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?

Yes lorelei9 if I have any more unsettling situations I'm going to. Not had anything since this thread was made though, but don't wanna speak too soon

I can't see the photo falling off as anything other than a complete coincidence, sorry. Stranger things have happened!
The other day DP and I were talking about Queen and some of their songs in the car, then low and behold 'We Are the Champions' came on the radio seconds after he'd mentioned it. Spooky, yeah - coincidence definitely. I'm 100% sure that we're not being haunted by Freddie Mercury

Have you got a carbon monoxide monitor? CO poisoning can make you have auditory/visual hallucinations, produce confusion, paranoia etc.

When I went out very early on Friday morning, my car was exactly where I had left it, but the mirrors and seat were adjusted completely differently.........

Any ideas how that happened?

oh stop telling the OP isn't well
I'm sure she's fine!

and I want to hear updates

theycallmemellojello - that's ridiculous, and not the case as I had a detector fitted recently.

This thread is reminding me of the time I went on fb and found a friend very excited because she'd found a white feather outside her door. And it was 2 days away from when her nan died, so she knew it was her nan saying she was watching.
I immediately went out and buried the remains of the pigeon left by a fox in the front garden and cleared the remaining white feathers. Hoping that she wouldn't come out at that point to see what I was doing.
If it brought my neighbour some comfort that's fine. But unfortunately unless her nan was controlling foxes then nothing to do with her.

I think the moral of this thread is that if someone wants to believe something they will regardless of whether there are perfectly reasonable explanations or not.

This is the reason you get nutcase a who think they've been abducted by aliens

You feel like someone's watching you at home?

I'm sure it's not a ghost, there's probably a much more benign explanation like a serial killer hiding in your attic.

It's not ridiculous, it's true that CO poisoning produces strange mental effects. Just thought it was worth putting out there as it can be very serious.

I thought I was abducted when I was little , about 5 years old.

I was at a sleepover on the top bunk and could see red lights through the gap in the curtains and climbed down to have a look. Opened up the curtains and watched red lights swirling around for a while (like UFOs) and then they stopped and the light was really bright, white and close. Like a massive floodlight being shone in your face. And then I woke up the next day in a heap in front of the open window.

Hallucinating, probably? Not sure, but not aliens!

Hi Lorelei - yes, cravat! Excuse my sleep deprived brain!

Many things happened not directly connected to that incident and the pending death (detest the word 'passing') of my GG - just one being the monk that my Gran saw walking from the front door, past the kitchen doorway where she was rooted to the spot in fear and out through the back of the house when she lived there and that I saw over 40 years later although I only heard the muffled footsteps approaching the kitchen then saw a man in a brown robe walk past and into the living room.

My Grandparents moved into a new build which they thought was 'odd' and yep, haunted. Not sure by what but they liked to hang about by the middle bedroom where my grandad used to play the piano. Since my grandad died and there was no more piano playing, the odd happenings have stopped too.

At this point everyone on MN is thinking "ok, let's all back away from Woobeedoo......". .

Lol Woo your stories actually sound far less far fetched to be honest. Yeh, they might have alternative explanations but repeated sightings by multiple people is always interesting and worth exploring

There are quite often rational explanations for things. Footsteps are often floorboards shrinking at night setting off movement that sounds like someone walking as one shrinks the next moves. However not everything can be explained away. My parents house is definately haunted. I used to see a lady in my room. When I described her it Ŵas a great great aunt who used to have my room but died before I was born. My mum saw a reflection of my great grandad in a mirror and the other week I heard my 4yr old DS say what's your name whilst he was alone in the loo. When I asked him who he was talking to he said "the lady"

I am really, genuinely not woo at all, honest!

The last house we lived in had a huge kitchen, the kitchen bit at one end and dining room with open fire at the other end. I was at the hob, cooking and out of the corner of my eye I saw a dog. A jack Russell, on the rug in front of the fire. He stood up and did the usual dog thing of turning 360 degrees before settling down again.

The weird thing is, I clocked this, but thought nothing more of it. Just carried on cooking. I never mentioned it to anyone because itjust felt normal
I saw this dog a couple of times in the years we lived there, always in the same place. We then moved house and a good three or four years later we were re insisting about places we had lived. I then said 'I saw a ghost dog in the last house' and eldest son piped up with 'oh, the little Eddie dog?' (Frasier reference). Youngest son then casually says ' the one in the dining room?'

Three of us had seen him, none of us had thought to mention it, no one was scared or even curious (which is the weirdest thing).

No explanation, just strange.

Worra - I told you there'd be a new build story!

Woo - interesting.

HoldmeCloser - that comment reminds me of a particular episode of Whitechapel. If you watched it, I guess you will know which one! If I thought I was being watched, I would be checking the flat very carefully on account of that episode.

Tooold are you serious? Shitting myself here!

Another, it really, simply did not have any impact on any of us. It is actually more strange thinking about our reactions

I have lumbering labradors and it was no different from seeing one of them, simply not noteworthy!

I have read through with fascination at all the 'woo' stories (love shit like this!)

But I feel that we are all missing one vital point -

Why is the OPs daughter using the catflap for 'fresh air'?

Re. alien abduction: I actually believe aliens could well exist, given that our knowledge of space relative to the size of the universe is tiny. I'm not saying they're abducting us, but the existence of aliens (or extraterrestrial life if you prefer) is, to me, more likely than ghosts.

Little I agree, it's a scientific probability given the size of the universe and the number of suitable planetary environments that aliens do exist. However, the chances that they're coming here to make crop circles and abduct unwitting people is extremely unlikely.

goldfish yes!!

Lol suspiciousofgoldfish - we had a very large cat so a big flap was needed, lucky for my DD as she just about squeezes through

Any more experiences to report?

My friend moved into a house and found some oddly concealed cat flaps that were huge. I thought they were more likely panther flaps....she felt that was unlikely in norf London...

that comment reminds me of a particular episode of Whitechapel

Oooh, lorelei9 I loved Whitechapel and that episode never fails to make the hair stand up on the back of my neck!