Haunted house scaring the shit out of me

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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??

They did listen (or read actually). They didn't belive.

Do you think we should always believe everything we listen/read?

You do know that alchemy was the forerunner of modern chemistry, right? Right?

There was much more to the alchemists than the supposed quest to find the elixir of life and turn base metals into gold. I suspect that the suggestion of those things encouraged rich people to fund the real work, which was proper scientific investigation! Those people working in labs and discovering things we now take for granted were not occultists.

Hence Isaac Newton’s interest in alchemy. The man was a scientific polymath. Why wouldn’t he have been interested in chemistry?

Indeed they did hang witches then. And I wonder just how many they found in the tiny village that Tooting was during the period when witches were put on trial.

Arrant nonsense.

Also check for mould. If you have a leak anywhere or damp and mould has grown, that can have similar effects to carbon monoxide poisoning (though hopefully less fatal).

Again with the venom, now directed at @leisurelystroll as well as @miffee .

What’s wrong with you? Are you like this every time somebody disagrees with you?

I didn't know that @PriamFarrl, interesting. Tbh I don't know much of the roots of this theory, only that it fits some experiences of mine & others I know & is accepted & it does make a lot of sense compared to other interactive hauntings

Ok, I'm not sure if I believe in ghosts, but I did know someone who moved into a house and she and her DH immediately started to experience things they could not find a rational explanation for. These things continued for a few weeks and really freaked them out. They then had a visit from two people who were members of the local spiritualist church who said there were two spirits trapped in the house. They managed to persuade the spirits to move on. My friend was told to go round the house with a candle and to repeat some words in each room. It worked, no more strange occurrences, no more cold spots. She said up until it happened to her she would never have believed it.

So, Op, I would be inclined to see if you could get someone from your local spiritualist church to visit to see if they can help, or failing that see if your local vicar/priest would bless your house. Neither of these things are likely to make the situation worse and might just solve the problem, so surely worth try I would think.

I love how it’s the open minded people who won’t listen to the point of view of others.

It does amuse me as to how the non sensitive nay sayers on this thread, are such sensitive little souls & just can't handle criticism, whilst ganging up to tell everyone else how stupid they are. Oh the irony

You said the house was built on marsh land .

Marsh land was used as a ritual sites back in stone/Bronze Age??

Yes I'm clutching at straws here.

They sacrificed and offered gifts to the gods.
Could the builders disturbed the spirits ?
Hear of it on old Indian reservations.

If they called in someone from the spiritualist church then they were already of the mindset that ghosts exist. Someone came and told them it was all ok and they believed them. They stopped interpreting things as ghosts and they felt more settled in the house so weren’t on edge nearly as much.

The term ghosts covers a wide range of phenomena which are not necessarily related.

• Actual contact with departed ‘soul’ - (note soul and spirit are not the same)
• Mental formation stamped by thoughts/feelings of departed human on the atmosphere of a place wandering around/repeating itself until it exhausts itself or is dissolved.
• Being/entity of the lower astral planes who assumes discarded astral sheath (or fragment of it) of a dead human and appears and acts in that form
• Being/entity of the lower astral plane who by some means is able to materialise sufficiently so as to appear or speak or move stuff around - this is what is generally called ‘poltergeists’.
• Temporary possession of people by astral beings/entity who sometimes pretend to be a relative
• Thought-images of a person projected, often at the moment of death, which appear for some time afterwards to family and friends.

Surprisingly, building work can also disturb the fabric of a building, meaning new noises, settling, drying out of timber etc.

Which is more likely, do you think?

I actually once had a 'spiritualist' in my house. She told me that my house was haunted (because a room was cold - nevermind it having 3 external walls) and that she was getting messages from my dead mother, but then got basic details about her completely wrong. So not only was she a massive bullshitter, but a completely amoral crook telling a 17 year old girl that her recently deceased mum was speaking to her. Absolutely deplorable.

Friend had lots of tji gs going on in her house, it's a very old house. She got a priest to exorcise the house and it's been fine since.

Parents friends have lived for over 40 years I their house with a friendly poltergeist they just accept it as part of the house

I lived in a haunted house for years, laughed at people who believed in them before that. Thankfully I never felt too threatened, but knew there was someone else there, things in corner of my eyes, things moving, felt watched when upstairs, loads more bits. Others felt it too without me telling them. Several friends wouldn't use the toilet upstairs for the feeling of being watched.

@PriamFarrl

I'm not sure that's true, I think most, if not all of us have said look for rational explanations first. So we very much agree on that pov. It's that we accept an alternative "woo" explanation can be a possibility in some circumstances too, but we are attacked for that. Nobody is attacking anyone for saying there's likely a rational explanation as there is in all probability

And again - how much more likely is it that the experiences are caused by physical phenomena resulting from building on unstable land, than by ‘Spirits?

You cannot answer a simple question like- who accredits mediums?

I'm not sensitive, I'm pointing out that the only thing you can react with is insults as you don't have the most basic tools to enable you to evidence any of the baffling claims you are making.

I think it's a position you have probably developed over the years after failing to speak rationaly about topic you obviously care deeply about. It's probably a mix of distress at not being able to rationalise your position. and deliberately, albeit transparent, diversion from this fact.

At least you get to think to yourself "Oh well I looked a fool but at least I upset them". I hate to break it to you but the only person you're upsetting is yourself.

You are literally the one mud slinging, being the rudest and most condescending while at the same time claiming to be the victim.

Obviously I can see why, you have nothing to rebuke these arguments with.

Exactly - chemistry developed out of Alchemy which was both an occult science and a material one.

I wouldn't bother moving as op suggests, haven't you seen Insidious? they'll just come with you. HTH.

As pp suggests, sorry

Op , I would ask to priest to bless the whole house in all seriousness tbh.

Those energies may be attracted to some of you or someone living close by your house, it didn't necessarily means that they are only in your house. Could be the area.

You can said loudly and clearly that they are not welcome in your house and you want them to leave, that this is your house atm and you are not giving them permission to be there.

You can also smudge the house with white sage and afterwards with sweet grass while saying the words above.