Haunted by a child? Thoughts?
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There will always be believers and non believers with this sort of stuff.
And of course you are not wishing to create a problem that doesn’t exist as you want to live in the house. You just want to some sort of explanation as to why you are seeing and hearing the things you are.
I won’t knock things I don’t fully understand, and this is one thing ,that even though there may not be a logical answer sometimes, we all have an in built sixth sense and you can usually feel if something is right or wrong.
If only for peace of mind I would get someone in. It’s obviously upsetting your family and needs to be sorted out, otherwise your imagination will start to run riot and make matters worse.
I wouldn’t try and do the CCTV thing to be honest. The slightest little thing on camera will also lead to over thinking and then put down to “actual” evidence, when maybe it is a trick of light etc.
Just my thoughts.
And of course you are not wishing to create a problem that doesn’t exist as you want to live in the house. You just want to some sort of explanation as to why you are seeing and hearing the things you are.
I won’t knock things I don’t fully understand, and this is one thing ,that even though there may not be a logical answer sometimes, we all have an in built sixth sense and you can usually feel if something is right or wrong.
If only for peace of mind I would get someone in. It’s obviously upsetting your family and needs to be sorted out, otherwise your imagination will start to run riot and make matters worse.
I wouldn’t try and do the CCTV thing to be honest. The slightest little thing on camera will also lead to over thinking and then put down to “actual” evidence, when maybe it is a trick of light etc.
Just my thoughts.
I would have said b
ks until l started to work in a place which had an old warehouse and a few things that couldn't be explained happened.
Turned around and saw a figure standing in the corner which then disappeared. It was in a dead end so someone there had nowhere else to go but squeeze past myself.
Told a colleague who had worked there sometime and wrote down exactly what it looked like, was wearing etc.
Exactly the same description with some things that no on would even think of.
ks until l started to work in a place which had an old warehouse and a few things that couldn't be explained happened.Turned around and saw a figure standing in the corner which then disappeared. It was in a dead end so someone there had nowhere else to go but squeeze past myself.
Told a colleague who had worked there sometime and wrote down exactly what it looked like, was wearing etc.
Exactly the same description with some things that no on would even think of.
Willy Nilly said:
My sensible head says it's all bks, but I spent a summer in a farm house a few years ago as part of a harvest job and the place was just plain spooky. I couldn't put my finger on it but there was something about the place. Then the head man at the farm said one of the ex managers had it exorsised because there was the noise of a swarm of bees in there.
You could make it a tourist attraction.
Was it a swarm of bees?ks, but I spent a summer in a farm house a few years ago as part of a harvest job and the place was just plain spooky. I couldn't put my finger on it but there was something about the place. Then the head man at the farm said one of the ex managers had it exorsised because there was the noise of a swarm of bees in there. You could make it a tourist attraction.
There are believers and non-believers of this. Until around 5 years ago i'd have said, bks, you're making it up, you're dreaming or imagining etc.
A few years ago I worked at a well known, national retail store, where some odd things happened. You could be that last one upstairs locking up at night and the place would be neat and tidy, but be the first to open the next morning and there would be stock that had fallen from the shelf and be in the middle of the floor, but not within physical falling distance from where it was. As you were the one locking up, you were 100% certain it wasn't there went you left.
One night me and a colleague were staying late to build bikes before christmas, we were the only ones in the warehouse when there was a 'thud' of an object hitting cardboard, we turned round to see one of the flaps of the cardboard box of a bike moving as if it had been hit. We were the only ones there and had each other in eyeline.
Another time it was early am, just after opening. Me and the colleague from above on the shop floor speaking to a couple at the desk when in the distance a cycle bell rang, us 4 looked at each other and all thought the same thing at the same time. There was only us 4 on that floor at the time.
I wish I was making this up, because I remember watching these paranormal programs and films years ago thinking bullst, but i've had the odd experiences which make me think otherwise.
There is hearsay that the retail park was built on a graveyard after the town was re-developed, but i'm yet to see, or dig for, any evidence of this.
ks, you're making it up, you're dreaming or imagining etc. A few years ago I worked at a well known, national retail store, where some odd things happened. You could be that last one upstairs locking up at night and the place would be neat and tidy, but be the first to open the next morning and there would be stock that had fallen from the shelf and be in the middle of the floor, but not within physical falling distance from where it was. As you were the one locking up, you were 100% certain it wasn't there went you left.
One night me and a colleague were staying late to build bikes before christmas, we were the only ones in the warehouse when there was a 'thud' of an object hitting cardboard, we turned round to see one of the flaps of the cardboard box of a bike moving as if it had been hit. We were the only ones there and had each other in eyeline.
Another time it was early am, just after opening. Me and the colleague from above on the shop floor speaking to a couple at the desk when in the distance a cycle bell rang, us 4 looked at each other and all thought the same thing at the same time. There was only us 4 on that floor at the time.
I wish I was making this up, because I remember watching these paranormal programs and films years ago thinking bulls
t, but i've had the odd experiences which make me think otherwise. There is hearsay that the retail park was built on a graveyard after the town was re-developed, but i'm yet to see, or dig for, any evidence of this.
James2593 said:
There are believers and non-believers of this. Until around 5 years ago i'd have said, bks, you're making it up, you're dreaming or imagining etc.
A few years ago I worked at a well known, national retail store, where some odd things happened. You could be that last one upstairs locking up at night and the place would be neat and tidy, but be the first to open the next morning and there would be stock that had fallen from the shelf and be in the middle of the floor, but not within physical falling distance from where it was. As you were the one locking up, you were 100% certain it wasn't there went you left.
One night me and a colleague were staying late to build bikes before christmas, we were the only ones in the warehouse when there was a 'thud' of an object hitting cardboard, we turned round to see one of the flaps of the cardboard box of a bike moving as if it had been hit. We were the only ones there and had each other in eyeline.
Another time it was early am, just after opening. Me and the colleague from above on the shop floor speaking to a couple at the desk when in the distance a cycle bell rang, us 4 looked at each other and all thought the same thing at the same time. There was only us 4 on that floor at the time.
I wish I was making this up, because I remember watching these paranormal programs and films years ago thinking bullst, but i've had the odd experiences which make me think otherwise.
There is hearsay that the retail park was built on a graveyard after the town was re-developed, but i'm yet to see, or dig for, any evidence of this.
Could be some wildlife buggering about in the warehouse.ks, you're making it up, you're dreaming or imagining etc. A few years ago I worked at a well known, national retail store, where some odd things happened. You could be that last one upstairs locking up at night and the place would be neat and tidy, but be the first to open the next morning and there would be stock that had fallen from the shelf and be in the middle of the floor, but not within physical falling distance from where it was. As you were the one locking up, you were 100% certain it wasn't there went you left.
One night me and a colleague were staying late to build bikes before christmas, we were the only ones in the warehouse when there was a 'thud' of an object hitting cardboard, we turned round to see one of the flaps of the cardboard box of a bike moving as if it had been hit. We were the only ones there and had each other in eyeline.
Another time it was early am, just after opening. Me and the colleague from above on the shop floor speaking to a couple at the desk when in the distance a cycle bell rang, us 4 looked at each other and all thought the same thing at the same time. There was only us 4 on that floor at the time.
I wish I was making this up, because I remember watching these paranormal programs and films years ago thinking bulls
t, but i've had the odd experiences which make me think otherwise. There is hearsay that the retail park was built on a graveyard after the town was re-developed, but i'm yet to see, or dig for, any evidence of this.
Buy a couple of digital recorders and leave them recording in areas of highest activity in the house and go out for a couple of hours. Day or night time, it does not matter. You might be surprised what you capture.
Don Phillips will probably help you out free of charge if things are getting too much.
Good luck, you are not going mad 😂
Don Phillips will probably help you out free of charge if things are getting too much.
Good luck, you are not going mad 😂
I had similar in a house I lived in. People call bullst but noone can explain how lights turn themselves on and whatnot. One morning the bedroom door was flung open violently while I was in bed. No one in the house, doors locked, windows closed. Naturally people that weren’t there will say it was a draught.
I moved.
t but noone can explain how lights turn themselves on and whatnot. One morning the bedroom door was flung open violently while I was in bed. No one in the house, doors locked, windows closed. Naturally people that weren’t there will say it was a draught. I moved.
We bought our house from the estate of deceased. The lady died and was found in the kitchen. The husband had died a few years before. His first wife died in the front living room circa 40yrs previously from cancer.
Quite a few things have happened and usually it sounds like a burglar is walking about downstairs (that sort of sound). Then there's a large horse shoe scratch in a table that appeared two weeks ago. Our son promises he wouldn't do that. I'll put that down as a 'maybe' as a 7yr old can find.
Do I believe? I still don't know and I'm not on any medication nor drink heavily or suffer high levels of stress etc.
Quite a few things have happened and usually it sounds like a burglar is walking about downstairs (that sort of sound). Then there's a large horse shoe scratch in a table that appeared two weeks ago. Our son promises he wouldn't do that. I'll put that down as a 'maybe' as a 7yr old can find.
Do I believe? I still don't know and I'm not on any medication nor drink heavily or suffer high levels of stress etc.
This is something that i would say "could" happen. I've witnessed similar things in the past,
My mother would 100% say that she has seen & felt the presence of ghosts.
My mum & dad bought an old house in the country roughly 25 years ago, the previous occupants were elderly & the lady wanted back to a town, the old guy passed away days after leaving the house.
Danny used to get up at 4am every morning & the heating was set for this time to come on. Mum changed it to 6am on the timer. It was always turned back to 4am ....
She felt a mans weight on the bed some evenings as if they were sitting taking off there shoes. It wasnt my Dad, he was at the local golf club
My sisters swear they seen a man walking past there bedroom window on numerous occasions
All a bit cynical but hey
My mother would 100% say that she has seen & felt the presence of ghosts.
My mum & dad bought an old house in the country roughly 25 years ago, the previous occupants were elderly & the lady wanted back to a town, the old guy passed away days after leaving the house.
Danny used to get up at 4am every morning & the heating was set for this time to come on. Mum changed it to 6am on the timer. It was always turned back to 4am ....
She felt a mans weight on the bed some evenings as if they were sitting taking off there shoes. It wasnt my Dad, he was at the local golf club
My sisters swear they seen a man walking past there bedroom window on numerous occasions
All a bit cynical but hey
We regularly holiday in a C17th cottage in deepest Suffolk.
One night several years ago, we were woken by a commotion downstairs. A woman's terrified scream filled the place.
Bravely and with No concern for my own safety, I ventured downstairs to confront the protagonist.
The television had been on a pause cycle which had timed out......
One night several years ago, we were woken by a commotion downstairs. A woman's terrified scream filled the place.
Bravely and with No concern for my own safety, I ventured downstairs to confront the protagonist.
The television had been on a pause cycle which had timed out......
MJ85 said:
Other than I'm making it all up!
I bought a "forever" project house in December last year. We've experienced a number of goings on that I'm trying to understand. The house is in two parts; one is early 1600s, other is 1700s. I can post pictures or whatever you'd like to see. Happy to hear thoughts!
Things that have occurred:
- Wife heard commotion in the master bedroom wardrobe. I had a look, nothing had moved
- Son, six, heard someone calling his name in his bedroom
- Son, six, saw a child in the garden that disappeared into bushes (have reaction on CCTV but actual area was out view)
- Wife saw a child in garden (not our children), looked again and disappeared
- Wife woke up to the bed in the master bedroom shaking
- Wife woke up to the bed shaking again, woke me up and I felt it too (nothing dodgy! ;-))
- Father stayed the night with just my older son (six). Heard footsteps in corridor that stopped at top of stairs (childlike steps) checked, child asleep
- Wife heard footsteps originating on unused top floor, heading downstairs to first floor and stopping outside bedroom near stairs to ground floor (childlike steps). Checked, child asleep. Footsteps like this have been heard three times, last one this evening
- Wife sees reflection of someone/thing in the kitchen from the living room regularly
- Finding lights on in rooms where they have been turned off, occurring more frequently over time and on a floor where there are no children
I know the house was used for the village for births as the local midwife lived in part of it. It was also owned by the local Baron, not that he lived here. Last occupants were an elderly couple, he was well known locally and elsewhere as a Ferrari restorer, he died in '98, but she lived here until 2015 before going into a home and lived a little longer. Unsure where he died, in the house or elsewhere. They had no children.
I don't think my father will ever stay again, he didn't sleep until the sun rose that night!
Is it all BS? Do I need an old priest and a young priest?
MJ85.
Occam's razor would suggest supernatural activity as pretty unlikely. Some rational explanations:I bought a "forever" project house in December last year. We've experienced a number of goings on that I'm trying to understand. The house is in two parts; one is early 1600s, other is 1700s. I can post pictures or whatever you'd like to see. Happy to hear thoughts!
Things that have occurred:
- Wife heard commotion in the master bedroom wardrobe. I had a look, nothing had moved
- Son, six, heard someone calling his name in his bedroom
- Son, six, saw a child in the garden that disappeared into bushes (have reaction on CCTV but actual area was out view)
- Wife saw a child in garden (not our children), looked again and disappeared
- Wife woke up to the bed in the master bedroom shaking
- Wife woke up to the bed shaking again, woke me up and I felt it too (nothing dodgy! ;-))
- Father stayed the night with just my older son (six). Heard footsteps in corridor that stopped at top of stairs (childlike steps) checked, child asleep
- Wife heard footsteps originating on unused top floor, heading downstairs to first floor and stopping outside bedroom near stairs to ground floor (childlike steps). Checked, child asleep. Footsteps like this have been heard three times, last one this evening
- Wife sees reflection of someone/thing in the kitchen from the living room regularly
- Finding lights on in rooms where they have been turned off, occurring more frequently over time and on a floor where there are no children
I know the house was used for the village for births as the local midwife lived in part of it. It was also owned by the local Baron, not that he lived here. Last occupants were an elderly couple, he was well known locally and elsewhere as a Ferrari restorer, he died in '98, but she lived here until 2015 before going into a home and lived a little longer. Unsure where he died, in the house or elsewhere. They had no children.
I don't think my father will ever stay again, he didn't sleep until the sun rose that night!
Is it all BS? Do I need an old priest and a young priest?
MJ85.
Bed shaking
http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/2011/01/27...
You say yourself your heart was pounding. Against a background of worry of supernatural activity, as well as just having been woken up, you'd be pretty suggestible and likely to engage fairly easily in a kind of folie a deux.
Son hearing and seeing things
https://pro.psychcentral.com/hallucinations-in-chi...
Hallucinations are very common at this age. I could provide better quality journal articles if you're interested, but they're not open access. Nothing to worry about, and probably also planted by the conversations / worries he's heard.
Hearing footsteps
Old houses are noisy. Our house is 400 years old, and has its own repertoire of noises. They're all to do with the structure expanding, contracting and shifting as it heats, cools, gets damp, dries etc. Bear in mind the foundations are only a foot deep, and it's not been designed like a modern house. You're anxious anyway, and listening for noises. Because you're primed to expect spooky ones, that's what you hear. There's plenty of good quality psych experiments to suggest we hear and see what our brain wants us to, dependent on our expectations, mood and priming.
Wife seeing reflections
Pepper's Ghost, or lots of other rational and medical reasons, some of which are touched on here:
http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/articles/Corner%20e...
There are a few medical conditions which might cause this, as well as the issues with peripheral vision in the link above, plus of course the likelihood that your wife is now highly suggestible to the idea that her house is haunted, and one would almost be surprised if she did not think she saw something. See the history of Borley Rectory for similar experiences.
Lights being on
You or someone else left them on and forgot. Dodgy wiring. Interlinked switches you're not aware of. Try taking the bulb out - I bet the ghost doesn't put it back in. Or perhaps you'll find out the punchline to a joke...
CCTV
I can't see anything on that recording which wouldn't be explained by a poor quality recording, even at 10 seconds. Again, prior experiences / expectations are putting ideas in your head.
N Dentressangle said:
Occam's razor would suggest supernatural activity as pretty unlikely. Some rational explanations:
Bed shaking
http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/2011/01/27...
You say yourself your heart was pounding. Against a background of worry of supernatural activity, as well as just having been woken up, you'd be pretty suggestible and likely to engage fairly easily in a kind of folie a deux.
Son hearing and seeing things
https://pro.psychcentral.com/hallucinations-in-chi...
Hallucinations are very common at this age. I could provide better quality journal articles if you're interested, but they're not open access. Nothing to worry about, and probably also planted by the conversations / worries he's heard.
Hearing footsteps
Old houses are noisy. Our house is 400 years old, and has its own repertoire of noises. They're all to do with the structure expanding, contracting and shifting as it heats, cools, gets damp, dries etc. Bear in mind the foundations are only a foot deep, and it's not been designed like a modern house. You're anxious anyway, and listening for noises. Because you're primed to expect spooky ones, that's what you hear. There's plenty of good quality psych experiments to suggest we hear and see what our brain wants us to, dependent on our expectations, mood and priming.
Wife seeing reflections
Pepper's Ghost, or lots of other rational and medical reasons, some of which are touched on here:
http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/articles/Corner%20e...
There are a few medical conditions which might cause this, as well as the issues with peripheral vision in the link above, plus of course the likelihood that your wife is now highly suggestible to the idea that her house is haunted, and one would almost be surprised if she did not think she saw something. See the history of Borley Rectory for similar experiences.
Lights being on
You or someone else left them on and forgot. Dodgy wiring. Interlinked switches you're not aware of. Try taking the bulb out - I bet the ghost doesn't put it back in. Or perhaps you'll find out the punchline to a joke...
CCTV
I can't see anything on that recording which wouldn't be explained by a poor quality recording, even at 10 seconds. Again, prior experiences / expectations are putting ideas in your head.
Please explain mine. It's a 1927 house with the boiler living outside in a brick built building. We have smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and when we had a dog he used to sleep throughout all the noises yet bark if he heard footsteps approaching up the drive. Bed shaking
http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/2011/01/27...
You say yourself your heart was pounding. Against a background of worry of supernatural activity, as well as just having been woken up, you'd be pretty suggestible and likely to engage fairly easily in a kind of folie a deux.
Son hearing and seeing things
https://pro.psychcentral.com/hallucinations-in-chi...
Hallucinations are very common at this age. I could provide better quality journal articles if you're interested, but they're not open access. Nothing to worry about, and probably also planted by the conversations / worries he's heard.
Hearing footsteps
Old houses are noisy. Our house is 400 years old, and has its own repertoire of noises. They're all to do with the structure expanding, contracting and shifting as it heats, cools, gets damp, dries etc. Bear in mind the foundations are only a foot deep, and it's not been designed like a modern house. You're anxious anyway, and listening for noises. Because you're primed to expect spooky ones, that's what you hear. There's plenty of good quality psych experiments to suggest we hear and see what our brain wants us to, dependent on our expectations, mood and priming.
Wife seeing reflections
Pepper's Ghost, or lots of other rational and medical reasons, some of which are touched on here:
http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/articles/Corner%20e...
There are a few medical conditions which might cause this, as well as the issues with peripheral vision in the link above, plus of course the likelihood that your wife is now highly suggestible to the idea that her house is haunted, and one would almost be surprised if she did not think she saw something. See the history of Borley Rectory for similar experiences.
Lights being on
You or someone else left them on and forgot. Dodgy wiring. Interlinked switches you're not aware of. Try taking the bulb out - I bet the ghost doesn't put it back in. Or perhaps you'll find out the punchline to a joke...
CCTV
I can't see anything on that recording which wouldn't be explained by a poor quality recording, even at 10 seconds. Again, prior experiences / expectations are putting ideas in your head.
The remote control used to disappear for weeks then as soon as we bought a new one the old appeared in the same spot that it'd appear if we lost it for a few days. Yes that can be absent-minded Ness but to what degree?
New house with new sounds/shadows/sights plus a little bit of shared hysteria that's feeding on itself.
The human brain is evolved to see threats especially in unfamiliar environments. You will mistake a shadow for a burglar more often than you'll mistake a burglar for a shadow. It's just the way we're wired to keep us alive (mistaking a predator for a funny shaped rock is a mistake you only make once).
Last night I was walking down the side of my house, having put the bin out, and I could have sworn I saw someone stood in our garden. On closer inspection it was a towel hanging off the washing line by a single peg. From 20 yards away in poor light my brain jumped to the conclusion that it was a figure stood in the garden (possibly about to hammer sausages into my lawn....).
The human brain is evolved to see threats especially in unfamiliar environments. You will mistake a shadow for a burglar more often than you'll mistake a burglar for a shadow. It's just the way we're wired to keep us alive (mistaking a predator for a funny shaped rock is a mistake you only make once).
Last night I was walking down the side of my house, having put the bin out, and I could have sworn I saw someone stood in our garden. On closer inspection it was a towel hanging off the washing line by a single peg. From 20 yards away in poor light my brain jumped to the conclusion that it was a figure stood in the garden (possibly about to hammer sausages into my lawn....).
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