I am sure I saw a child in my bedroom last night.....................and it was'nt one of mine.

[waterfalls]

SPOOKY, I got out of bed around 4am,as dts had woken, and I saw what looked like a child run past the bed, it was just a dark shadow, but a distinctive human shape IYKWIM.

I am hoping I was just dilusional from waking, though DS has recently developed an imaginary friend, a boy who is five apparently........freaky

eeek

I have been shuffed awake, and poked in the eye while sleeping too, which seems like childsplay to me.

Waterfalls, what's your house like ? ...... is it old ? Do you know anything of its history, or of the land it was built on ?

oooer cold shivers!
maybe spend a night in your son's room?!

You dont sound very scared by it, I would be frightened witless by now!!

Have you told your DH, and what does he think?

that would freak me out.

So many horror films are springing to mind now!! I have lived in 2 'haunted houses'. One was an old stable block complete with poltergeist (he used to turn on the kettle, toaster, radio etc, didn't move stuff though) but he was a friendly ghost and I was quite fond of him. The other was horrible - in an old coaching in - footsteps, feelings of being watched, feelings of impending doom etc. Very, very scary and everyone who lived or stayed in the building said the same. Sounds like your ghost is nice.

Those scary ones would have to go.

Sorry, but I am the occupant now, you're time has come and gone, time to move on b/c this space is mine now.

I'm not willing to share my space w/a spirit, b/c I don't want to.

I have yet to live in a place that wasn't overcrowded enough as it is.

When DS1 was 2 we lived in a house where he was always seeing "the man" and waving etc to him despite there being no one there. I never felt anything at all, in fact I felt very safe and "at home" there right from the first time I viewed the house. After a couple of months of this I was talking to a neighbour who told me that an old couple had lived there previously and the husband had a heart attack and died in the living room. Do you know the history of your house Waterfalls and who lived there etc?

Interestingly enough, some states in the US have 'disclosure' laws, in which a seller must disclose if an unnatural death - on any death, in some states - has taken place there.

In some states, the reasoning behind this is that there is a larger than average concentration of Native American people, and for some of them, they cannot abide in a place where a death has occurred.

Fio
I would pay to privately research the history of ANY home I was going to buy. I would NOT buy a house in which a suicide or murder had taken place. At all. For any reason. Even if the house were given to me, I would never live there.

But then, my grandmother was Mayan and had some very strong beliefs about stuff like this.

The state of Colorado has no disclosure law, but the state of Texas has, so do some states in the Northeast.

One of the academics here lived in a flat so badly troubled, she left in the middle of the night.

And she was an incredible skeptic!

She just kept saying, 'There was something very, very wrong in that flat.'

I wouldn't think you were barking, Fio.

Sounds like a friendly spirit waterfalls! Are you actually scared enough to want to do something about it?

Fio, yes please tell us!!

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Umm didn't know we didn't have a disclosure law here - thanks for the headsup on that one. Having seen a ghost when a student I'm more than open to the spirit world. My great-grandmother saw plenty and my mother even witnessed tables flying through the air. Must say I would probably avoid any house that didn't give me a comfortable feeling and anywhere that had been built on native land here. Waterfalls why don't you start with your local library/history society they may help you get to the bottom of your visitor.

Fio, we think you are barking anyway, so no harm done

DD has an imaginary friend called "friend", lol! I dont think this one is a ghost....She also has one called "Daniel", that one is a little more suspect.......

I am under the impression we have a ghost called Iris in our house.

ooooh spooky.
My cousin (when very small) used to talk to an old man sat on her bed, turned out the bloke who lived there before them died in his bedroom... now her room.

When i lived at home my sister and i both (not at the same time) saw a small girl with blond curls peeking round the bedroom door it was years before we knew the other had seen her too.

I was walking home from the station lateish one night talking to my friend on the phone, walking past the church a man crossed the road walked past me and said evening, i nodded but could not work out who he was so turned to look back at him and he was gone, there was NOWHERE he could have gone, and he had not crossed over the road, my friend on the phone had heard him speak to me so i know i was not going mad, but i got home a lot quicker.

DS2 from a very young age told me all about his little mummy that died and where he lived and his family.

Still as my late nana used to say... the dead cant hert you its the living you need to watch out for.

Ali
I bought a house in 1999 in Thornton and specifically asked if there were a disclosure law. Nope.

I bought it brand new, however, and paid a small fee to the council to find out what had sat on that land before it was houses.

It had been ranch land used for cattle grazing since it was deeded in the 1800s.

catsmother, I think the house is around 50 years old, but no idea what was here before, we have only lived here in just under a year.

educatingrita
I'm not scared at all really, I find it very interesting. my mum had a spirit that followed her for over 20 years (now that was scary) I was always terrified living at home, so many crazy things happened and very very frequently, it was never harmful but the things that happened were extreme.