S/O strangest house thing. Is your house haunted?

Nope. My current house is only 30-some years old and I'm pretty sure no one has died here. The 100+ year old house we used to live in didn't seem to be either. My older sisters used to babysit for a family that lived in one they thought was haunted though, and they wouldn't ever babysit there unless both of them could go because it freaked them out.

We just had the ghost discussion at work last week. I'm a non-believer. I lived right next to a cemetery for twenty years. I was never scared or frightened and strange things never happened.

ETA:  the reason we were having the discussion is that some believe there is a ghost in our basement at work.  Prior to becoming office space it was housing for an order of nuns.  Some employees say they've seen them walking the halls or in the basement.

It must a crazy finicky one. The electrician replaced them the last time I called him out. And nothing is being used in an outlet when this happens. I dry my hair in my bedroom. Eh as long as the Boo sticks to the bathroom he can stay.

We used to joke that it was. When we first moved in, we would often smell coffee and freshly baked cake in one corner of our dining room (neither of us drinks coffee and we don't have a coffee maker). We have radiant heat and no vents, so it wasn't somehow coming through our (non-existent) ventilation system. One day, the scents were so strong, we went outside and sniffed in all directions, trying to figure out if it was coming from another house and somehow making it into ours. We could never smell the lovely scents outside.

Oh well, if we are haunted and they want to have brunch parties in the dining room and non-frightening things like that, we're okay with it.

Never lived in a haunted house but lots of people think my kids school is haunted. Long before the school was built, there was a man who stopped a rape on the grounds where the school was built. He was murdered by the men who were attacking the woman. His name was Tommy. They believe he haunts the school. He is a friendly ghost. The kids at the school report stage things happening. The art teacher says her computer gets messed up frequently. I was there one day and saw a bucket of toys in the kindergarten room get knocked off a shelf and none of the kids were by it. I was also there on a Saturday once and there were four or five of us scrapbooking. I left my phone in the bathroom. No one went in the bathroom but when I went back the get my phone, apps had been moved and there was a different picture as my background.

Not my current house, but we had multiple strange things occur at our last house. Lights being turned off, doors opening or closing in front of us, once I heard a sound like something running through the house upstairs above me and I was completely alone.

I don't really believe in ghosts, but I could be wrong! I like to think if they are in my house, they are just doing their thing and let me do mine. I would love to spend a night in the hotel that The Shining was based on. I know other who have gone that swear there are ghosts there.

I said in the other thread I was hearing random knocking noises in this house. I believe we solved it. I still hear some other noises that I can't explain entirely.

My childhood home had a presence in it. I woke up once to see what looked like a child playing in my room. That was the only time I saw it but it did explain why some toys I had weren't always where I thought I left them.

The house I had before I met DH and we moved smelled very strongly of smoke every now and then. Even though I did everything I could to remove or cover up the nicotine stains, there would be little pockets of the smell. It was never consistent or in the same place. I think the previous owner was popping in once in a while.

After my grandfather passed away, my grandma reported smelling his aftershave or the channel being changed on her, especially if she wasn't watching Jepodary when it came on. They always watched it together.

Where I used to work, at least 1-2 people, of all ages, would have a death threatening medical situation. The rate of death vs # of employees was scary. Dying from cancer was predictable with those who had a certain office. I worked there 10 years but had to stop due to a medical illness. I believe it was built on an Indian Burial Ground.

My 74 year old father is a preacher and has always maintained that there is no such thing as ghosts. He firmly believes when we die that our souls go to either heaven or hell and that is the end of it. My parents moved to a new home in South Carolina in 2007 and about 4 months after living there told me that he believed he saw a ghost in his house. I was absolutely floored to hear this from him. He said he was lying in bed reading a book in the middle of the afternoon when a man wearing blue jeans and a work shirt walked down the hallway and past his room. He said he yelled "Hey, hello?" at him as he jumped out of bed to see what was going on. He went down the hall in the same direction of the man and there were two bedrooms at the end of the hall. No one was in either room.

They found out from one of their neighbors that the family that lived there previously to the people from whom my parents bought the home did have a death in the home. The father apparently had an aneurysm in one of the back bedrooms and passed away there before first responders could arrive. Yes, it was one of the bedrooms my father had checked. The man's name was Tommy. (kind of random...same as a previous poster's ghost) Now whenever anything unusual happens my parents just blame Tommy. Dad hasn't ever seen him again but they are comfortable that if he is actually there that he is not a malevolent presence.

My only personal experiences were that when we lived in Florida I used to hear voices on my white noise machine that I used to sleep. Sometimes it was just kind of vague mumbling but often I heard very clear phrases. Never anything threatening so I didn't think much of it and thought it was probably just my imagination. I found myself talking to someone who is a ghost hunter and kind of laughingly mentioned it. He said that it might very well be ghosts as one of the tools they actually use as ghost hunters is kind of a very advanced white noise machine. I told him my house was not very old and that I didn't think there had been any deaths in or around it and he said the voices could just be spirits kind of passing through. I don't know whether I believe it or not but I kept using the machine. I did have to fuss at it a couple times and say, "Y'all! I'm trying to sleep here!" Since moving to California, I haven't heard anything but white noise. So, who knows? I wouldn't say I believe in ghosts but I also am open to things being out there that we just can't explain.

Yes I believe there is something in our house and we are the first owners. The "activity" started when we added on to the house. Sounds of drumming and murmuring. Now we just hear pops, knocks, and an occasional voices. Several people, even skeptics, have heard it. When the knocking gets bad, I just yell "keep it down". It is just in the room that we added. Two explanations people have given me are that something was attached to some of the antique furniture and dolls that are in the room or that it could be spirits of the American Indians that used to live on this land. Either way I have never felt scared or threatened.

Not my current house.  We are the 2nd owners and as far as I know no one has died here.

The house I grew up in though probably had something going on.  It was built in 1905 and there was a rumor someone was buried under the apple tree in the backyard.