Ghost stories

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Someone mentioned on another thread that it would be good to start a ghost story thread. So I thought I'd give it a go!

Have you ever seen a ghost or a mysterious person.? Ive never seen one, but My mum says that she has seen an old woman in her room , dressed in old clothes. After a few minutes she just vanished

When I was about 9 my dad said he woke to my yelling for him to come upstairs (parents downstairs kids upstairs). He said he came into the room and I had my bedroom windows wide open sitting on the sill saying my sister was telling me to come out to join her. I have a memory of my sister in the street outside holding a balloon she'd gotten from a party, but she was in her bed. I did sleepwalk when I was young, but that was the one where I was in danger.

My cousins family have a story that they were away staying in a friends big country house, and the adults were all having drinks in a room. My cousin who was about three/four at the time came into the room telling them that there was a lady asking her to come away with her. The story has been sitting in my mind all my life.

Strange all the child stories of being asked to come away with someone.

When I was about 11 and my sister was 17 we were home (in our parents’ end of terrace house). We were on our own and it was quiet - the house is on a quiet road. I remember we were standing on the landing and suddenly we heard childrens’ voices signing the line “ring a ring o’roses” and then it was quiet again.

As it was end of terrace, in our room we could hear the tv from next door on and can still hear when the neighbour children cry but it’s always clearly through a wall, like it sounds muffled. This was as clear as day, it was silent and then the singing and then silent again. There were no kids playing outside or anything.

The only thing I could ever think was that next door turned on a tv or radio and then almost immediately turned it off again but like I say, it was so clear. Like it was next to us. My parents still live there and I still sleep in the room with the connecting wall to the other house when I stay, and I’ve never heard anything else like it in the 20 years since.

I also teach in a school that dates to the Victorian times and come over summer I was the only one in one of the buildings and I heard children’s footsteps running through the hall but that was less convincing.

Not long after my cat died I heard him purring as clear as anything . It was a great comfort x

My ex and I also went to stay in a cottage in Herefordshire years ago and I felt the entire time this suffocating feeling of dread, like I was being watched. I still did have a nice time, but especially in the quiet fields nearby and in the evening, I just felt as though something was there. I didn’t sleep well and felt uneasy through the night.

He felt the same, and he was absolutely not one to buy into that. We got back one evening and the gate we had locked was unlocked. Almost certainly just the owner of the place popping by or something, but on top of the feeling of being watched, we just packed up and left a night early. Driving through the winding country lanes in the dark, I didn’t feel at all safe until we pulled onto the nearest A road.

Owl or seagull? I once called the police because of terrible noises on a roof

lol I’d prefer to think that! But it was repeated stompy running footsteps and a young girl screaming. Later the same night my husband woke up three time because he thought our bed was being tipped horizontally… not sure that was seagulls but would feel a lot better if it was all explained away 🤣

I did get my place thoroughly blessed by a priest as well...

Yes I don’t know if you saw but we also prayed something else away in our house!!

@Awwlookatmybabyspider Funnily enough I believe I saw 'another one of my mum' as a child. I was maybe 8 or so and woke up in the night to find the hall light on and my door wide open. Sat up feeling wide awake as it was bright and i felt on edge for some reason. Looked back to see my mum had suddenly just...appeared at the end of the hall, she walked down to her room and didn't turn off the light. Something was just so 'off'.

I called out a few times, no response, so I really started to call to them. I wanted to step off the bed but I felt instinctively 'do not do this'.

I called to them for maybe an hour with no response, becoming increasingly more fearful. And I was long past the age at night where I'd normally call to them unless there was severe issue. So they would have responded had they heard.

I felt like that was not her I had seen. Seems like an odd thing to say as opposed to
'maybe they were just ignoring you' but I can't put into words the feeling of unease, of 'do not touch the floor' I had. A cold feeling. A pure fear.

The next day they said they never heard a thing.
For all I know maybe they were just shagging xD but still, they would have responded at some point as I grew hysterical surely.

I wonder now if it was a doppelganger thing. Or if I was somehow out of my own timeline briefly.

Even if she'd been sleepwalking or something (which might explain leaving the hall light on) he would have responded.

Just an odd thing I've always remembered from childhood. We talk about it sometimes now.

Rationally it's easily explainable...but it felt off. Like a waking dream. But I know I was awake because I stayed up for a long time debating whether or not to step off the bed, pacing my bed, sitting on it, calling out.

Yes! It would be incredibly outing but I have a raft of woo experiences, many with witnesses, as I have had to live or work in a lot of old buildings. Having the priest in was the best idea.

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Trying to think if I have any more. Or if i have heard about anymore

I used to babysit three children who lived in a massive house. Think 4 huge floors with random corridors going off to other rooms, interlocking rooms, cellar. I used to sit in the kitchen /snug where they lived and I used to have to steel myself to go and check on the sleeping kids. Up three staircases past a wall to floor mirror half-way up. I was terrified of accidentally looking in the mirror and seeing 'something'. I would run up as fast as possible and down the same way before getting back to the cosy kitchen. Same if i needed to use the bathroom. Never saw anything, it was probably just my overactive imagination but it felt creepy.

Me, my DH, DS7 and baby recently stayed in a very old cottage on holiday. First night just after 3am, I hear footsteps so prominent that I thought DS had woken up and was heading to our room. I opened the door and he wasn't there...in fact he was still in bed. I went back to bed, the door gently opened ajar and then shut.
Trying not to panic, i decided to dismiss it had happened and turned my back away from the door and went to sleep.

The footsteps continued to happen the following nights at the same time, to the point where I opened the door because I was sure someone was there. Last night..no footsteps but the whole power went out. (Restored 15 mins later)
The morning of departure, I have never been so eager to leave..everything was shoved in cases and i was practically dragging everyone outside. I then allowed myself to freak out 😆 DH decided to then tell me of the unexplained activity he saw too.

Next holiday we're staying at a Premier Inn.

I am pretty open minded and believe anything is possible, but it does make me laugh how so many stories of ghosts, demons, poltergeists, and ghouls, are in really OLD - often large houses. And often in a remote or rural place. And they're nearly always Victorian or Medieval ghosts.

It's never a ghost with a One Direction T-shirt on, in a tiny 2013 new-build semi in the middle of Wolverhampton or Croydon! 😆

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I have seen modern ones. But if I passed one in the supermarket I wouldn't know, would I?

Most houses on my street are 150 years plus old and there are older things underground; a lot of streets in the UK are like this.

It's a bit like cleaning. There is more ghost built up over time. Maybe.

@LastNight1Dreamt1WentToManderleyAgain I guess there would be more chance of a ghost in older houses than there would in a 2013 house, (as more people would have lived there.) But it's just funny (to me) that people who claim to have seen a ghost nearly always say it's a house that's 100+ years old, and it's always HUGE, and 'rambling' with dozens of rooms, (and sometimes multiple floors, and a cellar of course!) And it's nearly always rural.

It's never even 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s houses. And THEY would have had a good few people live in them, (and people who would died since living there!)

Well my mums house, where she has seen a lot of ghosts, is extremely rural, but not old. The house was built in the 1970s.

So there's one!

Maybe it's reflecting Mumsnet users living more 'middle class' lives in Victorian semis and so on?

I saw a deceased family member in a 1970s build house, but mistook him for a guest having a quiet moment in a side room, till he disappeared. It was a rambling house though, sorry. It was confusing because he looked familiar but was someone I'd not met in his lifetime.

I saw the ghost of Gloria Gaynor once.

At first I was afraid, I was petrified.

I get this quite a lot to be honest. I like to tell myself it’s God, but I also worry that I’m going mad!

I think it's a spirit guide!

Was this in Harle Syke?

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I had a lot of poltergeist activity in my 1960s house . The next occupant experienced it too .