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Boy catches a ghost on his mobile?

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piratecat · 12/02/2009 19:26

is it real?

from the Sun!

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BitOfFun · 16/02/2009 12:20

We need a "totally freaked out" emoticon!

KayHarker · 16/02/2009 14:32

I have a story.

My mum's house had been owned before by an elderly couple. The gentleman was a little odd, and would spend a lot of time in the enormous shed next to the house. He even had a little square cut in one end of it to see who was walking up the drive. Going through the gate next to it always gave us the creeps.

Anyway, when I was a teenager, I had a few friends round, and we were listening to a few records in the back room. One song in particular started playing on repeat. Now, this is an old-fashioned record deck we're talking about, not digi-technology. It wasn't skipping, it was just playing the one song, then going back to the start and playing again.

We thought it was funny at first, but it soon got a little irritating, so I actively moved the stylus off and we started choosing something else. The stylus moved back on to the record - on the same song and started playing again. At this point, we were a bit freaked, and we decided we'd really had enough of being in the back room. You know, those moments were you're actually quite scared, but you don't want to look like a wally in front of your mates.

So I switched the record player off. And it carried on playing the song. I was proper wierded out at this point, and my friend said 'Oh, just unplug it!' so I did. And it carried on playing.

Teenage girls aren't made of the sternest stuff, so at this point, we all ran screaming up to my bedroom. Only our pet dog was on the stairs and wouldn't let us go up. We had no choice but to go outside and sit in the front garden until my mum got back, by which time, everything was quiet.

There were a few other incidents over the years, strange stains appearing etc. nearly all centred around that back room, some on the landing upstairs, but the scariest one happened after my mum died.

While the house was waiting to be sold, I stayed with friends, and came to check the house every few days. The last time I ever went, I couldn't get in the house. The key slotted in the lock, but it wouldn't turn. I needed to check for post, so my boyfriend went round the back to see if we'd left a small window open or if one of the rear doors was open.

I carried on trying with the key at the front door. I could hear Db round the back, trying the kitchen door and window handles, so I bent down to call through the letterbox, to see if he'd had luck. Through the gap, I could see all the way into the kitchen, and I saw him moving outside past the kitchen window, going to try the back room door. As I was looking, my vision was suddenly blocked. By a figure walking out of the back room, into the hall, and towards the front door.

I was so startled I leapt back from the door and screamed. Db came running round the front of the house and when I told him, he looked through and couldn't see a thing. The key still wouldn't budge. He'd been able to see clearly into the back room, through curtainless windows, that there was no-one in the house.

I never went back.

BitOfFun · 16/02/2009 14:56

Definitely a bit creepy...I would assume it was a burglar or squatter that had locked you out before I thought of ghosts though.

KayHarker · 16/02/2009 15:12

Nope. There was no-one and nothing in that house. All the curtains and furniture had been removed. There was no way anyone could have got in.

The estate agent was showing people round a few days later with a key exactly the same as mine and had no problem getting in.

WinkyWinkola · 16/02/2009 15:41

Shudder.

LisaLisa's story, especially the bit about the photographs on holiday kept me awake last night.

And that one about seeing an old man in the kitchen protecting someone from the shadow outside.

Brrrrrrrrrr.

JODIEhadtoomanymincepies · 16/02/2009 15:50

Been lurking for a couple of days and loving this thread! Keep 'em coming girlies!!!

Have a few of my own, just need 10 mins peace to write them down. Maybe tonight!

KayHarker · 16/02/2009 16:31

I should say, I have been back to the road since, but not into the actual house - it was completely renovated and extended. I've often been tempted to knock on the door and ask them if anything odd ever happened. I did see some pictures in an estate agent from when it was sold on one time, and the back room had been converted into a kitchen.

I wonder if the kitchen appliances ever work by themselves?

LazyLinePainterJane · 16/02/2009 17:07

mamadiva, I haven't seen a doctor. I think about it but they seem to come and go, I wonder if it is stress related or maybe hormonal? I had a couple of bad nights last month, but sometimes it goes on for weeks. It has been better since I had DD.

Has your DH seen a doctor?

LittleMissBliss · 16/02/2009 17:29

lislisa that house looks likea lovely place to holiday!

Please ask your friend if you can post that picture pretty please.

which chair was it? That wooden one by the fire?

Which was the bats room?

LittleMissBliss · 16/02/2009 17:29

lislisa that house looks likea lovely place to holiday!

Please ask your friend if you can post that picture pretty please.

which chair was it? That wooden one by the fire?

Which was the bats room?

LittleMissBliss · 16/02/2009 17:29

as i posted that a framed picture just fell off the shelf.

littlerach · 16/02/2009 19:40

LiasLisa, what happened in the end with the ghost?
Was it a cot that fell over?

lisalisa · 16/02/2009 22:45

littlerach - we never found out what happened with the cot/ghost. Luckily activity has very much died down - ds2 is now 3.3 so that shows when last incident was.

Littlemissbliss - friend won't allow piccie up - sorry and I couldn't divulge which site either as I'd be outed otherwise.

Chair was one in dining room at end near door.

Bats room was one covered in wooden pannelling.

It may look lovely but please please don't go there - there is just something wrong with that house.

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Ozziegirly · 17/02/2009 04:35

My DH and I lived in a lovely converted oast house in Kent for a year. It was slightly creepy, but not in an unfriendly way.

When we had been there for about a month, my Dh's aunt suddenly and unexpectedly died.

After that, there was a really strong "DH Aunt" presence around the house - we would even come down in the morning and say "Morning Aunt's name".

Then one night we were asleep, and were suddenly awoken by the television coming on by itself downstairs.

My Dh woke in a start and saw a shape move across the doorway to the bedroom.

We were coming home one night, and looked across to the house from the road, and the living room light went on then off.

Anyway, in the end, we said "Dh Aunt - it's been lovely having you, but do you think it's time to move on now?"

And it all stopped, and the house was never creepy again.

She was a lovely, strongly Catholic, kind and caring woman and we just felt like she was looking out for us really. She adored my DH.

Wallace · 17/02/2009 07:47

lisalisa - the chair at the end of the dining room beside the ghostly figure?

CharleeInChains · 17/02/2009 07:55

I promise 100% mine is true. I can't make you belive me so i won't say anymore, i have seen and spoken to a few ghosts.

My mum regualry speaks to her Grandma and she correctly told my mum the sex (in the right order) of my sisters and my babies. This wasn't something my um said after they were born she said to us all from a young age, Charlee with have 2 boys, X will have 2 girls and a boy and Z will have 1 girl and 1 boy. Hey presto it all came true!

CharleeInChains · 17/02/2009 07:59

Oh and yes i did used to take drugs but not for many, many years!

Jampot · 17/02/2009 08:30

im in bed reading all these stories and dh's mobile phone started ringing - nearly shit myself. that was after the shower dribbled as well.

Ive had loads of experiences but only saw something once in our old dining room. Ive posted about it before - it was part of a person (right hand side from shoulder down) moving towards my hall then it just disappeared. It was as though I had caught it before it had a chance to fully disappear

kayzr · 17/02/2009 08:41

Just read the whole thread. Some really scary stories and the bloody car advert got me again. I just screamed, luckily DH and the boys are awake.

My mums house is haunted. When I still lived there my room was downstairs near the kitchen and my step brothers is above the kitchen. It is about 250 years old with 3 extensions. One being 100 years old, then 50 years and a new extension ongoing. In the old kitchen there were shelves where the door into the orginal house was. This is where the cups and glasses were. One friday night at about 2 in the morning I heard the glasses rattling and thought it was step bro as he had been out so just went back to sleep. Step bro was in bed and heard the same rattling and thought it was me as I had also been out that night.
We got up that morning to find all the cups and glasses had been moved on to the worktop.

It was horrifying and I found it really hard to sleep. Mum is always seeing things and finding things have been moved.

Gorionine · 17/02/2009 09:21

I get really freaked out by ghost stories. I do not know how anyone can actually stay and live in a house they believe is hounted!

I hope this has not been done 10 times on the thread, I just read quicklty through because I am too scared to go into details...my way of unscaring myself of ghosts!

Now I am goind to pretend that all the experiences I have read about on here are just made up and maybe, I am going to sleep tonight?

lisalisa · 17/02/2009 09:45

yes wallace

hippipotamiHasLostThreePounds · 17/02/2009 09:48

wallace - that is not a ghostly figure, that is someone coming through a doorway
There is also another ghostly figure person arranging a low table just in front of the doorway...

kayzr · 17/02/2009 10:02

Ooooh LisaLisa that house looks lovely.

We went to a helpful holidays house last July in Barbrook in Devon. It isn't on there anymore though. It was really spooky. 9 of us went and all of us except DS1 saw or heard something. DS1 might have seen something but he is too young to tell us.

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