When my grandmother was dying, she saw fairies dancing in the painting hung at the foot of her bed. She saw a little brown dog curled up on the couch and a few days before she went into hospital, she insisted that there was a cat inside her house, despite her cat being outside.
People were very quick to say that she was hallucinating because of the medication and I’m not going to say that they’re wrong. I’m also not going to say that what Nan saw didn’t exist.
A few weeks after her death, while we were cleaning out her house, I saw the ghost cat too. I nearly tripped over it in fact, and dodged, because I saw a cat, which then ran under the table. A cat that didn’t exist, except that it looked like a cat my grandmother had owned previously. An hour later, I saw the same cat/ghost, out of the corner of my eye again.
I believe in ghosts. I always have and there is very little you can say to dissuade me. I have been to Sarah Island and felt the anger and sadness emanating from the convict walls there and the waves of cold and anger that boil through the paths. I have been scared spitless, on a path at Port Arthur, just knowing that it felt wrong.
I believe and I don’t care if you don’t.
When we bought our house, I was very careful to make sure there was no “bad feel” anywhere in the house. And while it felt cold and damp and in need of renovating, it never felt like we shouldn’t be here and I never felt like we ought to leave.
We bought this place over three years ago now. Since then, time and money have conspired against us and we’ve managed to do very little in the way of renovations, short of clearing up the indoor pond and getting the kitchen and bathroom floor replaced.
What has happened though, are enough small things that I am starting to seriously believe that we have a ghost.
A while back, Nathan and I were sitting watching TV, when the dining room light began to flick on and off. Not a minor flicker, but on and off, for around a minute, before the globe blew.
The doors will open and close occasionally, with no rhyme, or reason. Suddenly, they’ll just slam open, or shut.
We have the things that fall off benches, a full beer that threw itself and landed a good metre from the table and a few other niggly things that have me declaring “It’s the ghost” and Nathan rolling his eyes at me.
My brother heard footsteps through the kitchen when he was staying here one night and thought that I was walking around. On inspection, he was the only one awake.
I’ve been touched, twice. Both times cold and strangely not scary. Once on the shoulder as I stood in front of the mirror, and once on the cheek as I was laying in bed.
It’s spooky and it’s occasionally creepy and I absolutely believe that we have a ghost.
Earlier today, after my friend and her children had left, Nathan and I were sitting in our bedroom chatting. To my left there is a closet, with stuff being stored on top of it. One of those things is a lamp with a glass shade.
As we were talking, one of the panes of glass in the shade shattered, like an explosion.
There was nothing putting stress on the glass (it’s a loose frame type thing) and nothing fell on it. It just, broke.
Which is yet another thing to add to our “we’ve got a ghost” files.
Frankly, if we had the money, I’d seriously consider selling this house to move to a less haunted place. Not that there is anything wrong with sharing real estate with a ghost, I’d just prefer I wasn’t getting touched and having lamp shades shatter.
What about you? Do you believe in ghosts?
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27 responses to “My house appears to be ever so slightly, haunted”
Ooo, I believe in ghosts, too! And in spirits and “presences”, and how a place “feels”. But unless you’ve had a personal experience, it’s easy to laugh it off as nonsense. There’s nothing you can say: people will believe what they will believe. And I believe there are things that cannot be explained by logic or science.
we refer to our house as spook central.
Spooks tend to like me………………gawd knows why….
We also have a spirit cat.its Merlin our old ginger tom.
To clear spirits out of the house…..get some dried sage and light it and walk around the house going into every room and every corner of each room.
Also ask the spirits to leave.say it out loud.be polite but firm.
HTH
hugs
Yes, ask them, politely, to leave and tell them they are scaring you.
Sometimes they’re considerate enough to stop playing games (((hugs)))
I believe. I’ve walked through pockets of cold air in otherwise warm houses, sometimes cold air has passed me while I’m sitting or standing still.
In my current home, I believe I have a guardian angel/spirit that came with me from a previous address. His name is Sweetwater Joe, he’s been in my dreams.
Do what Peskypixie and Jayne say with the sage and asking the spirit to leave. There are other house cleansing andprotection spells too. Sprinkle salt around the perimeter; make a sage tea and sprinkle it in the rooms. Bless a broom and use it to sweep out the spirit. Hang a tiny bag filled with powdered “Devil’s Blood” above the main entrance to your home, to prevent evil entering.
I have an open mind. I have often felt a “presence” beside me, but I always find it comforting and never scary. I just can’t figure out if it’s real, or if I’m just being overly imaginative. What I do believe is that there are many things we don’t yet understand. Say “hi” to your ghost…ask if there’s anything you can do to make him/her feel better and then nicely ask him to tone down the theatrics XXX
You have us in agreeance. People may think you nuts, but that’s their problem.
Until recently, whilst believing in ghosts I had not experienced any encounters myself. In the past couple of years they’ve been a number of instances, but the most glaring and startling (although not frightening) was the evening I saw a ghost in my home. Now, the GOFA has seen a ghost here before and we suspect he may have been someone who lived here. I reckon he liked fish and chips because I’ve smelt them several times. It’s not unusual for me to smell something without a reason. I don’t know if the ghost I saw was him … my guess is that it’s not the same person … but he was walking away from me and I describe him from behind in detail. I felt no fear or ill intent, I simply saw him, fully formed for a split second, but enough to be completely sure of what I saw. I like to think he’s here to help.
I could tell you more, but not here or now. As aside, the GOFA has told me that poltergeist activity has been linked to strong emotions, particularly in teenage girls. I’ve not researched it myself as yet (on the list of things to do … that damn list!), but he tells me that extreme emotion seems to be able to make strange things happen. Is the energy of the emotion causing events, or does the energy attract spirits? I have no idea, just something to think about. It’s been a rough couple of years and you’re still feeling things deeply.
There is much that I believe and many of my family think I’m crackers for believing any of this, but if your dishwasher opens all by itself and then closes the same way, you have to wonder at the cause!
“Is the energy of the emotion causing events, or does the energy attract spirits?”
the energy usually attracts unruly, evil or unsettled spirits. there are lots of cases where children/teenagers are seemingly being haunted or stalked by mean, evil spirits and in most of those cases you will find that the children/teenagers are suffering from depression, unhappiness, sadness etc
mean or evil energy is attracted to the depressed, sad etc state of a person and they find it easier to “haunt” them because they leave themselves open and exposed due to their emotions.
this is why when meddling with spirits eg Ouija boards, open circles you need to open them correctly, protect yourself while using them and then close them correctly otherwise you’re leaving yourself exposed for negative energy/spirits to attach themselves to you.
~x~
Yes, I understand. I would not say I am sensitive, but certainly more aware than a while back due to circumstances and others round me.
I felt grossly unstable in the hospital at Port Arthur, actually, in one particular corner. It made me feel giddy, like the ground was moving, sort of sea-sick. I felt the same in one room of an old museum house in Hobart. This home of mine now, despite being in need of renovation is a warm and comforting haven. I expect it to be treated in a such a manner as to keep it that way. Bad energy draws bad energy. So an Aboriginal elder told my GOFA.
I believe in ghosts, and I cetainly believe the young and the dying are more likely to see them, whereas the rest of us will only get those glimpses out of the corner of our eye.
with a medium for a mum [or is it the other way around?!?] i of course do believe in spirits.
the first house i ever lived in was haunted. the previous owner had hung himself in the carport due to whatever was “in” the house before my parents had bought it. the clock in our kitchen had stopped on the dot, the minute i was born in the local hospital. my grandparents stayed in the house to look after me when my parents took my brother back to england to visit family – my grandfather however was unable to stay in the house for more than a couple of nights due to “something” that made him feel very uncomfortable and so went back home. when i was a baby/toddler my mum says i used to wake up in the middle of the night and when she went in to check up on me i would be sitting in my crib happily playing with seemingly no one – later on we discovered i was playing with a spirit child. we had a playroom at the very back of the house that was always cold, regardless of how hot it was outside, it was always cold. we eventually ended up getting another medium to come out and we discovered that there was a spirit there named Gerald. he had come out to australia as a convict and escaped in order to look for his wife and child. he had been found by soldiers and killed in the spot where our playroom now stood. he was told that he had died and that he must go towards the light, that it was ok to do so – he did. we never had a problem after that and the backroom was never cold again.
your story of your grandmother seeing things just before she died reminds me of my dad. he saw “people” be it friends and/or family in the week leading up to his death – on the couch at home – he would sit and stare at them, talking to them in a whisper. the day before he died they were with him too – as he reached outwards and upwards to them – no doubt as they prepared him for his passing. you see when you die, you never pass over alone, there is always someone waiting to help you pass over, usually it’s someone you know who has passed before you.
i have felt my dad several times since he passed – he lets me know he’s with me by smell usually – a certain smell i remember from childhood – his work bag had a smell that was loose tobacco [rolling tobacco] and the smell from the kilns at the brickworks he worked at – it was such a distinct smell and i’ve smelt it a few times since he has passed, even though in real life the bag is long gone and i haven’t smelt that smell since i was a teenager. the last time i smelt it was last week in my back lounge room.
you can bless your house by using a smudge stick eg sage as per above. you can also when you next feel the spirit or believe they are around by activity eg the light flickering etc speak clearly and ask them to leave you alone OR just to leave, they may listen, they may not but usually if you ask a spirit to leave you alone, they will.
want to swap houses? i would have no problem living in a haunted house [as long as it was a nasty spirit like a poltergeist or similar] though i know the thought of spirits does freak Guv out!
~x~
p.s. sorry for the essay!
I don’t want to live in a world that can be explained away with logic and science. I want to believe in the intangible, the eerie, in mysteries….. and I absolutely believe YOU, Veronica. If it was someone else telling me these things, I might be dubious, but you’ve built up a lot of credibility and if you say they happened, they did.
I believe in “stuff”. I believe that houses have an undeniable feel to them and that feel is a result of things that have happened there. When we look at houses I get really strong feelings that have nothing to do with the decor, we’ve seen perfectly nice houses that have felt ‘bad’ and I have KNOWN something bad has happened there. I think there are types of energy getting around that we don’t yet understand. I believe that there are people who are more open or sensitive to those sorts of energy. I think I am uncomfortable with the word ghosts but I think I believe in them nevertheless. x
Oh yes and I’m never again going in the Old Melbourne Gaol. That place was horrific.
Asking your ghost politely to leave seems like a good suggestion.
No.
[No need to expand. I’ll only offend someone other than you 🙂 ]
I think I’m probably on par with Ali … not believing in ghosts as such (if that’s defined as spirits of once-living entities, be they animals or humans, which are still hanging around). Nonetheless I most definitely do believe in “stuff” – that places can retain feelings, emotions, from what happens there; that, if you like, the stones can remember. I don’t doubt any one of your experiences or that they stem back to things that have been experienced in that house, but I tend more to think of it like an imprinting – rather than the spirit itself still being present, the memory of it, and the powerful things that were felt and done, linger.
Of course, this is just how I reconcile the fact that while I strongly believe that dead persons’ spirits leave here and do not return, I also have been to places that have given me unaccountable and serious cases of the creeps.
duh just reread my comment and now want to correct something…
“want to swap houses? i would have no problem living in a haunted house [as long as it WASN’T a nasty spirit like a poltergeist or similar] though i know the thought of spirits does freak Guv out!”
I totally believe. My mom grew up in a house in New England that was first a funeral home and then a doctors office before it was turned into a house and there is a ghost living there. He is very friendly and normally you wouldn’t know he is there. His name is George and we believe he died in the house when it was a doctors office. He would turn on the dryer(his favorite thing to do) when my mom was growing up and bang three times in their dining room and other places in the house, he was rather noisy. The house has been empty for the last two years as my aunt moved down to Texas but we are going to renovate the house and rent it on a weekly basis so we can go up and stay, which brings me to when we went up there over the last weekend to make a list of what needed to be done and I just found out that weekend there was a ghost and I could feel him. He was very sad and lonely and missed having people in the house, as we were leaving we could see him moving the curtain, the house has no air conditioning as it is a very old house and the windows were all closed. SO I too have had an experience but I believe in ghost before than anyways.
I don’t believe in ghosts but feel you make a good case, I’ll have to think about it 😉
I didn’t believe until I had some weird experiences in my own home that made me question the fact I didn’t believe.
Now I do, because otherwise my experiences and sightings would brand me as insane and I am NOT insane!! 🙂 x
Have you thought about telling it in a firm voice that you know it’s there, and you don’t mind sharing the space, so long as whoever it is leaves you, your family, and you alone?
I had to do that the other day, and it seems to have worked.
I *totally* believe in these things. Mind you, I am a bit of a spiritual hippy at heart!
*hugs* xx
I believe there are all kinds of weird things out there but I’m not sure if they are ghosts or demons or WHAT. An old post on a house we looked at years ago. http://homeschoolnetc.blogspot.com/2008/11/evil-house.html
I believe. We owned an old rambling house built in the mid 1800’s. The second month we were there my inlaws had come to stay and were sleeping down stairs. My 2 children and my husband and I were in the upstairs bedrooms. At midnight one night the fire alarm near our room went off and we all jumped up with a start and went looking for the fire – no fire. The fire alarm is wired in. It turned off and about 1/2 hr later it went off again – nothing. About a week later the same thing happened with no real explanation as to the cause. We started calling him the smoking ghost. He kept doing it on and off while we lived there. The only negative was that if we did have a fire our reaction time may not be so good as “crying wolf” had softened our fear.
My daughter got some movies out last night and she likes scary ones – I made it quite clear we wouldn’t be watching them with her but after the footy she put on Paranormal Activity and told us it wasn’t scary until the last five minutes. Ha thats a joke. It is done as if it is real life and had us questioning whether it was or not.
By half way through our 12 year old son was hiding behind a blanket and we were all jumping at the scary bits. By the end of it he wouldn’t go to bed in his own room and we slept very limitedly with a 12yr old in between us. Needless to say we will not be watching any of her movies ever again with him in the room!
I found the movie to be very realistic and although the ending was not nice it really had a true ring to it. Unfortunately it was not a nice ghost.
Veronica I would do the sage thing in your house and see how you go. Speaking to it is certainly one way of letting him or her know that you are aware of it and maybe it will ease over time – acknowledging them may be what they are looking for. Good Luck!
Yeah, I believe. …I really do believe that my husband hasn’t left my side….
and I’m very grateful.
Have never “felt” one personally but I don`t disbelieve.
Hub DEFINITELY believes and saw a ghost when he was about 19 in his bedroom. He also saw a ghost of his grandfather soon after he died. In general my hub is quite superstitious. Last time we were searching for an apartment when we would come across a nice one with cheap rent he would say “no, it must have a ghost”
This week is his families obon tradition- we will welcome back dead ancestors on Wednesday and say goodbye to them again on Friday. We will light a fire so they know the way on Wednesday night. 2 years ago I was pregnant with Noah during obon and had to have a mirror in my pocket to protect the baby against bad spirits/ghosts. It is always interesting to hear other peoples opinions on this and what it is like in other cultures.
I hope your ghost goes for you- no advice- but others seem to have some.
Our home is said to have a ghost or two. It was built in 1890.
The second owners were Dickinson and Helen Bishop. They were married in November 1911 and held off on honeymooning in Europe so that they could return home on the Titanic.
Helen was the first passenger into the first lifeboat lowered to safety from the Titanic. She and her husband returned to our town and our home.
Helen was pregnant at the time the Titanic sank. Her infant son only lived two days after he was born in December 1912.
By 1913, Helen had survived an earthquake as well as a tragic automobile accident, in which she suffered a terrible head injury. Her husband divorced her in early 1916. She died only months later, and her obituary appeared in the paper on the same day and on the same page as an announcement of her husband’s re-marriage (his third).
As an aside, at 19, Helen was Dickinson’s second wife. Both Helen and Dickinson’ first young wife were wealthy heiresses. The first Mrs. Bishop died of complications of childbirth, and the infant also did not survive.
So, when things are strange around the home, I tend to think it is one of the Bishop women or infants. Or perhaps even Dickinson, who endured years of rumours that he had dressed as a woman in order to follow his young pregnant wife onto a lifeboat.
Rumour also has it there are a few other old souls hanging around our home, including one who was seen in a military uniform. Folks who remember suggest that at least two young veterans had connections two the home. Most recently, the owner previous to us swears she saw a child trying to play with her young daughter and reaching for a toy as she tidied a bedroom.
It wouldn’t surprise me if these old souls are what keep us up at night.
I wouldn’t say that I don’t believe, as I know so many people with compelling accounts of their experiences with ghosts/spirits. More that I prefer to ignore their existance and pretend that I don’t believe/live in blissful ignorance so I don’t have to acknowledge their presence. I feel like once I mentally acknowledge that I believe in them then I will start having encounters and TBH, I really don’t want to.
But it gets me thinking. I haven’t had an physical experience as such (touches or anything), but we did go to Trevallyn/Devils Gate Dam for a drive once and I had to get DH to turn the car around as I just felt the most horrible feeling of foreboding there and couldn’t bear to stay there, it made me feel that something had happened there.
I’m on maternity leave from work, but when I do work, I work evenings in an office building. We get moved from one half of the building to another depending on staffing levels. One half is fine, but when working in the other half I often see something out of the corner of my eye but when I turn nothing is there, I feel like its a man… I should ask if anyone else has had the same feeling.
And that is all I will acknowledge or think about cause the idea just creeps me out!
Hello V…..
If you would like some prayers and some additional help to ridding yourself of your guests, or co-habitating with them peacefully, feel free to email me. I have some things that may help.
Blessings.