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

Nothing to do with being a cynic. If you truly think spirits are stealing things from your pockets and then returning them, you need professional help. And soon.

Oh change the record AndTakeYour. We get it. You don't believe and think anyone who doesn't agree with your viewpoint is crazy. It's boring now.

"Oh my God, this person is still insisting that all these things that can't possibly happen, not now, not ever, ever, ever, have actually happened to her! She must be mentally ill. There's no other logical explanation for it!"

Where's the eyeroll smiley when you need it?

I would so agree with all those who say it's all bollocks, but I was wide awake when I saw a ghost, and there were other incidents afterwards too. Nothing since.

You don't have to believe, but those who have seen things are allowed to say they have.

Truly, some cunts on this thread. Being a goady fucker doesn't make you seem more impressive, it just makes you a bigger cunt.

Fair enough liz. I apologised because I genuinely am concerned that you may have mh issues. And not because of your belief in ghosts and the paranormal.

Are you concerned that everybody who tells you something that you struggle to believe has mh issues?

Well, I suppose that's easier than considering the alternative.

No. Not at all. I actually happen to agree with the point that solely relying on evidence to prove the existence of something is flawed.

I absolutely believe you. We lived in a house with similar happenings at all hours of the day. My grandma said they were spirits she called duendes, childlike creatures and not to be trusted. We moved.

I've seen a ghost. Was in the kitchen tidying, and had the door half opened so I can look through to check ds. The door is glass, and a bit frosted. I saw my ds standing there are then he ran down our long hallway which leads to the toilet and his room.

I ran after him to see what he was doing. He wasn't there. Go back up the hallway and my ds is in the front room still strapped in his buggy. I was shaken up as I knew id seen something child size run past the glass.

I'm now seeing the local MH Team for an assessment. Ghosts aren't real and thinking you've seen them/communicated with them is definitely worrying.

Hmm Finely, let me get this straight, you are "genuinely concerned" that a poster has MH issues and so instead of PMing them, reporting them or detailing your concerns and signposting them to help, you just repeat it on a public internet forum?

Are you sure you're not just being a twat?

Point taken dione. But no, I'm not being a twat. Are you?

The "twat" bit was a reference to your 19:58 post yesterday Finely.

Ok, got it. And have reported.

Reported what?

My post

I don't think it is against guidelines to suggest that you, yourself may be being a twat. Nor is it good form to repeatedly ask for your own posts to be removed from a thread because you've been an eejit.

If that happened, MNHQ would need more staff and there would be hardly any posts.

This is the thing with the paranormal though isn't it. We all think it can't exist and then we have an experience that can't be explained any other way. I have had several experiences like Liz . Once you have experienced it. It becomes part of your own belief system. I have seen stuff that is outside what people consider normal. Open minds assume it's stuff that is normal but science hasn't explained it yet. Science only explains stuff when money gets spent on it. If you see your Uncle that drowned when you were eleven, who is going to spend the money to find out why? It's normal but considered paranormal. Things move and levitate due to unseen force. I have experienced this my entire life. Just because you do not, doesn't make you right and the experiencer wrong.

Clearly I need to read the guidelines properly. Thanks for the heads up dione

I'm truly bemused by these attitudes. Are you people saying that if your child or any othet relative came to you and said that they heard voices, that they talked to and saw dead people, that they knew dead people were hiding their things and moving them around, that they could have conversations with these voices...... You'd actually just say, that's nice dear, it must be ghosts! You wouldn't be even slightly concerned about psychosis, schizophrenia, etc?
Whatever about a harmlessly vague belief in ghosts, this is different. Its worrying that so many would ignore serious signs of mental health issues.

You know what until you seen a ghost you really dont believe they exist. I know i felt like that. They do exist but cant hurt you! There are things you cant explain and some houses maybe amys are haunted. Different houses do have atmospheres. Cant believe people saying its mental illness! I know what i saw. No trick of the light, no mental illness just something that cant be explained.

Andtake if my child can upto and told me she had been talking to 'ghosts' then i would think she has an overactive imagination. 2 of my family members had/have mh issues and its not like how most people think it is, bipolar isnt how it is in eastenders

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Baffling isn't it Penguin?

I would indeed be deeply worried about someone who started to hear voices and think they could communicate with dead people but for some reason some people are so enchanted by the idea they almost encourage it.

It truly is like their brains have fallen out.

Phones disappearing from pockets, then reappearing. Let's just consider that for a moment.

So a phone (solid, made of plastic and other solid stuff) disappears into thin air. How does that work then? Does the ghost carry it? In which case you'd think it would've spotted, floating through the air. And if a ghost can carry a phone, why have none of them ever picked up a pen or a bit of chalk and written a message on a wall or a bit of paper?

Or is it that the phone has been, I dunno, teleported elsewhere? Which is, you know, impossible?

But when you suggest that there is some other explanation (my best guess would be plain old "can't see for looking" syndrome) the woo-lovers roll their eyes as if you're being totally unreasonable to suggest such a thing.