Haunted house scaring the shit out of me

[Goawayghosts]

Deliberately OTT title and I’m not into the paranormal but I’m getting freaked out in my house.

We’ve lived here 10 years. The house is only 20 years old. Built on marsh land.

A year or so after we moved in weird shit started happening. Stuff moving around, noises, dog going nuts in certain rooms, doors opening by themselves etc. DH got freaked out by it and started getting angry at me everytime I mentioned it. He outright refused to discuss it but admitted he had seen and heard the same stuff as me.

Then it all stopped. Nothing happened for years. All good.

Then, a couple of weeks ago I was messing on my phone and behind me I saw a shadow go past in the hallway out of the corner of my eye and heard it brush along the wall. The dog (different dog) flew over me barking and growling, all heckles raised. Back door was locked, there was no way anyone could have got in without me (or the dog) hearing the front door. I sent the dog around the whole house - nothing at all. I put it to the back of my mind but ever since the noises have started up again - footsteps on the first floor, doors opening and closing, muffled voices

DH has heard it too and is laughing it off saying the ghost is back but he too is randomly sending the dog into rooms and upstairs before him and telling me not to be stupid when I mention it. It’s seriously starting to freak me out.

It happened again 10 minutes ago … the sound of the floorboards creaking upstairs in the pattern of footsteps - DH looked up and muted the TV - then the sound of something being moved. I said “You’re not telling me you didn’t hear that?” And he said “I’m not getting into this shit again” and turned the TV up.

it’s a detached house, we don’t have neighbours. WTF is it??

@Vincitveritas

My understanding is that Catholic exorcism of ghosts and haunted houses isn’t an exorcism of human souls stuck on earth but rather of demon spirits which are indestructible which roam the earth and posses humans through trickery and deception. Sometimes those demonic spirits can posses a person - but if they don’t find a suitable human for possession they can take residence in a house or building (or wherever could be a forest) and try to drive the occupants to distraction so that they become ripe for possession.

So Catholic priests aren’t actually exorcising the souls of bad humans stuck between life and death, but exercising eternal demons who flee never to return, but look for somewhere free from the power and protection of God. These demons may be singular or many. For instance in the Bible Jesus performs an exorcism of a man with spirits of demons known as the collective “legion”.

@Vincitveritas

My understanding is that Catholic exorcism of ghosts and haunted houses isn’t an exorcism of human souls stuck on earth but rather of demon spirits which are indestructible which roam the earth and posses humans through trickery and deception. Sometimes those demonic spirits can posses a person - but if they don’t find a suitable human for possession they can take residence in a house or building (or wherever could be a forest) and try to drive the occupants to distraction so that they become ripe for possession.

So Catholic priests aren’t actually exorcising the souls of bad humans stuck between life and death, but exercising eternal demons who flee never to return, but look for somewhere free from the power and protection of God. These demons may be singular or many. For instance in the Bible Jesus performs an exorcism of a man with spirits of demons known as the collective “legion”.

Houses can be haunted. One thing I know has worked for others is to talk to them, tell them you don't mean any harm. Failing that I would get a priest or other person who does cleansings to treat the house (again, I know of situations where this has worked).

We had some 'activity' too when we first moved into our house 10 years ago. On two separate occasions, my husband (NOT a believer) and I heard someone come in through the front door, walk up the stairs and knock on my (then-baby) daughter's door. On another occasion, I was working alone in the living room downstairs, when one of those little bouncy balls suddenly pinged round the cubby hole I had my desk in at the time. My daughter has always said there's a 'monster' in her room that she calls Dave, who watches her at night, but I don't know how serious she is about that.

And a couple of years ago, we went on holiday to France, stayed in a beautiful grand old house but the moment I walked in I was like 'oh b*llocks' because there was something else there, some spirit or other. I had a really uncomfortable week, on edge the whole time. Didn't dare ask about it until I got home, when I spoke to the person who owned the house and asked if it was haunted, and she said the house was occupied by Nazis during WW2 and her aunt who used to live there (in the 90s) once heard a knock on the door and opened it to find a man in Nazi uniform standing there looking very puzzled, then he just vanished.

Maybe you could start by ordering a mass at church? My friend's mum did it when their neighbour died and they heard constant knocking on the wall at night. It helped.

No @leisurelystroll I'm not expecting you to believe me or anyone. I genuinely don't care whether you or any other nay sayer's believe me or not. It might be nice if you weren't so bloody rude & dismissive & jumping on threads like these demanding proof you won't every believe anyway though. That says a lot about you tbh 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Elphame

@SammySammySammytheBetterfly I don't wish to derail the thread but I think you've got some big misconceptions about the Church of England/ Protestantism. God's word is absolutely eternal, I'm not sure what you're referring to there. We also believe in the Holy Trinity and Jesus as 'the way, the truth and the life'. Naturally if you're calling on Jesus you're also calling on God too. I would disagree that the clergy are not behaving as God intended; nowhere in the bible does it say that they have to be celibate. In fact, we know that Jesus' disciple Peter was married and possibly others. He didn't exclude Peter from ministry or tell him to leave his wife.

Yes, we agree on what constitutes a haunting 👌

i find it interesting that a couple of pp have said they had strange goings on when they had building work done in or by their houses
where i used to work something strange happened and my boss was very shook up and wanted answears
he spoke to a priest about it and the priest asked if there was any building work going on around the place that we worked as this can disturb the spirits
the shop next door had been demolished

Where to start with this?

Here’s the alternative explanation:

Your brother wasn’t a good sleeper as a baby, and your mum, driven to distraction and possibly suffering from PND, asks friends what to do. She asks a catholic priest to bless the house. She may not have been thinking rationally, sleep deprived and with a small child to care for.

The priest kindly blesses the house and your mum puts up a crucifix.

You combine the statement about the priest blessing the house with a statement that ‘apparently’ an old man died in the room. You are conflating two things. I find it very unlikely that the priest somehow communicated with the spirit of the deceased whilst blessing the house and told your mum that his death was the reason for your brother not sleeping well in the box room. That particular nugget will have come from somewhere else.

There is loads of old housing stock in the U.K.. If a house was built before the 1960s then it is more likely than not that somebody died in it. People tended to die at home, not in hospital or at a care home. Let’s say that this represents 40% of the housing stock. Why aren’t up to 40% of households reporting haunting caused by somebody having died in the house?

My grandmother died at my childhood home when I was 16. My mother lived in that house for another 37 years but nothing woo ever happened there.

I'm not demanding proof - there isn't any!

You are encouraging others to indulge in their delusions rather than face reality. I'm not being rude at all. If you're going to publicly state you believe in ghosts and you've witnessed them, you will rightly be called out on it as it's complete and utter tosh.

And you have there nerve to call others ignorant and rude. Look at your posts!

Give it up @leisurelystroll nobody cares about your closed minded opinion 🙄

This is far and away the daftest comment I've ever seen on MN

I think return to the norm often plays a part here. When things are at there worst is when we are desperate enough to make a change/seek help.

It's the reason homeopathy seems to alleviate symptoms and football teams do better as soon as the manager is sacked. Things would likely have gotten better anyway.

Nope. My mum didn’t suffer from pnd

as soon as cross in room and priestetc been - Literally that night he slept well in it for few months then was moved to bigger bedroom as I moved in there

I also saw the man . He was sitting on end of my bed one night when friend had sleepover. Was maybe 20. Friend also saw the man /figure

as she thought it was me and vice versus. We both didn’t get out of bed

was def a figure there

and work house was def haunted. But not a scary ghost

You're right. I'm just going to write my list for Santa Claus now and then tell a spirit to go away, which of course the spirit can pick up the sound waves with his invisible eardrum. Then process what I said in their invisible, massless brain.

Hey this open-minded thing is great, I'm now so open minded my brain has fallen out.

We had this. We moved into an old Georgian house which had been heavily renovated by the previous owner who had sadly died young. The work wasn't finished and we had a lot of activity in the house from furniture being moved, knocking at windows and most annoyingly things disappearing for months only to turn up somewhere obvious.

It calmed down afterwards but any redecoration tends to cause things to happen and I'm about to replace the front door which is really not going to go down very well so I'm expecting consequences for that. I may need to read the riot act again.

Lots of people have heard and seen things here over the years but we all now rub along quite happily most of the time. Intriguingly I now have 2 dogs and have had multiple cats over the years. All are frequently transfixed by a corner of the sitting room where there used to be a door (it's been bricked up for many many years). I'm sure they are watching something walking around the original lay out of the house.

You're life must be pretty shit @leisurelystroll to be so invested in dissing this. I hope things get better for you

Peace & light to you 😉

@Vincitveritas

I didn’t realise they believed in the trinity - perhaps In confusing that with another Christian faith or maybe they place less importance on it?

Regardless I can’t agree about the Priests at all. For so long until the split Priests we’re required to be celibate and male - and this grew up for good reasons, then unsurprisingly given it was founded by a man with six wives ffs - the Church of England allowed marriage for its priests. In my mind this has much to do with normalising Henry’s beahviour through Englands church. Also the Church of England allows female priests which is in total contradiction to the teachings of the Bible and wisdom of the church (though I’m sure that won’t go down well here). How is that keeping with Gods eternal word? It was clearly changed because it was what became fashionable in gender equal times, not because it is biblical or Christian. Frankly I think that those women who wanted to become priests should have started their own religion because pushing that through was contrary to the teaching of the one they were in and as such showed them as unbelievers in its validity. I can’t take it seriously with female priests.

One of the worst things I have seen was the Church of England funeral for Richard the 3. First of he was Catholic and the Church of England didn’t exist in his time, secondly they allowed the service to be read by a female priest (he never would have wanted that) and thirdly they used their musical styles rather than Catholic funeral music.
Those (and there would have been many) involved in accepting the request to do that funeral, from those at the top to the female priest should be ashamed of what they did there. It was incredibly disrespectful of a human soul (even if that soul was pretty shitty but that’s besides the point).

I care about @leisurelystroll s opinion.
You are very rude and presumptuous.

There is really no need to get upset. Perhaps take a break if you are finding it hard to control your emotions.

As said above I expect that any house older that 75 years has had someone die in it.

I do think the stone tape theory applies a lot more to sites that have experienced true horror though & in those cases there is no actual spirits involved, just a video recording so to speak

Did you know the stone tape theory was popularised by a tv play written by Nigel Kneale? He was married to Judith Kerr.
No reason to mention this really, just that I found it interesting.

I totally predicted this thread would get derailed by the “ghost are real, you’re stupid” vs ‘ghosts don’t exist, you’re stupid” argument. Like Mystic Meg, I am.

OP, if you’re still there and haven’t been sucked into the tv, try the following steps:

1. check attic, basement, cupboards, under the bed in the spare room, etc, for any lodgers not paying rent.
2. call a surveyor. Get them to do a full (I.e. expensive) check for subsidence, swamp gas, anything else.
3. call in pest control to check for rats/mice/birds/giant attic cats/termites (I’m sure there was an episode of House with termites, not that we have them in this country of course…)
4. set up cameras all around the house, including outside.
5. Get carbon monoxide detectors all around the house (proper ones with alarms, not those stupid dots that change colour) along with any other gas detectors that exist.
6. get your boiler and any other gas appliances serviced asap.
7. Get an electrician to check your wiring (especially if pest control found evidence of rodents that could have chewed through wires).
8. Go to your GP and ask for blood tests (vitamin levels/co1 poisoning).
9. do you live near any electricity substations/roads with heavy lorries/any building or road works?
10. consider the fact that new build houses are made from tissue paper, so even if your house is detached, sound (e.g. voices) will travel from neighbouring properties.
11. When you’ve checked out all the above and the woo is still happening, call a vicar or priest, and/or consider putting your house on the market.

On the other hand, if you have been sucked into the tv, GO TOWARDS THE LIGHT or was it stay away from the light?

@leisurelystroll

You really don’t know what your talking about. When people have experience you should listen or sense you remain ignorant.