Ghost in house

[zodiackelly]

Okay so I've been feeling like there's something in my house lately, get the feeling I'm being watched and mentioned this to a friend who goes ghost hunting, who told me to try and communicate with it. I've got this week off work and home alone, so thought it was the best time to try as don't want to scare anyone.

I called out to it and a few moments later the delivery driver knocks on the door, pure coincidence or is this thing using real events to respond to me? Oh also I woke up this morning and tap was running?? I'm a light sleeper so would know if it was dh or dd in middle of the night. I feel quite uncomfortable sat here am I being paranoid?

When people insist that ghosts are real and recount all these little incidents, I always imagine someone dying, then getting all excited when they realise they can come back, thinking 'oh I'll go see so and so,' only to be told -
'Sorry - you can only do stuff like flick lights on and off, make TVs come on, and smoke cigars in the stairwells of houses you lived in years ago. Oh and you can make phones ring.'

I've had a few "woo" encounters. I'm not on "woo" alert al the time.
An ex, from some thirty years ago live in a very spooky place. I wasn't alone in seeing /feeling an odd presence.
About 3 years ago I delivered some stuff to this house; it had been completely renovated and looked very homely and inviting.
I mentioned that I had visited this house many years ago and she told me they were thinking of moving as they had never felt settled there and their cat would never venture upstairs.

Our paranormal delivery driver is crap, they always come when we're out a d we have to pick up our parcels from the ghost office

Hmm. Can tell you now that every episode I previously believed to be a visitation from the afterlife turned out to be temporal lobe epilepsy. Very common, very undiagnosed because you remain conscious during seizures. I've seen Angels, received messages, blah blah blah... It's all a misfiring of electricity in the brain. It explains a lot of religious experiences too.

I'm not suggesting anyone has it of course, but its a rational explanation for "strange feelings" etc

"Of course people who haven't had any experiences don't believe in it."

Absolutely.

Lemmein, did your neighbour ever show you a pic of her brother?

Londonrach, you can't really be shocked that some people don't believe in ghosts.

I think there are better forums for woo ghost hunting advice than this one

If cupboards and cat flaps opening by themselves is proof that ghosts exist then I must have a house full of them.

Here, proof that Chewbacca is real also

shatners your post made me laugh out loud.
Wide awake frustratingly, been trying to sleep for hours, thanks for cheering me up!

Can you imagine what Victorian people would have thought if someone had suggested that in the future we would have mobile cordless phones that connected us to an worldwide library and allowed us to see images and suchlike.
They'd think we were bonkers.

I'm not quite sure what your point is. Are you saying we're just waiting for someone to invent ghosts?

The Victorians were very big on supernatural stuff, so they'd actually be very disappointed that we'd invented a smart phone but had still failed to bother trying to communicate with the dead beyond teenagers pushing a glass around a board in their grandparents' caravan, and paying £20 a ticket to watch some bloke with over-plucked eyebrows saying "I've got a man. Does the name John, Joe, Jay, Jason, Jeff... Julie! It's a woman, sorry, she had her back to me. Did anyone lose a Julie?" in a civic centre in Splott.

Shatners

A ghost controlled the delivery driver to knock? So the ghost somehow knew in advance and that you were going to call out, and managed to time the deliver driver's journey and all his other deliveries so that he would knock on your door at precisely that time? Come off it! If a ghost existed and had that much power it would have found a much more convincing way of communicating.

Another sceptic here I'd love to have proof of ghosts though

I've had a few unexplained things happen, but I'm sceptical that ghosts were involved. We went on a guided tour of the colosseum a few years back, and as the guide pointed out, if you want to find a place where traumatic deaths happened in the past, then that's it, but there's not one single ghost. The guide said ghosts are a very British thing, the Brits always ask him about them, and are most put out when he has to tell them there are no dead gladiators wandering round.

lorelei9 - no she never, she became poorly shortly and it never came up again, just put it down to one of those 'weird' moments that probably has a rational explanation. Never seen the bloke again either - strange. Just glad I didn't know at the time her brother had died or I would've shit me pants on my driveway

I feel cheated. I've just finished my book so I was settling in for a nice woo thread and all I find are rational people. Pah.

Jean my grandfather got in contact, we were talking about him out loud and heard a noise in the kitchen, where we found his photograph (which was previously taped inside of a cupboard for 15 years and never moved) on the kitchen counter.

Or 15 year old tape finally gave up the ghost (see what I did there?), th picture fell down, someone absent-mindedly picked it up and put it on the counter.

What always gets me about ghost stories is the utterly pointless things ghosts do. If you were OP's grandfather's ghost and wanted to make your presence felt, would you seriously limit yourself to opening a cupboard and moving an ancient picture of yourself?

GruntledOne

'They're talking about me at last - should I talk to them? Say some unsaid nice things? Nah - I can finally move that sodding photo! Creep the fuckers out good and proper. Might flick the lights on and off too.'

sorry

See, I thought I was hearing a ghost in ex boyfriend's house. The stair gate was opened but then I didn't hear any sound until the bathroom light was being flicked on, the light never came on but as clear as day I heard the switch and then the switch went off again, then a few seconds later I heard the stair gate being closed
The mum of ex BF had said she heard the same light switch being put on but no light ever came on

She said she's woken up a few times to the stair gate being open, whereas they always closed it over with the automatic lock. Nobody in the house had gone through the gate in the night

We put it down to us being mad

Yes maybe stumbly grin but there are a few open minded ones here so worth a try right?

OP, you do realise being open minded means looking at all possibilities (ie Occams Razor), rather than just blindly close minded believing that there is definitely a ghost don't you?

A delivery driver knocking on the door and the sound of a cat flap are not evidence at all for ghosts.

The cat flap was probably either wind or another cat trying to get in (you'd be surprised at how much they do this)

The delivery driver was .. A delivery driver.

The tap, someone left it on, most likely. Maybe you didn't hear anybody get up this time. Ive done if myself several times where i've been convinced I've turned it off and actually it's still trickling.

There is no connection between any of these things and ghosts.

Page, maybe your next book should e Peter Ackroyd "the English ghost." It's a history of ghost sightings etcAlas, no mention of couriers from what I recall.

Oddly enough I was reading Printers Devil Court when this thread began.

Those of you looking for amusing woo might want to look up the shivering chicken of Highgate, which I only recently found about.

Lemm, I'm sure you wouldn't have! Poor lady.