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?

@CovidCorvid my best friend many years ago when we were at school did this when her grandma passed away. I've never forgot it, we were sat in class together and she suddenly turned to me and said her gran had died and got very upset. I thought it was a bit odd as we'd been laughing and joking just 5 minutes before and no talk of her gran passing or being ill. surely enough after going home from school she was told her gran had passed away. We are still good friends now 30 years later and we spoke about it recently, she said she couldn't explain it but she just new her gran had passed away right at that particular moment. I've always found it so strange and have never forgotten it.

@BigyellowTpot how strange I had similar, my grandad died in the early morning quite unexpectedly, I woke up dead on when he died, I just felt something was wrong. My mum rang me a few minutes later and said he had died, I said I knew.
I can’t explain how I knew I just felt he had gone, we was very very close I used to see him at least twice a week I was actually due to see him that day but changed as it was my dad’s birthday.

My brother took a girlfriend on holiday to our mother's old house in Ireland. Like many Irish homes, it was a bungalow. The girlfriend was installed in the best bedroom at the front of the house, while the rest of the family, including my brother, had bedrooms at the back of the house, separated from the front bedroom by the living room.
In the middle of the night, the girlfriend comes shrieking through the living room, saying there's a young, tall, blond man standing in her room, smoking a cigarette. House is searched, and no evidence of an intruder - or smell of cigarette smoke - is detected.
Fast forward a year or two, and a new girlfriend is brought to Ireland. She's told absolutely nothing about the first girl's visit (my brother was somewhat of a player back in the day), let alone the unsettling experience that girlfriend had had. The new girlfriend, naturally, is given the best bedroom. You guessed it: she runs sobbing from the room in the middle of the night, saying she had awoken to find ayoung, tall, blond man silently smoking a cigarette in her room.
Incidentally, my grandfather, Jack, whose house it was originally, was tall and blond in his youth. He died of lung cancer, having been a lifelong chain smoker.
I have several more stories about that house - too long to go into here - the eeriest of which, without a shadow of a doubt, is when the banshee came calling. No, I didn't believe in them either.

I used to live in Norwich, on one of the roads that comprised the golden triangle (for the locals). I never believed in ghosts until I lived in that house, I’m not entirely sure I do now but something was going on there.

I would hear footsteps running up and down the stairs and across the landing towards my bedroom. It would stop as soon as I opened the door, and begin again when I closed it.

I’d hear chaos happening in the kitchen in the middle of the night. It would sound like someone was smashing the place up, breaking cabinet doors, throwing glasses etc. Again, it would stop as soon as you went to investigate, and nothing was touched.

I would leave my keys/cigarettes/other belongings on, for example, the dining room table, and come back five minutes later and they were gone. I’d end up finding them in a room I hadn’t even been in.

The gas was turned on in the kitchen a few times, when no one had touched the oven.

I’d have the bed covers pulled off me in the night. Also, the bed would shake. Initially I thought it was moving due to traffic vibrations, but it wasn’t that type of shaking. It was like someone was grabbing the bed posts and yanking them backwards and forwards. I would also get sleep paralysis in that house, never had it before I since I moved out.

The worst occasion happened in the middle of the night. I worked nights at the time so I was wide awake during those hours. It was my night off and I was watching movies in my bedroom. Suddenly, the atmosphere just…changed. It became thick and stifling, yet cold. I looked up and I saw this black mass just twitching and juddering along the floor. It didn’t have a defined shape, but it had these black ‘limbs’ that would emerge from the main body, appearing twisted and dislocated. I remember being sat there just looking at it as it moved closer, I think I was in absolute shock. It got closer to the end of the bed and I came back to myself and noped the fuck out of there.

I moved out about a month later.

@whumpthereitis

I used to live in Norwich, on one of the roads that comprised the golden triangle (for the locals). I never believed in ghosts until I lived in that house, I’m not entirely sure I do now but something was going on there.

I would hear footsteps running up and down the stairs and across the landing towards my bedroom. It would stop as soon as I opened the door, and begin again when I closed it.

I’d hear chaos happening in the kitchen in the middle of the night. It would sound like someone was smashing the place up, breaking cabinet doors, throwing glasses etc. Again, it would stop as soon as you went to investigate, and nothing was touched.

I would leave my keys/cigarettes/other belongings on, for example, the dining room table, and come back five minutes later and they were gone. I’d end up finding them in a room I hadn’t even been in.

The gas was turned on in the kitchen a few times, when no one had touched the oven.

I’d have the bed covers pulled off me in the night. Also, the bed would shake. Initially I thought it was moving due to traffic vibrations, but it wasn’t that type of shaking. It was like someone was grabbing the bed posts and yanking them backwards and forwards. I would also get sleep paralysis in that house, never had it before I since I moved out.

The worst occasion happened in the middle of the night. I worked nights at the time so I was wide awake during those hours. It was my night off and I was watching movies in my bedroom. Suddenly, the atmosphere just…changed. It became thick and stifling, yet cold. I looked up and I saw this black mass just twitching and juddering along the floor. It didn’t have a defined shape, but it had these black ‘limbs’ that would emerge from the main body, appearing twisted and dislocated. I remember being sat there just looking at it as it moved closer, I think I was in absolute shock. It got closer to the end of the bed and I came back to myself and noped the fuck out of there.

I moved out about a month later.

It's spooky! 😨

We bought our first house from the daughter of the lady who had lived there who had passed away. The next year my daughter was born and I saw the previous owners daughter who told me my daughter had the same birthday as her mum-the previous house owner. When we moved to our next house they had a son and he had the same name and birthday as my son-very coincidental!

@PippaPoppet - it wasn't in the UK. I suggest you check this page, I believe there are several groups in the UK who do things like that.
You essentially book a ticket, get locked in the house/mansion/church whatever place and then you follow the group leaders as you investigate.

www.hauntedhappenings.co.uk/

[quote EerieSilence]@PippaPoppet - it wasn't in the UK. I suggest you check this page, I believe there are several groups in the UK who do things like that.
You essentially book a ticket, get locked in the house/mansion/church whatever place and then you follow the group leaders as you investigate.

www.hauntedhappenings.co.uk/[/quote]
They have a thing like that here in the states in moundsville West Virginia it's an old closed down prison and it is supposedly haunted, and you can take the tour during the day and it's kind of interesting.
But then they have a tour you can take at overnight and they lock you in there I guess and and they investigate it and you can book the overnight tour a lot of the people that follow stuff like that wickens and stuff like that they take that tour different different tours like that old closed down mental institutions and the like.

People always come to these threads to say 'ha! Isn't it funny that all these people see ghosts and ufos and yet nobody ever gets them on camera!'

There's tonnes of footage. Even the US gov has released videos of UFOs.

@EstherOnions please can you tell me about the Banshee!?

My dad was from Cork born in the 1930's and told me about a little about them. He was a very practical Irishman, he died 22 years ago this February but his stories live on!

@YourVagesty

People always come to these threads to say 'ha! Isn't it funny that all these people see ghosts and ufos and yet nobody ever gets them on camera!'

There's tonnes of footage. Even the US gov has released videos of UFOs.

Isn’t the point of ‘UFO’ footage that no one’s claiming to know what the flying objects are?

And where are all the tonnes of ghost footage?

@YourVagesty

People always come to these threads to say 'ha! Isn't it funny that all these people see ghosts and ufos and yet nobody ever gets them on camera!'

There's tonnes of footage. Even the US gov has released videos of UFOs.

A ufo is literally any thing that appears to be flying and is unidentified. I could chuck a naan bread at you and it would be a UFO as long as you didn’t know it was naan bread.

However if there is any solid evidence of spirits/ghosts/people’s bed hovering three feet off the ground/car seats magically flying off the table they were firmly placed on please do share it here, since I’m sure lots of people would be interested.

Also think it’s a bit ironic that all these ghosts are someone’s great granny who they’ve never met who comes back from the other world to speak to their three year old child. Why do no unsolved murder victims ever come back and say ‘this is who killed me. Please go and catch them.’

Why doesn’t Percy Fawcett rock up at his ancestors bed and explain what happened to him?

Also if your bed was vibrating to the point that it was moving around surely you would be able to capture that on video? Personally I’d be worried I was developing psychotic delusions and would be seeing a doctor and explaining that I was seeing monsters/ghosts and thought I was being targeted by malevolent spirits.

@kanaloa
I worked with a woman years ago whose sister disappeared. She dreamt of her sister saying she was buried under the living room floor. Eventually she told her BIL who said he’d noticed a smell. Long story short - daughter’s boyfriend has killed her and put her under there. He got off on a technicality.

Maybe the woman noticed something amiss and it came out in her subconscious or maybe something else.

What an awful situation to be in. But yes I’d imagine it’s likely she had some inkling in her subconscious - when someone’s gone missing like that it’s not a huge leap to think they’re dead. Or perhaps she saw a spirit but I’d say massively less likely. Otherwise wouldn’t all these spirits be coming forward to the police? There wouldn’t be any unsolved murders at all.

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners oh that's lovely but really made me cry. Sorry you lost him

Following as fascinated...

I agree with @BorderlineHappy

You don't have to believe but you don't have to belittle people that do

Our very old house is haunted. Non believers have left our house being converted. I care not if people don't believe but mocking doesn't make you clever or funny , just very rude.,

@Kanaloa, I would absolutely watch UFO footage if it involved spotters staring at the heavens saying ‘Naan or bagel?’

@Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel

I agree with *@BorderlineHappy*

You don't have to believe but you don't have to belittle people that do

Our very old house is haunted. Non believers have left our house being converted. I care not if people don't believe but mocking doesn't make you clever or funny , just very rude.,

Well I mean if you’re telling people it’s haunted then they’ll probably have a frightening experience there. If I visited the Japanese forest I saw in a horror movie I bet I’d have a creepy experience. Not because it’s haunted though.

[quote Roosk]@Kanaloa, I would absolutely watch UFO footage if it involved spotters staring at the heavens saying ‘Naan or bagel?’[/quote]
Well as long as you don’t know if it’s a naan or bagel it’s a UFO! That’s how it works. Even a tiny helicopter is a ufo as long as you don’t recognise it as what it is.

Although in reality no bread lasts long enough around me to throw it at anyone. If there was naan bread in my house it would be quickly identified and scoffed.

A ufo is literally any thing that appears to be flying and is unidentified. I could chuck a naan bread at you and it would be a UFO as long as you didn’t know it was naan bread.

Well yeah, I realise that smart arse. But that's the thing. It's the unknown, could be Chinese technology, could be space ships from Zeta Reticuli, could be a bread roll. The point is, there is footage and you don't know, and I don't know, what it is.

However if there is any solid evidence of spirits/ghosts/people’s bed hovering three feet off the ground/car seats magically flying off the table they were firmly placed on please do share it here, since I’m sure lots of people would be interested.

Again, lovely tone so I won't exactly be spending all night googling for you, I'm sure you can manage that.

However, for anybody who's interested, I'd recommend a Netflix series called Surviving Death as a good starting point. The Dutch psychic on it is clearly a fraud but there's plenty of interesting and unexplainable material on there.

So you won’t be sharing the ‘tons of footage’ outside of a Netflix series that will be edited specifically to make things look ‘unexplainable.’ Much like shows on tlc called ‘my past life.’ They’ll never put an unbiased therapist in the room to question the child about how they’ve heard of the titanic because it would quickly crumble and it’s much easier to have the child say ‘I remember the water and it was so… cold’ cut together with clips of the titanic. And yes there probably is unknown Chinese technology. Absolutely fuck all to do with spirits and ghosts and aliens though so as relevant as a naan bread.

And if being a smart arse is the opposite of someone who insists ghosts exist and thinks Netflix is evidence of the other world then sign me up. I’m a smart arse.

No I won't be. I'm tired, it's late and I'm not your personal Googler.

The Netflix series is honestly worth a look. It's got a scientific angle to it. But you can just dismiss it too and continue being snarky. I'm not too bothered.

I also haven't insisted ghosts exist. You sound a bit thick. I'll leave you to it.