I think my holiday cottage is haunted

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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.

Flies could be cluster flies if near farmland. I was mildly freaked out by them in an otherwise lovely little cottage we stayed in. Took some Raid on the next visit, sorted with a quick spray when we got there.

We stay in a lot of holiday cottages but only one has been unpleasant. The bedroom we had was downstairs and it was so oppressive, I hated being down there alone. There was a games room next to it and even the sound of the ping pong table was somehow muted and not very nice - despite being there with family including children none of us spent a lot of time down there. It was a converted barn, nicely done, but I wouldn’t have stayed there again for a gold clock.

We stayed in a renovated barn in the Lake District a few years ago , place was beautiful but very isolated and pitch black no street lights at night could hear owls when we let the dog out , so creepy and unsettling from the get go . Our dog is very clean in the house she would wake you up during the night if she needed out , she started to pee in the house , didn’t alert us or anything she would just stand and pee , DH slept with her downstairs, with dd and i sleeping in separate rooms upstairs , i told DH off the next morning told him to stop scrapping on wall when I was trying to sleep , he didn’t know what I was talking about, after that I was scared to sleep in the room on my own , dd and i shared a room , when we went home a few days later I was looking through my phone at the pics I had taken on the trip , and we only took two pics inside the house, pics of the dog sleeping next to the log fire and you could see orbs in the pics

@FingalscaveApparently the whole of the third floor is rather 'busy!

We stayed at a cottage in Cornwall and felt uneasy the whole time. Cold spots, DC would not settle upstairs, unusual as they could sleep everywhere. I felt someone in the bedroom even when i was alone. All the lights kept turning itself back on upstairs, toilet flashing throughout the night. On our last day as we were getting ready all bags were packed but left upstairs, we went down to breakfast. We heard the bedroom door slam impossible as all windows were closed we were all downstairs. The door would not open. We had to call the owners and they called locksmith in the end to retrieve the bags. Proper woo.

Flushing*

I don't think you can blame a ghost for your kids breaking a window and you breaking loads of other stuff ffs... the poor owners, I hope you were charged because that is out of order!

The last entry in the Guest Book was 26 Jan so I think the cleaners were in the day they moved out and didn’t come back when we arrived at the weekend. The flies were all over the landing and they are on the window sills. They have come back and are buzzing around the lights when they’re switched on. There is also an outbreak of ladybirds and one crawled over DH’s face. It was about to go up his nose when I intervened.

The hall and the kitchen are definitely the worst spots for a bad atmosphere.

I'd be going home but only because of the flies and bugs. That's no holiday 🤮

I get that staying in a fly-covered holiday cottage is no fun, but it’s perfectly normal for clusterflies to emerge from hibernation around now, especially if there have been a few warmer days. They often hibernate in cracks around windows in old properties, which is why they’re on the windowsills. Annoying, but not supernatural.

We had flies that hatched a couple of days ago. Must have been a slightly warmer spell. Cobwebs overnight too.

I wear silicon earplugs . I'm not taking away from what you say happened , but one night I woke up to chewing on one !
Perhaps you swallowed them 😅

Just started listening to the uncanny podcast. It’s fabulous 👻

We stayed in a cottage in Devon last year along with some friendly ghosts, as they didn't make us feel uneasy (in fact we might go back there!). But strange things happened - doors opening by themselves (no wind, boiling hot summer), the TV would switch on by itself with no one else in the room, and funny things happened with our phones when we were nowhere near them. Funnily enough we were binge watching Ghosts while we were there so maybe that helped with us not feeling spooked by Julian getting up to his antics 😁

Many years ago I joined the bell ringers for evening practice at a church in Suffolk over the Christmas holiday. The ringing chamber was open to the body of the church and I had the feeling that someone was watching me from the nave. When I rather sheepishly mentioned it to one of the ringers they said that other people had felt the “presence”.

Also, my late father worked in a house which he claimed had a poltergeist which shut any open doors. Thinking about it now he was probably just teasing me.

I would have been skeptical if I hadn't experienced similar myself a few years ago. I'm usually a logical person but I couldn't find an explanation for some of the goings on and tbh it spooked me. We stayed for 3 nights but I was done by then, couldn't leave fast enough.

We stayed here many years ago:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/159075a3-ba74-4ba9-a4ef-e85da0b21010

It was possibly the strangest holiday house we'd ever stayed in, the room with the four poster bed absolutely terrified me, it had a horrible atmosphere and for the whole week, I barely slept. One evening I saw a shadow pass by the really old door that was in the main living area - I was sat opposite it the keyhole was huge and let a lot of light in, but they've changed the door now I see) but no one was there as we were all in the living room. There was a dusty old organ in the hallway too, that I always expected to start playing on its own.
And one evening there was a huge crash that came from the conservatory, maybe a bird hit the window but there was no damage to the glass.

The guest book also had snippets of strange goings on.. I do hope the new owners are very happy there.

Sorry realised I’d made a typing error.

the ear plug reappeared on the bed when it hadn’t been there before.

Well yeah if you've roast potatoes flying around, you have a problem

Would it be a cottage on a large country estate near Frome? A well known wedding venue?

Not quite.

I just googled it! Crikey! Seems guests get attacked by furniture there too!

Yea, I believe in the supernatural.

So nothing surprises me.

I live on the site of a tobacco factory and smoke like a chimney LOL.

And my granddad smoked till 94.

Update: there was a lot of banging in the kitchen yesterday evening when DH, dog and I were in the sitting room. I went to bed and felt something pat my upper thigh twice (it wasn’t DH who was snoring away) and then I saw a light flit around in the coving above the bed. I was definitely not asleep.

Rats? Try to film / photograph any happenings!

Rats patting your thigh??
😮