To think ghost stories are BS, but my experience was a bit odd?

[BigMoan]

I moved into a 1950’s house previously occupied by a couple. They were the sole occupants since it was built. The husband died, and a few years later the wife moved to a care home. The house was then put on the market.

Our first night in the house, we’d put a car seat centrally on a table. It fell off.
Few days later, I heard our piano being played - I went in the room and no one was there.
Then a week or so later - daughter went to the bathroom, froze and said there’s someone in there. She described the person as a male, like a shadow and wearing a suit. I hadn’t mentioned anything about ghosts to her, and told her it was just a shadow - perhaps Daddy had walked past when she was about to go in. For a few weeks after she was scared of the bathroom, wanted an adult with her. And now - if ghosts come up in a book/on TV - she always refers back to this experience.

A few other weird things happened. And then nothing else. The house felt ‘creepy’ for a while. Absolutely nothing creepy about it now.

If course it’s ridiculous to think it was a ghost, but what was I experiencing? Was it just the strangeness of moving somewhere new? Just wondered if anyone else had had a similar experience?

@WheelieBinPrincess

I saw my friend before she died. She was standing in the park six foot away from me, and then she wasn’t.

She was gravely ill in hospital so there’s no way she’d have been in the park, and that afternoon she died.

Morphcode has asked about this but I couldn't reply to her post. Was your story on the Uncanny podcast? Anyone interested, listen to this podcast on BBC sounds! This week's was about a haunted family home with an interesting history, but the others are really weird. Spooky!

My ex-boyfriend was extremely psychic.

We were standing at the bar in his local, which was a 1900's pub. I kept getting a glimpse of someone out of the corner of my eye standing behind the bar - a middle aged lady. 50's style with twinset and pearls and 'done' hair. But when I turned towards her there was no-one there.

Ex had obviously seen me trying to 'catch' this apparition. He said 'don't worry - she'll not hurt you'. I pretended ignorance and asked what he was talking about. He said 'she's the ex-landlady, keeping an eye on things' and described her down to the colour of her twinset (lilac).

Not the only time he did something like this but the most memorable.

No!
It might have been a ghost 👻 !

No ghost stories are not B/S!
And if the girl walked past the bottom of your bed and you weren't sleeping, Yes! it was a ghost!
One time we were driving at night and this like sort of like a ball of fire ran across the street and the driver swerved and looked at me and put his hands in the air and I looked at him and put my hands in the air we both seen it and he hit his brakes and swerved. But then there was nothing there across the street on the sidewalk, but we both seen it cross the street.

@WheelieBinPrincess

I saw my friend before she died. She was standing in the park six foot away from me, and then she wasn’t.

She was gravely ill in hospital so there’s no way she’d have been in the park, and that afternoon she died.

See, it was a ghost!

A lot of unexplained things happened in my house after my DH died.
The radio and the TV suddenly been switched on, and the light and radiator being turned on in the room he liked to sit in when he wanted to be alone.
After my mother died I would get the smell of the air freshener used in the nursing home where she died.Also after one of my nieces died very suddenly I could always smell her favourite perfume in my house even if no one was using it.
There are things no one can give any explanation for.

I am sceptical about ghostly stuff but when I rented my house to my then Bf's neice, she said she felt uncomfortable and felt an 'unwelcome' vibe in my house and her dd kept talking about the kind lady in her bedroom who was lovely.... the stairgate was often found unlocked when she was sure she'd secured it. My father had died on my birthday ( my mum died a few years before ) and we had fallen out over me renting my house and me and dad had not made our peace. I was also regretting my decision to move but couldn't ask her to leave as I felt bad. Anyway the house felt so 'negative' she left and I returned home. We have never seen or felt anything but positive vibes here since! I truly believe my parents drove her out for me to get home ( I like to believe that! )

I don’t really believe in the after life, however, mum died at home November 2020, dad passed July 2021 and their dog died around 2 weeks after dad died, he was more dads dog, dad had been in hospital for 11 weeks before he died.

I’m currently living at their house while we empty and sell it (which is so difficult and I’m not sleeping well) the Dog was a big black mastif/lab mixed arthritis from RSPCA (soppy bugger).

I see a shadow of him a few times a week, mainly in the kitchen,his favourite place as he loved his food but a couple of times in the garden, mainly at dusk.

I hear my dad calling me a lot and I see mum out of the corner of my eye a lot too.

It’s comforting.

Well I’m skeptic but had one thing happen to me that I can’t explain.

Used to live in a Victorian industrial building that’d been converted into flats only in the 90s. So hadn’t been residential for long (if that makes any difference).

I got back from work, it was summer and was looking forward to getting dressed into summer wear and going to the pub/ meeting friends. No stress, no tiredness and very awake.

Got in, took shoes off, got on the sofa just to put my bag down, and heard a voice completely within (properly inside) my left ear - man’s voice shouted GET OUT.

Not panicked, not angry. Just as loud and as if you got a friend to to record their voice. No voice I recognised at all. Young man’s voice - maybe 20s - 30. I turned to see him, like what the fuck and honestly about to tell this person to get the fuck out of my flat! Like someone had broken in.

Honestly wasn’t scared so much as thought “well fine I’ll get out”.

Told no one for years. I mean it’s ridiculous. What is totally off - when I did tell friends, only as an example of auditory hallucination - one came forward later to say she had had the same thing (when our flatmates were there but she was alone in that room). Our landlord joked about a previous tenant saying the same. So… who knows!

I also checked when I got back that no one was in, and checked there were no laptops in the room (in case of hackers)… nothing

@Backstreetsbackalrightdadada

I also checked when I got back that no one was in, and checked there were no laptops in the room (in case of hackers)… nothing

OMG 😱

I was in my aunties home one day alone and heard a ball bouncing upstairs. I thought it was the dog, so shouted him down but then he came running in through the bandit having been in the garden! This made me feel really uncomfortable so I turned the music up in the kitchen and shut the door and distinctly heard children shouting "mum" my aunties house was built on the site of an old Childrens hospital which really freaked me out!

My cousin always used to see a young boy in her bedroom but never felt uncomfortable or frightened of him.

I'm not sure I think ghosts are ghosts iyswim? I think energy plays off our energy and we remember the energy as it was when it existed, not sure that makes sense?

Although, shortly after my dad died, I smelt his aftershave fill my back garden, I searched for an explanation but couldn't find a more rational one than he had come to let me know he was ok. (No breeze in the garden and no one out in their backs to say it came from somewhere else)

In our old house I was alone there before moved in, stencilling my 2hrs bedroom walls. I had the ‘creeps’ all day and wasn’t comfortable. When we moved in his musical toys like a ball with buttons that play different sounds used to play during the night. When I put them in my room they never did.
Then one day he came into my room and said “mummy who was just in my room?” It was a lady and now she’s not here.
I mentioned it years later to a neighbour and she said that she used to babysit for the couple who lived there before me, she said that she’d always hated that room as it gave her shivers down her spine.
It was a lovely double aspect large Victorian loft room. So glad we moved!

I think it’s just that a new house will feel odd, the way the light falls, what the mirrors catch, sounds coming from neighbours houses, the way sound travels, dust etc. So I just think you were all a bit thrown by being somewhere new and probably a place with a different feel (decor etc) to houses you might visit.

Sorry to be dull! I’m glad all is comfortable now.

@Mummylovesmonkeys

My ex-boyfriend was extremely psychic.

We were standing at the bar in his local, which was a 1900's pub. I kept getting a glimpse of someone out of the corner of my eye standing behind the bar - a middle aged lady. 50's style with twinset and pearls and 'done' hair. But when I turned towards her there was no-one there.

Ex had obviously seen me trying to 'catch' this apparition. He said 'don't worry - she'll not hurt you'. I pretended ignorance and asked what he was talking about. He said 'she's the ex-landlady, keeping an eye on things' and described her down to the colour of her twinset (lilac).

Not the only time he did something like this but the most memorable.

OMG 😱

@Luredbyapomegranate

I think it’s just that a new house will feel odd, the way the light falls, what the mirrors catch, sounds coming from neighbours houses, the way sound travels, dust etc. So I just think you were all a bit thrown by being somewhere new and probably a place with a different feel (decor etc) to houses you might visit.

Sorry to be dull! I’m glad all is comfortable now.

NO!

@Londoncallingme

In our old house I was alone there before moved in, stencilling my 2hrs bedroom walls. I had the ‘creeps’ all day and wasn’t comfortable. When we moved in his musical toys like a ball with buttons that play different sounds used to play during the night. When I put them in my room they never did. Then one day he came into my room and said “mummy who was just in my room?” It was a lady and now she’s not here. I mentioned it years later to a neighbour and she said that she used to babysit for the couple who lived there before me, she said that she’d always hated that room as it gave her shivers down her spine. It was a lovely double aspect large Victorian loft room. So glad we moved!

eeww

I think buildings hold onto an energy of the previous occupants and memories replay at certain points. My mum's dad died on the landing of my nan's house after an asthma attack. My nan still lives in the house and often sees him walk past her bedroom door and across the landing, always in the same way - just like a loop that sometimes plays. She is a very unflapped tough woman so I don't doubt her at all. We live in a 300 year old cottage. Every year, for a few days, the house smells strongly of pipe smoke and then it vanishes till the next time!

There are some wonderful experiences on here but I wanted to share something having worked as a medium. I was heavily into spiritualism and attended a church and practiced regularly. I was very good at channelling and reading for people but started to have spirits hanging around.
I started to sense that purgatory was actually behind the veil, that our loved ones were still here trying to make up for their mistakes by guiding us. I once spoke with a priest who told me about a Christian mystic who wrote about this and found it strange that I had sensed this when channelling.

What was hard (and the reason I stopped) was the noise, like a thousand people all talking at once and wanting to come through.
What I have come to understand is that some of us are highly empathic either due to MH or trauma issues or due to training such as social care or health care. This makes us more sensitive to those behind the veil trying to communicate.
If anyone has seen the film silent hill, the end scene is just how it is for mediumship.
Ghosts and poltergeist I done think are real, but life after death and spirits on our plane, yep 100% real.

I have never seen a ghost here or heard strange noises but often I wake several times during the night and, without exception, an old fashioned red floral curtain hangs where my closed bedroom door should be. I sleep with a night light plugged in and can see it clearly. It moves as though there is a breeze coming from the other side. It doesn't scare me any more as it's been going on for 7 or so years now and nothing about the scene ever changes. Oh, and every morning, after these events, my bedroom door is wide open when I always sleep with it closed. I used to lie awake worrying that it might happen but now I'm just accepting of it.

@EerieSilence I’ve always wanted to do something like that! Do you think you could please DM me and tell me where it was?? I’d love to check it out.

The creepiest house I have lived in was a one off new build that had been built in the grounds of a big Victorian house. We were the first people to live there.
I just found it creepy as though I was being watched all of the time. I was terrified each night going to bed and would stand outside till someone came home before I would be in the house on my own

Our next house was bigger and older and from the outside far creepier but I didn’t have any issues when living there
I never felt afraid
Later I saw an article in a local paper about the field that was at the back of the creepy modern house and it mentioned how there once stood a medieval church on the site that the big old house(now flats stood)
There was a drawing of the church and next to it where we had lived was a grave yard

@Mollymoostoo

There are some wonderful experiences on here but I wanted to share something having worked as a medium. I was heavily into spiritualism and attended a church and practiced regularly. I was very good at channelling and reading for people but started to have spirits hanging around. I started to sense that purgatory was actually behind the veil, that our loved ones were still here trying to make up for their mistakes by guiding us. I once spoke with a priest who told me about a Christian mystic who wrote about this and found it strange that I had sensed this when channelling. What was hard (and the reason I stopped) was the noise, like a thousand people all talking at once and wanting to come through. What I have come to understand is that some of us are highly empathic either due to MH or trauma issues or due to training such as social care or health care. This makes us more sensitive to those behind the veil trying to communicate. If anyone has seen the film silent hill, the end scene is just how it is for mediumship. Ghosts and poltergeist I done think are real, but life after death and spirits on our plane, yep 100% real.

I would agree those with poor mental health or trauma issues could be very sensitive.

I would disagree that it’s likely that these people with poor mental health or trauma issues are actually more likely to see ghosts and sense things ‘beyond the veil.’ If anything I would presume someone with known mental health issues who said something like this was in fact having some sort of breakdown.

And also you can’t really say life after death and spirits are 100% real. You can say that birds are 100% real. Or pencils. Or Salford. All of those are 100% real.

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Yy, @Kanaloa — someone with a MH condition or suffering the results of trauma isn’t more ‘empathetic’ or ‘sensitive’ to spirits, they’re simply more likely to be subject to hallucinations or delusions.