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?

[Aitch]

lol what's been happening tonight? i'm working, you know. [pious]

[expatinscotland]

On a ghost thread?

Doubt it, VVV.

Neither that drunk nor that much of a door-faced saddo, hence the move to the West Coast in the near future .

[expatinscotland]

I'll be seeing that for myself on Sunday, Aitch .

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

Well then, dont let the bastards grind ya darn, and rise above it.

[whomovedmychocolate]

Aitch - I love to be proved wrong so yes of course I hope it's a ghost. Much better a ghost than something dead that I will have to scrape out of a hole!!!!

[Aitch]

or 'oh gosh whomoved, that's a knight of the round table you've got there. very distinctive smell, there... just a hint of Lady Guinivere's fanjo.'

[whomovedmychocolate]

MMJ - I got EH out yesterday - they couldn't smell anything - it's intermittent. It's gone again and hasn't been smelled since I posted on here. Maybe Aitch was squatting under the stairs and has moved out now she's been outed on her

[BBBee]

"I respect you and acknowledge your presence but now all I have to do is....the shake and vac and put the freshness back - do the shake and vac and put hte freshness back."


I knew it would work.

[pointydog]

chocolate, what a lovely surprising thread.

[Aitch]

pretty gorgeous, but your boy is already engaged to dd so stop shopping around, lapin.
did you get my FB gift? how was devon?

[whomovedmychocolate]

Thanks LittleLapin, she's in Red Magazine next month so you can see her when she is posing!

Well the party was ummm interesting, some of us were in there till 1am singing (and have very hoarse throats this morning) so any odd smells this morning will probably be the remnants of beery farts, pizza and dead sausages!

But no ghostly presence except one of two engineers that we think may have died several years ago but are still drawing paychecks!

I have to go in there to clean up later though

[whomovedmychocolate]

Oh god no, it's a piece of so called miracle babies.

[Aitch]

aaaaw, she is a little belter, it must be said. how fab that she's a miracle baby, iykwim? dd might have been, or maybe not. we'll only know if/when i try to get pregnant again and find out if my last remaining fallopian tube is working or not.

[whomovedmychocolate]

Ooh Aitch - we are trying for number two too. So fingers crossed for us both! Personally I quite enjoyed telling my infertility consultant who said: 'the only possible way you can get pregnant is IVF' that I couldn't make my appointment because I had an antenatal scan that day.

[expatinscotland]

Good luck, Aitch and whomoved!

[whomovedmychocolate]

Thanks Expat.

On the smell front....We had a suggestion last night at the party that we have a seance and strangely everyone was suddenly keen to go elsewhere.

I was up for it. But I was outvoted.

[expatinscotland]

Don't recommend seances at all.

[EricL]

Seances are just silly.

[Aitch]

thanks for the good luck, but we are not on that particular hellish bandwagon just yet. am petrified. for me, ttc is much scarier than some poxy stink-ghost.

[BBBee]

I think that soiunds quite fun - you could get a friend to secretly dress u pand rush in mid-ouija board!

[whomovedmychocolate]

Don't worry I wouldn't have a clue what to do and would be unable to stop giggling all the way through.