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To think we may have a ghost?

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Pinklaydee1302 · 22/11/2014 09:24

Got up this orning walks into kitchen and every single drawer and cupboard was wide open!! The kitchen is small so was quite a sight when I walked in. Shock

No sign of burglary or anything. Safety catches on cupboards too as have a toddler.

Not the first time this happened, in other house my daughter had a wall full of posters. We heard a noise went upstairs n every poster was lying on her bed!

Also my 4 month old baby was moved from my bed to his cot.

Weird Shock

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GoingToCalifornia · 24/11/2014 01:02

Tremor in the night.

Subsidence.

Sleep walking

Poor memory (baby episode)

Rats

Pets

Magnetic interference (cupboards and drawers have metal joints and rollers)

The posters off the wall? Heat fluctuation or humidity can loosen blu tack or drawing pin adhesion

So many logical explanations that ghosts should be the last one. Better to ask yourself why your Mum wants you to believe it's ghosts

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Ghosts don't exist, but our mind is capable of making us think they do, even to the point of realistic hallucination.

I thought I saw two ghosts on one occassion when I got lost in the woods when out walking with my much younger siblings once. I was about ten. My whole life since then I'd been convinced they were ghosts.

As an adult, I gradually accepted those 'ghosts' inspired me to think more logically about my then circumstance

ie one ghost came running from behind on horseback at a point Id become disoriented ... so my mind visualised my feeling of disorientation and helped to steady my panic

And the other was a group of adults and children playing in a clearing in the middle of the wood. Yet I never went over to them to ask for help.
It was mind reassuring me there was a happy solution to my problem.

But then read this:

Years later, I also learnt there were other ghostly sightings of a group of adults and children in that wood clearing. Gypsy family berating their children from olden days thus the origin of the name of the woods.

I'm with Mulder on paranormal stuff. Deep down, we all know ghosts as entities don't exist, but we'd like to believe they do. Either way, if you believe or don't, 'they' can be useful.

hashtagwhatever · 24/11/2014 01:13

This may out me as I have told friends this.

In our previous house. Dd was a few months old and we were both having a nap I woke to find the kettle boiling so got up and turned it off. Picked up dd's stuffed toy and put it in her cot. I must have fell back to sleep and got woken again by the kettle boiling so once again got up to turn it off at the plug this time. Turned around and stood on dd's stuffed toy that I 100% had placed in her cot.

GoingToCalifornia · 24/11/2014 02:28

Perhaps as you'd 'just woke from a nap' you had actually dreamt that the kettle was boiling and you had put the toy in the cot.

The actual boiling kettle woke you from your nap, so you turned it off, and the toy was at your feet because it had been there the whole time.

GoingToCalifornia · 24/11/2014 02:29

Perhaps as you'd 'just woke from a nap' you had actually dreamt that the kettle was boiling and you had put the toy in the cot.

The actual boiling kettle woke you from your nap, so you turned it off, and the toy was at your feet because it had been there the whole time.

Bulbasaur · 24/11/2014 02:50

I'm with the sleep walking crowd. You could be sleep walking and moving the baby yourself. I've had full blown conversations at night with DH and remembered none of them in the morning. It's possible.

Pinklaydee1302 · 24/11/2014 08:35

Has it actually been proven that ghosts don't exist then? I thought it was one of those unexplained things

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FunkyBoldRibena · 24/11/2014 08:41

My ex has never lived here just me and the kids

I didn't ask that - I asked if he had a key. First thing I'd do is change your locks. Then if it happens again, set up a camera each night to record the kitchen.

DishwasherDogs · 24/11/2014 09:39

There's no proof they exist, but on the other hand, there's no proof they don't exist.

cozietoesie · 24/11/2014 10:45

I'm not 100% convinced they don't exist (past experiences) but I've never heard of one that wasn't location-specific.

Someone in the family will have been sleepwalking or be trying to wind you up - or your mind might be playing tricks on you. (Or a combination of those.) You seem like a good candidate for being wound up from what you've posted.

Pinklaydee1302 · 24/11/2014 22:49

Cozie maybe that's true but there's no other adult living in my house and I don't think my kids would get up in middle of night go downstairs n open all cupboards n doors. They just wouldn't and I know my kids

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Bulbasaur · 24/11/2014 22:51

They wouldn't but you would if you were in a daze. I'd get yourself checked out to make sure that is isn't memory issues or a deeper medical problem. If you've never sleep walked before, there could be an underlying issue.

JoffreyBaratheon · 25/11/2014 00:42

At uni I had a room-mate. One night, maybe 2-3 am, this noise woke me up - it was my room-mate, sleep-talking/walking. Well, not walking as such but... kneeling. She was kneeling at the foot of her bed; praying. It was creepy as feck. Esp as she was not religious in any way, shape or form. Just so creepy. When she finished her prayer she got back in bed. She had no memory of it whatsoever in the morning.

One of my kids sleepwalks and talks at the same time. It is sort of horrible to watch. When we go camping, I have to sleep across the tent door so he doesn't wander off in the night and fall over a cliff or summat.

I do believe in ghosts, though. Wish I didn't but had too many experiences - some witnessed by more than just me. Our neighbours over the road, growing up, had endless poltergeisty activities in their house - an old farmhouse. Things constantly vanishing for days at a time then reappearing in bizarre places and at first we thought it was just the mum who was a bit dramatic - but it happened to everyone in the house, even the kids, in the end...

I also once went in a craft shop and saw something 'thrown', with force, across the space near me - but there was no-one else in there. It is a weird building looks like a barn. Someone who worked there told me ages later it had been a funeral directors' outhouse, for decades and they had stored the bodies in there, before it was a craft shop... She then told me loads of the customers and workers had seen things thrown clear across the room...

GoingToCalifornia · 26/11/2014 09:37

The incident in the craft shop could have a perfectly logical explanation, but because you later learnt it was the site of storage of dead bodies, your mind has already cemented the 'fact' you believe it was due to ghosts.

Psychics make a killing (no pun intended) out of people like this.

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