To think we have a poltergeist?

[aliasjoey]

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!

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.

That is a 'common' phenomenon, if that isn't an oxymoron.

As for my story............

I was a teenager and was taking a prolonged bath. My glasses were on the side in the bathroom. When I went to pick them up after the bath the screws ha been taken out and were neatly lined up next to them.

pip

Just as I was reading the last few posts on this thread, the baby's shape sorter cookie jar sounded its little weird at the best of times giggle. We all thought the batteries had gone. If it happens again, I'm off! The house is very old but we've been here a year and not heard more than a few bumps in the night.

op can you confirm you weed on the cup in the bowl

We have a small plastic thing that came off a Dalek that if you press it says 'Exterminate' like a Dalek. You have to press it in just the right place.

The other night, the cats were out, DS (9months) was askeep in his cot, DH and I were DTD and the thing started with 'Exterminate, exterminate' repeatedly. It says it twice with each press. DH went downstairs with me behind him and it was where is always is on a shelf in the kitchen. It stopped as we got to the kitchen door. Hasn't done it again. Put us off DTD.

I used to get the craziest shit happen in my flat. Ended up running away with the children a couple of times it was so bad. Nobody believes me because it sounds too unbelievable.

A more take incident occurred at an old cottage my parents lived in. I was supposed to be sleeping on the sofa but couldn't sleep because I find it too hard in other people's houses. Their dog was barking constantly for about ten minutes going loopy. I heard my mum come down stairs, open the door, walk through the room into the kitchen. I kept my eyes closed in case she turned the light on. She starts pissing around making tea and ignoring the dog which really pissed me off.

Then five minutes later my mum came downstairs. There was no fucker in the kitchen.

Aaaaargh Lulu that would have put me right off too! Bit odd that it did it even though the button had come off, if I understood that right?

We've got one of those baby walker things that songs various songs and it went through a phase of going off in the middle of the night when no one had been near it for hours (we have no pets) but I later figured out they do that when the batteries start to go.

vatican I want to know what crazy shit happened

My auntie had a poltergeist when my cousin was early teens.

Her double, very, very heavy 1980s sunbed used to move. Not just an inch or so but a couple of foot away from the wall.

Things used to move around. The kettle would be in the fridge. The hoover at the top of the stairs and once in the (empty) bath. Things that were important to my auntie used to go missing. Lights flicking on and off.

It was awful. She was recently divorced and in a bad place anyway. Used to regularly turn up in the middle of the night at ours with two teenagers white faced nd tearful.

She had the house blessed which calmed things down a bit. Then it all stopped completely. I used to stay over sometimes (same age as cousin) and we all used to be woken up by bumps and bangs and it was always freezing cold. Very odd and scary but I was a bit excited by it as a young teen.

Now I think I would be fucking terrified.

imjustahead yes i must have wee'd on the cup, that's partly what made the whole thing seem weird, it was just the last place I expected to find it.

And another thing (maybe im over-thinking this now) if it was DD, why would the dog not wake at doors shutting, but go off his head at a small plastic cup falling into the toilet?

Because doors shutting is a usual noise for the dog to hear, a cup falling in the night would sound strange to him.

Our dog once woke us up barking very loudly in the middle of the night, then we heard the back gate bang. He never barked at one of us opening the gate in the day but had the sense to realise that no one should be opening it in the night when we were in bed. We assume that the dog had scared off a potential burglar.

Freddie Mercury?. The dead musician?

alia has there been any other activity such as six chairs stacked on the dinning room table? Or any food spontaneously jumping out of it's packaging and cooking on the countertop?

I can't stay in my parent's house alone. All stems from being a teenager.

When my sister went to uni I got her room. It was downstairs and freezing. TV and cd player would turn on by themselves constantly, footsteps outside, someone pulling my duvet off but the final straw was when my hand was grabbed!

After my DS bf died, her TV would switch on frequently to his favourite channel (one that she would never watch).
Sounds of people running down stairs, banging doors etc.
This sort of stuff freaks me out but my family were never bothered! I do believe in the supernatural but also think the mind plays tricks!

Your daughter knocked it in the loo-and it was such an effort to fish it out that she didn't bother.
My DD would do the same....

chronic i think you're right - it MUST have been DD. And she lied or forgot.

And despite being woken up, i didnt hear her go back to bed afterwards.

love threads like this! however i dont think you do have one but you could always set up a cam to see.
i personally believe in ghost, i think i have one in my flat. An old lady used to live here but died, not in the flat but she was here for 40yrs. My baby nephew waves to nobody when he is here and stares at nothing.
My cat also sometimes just stares but i did have a mice problem so that could explain her strange behaviour

"Your mother cooks socks in Hull!"

Love it.

I've had this quite a bit recently, where I hear a crash from the next room and go in to find things flung about the place. And things going missing! This could out me to anyone on my facebook, but in the last week or so I've "lost" 20 ice cream cones, a pair of specs and a tiramisu. WTF? Gonna have to have a word with these spooks.

another a poltergeist with a sweet tooth and a visual impairment
Seriously though, 20 ice cream cones and a tiramisu!
Get someone to bless your house or whatever they do to rid these energies, or paranormal investigators .

A large 3 bed flat Is available where I live but its an old property. I currently live in a new build and any bumps in the night I know are my fat cat. I asked if it was haunted and they said please don't waist my time I lived in an old property before and would often hear a loud crashing noise in the kitchen and run out there and find nothing amiss. Would always be when my dh was at work.

I'd be less concerned about your poltergeist and more interested in the fact YOU HAVE A TALKING DOG.

Now that's cooler than a poltergeist!