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To think we have a poltergeist?

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aliasjoey · 12/09/2015 11:32

Middle of the night, was woken by a clattering noise and the dog doing his "Alert! Burglars!" woowoowoo.

Dog and i got up, saw nothing amiss, I went for a wee and then couldn't find the plastic cup we keep in the bathroom for mouth rinse. It is kept on the basin which is next to the toilet.

Eventually I found it IN the toilet. Even if the window had been wide open there is no way a breeze could have blown it in. DD says she didn't get up in the night, and anyway if it had been her I'd have heard her moving around.

Due to recent teenageriness, she now shuts the bathroom door, so if her clumsiness had woken me, I'd then have heard her go back to bed. Although she has a tendency to tell lies and maybe if She knocked it by mistake was worried she'd get in trouble.

DH thinks it was me, which makes no sense because I went for a wee AFTER hearing the noise.

The dog thinks it was squirrels disguised as burglars.

OMG I've just remembered- poltergeists often target pubertal girls and DD has literally just Become A Woman! Can we expect head spinning and levitating next?

Your poltergeist stories please!

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MidnightVelvetthe3rd · 12/09/2015 11:38

Surely if your DD has knocked it into the toilet by mistake she would have fished it out again? Particularly if she thought she would get into trouble over it?

As the basin is next to the toilet its more likely it was knocked in, not a poltergeist :)

Gruntfuttock · 12/09/2015 11:41

You started looking for the cup after you'd had a wee and then found it in the toilet? Confused Also, what has "recent teenageriness" got to do with shutting the bathroom door?

CrohnicallyAspie · 12/09/2015 11:41

Could it have been something like an earth tremor? I remember waking to hearing the wardrobe door rattling, I never felt anything but the next day people said there'd been a small tremor in our town.

catfordbetty · 12/09/2015 11:43

Poltergeist definitely but you don't need to worry until your daughter's head revolves through 360 degrees, she pukes green slime and screams, "Your mother cooks socks in Hull!"

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aliasjoey · 12/09/2015 11:54

midnight dunno, she's a strange child - might have just left it because she was too squeamish to fish it out?

grunt she has started shutting the bathroom door for privacy. So if the cup woke me, I'd then have heard her open the door and go back to bed. (Hope that makes sense - it all seems a bit middle-of-the-night hazy now!)

chronic interesting idea about the earth tremor! Just looked it up, but the only one last night was a mild one in North Wales, so unlikely to have felt in the Midlands?

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MargotFenring · 12/09/2015 12:51

Yes definitely a poltergeist. Young girl, barking dog, dismissive father, mother looking for plausible reasons other than the one she knows is really true. It always starts this way.

Tonight, there will be something else, to a firm disbeliever, it will appear fairly innocuous, but your gut will know. It will tell you. Something like a dead animal just appearing....

SistersOfPercy · 12/09/2015 13:15

I don't do woo, but to this day I can't explain how DS's friends shoes ended up at the top of the airing cupboard shelf when they were 5. Neither could reach, nobody else was upstairs with them and there was nothing they could have stood on to get them up there. Shoes were neatly placed, side by side so high I had to call DH to retrieve them.

Our dog keeps staring at a spot on the sofa. Turns out his favourite ball was underneath it Grin

EponasWildDaughter · 12/09/2015 13:23

Empty school block, empty classroom. Pile of stuff appeared behind me on the carpet. 2 or 3 foot high, carefully balanced. No sound, and happened in seconds flat.

Would love an explanation for that. Truly; I.do.not.want.to.believe.

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aliasjoey · 12/09/2015 15:32

Oh some of those are weird!

BTW, when I said about the dog, 'woowoowoo' was a description of his bark, not an indication that he can sense the afterlife. Sorry for the confusion.

He can barely retrieve a ball, let alone hunt out ghosts.

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Carlywurly · 12/09/2015 15:36

We had a very odd year in my house when I was about 12, stuff missing, things flinging themselves off shelves and the piano playing a couple of notes by itself now and again.
It got really annoying and then just stopped.

MissMarpleCat · 12/09/2015 15:41

Op do not watch The Conjuring Shock

StillRaving · 12/09/2015 16:32

I lived in a house where strange things happened. Things in empty rooms being piled up, my brothers and I feeling a sensation of being "pushed" down the stairs, all Windows in house rattling at once. M&D got a priest in to bless the house.

shutupanddance · 12/09/2015 16:36

......

TiredButFineODFOJ · 12/09/2015 16:41

I worked in a shoe shop as a saturday girl. It was in a very old building and said to be haunted as someone who worked there had hung themselves in the room upstairs.

One Saturday we found the keys to the top rooms and being nosey/bored we went up in pairs scaring ourselves, found nothing interesting except dust, old furniture etc, a newspaper from the 1950's, general deserted room stuff.

i got a phone call the following monday- when the full timer had opened up the shop in the morning, all of the kids shoes that were on the top shelves were lying on the floor. Not the big adults shoes, just kids ones. From different areas of the shop, the ones we had tidied up before we left. After that it happened every Saturday/monday. Leave the shop neat and tidy, find kids shoes all over the floor on Monday!

MissMarpleCat · 12/09/2015 16:47

Tired just must have let 'it' out Shock

FattyNinjaOwl · 12/09/2015 17:02

My dad used to have a Freddie Krueger figurine, a pinhead one (hellraiser) and captain jack sparrow, all of them lined up on his unit.
Freddie Krueger used to "jump" the length of the room. Straight off the side and end up by the door. It was too big and heavy for a breeze to knock it and even if it did it surely wouldn't fly the entire length of the room Confused my dad was always having to glue his fingers back on as they would snap when it "jumped" eventually he got rid of it and nothing happened after it was gone.

MissMarpleCat · 12/09/2015 17:05

A possessed Freddy Kruger figurine. That is beyond surreal Grin but fascinating!

sugar21 · 12/09/2015 17:30

When I lived at home, we lived in a very old house with a thatched roof. I was home for the holidays and one night when I'd been out with my then bf and we were saying good night Blush bf pulled away from me ( how fuckin insulting) and said there's a woman on your roof. I laughed thinking DM had been on the sherry but when I looked there was clearly a figure on the roof. It was a nice night and the moon was out so I found myself looking at an elderly lady sorta walking on the thatch.
Bf and I just froze. He said let's call the police! I said just drive off somewhere I'm scared.
Bf started up the engine but DF must have heard, because he came out shouting at me to get in the house. "This is no time of night/morning for a young girl to be out". Yada yada yada
I got out of the car ran inside and tried to escape the telling off. At that point the phone started ringing so I made my escape to my room.
Next morning when I went down I was told my GM had died suddenly in the night
Bf didn't call again !

elementofsurprise · 12/09/2015 17:31

Tired Tell us more! Did you experiment, eg. by leaving the children's shoes strewn over the floor yourself? Anyone tempted to spend the night there (outside looking in if necessary!)

I thought my flat was haunted for a bit. Stupidly left a set-up for the ghost to leave a 'sign' and it worked. I tell myself it was my friend pranking me but the terrified way he shot out the flat, shaking, was most excellent acting if so...

It was all a bit weird and things seemed to happen in connection with wanting to send the debt collectors after the previous tenant... I occasionally opened post addressed to him that looked threatening (worried about bailiffs) and one time someone came to the door with a concocted story, then admitted actually they were fishing for info. on him because he owed/had stolen so much money. They told me the name of the town they suspected he was in and suggested I tell the debt collectors to look for him there. (I didn't know the previous tenant at all and the flat had been empty for some time; it was very creepy when I first moved in.)

In addition one of the neighbours had said "he was never the same after his wife died" which is just the sort of thing they say in spooky films!

Anyway, myself and friend were dicussing phoning the debt agencies and telling them the suspected location of this guy. We were standing by the back door smoking at the time, and suddenly the lighter flew off the kitchen worktop onto the floor.

I did not call the debt collectors.

TiredButFineODFOJ · 12/09/2015 17:32

At first it wa a bit "woo" but after a few weeks we just got used to it. It's a different shop now, I have thought about going in and asking them if they ever find stuff on the floor but I would look like a crank

MissMarpleCat · 12/09/2015 17:51

Last week when I was asleep, someone slapped my stomach. I immediately thought it was woo and woke DP up and told him, then realised the cat on the bed, the little shit had jumped off chest of drawers onto me Grin

WhatTheJeffHasGoneOnHere · 12/09/2015 18:05

I'm not woo at all but I love threads like this.

DoreenLethal · 12/09/2015 18:09

I used to live in a popular musician's house [he had died in the room that I used as my office] and when I was working there I regularly heard my OH come home from work at lunchtime, footsteps on the stairs and I'd shout out 'put the kettle on' or some such.

Every bloody time I'd think a few hours later 'hmm, what happened to that brew' and every time he hadn't been home at all.

Frizzcat · 12/09/2015 18:22

Who was the muscian?

Op definitely a poltergeist, if you get any paranormal experts to help and they say "this house is clean" in a southern drawl RUN

DoreenLethal · 12/09/2015 18:28

I'd love to tell you but I'd have to kill you...

We used to get invites from Liza Minelli still sent to the house inviting him to very showbiz bashes in LA...ticket holders only. We were flying to NYC once on the same day as one of the bashes and were very tempted to just rock up. Poor sod had died several years earlier and was still on the list.

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