To think we had a ghost?

[SmartPony]

I have posted about this before, but DD had a scary dream about someone standing on our stairs which made me think of it again!

We moved into our dilapidated bungalow a few years ago. Previously owned by an elderly couple - husband had died. Wife went into care home. It had remained unoccupied for some months. Very dusty, old - imprint of a cross that used to hang on our bedroom wall.

First night - a car seat that I’d placed centrally on a table fell to the floor. Loud bang middle of the night in the darkness.

A week later I distinctly heard the piano being played. Called out well done to DD. She was in a different room and was not playing the piano.

One morning I woke to the sound of an alarm clock. Which stopped as I woke. Desperately searched bed for phone/clock. Nothing there. A few weeks later I looked at picture of bedroom as it was - on rightmove. There was once an alarm clock where I heard the noise.

I didn’t speak about any of this to DD, maybe mentioned to DP - but certainly not in front of DD as I wouldn’t want to scare her.

DD went to the toilet and DP saw her freeze. She said there was a man in the toilet wearing a suit. And he disappeared. DD then refused to go to toilet without an adult for several weeks.

Then - nothing more. And if I did perhaps wonder if we had a ‘ghost’ - I certainly don’t now. It’s our home.

My justification for this is : settling in to a new home, and my mind racing. The state it was in and an over active imagination on my part. All my communications to DD were rational and we always said the ‘ghost’ in the toilet was Daddy’s shadow. Only I spoke to our neighbour who knew the elderly couple - she remarked that he was always smartly dressed…

Tell me I’m mad!

an imprint of a cross that used to hang on our bedroom wall.

See now, this is when you should’ve run for the hills. Sounds like a scene from The Exorcist!

@Workinghardeveryday how do you still live there?

Could the old man have been waiting for his wife to die in the care home and when she did he then moved on? Did she die around the time it stopped?

Our cat was killed on the road and for weeks after we would hear meowing, little paws running around up stairs and the spring door stops would just randomly make a noise as if they had been swotted. It was clear that dkitty was hanging around but he soon moved on xx

Erm…may I politely ask…”WHAT THE EFFING HELL ARE YOU STILL LIVING THERE FOR???”

Has everybody read the Savernake (sp?) Forest thread?

That some scary shit right there.

@Sickofcoughing @Yeahrightthen

I know! If someone told me all of that it would really creep me out and I would think they were mad to stay.

It 90% of the time isn’t like that. The house is very old but has a really friendly feeling to it. On the days the atmosphere changes, these days I rarely get scared, it just annoys me. I just think to myself, F off, this is my house, I pay the mortgage and I will not be scared to spend time in it. It is more of an inconvenience and annoyance.

It is just our normal as daft as that sounds - although some nights I do leave the landing light on!

I don’t believe in ghosts and I’d like to think I’m a reasonable person, but YANBU OP.

I’ve lived in this house (Georgian) for 12 years. I can always hear clunks and bangs that I can explain away as “old house”. But the top floor unnerves me and that’s where the children are. Things moving, nooie cam alerts in the middle of the day, point blank refusal from the dogs to go up there and now they’re old enough, comments from the children.

whatever it is, seems to be ok. It doesn’t scare me, but sometimes it does bother me.

The old folk don't know they're dead. You need to tell them.

I do agree with this.

When dd17 was a baby the noises were terrible. I would be sitting downstairs breastfeeding. It sounded like someone was in the room above was dragging a heavy table around.

I told my mum who is a total none believer. She said out loud upstairs on her own, that they were scaring me. I was a new mum etc. never heard it again!

bloody hell. You’re all heroes for still living there😫🙈

I really wish I hadn’t read this thread just before bed 😭

I worked in an old building in london that had been partially bombed during the Blitz and re built.

Saw and heard lots of very weird things, experienced a lot of them as a group and none of us could quite believe it. I still think there must be another explanation but none of us have one.

Things that were firmly on a shelf would fly off ( like they had been thrown), we would hear our names being whispered, doors would open and close for no reason (nothing electronic involved), there were big crashes but nothing would be found to cause it, we would come in, in the morning and things would be on the floor - files etc. A door was locked from the inside once and had to be broken into to open it.

All so strange and unexplainable. I'm still convinced there must be an explanation but so many people have similar stories.

I did . Disturbed me for days ! I had a pm conversation with the lady who wrote it , totally believ her and she had absolutely no explanation. Her fried. Who lived in that house never had a strange experience but did sell up
And move a couple of years later . One of the most frightening things I've ever read made worse because it was someone's first hand experience.

After I googled and savernake forest is a very strange place ! Very active . If you believe that sort of thing ....

You say stairs and yet live in a bungalow?

Ever heard of a dorma ?

Could there be a gas leak in your house or close by? That can sometimes cause people to think they're haunted.

Aww I def think the husband was looking for his wife and sounds as though she is/was still alive? You'll be even more freaked out of you discover this is the case.

Me and kids have heard stuff when we moved into our 200yr old house. I frequently saged and kept talking to them/myself saying we mean no harm, please stop scaring the children, we just want to fill the house with love and laughter. We haven't had anything for a while now. Although I reckon I've just tempted fate!!

For those who do t know the savernake story or what happened:-

A lady who posts here went to houses it her friends small holding on the edge of savernake forest . Her husband couldn't go but it was just for a week so she went alone . The lady who had the place had 3 black labs (one a pup) and other animals including chickens in a hen house .

First couple of days were uneventful. Then one evening she had locked up the chicken coup when she hear a mighty commotion in there - thinking a fox had got in she ran down and unlocked the shed to find all the chickens in their roosts , asleep , no sign of anything untoward. So she locked it back up and went back to the house .
As she opened the door she saw a steak of black run past her - she cursed thinking the puppy had escaped so she got one of the other dogs on a lead and grabbed a torch to go find the pup .

As she got deeper into the forest she realised she didn't recognise the paths , she came upon a clearing but the lights from the torch couldn't penetrate the darkness - she said the light was bouncing back .
As her eyes began to accustom to the dark she say figures moving around , at that she turned to leave but the dog was laid down , heckles up growling.

At this point scared and alone she said "Jesus Christ you have got to be ducking kidding me" when she said something growled in her ear "don't mention that name here "
Absolutely terrified she ran , the dog ran , she dropped the torch but the dog seemed to know it's way back and she ran blindly through the woods , managing to miss trees .

As she got back into the yard she tripped and fell grazing her knees and hands , but scrambled up and ran into the house .
As she turned to face the kitchen after locking and bolting the door she saw the dogs were all growling, heckles up - including the puppy . He was there all along . She has no idea what the black thing that ran off was .

She said by this point she was sobbing and turned every light on in the house and sat with her back to the door until dawn - she then rang her husband and insisted he come stay for the remainder of her time there . The rest of the week passed without event . She did not tell her friend .

Her friend sold the small holding a short time after . They never discussed it .

What a perfect way to put it. Me too.

Their alarm clock needs telling as well apparently.

Yanbu op had lots of experiences no I'm not crazy!! Just say out loud leave me/us alone usually works x

But that was obviously fiction, quite a carefully-composed one. I’m never sure why people on here seem to think it’s true just because someone posted it on here, any more than

Look, OP, chances are this is just a combination of being more attuned to unfamiliar smells, sounds etc in a new house, getting a bit nervy at sudden noises, and an imaginative young child dealing with a house move. I gave myself a real fright after we moved into this big, dilapidated house, a long way off the road, in midwinter — I kept seeing something flash past the window in the dark. Turned out it was a heavy silver necklace I’d rediscovered in the move casting a reflected light onto the dark bushes outside the window when it caught the kitchen light from a particular angle.

(People are also behaving as though the imprint of a cross on the wall is redolent of The Exorcist or something, but having a crucifix on a bedroom wall would be entirely normal for lots of older Catholics. My parents have one, with last years Palm Sunday palm tucked behind it over their bed.)

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