I smell dead people in the long gallery (not kidding and not funny)

[whomovedmychocolate]

I posted about this previously and it went away but the floods seem to have disturbed something.

Basically I live in a 400 year old house (gorgeous see my profile pics) and work next door in a converted chapel (baptist - wasn't a chapel for long because the villagers turned up with flaming torches etc.) but there are human remains in the gardens (I know because I dug them up ).

A few months ago a funny smell kept appearing. Now it's appearing daily. We have checked out the obvious (dead animals in the roof, infestations, blocked drains etc). but the weird thing is, the smell only comes on in part of a room (various rooms) and seems to move and then it goes.

Today it moved up the stairs and to the long gallery and whenever I go in there it disappears within a few minutes (oh and before you ask no, I do not go around with a can of Febreze or indeed 'ghost away' spray.)

The building spooks me TBH and I don't like to go in there on my own. But I don't believe in ghosts and rationally I think all that stuff is rubbish.

So I need rational explanations please. We have ruled out:

(a) creatures in the roof - no airflow through unless they were in air con vent which we checked today
(b) Sewerage plumbing issues - all checked out and also smell often occurs in parts of the building with no plumbing
(c) Electrical issues - all wires checked - nothing burning/shorting - even cleaned the light bulbs to check it wasn't a dust issue.
(d) creatures in the walls - walls are three feet thick, solid ironstone
(e) creatures under the floors - parquet flooring over stone - apparently it's two foot thick.

Anybody got any ideas?

whomoved... it's a

GHOST!!!!

woooohooooooo ohoooooooooo

Hmm, the smell from the dead rats, we'd sort of forget about it.

Then the wind would whip and it would pong.

The bluebottles were a dead giveaway, though.

Aitch - ah I see

No, she hates it in there. You have to hold her closely to even get her through the door.

She would shit herself deliberately if she could to stop me going over there but I think that's more to do with the high incidence of drummers in the building!

Not actually a ghost, though. Just a flashback or residual haunting at the most.

Maybe if you start beleiving then 'they' or 'it' would stay in your company??...i am with persee...talk to the smell!

We had many dead vowels under our couches thanks to out hunting cat (i know)...the smell gets worse and worse of decaying rodents...it gets so hideous..so i think the smell would get worse over time tbh?

what do you say to acknowledge it. how about 'wotcha, cock!' ? would that make the smell go away?

Have you tried taking a dog in there?

Expat - no flies at all - no dust, no water, there isn't a cellar (that we've found!) There is an Aga buried in the foundations of the extension round the back apparently, but that's about it.

ROFL at haunted Aga...

Dead vowels - do they say eeee a lot or oooo?

Expat - no we have cats, one of whom has no problem with going in there most of the time. Haven't seen him about when the smell is there though come to think of it. Mind you he's a lazy git so that's probably more down to him sleeping than a spooky coincidence.

Aitch- I'm studiously ignoring you now

wotcha cock!

PMSl@wotcha cock!

Definately call in Yvette Fielding to suss this one out.....and we can all have a good old nose round ya place on the t.v

I know this is going to freak you all out so I'll say it quietly we don't have a TV

But I do know who you are talking about and Derek Acorah was recently shown to have previsited all the places wasn't he?

It won't bother cats, who. But it will bother dogs if there's anything there.

Borrow a dog.

just for aitch

Hmm, I might borrow my friend's dog. It won't widdle on the floor if it's scared though will it?

Trying desperately to understand Aitch's mockney accent?

i learned everything i know from alf tupper, tough of the track.

have u googled ur address????? for any other info on the chapel.....i think u should ring the priest and get the place blessed

You said your house was thatched? My house is thatched and every now and then a really vile smell occurs - it's really hard to pinpoint exactly where it's coming from but I've noticed it's worse after rain.

After much sniffing, I think it's where the thatch runs toghether at a join and it stays more damp than the rest of the thatch and it's the smell of wet thatch combined with cobwebs and bird feathers/poo and dead bugs that all collect under the lip of the thatch.

That's my theory anyway.

No, it (the dog) will just not go in there if anything's there. It may stand at the door and bark or worse, whimper with its tail between its legs, but it won't go in and if you try to take it in I can assure you it won't be happy.

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