Is your house Haunted?
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At my mother in laws home... i lived there for 2 years had terrifying experiences... like crap from movies... i even saw a lil boy standing across my bed stiff and gray scariest **** thats ever happened to me! I also heard footsteps walking back and forth from the door to my bedroom to the bathroom... whistling, slamming kitchen cabinets... knocking on bedroom door. Also my husbands grandmother saw a girl standing on some chair with her ear against wall listening to my hubby and my conversation! I must say i think w/e was in that home was not good... My husband and I would always be arguing for dumb stuff and now that i think about it they say ghost feed off negative energy... scary...
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When I lived in my old apartment I had 3 angel figurines hanging on the wall in my hallway and they were always getting moved around. I would find them all over the apartment. On the bathroom floor, on the kitchen floor,etc. and there is no way they could have fallen and landed in these places. One of them finally disappeared for good and I got rid of the rest of them. I used to keep a plastic cup on the side of the tub and I would find it sitting in the middle of the bathroom floor.
I also used to see shadows. One time, my brother came over and I thought he had left, but I was sitting on the living room floor putting together an entertainment center and I saw someone walk down the hall. Thinking it was my brother I yelled for him to come help me, but he didn't answer, so I got up and went to see what he was doing and nobody was there.
Another time I was sitting on the couch watching TV and I saw a black cat jump up on the arm of the couch (I didn't have a cat) and it scared me so I jumped and screamed a fell off the couch. I got up to go look for it to take it outside, I never found a cat.
My sister swears that apartment was haunted.0 -
A ghost stole my toast.
I was making toast one morning in college, just one slice. But I put it in the wrong side and had to switch to the "one slice" side. A few moments later I heard the toaster pop, but my toast was gone. I looked everywhere, thought maybe it was flung up on top of the fridge or onto the floor...nay.
That is the best ghost story ever. Even ghosts need toasts.
One time I was walking upstairs to my room. The bathroom door was open, and there was a very large mirror you could see from the hallway. I happened to glance over and saw a small girl, about 8 or so, with long black hair and some sort of dress on, looked old fashioned. She was very pale and looked Gothic,. She looked right at me for a good 10 seconds. When I looked back, she was gone.
One time, I was up late playing video games in my room. I "felt" something walk into the room. I tried to ignore it because typically if you pay attention, it tends to make it worse. I just kept playing. .. Until I felt it walk up next to me, and then it brushed my shoulder. I ran.
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All you have to do if a ghost bothers you is to tell them very loudly "If you don't leave me alone, I will vaporize you." Sometimes they still walk around yer house, but they will steer clear of you.0
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My grandfather was a huge believer in the paranormal, and everyone knew it. In his old house, he was in the bathroom in his room doing his business when a little blonde boy peeked in around the door (it was open because that door was broken and no one could get it to stay closed) and then he left and shut the door behind him...and it stayed closed. He came into the living room where my dad and brother, who was about 6 at the time and blonde, were sitting on the couch. He asked my brother how he got the door to stay closed. At which point my dad told him that he and my brother had been sitting there together and hadn't moved in about ten minutes.
When my brother was very very little, around two, he used to go over to a corner in the house mentioned above and look up and just laugh and giggle and babble as if he were playing with an adult. He would do that for hours, just sit there looking up and giggling.
My grandpa also used to frequently see a woman and a young girl that stood hand in hand that would just be there when he turned around. Whenever he tried to talk to them, they'd leave.
After he died, my grandmother was lonely and wasn't used to sleeping alone, so she asked me one night to come sleep in her bed. I woke up that night and saw a baseball sized green orb on the left side of the room. I didn't think anything of it, I just smiled at it and felt happy. The next morning I hadn't remembered it until my grandmother asked if I had seen "the big green light on the left side of the room" last night. I thought about it and just kind of was like, yeah, grandma, that was the smoke detector. And then she reminded me that it was on the right side of the room, in the opposite corner. I remembered how inexplicably happy I felt seeing that green light and still believe it was my grandpa. Haven't seen him since, but I think it was his final goodbye, since I never got to say it.0 -
All you have to do if a ghost bothers you is to tell them very loudly "If you don't leave me alone, I will vaporize you." Sometimes they still walk around yer house, but they will steer clear of you.
No, that doesn't work at all. Threatening them does nothing. What are they to be afraid of? They're dead. They're either there because of negativity or they're there to tell you something. If the former, pray and don't feed it. If the latter, listen or get someone who can. Often they will just move on if they feel like they've been heard.0 -
My sister and I lived by a simple rule: always be in bed and asleep before 3 AM. If you held to this rule, and you stayed asleep, you'd be okay. This was my personal belief: be in bed before 3 AM and always have a cat sleeping on the bed with you. I don't know the origin of my belief, I just know it's a truth I held dearly from age of 10 to 18.
The house I grew up in, and my parents still live in, was built in 1881. It was used as a "boarding house for women," which is a fancy way of staying it was a brothel, from the time it was built until the owner's death around 1920. It was used as a retirement home from 1950 to the 1960's, and our dining room is the room they would have viewings in. Found that out via a friend of my father's whose grandfather lived and died here---he refuses to enter the house whenever he comes over.
Growing up, my sister and I would always hear things: a bell ringing in the middle of the night; a baby crying; you'd hear voices downstairs that would sound distorted as though someone had left a TV on with the volume on low. It was never a great feeling whenever you chanced upon the unexplainable; however, I can't recall ever feeling scared to the marrow. I think the freakiest thing that happened to me was I woke up in the middle of the night, and the window blinds beside my bed where being moved, as though someone was running a finger up and down them. My reaction was to throw my blanket over my head, muttered 'go away.' (Just to note, our cat was sleeping between my head and the window, disproving my theory that cats chased away paranormal activity.)
My dad never believed us when we said the house was haunted until he woke up to see a man standing beside his side of the bed. He didn't tell us about this until years later because he didn't want to give credence to our claims. Mom was always more open to the possibilities, but never really heard anything other than the muted conversations downstairs.
Once this guy who lived in the house in the 70's stopped by to look for metal artifacts in the yard. He, my sister, mom and I got to talking, and he asked us, "So, have you all ever seen or heard anything that can't be explained here?" We answered in the affirmative, and he asked, "Does it always happen around 3 am?" At that point my sister and I looked at each other completely freaked out--we had never told anyone that everything weird happened at, or after 3 am. The guy, and his family, had more malevolent things happen to them than we did (he had beds shaking, misplaced items, doors slamming shut, etc.). It was just one of those moments of perfect clarity.
Even though I'm 29, and I haven't lived in a haunted house for 12 years, I still hate being up past 3 AM, and I absolutely refuse to allow the house to have darkened rooms. I feel like my tag line should be, "And you shall know me by my trail of lights."0 -
My house was completed in 1872. It had construction begun on it before the Civil War, but got put on hold while that sorted itself out.
Whatever is here is peaceful and wears lily scented stuff. I grow hydrangeas, roses, mums and daffodils around my house. That's it besides the azaleas.
When we got the house it was bad off, front and back porches rotted through, roof leaking like a sieve. Yard overgrown to the point of jungle vibes. With every single improvement we make that impacts the house's structure or yard we tend to find dried flower petals on the kitchen counter afterwards. I don't know what kind of flower it's from, but I do know they aren't from my yard as it is now.
Another thing is I leave very early in the morning. The upstairs has a dormer window over the porch. There used to be a window seat there. You can feel the lines of where it was in the floorboards. The floors are all hardwood and original to the house, never been replaced. But on several occasions I have seen someone in those windows sitting on a seat looking out. We try to keep the Roman shades drawn and latched at the bottom, but on these mornings they are completely raised. Curtains when we had them there would be pushed to the side.
My hubby freaked me out once when we first moved in, I was in the living room around sunset and he went out on the back porch to call me to come help with something. He saw a woman out there but she vanished when he got about 15 feet from her. She was near the fig tree, and he thought it was me.
Both my kids have asked on more than one occasion when they were sick if it was me checking on them in the middle of the night, or sitting in the rocker in the youngest's room. It wasn't. They are the ones who smell the perfume.
Who ever she is, she is peaceful and stay.
:') What a happy story! She's happy that you are bringing her beloved home back to life. She is happy to watch over your children and make sure your family is okay. So sweet!
I hope she - and all the ghosts in these stories - find peace and rest. If you encounter a ghost, kind or troublesome, I think we should pray for them - just like the living. 
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There is a spirit in the house i live in now haunting my daughters rooms.
When I first moved into this house I loved it, it was the perfect home for us it has three bedrooms four baths. It was so cheap for how big it is and i just thought wow god is blessing us. Until I moved in and I realized why it had sat vacant for so long, the first week I put my daughter to sleep in her room.
She was given this cute little motion sensored cow toy if you waved your hand infront of it it would moo and sing a song. I went downstairs and sat on the couch ready to watch a movie when i started hearing this soft strange lullaby music. I thought, thats strange I dont remember turning on her noise maker but i must have and forgot so i continued to sit and listen. Then I heard these loud steps coming down the stairs, i watched the stairs intently thinking I would see someone but they stopped just out of my sight at this point i decided to go check on my daughter as i walking up the stairs I could hear her motion sensored cow mooing.
I thought wow ok shes awake and it was her i heard, when i walked into her room not only was she asleep but the motion sensored cow was all the way on the otherside of the room facing me. I brushed it off and decided to go to bed, well fast forward somewhere around 2am in the morning i heard crying coming from her monitor, then i felt a hand on my shoulder my brother had stayed the night with me because it had been my first night alone in a new neighborhood in a new house.
He very plainly said, "do you hear that?" I said very angrly "YES! Go get her and bring her to me," he then replied "Ash, shes right here.." I turned around and realized my daughter was sleeping next to me i had gotten her before i fell asleep. We both looked at eachother like WTF.
The scariest sound i have ever heard, was this babys cry on my monitor. An unearthly distorted painful cry.0 -
I think it is, but the ghost says it isn't , so inconclusive really......0
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love this thread, I wanna come back to read more0
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A big bump in the night!0
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There is a spirit in the house i live in now haunting my daughters rooms.
When I first moved into this house I loved it, it was the perfect home for us it has three bedrooms four baths. It was so cheap for how big it is and i just thought wow god is blessing us. Until I moved in and I realized why it had sat vacant for so long, the first week I put my daughter to sleep in her room.
She was given this cute little motion sensored cow toy if you waved your hand infront of it it would moo and sing a song. I went downstairs and sat on the couch ready to watch a movie when i started hearing this soft strange lullaby music. I thought, thats strange I dont remember turning on her noise maker but i must have and forgot so i continued to sit and listen. Then I heard these loud steps coming down the stairs, i watched the stairs intently thinking I would see someone but they stopped just out of my sight at this point i decided to go check on my daughter as i walking up the stairs I could hear her motion sensored cow mooing.
I thought wow ok shes awake and it was her i heard, when i walked into her room not only was she asleep but the motion sensored cow was all the way on the otherside of the room facing me. I brushed it off and decided to go to bed, well fast forward somewhere around 2am in the morning i heard crying coming from her monitor, then i felt a hand on my shoulder my brother had stayed the night with me because it had been my first night alone in a new neighborhood in a new house.
He very plainly said, "do you hear that?" I said very angrly "YES! Go get her and bring her to me," he then replied "Ash, shes right here.." I turned around and realized my daughter was sleeping next to me i had gotten her before i fell asleep. We both looked at eachother like WTF.
The scariest sound i have ever heard, was this babys cry on my monitor. An unearthly distorted painful cry.
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When I was a child my mother was in the hospital for an extended illness. We went to temporarily live with a family friend. She owned an old Georgia mansion with many outbuildings. My brother and I - we were playing in one of the outbuildings which wasn't empty but didn't have alot of things in it. I remember feeling as if someone was there with us. The temperature would get cold suddenly and the hairs on my arms would stand straight up. My brother felt it too. It scared us but we didn't feel like we were in danger. We came back every day to play and every day it happened - for almost a month. My religion has told me that spirits do not exist on this world but my Indian and Irish heritage prompt me to think otherwise!0
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Nope. I've never encountered anything which I would consider to be supernatural.0
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Sleep paralysis.
Waking Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which people, either when falling asleep or wakening, temporarily experience an inability to move. More formally, it is a transition state between wakefulness and rest characterized by complete muscle atonia (muscle weakness). It can occur at sleep onset or upon awakening, and it is often associated with terrifying visions (e.g. an intruder in the room), to which one is unable to react due to paralysis. It is believed a result of disrupted REM sleep, which is normally characterized by complete muscle atonia that prevents individuals from acting out their dreams. Sleep paralysis has been linked to disorders such as narcolepsy, migraines, anxiety disorders, and obstructive sleep apnea; however, it can also occur in isolation.[1][2] When linked to another disorder, sleep paralysis commonly occurs in association with the neuromuscular disorder narcolepsy.[2]
-The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781) is thought to be one of the classic depictions of sleep paralysis perceived as a demonic visitation.0 -
My house is not because I've properly protected it. I've been on numerous hunts and had some incredible experiences. There is more to this world and our existence than we see with our eyes. In nature, energy doesn't disappear, it can only change forms. We are all part of the natural world and we are at our core, energy.0
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I grew up in a haunted house. I moved there when I was 7 and moved out at 17. I was the first in my family to figure it out. I remember the long drawn out arguments with my parents when almost immediately I insisted on sleeping with my door closed at night because of the people walking around in the hallway. "Its just headlight shadows from the cars driving past." My mom told me, but I knew what people looked like. Then we all started hearing the cabinets in the kitchen slamming at night. And the water faucet in the kitchen turning on and off. Never anything too serious and they never really bothered us. When my friends would spend the night we would sleep downstairs in the living room and with the kitchen light on you could see reflections in the tv of people walking up and down the stairs. My mom finally believed me after the cleaning lady quit because she had been working alone in the house and something happened. She never would tell us what but she ran out in the middle of the job and refused to ever come back even to get compensation because the house was haunted. My parents ended up losing the house a few years ago in the foreclosure crisis and it still sits empty... I always wonder what it would be like to spend a night there now too creepy to even try lol. 0
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All of you shut up!
*fingers in ears*
Lalala, happy thoughts, happy thoughts...kittehs, puppehs, rainbows, lalala...0 -
When I was 12 my parents divorced and my mother moved with me to a house across town. Being a single mother, money was very tight and she was very limited in what she could choose. She rented a two story 3 bedroom home for a very reasonable price, and we found out shortly after why it was so reasonable.
The first night at the house I remember sleeping and having night terrors, not nightmares, but night terrors in which I would wake up and run down the stairs and out the door and wake up sitting on the porch in complete terror and crying. My mother heard the ruckus and ran down the stairs to find the door wide open and me sitting there. I ran to her and she asked me why I was running a bath upstairs and why I was outside. I explained my night terror and explained I had run no bath. We went back upstairs to find the upstairs bathroom floor soaked in water and the tub over flowing.
Almost every night after that, for 6 months, I would have some sort of night terror or nightmare, and they were bad enough that my mother took me to child psychologists to find out what was wrong. There were no more instances of mystery water in the upstairs bathroom until about 6 months after we moved there. My mother had a new job where she worked nights, and being 12 I was old enough to take care of myself (heat up dinner, get ready for bed, etc.) One night while my mother was at work I had another night terror and ran down the stairs to find myself sitting on the front stoop at 2am crying in complete terror. When I woke up I ran into the house and called my moms work and told her I had another really bad night terror. She explained that everything was ok and she would be home in a couple of hours. I went back upstairs to hear water running from the upstairs bathroom. The light was on, and again the floor was covered in water and the bath tub was over flowing.
When this had happened a second time my mother just chalked it up to me doing it in my sleep while having a night terror. There was some extensive water damage because of the age of the house and my mother was looking to hire a repair person to fix the bathroom floors and the damage done to the walls from the water. She asked a neighbor if he could recommend anyone and he asked what had happened. She explained in limited detail about the bathroom problem, and he proceeded to explain to her that about 35 years ago there was a woman whose husband had left her for another woman. She was a single mother with a daughter and the husband had moved out of the house. The woman had been so distraught about the break up, and being able to afford the home and take care of the child that she prepared a bath, gotten in the tub with the water running, and slit her wrists and killed herself. That night the daughter woke up to use the bathroom and found her mother dead. She was so terrified she ran downstairs, out the door and to a neighbors house. She banged on the doors and screamed for help. When the neighbor came downstairs and opened the door the little girl wasnt there, but the neighbor saw her on the front porch at her house and walked over to her. She was just sitting on the front porch crying, the way I had two times when I had the night terrors.
Needless to say, my mom and i got the hell out of dodge and moved into an apartment. No problems since, and now I know why that house was so reasonably priced lol0 -
Sleep paralysis is very common among people who think they are seeing ghost or something supernatural when sleeping or half awake. I have experienced it alot of times and it has been when I'm under alot of pressure, like studying for exams and stuff like that. But ofcourse it can't explain things that happen when people are awake.0
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I lived in a "old town" part of Orange County once. In an old apartment. Once when washing dishes there, a glass slipped out of my hands and flew sideways and hit the wall with enough force to shatter and seem pretty strange. I explained it away as maybe I squeezed too hard and the dishsoap facilitated the slip/stick straight trajectory.
One day I finally got the courage to complain about the cigarette smoke coming from the apartment under mine since I knew it was against the rules and would get someone in trouble. I was informed no one lived there.
Finally, one day a friend/neighbor suddenly darted away from my doorway during a conversation and I figured maybe she heard her phone ringing and ran off. Next time I talked to her she had big eyes and kept staring at me fearfully before confessing she had run off after seeing a plume of smoke appear in my living room between my doorway where she'd stood chatting to me while I washed dishes in the kitchen beyond the living room. She said it had appeared so suddenly and so dense as to make me not visible and then dissipated as quickly as well leaving the smell of cigarettes behind. She would only talk to me in the hallway or her place after that. The end.0 -
I have another story that is a much better memory than the previous one I told. When I was 8 years old I remember waking up on a Saturday and my grandpa being in the living room watching tv. It wasn't unusual for my grandpa to be over at the house on weekends visiting me or my parents. He asked if I wanted to watch cartoons and of course being an 8 yr old I said yes. So we were watching cartoons and laughing and joking like we always had and the phone rang. I got up to answer it and it was my aunt asking if my mom was home. I ran upstairs to tell her the phone was for her, came back down and my grandpa wasnt there. A few minutes later my mom came downstairs in tears and told me my grandpa had died that morning of his bone cancer. I told her that wasnt true cause grandpa was here and we were just watching cartoons. Very weird, but I had such a close relationship with my grandpa that I know it was him saying his goodbyes by doing something we loved doing together one last time.0
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I've always felt that my grandfather haunts my house. He died when I was about 10 months old, so I never knew him, but my grandmother really focused on me after he passed and I spent a lot of time in the house growing up and later purchased it. Growing up, I would cut the grass and when I was in the back, I always felt like someone was watching me. We put an addition on and one day when I came home, the contractor asked me "Is your house haunted?" I said Yes, why? He was upstairs working in the room at the end of the hall, in full view of the hall. Our beagle was napping at the top of the steps. He heard footsteps coming up the steps and watched the beagle stand up, look down the steps and tentatively wag her tail, then she ran into the room and hid behind him, shaking the whole time (she was cute, she didn't have to be brave). Another time, I put about $6 in ones on the kitchen counter, folded in half. A couple minutes later, my wife walked in and said "Why did you fold your money like this?" I said I always fold my money in half. She brought it in and it was folded in half, but for each bill, one corner was folded down diagonally to meet the opposite side. They weren't all folded as one, but each one had been folded on it's own. A couple weeks later, my wife was home alone and all of a sudden, both dogs and both cats congregated in one corner and sat staring at the same spot. After about 2 minutes my wife said out loud "If you are friendly, you are welcome to stay but you have to stop freaking out the animals. If you aren't friendly, you have to leave, this is our house." We haven't had any occurrences since.0
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One other thing, not related to the house. About a year after my mother died, she yelled at me and told me to make up with my sister. She and I were mad at each other about something stupid and hadn't talked for about 2 weeks. I was in my bedroom getting dressed and I heard my mother, as if she were standing right next to me, say "Richard! Go talk to your sister!" So I did.0
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Sleep paralysis.
Waking Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which people, either when falling asleep or wakening, temporarily experience an inability to move. More formally, it is a transition state between wakefulness and rest characterized by complete muscle atonia (muscle weakness). It can occur at sleep onset or upon awakening, and it is often associated with terrifying visions (e.g. an intruder in the room), to which one is unable to react due to paralysis. It is believed a result of disrupted REM sleep, which is normally characterized by complete muscle atonia that prevents individuals from acting out their dreams. Sleep paralysis has been linked to disorders such as narcolepsy, migraines, anxiety disorders, and obstructive sleep apnea; however, it can also occur in isolation.[1][2] When linked to another disorder, sleep paralysis commonly occurs in association with the neuromuscular disorder narcolepsy.[2]
-The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781) is thought to be one of the classic depictions of sleep paralysis perceived as a demonic visitation.
This happens to me...A LOT. When I was younger I always thought that it was a result of spirits. Now I know there is a scientific reason behind it so it doesn't scare me in that way, but it's still a freaky and terrifying feeling being paralyzed!!!0 -
No, don't think so.
I do know that after my best friend died for about 2 yrs on & off I would occasionally get wafts of perfume around me. It was weird but comforting at the same time.0 -
Bump to share my story later and read more of yours.0
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My aunt had cancer and died in our house, right in front of us. She never stayed to haunt. . I guess her business was done. I was young at the time and my mom took me upstairs so we wouldn't see her being taken by the paramedics. But my sister stayed and watched. Right after her body left, she saw an apparition of my aunt by the rocking chair.
Sometimes they're ghosts, sometimes they're Angels, sometimes they're demons. It's a strange world.0
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