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Post by tlsmi on Apr 26, 2016 14:46:42 GMT
I'm not sure I believe in ghosts but we have had some strange things happen in our old farmhouse. It was built in 1910 and we have been working non stop on it since we bought it 16 years ago.
We were told by a couple of locals it was haunted. Many years ago in the Spring DH says to me one morning 'did you hear anything last night?' , I had. Music playing and a woman's voice kind of humming. He said he heard the same thing. I asked what time? He says around 3:00 a.m. I agree, same time. We weren't scared really it was just weird.
It happens again months later. I ask him about it...yep, we both heard it. I'm thinking it's a car radio outside or something...we start writing on calendar when it happens which is many times a year.
Fast forward a few years ago and we removed big old beautiful baseboards to strip and 'Re-stain and 'Re-install. It's the room we call the 'parlor'. Written on the back of one of the boards was 'Music Room'.
The previous owners left a beat up old upright piano behind. DH wants to turn it into a wine bar. Cool...So he is taking it apart and a card is behind the top of if and it says 'deliver to Mr.Johnson (original owner of the farm) and is signed 'C.J. Wallace' ---- my DH goes by the name 'C.J.'
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Post by freebird on Apr 26, 2016 15:06:40 GMT
I probably should have shared last night while I was tired and at my weakest. LOL I'll just say that I've "attracted" stuff for as long as I can remember. Some of my first memories are being creeped out by "stuff".
The house I had with my ex was always having events. Daily. Movement, sounds, shadows, etc. I was touched once (that was totally over the line.) My son was bothered at night. Finally I figured out it was a child, a little boy. I got used to it after a while as he never hurt or scared anyone on purpose. This was a time of great change and emotion for me (had a crappy marriage, had a child, was depressed, etc) and from what I understand, spirits can be attracted to that sort of thing so I guess I'm some sort of beacon.
After I left there I had very little activity any more. The house I live in now is only about 20 year old manufactured home. No one has to die in your house to see activity. Like myself, you can bring it along with you, or your house can be built in an active area. I've not noticed anything there until the past couple years. you can see into my bedroom while sitting on the couch and sometimes in the evening I can see a shadow move from right to left across the middle of the room (right at the bed). One night about 2 years ago I woke up to a man's face just inches from mine. I thought it was my husband's at first but I couldn't figure out why his face looked so wrinkly or where the light was coming from. I blinked and it was gone. Just the other day it hit me, I think the house must be built around where people were passing on a trail. It makes sense because where we live is very low and flat, it would be the easiest route. I can see for several miles of flat.
I've seen a medium a couple times and she (and her partner) tell me that I should explore this some more but I've just pushed it away most of my life as I don't have time for that in my life.
I could go on but we're falling in the tmi category already. lol
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Post by seaexplore on Apr 26, 2016 16:18:38 GMT
My 4yo has informed us that we have to go outside if we are going to die because she wants to buy this house and doesn't want us to haunt it, lol OH dear!! Your FOUR year old? Is thinking about being a homeowner?? Has heard of ghosts?? I think I am getting old because to me, a four year old dreams of being a disney princess. haha She loves our house. Lol She also dreams of being Elsa. My kid is a total trip.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 26, 2016 16:30:25 GMT
We have a ghost here...Fred is his name. He is a fairly nice spirit. Although, he did take my Ace of Base cassette. That's because he wanted you to see the sign he's a ghost and it opened up your eyes.
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Post by its me mg on Apr 26, 2016 16:37:30 GMT
We have a ghost here...Fred is his name. He is a fairly nice spirit. Although, he did take my Ace of Base cassette. That's because he wanted you to see the sign he's a ghost and it opened up your eyes.
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Post by deekaye on Apr 26, 2016 16:58:56 GMT
I think the house I grew up in had a presence, although I'm the only one who felt that way. I can remember more than once waking up in the early morning and seeing a gray/black mist "floating" above my closet doors. I also used to regularly hear knocking at the back door, but no one was ever there. My mother chided me and ridiculed me about it so I never mentioned it more than a couple of times.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 18:00:08 GMT
OH dear!! Your FOUR year old? Is thinking about being a homeowner?? Has heard of ghosts?? I think I am getting old because to me, a four year old dreams of being a disney princess. haha She loves our house. Lol She also dreams of being Elsa. My kid is a total trip. haha.....she sounds fun!! I am out of touch when it comes to kids!! hahaha
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Post by tduby1 on Apr 26, 2016 18:04:42 GMT
My brother, mid 20s has always been extremely afraid of the dark. I remember him staying the night at our house and at 16 he would sleep on the floor right outside our bedroom door. He still hates the dark.
He became convinced, after purchasing his home, built and the 1920's and totally gutted and remodeled by him and my dad, that there was a ghost named Frank living with him and his girlfriend. For years we heard about "Frank's" antics. They would go away and come home to their home in disarray (his girlfriend is a very finicky housekeeper), things awry, etc. One day, while puttering around in the woods behind his house (well after he named the ghost Frank)he found a small wooden cross with the name "Frank" on it.
He is believer.
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Post by wonderwoman on Apr 26, 2016 18:34:22 GMT
Not anymore.. I did live in a place that was quite active.. I just tried to ignore it..
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Post by carhoch on Apr 26, 2016 18:43:50 GMT
I don't believe in ghosts, Bigfoot , The Loch Ness monster ,hell or heaven .... Nothing .
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Post by scrapmaven on Apr 26, 2016 18:47:06 GMT
I must sound like a nutter when I talk about my haunted store, but so many things happened that I know it wasn't anyone's imagination. My staff heard things, too. My boss hated that store and would never come in unless absolutely necessary. Her mother called one day and I broached the subject and her mother told me never to mention it to her daughter, because that store scared the wits out of the daughter and that's why she begged her boss to transfer her to a different store.
One day I decided that I was done being annoyed at work. I'd go the bathroom, open the door and the vacuum would be right in the middle of the doorway. Money would go missing from my am count and I'd find it hidden on a shelf later. This all happened when I was all alone. So, I talked to it(it didn't talk back)and told it that I respected that I was working in it's space, but I needed to do my job and needed it to let me do just that w/o interruption. I told it that as the human I could make things difficult and that we needed to co-exist. After that it stopped doing things around the store. Though I still heard the opera music and felt the chill move through me when I sat in a certain place in the back room. Also, we all still heard the screaming and maniacal laughter every morning.
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Post by 505scrapper on Apr 26, 2016 20:12:32 GMT
My mom passed away in my house (she was on hospice and it was expected) but the house doesn't seem haunted. A few times we've caught my niece, who was 11 months old when my mom passed, talking to my mom like she's in the room. She'll be four on Saturday and it's been a while since that has happened.
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Post by disneypal on Apr 26, 2016 20:25:24 GMT
We have a ghost here...Fred is his name. He is a fairly nice spirit. Although, he did take my Ace of Base cassette. Still bitter about that. My ghost likes Billy Joel, he borrows it from time to time. My Bill Joel cassette (yes, cassette) will go missing, it will be missing for weeks and then suddenly turn up in an obvious place, like the middle of the bed or on the kitchen sink (I live alone so no one in the house is doing this).
There are many times that I will hear a loud BANG and clanking - as if some pots fell off the table or counter or dish drainer and onto the floor. I will go in the kitchen to inspect and there is nothing on the floor. This happens 3 or 4 times a year - it is very loud - will make you jump.
I wake up some mornings to find all the cabinets in the kitchen wide open (and the pantry door) - I will close them all and when I get home from work, sometimes they are open again (sometimes not). I just say out loud "please stop doing that - it's annoying" and it will stop, for a while. Again, doesn't happen a lot but it does happen once and a while.
Some of my friends will swear up and down that they saw a dog in my hallway (I don't have a dog) and one person said that when she was walking down the hall to go to the bathroom that she felt a dog rub against her leg, she even bent down to look (nothing was there, of course)
I often feel something touching my arm, like someone trying to get my attention. Sometimes, it feels like a bug or something but when I look, there is no bug or anything there.
The lights in the living room will flicker sometimes but not sure if that is a spirit or just the lamp/bulb so I don't put a lot of thought in that.
I often hear people talking in the back of the house (sounds like 1 man and 2 women) but I can't make out what is being said. When I go back there, it stops but when I go back to the front of the house, it starts again. I look out the windows but no one is outside so not sure what that is. That hasn't happened in a long time though - it has probably been 5 or 6 years since that happened but it use to happen a lot.
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Post by pierogi on Apr 26, 2016 21:06:20 GMT
We have a ghost here...Fred is his name. He is a fairly nice spirit. Although, he did take my Ace of Base cassette. Still bitter about that. My ghost likes Billy Joel, he borrows it from time to time. My Bill Joel cassette (yes, cassette) will go missing, it will be missing for weeks and then suddenly turn up in an obvious place, like the middle of the bed or on the kitchen sink (I live alone so no one in the house is doing this).
There are many times that I will hear a loud BANG and clanking - as if some pots fell off the table or counter or dish drainer and onto the floor. I will go in the kitchen to inspect and there is nothing on the floor. This happens 3 or 4 times a year - it is very loud - will make you jump.
I wake up some mornings to find all the cabinets in the kitchen wide open (and the pantry door) - I will close them all and when I get home from work, sometimes they are open again (sometimes not). I just say out loud "please stop doing that - it's annoying" and it will stop, for a while. Again, doesn't happen a lot but it does happen once and a while.
Some of my friends will swear up and down that they saw a dog in my hallway (I don't have a dog) and one person said that when she was walking down the hall to go to the bathroom that she felt a dog rub against her leg, she even bent down to look (nothing was there, of course)
I often feel something touching my arm, like someone trying to get my attention. Sometimes, it feels like a bug or something but when I look, there is no bug or anything there.
The lights in the living room will flicker sometimes but not sure if that is a spirit or just the lamp/bulb so I don't put a lot of thought in that.
I often hear people talking in the back of the house (sounds like 1 man and 2 women) but I can't make out what is being said. When I go back there, it stops but when I go back to the front of the house, it starts again. I look out the windows but no one is outside so not sure what that is. That hasn't happened in a long time though - it has probably been 5 or 6 years since that happened but it use to happen a lot.
I have to ask which Billy Joel album. Is it Scenes From an Italian Restaurant? If I were a ghost, I'd be borrowing that one too.
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Post by snappinsami on Apr 26, 2016 21:23:29 GMT
I had posted on the other thread that we always thought that the house I grew up in was haunted by the builder. He never did anything menacing and we were never frightened or anything. It was more a "huh... that must have been Mr. Baker" kind of thing.
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Post by disneypal on Apr 26, 2016 21:57:43 GMT
I have to ask which Billy Joel album. Is it Scenes From an Italian Restaurant? If I were a ghost, I'd be borrowing that one too. Haha! It is Glass Houses
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Post by gypsymama on Apr 26, 2016 22:02:50 GMT
i was a flat-out non-ghost person until a few years ago when dh and i moved into his mom's house about a year after she died in it. she hada LOT of stuff and one day dh was putting an old rug into the dumpster and i was at the sink washing dishes watching him out the window and from behind me i heard her say "RAYMOND", her voice was totally unmistakable. he saw her moving around the house,her smoker's cough, smoke smell... and sometimes my jacket had an old lady perfume smell. surprisingly it wasn't scary to me at all and i'm a huge chicken!
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Post by georgiapea on Apr 26, 2016 22:54:36 GMT
I lived in a haunted houseboat one time, the first occupant after the original owner died. Now I live in a 100 plus year old building and there are no ghosts. It was not a residence until I bought it though.
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Post by tara on Apr 26, 2016 23:35:53 GMT
Our first house I was for sure it was haunted. My husband work nights and it was just me and our baby. I woke up several times and the tv was on when I knew I turned it off. Come to find out, it was just a messed up cable box.
My husband work at a haunted shop. He used to call the ghost Beauregard. He used to see shadows move around in his office. He was alone and his office was windowless. Heavy tires would roll by themselves. He saw doors open and close by themselves. The cleaning crew said the radio was just on in the shop. They went to turn it off, they went five steps and it turned on again. They quit when the heard people fighting and no one was there.
My moms old house was haunted. She named him Henry. She told me little things that would happen at first. Things that I could explain away. Then a calculator flew off the table in front of her. Can't explain that one away. She would see shadow and blue lights in empty, dark rooms. I don't mean to be gross but a funny story is one day she was in the toilet. She lives alone so she had the door opened. She saw a shadow of a man moving in the hallway. She just yelled "you scared the s**t out of me Henry."
The house we have now is 100 year old. People always assumes it's haunted. It does look it but it's not. Now the outside is another story. We do see weird lights over the cornfield at night. But that's another story. Sorry for the novel, but I find this stuff fascinating.
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Post by Happycat on Apr 27, 2016 1:37:45 GMT
I wish I had a story for you but I have really enjoyed reading all of these. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Apr 27, 2016 2:02:34 GMT
So this morning before getting ready for work, I was reading this thread and sat in my bedroom with my 2 cats thinking of all the stuff that has happened to me in this home (my childhood home) and the last time something happened to me was right after my dad passed away about 4 years ago. I was up late one night by myself eating a bowl of cereal, had my head down and felt a very tall man, who I assumed was my husband walk into the kitchen and I prepared myself to be embarrassed at the fact that he had caught me eating cereal at 1 in the morning, and as I looked up no one was there. My cat was sitting there looking at the exact spot where I had felt him standing... and she wouldn't stop. I got creeped out and put my ass to bed. I assumed it was my dad. This is just one one of many things that has happened in this house. So yes, my house is haunted and I just deal with it. And I seem to be the only that stuff happens to! So, as I sat there thinking of this I heard a noise in the hallway. No mind you I am all alone on the house and the cats are on the bed with me. Well the big cat sat up and looked towards the hallway cause she had heard it as well! This is the same cat from above said incident. She stood there staring, stretching her neck to look, but not getting off the bed to go and inspect. I got a little spooked cause of how spooked she was!! I thought to myself, wtf? I read this thread and haven't had any activity in years and them this happens?! And then the noise happens again and the cat is super alert and I am freaked out at this point and I call out, "OK dad, I'm about to get in the shower so you better go now!" I ran to the shower and got my ass to work! So thanks refupeas for stirring up activity!!
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Post by lovinlife on Apr 27, 2016 2:46:41 GMT
I love these threads! I have some experiences I can share. 1. My babysitters house when I was 4. I always told my mom about the little boy who was my friend and we'd talk at naptime. He wore funny clothes and shoes. Mom asked babysitter...as she only had girls in her care. Come to find out the house was extremely old. There used to be a wood shop and a grandfather and grandson were killed in a fire. She had seen them several times. 2. Moved to TN and a house we lived in was full of activity. Small rocking chair in my room would rock fast on its own. Faucets would turn on and off. We'd hear people running up and down the hallway slamming doors. We moved quickly as it was scary. 3. My grandmother died in her home. I was outside talking to dh on the phone and I kept seeing who I thought was my step mom walking through the living room. I finally go in and my stepmother was sound asleep. It was my grandma. 4. My pawpaw died when I was 16. I always regretted not getting to the hospital in time. He passed 30 minutes before I got there. The following year I was 17 and in a bad car accident. I was hit head on by a drunk driver going 70 mph. I remember every moment as I never lost consciousness. I remember feeling my seat belt break and seeing the steering wheel right in front of my face...I never hit the wheel but my head slammed into my headrest. Later that night my mom was helping me change clothes and on my right shoulder was a solid, thick fingered large handprint bruise. My seat belt was across my left shoulder. My pawpaw was a large man who operated cranes, he had large hands and fingers. I've always felt it was him. I walked away from that accident...in fact I got out of my car immediately after. Cops said that shouldn't have been possible.
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Post by tara on Apr 27, 2016 4:29:38 GMT
Another story. I already told the story of moms ghost she calls Henry. I was at my own house and I downloaded a ghost radar app. It's supposed to tell you when a ghost is near and puts words on the screen that your ghost is trying to say. My kids and I were just having a laugh we don't take it serious. At the time I was eating a cookie. All of a sudden the word Henry came on the screen then the word cookie. Now I know that it was just a coincidence, but it spooked me enough to turn the app off.
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Post by craftsbycarolyn on Apr 27, 2016 18:28:06 GMT
No. We built this house and are the only ones to have lived here. I've never lived in a haunted house to my knowledge.
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Post by lily on Apr 27, 2016 19:19:28 GMT
I believe that my grandmother visits me now and then. Once when I got in my car the entire car smelled overwhelmingly of flowers (carnations!) and another time the same smell was in a room of our house.
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Post by ladytrisha on Apr 27, 2016 20:50:32 GMT
I did when I was in Jr. High. I even asked my Mom about it (as I know in England she did and had told us the cool stories about what she went thru); but Mom said "oh no, there's nothing"
Until years later and then she said "oh yeah, one was in the living room" which was the guy I had seen one night. So we compared stories (mine was reading a book by the side wall), and there was an "imp" in the kitchen. The whole floor would be warm except for one ice cold floor tile - he used to be there watching her. Creepy but she would greet him and just carry on.
My grandmother (my mom's mom) was a medium and there's some awesome family stories. I must get her to write them down! Both of my parents were scared to death of Ouija boards to the point my Mom refused to get me one (when they were all the rage) and said "you don't mess around with stuff like that - EVER"). Scared me!
ETA - after I got married and moved out, my Mom said she had had a terrible time with being haunted in the upstairs bedroom. Terrible hauntings to the point she moved their bedroom downstairs - and she wasn't bothered there. Odd thing is that our friends lived a block away and the son had the same bedroom (we had the same floor plan). He finally had to move out of his room for the exact same reasons. We think there was something in the area that was unsettled and from what they said, very angry.
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