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?

I'm convinced we have a ghost that moves stuff around for the sheer hell of it. I used to put it down to me being careless/messy/forgetful, but I would find things I'd left in the kitchen halfway up the stairs when I KNEW I hadn't taken it with me (things like a bag of sugar, so not just random bits & bobs that were easy to carry.

Despite asking nicely, he/she still hasn't brought back DD's trainers, which when I went upstairs last week were sitting on the arm of a chair, in a very tidy living room, and when I came back down again had vanished into thin air. As it was the morning of Sports Day this was not funny. A week on and still no sign of them despite turning the room upside down.

Can anyone explain that, please?

No, look, losing things means:-
You're very stressed, sleep-deprived, unwell, on meds, etc (having mini-blackouts);
There's a thief in your house: human or animal;
Somebody thinks practical jokes are funny;
Your DC are scared to admit they lost or moved stuff;
You're being gaslighted.

It really doesn't mean you're being haunted by a marathon-running ghost who'd worn out their trainers and needed a fast sugar fix

Ok then GarlicMayonnaise, explain this one. Years ago I went through a spell of things going missing and evidence of a presence in the room. I had just cooked a sirloin steak and left it on the worktop to cool down. I only went upstairs to go to the toilet but when I went back into the kitchen, the steak had vanished. There must have been a ghost in the room because the dog was cowering in the corner of the kitchen petrified.

Erm, my guess is the dog was cowering in the kitchen looking guilty

[Grin] neiljames77

Lol garkic you are the sceptic oracle !

I always wanted to be a Ghost Buster! The ones in the film, obv.

The tap thing happened to me too! Only once, and I was in a houseshare too at the time - I never bother telling anyone about it because it's so dull as a spooky story

Basically, I woke up and heard a noise, so went to investigate (I know, bad move, but I lived to tell the tale!). Got down to the kitchen and the tap was on full blast - it took a second or so of pulling to move it off the fully open position, so someone couldn't have accidentally left the kitchen without noticing it. (Bearing in mind I could hear it in bed, upstairs, with the bedroom door closed).

So I turned it off and went back to bed. And that is the spookiest experience I have ever had.

I assumed - as I've had sleep paralysis a couple of times - that I must have been sleepwalking (though I don't think I ever have before or since), turned the tap on, gone back to bed, and woken myself up.

I told you it was dull...

lord that isn't dull, I am spooked! Also impressed at you going downstairs and turning it off yourself. I had sleep paralysis once, but there is no way it was sleep paralysis with regards to th tap situation (ie me turns it on in my sleep) as I had my bf sleeping with me. I would often et him up to one with me to turn the tap off as I was scared. He thought it was very odd too.

I can only assume I was still half asleep, and the rational sensible part of me didn't kick in in time to stop me going to investigate, on my own (instead of waking my housemates up and going in a gang to confront the tap!)

Haha. Still braver than me.. Even half asleep i still gang-confronted the tap!