I bought a pre owned wardrobe now the place has bad energy..

[ItbarelysnowsinLondon]

I want to start this post by saying I'm not generally a 'woo' person. I'm not talking about ghosts or implying that the furniture is haunted but I am wondering about bad energy. I've NC because I expect to be torn a new one

Just over 2 weeks ago I bought a pre owned wardrobe on the Facebook market place. It's quite old.

Probably irrelevant but the people who delivered it were quite strange folk, the sort you get an uneasy feeling from. It was a very awkward handover.

Well ever since I got this wardrobe in the bedroom I've been plagued with disturbing nightmares every.single.night without fail.

My toddler DD who also sleeps in my room has been saying she is "scared" in the night now, she has never done that before. She doesn't know about my nightmares and has no reason to be so unsettled all of a sudden.

My mood has been quite low for the same amount of time with no particular cause identifiable, I'm finding myself feeling uncharacteristically short tempered and down.

AIBU to think all of the above may be linked to the wardrobe/bad energy.

Bonkers or possible?!

@DejaVoodoo

So she sent it to bugger up the V&A?

Well the V&A - indeed, all museums - are full of old objects and artefacts that belonged to deceased persons; some of whom will have been bad in some way. So if inanimate objects are, or can be, possessed/full of bad energy/evil vibes as frequently as this thread would suggest, then surely they already have way of dealing with this? Otherwise museums would be grim, gloomy, foreboding, possibly dangerous places to visit.

Perhaps they have devices that detect emanating bad energy (woo Geiger counters, if you will) sage spray always at the ready, local priests and leading feng shuiists on speed dial... being a curator must be a very perilous profession.

Exactly - she felt the item would be at home in a place with other items with strange energy.

I know a curator at the V&A actually - I should ask her if they have ways of dealing with these items! Do they have priests come in and bless them or some such?!

@CandidaAlbicans2

Another correlation-causation is, one day a friend invited me to rummage, without looking, in a bag of mixed gemstones. She said whichever one I picked meant something about my life, the future, or whatever. So I rummaged around and picked one out. “Oh, that means…” she said, truly believing that some woooo power had influenced my choice. But it was BS and wouldn’t have stood up to scientific scrutiny as an experiment because all the gemstones were different sizes and shapes, and I chose the one that felt the nicest shape in my hand (an oval one rather than a spiky edged square one), not because of its energy/properties. But she was convinced that this particular stone had spoken to me 😳

You've reminded me - I've always liked various stones but mostly for their pretty colours etc.

Anyway last year I ended up getting a friend a cheap gift which included gemstones, incense etc and I got myself a few nice crystals.

I must have ordered one without thinking from I think Notonthehighstreet - and I found it the other week wrapped in bubblewrap - basically a carved pointy stone in blue with a blue line - I turned it over and saw the price tag - £25! I must have been mad! And no, the crystals/gemstones haven't improved my life or made it worse.

@MillieEpple

The Church of England has Priests

And they can get married. And they are Catholic, just not Roman.

in a less positive sense have felt a powerful, oppressive atmosphere of foreboding at Beachy Head

Four reasons for that.

1. The ground is almost hollow from rabbit holes and freeze/thaw/water erosion and likely to collapse at any point in time
2. Knowledge of why it is a very famous place.
3. The amount of Vipers' Bugloss making it impossible to sit down without getting jabbed in the arse.
4. Seaford.

If you go there in June/July and go further along to the fields behind the bit that falls off from time to time, you will see, roughly at shin level, thousands of Common Blue Butterflies skipping around. The Females are brown, but the males are the blue of the clearest skies. It's beautiful, peaceful and something few of us get to see these days.

I know a curator at the V&A actually - I should ask her if they have ways of dealing with these items! Do they have priests come in and bless them or some such?!
Are you serious?

It's the reason so many feel rubbish at the moment because they are vibrating at a low frequency with all the covid crap going on

you could also ask for the spirit of the tree to be released, if necessary

😂🤣 This thread is brilliant!

@IAcceptCookies

It's the reason so many feel rubbish at the moment because they are vibrating at a low frequency with all the covid crap going on

you could also ask for the spirit of the tree to be released, if necessary

😂🤣 This thread is brilliant!

It's batshit crazy. Some people need to leave their homes and go for a walk.

Clevercatty impressed by your friendship circle! Please ask them and come back and tell us.

I don't want to be rude but I find it strange that in the 21st century people are still advising others to waft sage around. Surely we have advanced in our belief system? You may as well cover your room in HP sauce or sleep on a bed of marshmallows for all the good it would do.

I'm very woo

Get rid of it.

It’s lockdown, crap weather. Most of us have disturbed sleep and aren’t feeling good. You’re just looking for somewhere to hang your feelings.

Hang them in the wardrobe?

I visited a bedroom showroom which made me feel horrendous. The lady who worked there who seemed like a nice person made me feel like crying. She always wore her name badge.
A year later I was in hospital for sterilisation when I met the nurse that looked after me when my DD was stillborn. Looking at her name badge it was the same name as the lady in the showroom. Clearly my subconscious had realised that fact.

I like the thought of having a wardrobe exorcised 🤭

Some people on here are in serious need of help.

It's February. Everyone feels like that in February.

@HelloThereMeHearties

It's February. Everyone feels like that in February.

Yep, it's a well known phenomenon. Blue January. Haunted Wardrode February.

Whenever I read posts like that, I shake my head because there is always some reason to explain all sorts of phenomena. So, I’m super sceptical of any woo-woo stuff about bad energy, haunted spaces and other ghost stories. Usually, it boils down to people who are vulnerable in some way or other, with perhaps lack of sleep etc, which will make them open to suggestions. Some years ago, my best friend was bullied and threatened by her NNs who had designs on her house and tried to drive her out. Well, my DH and I helped my friend reverse the situation with the help of some Maplin’s gadgets etc and the good old horror house favourite of a bloody, severed paper mâché head on a long pole tapping on the upstairs bedroom and we created some rather creative occurrences of haunting ourselves, which saw the neighbours sell up and a lovely new family move in. So, when people tell me about a haunted house, I can think of many reasons for what might appear as supernatural occurrences, for a start, many houses, especially older buildings move and creak, pipes make noises, older wiring can cause flickering, birds might be nesting in the wall, ditto for all sorts of critters creating the illusion of something creeping around.

As for this fuggly wardrobe that is perhaps from the Seventies and Eighties, it could very well contain one of at least 60 chemicals found in furniture that interfere with hormones and may be linked to behavioural problems, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Older stuff will have been made with far less regulations concerning toxic paints, lacquers and glues etc. A lot of so-called pine furniture is made of pressed wood particle boards that have a top layer of wood laminate glued on it, the glues and other particles can contain all sorts of toxic stuff, including Formaldehyde that can cause all sorts of issues, such as nasal and brain cancers and is suspected to possibly contribute to leukaemia. Immediate reactions include eye irritation, skin and respiratory allergies, asthma, nausea, coughing, chest tightness, and wheezing. Even an older piece of furniture can still leak and give off toxic gasses that aren’t really detectable to the nose and lungs but cause unwellness that might well translate into a sense of paranoia and anxiety. If you continue to feel stressed, I'd dump the thing, as it could well be detrimental to your health.

Yep, it's a well known phenomenon.
Blue January. Haunted Wardrode February.

@Bluesheep8

*Yep, it's a well known phenomenon. Blue January. Haunted Wardrode February.*

PMSL

This thread is worth it for haunted wardrobe February

I’m actually an antiques dealer, things in my house are pretty much exclusively old, the furniture, ornaments, all my jewellery, even the light fittings. I live with hundreds of old things, and I’ve bought and sold hundreds, maybe thousands, more. I even have some Victorian funerary pieces and a real human skull.
Apart from the skull (a very old female skull from a medical school) who I’ve given a name to and treat with great care, it’s all just inanimate stuff, all of it belonged to people who are long dead.

None of it, not even the skull, has any ‘energy’.

As an add-on to my post further up, older furniture and other antiques were not designed with central heating in mind. That supposed ‘energy’ people think of in conjunction with these inanimate pieces is often a reaction to prolonged warmer, dryer temperatures. I used to work with older furniture and especially Victorian pieces can be truly nasty, built with cheap, noxious and inferior stuff. This was the beginning of mass production with few to no regulations. I was glad for my Tetanus shots, just for taking old upholstered pieces apart, due to the number of nasty things lurking inside. It’s not some bad juju but various nasty components used in the production, including for example using lead paints that are highly poisonous.

The first Monday of Haunted Wardrobe February is the worst

Thank God it's not a leap year. I cannot recount the last 29th of Haunted Wardrobe February as it's a clause in the movie rights. Let's just say the drawers and the bedside table were involved.

My stick of sage has arrived!

It's alot smaller than I expected, maybe about 4"

It smells fab though.