Any haunted houses out there?

Dorian1958

I am convinced that we have a ghost. Who else would have taken all the odd socks? Also, someone goes around switching all the lights on when I am not there. Finally, I didn't empty the dishwasher once, but it was empty when I came home. What more proof could I need.

Skiddaw1

Debt wrote: »

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.

I agree that houses do seem to have auras (especially old houses). Our previous (Victorian) house felt friendly from the moment we walked in (never saw a ghost but any resident spirits were definitely benign ) whereas I took against the almost identical house a close friend and her husband bought (which was just around the corner) immediately. It just felt unhappy. Perhaps coincidentally, their marriage broke down whilst they were living there. Friend is now with a new partner and they bought another period property that felt quite different from the start.

Cakeguts

Our ghost walks up the stairs at about 7.15 in the evening. You can hear the footsteps coming up the stairs if you happen to be around when it happens. At first I thought it was the central heating boiler coming on but it happens when nothing has changed. It was quite regular when we first moved in but I don't think I have heard it for a while. The house was built in1925. I have never seen anything just heard it.



I have found during visits to really old houses that they often have an extremely peaceful atmosphere that makes me feel very comfortable. I would always prefer an old house to a more modern one because of how they feel.

Doodles

We have a ghost in our house, but he has only been since twice in 8 years. First by my father in law, who was a bit shocked as he is a skeptic. And then I saw him a year later. Our house was built 1850 but bizarrely ours is a man wearing a dark green tshirt, so no lady in grey for us lol!

But we do hear movements in my son's room when he is out. Drawers opening, footsteps that sort of thing.

Doesn't bother me though.

DaftyDuck

There are no such things as ghosts. There are folk who believe in them, however...

Fifteen years ago I was selling a timber medieval hall house, creaking stairs, spiders, dark corners. An irritating number of folk who had no intention of buying it, and couldn't have afforded it if they had, came for a look round. I should have opened a gift shop by the exit... I admit, these tourists were peeing me off. ... .... One lady, who had "oooh"ed and "ahhhh"ed at each old beam and creaky stairs asked, spelling it out so's not to invoke the mighty spirits... "Are there any G. H. O. S. T. S. here?" So, I said, yes, plenty of pretty nasty ones... I left them for a final gawp and went downstairs and outside to vent. Seeing them poking inside a cupboard (for which there was no reason), I threw a stone onto the roof above them. It landed with a clunk. Rolled gratingly to the gulley, and clacked slowly down, before dropping into the old metal gutter with a clank.

I had already headed in. They, white and genuinely scared, had nearly beaten me down and through the house. They left immediately, and I'm glad I never saw them again.

That's how ghost stories start. No doubt they'll pass that on as a "true" ghost story, and the irrational will believe and magnify it.

There are no ghosts. Vampires, however.... now...

Skiddaw1

Oooh that's wicked!! :rotfl:


Reminds me of something I read once about sightings of a Ghostly Hand on a B road near Blandford Forum during the late 40's. Evidently, the origin of it was a woman stationed on one of the many RAF bases who used to hitch for a lift on a regular basis on the road. In winter, after dark, she'd wear red gloves and hold a torch so she could be seen. The sightings went on long after she'd left the base.

GaleSF63

Dorian1958 wrote: »

I am convinced that we have a ghost. Who else would have taken all the odd socks? Also, someone goes around switching all the lights on when I am not there. Finally, I didn't empty the dishwasher once, but it was empty when I came home. What more proof could I need.

That's the sort of ghost I could do with.

JosephK

Don't know about an "aura" but certain houses do gain a reputation, more so if they are a few hundred years old. I guess with any house of any age there will have been odd or unpleasant happenings, deaths, etc.

Take the ancient cottage on the moors where I am for Christmas. It seems to have something of a local reputation. Investigating this in local archives reveals it to be based on a mere three incidents over three hundred years.

The first, in late 1719, involved the son of a local philanthropist who had retreated from business to the moors. The son, who clearly had mental problems, died suddenly after being stopped from attacking two local girls. Suspicion was his father did away with him.

Second, in winter 1819, a tramp was found with his throat torn out. Although he had only been seen on his own, it was alleged he fell out with another vagabond.

Then, Christmas 1919, a young man who had suffered shell-shock in WW1 and was holidaying in the cottage to recover was supposed to have found the solitude too much and hurled himself from a nearby rock outcrop fatally damaging his face and neck.

So much for stories. Many, many people have safely visited here so I shall relax but before I do so I shall just check out that noise outside. Probably a nocturnal badger or something........

connors07

Never lived in a haunted house and someone in the 'won't ever believe it category'. I live in a house that was built around 1900s, a few funny noises but can normally be explained by pipes/expanding from heating coming on/cooling off. There is a loft hatch in the top room which occasionally goes flying when it just wind getting in and having no escape. I always believe there is an explanation. I don't believe in spirits, ghosts, gods, souls and believe star signs are a load of nonsense - yes that kind of guy.

However... I once stayed in a friends relatives house down in Cornwall years and years ago. Heard that it was haunted and just didn't believe it. I would have been around 13 and I am 32 now. So around 1999/2000. All the activity was specific to the kitchen. Heard pictures going flying and falling off. I assumed poor hooks and just fell on the floor. Heard tables had moved from against the wall. There was one door in to get to the kitchen, just one and you had to pass the living room to get to it. We was watching TV and there was a noise from the kitchen so naturally we go to take a look, a loaf of bread has managed to be against the wall on the table and the bag has split. They did have animals but they were with us. Assumption was maybe someone dumped the bread and the noise was from outside (it blatantly wasn't). A couple days later when we'd been out all day, to get into the kitchen the table was like the middle of the room. By this point starting to believe one of the adults is having us on and its working.

Years later the owners of said house died and having lived a healthy ripe old age (nothing ghost related) the house went to buyers in town. My friends mum was contacted to be asked about strange goings on and a lot of the same stories were going on. The buyers had done some refurbishing and extending, they wanted to fit underfloor heating and dug up the floor. There was a door to a small cellar. There was nothing exciting to be found but still... it was by the wall which is where the table was positioned. A friends mum knew nothing of a small cellar and doesn't believe her parents knew about it either and the house had been in the family for two generations.

I still don't believe I just... can't explain! Never felt uncomfortable in the house, things never went missing they had just moved. Something like a table moving, this was some massive chunky table, not like one of the dogs could have moved it somehow. It was a beautiful house in a really beautiful area. I miss it.

Smodlet

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