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My friend has lives in a haunted house.....

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Kbear · 20/01/2007 23:25

She was telling me of the incidents that have occurred there recently. I told her I always feel really cold in her house and that it feels like someone is watching me. We freaked each other out!

She is THE most relaxed person I know and for her to say she has ghosts, she has ghosts - I have no doubt. She has seen a lady at the top of her stairs, a man in her bedroom, someone knocking on the bedroom doors upstairs, icy cold blasts of air where she can see her breath. EEK

Do you believe in ghosts?

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wotzsaname · 20/01/2007 23:33

No, but i will probably see one now as i have tempted fate. I am going to bed with the lights on.

mytwopenceworth · 20/01/2007 23:35

nope.

i think that if there is an afterlife, then the whole god thing is true and i doubt that a god would let the dead wander about, the whole point is that he has you with him after death! and if there's no afterlife then you are nothing after death so no ghost then either.

is it an old house? they are draughty and creak a lot. once you have let the idea of a ghost into your head, you'll see things to back that up. if someone tells you theres a ghost, it'll freak you out and then you will imagine all sorts of things.

but thats just one womans opinion! i know loads of people are firmly convinced there are ghosts.

if she really feels bad, she should call a priest, maybe the ritual of exorcism would help her calm down.

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Kbear · 20/01/2007 23:35

woooooooooooo wooooooo!

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Kbear · 20/01/2007 23:39

The people that lived there before fitted little brass door knockers to the bedroom doors and one day they started knocking. She thought it was the front door (checked but there was no one there and no door knocker even) andevery time she moved rooms the knocking came from another room.

She is the most level headed, no nonsense person and not given to crazy ideas. I was surprised she even told me.

It's a massive house, about 80 years old I suppose with lots of rooms. I couldn't live there, it has two cellars and a secret bedroom.

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southeastastra · 20/01/2007 23:40

course i believe in them!

mytwopenceworth · 20/01/2007 23:41

a secret bedroom? where? why?

i like the sound of this house

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Kbear · 20/01/2007 23:47

The secret bedroom is upstairs. There are four bedrooms and then a door that looks like a cupboard but then there is a little passageway and stairs going down to another room.

There is a den sort of room downstairs too, beneath the ground level of the house.

It's interesting but too many nooks and crannies for my imagination to deal with.

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BadHair · 20/01/2007 23:49

I'm generally pretty sceptical about most ghosty things, but my parents swear blind that our old house was haunted.

Lots of odd things were happening in the house they'd just moved into, including my dad being pushed into the coal cellar by an unknown hand and footsteps being heard round a bed. They (probably unwisely) did a ouiji board session and found out that there was a woman spirit in the house. Turned out that one of the many reasons she was still there was that she was a staunch catholic buried in a protestant church yard, so my folks organised for a requiem mass to be said for her and she never bothered them again.

The personal details that she gave them matched with a previous occupant of the house, and she answered questions that only my parents knew the answers to as only they had ever discussed them. She gave them details about her family that they only found to be accurate long afterwards.

I can't go into too many details as the "ghost" has living relatives, albeit not in the UK anymore, but it was apparently rather spooky for my generally well-balanced parents, who still swear by it today.

BadHair · 20/01/2007 23:50

How old is her house?

expatinscotland · 21/01/2007 00:22

Yes, absolutely!

It's entirely possible for a brand new house to have spirits and one that's a thousand years old to have none.

Often in the case of a brand new house having a presence(s), they stem from what used to be there before.

Califrau · 21/01/2007 00:28

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expatinscotland · 21/01/2007 18:20

Sometimes, however, it's hard to know the real history of the home, particularly if it's in a region that's been occupied for many centuries. In such cases it is likely another dwelling was once on it.

Or even a cemetary or battle site.

expatinscotland · 21/01/2007 18:22

I've been in homes where people were murdered and sometimes there is no presence at all.

Other times, it can be a very warm prescence.

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Kbear · 21/01/2007 18:32

One night her DH heard a noise, went to investigate. She followed a few minutes later. He said how cold it was when he got up, he could see his breath as he went downstairs. She didn't feel cold at all. This was autumn time so not really that cold generally.

I love this sort of thing, intrigued and would love to investigate the history of the house.

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Bucketsofdynomite · 21/01/2007 20:36

So is the secret room on the ground floor but only accessible from the 1st floor? How funny, like a 20th century priesthole. Ooh maybe they had a gimp !

ChicPea · 21/01/2007 20:45

When I bought my first flat I experienced things that I couldn't explain and finally I called the local priest who came to pray. Things settled down but did start up again a couple of months later. The my bf moved in and after 6mths we moved out. He didn't see a thing and neither did I when I was with him. I have seen things before that flat in other properties and felt things in two further properties since. Really gives me the creeps and I don't go looking for them. I would call in a vicar who knows what he is doing and not a spiritulist as they like to communicate with the dead/or whatever you want to call these happenings. The C of E says these happenings are the work of demons and if you communicate with them they can draw you in.

Hope your friend gets it sorted out.

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Kbear · 21/01/2007 20:45

The house looks averagely massive (!) from the front but the back garden drops away so there are three levels of rooms at the back and the secret room is in the middle but accessed from the top, if you follow me!

It's a great house, especially for hide and seek! ha ha My kids love it over there. Although DS did have a panic attack when he called me from upstairs and I didn't hear him and he came rushing down all scared with his lip quivering!

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lulumama · 21/01/2007 20:49

absolutely, seen one and 'felt ' one....most odd !

Miaou · 21/01/2007 20:53

Hmm funny you should bring this up kbear. We are living in a (rented) 100 year old house which we moved into in October. A couple of weeks ago, dd1 said to me "it's really weird mummy, I keep thinking I need to be quiet in case I wake the baby when I go upstairs, even if Calum (our toddler) is downstairs awake". So I said, "that's weird, so do I! I think it's just because we are having another baby [I'm pg] so we're getting used to the thought of having another baby around." Dd1 said, "no, I've been thinking this since a long time before I knew we were having another one!" And I thought, er, so have I actually ...

wannaBeWhateverIWannaBe · 21/01/2007 20:54

the house sounds fascinating, like the sort you'd read about in those old detective stories.

I firmly believe there is something in our house. I can't explain it, dh says I'm barking, but strange things happen. I lost a ring two years ago, we turned the house upside down looking for it, it wasn't too big, I just noticed it had gone one night when I went to bath ds. we looked everywhere and ultimately resigned to the fact it had just gone. about 4 months later dh went to get something out of the freezer, heard something drop and just thought it was ice. next morning ds found my ring on the kitchen floor. I hadn't been in the freezer the day it disappeared. it wasn't loose on my finger and it's never slipped off since. I can't explain what happened.

Our house is relatively new (about 8 years) but about a mile up the road is the ruins of a roman villa that was dug up while they were building, so I guess it's possible there could be some roman presence.

I've often felt as if someone was there, but then I do have a very vivid imagination.

TheArmadillo · 21/01/2007 21:05

I lived in a haunted house - shared with others.

Most of the time it wasn't anything really creepy, just like sharing a house with another person who you couldn't see.

3 housemates (male) though had bad experiences. One was my dp, but none of them will talk about it. 2 left during the night suddenly (both had had the same room, though not at the same time). They just got too freaked out.

Oh and once all the gas taps turned on on the oven when no one was in the kitchen (funnily was just underneath the freaky bedroom) and the bathroom was odd (over the kitchen as well).

But most of the time it was fine, just someone else there.

It was victorian, but not surely exactly the date it was built.

TheArmadillo · 21/01/2007 21:10

Actually dp did say something to me once,a couple of years after we left. But he was drunk and it didn't make much sense. SOmething about a decomposing face leaning over his. Decomposing as in the active sense, not decomposed. That's the only thing he ever said though.

I'm not a big believer in ghosts. However if time is a human concept (isn't that a Hawking idea or something like that) then maybe just the wires got crossed a bit and we experienced a bit of another time frame at teh same time. That's my crackpot theory anyway.

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