I think my holiday cottage is haunted

[JuliaSeesHer]

The dog won’t settle. She’s been with us for many U.K. cottage holidays and she makes herself st home within about 20 minutes. We’ve been here for 3 days.

The cottage is 1700s and there is a freezing cold patch whereas the rest of the cottage is cosy warm.

Things have been flying off the kitchen counter.

Last night I felt the duvet move like a hand run down my leg which wasn’t a) DH b) the duvet moving when one of us was turning over.

There’s now a howling gale outside which isn’t helping.

I’ve watched Uncanny.

To answer @RoxytheRexy and @EmeraldRoulette and @LooksLikeImStuckHere

1. a tray of roasted potatoes lifted up and fell off the hob even though there was plenty of room on the hob. The dog ate them (she loves potatoes and chips) and puked up all night which is rare for her. She won’t sleep in her basket and will only sleep in our room under the bed. Also strange behaviour. Normally she’s super chill.

They do call JRees Mogg The Haunted Pencil.

We stayed in a cottage in mid Wales which was like this. So creepy I was scared going to bed every night. Just had this awful feeling we weren’t welcome there. And the dog would sit at the bottom of the stairs looking up barking all the time👻. A cloud lifted when we left.

Honestly don't know what i would do if I stayed in a place that was haunted. I love listening to people's stories, but would freak out if anything happened to me.

When we arrived the place was full of dead flies. It took half an hour to vacuum them up with the very ineffectual hand held vacuum that is in the cottage. This place has rave reviews and is newly decorated but there are cobwebs which have appeared overnight.

It’s blowing a gale and the windows are whistling.

@JuliaSeesHer I wouldn't worry about the cobwebs but the thing with the potatoes is a bit worrying yes

How long are you meant to be there? I'd have to leave!

have you spoken to the owner about the dead flies at all? That seems very odd.

@RoxytheRexy that really made me laugh about JRM!

Dead flies? I'd have left there and then that's disgusting.
Spirits wouldn't bother me though.

Even if they were flinging your potatoes around?!

We stayed in an Airbnb that I swear was haunted. I’m a woo believer but DH isn’t, at all. DS1 wouldn’t settle in the travel cot so I put him in bed with me, DH offered to go sleep in the spare room. He couldn’t explain the very clear knocks he heard coming from underneath the spare bed, at one point rattling the bed. And the wardrobe door opened by Itself. I struggled to believe him the next morning. I filmed myself opening and closing the wardrobe door for a good 1.5 minutes to demonstrate it doesn’t just open by itself. Except when I went to play the video back it was randomly just 5 seconds long and it looks like the phone is grabbed out of my hand. It wasn’t what I filmed at all. All very odd. DH was spooked and like I say, he’s a none believer

We stayed in a cottage in the north York moors once, some weird stuff happened there. Stuff moving around in the night, footsteps from upstairs when we were both downstairs, lights turning themselves on and off. One night I went upstairs to the bathroom and the door started rattling, I could see the handle moving but DH was downstairs. Weirdly though it never felt particularly scary, just weird!

DH is the most non woo person ever and while he cant explain it says there must be a rational explanation. I don't actually believe in ghosts either but I don't know what else was going on. If it was a ghost it felt pretty friendly so there's that 😁

Can you include a link to where you’re staying as I’d love to stay somewhere like that!

Stayed in a holiday cottage in Yorkshire when I was a teenager, nothing happened but the atmosphere was just so creepy that by the end of the holiday my brothers and me had started going upstairs to the toilet in pairs because the staircase creeped us all out. None of us are particularly “woo” and never had that feeling anywhere else before or since

Love these threads, sorry OP I'm not much help!

Try the third floor of The Adelphi hotel in Liverpool! The little girl, the banging, your duvet which won't stay on you because it keeps getting pulled off. No joke.

I stayed in a twin room with my friend. We checked with reception about people in the next rooms about the noise. Nope. Empty. When I said about the little girl, honestly, the poor receptionist went all pale and said 'you heard the little girl?'. Straight away, she offered us another room.

Centre Parcs!

We went a few years ago and I genuinely hated it. The entire stay I could hear a small child’s voice calling “mummy”… including in the middle of the night. Naturally, every single time I checked, my children were either fast asleep or absolutely not calling for me.

As if that wasn’t creepy enough, the radio also kept turning itself on for no apparent reason. I spent most of the holiday with full-body goosebumps, especially in the kitchen, wondering if we’d accidentally booked a haunted lodge rather than a family break.

Did not relax. Did not sleep. Would not return 👻

Where in Somerset?

I used to work in Liverpool and I have heard things about the Adelphi. I once went to an evening reception held by a company that supplied where I worked. I could have had a heavily discounted room but I was too scared 😂. I preferred to drive home to Manchester!
Are the ghostly happenings on the whole of the 3rd floor or just one particular room?

There was a story very like this on the Uncanny podcast recently.

It would be annoying but not scary.

OP, if you are enjoying yourself, rock on, obviously. But if you want a rational explanation, you’re staying in an old, draughty, unfamiliar house which was cleaned a few days before you arrived, hence the flies building up, the dog is a bit unwell, hence the not settling, barking and throwing up, and the potatoes, annoyingly, just overbalanced. Re the cobwebs, they seem to build up overnight in my house at this time of year.

You might need to tell the presence to GF, to defend yourself and poor dog!

Even the potoatoes flying to the floor?

Stayed in two holiday cotrages that were haunted. It kind of overshadows the stay.

What happened?

We were in Ypres last year. Stayed in a lovely house, but it felt sad. There was a sauna in the basement but when we went to look, we both felt really uncomfortable.

i woke up one night and realised my ear plug wasn’t in my ear. I wear ear plugs a lot and they don’t fall out. We both searched everywhere for the ear plug. Nowhere to be found (they’re fluorescent pink and yellow so easy to see).

later that day, we went upstairs and the ear plug wasn’t in the middle of the bed and it definitely hasn’t been there before.

that night. My partner woke up and there was a young girl stood at the bottom of the bed. she swears she was wide awake.

It’s still winter- where are flies coming from? Very unusual to have any around. So best non woo guess would be that the place hasn’t been hoovered in months. Which begs the question: unless OP is the first person to stay there since last autumn and the place hasn’t been cleaned in the interim, where have the flies appeared from?