To think our house is haunted?

[Amy214]

Quite long sorry

My mum has lived here for 36 years (my dad moved in at a later date. Mum was just divorced with 2 children) and only 2 people have previously lived here (it was a new ish house back then) when my siblings were younger they experienced some weird things (in my room mostly) my sister said she would see dark shadows standing at the bottom of her bed, she also said she seen a woman who looked like my mum with a jacket on and had her handbag. My brother also experienced someone punching underneath his bed (was full of toys and other rubbish so no one could fit underneath) my mum also checked under the bed and no one was there. He also felt someone breathing on his face. I am now in the same room and i have also felt/heard some weird things. My niece used to stay overnight and she would wake up in the middle of the night and just stare at the door and laugh (room was dimly lit) she is 3 now and has spoke about a man and woman being in the house (casual conversations with thin air) now dd is here weirder things have happened, dd used to sleep in my room and one day when i went to pick her up from a nap she looked right past me and laughed at something, i stepped away and she was still staring at the same thing. She also giggles as if they have said/done something naughty. When im in the room myself i always feel something tugging at my arm or scratching my foot. i have also seen dark shadows at the end of my bed, also at night i always hear a newborn baby cry (we are the only ones in the block with a toddler, neighbours are older) i also hear what sounds like children running up and down the stairs. 3 nights ago i was lying in bed and i heard a mans voice clear as day in my ear, it was very deep and i couldnt understand a word. I got such a fright i leapt out of bed and switched the light and no one was there, no one was outside and my dad was sleeping. Since dd has moved into her own room she has settled and no longer wakes up in the night. How do i check who the previous occupants were? And if there was a death? The house was built in 1975. Or are we just crazy

Arf i will take your advice and ignore what my siblings are telling me and switch off when they talk about it ill try and get more sleep and relax more. And if its my neighbours i'll ask them nicely to keep it down at night

Captain i seen it i knew what they were talking about

'Babies crying' is often animal calls outside.

Wrt the newborn baby crying, could it be cats? The sound of cats at night can REALLY sound like a newborn baby crying. The sound really unnerved me the first few times I heard it until I realised what it was.

The sleep paralysis can be terrifying and seem very real. I've had a far shadow "man" stand at the bottom of my bed, over me, get in bed with me, pin me to the bed by sitting on my back, breathe menacingly only my face, move my blankets so I can feel the air current around my feet, the sound of it walking up my stairs and into my room, and all the time, I cannot move at all.

The way it's described is that your body goes into paralysis to stop you from acting out your dreams, and your brain and body should fall asleep together. If your body starts to fall asleep more quickly than your brain, you will normally get a hypnic jerk (you jump, which jolts you awake) but if this doesn't happen and your body goes into paralysis first, your brain can play tricks with you so you see/hear things that aren't there.

I get some form of it most nights, but probably once every month or two months I'll get a really bad one, that even though I know it's not real, it really shakes me up. If you don't understand it and understand how the brain/body sleep mechanism works, then it can seem like there's something paranormal going on, but if you read up on it it really does reassure you. I used to think it was ghosts I was seeing, but now I don't believe in ghosts.

*dark shadow man, not far shadow man

Redonherhedd I have experienced sleep paralysis before but not as bad as what happens to you, i cant move, shout for help etc.. The first time it happened really freaked me out, tried to shout out but couldnt, i did read that irregular sleep patterns could make it worse so maybe im just not getting enough sleep which is quite hard with a young toddler

I've always slept well, but it can happen if you are stressed, and I've always suffered with anxiety. The first time I saw the dark shadow man I was 6. I remember it clearly. And it's been "him" constantly that I "see". And every time, I swear I am AWAKE. I'm aware of everything else going on around me. It's just only a part of me is asleep, but another part is awake. And the two parts conflict.

Sweet dreams...

A ghost baby crying? Sod that i'd be off - A real life one is bad enough, you don't need undead ones caterwauling too!

It's no coincidence that most 'ghost' sightings happen around sleep/bed. It's to do with how your brain functions as PP have said.

I 'hear' all sorts of things in my sleep. Was up last night searching the house after 'hearing' someone come through the double-locked front door. Needless to say, it never happened.

The whole seeing shadows at the end of your bed thing could be absolutely anything.
I remember being told by an instructor when I was in the army, that the human eye takes at least 30mins to adjust to darkness to the degree that you can see your hand in front of your face. Before your eyes have adjusted, your eyes trick your brain into "seeing" everything as "human" shaped. I've seen human-shaped trees, human shaped mounds, a human shaped mile marker once when I was in Brecon.....shit me up initially when I was sat on the sentry point by myself

I know exactly what I'm talking about. Ghosts do not exist. I can say that with absolute certainty Please do explain how you know this with absolute certainty

when did threads about ghosts turn from "ooh I love a good ghost thread" to this nasty "stop indulging this crap" kind of response?

The truth is that nobody knows whether there is or isn't. There are certainly many reasons which explain the unexplained at times but equally sometimes the unexplained remains unexplained.

In a previous house where I lived there was definitely some kind of presence, and it certainly wasn't pleasant. I heard someone distinctly walking across the decking at the back of the house one night when nobody was around and the back gate couldn't have been opened without me hearing. Actual footsteps not the sound of shrinking wood or the like. I lost a ring - it literally disappeared off my hand. We turned the house upside down looking for it and didn't find it. Until about three months later when it turned up out of nowhere in the middle of the kitchen floor overnight. There was literally no logical explanation as to where it might have gone. I used to have horrific dreams in that house, about being pinned up against walls by actual presences. Could just have been dreams, but they disappeared the instant we moved out of the house.

I wouldn't generally indulge that kind of talk, and on the whole there's nothing wrong with applying an explanation to something if you think you have one or don't want to consider any alternatives, but equally sometimes there just isn't an explanation....

I suffer with hypnagogia - mine is the sleep to waking format. I've been woken up by the phone ringing (it wasn't!), the doorbell (ditto), my brother's dog barking - I look after her sometimes, she wasn't even here at the time, post coming through the letterbox and dropping loudly on the mat. When I went downstairs, no post at all. It's a joy!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

I get hypnopompic hallucinations regularly. I see people on our room, I see powder covering everything in the room, I see the ceiling collapsing, I see animals, I hear things. I don't experience ghosts.

confused when did threads about ghosts turn from "ooh I love a good ghost thread" to this nasty "stop indulging this crap" kind of response?

When the people with half a brain answered the thread? People who indulge in ghost stories are just furthering the cause of Stupid. And there's enough of that around already.

When i was extremely tired one night (hadnt slept in 2 days) and i was a passenger in my dads car at the time i could swear i seen someone run across the road but there was no one there. And when dd was a baby i fell asleep with her in my arms but when i woke up she was tucked up in her moses basket (no one else was in the house) i know i done it but i cant remember shes never slept in my bed since. I know its probably stupid and im telling myself theres nothing here, its just my imagination and i got a good sleep last night

BillBryson wtf where on earth did that come from, looks sooo realistic

I also suffer from hearing someone speaking to me as I drop off to sleep. It is absolutely normal like others have said and not paranormal.

I am the most sceptic person you could meet! In fact a ghost would have to walk through me for me to believe.

However I will say that in my old flat, things constantly happened day and night which to date I have no rational explanation ( not saying supernatural just have no explanation)

Friends would leave early saying they had been pushed. Doors would appear to be pushed from the other side when trying to walk through, children giggling, appliances switching on, beds shaking etc. We even have a video somewhere of two balls of light that travel up and into the wall before exiting further up and then turning left and out through the door. I didn't notice these while filming and my camera was steady so did not follow the lights.

An old neighbour told me that the people who moved in after me left quickly saying the place was evil and the next people had all sorts of people out to combat the "activity"

Mind you even if it was a ghost, I don't mind anyone who's willing to switch the kettle on

stepaway My friend sent it to me the other night just as I was falling asleep he knows I don't stick my feet out of the duvet and I can't explain why, but this pic summed it up! It does look realistic, I wonder it it's from a film..

it must be Bill too gruesome, I can't look again, did you actually manage to sleep after that!

No one can say with certainty that ghosts don't exist.

If someone witnesses something so strange that it cannot be explained, it doesn't mean they have 'half a brain', or that they are 'furthering the cause of stupid'.