Paranormal activity???

Its great to know that there are pleant of other people out there who experince the same things i do.
I have seen many ghost on numerous occassions, most of them have a a calming sensation with them and i am happy for themto stay around, but other do have a vey negative energy, my local medium told me to say out loud to the' i have not invited you here so now please leave you are not welcome'
 
ok, who slept with the light on or the tv on last night?? i did both :o i read this thread til really late and then hid under the covers trying not to listen to any noises in the house ;)
 
Oooh, only just read this. Very spooky.

I have had loads of experiences - the haunted stable yard, my ex's house, friends houses, places I've visited. Far too many to go into! But I will share a couple of my experiences...

in 2006, OH and I bought a brand new flat - completely new build, on a green field site. Beautifully decorated, 2 bedroom. I hated it. We couldn't view it properly during the building phase, but I was desperate to live in the village I grew up in and this was the only way we could afford it. We bought off plan. From the moment I walked in, I wanted to leave. It felt oppressive, dark (even though it had plenty of natural light and was decorated all in cream). I wouldn't move around the flat in the dark. It wasn't long before I had to keep all the curtains closed, permanently. If I left them open, I would see black shadow figures moving around the grounds outside. It took us a year to make the decision to sell (OH wouldn't believe me), then almost another year to sell it. I love the house I live in now!

Parents house, not where I grew up. Again, a house I don't like. I can just about cope downstairs - it doesn't feel "right" but it's ok. I just have to keep my eye on the living room doorwar, and in the scullery and pantry. But I can deal with that. Upstairs though. Ugh. I feel awful thinking about it - worse because we're visiting them in 10 days!!! As I walk upstairs, I feel dread, and feel a dark presence. By the time I reach the landing, I want to scream and run back down. But I can't, because I'm terrified of what I might see behind me. If I go into the bathroom, or my Mum's room, I can feel "it" waiting on the landing for me. If I go into my Dad's room (where we normally sleep, there's only 2 bedrooms), it follows me. It watches me, getting closer and closer. It feels evil, like it hates me. OH feels nothing, Dad feels nothing, their cat doesn't react. Recently, Mum has told me she feels it too. It terrifies me, I can't sleep, I can't open my eyes in case I see it. It opens one of the drawers in the bedroom every night too. And the door won't stay open - it has to be closed. Fortunately they are only renting, they're building their own house further out of the village. So this should be the last time I have to stay there. Any tips on how to deal with it would be very welcome!! I don't want to make it any angrier than it already is.
 
zebedee said:
I have my late fathers bedside alarm clock in the living room (I'm looking at it now). He died at just gone 10pm on the 18th Dec 2007. At just gone 10pm on the 18th Dec 2008 the alarm went off...................
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Its funny you say this my Grandfathers grandfather clock stoped when he passed away and now in his old house lives a young couple they asked my mum the other day if my Grandfather died in the house and my mum said no whys that,

They said at 4am every morning they are woken to the sound of the stairs door opening and closing and wispering in her ear apparantly this used to happen to my nan when she lived there with my grandad but only for a short spell then it stopped.
 
Hey Rana, I can relate to your experiences in your parents house. I was born in our family home and my grandfather lived in the adjoining cottage. Eventually she died there and we knocked a doorway through (for various reasons) and used to let it out in the summer in order to pay the rates. It also gave us a spare bathroom and kitchen facilities. From the moment my grandmother died I found the atmosphere in "the little cottage" awful. I used to switch every light on as I went through and came out very rapidly afterwards! I couldn't bring myself to look at the stairs (grandmother died downstairs I think). Obviously it wasn't as warm as a lived-in property, but it just felt so cold and threatening and horrible. We kept a piano in there and one day all my music stacked up on the top slid off and fell down the back while I was playing. Now here's the really interesting bit! My dad developed a terminal disease which meant eventually he couldn't manage the stairs and we put the single bed that had been his mother's (and she was in when she died) into our sitting room. Eventually my dad also died. I arrived home the next day and I can honestly say that the atmosphere next door had completely gone. It just felt like a normal house again. I can't help wonder if grandma had been waiting and waiting and eventually left with her son.
 
this is making my dislike of the bathroom seem like nothing!! I don't get any bad feelings in there, I just feel like that room is much more.... active, and I'm not the only one! I won't look in the mirror at night (though sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me and I do, I never see anything but curse myself for doing it!) and almost always take a dog or cat in the room with me lol!

I have a lot of stories surrounding my beloved grandad, I also had a battery operated clock, one of the more old fashioned style ones (though it was new) I never liked it and it stopped at 2:10 (wasn't a 24hr clock) which is the same time my grandad died, it went into a cupboard and I never took it out again!! The day he died my dad was at home, around the same time my grandad passed away my late cat stopped in the hallway, looked up and his hackles came up, spooked and ran off, it was really out of character for him! My mum and I also experienced a piece of tarpaulin that on the day of his funeral seemingly picked itself up and gently blew to and fro across a window, it wasn't windy outside, so we've always privately thought that was him saying goodbye to us. Before my nanna moved into residential care exotic plants would grow themselves outside her door, my grandad was a very keen gardener and these seeds are very unlikely to have just flown there or been dropped by a bird. He was cremated and there was a delay in picking his ashes up, one night my mum had a dream that he was sat in the cupboard under the stairs tapping on the door asking people to let him out, she's always sworn that was him asking her in his usual humorous way to go and collect him! After we moved house a few years went by before one night my mum felt someone sitting next to where she laid in bed, she didn't look (can't blame her!!) but she likes to believe that was him finally finding us again (we moved 350 miles away from E Sussex to Cornwall)

there are literally so many stories I could give, and I'm only 18 now! but I don't want to bore you all! My yard is a very very historic property and I refuse to stay there at night on my own! I see 'people' in the corner of my eye in broad day light who when I look properly aren't there, there's been odd misty formations on photos and I just get an odd feeling sometimes, but I normally put that down to an overactive imagination!
 
lol I think the people we bought it from planned to go off somewhere in a motor home, I don't really remember it was about 5 years ago now!
 
A few years ago I woke in the middle of the night hearing noises....

Rustling.... coming under the book case. Turned the light on...crawled to the end of my bed holding my breath..... to see my hamster go running across the rug!!!

Phewwwwwwwwww..... ha ha ha!!

Little bugger had escaped from his run... got down off the table, through the kitchen, living room, up the stairs and into my room. Bless! He obviously didn't like being on his own!!!!
:)
 
We had friends who lived in a beamed farmhouse with a big stone/brick fireplace in the middle of the house for open fires in the living room and the dining room behind it.

Not long after they moved in, they bought some horse brasses to decorate the mantelpiece and surround.

Every day the Mum would come home from work having collected her young son from school and find some of those brasses face down on the carpet. She duly picked them up and replaced them and told her son off for playing with them and not putting them back. He bleated that he hadn't touched them... but she didn't believe him until he can to stay with my brother for a sleep-over one weekend. She was the only one in the house as her husband was out all that day too. The horse brasses has been up in the morning, and were face down on the rug by the afternoon!

Not only that, but their dog wouldn't go into those 2 downstairs rooms at all. A plucky little Jack Russell who used to love lying by the fire - not in this house.

The Mum started to get freaked out about other minor things that moved in the living room when she popped out of the room, until the point that she didn't want to go in the house when her husband wasn't around.

He thought she was mad probably, but agreed to get someone in... a psychic/ priest I'm not sure.

This person said that a Roundhead had died in the house under rotten circumstances (murdered) by a Protestant and that the horse brasses that the Mum had put round the fireplace were Protestant pictured and therefore the ghost of this man was throwing them down....

The family weren't sure whether to believe this.... They got rid of all the brasses, but still things were unsettled in the house and the dog was wary.

Because the fireplace area was huge but the actual 'burn area' was small, the Mum decided to have it renovated and opened up so that it went through into the dining room as one big roaring open fire.

The builders removed the back wall of the fireplace and found .......a skeleton! :(

Everyone took advice as to what to do about it... and the response was to brick it back up where they'd found it, having had a priest to come and make a blessing.

That was done, and the house was put on the market immediately and sold!

The family were pleased to move into a nice modern house, and so was their dog!!
 
The only thing that has happened to me was shortly after my mam's father died when I was 16. I was walking across the landing of our house to go into my parents' room and there was what I can only describe as a wall of smoke just before their bedroom door. Not smoke over a large area, as you'd expect from a smell, but literally a wall of it. As soon as I smelt it I thought 'Bampi's here' then remembered that he had died a few weeks before.
Now, that may not sound like much but all the windows of the house were shut, we have a long back garden and a garden out the front, so the possibility of someone smoking as they walked past and it getting in the house through the double glazing is small. My bampi used to smoke rollies of some sort that didn't smell anything like normal cigarrettes and I've only ever smelt one person smoking the same type since he died. He was the only person who was ever allowed to smoke in our house and often on a Sunday I would wake up and be able to smell him smoking (it's a very strong, distinctive smell) and think 'Bampi's here'.
I told my mam and she looked at me a bit shocked, because my brother had told her that exactly the same thing had happened to him a few days before in a different part of the house. I'm not sure there is anything in it but I have tried to rationalise all the reasons why it would not be supernatural and, whilst it is possible, it still seems a bit unlikely. I didn't feel frightened as I think if there was something there, it was Bampi saying goodbye.
 
Wicked tales!

Last house I lived in (1800's railway cottage) had something, tthe dogs used to stare and follow something I couldn't see, and the ironing board and some teddies got thrown at me on different occasions. The house I now rent (for past 8 years) had nothing. Until :

My grandad died in 1998, difficult time, as it was the first family death I'd experienced. Nothing ever happened for years, I got married, had a son etc etc. Then, a few years ago (about 4-5 yrs) I was laying in bed worrying about something (I'm a born worrier like my nan was) and suddenly I smelt my nan and grandads house smell, tobacco, frying sausages, open fire, everything that was essentially their smell. I felt very calm and stopped worrying about whatever it was. Now, when I am really struggling with something the smell returns, at night when I'm in bed. Not for small stuff, only when I feel really under pressure. One time I was coping worse than before, and all of a sudden in my mind I was in my nan nad grandads house, like I was being taken on a guided tour. Every funny little thing I recalled from childhood was included, and almost lingered over. I believe its my grandparents helping me out.

Also, my old dog was put down a few years ago, I have seen her 3 times since, just wandering about near us, in her usual way.

I am easily freaked out, even by tv programmes and films (make the OH go upstairs in front of me with the lights on, him predictably, peeing himself laughing!) but neither of these two occurances bothers me one bit. In fact,I always appreciate the visits :)
 
yesterday I was lucky enough to look round the big Manor House at my old yard. Its just been sold and the people are moving out and the YM had to help move a few wardrobes down the stairs and invited me in.
It's a really lovely old house, huge rooms big big high ceilings, wood panelling and beautiful chandeliers.
As we went upstairs I asked if it was haunted and had any ghosts, the answer was no but apparently there were some canandian soldiers there during the war, the arrived on 19th august 1943 or something. Every year on that date the burglar alarm goes off in the oldest part of the house....
 
ELM89 said:
We have thought about that, but whenever we speak about it we always feel a bit crazy and try to shrug it off! That's why I thought I'd see if anyone had had similar experiences ... but thanks for your suggestion, we don't have anything to lose by giving it a try I suppose!
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I've had my house cleared of one particular uninvited spook that was attached to the house. His spirit got stronger and what he did got worse the more fearful I became. He fed off my fear. I still get lots of things happening where ever i go but have now been shown how to deal with them or stop the the bad ones and protecting myself. Sounds nutty i know but when paranormal things happen where ever you go, often daily, you soon get used to it!!

I would get someone who knows what they are doing as you could very well make things much worse!
 
I dont necessarily see anything, just the odd movement in the corner of my eye, feet stood in front of me and nothing when i look up, figuers walking past doorways/gates when I knew i was alone ect, but I keep getting a wierd feeling on the landing of my house. Not a nasty feeling, but an uneasy one, and if I have my back to the door I always get a feeling of being watched.

Although once, the 'thing' out on the landing was quite scary. I was sat at my laptop with my back facing the door, and all of a sudden I got a feeling of being watched. I looked thinking it was my mum or something, but no-one was there. It was very dark (which is usual because the house is about 500 years old) but darker than normal, a strainge 'blackness' that seemed to be moving down the landing to my room.

I just sat there like 'sh**********t!!!!' but it never came in my room, just stayed outside, like it was waiting for me.......scary.

Strange thing is though, when we movind in, we had one of those mediums come and have a look round, check for ghosties etc, and she said there was no-one here, so can ghosts just 'move in', or am I going mad??
 
Scary stuff - i think i'm a psychic blank as nothing has really happened to me. I do get horrible feelings of foreboding though but i'm sure that's my imagination.

The yard i ride at is supposed to be haunted. Grooms hate certain rooms, there is one stable certain horses refuse to go into, and the groom has had been pulled and pushed by thin air while walking across the yard. I'm scared of being alone in the dark there now!

I'm sure my family has something bad following us at the mo too as we have had a horrid run of bad luck recently!
 
SianEliza: I can empathise - I feel like I've had something throwing seriously bad luck our way for quite some time too!

CarmaandFlin said:
I've had my house cleared of one particular uninvited spook that was attached to the house. His spirit got stronger and what he did got worse the more fearful I became. He fed off my fear. I still get lots of things happening where ever i go but have now been shown how to deal with them or stop the the bad ones and protecting myself. Sounds nutty i know but when paranormal things happen where ever you go, often daily, you soon get used to it!!

I would get someone who knows what they are doing as you could very well make things much worse!
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When you say 'what he did got worse', did you actually have tangible actions happen (eg. stuff switching on & off, doors slamming etc)?
I'm fortunate in that we don't seem to have had that (touch wood!), the only things that have happened more recently is that stuff moves, but at the moment I'm just writing that off as me being dippy!

Like the other day, I put my camera down on the kitchen worktop, went back for it literally 2 mins later and it had gone. I spent ages looking for it and eventually gave up, then hours later it was back where I'd left it on the worktop. I put it down to looking for something so intensely that I just couldn't see it, but the more it happens I'm starting to think that a) the negativity is getting worse, or b) I'm getting alzheimers and going a bit blind at the same time!

I know a couple of posters have written about sensations (ie. being watched) rather than physical actions, so I suppose I'm just trying to figure out that if it really is something attached to the house, whether it's more of an energy type thing or something more sinister. Do you know what type your 'spook' was?

I wish I hadn't joined this thread now - it's making me think that I actually need to grow a pair and sort the house out seeing all the stories people have experienced! I'm finding it harder to think that I'm just imagining it all with the more I read the stories!
 
ELM89 The spook was actually getting physically violent with me. Believe you and me I thought I was going mad! Until you experience something paranormal happening its hard to believe its true but boy this was for real! When it built up to the strongest I didn't sleep for a week solid till I got the house cleared.

The spirit was of a man who lived in my house and he was an abuser and was abused himself. The lady who cleared my house described everything about him and his name age etc. Once she cleared my house it felt completely different, safe. I still get a lot of activity but not from any negative entities!!

I don't often tell people about my experiences as they would just think I was mad!!! Only tell close friends and family as what happens is just not 'normal' (its now normal to me!!)!! Well actually if you asked any of my friends they would say I'm not normal anyway!! lol!!! :p:p
 
About 8 years ago I house sat for my sister. OMG it was awful. I spent the week in fear!

I would make sure I was in the bedroom by 10 pm at night, I felt watched, cold, fearful, I had to keep all the lights on and if I needed the loo in the night there was absolutely no way I was leaving the bedroom till morning. I heard footsteps going up the stairs.

One morning I went downstairs and the cupboard in the dining room was open (I hadn't opened it) and in it was an urn containing ashes. I phoned my sister to ask what the hell was going on and she was just laughed and said oh Jock's just having a laugh I'll tell him not to do it anymore! (Jock was a friend of theirs who had died recently)

So when she came back she told me that there are quite a few ghosts in the house including a man who sits at the top of the stairs who is particularly nasty and shouts down the stairs at her, telling her to eff off and a little girl who plays with her jewellery.

They don't bother her at all, she just shouts back at the man. I absolutely hate going to her house. When I knock on the front door I can feel him staring at me from outside.

When my dad was alive, he used to do a bit of decorating in her house and he used to hear people talking upstairs and calling him - why did no one tell me before I house sat - I was NOT impressed!

I have more if anyone's interested but don't want to bore you all
 
chestnuttymare said:
It's not the dead you should be afraid of, it's the living!!
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Ditto this... Has any one any photo's!!!!
I also had a few experiences of strange going on's..in a house I used to live in, like photo's on the wall flying off and the odd unexplained noise, and once when i walked into a bedroom was like walking into a freezer, so much so that I walked in and out a good few times that night as I knew I wasn't imaging it. Some one once told me to place a glass of water out side the area and if if ripples, then you no!!! I never did as i didn't want to confirmed what I already knew.
 
hannah87 said:
I want to hear more Luckylou!!
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Cool ok :D

I was with my dad when he died and about an hour after I called my OH to let him know and he had been asleep when I called. A bit later that day he seemed a bit on edge and in the end told me that he'd had a dream just before I called him that my dad came to him and told him to look after me. It would have been around the time that he'd died. A year later I went to see a medium and my dad came through and told me that he had visited my OH

My mum always feels my dad is around. She'll go to bed make sure all the doors are closed and in the morning they're all open, she felt him hug her once too.

A couple of weeks after he died my brother phoned my mum but my dad answered!! All he was was hello but my brother swore it was definitely him. Again when I went to see the medium she said to me "Someone thought your dad spoke to them? He wants to let you know he did.

My sister also felt my dad was around and he used to come and sit next to her when she was in bed, she used to see the indentation and everything.

By this time, I was feeling pretty p*ssed off, thinking that he didn't want to visit me and I got quite upset about it and I had a dream that I was talking to him, it was so vivid, so real. Then my bathroom cabinet just randomly started opening. I would clean my teeth, shut the cabinet, jump in the shower, when I got out it would be open. First of all I thought it was just me but then I started making certain that it was shut and it would still happen. Then it just stopped but once I was looking in the mirror of the cabinet and someone just rapped on the side of it ... twice - I like to think it was my dad as only that day I had been discussing the fact that my dad doesn't come see me.

I'm very interested in the spiritual world and stuff and I know they can hear our thoughts and stuff and once I said to my dad (in my head) if you're about send me a white feather. When thinking this I just imagined a white feather would just float down in front of me, well no, it didn't quite happen like that lol when I went to poo pick my horses there were loads of white feathers on the ground :D:D:D

Hope I didn't bore you guys
 
Also a few times at work in the hospital on the night shift. A "something" walked straight across my path and another time we just had our break and took some thing back to the ward and saw a white/gray figure stand opposite an empty patients bed, can't explain what it was, as I don't no myself but it stood there for a min or so. It never scared me, but i wasn't in any rush to go back in there that night...
 
My husband & I moved into a rented house a few years back & we did have some problems with what can only have been a ghost.

I have always believed in ghosts etc but my husband totally hasn't, he used to take the mick out of me if this sort of thing ever came up in conversation and he was absolutely adamant such things didn't exist.

To cut a long story short the strange happenings centred mainly around the bathroom in this house which was opposite our bedroom, and my husband used to be a plumber so once he realised such things couldn't be given a logical explanation he got really scared. When we were woken up in the middle of the night he would send me out to deal with it whilst he hid under the covers.

One night when we had been woken for about 4 nights in a row he totally flipped, jumped out of bed naked and grabbed my bright pink dressing gown. Then he ran downstairs to the kitchen and came back up brandishing the biggest kitchen knife we had screaming "right, I'm ready for you now so come out". I couldn't do anything for laughing, he is an ex Royal Marine and not a small person, so to see this macho man running round in my dressing gown absolutely petrified was hilarious.

It didn't make any difference as the activity still carried on and needless to say we moved out shortly afterwards! The strange thing was though it only ever happened whilst my husband was home, when he was away I used to go to bed saying "please don't do anything tonight" and it wouldn't. Perhaps it just liked to see my husband in the dressing gown :D
 
Gucci_b said:
Ditto this... Has any one any photo's!!!!
I also had a few experiences of strange going on's..in a house I used to live in, like photo's on the wall flying off and the odd unexplained noise, and once when i walked into a bedroom was like walking into a freezer, so much so that I walked in and out a good few times that night as I knew I wasn't imaging it. Some one once told me to place a glass of water out side the area and if if ripples, then you no!!! I never did as i didn't want to confirmed what I already knew.
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I didn't mean that they don't exist but that they rarely mean any harm. A few do and it is true that if you are afraid they will feed off that. It is all about energy and fear produces its own negative energy so can make things worse. The best thing to do is to stay calm and tell them to leave now, that they can't frighten you. You can learn to protect yourself too, it's not too difficult.
Elm, I think it is a good idea for you to speak to someone and get the house 'cleansed' (don't mean get mrs mop in lol). I think you know you know you have a problem and could do with a bit of help.

some fabby stories here though. People are becoming much more spiritually aware now too and are much less closed minded.
 
Love the old bloke telling people to eff off. Nothing quite so violent. Was at a haunted yard once. We had a brush for knocking off the dust and cobwebs from the window sills above the feed bins. The bins were in a corridor leading off the 'coach house' stables, this was at an angle to the door which meant that if one was in the stables or the yard only the first couple of feet of the corridor was visible. Back to the brush, it was old with proper bristles also it was like a brush pan brush but with an unusually long handle, it disappeared, neither Manda nor myself could find it anywhere. Then one winters night Manda was setting fair the coach house stables and I was at the other end of the yard when she called me. She had seen a bare arm banging the brush against the door frame, the brush never reappeared.
One night at the same yard I was locking up, the tack room was above the coach house stables (so-called because that was where the carriages were kept) I went up stairs for a final look round and there was something very malevolent lurking in that loft. It's giving me goose bumps writing about it and this was 33 years ago. I was down the stairs and the lights out so fast.
The building had been the coach house and stables to a long demolished great house but I never knew the real history of the place.
 
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