Moving house - one room feels off?!

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We currently rent and went to look at a more family home, more space and bigger rooms perfect! We viewed the property and we loved it. Except one thing has been playing on my mind I felt normal throughout the whole viewing but one bedroom to the rear of the house I just had a bad feeling, I felt sick just generally off! And what’s weird is downstairs I felt the same in the kitchen (below that bedroom!) I’m trying to shake the thought off because we are going for the house and my partner thinks I’m going mad! Ha! Anyone had anything similar? The bedroom i have mentioned will be my sons room which makes me more nervous! But no explanation why

I used to get horrible vibes from the dining room in our last rented house. It wasn't just me who noticed it either. Other people commented on a feeling of "being watched" when in there alone. I would find another house if I were you, even though it probably is irrational.

Dont do it. You will never be comfortable there.

Many, many yers ago, we rented a flat with two bedrooms and a box room. Bedroom 2 had that sort of feeling. Just 'off'. It was always cold in there too, but to be fair, it was on a corner with two outside walls, so there was a logical reason for the coldness.
We spent as little time as possible in there, but did attempt to sleep in the room one night when we gave our bed up to visitors. Had a really unsettled night. Nothing happened, no ghosts or ghoulies, just waking up every hour or so with a feeling of doom🤐

We saw nothing, heard nothing, experienced nothing more than a feeling of unease, but just before we moved out, a visiting puppy ran excitedly from room to room, but came to a shuddering halt outside bed2. He did not cry or anything, just put the brakes on and would not go in.

No idea. More than likely a perfectly logical explanation - but that is besides the point. If you are not 100% happy now, you will never be.

Keep looking.

Oh my goodness.It is 2019. It is all woo nonsense. Nothing more, nothing less.

It sounds like you had an eerie experience, but to be honest I think almost every old house will have had at least one person die in them. I’m pretty sure mine has!

So by such logic new houses shouldn't have this problem then. Anyone think thats the case or had this type of experence in a new house or at least one where no one has popped their clogs?

We bought a highly charged house. The energy was terrible. The couple that were at war with each other.
I cried all afternoon. I guess I was susceptible to the bad atmosphere. My husband said it's the only house we can afford and we are going to make it ours.
We did and we've been very happy for 10 years here.
Google the house see if there is any history.

It was an overwhelming feeling of not being alone, of being watched, of being an unwelcome intruder in that room, @wondering7777

We all felt it. Even on sunny days it felt cold and for no apparent reason. A guest who stayed in the room had something belonging to her moved and said she saw someone - it really frightened her and she didn't want to stay again. It will sound ridiculous to many and it certainly does to me, but we even put furniture across the door as a sort of barricade or warning system when we closed up the room - and we half expected to hear it being pushed over as 'someone' made their way out into the rest of the house! When outside the house you really expected to catch someone shadowy looking out at you from one of the 3 windows of that room to the extent that we avoided looking that way! Plenty went on elsewhere in the house which was similar and even more overt, but for some reason that room felt worse.

We're not aware of anything bad happening there in the past. It was relatively isolated so no near neighbours to ask, although we were told in the nearest settlement that someone had moved out of the nearest house because of similar issues. There had been a dwelling there for several hundred years with some original parts remaining but it was much extended and altered. It was bonkers really, feeling the need, even the grown ups, to turn on the lights before entering the house or any room. Us all appearing wide eyed on the landing in the night in response to noises we'd all heard. We also live in an old house now but happily walk around in the dark and make use of all of it. I can't explain it, then or now with the benefit of some time and distance.

I wouldn't, not for woo reasons but because there might be something really wrong with that part of the house that you're picking up on.

Oh my goodness.It is 2019. It is all woo nonsense

Don't be so dismissive of other people's experience. It's really rude and patronising.

Yes, leave the house, someone who isn’t foolish, impressionable, and childish can have it.

I despair at the absolute state of the lot of you.

There's something doing with our house, though not to the extent you mention, OP. I'm generally not an easily spooked person but I've seen and heard things I can't explain. Have terrible dreams at times too. I'm interested to hear how others "cleansed" their houses. Have tried saging.

@VisibleShantiLine — my parents house was a bit spooky with weird stuff happening. They got the local vicar in to do a cleanse/blessing. It seemed to work really well.

The vicar wasn’t surprised to be asked. They get asked to do those regularly, apparently! And my parents aren’t church-goers.

I am generally not 'woo' but we went to view a house, myself, DH, MIL and FIL. MIL and I had such a sick feeling throughout, we felt so claustrophobic and oppressed, we couldnt wait to get out. DH and FIL were at us and didnt notice a thing.

MIL is a proper sceptic but even she was freaked out.

Don't do it.

If it feels off I wouldn't take it. I think our gut instincts work for us and tell us something. Without going into a really long winded explanation my friend bought a house a while ago. Another friend and I went to see it prior to her renovating it and it felt awful. No one said anything at the time but when we left I said to me friend did you get same feeling as I did? She agreed. It felt very oppressive and I don't know, just weird. All is well now but during her time in that house things went wrong, she split up with her husband of many years and he blamed the house, she ended up getting local clergy (I think?) in to exorcise the house. She has moved out now and her life is miles better literally the moment she stepped away from it. She found out the history of the house and without going into too much detail there had been two very tragic deaths associated with the house. This is a very straight forward non "woo" level headed person.. I never told her my original thoughts on the house until many years later when she split up from her husband she asked me about it as she had the same feeling but didn't act on it.

One more thing about old houses and people dying in them. My house is the oldest recorded house in the parish, dating back to the 1450's and undoubtedly many people have died here. It has never felt "off" just warm and welcoming.

Thanks @HasThisSoddingNameGoneToo. Worth a try!

I agree with some pp. For me this wouldn’t be about anything ‘woo’ but I’d assume my gut instinct was telling me something and I wouldn’t take the house.

It might be something to do with bad electrics or something.
Apparently a lot of those haunted house things are easily explained that way

OP already said they were taking the house, but seems a bit mean to put a kid in a room that felt 'off' to you. Might have a gas leak. I'd put a CO monitor in there.

Nothing to do with deaths at all, plenty of places have seen a number of deaths that would be considered painful and tragic in them over the years if they're old (death isn't always a peaceful process) and plenty of children died young but off energy, nah, I'd walk away. I've lived in old houses where former occupants including children were buried in the yard next to the house (old manse), rented swish flats in the New Town of Edinburgh (where people most assuredly died at home), places build over old plague pits, where murders had occurred, etc.

We live in a house where an occupant hanged himself off the light pendant in the stairway about 25 years ago but it feels welcoming and warm. Worst atmosphere of a place I've lived in, found out later the couple had a miserable marriage, the man was financially and emotionally abusive and she'd finally run off with some man abroad and the house was being rented out whilst they went through the process of divorcing.

"Have tried saging."

TSK! Cultural appropriation of Native American traditions!

Seriously, though, there seems to be something in our house. It never bothered us, but two separate visitors, who don't know each other at all, have described seeing the figure of a woman in old-fashioned cress (mob cap and all) in the kitchen and dining room area. She was smiling. It seemed a bit daft as the house in 1930s, but when we were sorting out the garden we found a lot of old broken clay pipes (early ones with small bowls) and an old, worn stone step. Looking up old maps, there used to be a farmhouse there.

When DS was small, he was in the kitchen by himself for a while, then came running out, saying "Scary! Lady gone!".

Old fashioned cress? Nah, dress!