To be considering getting a paranormal investigator in.

[Mum198000]

I’ve never been woo, but there’s things happening that I just can’t explain. Lived here many years, no bumps in the night. But the last few weeks there’s been a few things that make no sense. I had a cupboard open and a huge box just fell from the top shelf all the way out. It’s was fully on the shelf and it just threw itself out and smashed. In front of me. Other things have fallen off shelves which I just thought was usual things falling. Two clocks stopped on the same day. Things have gone missing. I don’t know how it could just throw itself out. Nothing was behind it or anything. I’m a bit spooked. The closest I ever have got to woo is I’ve seen a few episodes of ghost whisperer! There’s a local paranormal investigator that comes out for free. Am I being daft ?

I'd agree that other things more likely, little furry friends, especially if you opened the cupboard you might have disturbed whatever it is. Rats and mice can get into the most unlikely places and in this weather they just want somewhere warm not necessarily just food. Or subsidence? Especially in an old property? I don't think a paranormal investigator will do anything to reassure you, if anything it could scare you more.

@CounsellorTroi

There are a number of boring and mundane explanations for spontaneous glass breakage. Often due to stuff getting trapped within it during the manufacturing process and expanding until the glass can't take it any more.

I had assumed that to be honest, but the weird thing was it happened the first night we stayed here which was a wee bit of a shock. Move into very old (and quite derelict at the time) new house that had laid empty for years, all very overgrown and a bit creepy anyhow. Then two solid glass candlesticks shatter into smithereens the first night you spend there...

Was your washing machine on ?

A bit of a long shot here. If you live in the countryside, are there any former mining villages within in a few miles? It could be slight subsidence.

Subsidence way more scary than a ghost!!!! Even if it was ghosts, they’re hardly doing you any harm (except for the missing mustard).

I’m not woo, but have had the funny wee tricks-if-the-mind.

I also thought subsidence

We had this at mine, a pretty new house built on an old site. Got sick of things smashing, vanishing and a really odd oppressive feel.

Ended up with getting someone in to clear the energy and we used sage sticks to smudge the whole house and opened all the windows to flush the energy through. It sorted it out and it feels light and normal now.

The process of doing all this was absolutely one of the oddest things I've ever been through and I've barely told anyone in rl.

@Mum198000

Do priests really do that? Can’t imagine calling a church and having that conversation. Isn’t that just in movies?

Yes, and no. Every CofE diocese has (or had, I defected so it may have changed!) a deliverance minister. They deal with hauntings and that sort of thing. Mostly just prayers and blessings and that level of thing, as far as I can tell. And psychological problems are always (now) considered before leaping to assumptions about demons or spirits.

House blessings as standard are more of a Catholic thing I think. A priest who is convinced that you have something worth dealing with would probably start with a blessing. But good luck getting a house call in a pandemic!

My old boss (c of e vicar) has a kit for such things.

Now my sister ‘de spooked’ a friends house that she was terrified was haunted. I’m not sure if she was just trying to make her feel better but the friend swore whatever was spooking the place scarpered. It my sister is scary.

We had this at mine, a pretty new house built on an old site

Aren’t all sites old? The earth’s crust is many millions of years old, I understand.

If this logic holds true, why aren’t all houses previously occupied by other people haunted? Answer: they are not.

There will be a perfectly reasonable and prosaic explanation for the mustard disappearance and the box falling. Not ghosts.

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@ThatIsNotMyUsername

My old boss (c of e vicar) has a kit for such things.

Ooh, what's in it? I always wanted to ask a priest, but didn't like to (I had a relative who was a priest, but we talked more about gardening than ghosts!).

Ooh, what's in it?

Wine
Water
Loaf of bread
Pack of Countrylife Butter
Slices of cold Roast Beef...

Knowing him a Hawaiian shirt, cake and bottle of wine! I remember a silver box and a little bottle with a silver lid, standard crucifix and a little bible I think. All rather fancy and quite old. He has a little portable communion kit too that he took out to people on their death beds. Hopefully didn’t get the two confused.

Hi Op Obviously look into the obvious/not so obvious probilities whatever they could be, quiky,strange out of ordinary,happenings,you have been experiencing quite recently.

Like previous poster said, such if live nearby a railway vibrations shaking house etc etcetc

I have been a member of quite few different spirualist churches/centres.

Contact a local spiritualist church/centre if poss or elswhere one.
Or a local psychic/spiritual Circle.

As a guest visiting spiritualist Church/centre or psychic spiritual circle you would receive a friendly welcome not expected to pay..so you see what it is like if curious..

(They usually have minimum payment at front door of donation only or minimum one off payment of couple of pounds, and can sometimes offer have a raffle prize optional only, of 1pound of nice raffle prizes ,contribution goes to the upkeep of church/centre.

I forget to say you could use native American smudge from hippy stalls/shops to clear negative energy from house relates to feng shui
There is also also other way,things you can use do create a similar effect.
look up in spiritual/psychic mags such as spirit and destiny etc in supermarkets etc.

Or just Google internet an have a look on reputable spiritual/psychic websites too.

Take care
Good luck

Oops I ment to say at spiritual/psychic church/centre
or a local spiritual /psychic circle

can be a only a donation of 1pound optional only for raffle optional or and can be at front door a miniumin payment of two pounds or a few pounds, especially if speacial events like psychic/spiritual Art or spiritual healing session or spiritual Automatic drawing or Psycomentry or flower/plant readings or mediation.

Speacial workshops/courses with a spiritual/pyschic slant are Native American drumming/medicine cards or Shaminisim etc.
Past life regression,

@ThatIsNotMyUsername

Knowing him a Hawaiian shirt, cake and bottle of wine! I remember a silver box and a little bottle with a silver lid, standard crucifix and a little bible I think. All rather fancy and quite old. He has a little portable communion kit too that he took out to people on their death beds. Hopefully didn’t get the two confused.

He'd have needed the 'wrong one' had he visited my bloody mother.

I have to say my first thought was mice, but you've ruled that out so....

If you want to get your home checked id suggest a vicar or priest in the first instance for a blessing and then if that failed to stop activity id suggest a spiritual church, you're much more likely to have someone genuine.

(And by genuine, I mean people who are sincere and truly believe rather than a con artist)

I think its likely to be coincidence though, sometimes things do just fall out of cupboards and I always have things going missing only to turn up in random places later. Its been a very strange year, maybe you're just a bit more distracted than usual?

As for the sock, well I spose that one of your children could have picked it up unwittingly at school or a friend's or something. Odd certainly, but doesn't sound like a haunting to me!

Let us know though if anything weirder happens :)

Getting a charlatan paranormal investigator in would be an utter waste of time and money.

Ok OP - have you got lots of money??
I’ll come round and take some of it and tell you all about it

Hi Op
yes at good spiritual/psychic church/centre or a spiritual/psychic circle run on regular basis normally but with Covid 19 reared its ugly head,it would be on a appointment only basis now instead of just walk in basis.

You can have find somebody who either knows somebody or who does this themselves who helps in a situation of homes acctracting unausaul paromanomal happenings

If a box falling over, misplacing some mustard, and some broken batteries make a house haunted, then I’ve never been in a house that isn’t!

Seriously OP, these things happen, they don’t mean anything. Ghosts don’t exist, but we do know batteries die with age! And I can guarantee you’ll find the mustard eventually, you likely moved it without remembering.

Box could fall out multiple ways—if packed tightly with others, could be pushed out. Could be vibrated out. Could be a pest. Could have been left close to the edge, or leaning against door. Could have been knocked earlier and only fallen then. Could be an issue with the shelf. Really hundreds of different things that could cause this, most likely is something v dull! Remember that even small and light items move around with gravity over time—like that phenomenon of how nuts sort themselves in a bowl.

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