Think I saw a ghost on camera and nobody believes me

[LucyDontLockIt]

We moved into a large Victorian terraced house a few months ago. Always lots of strange noises but obviously in an old house you expect this, but some couldn't be explained like laughing in the bedroom (walls are think and you can't hear next door unless they're actually drilling into a joining wall!). Footsteps on upper floors etc. Along with that the rooms would turn icy cold all of a sudden, even in this hot weather you would be hot and sweaty one minute and then freezing cold the next. I have felt uneasy a lot. When DH went away to China I was here alone and just constantly felt like I wasn't alone. I'm not one to be frightened of the dark etc but there is no way in hell I would walk around this house in the dark. The dog seems really withdrawn and constantly anxious. Ears prick up constantly and he growls and cries for no reason which he never used to do.
DH gets really angry whenever I talk like this, he suffers nightmares (always has) and spooky stuff freaks him out so he gets very defensive and tells me to shut up about it but on a couple of occasions he has come into a room downstairs and looked confused to see me as he thought he'd seen me walk past upstairs etc.

ANyway because nobody will talk to me about this I bought some cheap cameras off eBay, the ones you stick on the wall and you can watch the room from your phone. I periodically watch them at work.
Yesterday I logged in at work and there was someone standing by the kitchen sink. It was a woman's figure but wasn't moving. I ran to show a colleague but it had gone by the time I got to her. NOBODY believes me and DH says if I can keep with it he will actually leave me as I'm making him feel ill.

Wtf. Am I going crazy??! I know logically ghosts don't exist but I can't explain any of this unless I am actually losing my mind. AIBU to wish someone would at least help me look into it properly?
We're in north of England.

toomanychilder, you do sound very arrogant.
I don't really 'believe' in ghosts but if my superlogical parents said that a shadow regularly passes their kitchen door, I am not going to disbelieve them.

You've actually got more chance of seeing a ghost, than seeing my teens without a phone in their hand.

Yes, it had "flown" off that shelf, then four feet across the bathroom towards me. No, there were no draughts, no I hadn't been drinking or taking drugs. Do all the scoffing you like; I know that it happens because I've experienced it myself. You lot that clearly haven't, you really do not know what you are talking about.

Um, it fell off the shelf then rolled towards you. I am regularly surprised by how far things get when dropped or when they fall. Doesn’t mean there is a supernatural agency at work.

Funnily enough @toomanychilder I didn't talk about our experiences to convince you they are real. I am an educated rational thinking woman who was more skeptical than most.
We both shared the same experiences.
I posted about it to let the op know that she wasn't alone and that if she chills with it she may not need to convince her Dh at all.
Couldn't give a flying toss what you think.
Hopefully you'll get a particularly disturbing one one day yourself

Had the same thought backstreet. I hope all the scoffers get supernaturally bombarded and then see how rational they feel

I totally believe you, I do believe in spirits (yeh not the alcohol kind), there are too many things to be explained away. I think your dh might know, but be too afraid to come clean and admit he feels the same as you. Can you contact a local medium? This world is a mysterious place, science cannot explain everything.

"Um, it fell off the shelf then rolled towards you. "

Um, no, cuboid boxes don't roll, and had it fallen from the height of the shelf directly onto the tiled floor, I would have heard it hit that floor. I didn't hear, because it didn't hit the floor to begin with; it - as I stated in my previous post - tapped me very lightly on the back of my calf, at mid level, and then landed on the floor, just behind my feet, again, as previously stated. I am neither deaf nor stupid, but hey, here's another "oh so helpful" poster who can tell me exactly "how it happened, despite not being there at the time.

How about setting up recording cameras round the house and playback what you see.

*"how it happened"

Lemony....good post.

The analogy of the wind is spot on. It made me think of gravity. We wouldn't throw ourselves of a cliff edge just to prove it exists. But I just don't know anymore. I'm discovering the more I find out, it only confirms to me how little I know.

This is where I'm at for the moment. I used to be 😨 at the thought of spirits. But now as I've gotten older & had a few ropey health episodes. I want to see evidence personally. Yes it would freak me out, but it would be proof that there's something after this. So I don't know anymore. I also think that loved ones returning to visit us wouldn't have a malevolent atmosphere about them. So that concerns me. Something is obviously going on. And, I think as per usual, certain people/charlatans are only too happy to use this for whatever their agenda is.

When my mum was small she spent a lot of time at a friend’s house. This house was Elizabethan and quite posh. Apparently there was a big grand room upstairs which, once a year, you could hear the sounds of a party coming from (old fashioned music, singing, lots of people talking). But when you opened the door the sounds would stop.

My mum says it’s one of the biggest regrets of her childhood that they never got to go to the party

I personally don’t believe in ghosts - I’ve worked in a huge number of historic properties and never seen a thing! - but I hope if I ever do have ghosts they’re party ghosts.

I don't believe in ghosts, but I like to think that people live on in some way. I don't know, in your heart or in the mannerisms of subsequent generations or whatever.

I had the weirdest but most comforting experience a few months back with my dd, who was around 18mo at the time. We were both in the kitchen and I can't remember what triggered it but I turned to look at her sitting in her high chair and she was studying me in the closest way I'd ever seen. Our eyes locked on each other for a few seconds in total silence and in that moment I swear it was my nan's big blue eyes staring right at me. It made my heart jump, it was uncanny.

My nan died when I was 12 and I was absolutely devastated, she was an amazing woman who I loved dearly and spent a lot of time with. I have often said I wish she could have known my husband and children, she would of course adore them.

Dd doesn't look like her at all, even her eyes (except that they are blue, and watchful) in the cold light of day. And I'm not saying there was anything supernatural afoot either - that look dd gave me clearly triggered a memory of my nan at a long forgotten point in time, combined with genetics and the natural order of things as generations die and new ones are born etc. But for a brief second or two it felt like my nan was there staring right at me, and it was absolutely wonderful.

memaymamo As someone who lives with anxiety, I can say a common symptom is seeing shadows move out of the corner of your eye, just like a PP described. You could easily say I was sensing ghosts nearby. Your brain may have come up with an image of a woman for whatever reason.

I have anxiety too, I often see shadows (that resemble the shape of a man) out of the corner of my eye or farting past etc. I didn’t know it was part of the anxiety and thought I was going mad and had something else wrong with me. Will it always happen?

Darting* not farting

LittleLion, sd's neck, the. cknof her head and her ears are exactly like my dad's. It used to make me happy every time I put her hair up for ballet......

LittleLionMansMummy that’s really lovely.

Not at all the same but along the same lines, I have a friend (no relation to me) who widens her eyes with surprise in exactly the same way my nan did. Every now and then it happens and always reminds me of my lovely nan.

I also have her eyelashes (v short!!!) which I hated as a teen until I realised that they came from her. My father has them too. I love that I can be reminded of her by looking at myself closely in the mirror.

*neck,back of her head and ears.

Footage please! No, seriously, do you have a clip of that?

Otherwise, good luck.

Thanks yoksha.

I agree, loved ones returning wouldn’t be behaving in a malevolent way.

I have a very vague theory - very vague indeed - that perhaps those who have lived extremely wicked lives hurting and abusing others, don’t find peace after death and it is those sorts of spirits that cause as much trouble in death as they did in life. Perhaps what some may call demons which traditionally are believed to be fallen angels, but I also think someone like hitler for example (if the spirit world exists) wouldn’t be peacefully weaving supernatural baskets somewhere.

It’s a very loose theory of mine and not one I base on anything at all really other than why some people have absolutely no worries with seeing ghosts and it seems quite friendly, and others are scared witless and get things thrown at them.

op,you know what you have seen and heard so don't listen to people dismissing it. When I got my spirit,i heard something scratching under the floor boards whilst I was in bed,then these sounds from my radiator which was behind the drawn curtains. a sort of howl,groan. I sat up and called out to my children 'yes,what is it,mums here',knowing quite well they were asleep,put my light on and then played dead. after a few minutes it stopped. The next day a picture had moved off the wall and was layed across the room against the bed. I asked this thing outloud to please go away and thank you for coming!? I only told two people as who would believe that

Nobody has ever actually been physically hurt by a ghost, have they? So why are we so frightened?

ah but how do you KNOW that Bertrand?

That's it. I'm checking inside my wardrobe tonight.

I'm nearly 50. I'm the most cynical person around. I think ghosts don't exist. But then last summer in a holiday gite in France. I clearly saw someone walking across the kitchen doorway. The night before I had the weirdest feeling of pure terror for about 10 minutes- I thought I was having a stroke or something. It passed eventually though. I didn't tell my DH because he's even more cynical than me. I eventually did when he suggested we booked the same place this year.
I have always lived in old houses and I've never experienced or seen anything before.

I wish the OP would come back and reassure us that she has checked her loft etc. for intruders.