Any haunted houses out there?

Skiddaw1

...What it says really. Just as a bit of light relief and following on from a comment a poster made on another thread on the board recently ('Our place has bags of character and two ghosts. The one indoors isn’t too much of a bother but the one outside is a bit scarier.') I thought that with Christmas upon us, a few ghost stories might be fun...


So- anyone want to share a haunted house tale or two?

beedeedee

Wouldn't mind one if they did something useful like cleaning up or the weeding....

hazyjo

Saw a random wooden garden chair next to a wall start rocking at my mum's one Christmas in the dining room. Four of us were playing Monopoly a few years ago. Heard an almighty clank and thought a picture had fallen off a wall onto it but there had been nothing above it on that wall, and there was certainly nothing by it on the floor.

It remains a mystery _pale_

In the same house, around 15 years ago when my twin nieces were around 5, one said to my mum 'nanny, who was that lady in black who followed you up the stairs?' :eek:

They bought it as a new-build in 1979. Not like it has history or is particularly old.

phoebe1989seb

Neither DH or I believe in ghosts, but we've owned a few old houses that others have insisted are haunted.

Our current cottage is 400+ years old and built on the site of a Roman mill. Until Victorian times it was an agricultural building (another mill), then was converted to residential accommodation and was not sold off by the large estate on whose grounds it sat till the late 1990s. The 'big' house is grade 2* with various wings, one being Tudor and that is reputed to have several ghosts. When we were buying the cottage - a repossession - two years ago, the estate agents insisted our soon to be new home was haunted too as did our only nearby neighbour when we went round to introduce ourselves after completion.

We do get quite a few curious loud noises and our dogs hear stuff we don't, but we have an ancient undercroft beneath the cottage that wild animals probably get into...plus we have bats, so imho they can all be explained by it being an old building with lots of access points for beasties

Davesnave

When we rented an ancient cottage in Crackington Haven for a short holiday break, we were warned there was a ghost in the form of a black cat.


After some days of not seeing it, I spent the last night on the sofa in the hope of a sighting, but nothing appeared.

I think we were all disappointed by this no show ghost, but no matter; we had by then found our own ghost, called Doris. She seemed to appear whenever we went out. She hoovered, tidied, dusted and then left notes. We'd come back and find everything in pristine order + at least one note like "Don't forget dustbin Wednesday." or "Please turn off TV at wall switch."

Doris was strict, but she was much more use than an ethereal cat.

JosephK

We, apparently, have terrible noises at night ranging from the spluttering and hissing of a broken down steam engine to someone drowning in their own blood.

I put it down to the resident ghost but my OH says it's just my snoring.

lookstraightahead

Yes my old house had spirits. Things left on the floor ended up in our Welsh dresser and items such as picture hooks were in the sink in the mornings. There was a graveyard at the back of our garden and the slight slope meant over time gravestones slipped towards our house. Not that it's really relevant but made me think more about it,

Happy to live with spirits - have no reason to believe they don't exist.

markin

lookstraightahead wrote: »

Yes my old house had spirits. Things left on the floor ended up in our Welsh dresser and items such as picture hooks were in the sink in the mornings. There was a graveyard at the back of our garden and the slight slope meant over time gravestones slipped towards our house. Not that it's really relevant but made me think more about it,

Happy to live with spirits - have no reason to believe they don't exist.

You must have really hit the spirits hard to not remember tidying up the floor and washing the picture hooks:rotfl:

sammyjammy

I stayed in a tiny holiday cottage in the Peak District with my parents once, of an evening sitting downstairs you would get a waft of lavender, like a draft almost, we all smelt it, there was nothing around that could have caused it.

Wasn't scary, almost peaceful.

bouicca21

I think my friend’s house has a draft. She insists it is a ghost, but after a bit of a google decided nothing untoward had ever happened in the cottage (150 plus years old, workman’s cottage in a small town/overgrown village, is it really going to turn up on google?). Ergo it’s a friendly ghost.

Debt

Depends what you mean by haunted?

I have never seen a ghost, but I have experienced a few intangible little things in a couple of places I've lived in, which can't be easily or logically explained. Things being moved around, strange electrical problems, and in one place, the occasional sound at night of a person playing a 19th century music box on the pavement outside.

I also believe that houses do contain a residual innate energy of their own - a combination of all the energies that have existed inside them over time, and it can be inimical towards you. I have noticed how people seem to take on the experiences of previous occupants and financial hardship, illness and divorce can occur within months of them moving in, despite being unlikely prior to this.

I think it's a good idea to try to find out why a place is on the market if you are looking to move into it. If it is for sad or tragic reasons, then maybe stay clear.