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To think I had a ghost in my house?

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FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 03:06

I think I’m reasonably sane on a day to day basis, although others may question this! Moved into a house, no knowledge of the previous owner - other than was an elderly lady that moved into a care home. First night in the house - a car seat placed on the middle of a table fell on the floor in the middle of the night. Few days later, I heard the piano being played - congratulated my daughter on doing her practice. It wasn’t her - I went into the piano room which was empty. Didn’t say anything, just thought I’d misheard. Few days later - am asleep and am woken up by an alarm buzzing next to my ear (which I can hear as I wake up/not when I’m awake) - search under the covers next to me - nothing there. Few days later (please note I have NOT mentioned anything to my daughter, only a conversation with my partner in bed) - daughter goes to the toilet and freezes on the spot. I didn’t witness this, partner did - and he said her reaction was real. She says “there is a man in the toilet”. For several weeks she refuses to go near toilet without a light being on. Gradually these incidents stop - at a later date I find out : old lady had a husband that died in the house. The rightmove picture of our bedroom show twins beds in our bedroom, and an alarm clock in the middle - exactly where I ‘heard’ the noise. Please note, I never mentioned ghosts etc in earshot of my daughter - only to DP in bed - and never ‘seriously’.

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UhtredRagnarson · 20/03/2021 03:08

So not just a ghost man but a ghost alarm clock too?

Birdslovesinging · 20/03/2021 03:11

Maybe that's the time the man died? Freaky.

FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 03:11

@UhtredRagnarson Grin didn’t see a ghost clock, just heard the noise. I was utterly convinced something was in the bed. Searched down the back of the bed, under the covers. It was distinct, right next to my ear - but stopped as soon as I was properly awake.

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Onedropbeat · 20/03/2021 03:17

These are all similar to things my family experienced about 25 years ago when we moved into a bee (old 1400’s ) house

Piano played itself
Clocks chimed randomly
Smells
Buzzers
Things falling/being pushed off shelves

FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 03:19

Our explanation to DD about the toilet was that it was Daddy’s shadow. He was standing so he could see her freeze, but couldn’t see into the toilet. Also - he wasn’t standing where he could have cast a shadow.

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FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 03:22

@Onedropbeat if it was anything - it felt friendly and amusing. E.g we had a few missing chocolate incidents (which we still can’t explain!!). It HONESTLY wasn’t me!!

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FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 03:23

Smell are definitely attributed to DP...

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FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 03:23

Smells...

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howsicklyarsekissy · 20/03/2021 03:24

I think maybe you should get someone out to cleanse the house etc when
Your daughters not home x I know it sounds a bit woo but from what you have said I definitely would.

FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 03:24

It’s all stopped now though (not the smells though - unfortunately...)

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FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 03:27

@howsicklyarsekissy someone (also quite sane) said this to me at work - there is a word for it (beginning with s). We’ve been here 2 years now, and if there was anything it’s definitely gone. But whatever it was, we liked it!

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Birdslovesinging · 20/03/2021 03:29

Chocolate went missing?? Grin

FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 03:35

@Birdslovesinging a whole bar from the fridge when I was about to make a cake, I’d only bought it the day before. Searched bin/house for chocolate wrappers. Not sort of the DD or DP would do/I’m the only one who steals chocolate. Missing chocolate from DD’s advent calendar. DD/ DP are both quite moral/fastidious (I’m not).

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Lofari · 20/03/2021 03:43

Haunting the loo is one thing, but messing with your sleep with a spooky alarm is quite another! Knock it off Mr Ghost Wink

howsicklyarsekissy · 20/03/2021 03:51

Smudging the house by burning sage to cleanse it is what I think white witches use.

howsicklyarsekissy · 20/03/2021 03:54

Oh well if it's gone now & you're not frightened that's positive. Have you watched the documentary on afterlife/life after death on Netflix? There's some good examples of what you have described & explanations too.

YorkshireTerror · 20/03/2021 04:30

About the missing chocolate- my DB sleep-eats. When I stay with him and DSIL I will sometimes go in the kitchen in the morning to find a jar of peanut butter on the counter with a peanutty spoon next to it or an apple with bites out of it or a loaf of bread out on the table. He has no recollection of having eaten anything but DSIL has found him eating in the small hours. She can have a conversation with him of sorts but he’s sort of sleeping. I think he doesn’t eat enough in the day sometimes and that maybe it’s his body’s way of getting more sustenance. Once he brought an apple back to bed and was sat up chomping on it and woke DSIL up . Maybe one of you is sleep eating? The other things I can’t explain though .

FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 04:51

@YorkshireTerror no sleep eating has occurred before or since that 6months when we first moved it. However, what a perfect excuse - might start up myself!

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FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 04:51

Moved in...

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FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 04:55

They also had a religious cross on the wall above their beds - and there’s a shadow imprint left behind. Haven’t decorated over it yet...
I shall watch that Netflix documentary!

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YorkshireTerror · 20/03/2021 10:25

I suppose too if one of you were sleep eating the wrappers would be around somewhere 🤔. It's very intriguing but the main thing is that whatever it was you didn't feel it was a horrible presence .

fluffedup · 20/03/2021 10:32

My DD (17) keeps going on about an incident in our old house. It was her 5th birthday, in the daytime, and she was in her bedroom. I called her down to have some birthday cake. She said there was a man standing outside her bedroom door, she described him as being like a shadow with indistinct features.
She wasn't scared. She edged around him and came downstairs and told me there was a man upstairs. I don't remember this but apparently I went upstairs, looked around, saw nothing and came back down to deal with the cake.
I thought the house had a nice atmosphere. I used to imagine the previous owner's husband, who died there, looking at our improvements and liking them. But DH said there was an oppressive atmosphere.

FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 10:56

@fluffedup similar description/reaction from my DD! She didn’t scream, was just rooted to the spot. An indistinct figure she said, and is not at all convinced when we say it was Daddy’s shadow. She said something about it moving away through the wall. She continued to the toilet, but it was in the days afterwards she insisted on the light on/appeared scared of the toilet. Again we didn’t mention ghost - only her. And anytime she reads/hears anything on TV about a ghost - she says like the one I saw in the toilet.

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FerrisWheelTrain · 20/03/2021 11:00

I can only attribute it to - adjusting to a new house, and linking events that I’d usually brush off to a ghost. But it was really, REALLY odd.

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