rest. The old ghost won't have followed you from your previous flat.

Your new place will have been built on an old graveyard. You don't have a ghost anymore. You have ghosts.

ouryve · 30/05/2014 20:13

We had daily power cuts and brown outs for about 6 months, starting last summer. Faulty wires in the street (overhead power lines in our village). Finally broken properly by a couple of good storms and all has been stale ever since.

The desktop PC across the room keeps turning itself on and off at the moment mind. Shock Can't possibly be anything to do with the numerous software updates DH has set going on it

ouryve · 30/05/2014 20:14

stable.

calculatorsatdawn · 30/05/2014 20:15

OP when I was a little girl my dad gave me some advice.

My brother had scared me telling me there was a ghost in the out house, I went crying to my dad and he said to me... sweetheart, it's not the dead 'uns you need to worry about, it's the live 'uns

onetiredmummy · 30/05/2014 20:18

I like your dad calculators, although why I'm reading his words in a Yorkshire accent I've no idea :)

Thenapoleonofcrime · 30/05/2014 20:21

We also had power cuts for about 2 years in a previous house, it was a nightmare, we would suddenly get plunged into darkness, it was like a comedy at times. In the end we had to get a large amount of rewiring done and a new fusebox, it did puzzle the electrician but we got there in the end.

All the things you mention don't sound spooky to me- it's very normal to see faces and bodies from inanimate objects which you catch out of the corner of your eye, that's because your brain is programmed to make sense of these things, particularly in relation to face recognition. So, thinking a dressing gown is a person is very common- your mum may genuinely have 'seen' a person, and then rationalised it but that doesn't mean a ghost was there.

I see things way scarier than that, Sixth Sense style, but even this is just night terrors. I have had them for years and come to the conclusion that it is just my brain playing tricks on me in that waking/sleeping half-sense. It never happens when I'm fully asleep or fully awake, so why would a ghost wait around for that exact moment in the middle of the night? I am used to it- if you google sleep terrors/sleep paralysis you will see lots of people suffer from this and it is way scarier than a few creaks of plumbing or the lights going out.

LuluJakey1 · 30/05/2014 20:31

We stayed in a cottage in Ireland, in Donegal, and we were washing up late at night and we both saw a woman walk past us behind us in the reflection in the kitchen window. She was not looking at us, just walking across the kitchen behind us.

I was terrified. It was our last night and we were leaving early to drive home the next morning. We didn't sleep well

Next time we spoke to the bloke who owns it, who we know vaguely, DH asked if anyone else had ever mentioned anything odd happening. He said, without us saying what had happened, 'Did you see a woman in the kitchen? I have never seen her but a few people have said they have'.

Never went back. Beautiful cottage but would not go again.

parentalunit · 30/05/2014 20:31

Have you called the pest inspector?

mercibucket · 30/05/2014 20:33

We hear next doors hamster! And their cat.

Cleorapter · 30/05/2014 20:37

Thenapoleonofcrime I've had sleep paralysis/terrors. They're fucking terrifying. Once I saw Michael Jackson as in the music video ghost standing at the foot of my bed. And he pulled the skin off his face by pulling it down like the scream mask, all the while I could hear my mothers voice on the outside of my door, and I couldn't move my body. shudder

OP, I honestly wouldn't worry. Even in the event it us something unexplained, it can't hurt you!

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KeepOnPloddingOn · 30/05/2014 20:39

thenapole I have ha experience of a night terror once. It was awful. Sorry to hear you have that so much.

To the pp suggesting a pest inspector... Why? Nothing indicates rats etc

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KeepOnPloddingOn · 30/05/2014 20:40

Thanks everyone btw for reassuring me :)
I'm still scared though !

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squoosh · 30/05/2014 20:40

I'd be scared too OP

Sandiacre · 30/05/2014 20:41

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expatinscotland · 30/05/2014 20:42

Tell them if they don't stump up their share of the rent they have to get out. No one lives in space I pay for for free, mother fucker.

Aliceinvodkaland · 30/05/2014 20:46

they are real, just talk to them they won't bite!!

neiljames77 · 30/05/2014 20:50

I see you're embracing the culture of your new surroundings expatinscotland Grin

LuluJakey1 · 30/05/2014 20:51

We both thought the woman we saw in the cottage was in 1960s/70s clothes. She looked real.

We both actually turned thinking she was actually there- the door was open from the kitchen to the outside because it was warm and summer and we had been sitting out with drinks. It was like she had walked in through the door and across the kitchen to the sitting room area. But she just was not there.

We had had a bottle of wine, we were tired. But we both saw her.

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KeepOnPloddingOn · 30/05/2014 20:52

sandi omg! Is your son ok I hope?

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KeepOnPloddingOn · 30/05/2014 20:53

Expat - love it!

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eddielizzard · 30/05/2014 20:55

well when you ask for their name, get their surname, not just 'John'.