I am really freaked out.

A few days ago I spotted my first "strange" occurrence...the lid to the trash can in the Kitchen started swinging by itself...as if one of the kids walked past and slapped it (which they like to do) but they were all upstairs in bed.

Well...my wife and I convinced ourselves that a mouse probably got in the house and jumped into the trash can looking for food. There could be no other explanation. I threw the trash bag out immediately.

Yesterday...I am standing at the top of the stairs yelling at the kids to stop running around and get upstairs into bed. Next to me is another set of stair leading to my daughter's bedroom, and (at my right side & within arms' reach) I spot my son "sneaking" upstairs. I call down for my daughter, who appears at the bottom of the stairs...WITH MY SON. My other son is in MY room. So, WHO WENT UPSTAIRS? I ran up there and (of course) it's empty.

Now, tonight I come home with the kids (we went to get take-out food) and I notice the TV in my daughter's room is on. I reprimand her for leaving it on. I turn off her TV. We eat. I go upstairs to wash my hands. Guess what. The TV is ON again!!!!



I am trying hard to rationalize all of this. But I am spooked. It could have been a mouse, I could have just seen a shadow (wearing white pajamas going up the stairs), and maybe the TV has a bad switch,...right?

Any suggestions? Should I call the priest yet?

Ask the house if it can make the walls bleed, too.

How long have you been in the house? How old is the house itself?

Perhaps the kids are secretly keeping a chimpanzee that they discovered out in the garden, who eventually will display an abnormal level of skill at some sport or other, will play for a struggling local team before being disqualified by the league thanks to the dastardly ways of a rival team's coach before finally being allowed to play again just in time to win the championship?

TMPletz said:

Been here 5 years. It's a fairly young house (built in the '60s I believe)...and I don't think that any children have died here.

Fauxie said:

I think that I would rather the ghost, thank you.

Listen son, if you want to keep working here...you'd better stay off the drugs.

missfee said:

...I may actually START using drugs if this nonsense keeps up!!!

Stay away from the Bud Light. You're starting to hear and see Spuds McKenzie running around in your house.

Like sylvia said...ask the spirit to go to the light or leave and sprinkle salt around your house.

Holy Shit!


I hope you didn't accidentally invite some spirits in. I've read that some people are really sensitive and spirits cling to them.

Since they are not harassing you, I wouldn't worry about it.

They must just like being around you. Or the children. Sweet!

You saw The Others right?
Not all clingy spirits are malicious.

If you ask them to leave, they probably would.



'Spirits come, spirits go. Some stick around for the after show' - Prince, "Comeback"

I have them, but I freak them out! I ain't afraid of no ghost!

I see dead people

You very well could have something going on.

It happens all the time.

Like Radio and Television frequencies.

We moved into a new home this past summer and had a few instances.

So after a bit of uneasy nights of waking up
with a feeling of something else around watching you.

The heebee jeebees. I said.

The spirit will move on. They are just curious.

i slept in a house last weekend that is reported by its owners to be haunted. there has been numerous accounts by various people of freaky shit happening (lights turning on and off, cupboards opening, sounds on the stairs, etc) but the owner just asks 'Shirley' very nicely to cut it out and it stops. i was freaking out all night (think i only slept a total of 3 hours all night) but no strange occurances...thank God.

Fauxie said:

Now that's just silly.
Sounds more like the kids found an e.t. & are planning on keeping it.

unlucky7 said:

Yep, that what Sylvia Browne says.

Can I come over

SynthiaRose said:

I hope that I didn't accidentally invite a spirit in! My daughter was visited by her great-grandfather upon his passing, and her room is the one in question, so I'm wondering if SHE is sensitive to them!

Yes...I saw The Others. When the blinds in my house start closing on their own...I'm moving out!

unlucky7 said:

Salt...?
But doesn't that bring bad luck to your family?

july said:

I certainly hope so.

lillith said:

My wife experieced that at her parents' old place.

They bought 2 of those lamps that turn on with the touch of your hand...and they had 3 levels of brightness.
One day they started turning on and off, on and off, first the one on the left, then the one on the right, over and over.
It happened for 3 nights, until my mother-in-law disconnected them and put them away.
Now that they moved, she hasn't had a problem with the lamps.

Lizzy7701 said:

Sure, but leave the Ouija board behind, thank you.

Cheers!

PurpleJedi said:

I have had hauntings like this before. It isn't that uncommon. I don't believe in exersisims, i work with the spiritual world. Lost Spirits, are having trouble letting go of life and meanwhile can't accept they are dead.

Having read a little on this subject, Poltergeists can manifest themselves in the homes of kids entering their teens/puberty. Especially girls. I've no idea how old your kids are, but my advice would be to not yell too much as this apparently can make things worse.

Have you thought of scaring the ghost out of the house?

TMPletz said:

Too funny!

Can you imagine if a spirit visited your home?

I have no advice- except, don't be scared- unless you think it's a dead axe murderer

Wanna know sumfin? LOL after 25 yearz- my mum just the other night decidez to tell me that when i was a baby my family used to think i could 'see' spiritz cause i used to often look beyond them when they spoke to me from time to time!! They found it rather unusual (nothing was wrong with me it'z just something i used to do )
Bizarre.

Anywayz, do you know what was on the land your house was built on prior to the 1960s?

Im having the same troubble, i moved into new house about 1 month ago now and im convinced its haunted , things go missing and get moved , noises ,and just a feeling that you are being looked at and sometimes see what looks like a person but only for a split second.
Last week 2 friends of my boyfriends friends slept here the next day they were almost crying , one says he heard someone running around in the back of the house ...he thought it was the other friend but he checked and he was asleep.
He went back to bed said he went all cold then a ghost of a man walked through the room then in to my room ahhhhh.And now the two blokes wont set foot back in the house.

Somedays i think im being stupid and its nothing then other days im shit scared .

Marrk said:

Ooooh...now THAT is creepy!
My niece (who lives with us and shares my daughter's bedroom) is 10 (but she's already "sprouting").
And I have been yelling at the kids alot lately (they are becoming more & more stubborn).