Weird activity in my house (again)

[MozzchopsThirty]

At the risk of sounding totally insane we have spirits in our house.

Dd (21) has always heard people talking at night, going up and down stairs, walking the landing etc
After my divorce it got worse and lights were going on and off, doors closing etc.
I had a priest round who blessed the house, then a clairvoyant 'cleaner' which made things much better.

Now things are starting again, dd hearing things and now ds1 has told dd he often feels like there's someone in his room.
Last night I woke to him screaming from his bedroom that there were people whispering outside his room and walking along the carpet! He was too afraid to even come out. Now ds1 is a no nonsense rugby playing teen who is certainly not hysterical at any time. He ended up sleeping with his sister (he'd generally rather die than this!)
There was also a cross knocked off a shelf and down the back of cupboards in ds2 room when I was here alone.

Don't know what to do? Do I get cleaning lady back?
Are we all going crazy?
(Sorry didn't know where else to post this)

I didn't hear voices but I saw things when I lived in my parents house years ago. I randomly went to a medium who told me this person had a message for me to deliver. I delivered it and I was never bothered again. That's the very basics of my experience. Believe it or, it happened.

Draughts. Pipes. House settling. Warming/cooling. Dreams. Auditory hallucinations. Auto suggestion. Collective hysteria. Attention seeking. 0ne of you hoaxing the other two. Hypnagogic hallucinations.

Any combination of the above.

I agree Bertrand. Even though you're not talking in Latin

"But that's only language. It's the meaning that counts surely, if you believe in these things. Why would the language make any difference?"

You do realise that you are asking for a coherent and logical explanation, from someone who thinks that the only the really quality Priests (you know, the ones that use latin) have the stuff to get rid of ghosts.

And I'm the one who gets accused at tilting at windmills!

You do realise that you are asking for a coherent and logical explanation, from someone who thinks that the only the really quality Priests (you know, the ones that use latin) have the stuff to get rid of ghosts.

Don, if you are referring to me, I don't believe that. I was just referencing the effect different elements of religious rites and rituals can have upon the subconscious.

Spooky what's the history of the house/area?

"Don, if you are referring to me, I don't believe that."

No. The question was being asked in reference to a PP's advice about how to get rid of the ghosties. I thought it optimistic to expect a useful reply.

Could you rent out your house, and rent somewhere for you and your children on the income? I'd want to be out of there, I think.

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Wow there are some extreme views on this thread!!

*Can you rent your house and move
Can you sell your house
You need a psychologist
If your child wakes up screaming you need a doctor not a priest
*
It was just me & dd last night, we were watching tv and she said 'can you really not hear someone walking about upstairs'
I couldn't hear anything and slept like a log

Don't let it get to you, Mozz, the same people always show up on these threads and tell you you have a brain tumour, a serious mental condition, blah blah blah.

I'd call the cleanser person back.

No expat I won't be letting it get to me

Most unlikely to be either a brain tumour or a mental health issue. Probably just some boring old physics.

Wow there are some extreme views on this thread!!
Says the person who has engaged a priest and 'clairvoyant cleaner' to deal with spirits in her home!

Loving the fact that the person convinced that there are spirits in her house, who got a priest and a clairvoyant in to "clear" it is talking about other people's "extreme views"!

Nolite ergo solliciti esse. Non manes, non est certus.

I was convinced I had mice , again, yesterday
Then I realised it was the pressure in the water pipes from the washing machine
My point being now I've had mice, every sound I hear I know think is evidence they are back
When in reality, they are just the normal house noises that were probably there before
I'm just hyper aware of them now
i imagine if I had thought the noises were ghosts I'd be bloody terrified by now

Ok I believe you. A very simple solution I was given was to say The Lords Prayer out loud in any area you feel is troubled. It doesn't matter if people think it's a lot of crap and it certainly won't do any harm

"It doesn't matter if people think it's a lot of crap and it certainly won't do any harm"

To be deadly serious for a moment- yes it can. It can entrench in people's minds that this stuff is real. Which can be hugely harmful.

Please get the carbon monoxide levels in your house checked. Carbon monoxide-induced hallucination is known to have been the cause of many documented 'hauntings'.

pinkfluffyfairy what was the 'last thing that happened'?

And op it sounds scary to me whatever it is.

i second the advice to get the carbon monoxide levels in the house checked. You can buy a carbon monoxide detector at any DIY store easily - they're just like smoke detectors.

Whether you believe in spirits or not things can still happen

This. 100%

Op, have another word with them, tell them what's happening is scaring you all.

I know it sounds crazy, and it is bonkers, but there's a lot we don't know, and frightened kids...

"Whether you believe in spirits or not things can still happen"

No, they can't.

Agree with saying the Lord's Prayer in the rooms you are feeling uncomfortable.

And Bertrand there are lots of Christians, if you don't believe that's fine but seriously, you've said it numerous times so why don't you feck off now with your condescending remarks.