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AIBU - to want to know your spooky stories

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LouH1981 · 02/01/2020 18:51

So, similar to a fellow mumsnetter, I too am laid up in bed, I have an infection post partum so feeling a bit rubbish and would really love to hear about the spookiest unexplained things that have happened to you.
I’m always fascinated by this especially from people who are skeptics and something has genuinely taken them aback.

I’ll start...just moved in to our new (to us) house (about 100 years old) and DS was about 6 weeks old. Middle of the night and I was changing him in the spare room on a changing table. Heard a voice ask if I was alright. I’d left DH deep asleep in our room and although it didn’t sound like his voice I assumed it was him and answered ‘yes fine’. Returned seconds later expecting him to be awake but he was still asleep.
A few weeks later, my mum mentioned while our shopping that she thought our house was a bit spooky. And when I asked why, she said that while she was trying to get to sleep in the other spare room she heard a voice gently ask her if she was alright. She said she just hid under the duvet!
Freaked me out but has never happened again...

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alphasox · 03/01/2020 09:38

Love these threads!!!!

On our wedding night, in an old 16/17th century hotel/house i did not sleep a wink all night because the bar man told me just before I went to bed to watch out for the ghosts! Hubby was really relaxed and poo pooed it and went to sleep and I lay with my head under the duvet awake most of the night, but in the early hours DH suddenly woke up and said “what’s that?”. I wouldn’t come out from under the duvet, but he said he saw two big flickery light bubbles floating around across the room. He made me look, promised it wasn’t scary and I did quickly and saw them too so he wasn’t dreaming. I later read about “Orbs” and that is what we think we saw.

Another.
Years ago I worked in an office that was an old mansion house converted into offices and treatment rooms. Every morning I would find two or three other team members sitting in their cars outside and I just assumed they didn’t have a key and were waiting to be let in. I would go in, put the lights on and go straight to the kitchen and every morning I heard footsteps upstairs and keys opening doors and I always, stupidly, thought it was the cleaners and wondered why they locked themselves in. Never questioned it!

When we later moved into a new purpose built office and we were packing up the house the others told me they wouldn’t go in there alone like me (they thought I was brave lol, I was just innocent!), as so many of them had “seen” ghost people disappearing up stairs, around corners, heard footsteps and jangling keys in the doors when they were in their offices etc. They were all terrified of the house!

ironicname · 03/01/2020 10:18

Love these - keep them coming!

FatherRabulaConundrum · 03/01/2020 11:20

We've been in our house just over a year and although it's very old in parts (probably 18thC in bits) we've never had any kind of 'feeling' - until this New Year's Eve. DH and I were sitting watching television when there was a huge bang on the front door, as if someone or something had been thrown against it. It took us by surprise as the dogs generally go berserk if anyone comes within 100m of the house - they let us know well before we hear a car. DH got up immediately and went to see if someone was there, but the yard was deserted. No chance of anyone hiding. Very weird.

RickOShay · 03/01/2020 11:44

@PriscillaTheHun
That’s terrifying. Did you ever find out about the history of the house?

LouH1981 · 03/01/2020 12:26

@stouffer They sound quite playful. I guess it was somewhere they felt safe then as evacuees. Has your DD ever heard/seen anything?

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LouH1981 · 03/01/2020 12:28

@alphasox I love them too!
Not what you want on your wedding night though. Cheers barman 👍🏻

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LouH1981 · 03/01/2020 12:33

@FatherRabulaConundrum oooh I wonder if it will happen every New Year?! That would have seriously freaked me out.

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girlofthenorth · 03/01/2020 12:37

@GetMeOffThisCycleOfMisery wow you must have been so close to your nan, these things must be a comfort .

It resonated with me as I have had the exact same experience some years after my mum died when I was a teen . She dies when I was 13 but a few years later at 16 my stepmum to be also died ( my poor DF!) . I wasn't close to her at all, but very sad and also it reminded me of my mum. I was crying , really grief stricken one night, thinking of my mum , and I suddenly felt huge arms wrap right around me, no sound or anything else , just a hug which lasted several seconds before it went . I knew it was my mum.
I also have had several experiences of smelling her perfume , and a particular smell when she was in hospital , not very pleasant , but her smell.
She also appears in my dreams now and then , but not as often as I'd like.

LouH1981 · 03/01/2020 12:47

I have another but the jury is out for me as to exactly what went on.
My Dad died in March 2014, very peaceful and expected as he had early onset Alzheimer’s.
I fell pregnant a month later and although my due date was Feb, I was induced at the end of Jan.
During the night while I was having contractions and admittedly on gas and air, the midwives dimmed the lights and DH fell asleep beside me.
At about 2am, I swear I saw my Dad in the corner of the room. He was a quiet man, wouldn’t make a fuss, and he was stood in his signature stance with his hands behind his back. He looked really well and in his smart office work clothes. He was just smiling at me. Then he showed me a men’s gold watch.
Then he was gone. It felt like he was just overseeing from afar making sure all was well but not wanting to interfere. No idea about the watch though.
DS was born the next day via c section which was the day before what would have been Dads 70th birthday 😊 DS has my Dads name for his middle name.
I fully appreciate I was on gas and air at the time but it was so vivid and when I dream about him he always look so unwell so it’s almost as if he had chosen to show he is ok.
The night before my c section with DD I begged him to appear again somehow but complete no show.
I like to think both were sent to me by him as she was conceived after a LOT of TTC during the month which he died. Just a shame they never met him 😞

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LouH1981 · 03/01/2020 12:51

@girlofthenorth I am so sorry to hear about both your mum and step mum. I can’t imagine how you cope at that age Flowers
It’s so nice that she still visits to comfort you. I think those signs that take you by surprise are the nicest. I always ask my Dad to appear in dreams and he rarely does as he’s told. I guess they reserve these visits when they think we need them the most xxx

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Katiet123 · 03/01/2020 12:58

In the house where I grew up in I was in the bath before school, and no one else was in the house. I heard someone knocking at the back door, so looked out the bathroom window above the door, and no one was there. I then hear my sisters CD playing one specific song which she used to play all the time, and sang along to it. I then heard my dog scratching the bathroom door, so called his name and he stops. When I got out of the bath, the CD was on top of the CD player, and the door to stop the dog coming upstairs was closed. I asked my sister if she was late for school, but she had left at the normal time and i was definitely the only one there.

Katiet123 · 03/01/2020 13:01

Also, DH and me went on a ghost walk around Edinburgh Vaults. In one of the rooms it was boiling hot. While the guide was talking I felt a cold touch through my jeans on my leg. When I got back to the hotel I had goosebumps in the shape of 3 fingers where I felt it. They were there for 3 weeks. Never again!

Hearthside · 03/01/2020 13:36

One to add that i have thought about
My Dc had not long started primary when my DM passed away suddenly .My DF took them one day to put flowers on the grave .
My DC looked at my DF and said nanny said not to worry about her she is safe and happy with the lovely lady and then totally described my DM's own DM down to what mobility aid she had used to get around including it's colour .My DF was stunned .My DC had never seen a picture of my DN let alone even know they would need help to get around safely .The same DC now regularly see's our ghost and also when visiting a church that had been turned into a house stood in a spot and said there are child spirits here .She was stood in the exact spot where the Sunday school group room had been .She had absolutely no idea as there was no clue to the original use .

Nutkin123 · 03/01/2020 13:36

When I was younger, I lived in a bungalow for about 6 months before our house was being built. The bungalow was only around 5 years old so I'm unsure why things would have happened there (I guess it's what it was built on...) me and my dad often had strange feelings there and couldn't quite work out why, we both saw a little black dog run into the bathroom once too. I followed it cos I thought my mum and dad had got a dog and I was buzzing, but there was nothing there.

We then moved into our new house, which was on a new build estate that was built over an old isolation hospital. Never felt anything in our house but in the house opposite loads of shit went on. Don't want to ramble too much but things like windows being open in the middle of winter but no one in the house had opened them, things going missing, people sitting on beds but then no one actually being there. We were friends with the neighbours so they'd tell us everything that went on in their house.

One of the weirdest stories was about a woman who had died after a plane crashed into the ward. She was due to be released that day. The daughter, who was about 6 at the time and more susceptible to things that when on in that house relayed the whole story to her mum (as the ghost had "told her") Her mum's mate came round (who also used to be a nurse when it was a hospital) validated the whole story. It's also on Google. Very very strange.

FruitcakeOfHate · 03/01/2020 13:57

Rented an old bungalow once. DD1 had always been a star sleeper. The back bedroom was beautiful during the day, had one stained glass window and backed onto the garden, which had a lovely burn running down one side, you could hear the water babbling. But at night it wasn't so nice. First night there, put her in that back bedroom. She woke screaming blue murder. Took her out, put her in bed with us, next day moved her to the middle bedroom, never had a problem since. Moved DD2 in there as well.

My folks came to stay with us and we put them in that back bedroom. In the morning my dad said simply, 'That bedroom is haunted by an old woman.' He said he'd been woken by very heavy breathing and saw her standing in a corner. He told her to be quiet, he was trying to sleep. Never saw or heard anything after.

I used to hate walking past that room at night. The damn door never stayed shut, even if you locked it.

The landlord said, as we were moving out, 'Did you see the old lady?'

Yeah, thanks for the warning!

LouH1981 · 03/01/2020 14:20

@Katiet123 Yes, I remember watching the Most Haunted episode on the Edinburgh Vaults. I seem to remember that all kinds of terrible things went on down there 100’s of years ago.
That must have been terrifying! I bet they are interesting to visit though.

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LouH1981 · 03/01/2020 14:25

@Hearthside @Nutkin123 Isn’t it funny how children are so chilled out and matter of fact about it all. I guess they have no idea why what they are seeing would be creepy.

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LouH1981 · 03/01/2020 14:29

@FruitcakeOfHate 😱 No wonder your daughter didn’t want to sleep in there. I do love that your Dad just casually told her to shut up 😂
Isn’t strange how the darkness can change the feel of any place regardless of its beauty. It does sound idyllic (except for the extra resident!)

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Hearthside · 03/01/2020 14:38

LouH1981 it is my DC secondary age now and they seem very attuned to spirits .They matter of fact say oh i saw our ghost again yesterday Smile I have never seem him sensed him there but from what DC has described he is definitely victorian working class so don't know if he is actually linked to our house i really do need to look into it .Hope you are feeling better .

FiveFarthings · 03/01/2020 14:47

Nothing spooky has happened to me but something happened to my DH was he was a young teenager.

DH and his family lived in an old Victorian terraced house. It had a basement and a completely enclosed small rear garden (with ten foot high brick walls on all sides). Only access to the garden was through the house itself via the kitchen door and down about ten steps (the garden was set lower than the house).

DH and SIL used to have the basement as a playroom and he said there were always weird noises and doors banging down there but always just assumed it was because it was an old house.

One evening DH was making a cup of tea in the kitchen. It was dark outside and he saw some red eyes glowing in the garden. He assumed it was an animal but when he next looked the eyes had moved up from the garden and were directly outside the kitchen window at person height. Suddenly the eyes moved away and rushed towards the kitchen door. DH was petrified and grabbed a knife from a drawer and suddenly the kitchen door flew open with a massive bang! DH ran screaming into the lounge where his mum and sister where and slammed the door and dragged the sofa across.

Once he had calmed down, MIL went to check and found the back door not just shut again but locked! There was nothing and no one in the garden at all!

DH was a completely sensible boy growing up and is actually a total skeptic about most things supernatural or otherwise, but he can’t talk about this incident without getting a bit scared again just thinking about it! He never went into the basement in that house again!

stouffer · 03/01/2020 14:50

@LouH1981 - It could be a case of someone returning to the place they were happy as an evacuee, or possibly the spirit of a girl child attracted by the female energy of DDs room? Either is a nice thought.

Sorry if this is a bit of a drip feed but I just remembered something else. We have 3 bedrooms, one being ours, the big bedroom that two of the girls share, and the back bedroom that the third girl has to herself (they take turns to have it every couple of years). DD2 (13) moved in recently and being quite into design wanted to give it a makeover. Part of this was to remove the carpet and have sanded floorboards as this is an old house and has big old planks on the floor. The carpet has was very old in carpet years and when we lifted it with found a large brown stain in the middle of the floor that we couldn’t remove. Even after a massive amount of sanding and several coats of dark woodstain you can still see the bugger. I’m not saying it’s definitely blood but I can’t think of any other explanation. This was the same bedroom that the previous owner died in but that was a heart attack so I don’t think it’s associated. We’ve not heard of any act of violence associated with the house but it could have been from a traumatic childbirth maybe?

The girls have never told us about seeing anything and we’ve not made much of what we’ve seen as we don’t want to put ideas in their head. When our youngest was in the back bedroom before DD2 she occasionally said she didn’t like being on her own in there (one of the reasons we swapped rooms recently) but neither of the other two have reported anything unusual.

We’ve tried to take a common sense approach to the whole thing and rationalise to them that the house is very old and makes odd noises as it settles; also, a lot of people have come and gone in the house and we believe that sometimes that leaves echoes. At the end of the day it’s nothing that can harm you and our home has always felt welcoming.

BaubleTheLumpOfCoal · 03/01/2020 15:33

Mine isn't so spooky, but definitely strange.

My DM (died in 2018) was an alcoholic. She wasn't a very nice drunk at all and her being drunk used to frighten me.
When I was younger, I'd always worry when at school/out with friends in case she'd gone and bought alcohol.
One day (I was about 12) I was at school and got the strongest whiff of alcohol - it was unmistakable and obviously no one around me was drunk or in possession of alcohol.
I called my mum and she was noticeably drunk. I then called my dad who was able to get her the help she needed.
Every time she got drunk from then until she died I got that same, strong smell of alcohol - it's like someone/something was warning me.

BaubleTheLumpOfCoal · 03/01/2020 15:34

Just to add, since she died I've had not even the slightest hint of that same smell.
It's never happened again.

YouJustDoYou · 03/01/2020 15:38

I have a few.

I was in my step father's house, and said goodbye to my then fiance one morning at about 6am as he left for work. I turned, and SAW a man walk through the corridor behind me in the hall through to the kitchen. Beyond the kitchen was a "games" room. I ALSO heard my dogs collar make its tinkle noise, as it followed him, so thought it was my steop dad letting out my dog. Followed the man and the noise - but nothing.

My step dad died not long after. My then fiance and I were upstairs in the guest room talking about him, his death, and spooky things. I remember clearly saying about how things like electronics can be affected (fiance had that old block phone you got in the early '00s), and suddenly his phone screen flashed, but blank, and no noise. You had no options in those days to do that, so we looked at each other, and hid under the covers. Also, one day, my little dog was in the kitchen one day and all of a sudden I saw a black fogging in the corner of the ceiling, as if I had somehting on my eyes that was making it - I remember rubbing at my eyes just as my little dog started making the most horrific, horrible noise I had ever heard, before of after (and he died at 20), to date. It was like an inhaling loud nails on a chalk board noise - imagine making a noise as you suck in air loudly. It was like that I've never heard any dog make such a horrific human-like horror movie noise. But petrified and screaming and LOUD. He was attacked by another dog once and it was nowhere near as horrifically frightening as that noise he made to that corner of the room where the "fog" was.

After that. My dad died. My nan died. I felt utterly bereft and alone. My mum would visit mediums and get the most insane, unbelievablly correct readings, but I would get absolutely NOTHING accurate. Every reading has always been a pile of shit, and I refuse to ever go again. It made me utterly distraught over the years - why would my mum have such accurate visits, but I wouldn't get a single thing that could comfort me? (irrational, I know).

Fast forward. Breastfeeding 3rd child, 6am. Utterly sleep deprived, utterly mired in PND. Had a "moment" several years earlier where I'd had a breakdown, irrational crying into the night, begging "if you;re there, give me a sign". No sign. Never.
Anyway. That 6am...just lost it. Can;t describe it. Just sleep deprivation from the past 4 years, isolation, depression etc. Just sobbed screamed "NO ONE IS HERE FOR ME! WHERE ARE YOU? WHY DO YOU NEVER VISIT ME BUT YOU VISIT MY MUM?!!" etc. Just irrational sleep deprived depressive loneliness etc.

Just then, the whole bed that I was sat up in (so NOT asleep in ), "whomped", from side to side. I used to live in an earthquake prone country, so looked at the ceiling light straight away out of habit to try and gauge earthquake-strength, before I remembered that it was England and England didn't really have earthquakes. I heard the tinkle of the chocolate foil I'd scoffed from Christmas coins the night before whilst changing nappies fall on the dresser that was across the room. I heard the items under the bed shift (it was a bed with under bed storage). I heard the nappies and sudocrem fall from the dresser. But the ceiling lamp didn't sway. So the BED was whomping from side to side, the DRESSER had stuff moving on it....but it wasn;t acting like a typical earthquake.

I ended up contacting the meteorgical agency. No movement registered in my region. But there was no fucking way I had imagined a minutues worth of earthquake type movement that I was used to....with the odd fact the ceiling lamp wasn't also swaying (which ALWAYS happens in an earthquake. You can gauge quite well the strength by how much ceiliing stuff swings).

After that, things would happen over the months. My wedding ring, which sometimes I would take off whilst using cleaning fluids, suddenly appeared mid air in the bathroom by my eye-height. My bed, and only my bed, would "whomp". Whomp whomp, side to side, swiftly, as I was trying to get to sleep. I used to lay my palms flat against the bed to make sure I wasn;t imagining it.
At one point my dh, who snores horrifically, was in the spare room with the light off. (He also didn;t know at that point what had been happening to me - I hadn't yet had the courage to tell him). He came down white-faced one day (difficult to do, as he's not white), and said he'd been about to sleep when he'd heard something "sliding" in the dark. Just sliding, non stop, across the floor. He'd leaped up and turned the light n but the noise stopped instantly. I then told him what had been happening to me. After that, because the bed shuddering had been keeping me from sleeping I just begged out loud one day for it to please just stop, because it was scaring me. It never happened again.

I've not had things happen since I asked them to stop. I something like to think maybe it was my dad and my nan.. I don't know.

igotdemons · 03/01/2020 15:56

Love threads like these! 👻

I don’t really have any stories of my own to tell, other than I sometimes just ‘know’ things, in that I have a ‘feeling’ I can’t explain. Most of the time I don’t take myself too seriously but it will be things like, I hear in my head the ringtone of my landline phone and usually that signifies its going to ring (I only have it for broadband, never give the number out and the only people who ever ring me on it are my Dparents), or I’ll be waiting for a parcel to come and I’ll get a feeling it’s going to be arriving early, when it’s not expected. I recently booked tickets to see a singer I love and afterwards I had a feeling it would be postponed and it was. Yesterday I said to DH that his boss would ask him to work overtime tomorrow, and lo and behold he did just that this morning (DH disagreed with me yesterday).

My DDad told my DH once that I was a very good judge of character and that he should always listen to me in that respect. Sometimes I instinctively know someone will do something or that something won’t work out for them. I don’t know how, I’m certainly not ‘psychic’, just good at listening to my gut, I guess. My DDad is the same, so I must get it from him 🤷🏻‍♀️