To not want to stay in sister’s haunted house?

[EmilyRigby]

Lets say you don’t believe in ghosts but your sisters house freaks you the fuck out and the last time you stayed there you left at 3am - I don’t believe in ghosts but there is something about that house I really really don’t like. Nephew won’t step foot inside the place and my dad won’t go in on his own. Her friends used to stay over some weekends but now they won’t go overnight either.

She’s asked me to stay there for a week in October for £500 (like a caretaker fee). Could do with the money but I don’t think I can do it. Am I being ridiculous? She can’t get anyone else to do it.

(Obviously there are reasons she can’t just leave it empty for a week)

I wouldn’t - whether you believe in ghosts or not, the house makes you feel anxious. Don’t make yourself feel frightened for a week!!!

Oh no, sorry, that was another poster - I got confused. Still, utterly bonkers 🤣

I really want to know OP what happened there.
I don't want to believe in stuff like that but in my childhood home my brother and I both experienced being breathed on, a feeling of being watched and the wall being smacked near our heads when asleep. The last one really shit me up. Parents experienced being pushed there and the next terrace house on would see a person walking around 😱

I'm afraid the ghosts have probably got her.

I'd like more details as it sounds interesting but ultimately YABU if you don't want to stay there.

I doubt there are ghosts.

There can be places you just feel uncomfortable staying in, that is enough to say no.

It's really good there was a documentary also some of the stories seem real one was from someone that lives near me. There was one that was so far fetched the episode about the man that that used a ouigi board. He said he kept getting creepy calls not matter where he went.

I find all of this really fascinating (also an Uncanny listener!) I do not believe in ghosts but there are lots of proven phenomena that can induce feelings of fear in people. Infrasound as PPs have said, or inhaling mould spores which can cause hallucinations, or even architectural features.

Knowing this however, definitely wouldn't make me feel any better late at night in a house that made me feel uncomfortable or frightened so no, I wouldn't do it. I'm sure she could find a professional house sitter for that sort of money.

HELLO, OP! We are waiting and it’s cold! (Disappointed ghost noises!)

I had this exact scenario! I refused but agreed to have her pets at mine

How very disappointing, I want it to be a proper ghost. One that walks through walls and stands over your bed.

Please come back and share more details, OP!

£500 for a poke around my sister's cool house for a week? Yeah go on and haunt me!

Seriously op. I definitely don't belief in ghosts, obvs. But I do believe in being freaked out. It depends on whether being freaked out for a week is worth £500 to you 🤷‍♀️ If not, then don't do it.

I'm intrigued as to the back story here....

Why does she need a caretaker? Is this the house?

Personally I do not believe in ghosts but I do get that you can be freaked out in certain places. If it were me I would try to work it out. A friend son would freak out inher flat so she got a blessing done. The kid wad never freaked out again. I've been freaked because of odd draughts and doors which open the wrong way or pdd noises. Once I've worked it out I stop being freaked by it. Perhaps have a think what it is. Which freaks you our first. Do you believe in ghosts, do you believe someone is looking at you... etc

Sorry forget room layouts. Backs to doors are known to invoke fear, windows with no coverings on a dark night... I love finding why we respond to dangers which no longer exist but is buries deep inside our fight flight parts.

I’ve just got back from babysitting my cousin’s little boy. I definitely heard a few unexplained creaks. I’d bought him some bubble wands and we stood on the doorstep waving them and then he starting saying about ghosts in the dark
I wouldn’t want to stay there! Even though he very sweetly asked me!

Old cottage, beautiful, but quite dark - tiny windows

So cold windows, draughts, perhaps heating on, which makes floorboards creak. You nephew is probably tuned into ghosts because he's heard adults talking.

🍿 am here for OP's story (come on!)

@elQuintoConyo nothing to do with the thread but can I just say I love the boldness of your username? Had a chuckle 🤭

My new build is built on the grounds of an old children’s home - I didn’t know until the days leading up to picking up my keys. I had googled my new address to look on street view maps and it came up. They’ve even recycled the house number so my address is exactly the same.

99% of the time I couldn’t feel more relaxed and at home here but if I read a spooky post my house starts to feel scary. What I’m getting at is how much of the fear is just in our minds.

Well presumably King Kong has snatched OP and she’s half way up the Empire State Building by now, probably dropped her phone as well, it’s the only reason we were teased with the possibility of a tale then left hanging that I can think of!

I've never felt more abandoned and betrayed.

OP, we need closure.

I still think of this every now and then 😨