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Haunted house scaring the shit out of me

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Goawayghosts · 31/07/2022 22:23

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??

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Foronenightonly01 · 31/07/2022 23:40

Yes, subsidence is a possibility. Any chance of a large rat or 2 underneath your floorboards? Worst case do speak to your local vicar, they will very often help. I had a friend who had a good many weird goings on at hers - she rang the local vicar in a complete state, he brought over a colleague, they blessed the house and she never had a peep again - you can look at it from many different view points but it worked.

BobMortimersPocketMeat · 31/07/2022 23:41

Discovereads · 31/07/2022 23:16

I’m not an “amateur”?!

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Then hail, fellow archaeologist! But I wouldn’t be recommending it to the OP, who hasn’t said she is one of us.

leisurelystroll · 31/07/2022 23:41

I can't believe there are people saying you should get a priest in. These people are nutjobs.

There's no such thing as ghosts. They don't exist and the laws of the universe mean they cannot exist. Put that out of your mind completely and start looking at the evidence.

If you're sure it's just you and your partner living there then the moving things around has to be you, your partner, your dog, or someone who visits your house.

The noises you hear will be pipework, the house settling, expansion or contraction through the day because of temperature differences, or an actual person walking upstairs.

Voices: are these definitely originating from inside the house? Are you hearing them inside because the sound is travelling in from an outside vent or something? Is an upstairs TV on or Alexa announcing something?

Remember: Ghosts don't exist and ghosts cannot exist.

Kerrrmieee · 31/07/2022 23:42

House built on marshland, prone to flooding - I'm not surprised previous owner accepted 10K less.

Your 20 year old house is sinking.

VanillaIce1 · 31/07/2022 23:43

I never believed in woo stuff until my mum had a basement flat in Tooting bec . It was awful if someone lit a cigarette it would burn back somehow and cause you to drop it. Anything left on the draining board would start banging and fly off.
If you had the tv on the volume would go down and the radio would come on full blast it was horrendous and really scary. My dad doesn't believe in ghosts but even he wouldn't visit.
My mum woke up one night and saw a reflection of an old man in the mirror, she moved out a day later.
What done it for my dad was he gone into bed one night and he thought mum had got in as something lifted the cover, mattress sunk down and a cold breeze came in.

He won't talk about it at all now, he doesn't like nothing that can't be explained. Since found out they used to burn suspected witches on the common up there really sad.

Somethingsnappy · 31/07/2022 23:43

Call in an exorcist, a, surveyor and a frogger-hunter... Cover all bases! 😁

Positivevibes2022 · 31/07/2022 23:43

leisurelystroll · 31/07/2022 23:41

I can't believe there are people saying you should get a priest in. These people are nutjobs.

There's no such thing as ghosts. They don't exist and the laws of the universe mean they cannot exist. Put that out of your mind completely and start looking at the evidence.

If you're sure it's just you and your partner living there then the moving things around has to be you, your partner, your dog, or someone who visits your house.

The noises you hear will be pipework, the house settling, expansion or contraction through the day because of temperature differences, or an actual person walking upstairs.

Voices: are these definitely originating from inside the house? Are you hearing them inside because the sound is travelling in from an outside vent or something? Is an upstairs TV on or Alexa announcing something?

Remember: Ghosts don't exist and ghosts cannot exist.

🤡

VanillaIce1 · 31/07/2022 23:47

My nan also has a funny flat and would love to know what is causing it! None of us have ever seen anything, nothing like the OP has but the hallway of flat is WEIRD. You always feel like you're being watched and it's the same for every room in tbe house.

My nans lived there for 60 years, my dad is now 52 and he used to lay on her lap staring at the passage way saying he doesn't like it as a child. And all of us have said the same about the hallway. Weirdly enough I have 3 kids of my own now and they do it also.
But nothing else has happened it just feels weird as fuck.

Somethingsnappy · 31/07/2022 23:47

Somethingsnappy · 31/07/2022 23:43

Call in an exorcist, a, surveyor and a frogger-hunter... Cover all bases! 😁

Sorry, that should say phrogger-hunter!

leisurelystroll · 31/07/2022 23:47

@Foronenightonly01 the priest works because of the placebo effect. I used to do this to my daughter when she had a bad dream, I'd pretend to take the dream from her head and go to the window and throw it out, then I'd go and find a 'good' dream in the drawers and pretend to put that in her head. Worked a treat.

Hallamus · 31/07/2022 23:49

So many people so certain they know everything about the universe. Most people would have told you germs didn't exist before they had microscopes to examine and study them.

PinkButtercups · 31/07/2022 23:55

CustardySergeant · 31/07/2022 23:19

"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."

If you were looking at your phone how did you see something behind you? Had you heard something that made you look round at that moment?

I assume because OP could've locked her phone at that moment.

leisurelystroll · 31/07/2022 23:56

Hallamus · 31/07/2022 23:49

So many people so certain they know everything about the universe. Most people would have told you germs didn't exist before they had microscopes to examine and study them.

There are many more people who are certain that ghosts exist cos their auntie saw a shadow once and the bathroom was a bit cold. Despite the proliferation of cameras, we're still unable to catch any convincing evidence of their existence.

Discovereads · 01/08/2022 00:03

leisurelystroll · 31/07/2022 23:56

There are many more people who are certain that ghosts exist cos their auntie saw a shadow once and the bathroom was a bit cold. Despite the proliferation of cameras, we're still unable to catch any convincing evidence of their existence.

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Cameras. They can only record in the visible spectrum of light.
Theres a lot a regular camera cannot see, like black holes and galaxies. The James Webb telescope doesn’t have a single regular camera on it, it sees in the invisible infra-red.
When it comes to ghosts, the evidence may be there but we lack the instruments to see/detect them.
Not saying they exist, just that I have an open mind on the subject. It’s a bit odd that every human culture has independently and in isolation had ghost stories.

Brigante9 · 01/08/2022 00:05

Shadows, even of mice/rats, can be thrown right up the wall depending on the lighting. Stick down some snap traps. However, if things are being moved, lock your loft hatch on the outside. 3rd option, seriously, get the place blessed. Don’t engage with anything if it is haunted.

justasking111 · 01/08/2022 00:11

Marsh land yep call in a surveyor. Could have rats start looking for droppings

leisurelystroll · 01/08/2022 00:11

@Discovereads it's not so much using the camera to film the ghost but it's effect on the environment. Surely whatever we perceive as a ghost can be captured on camera as we also only see visible light?

That goes for any instrument to detect them. If humans can in some where detect the presence of a ghost, we would absolutely have an instrument that could capture that.

This isn't about keeping an open mind (i.e I wouldn't say God definitely doesn't exist as there's no way of knowing), with ghosts they must be detectable because humans can detect them. If they have any effect on the world then they must produce heat and transfer energy in some way.

Riseabove · 01/08/2022 00:15

Have a chat with your dog during the day, it sounds as though he’s a bit freaked out by it too.
could you sell up?

Discovereads · 01/08/2022 00:24

If humans can in some where detect the presence of a ghost, we would absolutely have an instrument that could capture that.

Really, and what instrument do we have that can detect emotions? None.
And yet humans can detect the vibe of a room of people…something no camera or instrument can detect (yet).

In short, we don’t (yet) have instruments that can detect all humans can sense.

FoxyLadyBoutique · 01/08/2022 00:26

It’s the ghost of Kenneth Williams reprising his role as Willo the Wisp.

tillytown · 01/08/2022 00:27

There was a post on reddit where the guy was experiencing the same kind of stuff as you, turned out to be carbon monoxide poisoning. Get someone to check the boiler/cooker

CounsellorTroi · 01/08/2022 00:28

And yet humans can detect the vibe of a room of people.

Because those people are real and alive.

echt · 01/08/2022 00:30

I'd sell up, just on account of the flooding, which will only get worse - global warming and all that.

I was looking at possibly downsizing in my bit of Melbourne and saw a lovely house, then realised the land had flooded several times in my time here. It used to be a marsh, in living memory. Hard to buck nature. Scratch that. Impossible.

Discovereads · 01/08/2022 00:38

CounsellorTroi · 01/08/2022 00:28

And yet humans can detect the vibe of a room of people.

Because those people are real and alive.

Not relevant as humans can detect dead people as well by smelling them…something we also have no artificial instrument to detect. Which is why we have cadaver dogs.

mackthepony · 01/08/2022 00:42

If it were me, I'd be saying in a loud clear voice ' Leave us alone. This is our house now. Please move on'