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??

The house is on marshland, it's exceptionally dry weather, it's moving a bit. There is no such thing as haunting.

How bonkers it is is dictated by how much the delusional belief impacts one's everyday life.

In my experience its minimal. So no I wouldn't say you're bonkers.

I live in an old house & am disinclined to believe in ghosts, but had a spell here of odd, random things happening - radio in the kitchen turning on, things moving, hearing 'someone' in the hall when there was no one else in etc I got really fed up with it and one day shouted "for crying out loud pack it in!" and that was the end of it 😄 No idea if that was cure or coincidence though.
Anyhoo, other suggestions - subsidence, why were houses built on land that floods? Tbh that would concern me more. And birds on/in the roof/attic - can make an incredible amount of noise that can sound very much 'in' the house. Also rats/mice - i know from experience a rat running inside a cavity wall will sound as if it's right next to you

Haunted houses are real, I’ve experienced this too. There was a malevolent spirit in a house I was staying with a friend in and we both observed some strange things. Moving forms - almost like smoke, footsteps when no one was there and re appearing then disappearing mould like shadows on a wall.

@Miffee

Delusional belief is gendering hauntings & "woo" as a male dominated conspiracy theory.

You need to read some history, if it's gendered at all, it's very much a feminine thing

You also need to understand that your life experience is not everyone's life experience & just because it hasn't happened to you, doesn't mean it doesn't genuinely happen & that there is often no logical explanation for it based on current science

"the house is built on marsh land"

I'd say that's your underlying problem.

Then you got spooked and are seeing things that aren't there because you've convinced yourselves it's haunted.

Dog is picking up on your anxiety and it's affecting him.

Witches weren’t burned in England- they were hung.

Oh that’s easily fixed.

Stand on a beach and look out to sea. The curvature is visible on the horizon at the point where the sea meets the sky.

I sympathise. We have something very strange going on on this house atm. Moved in a few months back, brand new conversion. Weird noises all the time, clear footsteps overhead to the extend my non woo partner has gone up with a baseball bat as he hears them too. We are totally detached so no neighbors, nowhere anyone could be living as no inbuilt cupboards or storage (another rant). Stuff has been going missing and turning up on the floor in the middle of rooms weeks later. Weird shadows that my bird keeps screaming at. Feeling of someone leaning over me at night.

As I said, scariest part here is my logical partner who does not believe in the paranormal is starting to be freaked out. Only yesterday we were sat downstairs and three glasses on back of upstairs unit smashed, no idea how they moved.

I love the idea in these scenarios that a pet is somehow proof of a haunting.

You, an intelligent human, have been spooked by an unknown shadow or a mysterious creaky noise, yet a dog barking is somehow proof that it's definitely a ghost and there's no way the dog is also just reacting to a random noise it heard. A cat will chase a laser pointer across a room trying to catch it and yet we're like oh, the cat is definitely seeing something that we can't. It's so funny.

I don't need to read anything because I'm not that arsed. It was just my observation.

There is no such thing as ghosts. It doesn't happen. It isn't real. The very idea defies all logic and relies heavily on coincidence and fantastical ever changing "rules". You only need to look at this thread. The complete lack of consistency to how any of this supposedly works is hilarious. A believer will make a statement presented as absolute fact only to be entirely contradicted a few posts later.

Houses make noises. But you could always contact your local paranormal group (there will be one, I guarantee!) to investigate it. The one near me has all kinds of equipment they use to test for 'presences'.

Subsidence/settling with the recent hot weather/carbon monoxide/Vit B12/rats/squirrels/pipes could all be logical explanations. Like a PP I'd be reassured that these strange goings on stopped for a long time before starting again, that to me points to a more logical explanation.

So, I'd get all that checked out first but although I'm not a "woo" person and am very sceptical about ghosts I'd perhaps also try asking loudly for them to go away and say they're scaring you. It can't hurt, I'd say anything is worth a try.

@BarbedButterfly

I'd suggest getting help from a spiritualist or other church with that one (they often work together on stuff like this) I don't want to worry you, but I experienced a haunting like this & it escalated to setting fires & throwing knives

I was raised being told that ghosts did not exist, we lived in a very old huge house. All the weird noises and feelings were attributed to its old age and that it looked scary by my Mother.

Many years later DH and I rented a lovely little house. That house was the least spooky looking house ever. We moved in and the constant corner of the eye movements and then actually seeing a person. Well I just absolutely bricked it, me the cynic. We only lived there six months as we were renting.

I was never that close to my Mother but I did raise the experiences in the rented house and it started a conversation about the house I grew up in. She admitted she was prettified in that house but had dismissed it all as a way of coping hence her shutting us down and forbidding us to talk about it. I’m one of six children and at that point we started to talk about it and it transpired there was one place on the stairs we were all petrified of.

I would imagine your DH is reacting like my Mother did. But it sounds like it is putting a strain on your relationships. Do the carbon monoxide and all the practical stuff first. Then consider the other stuff. My friend is a C of E vicar and they do have people that assist with this I was quite surprised when she told me.

Mystery solved.

You can combine this with a bit of ‘naval gazing’ (sic), as recommended by a PP. Go to Plymouth or Portsmouth for maximum success.

I’m sure they say spirits attatch themselves to people rather than houses? That’s why if you move, the strange activity follows

😂genuinely laughed out loud.

🤣🤣🤣

Incidentally, whenever I read a post starting with, “I’m not at all woo”, I know, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the post will go like this:

1. Here’s a load of noises and things that moved in our house.
2. I ‘felt watched’ (every time!)
3. The dog didn’t like it.
4. It was DEFINITELY a ghost!

There is no such thing as ghosts. It doesn't happen. It isn't real

That's fine dear, you carry on in your ignorance. I actually envy you that as I'd much rather not believe in this shit too, but life experience has taught me otherwise.

The footsteps thing could be the house settling, my mum and dad have that in their house and it's had my dad up checking a few times.
I can't explain the other stuff but I work in a castle and have seen stuff out of the corner of my eye a good few times. It could be something or it could be my mind playing tricks because I know lots of other people think the place is haunted.
Would it put your mind at ease to have someone round to do a blessing or whatever it's called?

Spiritualist churches are not very much not churches in the old fashioned sense. Woo is big business, you only have to look at the current thread on Witches, currently on number 17, to see how popular this sort of thing has become.

No you wouldn't. You want to believe. You cannot believe this shit without being eager to embrace it.

It's not ignorance is it? I've listened to what believer's have said. The problem is the more I find out the more the evidence stacks up that it's bollocks.