Ghosts

hazyjo

It's weird how electrics often seem to be affected! My dad nearly died around 5 years ago - they were away in Kenya at the time. Their house alarm started going off around the time he was in hospital out there. Also, all of my clocks stopped too in my old house when he was out there (yes, literally all, even the clock radio as the electrics all went off a couple of times). Even the one in my car was suddenly a couple of hours out. Several lightbulbs blew - quite violently! - one in the spare bedroom literally burst out of the holding the second I looked in that room - the metal part of it was still stuck in the light fitting. Hadn't just turned the light on, and hadn't been in there, but the light had been on from earlier. Each time my dad's been in hospital since, their telly stops working for a while when my mum gets home (although I do wonder if that's my mum not working it properly lol).

Very strange!

Sorry, not really a thread for 'ghost stories', I know... but it really does make you wonder exactly what's out there! Just wanted you to know you weren't alone lol (I mean us lot, not the ghosts lol)!

Jx

frustin

Cool thread. Couple of posts have made my hair on the back of my neck stand on end.

ILW

LudaMusser wrote: »

I believe that there is a place between life and death, I`ve never seen anything and I never want to but I think spirits do exist trapped between the two places

It's called Milton Keynes.

maninthestreet

OP - any chance of recording some of these noises so can have a listen? I'm very interested in hearing the noise that sounds like the back legs of a dog....

mardatha

We had lights and kettles and once the scanner- light up when they weren't even plugged in. Tv went on and if I crossed into the room it went off before I could reach it, then on again when I went out the door. The room would change in front of my eyes to an older shabbier house & I kept crying and couldn't stop. I once felt absolutely bloody terrified and thought OMG I'm possessed! LOL -that's when we got a medium in. She didnt charge any money.
There was a pit accident right under it - (it was a pit house) in 1857. And a tenant killed his wife then shot himself in 1957. The medium told us this and then we checked it out in newspapers and mining records. This is why I now believe in ghosts LOL

BeauBelle

My DH has always been freaked out by the "feeling" he gets standing on the landing outside our bathroom. We have lived here 6 years, its a townhouse built in the late 1950's so not that old.

Before we moved the lounge downstairs it used to be on the middle floor with the bathroom and landing and this is where it always was freezing no matter how hot the rads! When we had our daughter 4 years ago the floorboards started creaking with no-one upstairs like someone was walking on them back and forth. Didn't really think anything of it until our daughter then about 2 and a half was in the lounge with us and suddenly looked towards to door to the landing and said "mummy what's that man doing in the hallway!!!":eek:

Of course there was no one out there and DH and I were really shocked! A couple of weeks later my mum was putting DD to bed and she said "Nanna, can you tell the man to go downstairs with you as I don't want him standing by my door all night again"

Now whoever he is is refered to as "the man" I have no idea who he is and as he hasn't done anything to harm us I am content that he is just there and part of the house!!

Suzy_M

Just in case you are now feeling totally freaked out -

They vary, sometimes it goes for months and you kind of forget about it. Sometimes they seem to come in batch's, -
Any correlaton with the natural seasons

the sound of scratching, - birds partying in the guttering - believe me they can make one heck of a racket and the sound travels through the downpipes.

Other time it is like a tin tray is dropped from height, this is always in the kitchen. Metal expanding and contracting on and around the cooker or hot water / heating pipes (cooker panels, storage trays, cooking trays - and tin tea trays). - The final contraction ping often doesn't happen until quite a long time after the heat source has been switched of.

Also if the house catches strong sun (even during the winter) the house fabric itself will expand and contract.

And yet again from the kitchen is the sound of what seems to be a shoe heel being hammered on the kitchen floor. - Most likely one of those wonderful frost-free freezers that make all sorts of wierds and wonderful noises. Another possibility is contraction as above.

Anyway if you don't believe the above 'rational' explanations when you come to sell you can in all honsety with hand on heart tell prospective purchasers

"We've always found this house so full of character"

tommie1shunt

maninthestreet wrote: »

OP - any chance of recording some of these noises so can have a listen? I'm very interested in hearing the noise that sounds like the back legs of a dog....

No chance am afraid, as stated in original post it could be months with out any noises and then they seem to start up and just as quickly fade away. There seems to be no sort off rhyme or reason to the noises, they are quite contrary, they seem to start when they feel like it. The back legs of a dog noise is the most weird, it is a crystal clear sound, it sounds false like it is being played thru a very expensive Hi Fi system, you can hear every nuance of the noise, very weird.
Am afraid the Ghosts in the subject matter was a bit tongue in cheek, while we cant find an explanation for the noises, we don't claim the house is haunted, and we get none off the clich! haunting tricks, white sheets walking about etc.
Thanks for all your interest.

maninthestreet

Let's hope all these noises don't lead to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfheOHcYzY0

mardatha

Nobody gets white sheets walking about lol But you might well have a previous occupier just popping back for a visit. If it seriously bugs you then tell them to go away. Firmly.