AIBU to think my house is haunted?

[Glitterandpolkadots]

Just to start out, I know I sound a bit weird and ghosts probably aren't real but at a loss to explain odd things.

Live in a Victorian house with DH and 6mo DD been here 4 years.

The past couple of weeks a few things have happened that I can't explain.

Baby's toy was in the dining room and it went off on its own (it makes a noise when pushed), dd was asleep on me in the front room.

The TV remote that was in the middle of the coffee table was in the middle of the living room floor (dd can't move it) and my phone has fell off the table a few times as if it's been dropped.

For background, one of my grandparents died last month so I have felt unsettled but I feel at a loss to understand these occurrences. They sound trivial but freak my out when I'm home alone 🤣

Eekkk that does sound unsettling, poor you.

I for one to believe in other entities, that can be a nuisance in our lives and from what you said I would believe it was such a case.

I don't know if you are religious or spiritual, if you are maybe try a cleansing?

I had a similar feeling once. When I was alone, I told the entity to go away. A close family member passed away a few years later and weird things started happening. This time I was delighted she could be around. I spoke to her as if she was around and it greatly helped my grief. After a few months, when I was alone, I told her I’m better now and she can go on her onward journey and I’ll be ok. I’d love her to come to get me when my time comes. Strange stuff never happened. I love her so much and still miss her 6 years on.

I had a baby toy move on it's own too. No one was in the bedroom and I heard it. I looked in and I saw it moving along by itself. It was shortly after I had lost a baby when I was 16 weeks pregnant. The baby I lost was a boy and the toy was one of the few in my house that could be described as a boy's toy (I have a very girly DD). I found it comforting, (after I got over the initial shock of seeing it!)

Could be caused by ground movement or settlement. The vibration does a lot of weird things without any movement being discernible to humans. Movement is likelier if you live in the vicinity of old mine works ,waterways or micro fault lines. The Victorians were heroic about what they used as building sites. Some cities in UK have a number of "lost" rivers which the Victorians built over. The vibration effect can be very localised. Friends who live on known localised fault lines overseas find that they find it is always the same kitchen cupboard that flies open and disgorges it contents or the same shelf things fly off.

When my DH was late teens he lost a long chunky gold necklace in the house. It was missing for weeks.

His parents went away on hols and he was living alone in the house. About 8 days in he walks into the kitchen one morning and this necklace is in the middle of the worktop. It's undone and coiled around and around in a perfect flat circle.

He'd had no mates or girlfriends round. No idea where it came from.

OP, listen to the Uncanny podcast- at least you will know you are not alone!

Op didn't mention any 'feelings' though...?

Perfectly possible your house is haunted. But from my experience, when it is, you kinda just KNOW it. You don't have to ask.

More likely you have mice tbh. Which might be scarier xD