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Weird activity in my house (again)

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MozzchopsThirty · 01/09/2017 08:46

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? Hmm
(Sorry didn't know where else to post this)

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WaxOnFeckOff · 03/09/2017 09:14

Sooo, your dd heard ghosts while you were with her and you didn't hear them. Isn't this you answer? Or are these particularly clever ghosts that maybe clamped their ghostly hands over your ears whilst simultaneously freaking out your DD.

Honestly, you'll all be a lot happier and the "ghosts" will go away when you stop indulging this nonsense.

Ontopofthesunset · 03/09/2017 09:54

If my 21 year old rugby playing son were screaming in his bed at night too scared to come out I'd think he'd been experimenting with psychoactive drugs - or was irrational with drink.

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MozzchopsThirty · 03/09/2017 10:17

🙄 read the thread properly ds1 is 12
Dd is 21 and does not scream (well maybe over spiders)
She's not bothered by it, it's something she's experienced here for years

If people want to be rude and condescending I don't know why they come post on the thread

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BertrandRussell · 03/09/2017 10:21

So are you still convinced it's ghosts? Is that why you think abound suggesting alternatives is being rude and condescending?

WaxOnFeckOff · 03/09/2017 10:23

If my children believed that ghosts and gods and other such things existed, I'd consider that I had failed as a parent.

Mustardnowletsnotbesilly · 03/09/2017 10:32

If my children believed that ghosts and gods and other such things existed, I'd consider that I had failed as a parent.

And if I was a judgemental, all knowing, intolerant sarky person I would think i'd failed as a human.

expatinscotland · 03/09/2017 10:33

No, but suggesting every time someone experiences something that is out of the ordinary that they are experiences hallucinations or brain disorder is pretty rude and scare-mongering, too. Hmm

Ontopofthesunset · 03/09/2017 10:36

Sorry, I got confused between DD and DSm but you do say in the first post that DS is a no nonsense rugby playing teen, so obviously I didn't think he was 12 as that is not a teenager. It makes more sense that child would be hysterical and scared and easily influenced.

But in any case it's not rude and condescending to tell people that ghosts don't exist. It's just factual.

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MozzchopsThirty · 03/09/2017 10:42

Ffs why is MN so nasty

Failed as a parent really????? REALLY????

I won't bore you with my job, but I see a lot of people who are failing at parenting, I am definitely not one of them
Why are you so self satisfied and self riteous that I'm allegedly failing because I believe in spirits?

Who the hell do you think you are???
I'm not perfect, I mostly wing it and hope I'm getting in right, and I've raised one adult studying at Oxford and to me is just an awesome woman.
So failing!!!!! I am not

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WaxOnFeckOff · 03/09/2017 10:43

I think allowing and encouraging people to believe in toxic nonense is failing in humanity.

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MozzchopsThirty · 03/09/2017 10:43

Sorry if we were being pedantic, you're right 12 is not a teen, he's 13 next month, hope that's cleared things up

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Barbiessharpfeet · 03/09/2017 10:43

It's a bit weird that you are so entrenched in the ghost idea that you aren't considering the valid advice on the thread. Do the ghosties and ghoulies come before your health?

CARBON. MONOXIDE. DETECTOR.

WaxOnFeckOff · 03/09/2017 10:47

So Op what is the explanation for you and your dd being together but her hearing ghosts and you not?

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MozzchopsThirty · 03/09/2017 10:47

There's too much to explain it all, there were voices recorded, lights going on in empty rooms when I had gone to bed and was alone.

I'm very willing to get a detector but I'm not sure it would explain all the above

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MozzchopsThirty · 03/09/2017 10:48

So waxon what makes you think it's ok to suggest I've failed as a parent???

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BertrandRussell · 03/09/2017 10:50

Electrical faults. Things often sound like voices, particularly if you want them to. Hoax. Radio left on. Sounds from outside. Squirrels. Rats. Dreams.

Theorchard · 03/09/2017 11:06

language is a powerful theme within Christianity. Words are said to be 'spirit'.
I'm interested to hear more about this pondering

LespritDescalier · 03/09/2017 11:14

OP you are encouraging your children to believe in utter nonsense and illogical shit that will be to their detriment for life. You are teaching them that exorcisms are such bollocks is real.
I am sure you are a wonderful parent in other aspects, but this is not one of them. Stop indulging in this schlock horror movie nonsense.

BertrandRussell · 03/09/2017 11:23

"I am sure you are a wonderful parent in other aspects, but this is not one of them"

This.

lavenderbees · 03/09/2017 11:24

Lights going on and off in rooms is not that unusual, it happened in my previous house quite a lot. Have you checked that you're not overloading the system? This could also explain the voices perhaps a humming from electricity.

I completely spooked myself when I stayed in a holiday cottage in the woods alone for a night. I stayed up all night and barricaded every door. My brain converted every creak and noise from the house and forest into something sinister and it was the worst night of my life!

lavenderbees · 03/09/2017 11:30

Just to say if I had to live like that permanently I would have been sectioned pretty quickly as the anxiety created would have been too much.

I think as a child if any mention of woo had been talked of in the house I would have never settled and it would have created emmense anxiety. This anxiety could then lead to all sorts of visual and auditory hallucinations especially at night.

Get a dog a guard dog you will all sleep much better.

lavenderbees · 03/09/2017 11:31
  • hallucinations should read distubances.
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MozzchopsThirty · 03/09/2017 11:39

ONCE AGAIN

this has never been discussed with ds1 or da2

And anyone who says he's heard me & dd obvs doesn't have a 12 year old who barely takes his headphones to sleep let alone when I talk

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lavenderbees · 03/09/2017 11:49

OK maybe the kids don't know but it feels like you want to attribute this to woo rather than looking at all the other things.

I mention the guard dog because you are a single parent. I think a lot of women feel vunerable at home at night on their own. I certainly feel less relaxed when my DH works night shifts. A dog might make you feel more relaxed.

lavenderbees · 03/09/2017 11:52

Sorry for spelling errors!

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