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A bit freaked, what do other MNers think?

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Callmemadam · 18/09/2006 22:23

I am not going to change my name for this, as anyone who recognises it will probably know I come from the sound and sensible corner . I would like to know what you make of this, though. We live in an old Victorian/medieval house in the SE, have been here for 2 years. There have been times when we have heard music, smelt smells (usually boiling meat for some reason) and heard what sounds like a child's voice upstairs calling. EVERY time we dismiss it/rationalise it away. Now 2 things have happened which have started me wondering if there is something else after all. We have never ever said anything to the children about this stuff, yet a fortnight ago dd1 (11) came running downstairs in tears at 11pm saying she couldn't go back to sleep because she had been listening to heavy breathing in her bedroom. She had even got out of bed to check little sisters room because she thought little sister was snoring. When she got back into bed someone spoke in her ear. She was adamant it was a voice but couldn't say what it said, it was just a noise to her. Anyway, we rationalised that away (overtired, just dropping off etc) and then the other night a friend came to stay with me with her 3 month old dd. We were alone in the house, downstairs watching tv, and baby was upstairs in the travel cot in the centre of the spare room. About 9.45pm there was a HUGE white noise static on the listner and we both jumped and Isabelle said'what the hell was that'. She picked the listener up and we could hear footsteps, as clear as a bell, crossing the wooden bedroom floor. She went haring upstairs thinking it was my little one going to look at the baby but dd2 was fast asleep in her room. Definately footsteps, and Isabelle knows nothing at all about the house. Have to admit I'm now wondering about it.....

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SaintGeorge · 21/09/2006 11:28

Would love to discuss further, but I have to go to work

Back later.

expatinscotland · 21/09/2006 11:34

Think is, w/a residual haunting like htat, there's no real spirit involved. It's just like watching the same scene from a DVD over and over again, you can see the actor, but of course they're not really there in person doing the same thing over and over.

You could talk to that apparation from now under the world ends, and it wouldn't acknowledge you. It can't, b/c it's just a step or two above a dream.

expatinscotland · 21/09/2006 11:44

Trust me, it's much better when it's just a residual thing.

You don't WANT to interact with this sort of thing and life is far more peaceful when this sort of thing doesn't want to interact with you.

LieselVonTrapp · 21/09/2006 12:13

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expatinscotland · 21/09/2006 12:14

Of course we want to hear something freaky deaky!

Go then.

expatinscotland · 21/09/2006 12:25

I want to read something freaky.

littlerach · 21/09/2006 12:26

And me!

LieselVonTrapp · 21/09/2006 13:01

In 1950 Dr Guiseppi Stoppolino of Camerino University a clairvoyant named Mario Bocca to see if his powers were real. During the test Bocca picked up a message from a dead woman calling herself Rosa Spadoni, who claimed that she had been buried alive back in 1939. Stoppolino and Bocca searched for the grave of Rosa Spadoni. They convinced a court to exhume Rosa's coffin, and, sure enough, discovered evidence that she had been buried alive. As the Leicester Mercury tells it, "There was little more than a skeleton left in the coffin, but the spine was arched in an attempt to lift the lid, and the fingers still clawed at the woodwork."

SaintGeorge · 21/09/2006 13:58

Lovely story, but unfortunately highly likely to be urban legend.

expatinscotland · 21/09/2006 14:05

I've been in houses that were freakier.

Anchovy · 21/09/2006 14:26

OK, here is something a bit odder which I don't think is an urban legend. I read it in the newpaper about 18 months ago - can't remember if it was a local one but the incident was local to me. The report said that several people had phoned 999 on their mobiles to report a car going off a dual carriageway and into undergrowth. When examining the incident, the police found no evidence BUT exactly the same thing had happened a year previously - same type of car, same spot etc. (I believe there was a fatality)

SaintGeorge · 21/09/2006 14:48

That sounds like a classic example of the residual haunting that expat describes.

LieselVonTrapp · 21/09/2006 15:31

Feck off

southeastastra · 21/09/2006 15:35

blimey i'm glad it's an urban legend! though i have read that story too

SaintGeorge · 21/09/2006 18:19

Errr, who is the 'feck off' aimed at Liesel and why?

southeastastra · 21/09/2006 21:09

st.g do you think people are born with abilty to see things and other people not to?

expatinscotland · 21/09/2006 21:10

I do, south.

southeastastra · 21/09/2006 21:12

i thought so

SaintGeorge · 21/09/2006 21:24

I actually think everyone is born with a degree of ability, but only a few will carry it through to any extent in adulthood.

expatinscotland · 21/09/2006 21:31

I never wanted it.

It found me, though.

It runs in my dad's side of the family, apparently.

Callmemadam · 21/09/2006 23:22

Sounds like a residual haunting here then, that's a reief. FWIW StG and Expat, I will be sraight back to you if it tries to interact As a matter of interest expat - what do you mean 'it found you'? What happened? [nosy emoticon]

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expatinscotland · 22/09/2006 09:25

Well, I was basically going along in my skeptical life, rationalising everything. I knew my dad's side of the family, the women at any rate, had some rather more, spiritual - shall we say - characters, but so what and blah blah blah.

When I saw what I did not realise was a residual haunting. In fact, I didn't believe it when I was told. Until I saw the haunting featured on a TV show nearly a year later.

As the years passed, I seemed to be able to increasingly pick up on things. I could feel things, even if I could not see them or could only see them in my mind. I could see things as well. Some spirits can be seen, others, for whatever reason, can only be felt.

Again, as I've gotten older, this sense continues to grow.

I can no longer deny it.

It really came to a head when there was the presence of a young boy in our flat who was very scared and confused and desperately needed to move on.

Then his mother came looking for him. And she wasn't very happy.

She is now, tho .

Residual hauntings are honestly not the troublesome variety at all.

They can be VERY frightening. Some are very much so.

But there is no interaction. It would happen whether you were there or not.

This is not a spirit trying to make contact or who has unfinished business, doesn't realise he/she is dead, needs acknowledgement to move on, etc.

2ndtime · 11/11/2006 08:25

How scared was I last night!
I read this thred late on and got as bit spooked before I went to bed.
I went round locking doors and turning lights off etc as you do (dh on nights).
The hall lightbulb went with a ping which tripped the circuit on the fuse box.
To cut a long story short I had to go down the cellar to flip the switch again.
Not a problem you would think. But I didn't have a torch, it was PITCH black, our house is old (1875) and there's a bloody big well in the middle of the cellar which I had to negotiate round in the dark to get to the fuse box!!!
I could have cried/been sick/rung DH to come home all a the same time. (what was that film with the well in it? Terrified me anyway)
I will leave the torch handy in future I think.

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