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I've heard a ghost myself. I've lived in haunted places and know lots of things happen to my sensitive family - I have the sensitivity of a paper bag, it seems - but my only PERSONAL experience is in a toilet. Typical, eh? Not only am I insensitive, I'm prosaic also.
My Sister-in-Law's house up North was haunted by rustling sounds, people standing in doorways watching them sleep, invisible watchers from the hallway - there seemed to be a presence on the stairs which links into another thread on this site - rattling door knobs etc. but it freaked me out when we had our son's fifth birthday party round at her house and there were about ten of us - all hardened sceptics from my husbands side of the family (mine are all experiencers but they were all down South at the time) and everyone was downstairs. I walked past my Mother-in-law to go to the loo upstairs and felt quite happy -forgetting all about the haunted stuff as how can you be spooked at your kids party? - and pushed and locked shut the loo door when almost immediately I'd whipped my jeans down a huge pounding came of the door about eye-level as if someone was on the other side pounding with a raised fist! It was really loud and I was startled and then angry because it shocked me so much and I thought it was an inappropriate prank (everybody should be allowed to wee in peace) and shouted "Allright allright, I'll be out in a minute'' as I dragged my jeans back up (still pounding on the door) and flushed the loo and unlocked and opened the door.
No one there.
Looked all around the top floor convinced someone was hiding upstairs but could find no one and the stairs were right by the door so I would have seen them going down the stairs because the pounding was still there as I unlocked the door and no one ran away. I went down the stairs and my M-i-L was still at the bottom of the stairs and I asked her if anyone had come downstairs and she said no, and I asked her if she saw anyone go up the stairs after me, and she said no, and then I called out to everybody in the room to make sure they were still there (I didn't want to leave where I stood in case - irrationally - someone might be able to sneak back downstairs without me seeing them) and told them what had happened and no one believed me except my S and B-I-L who said it sometimes happened when you locked the door instead of just closing it! A couple of months before the exact same thing had happened to one of their friends who thought they'd been pulling his leg and when he found out that other people had had wierd things happen to them he left the house and has refused to return to date! Now the others may have played a joke on me but my Mother in Law wouldn't have done as she's a Yorkshire woman and has got no truck with crap like that, etc.
Can I just also say that what I found inexplicable was the fact that my Mother in law stood at the bottom of the stairs with me in the loo at the very top of the same open-plan stair well couldn't hear the pounding OR me shouting allright allright etc. and I shouted very loudly indeed to be heard over how loud the pounding was - If it was banging water pipes (why do sceptics come up with feeble explanations like this?) why couldn't she hear it or me?
Lots of other great stuff with unplugged stereos springing to life at 3.00am at full blast and waking up to find all door and windows wide open and the house being full of flies all the time and brown woman shaped sillohettes appearing after a touch on the shoulder, etc, but that's all second hand and an earlier thread specified first hand stuff. Sorry I've only got the boring stuff.
What I can say though, is that my mum always taught me not to be afraid of stuff like that(yeah right ) so the last time I was there my S-i-L went upstairs to do something and I talked to 'it' and said that although she'd died they weren't pulling the house to pieces when they were doing it up they were preserving it, she wouldn't want the house to go to wrack and ruin, etc. and that they were a good couple who loved her house and could she leave them alone please and pass on and guess what?
Yup. They weren't bothered again and that was two and a half years ago. Talking to em can work. As long as your prepared for a steamy ear, it seems!
My Sister-in-Law's house up North was haunted by rustling sounds, people standing in doorways watching them sleep, invisible watchers from the hallway - there seemed to be a presence on the stairs which links into another thread on this site - rattling door knobs etc. but it freaked me out when we had our son's fifth birthday party round at her house and there were about ten of us - all hardened sceptics from my husbands side of the family (mine are all experiencers but they were all down South at the time) and everyone was downstairs. I walked past my Mother-in-law to go to the loo upstairs and felt quite happy -forgetting all about the haunted stuff as how can you be spooked at your kids party? - and pushed and locked shut the loo door when almost immediately I'd whipped my jeans down a huge pounding came of the door about eye-level as if someone was on the other side pounding with a raised fist! It was really loud and I was startled and then angry because it shocked me so much and I thought it was an inappropriate prank (everybody should be allowed to wee in peace) and shouted "Allright allright, I'll be out in a minute'' as I dragged my jeans back up (still pounding on the door) and flushed the loo and unlocked and opened the door.
No one there.
Looked all around the top floor convinced someone was hiding upstairs but could find no one and the stairs were right by the door so I would have seen them going down the stairs because the pounding was still there as I unlocked the door and no one ran away. I went down the stairs and my M-i-L was still at the bottom of the stairs and I asked her if anyone had come downstairs and she said no, and I asked her if she saw anyone go up the stairs after me, and she said no, and then I called out to everybody in the room to make sure they were still there (I didn't want to leave where I stood in case - irrationally - someone might be able to sneak back downstairs without me seeing them) and told them what had happened and no one believed me except my S and B-I-L who said it sometimes happened when you locked the door instead of just closing it! A couple of months before the exact same thing had happened to one of their friends who thought they'd been pulling his leg and when he found out that other people had had wierd things happen to them he left the house and has refused to return to date! Now the others may have played a joke on me but my Mother in Law wouldn't have done as she's a Yorkshire woman and has got no truck with crap like that, etc.
Can I just also say that what I found inexplicable was the fact that my Mother in law stood at the bottom of the stairs with me in the loo at the very top of the same open-plan stair well couldn't hear the pounding OR me shouting allright allright etc. and I shouted very loudly indeed to be heard over how loud the pounding was - If it was banging water pipes (why do sceptics come up with feeble explanations like this?) why couldn't she hear it or me?
Lots of other great stuff with unplugged stereos springing to life at 3.00am at full blast and waking up to find all door and windows wide open and the house being full of flies all the time and brown woman shaped sillohettes appearing after a touch on the shoulder, etc, but that's all second hand and an earlier thread specified first hand stuff. Sorry I've only got the boring stuff.
What I can say though, is that my mum always taught me not to be afraid of stuff like that(yeah right ) so the last time I was there my S-i-L went upstairs to do something and I talked to 'it' and said that although she'd died they weren't pulling the house to pieces when they were doing it up they were preserving it, she wouldn't want the house to go to wrack and ruin, etc. and that they were a good couple who loved her house and could she leave them alone please and pass on and guess what?
Yup. They weren't bothered again and that was two and a half years ago. Talking to em can work. As long as your prepared for a steamy ear, it seems!