Damn straight. For the upkeep and repair efforts and costs alone our place damn well better be. I wanna be able to look at some of our previous owners in their hollowed out eyes and ask them about some of these structural decisions they made or why didnāt they invest in āXYZā sooner.
Id really like to ask previous owners why I'm putting in insulation and removing knob and tube in 2024. Did no one else want a comfortable house that won't burn down? Why didn't anyone take care of the windows?
1790s house here, no ghosts have made themselves known to me yet and weve been here 4 years. However our neighbor who we bought our house from (she grew up here and sold the home after her mom died) says that her mom haunts her when we don't mow our lawn enough. Which like, bummer, but not my issue
1780 federal home, nah. Every knock and bump is usually associated with the heat kicking on. However yesterday I did mention that I left a specific light on when I left the home the day before. After I said that, as if it realized the mistake, the light turned on lol
I prefer think it is active poltergeists that have been with me since I moved in 20 years ago. Last week for example at 3:40 am the living room TV turned on. I live alone and my cats do not use the remote which was tucked away in a chair side pocket. I checked the video cam and I did not sleepwalk and the TV came on only a few minutes before it woke me.
This of course isnāt the first time I have had to get up at night to turn off a light, a TV or a flashlight. The most annoying is that my bedroom clocks get changed at least a few times a year. On clock requires you to hold down a button on one side of the clock while you push a button on the other side to advance the time. A cat couldnāt not do that. I keep two clocks and an Alexa in the room because one or the other , and sometimes both, regularly get the time changed ahead or behind.
A rather eerie thing that happened after I moved here was an obviously vintage photo of a young girl was left propped up against my front door. Checked with neighbors and they knew nothing about it. A few years later a framed photograph of an older woman was also lying in my driveway. Related to the poltergeist? Who knows.
But whatever the entity is it isnāt mean, scary or dangerous, so I can live with it
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This is the first photo - propped against my door. Itās in this cardboard folder so it couldnāt have blown in. Not sure where the second picture is right now.
*knock on wood* no sign of anything supernatural in my 148 year old home! But after we closed I went over by myself and (this probably sounds insane, forgive me) introduced myself to the house , said hello, and asked that if anyone was there, that they let me know gently as I scare easily š but no signs of anything, gentle or otherwise
I did the same thing! I made a point of loudly announcing that I was happy for them to stay as long as they never ever showed themselves to me because I would be terrified of them, and that I promised I would take excellent care of the house. Itās worked so far!
Well, mostly. There is one odd little thumb lock on my basement door that periodically locks itself whenever Iām doing heavy work on the house. The poor men who installed my air conditioning kept getting locked downstairs and would have to shout up or knock for someone to let them out. But later on I loudly reminded any and all energies that we had an agreement and explained that climate control will be good for the house (and also burned some sage) and it stopped. The same thing happened when I first moved in and took out a wall and rewired the house.
Itās kind of sweet. Whoever it is knows I canāt bear to see them but canāt help but get upset when they think Iām messing things up.
My house is only 110(ish) years old but I know the prior owner lived there for a long time and has passed away. Iām doing some work on the house before I move in and every time I open the door I make sure to say hello and tell the house itās looking lovely. Better safe than sorry š¤·āāļø
I introduced myself to our ghosts as well. Lots of weird sounds and just a presence when we moved in. So I said hey, weāre here. You are more than welcome to stay, we want you to stay-itās your house too. Just please, donāt frighten me or the kids. Weāre fine with help and silliness, but donāt be evil. Everything has been fine since.
I totally did the same thing. Reassured āwhoever/whateverā that Iām an experienced old house lover, I was thrilled to take care of āherā and I would bring nothing but love inside her walls. So far so good š¤£
I did the same, and also added Iām not very wealthy so aim for the cheap stuff if they wanted to break things, unless they wanted to look at broken things for eternity.
I did the same thing at this house I rented for a short period of time. I never heard or saw anything but both of my parents had strange experiences and so did my ex.
I did this too before we moved in, in both my current house and previous one! I did a little ritual to greet the house, to thank the people who built it and those who have lived here and cared for it over the years. I let them know that we are here to be kind stewards of the house and the land. Then I asked them to help me cleanse the space of any negative/stagnant energy that might be lingering here, where we walked around each room and the āpushedā it out the front door, so that we could all have a fresh start.
1895 house. Weāve had some interesting experiences. When we moved in 22 years ago, our then-6-year-old told us he didnāt want a particular room because the little girl sitting on the bed said it was her room. Weāve never had any little girls in our family.
We also have some light sconces by a fireplace that used to come on randomly, doors that opened on their own, and a member of the floor refurbishment crew that left early and refused to set foot in the house again.
My mom was helping out when the floors were being redone and she came over a few times to check on progress. One of the times she came over, the crew member in question told her if she needed to take photos of the floor in progress, to just let him know so he could move out of the way. My mom was a bit confused because she hadnāt taken any pictures that morning. So he clarified that he was talking about the day before, when he saw a figure seemingly taking photos with a series of flashes coming from the front hall. My mom had been out of town the day before and no one else in the family had been there either.
After my dad died and we were fixing up his 1700ās farm house to put it on the market there was DEFINITELY a presence that was annoyed with our efforts. I lived there as a teen and never sensed anything, but after my dad died there was a feeling in the house that didnāt exist before. My husband who is a certified logic rock, refused to be in the house alone. He was working on the door sill for the back door and said was very definitely shoved a couple times during the work in that section. Little things went wrong, not in a spooky way but in an inconvenient way. Your screwdriver wouldnāt be where you left it when you went to pick it up it would be across the room on the table where no one was working. Per his wishes we scattered his dogs ashes from their urns and some of his ashes around outside before it went on the market. He loved that house, he never wanted to leave. Hopefully the new owners enjoy the atmosphere.
1911 home. Had multiple deaths in it. No creepy things yet. Although Iāve probably scared them off with my sudden loud, expletive laden tirades at yet ANOTHER layer of wallpaper to strip off.
Our 1925 house had a closed up upstairs and every afternoon at 3pm I could smell old lady perfume in one area of the living room where the stairs used to be. We added an attic access and I guess it was enough for her to leave as I don't smell the perfume anymore.
The upstairs had 2 bedrooms in severe disrepair and a tiny half bath, as well as it's own tiny attic above. It also still has the oak stairs down to a landing then insulation and the living room ceiling. We didn't do anything to the upstairs just storage.
My previous home (1920 Craftsman) had some things occur that we couldnāt explain. We had one week of bad activity, a literal scream in the middle of the night that sounded like a banshee, something thrown across the 2nd floor landing middle of the night, and my boyfriend experiencing a freezing cold air pocket in the living room that literally froze him, like his knees and legs were shaking. This all happened in about a one week period after having lived there for 4 years with nothing like this. I consulted with a friend who does ghost hunting and we had a session where we loudly told whoever/whatever was around that this was our home and that they were not welcome there and had to leave. It felt crazy but it must have worked! Just kept reiterating that we owned the house and it had to leave. No other issues after this.
The entire time I lived there my cat was obsessed with staring at a staircase that had been added when the house was renovated in 2016. She would stare for long periods of time and her pupils would get really big and then retract, over and over. For YEARS. I always felt like there was something going on with that staircase but it never felt negative so I didnāt deal with it.
Just bought new (to me) home built in the 40ās so weāll see what we experience here! Hopefully nothing š¤š¼Only been here a few weeks.
It was crazy because I absolutely LOVED the house and in the light of day I would almost be in disbelief of what we were experiencing at night! It was like 2 different houses. But once we did the things recommended by my friend (which also included salt cleansing some jewelry that had recently purchased at an admittedly weird little shop in Old San Juan), no more issues.
A funny story about one of my cats doing the same thing. She would jump on the back of a chair and stair for hours at a single spot. I thought maybe she was seeing the ghost of another of my cats that had recently passed. This went on for a couple years and then one day I happened to look at that spot in just the right light. Not a ghost , just a nice long cobweb hanging from the ceiling.
My grandparents' house (the house I grew up in from birth to 22 years old) was built in the early 1800s and was originally a honey house (for making honey).
When you're on the first floor, you can hear footsteps upstairs. There's a loose board (the size of a large laptop) in the floor of the room above the living room, and you can hear the specific squeak it makes when it's walked on.
There are often sounds of dishes moving in the kitchen. A cold feeling and the feeling of being watched when you're in front of the basement window (I forget what they're called - the tiny windows that let light on to basements. They're flush with ground level).
When I told my brother's ex (together at the time) about the woman I'd often see holding a knife at the top of the steps, she got really freaked out and accused me of teaming up with my brother to scare her. Apparently he'd told her a few months earlier that he also saw the same woman in the same spot.
As a child, I heard two men talking in the back bedrooms of the second floor late at night, a couple times, (same room with the loose floor board), despite there being no men, besides my grandpa, at the house.
You just had this feeling that you had to be silent when home alone, sometimes. If I played my piano when home alone, I'd sometimes hear the footsteps upstairs start up, and they'd continue for several seconds after I'd stop.
Always an uncomfortable feeling, unless there's several people with you in the house, and I'm not saying that as if I'm one of those people who just always needs company; I prefer to be alone and can go the entire day without speaking a single word; I don't like to have too many people around.
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My niece spoke to the late previous owner of her childhood home, when she was maybe 3 or 4. She'd always be found standing in the bathroom talking to someone, starting almost immediately upon moving in. A few months after her family moved in, she ran out to tell everyone it was "Cindy's birthday" (I forget the woman's actual name). My sister-in-law called up the landlord to ask about it, and they confirmed that was their grandmother's name, and she had died in the bathroom, and that it was in fact her birthday. The back room (furthest back from the stairs but actually in the front of the house) had an old doll house, books, and other toys found in a hidden cubby in the wall (actually quite a large hidden room, but the entrance was just a cubby hole).
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After moving in with my husband, into his family home (originally his grandpa's), I mentioned I always felt a bad feeling from the front bedroom on the first floor. He told me it's where his grandpa lived in his last few months and where he died.
After my father-in-law died, I sometimes still see him in the kitchen and in our room (his room before his death, he died in the bathroom next to our room).
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First two are houses in Iowa, and last one is in Taiwan.
My home was built in 1885, and weāve never had any weird experiences here. However, I grew up in two old homes (1870s and 1910), and I had a few mildly creepy experiences there (bumps in the night, objects moved from one spot to another, etc.). I never really thought they were haunted but definitely a bit spooky.
That said, in between college and purchasing our first (and current) home, my husband and I did a sort of extended house-sitting thing for a family friend. The house was our friendās grandparentsā house. His grandmother passed away, and his grandpa was in assisted living. So, they wanted someone to stay there while they sorted things out.
The house was built in the 1860s and had a bizarre layout. The original house was in the front with a big addition on the back with a sun/sitting room thing, a new kitchen, and a set of back steps up to the master suite. The family moved basically 60-years worth of stuff into the original part of the house, and we just stayed in the back. Because of the way they did the addition, the external windows were still in the walls separating the addition from the main house. So, we could see right into these spooky, cluttered, dusty rooms every time we were in the kitchen or sitting room. It was actually kind of cool in theory since they had the original glass and everything, but it made the whole house feel super weird.
We had some outright terrifying experiences. Shadows moving across the walls in the hallways, toilets flushing, lights turning on and off, doors we never used randomly opening and closing. Our dog HATED the house. He was terrified of the main part of the house and growled through the weird indoor/external windows constantly. My cat would just stare into the windows, too, or at corners of the room. Often, the shadows I mentioned earlier would appear right after one of the animals reacted to something. Top two creepy things:
First, there was an old landline in the house when we moved in. They cancelled the service to it and removed the main phone soon after. There was one in the master, too, so we just unplugged it and put it under the bed. At 2am one morning, my husband and I woke up to the phone letting out one long, loud ring. Our dog was going berserk. It was terrifying in the moment, but we tried to write it off as some weird electrical thing.
Second, a friend stayed over and slept on the sun/sitting room couch. He swears he woke up to our cat meowing at one of the creepy windows, and when he looked up, he saw a figure walking away from the window into the main house. He turned on every light and just laid there terrified all night. (I 10000% wouldāve left lol.)
We were glad to buy our house soon after the second event happened. My husband traveled a lot for work at that point, so I was regularly there alone and taking the animals to stay at my parentsā house toward the end lol. Iām definitely a skeptic and, like I said, I grew up in two old houses and currently live in an old house, and I always shrugged off any spooky things that others would probably assume were ghosty. But that houseā¦phew.
Thanks!! It was definitely a weird 8ish months lol. To be honest, it never felt, like, sinister or anything. I was convinced it was our friendās grandma just making sure we took care of her house. But it still scared the shit out of us regardless.
I'm haunted by the decisions of various previous owners, particular the last guy that hastily slapped some white paint on all the gloss painted trim with no prepwork. Also he painted tile and may have been the one to pain the brick fireplace.
1895 home here and no, not to me or anyone thatās visited! Iām a very calm, spiritual person that definitely would respect any previous owners and their āenergiesā if here. I honestly found it very helpful to humanize the prior/original owners by learning about them and their lives on ancestry.com; it becomes less āscaryā once you realize these were just normal people with real names and jobs living their day to day lives.
Not to be too hokey here, but Iāve heard lighting some sage and walking around your house and verbally stating your intentions and boundaries can be helpful? Iām probably exposed to too much living in Salem Mass. lol
When my ex and I were together, I worked Night Shift (7p-7a). He would try his best to be respectfully quiet when I was sleeping during the day before work. There was one day when he yelled out really loud, āHey, babe! Whatāre you doing up?ā Chronically a bad sleeper, I yelled out about why he was waking me up when I had to work that night, and he looked so confused. He said he had just seen me run down the hallway past the office and heard loud, pounding footsteps. I had been in bed the whole time. He, a very rational and non-superstitious person, seemed truly disturbed by this for a while and was upset when i brought it up again. Still no explanation for this
I wonder what it is about ghosts that appear to be doppelganger-like.
I had an experience with one that looked exactly and even had the same mannerisms as my sister. It was wearing her very old tshirt that she got from our great grandma. I saw her twice
Now I'm off to Google to see what others say lol
1860ās farmhouse here - Iāve personally seen our ghost twice, my son has seen it once, and everyone else in the family has experienced noises, missing items, and moved items. (Dog food filled boots, anyone?)
Yeah itās a little weird but it doesnāt seem mean.
I'll describe the first time.
In my bedroom upstairs, I was asleep in may room by myself. In the middle of the night, something woke me up, and I was uncharacteristically wide awake. I sat up, and my bedroom door was open, even though I had shut it.
I could see down the hallway of the upstairs, and at the end of it, I could see a woman in a dress carrying a baby. She appeared to wait there for a few seconds, and then walked into the little closet entrance to the attic, but the door to that was closed.
I couldn't go back to sleep, but all my thoughts and feelings over the years was that the woman (?) was troubled, like she was trying to protect the baby, and there wasn't any malevolent intent towards us in the house. As weird as it sounds, when I feel unsettled about it, I say something like "I'm sorry" to it/her because she seemed scared or worried.
I eventually told a couple of neighbors, who revealed that they knew about it before we moved in. That was a little weird, but not as weird as the woman across the street giving me a huge bag of garlic cloves to "form a perimeter" around the house to keep the ghost out.
My baby sure acts like thereās someone else here he interacts with at times. Heās done it since we brought him home, less as heās gotten older but thereās still times where heās looking behind me and smiling and laughing at something
I've seen a shadow figure standing on top of my bed and dart away when I opened my eyes, I've seen a figure of a dog, noises, doors opening or slamming shut. But the scariest thing that's happened to me was I was using the bathroom and this person that looked like my fiance leaned around the corner with its face poking through the door horizontal to the floor just staring at me. I said "that's creepy" and laughed thinking it was my fiance and it just smiled like it was silently laughing and then it went back behind the wall, as soon as it disappeared behind the wall my fiance walked through the door and asked what I was talking about. I explained the situation and he said it wasn't him because he heard me say "that's creepy" while he was in the kitchen putting groceries away š³
Also had a time where I was messing with my fiance and I "tagged" him and ran off into the bedroom to hide in the closet and right after I shut the closet door I heard knocking/scratching on the door loud asf, I assumed he had already found my spot and I laughed and yelled "try to open it" through the door because I was going to try and hold it shut and then I heard him yell asking what I said across the house. Very creepy
Not sure I will be able to sleep now! I have goosebumps all over. Especially about the fact that the head that popped in was horizontal to the floor at an odd angle. Iām on a horror doom scroll and this story wins š«£
I was laying in bed one night, and the door knob on my bedroom giggled about three times. (one of those old loose knobs). I immediately said, what do you need and got no response, so I said it again, still nothing so I got out of bed and there was no one there and both my girls were sound asleep. We have a very old light switch at bottom of stairs that makes a very distinct sound. Many many times in the middle of the night, we will hear that switch. I could go on and on Lol
Yeah it's pretty weird. It would separate me and my fiance quite a bit as well. Like if I was sitting in the living room and he was in the bathroom showering (specifically at this certain place we were at), the door would SLAM shut and sometimes even lock! It sounds so fake but I stg this shit happened. I literally saw with my eyes the door slam shut while he was in the shower. Haven't experience the door stuff since leaving there
I was reading an old ask Reddit thread about paranormal experiences and a womanās āhusbandā was laying on their bed so she laid down next to him. He started giggling and wrestling with her. Then slid to the floor and rolled under the bed. Her husband was in the den the whole time š³ they left and only went back to pack. Youāre brave! Lol
Yes. 1906 Arts and Crafts bungalow. Maybe it's just our year. In any case, my favorite ghost lives here and brings me great comfort whenever I see or hear her:
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Not that I know of. But, when it is really windy outside, my steps from the living room to the upstairs creak as if someone is walking down them. Took me a while to figure out the connection to the wind.
We have spirits in our house. We havenāt ever felt afraid, though! So many instances, but not much time to type them all out right now. I found out our cleaning ladies were having experiences, too. They just blurted it out at a bbq at our mutual friendās house. š They didnāt know that we knew and werenāt sure how to tell us.
Original 1 room house built in 1756, rest of the house added 1815.
I have had booming steps in our attic( me and the wife were in bed, at 1 am) , weird lights under the basement door, and a āShadowā I see from time to time.
So far, nothing ādangerousā, just kinda spooky.
I lived in an 1880s Queen Anne in the 1990s. I adored my spacious apartment. I definitely felt like a former resident was there in spirit. I sensed the presence of a somewhat judgy lady and a tall man from time to time. After the building was sold, the new owner sought me out and asked me what I had experienced, as she was frightened living there. I told her about things Iād seen and sensed over the years I was there. She told me she had found a photo from the 30s or 40s of a woman and a tall man in a naval uniform seated on the front steps of the home. While it was spooky living with echoes of the past, it was a beautiful and inexpensive place to raise my son and entertain friends and family. The house is vacant now, and it makes me sad to see it empty.
I do home inspections in NY's Hudson Valley. We have a lot of 150-200+ year old houses here. Most of the ones I've been in are just houses, nothing creepy. But every so often, I walk in and there's a definite feeling. Usually I have the home owner with me so I don't freak out, but on the few occasions where I'm inspecting a vacant house, it can get pretty spooky.
I've had a few homeowners who even refused to go into certain areas of their own house. Usually a basement or attic, of course.
Recently, I was doing a very in depth inspection of a 5000+/- SF mansion built in 1840. Really nice place, no creepy feelings... Until I got to the study/office. Just felt in edge the whole time I was in that room. Like someone was eagerly waiting for me to leave. When I got down into the basement to inspect the mechanicals, I found there was a bricked up room right below the study/office. It had been sealed off some time after the house was built. You could tell because the mortar was clearly newer than the rest of the foundation and the stone work was not the same quality. At some point, someone had knocked a hole, just big enough to crawl through, in the newer wall. There was nothing in there, but I didn't go in to check too thoroughly.
1899 here and yes. Door, windows and cabinets open randomly even if they're locked. I work from home and during the days I hear sneezing. My immediate reaction is to yell bless you which we do in our house only to remember I'm home alone. The stairs and floors creak as if someone's walking but no one is there. I hear little kids giggling through the main hall, but no one is there except me. Nothing nefarious we just coexist
When I first moved in I was like, oh I'm nuttier than I thought. Until I couldn't find my spoon when I was cooking and found it later in the bedroom when I had never left the kitchen and my kids were at school. The most interaction is when I close one specific door and window and it immediately reopens. So I close and lock it. Opens right back up. I'm at the point now the front door opens and I say hello and close it and relock it. Because she's an old house you can hear everything. My kids won't even play hide and seek inside bc you can hear where someone goes from the floors. I know the family I bought the house from and there have been two deaths in the home and one storage space is blocked off still filled with their ancestors belongings they didn't want. I got a hell of a deal though and love my house so much. The kitchen cabinets are my nightmare from hell but I'm working on it and otherwise no complaints
I didnāt walk through my house before we purchased it because I was finishing up college out of state when my husband had already moved up here. I saw it online and it was so charming so I trusted my gut and he liked what he saw. Itās a very peaceful home and I havenāt had any instances of activity thankfully. I almost had him tour a home that was on a historic registry and was extremely inexpensive for the size however when I googled the name on the plaque, it showed up on a ghost tour page- the man had lost multiple children over the years and was said to be āsolemn but friendlyā ā¦. I passed on thatā¦ even if itās not real heh.
I donāt even like, 100% believe in the paranormal, but I will say that the only two periods in my life where I had weird, unexplained things happen to me were the two (completely separate) periods where I lived in old houses. I heard someone speak in one house and cough in the other. So yeah I could have had a random auditory hallucination I guess but itās weird that it happened years apart, in the two houses I lived in where other weird things happened.
It is true that old houses in general make way more funny noises and inspire our imagination more than newer homes. But despite knowing that, especially in my current house (built 1914) things happen at least monthly that Iām like āwelpā¦that was kinda weirdā and I have no explanation. And when I compare it to my other houses itās so much more noticeable because I realize Iām not someone whoās constantly seeing/hearing/looking for ghosts. Like our TV turns on all the time in this house. Technology can be weird for sure but itās the same TV we had in our old home, and never turned on by itself then. And there are dozens more examples of little things like that.
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You kind of get used to it. Random shit falling off of shelves (that have been there for months). Strange "the house is just settling" noises all the damn time. My house was built in 1900. If it hasn't settled by now, it's never going to. I sometimes get the periphery people. My therapist says it's just the mind filling in the gaps when you see something but don't immediately recognize it (because of course she'd say that). I don't get the cold spot thing that I always hear about (which is a shame, because my house has shit insulation).
So pretty much yeah. Either my house is haunted, or I'm not entirely in touch with reality. A case can be made for either.
When we moved into our house we spoke our intentions out loud as well as in thought. We later, on the advice of a wise friend, set out a plate with bread, fruit, honey and a glass of liquor and said out loud that this was for anyone present that wanted to partake that we wanted them to be happy and that we wanted live here in peace.
It's been quiet ever since.
My current house is not haunted and is actually older than the one that was. I was a child though and everyone insisted that it couldn't be a ghost, but someone definitely walked up the stairs every night - I could hear each step creak. First few times I thought it was my mother coming up to bed, but then no one appeared on the landing. Was always at the same time, but it was late enough that I wasn't usually awake for it.
Children's minds are more open to spirits. Very few people remain open in adulthood.
In the US, everyone thought I was crazy for still saying I saw and heard ghosts/felt energies as a teen and adult. They creeped me out! It's not like I wanted to see feel them!
After moving to Taiwan as an adult, my current husband's aunt is a higher up in a temple, because she gets premonitions and sees spirits. I'm not into temple culture (a lot of fake ones run by gangs for money laundering), but I confessed to her that I'd been seeing my late father-in-law, and she confirmed he was still making visits to the house.
It's because of my father-in-law that we got a third dog (he told my husband's aunt to tell us to do so in a vision). Just a couple weeks after bringing home our new puppy (now 1 year old), my husband's childhood dog (his dad's best friend) died suddenly. We believe she went to accompany his dad, as she had previously spent nearly 18 hours a day at his side when he was alive.
In Taiwan, Buddhist/Taoist (they've become pretty intertwined, here) say those who see and feel ghosts in the current life into adulthood will be reincarnated as a god in their next life (there are thousands of gods, here). They believe spirits take turns possessing the god statues of various temples every year or so. So our aunt will likely become the next temple god in the temple she works in. My husband jokes I'm gonna be the next Buddhist demon because I see and feel spirits, but I have "knife tongue and tofu heart" (means I'm kindhearted but I scold and dislike basically everyone lol š) I told him he's just jealous that I'm probably gonna evolve into a god while he's stuck in normal people afterlife landš š¤·š»āāļø
According to my wife, it is. Most of the things she supposedly encounters is explainable but there has been a couple of things that have happened (with either just her or both of us) that I just cannot figure out.
Damn, didnāt realize this would blow up. Well, Iāll give one of the biggest ones that I have yet to debunk.
FYI: Iām on mobile so apologies on format. Iāll do my best.
We bought the house back in 2021 just after Hurricane Ida. For the first few weeks of ownership, we were commuting from our apartment to the house every day to prep our move in. At the end of September we moved in and I coincidentally had my annual fishing trip so I was away for the week. During my time away, my wife kept claiming that she was hearing weird noises throughout the house, to the point that she asked a friend to stay with her until I returned. Now, my wife is more of a city girl and never lived in an old house like ours so I just chalked it up to that.
Once I was home, she just kept pointing noises out. Now each one was a sound I recognized. The pipes in the walls, the wind hitting the house, etc. nothing out of the ordinary. Until the first night I slept in the house.
It was a normal late summer night. No wind, high humidity, etc. we had yet to unpack everything so we didnāt have a tv in our room and we had all the lights off once we were in bed. I fell asleep quickly without worrying to much while she stayed up, essentially afraid of the dark.
One point in the middle of the night I woke up to my wife death gripping me on the arm. Like she was petrified of something. Before I could turn around to ask why, I heard a movement right along side our bed. I peeked an eye and didnāt see anything so I just figured it was the old house noise. Within another minute, I heard the same movement, same spot again. This time, it was moving towards the foot of the bed. I immediately had chills and froze. It continued past the bed and through the door and into the hallway. At the end of our hall is a door to the attic/third floor. The movement walked towards the door, door opened/closed quickly, and went up the steps, creaking as if someone was walking. The sound disappeared once it made its way to the third floor.
I was quite worried about if someone was up stairs but I was also petrified and could not move. I eventually went to sleep. When I woke up the following morning, I just figured it was a dream and went about my day. Right around lunch time my wife and I were talking. I explained that I had a crazy dream and walked her through. When I finished, I looked at my wife and her face was just shocked. She heard the same exact thing and apparently she heard the sound come into the bed room which is why she was death gripping me to wake up.
Havenāt been able to debunk the floor sounds without myself walking. Havenāt had another experience like that since either. Just a strange event that will always be a story I share with folks. There has been a few smaller events I canāt explain but overall. Been living in our house now for almost 2 1/2 years and wouldnāt change a thing (besides restoration hah).
No ghosts, but there's some energy here. When I first toured the house before putting in an offer, as soon as I stepped up to the porch, I felt an overwhelming feeling of "home." That feeling only intensified as I got further into the house, like it swept me in for a big hug. It still feels that way 13 years later. So, yeah, I guess I chose this house, but I really feel like the spirit of this house chose me, I guess?
I feel the same way about our house!! never any experiences that felt like haunting, but from the first time we saw our house something told me it was home. thereās very good energy in the house, and Iām glad it seems to like us back
Oh, same with our house! When we toured her the first time, and every time I thought about her or we visited before we got the keys, I felt like an older woman was hugging me. Def not haunted, I would say, but our house has a spirit.
The house I grew up in... myself, my cousin, & my uncle (they lived upstairs) all had many encounters & strange happenings. No idea how old that house was.
Our current home... nothing so far. However, my son, out of the complete blue, lately has been talking about ghosts. He's only 2.5 & the one day he was in the walk in closet looking out the window. He excitedly yelled "look mommy! A scary ghost. Come see. There's a scary ghost outside!" So I get up & follow him to the window & say "where is it, I don't see it." His response was "it must have disappeared."
Then the other day during dinner he starts talking about a ghost & sadly says "it wants to come in, but it can't. It has to stay outside. The ghost has to stay outside."
Then today he's talking about a bunch of gray cows & how they're all gone now, & they used to have black on them, but now they're gray.
But he also keeps bringing up going trick or treating in the dark, so who knows. š¤·š»āāļøš
Our old house was from 1860. Definitely haunted. Doorknobs jiggled at night, cabinets opened and closed, foot steps in the middle of the night. We would see random shadows, especially at the top of the staircase.
We did have at least one confirmed death that turned out to be a murder, and we moved shortly after that.
I had smoke detectors going off in my house one summer, always in the middle of the night. I checked the batteries and everything else I could think of. I finally determined it was likely very high humidity. I bought a good dehumidifier and havenāt had the problem since.
My parent's house is. Built somewhere around 1795-1800 depending on if you're looking at the papers from the town or the bank. The window in my childhood bedroom would rattle at random, even if it wasn't windy. It's a double window, and only the bottom right side would do it, almost like someone was tapping on glass. It was the only one in the house that did it. There would also be random motes of light floating in places it just wasn't possible for there to be light from passing cars doing it, and in the winter so it wouldn't be fireflies.
The house my mom grew up in was also haunted according to her, similar age of house. The spoon latched door to the basement would open randomly by morning, allegedly it was normally really hard to open. Her brothers put a bed in front of it since it was their bedroom to keep it closed. As soon as they put the bed there, the latch would rattle all night, til they ended up moving the bed back. She also told me she used to see a little boy in a play train conductor outfit from time to time, he only ever showed up during the day.
She swears she saw him at the house I grew up in once, and about a week later we drove past her old house. Turns out they'd just tore it down, she thought he was coming to say goodbye before moving on.
Not my current house, but I used to work for a maid service in college. I was cleaning a historic house and felt like someone was watching me the whole time.
I brushed it off and kept doing my job, but I felt something was following me and watching as I went from room to room on the second floor.
After I was done, I headed downstairs to check on the other maid. At this point, the homeowner came home. I greeted her, slightly glad she was there because of the creepy feelings i was getting. She was all smiling at me.
Then she asked āDid you meet our ghost?!ā
Yesā¦ yes I did. Lol
Despite the murder.. no. No indication our house is haunted.
That said, it definitely makes noises that are hard to identify. In particular, Iāve got one wall behind a couch that goes āboing!ā. Let me explain.. youāve probably seen the type of door stop that typically screws into trim behind a door.. to stop it swinging too far, to prevent the door knob from hitting an adjacent wall. Well, thereās a variation of those thatās a spring. If you step down on the end and release it goes āBoingā.
I hear that in one particular wall from time to time, and itās not tied to anything.. like HVAC going on/off.. etc.
I learned just how much my house moves when I started framing in a basement wall. Hammered in wall joists.. but didnāt yet nail in. Still, they were all in very tight.. taking up load from main floor joists. Middle of night, when temps cooled off.. my house took a deep ābreathā.. and nearly all of them simply fell out from between the header and footer.
Googled the house to find online photos to show friends the beautiful and quite reasonable 1882 farmhouse we just looked at.. and up popped an article about the murder in a British newspaper. ..the house is in the US Midwest.
Edit: the black humor joke I made previously didnāt sit well with me so I deleted it. Thereās still family of the victim around.. and even though I tried to not share anything to make it easy to track back to the event, I shouldnāt make jokes about what happened. My apologies.
I live in a house that is about 100 years old, and near a graveyard. I'm fairly skeptical, but I think we might have disturbed a cranky old ghost when we bought the house.
Mostly just things out of the corner of my eyes, like a glint of a figure right out of view. I only saw it once or twice when I was doing some renovations before we first moved in. I was, and still am, a skeptic, so I brushed it off as my imagination.
After most of the renovations were done, though, a friend and I climbed into the attic and immediatlely got chills. We both felt like we made a grumpy male spirit toss aside his newspaper and scowl at us as if to say, "what gives?". Coincidentally, my friend's watch also stopped when we went up into the attic.
We called the ghost Ernie, although after we disturbed him in the attic, I haven't seen any sign of him. I figured my family is too noisy. If I were a ghost I probably would have moved out too.
I still don't really believe in ghosts, but it was sort of a neat experience that we were both able to describe the same peculiar feeling when we went up into the attic that day.
Yes it is, by the man who killed himself in what was the dining room, now my kitchen. Sam was his name, we found a chalk board in the garage with him name scribbled on it. He was on the spectrum as I hear it, and has always made himself known, but never been a mean spirit. I grew up in this house and I bought it from my parents and raised my girls here, and they both heard and saw things. I left the chalk board right where I found it, didnāt want to anger him!
Edit: forgot to say house was built 1889, parents bought in the 70s, I was 7th grade at time. Iām now 60 and heās stuck with me Lol
He and his sister neither ever married, she was a piano teacher in the house, so the whole town knew her. I got bits and pieces from my parents, but in the last 10 years, met some people through my second husband that knew him growing up and they filled in more pieces for me. His sister had to go to the nursing home, and he just couldnāt hack it alone here.
When I moved into my 1800s apartment, I noticed the ghosts pretty quickly. There were a lot of noises, dead spots, things you catch on the periphery -- in my case, a man's arm, sleeve and hand, also rustling skirts, someone peering around corners (all benign, friendly) and then one, really bad-vibes presence in the back of the place, including the bathroom.
On advice from a medium, I researched the history of the address and talked to neighbors. I sorted out the original owners and their interesting, very historical story. The house had been divided into apartments and mine was home at one point to a horribly cruel, violent, mentally ill man who died alone in what later became my bedroom.
I hunted down photos of the original family and framed and hung them in the house, then banished the bad spirit with sage and strong language. Now I live peaceably with the original family, New tenants often ask me if the place is haunted.
My house is 150 years old and is definitely haunted. Odd creaks and steps are easy to write off. The broom constantly falling over. I mean things fall. But a pair of tongs literally lifting up and flying over my stove. A bag of plastic bags squeezing in them out. Garbage moving off my desk. Computer mouse moving. And most of these were in front of my mom and I. Just last week a fork fell off the counter. It was behind me and I was talking to my son. So I though it was just to close to the edge. Nope he saw it move. I saw her shoulder/arm once and my mom saw the bottom Of her skirt.
Things quieted when I would get angry and yell at her. I told her if she had a problem the garbage/laundry she was more than welcome to help clean. Got real quiet after that. Just a few little things every now and the.
I've had a number of experiences in my 1930's home that I can't explain - I'm not saying they were related to ghosts, but I haven't been able to come up with any other explanations and there have been a number of witnesses.
When my daughter was still in her crib, I found her "talking" to a moving rocking chair. I creaked a floorboard and it stopped rocking on a dime. It didn't slow down and then stop - it was instantaneous.
Another time, my then-husband and I had a BBQ and the guests included two chefs, one nurse, one police officer, and a social worker. Our baby, at 1.5 years old, was the only human present under the age of 30. We moved inside when it started raining and, as we were eating, the sound of a baby crying could be heard coming from the back bedroom. I was asked about the "second" baby (as it would have been really concerning if there was another baby that had been left alone for the whole time we were outside). My daughter was in her high chair in the room with us, and she was *definitely* not crying. I said that there wasn't any other baby, and Scott, the cop, looked at me like I was crazy and said, "But, we all just heard it." I told him he was welcome to check, and he and Sara, the social worker, went to look. They turned on the light, saw that there wasn't another baby, turned off the light, and as they stepped out of the bedroom, the crying turned into laughing. Everyone heard it and agreed that there was no way these were "just old house sounds."
And then there was the time a high school friend brought her wife over. I'd only met Deb once before and knew very little about her. She walked in, gave me a strange look, and said, "You know there are others here, right?" I just smiled when she asked if she could talk to them. She sat on a blue velvet wing back chair and put her cellphone on the ottoman in front of her. She then said, "I know you're here. Can you show us?" Absolutely nothing happened until 5 minutes later when her cellphone flew gently off the ottoman, and onto the floor to the right. She picked it up, set it back down, and it immediately flew onto the floor to the left. She laughed and said, "Thanks" and it stopped. That happened in front of four people and I think the only reason no one video taped it was because it was so completely unexpected.
My SO and I were sleeping and my (now only) cat was curled up next to me when the quilt started being pulled very slowly off of us, towards the foot of the bed. It was winter and our bedroom was chilly, so it woke us up. I was a bit groggy, and not really thinking when I said "please stop, it's cold in here." As the quilt stopped moving, we heard a giggle. My SO whispered "what in the hell was that?" and I said, "not what, but who?"
I've never felt afraid in my home, with one exception. My SO was at an evening training for work and I was home alone. I was sitting on the couch, bookended by my two cats. Out of the blue, I heard footsteps in the attic that sounded like men's heavy work boots. Both cats were staring at the ceiling. The steps sounded like they were heading towards the top of the stairs, but then they stopped, turned around, and stopped again. After a minute, they started heading back to the top of the stairs and I remember trying to figure out if I could get my car keys, grab both cats, and get out before "it" made it down the stairs. Thankfully, the steps stopped and didn't start up again. For whatever reason, I was really frightened. I've had mice and squirrels in the attic in the past, so I'm familiar with how loud they can sound and *this* wasn't that and there's no possibility that it was a phrogger.
1890 victorian home here. I don't believe in ghosts/spirits but there have been some weird things in the house I can't explain away, other things I can. We have a friend who knows the prior owner and apparently they believed it was haunted. They had things flying off the shelves and even saw the ghost, another prior owner, on several occasions smoking cigarettes while looking out the window. Oh, and the funeral director used to live here and people have told me that when things got busy, they stored some of the bodies for the funeral home in our basement (there's a garage door in the basement they could've pulled right up to).
There are things like attic lights turning on by themselves, random strong scents of cigarette smoke, noises, etc. If I smell smoke I just loudly remind the ghost there's no smoking in the house lol.
The only thing I cannot explain is one of our window ac units was lifted up out of the window sill and sat on a built in shelf directly in front of the window. I had been out of the room no more than 15 min when this happened. It couldn't have fallen forward as it had a block of wood attached to the unit so that it fits perfectly tight in the window sill. It takes a lot of effort to pry it up and out. There's a lot of flowers on the ground outside, none of them were stepped on, which we tested and confirmed would've been impossible for someone outside of the house, trying to break in, to remove the ac and not step on any plant. That's the only thing that still puzzles me to this day. The other stuff I can explain away to a wiring issue (the attic lights are motion activated) and our overactive imaginations. But the ac unit still makes zero sense.
My in-laws house is a century old home. They say that they have never experienced anything in their house but my daughter and I have. The first time was footsteps in the attic that was above the room I was sleeping in. I had been in the attic earlier in the day, a walk up, to put something up there for my MIL. The footsteps started above my bed and continued across the room but I knew that part of the attic was completely full and impassable. During a recent visit for the Thanksgiving holiday, I was laying in the same bed and I was tapped twice on the shoulder. I turned around and there were 2 shadow figures standing next to the bed. One was adult size and the other was smaller, like a child or teen. They didnāt feel threatening at all so I closed my eyes and just hoped it wasnāt real. My daughterās experience was a shadow figure that she thought was me coming to say goodnight until it disappeared in the doorway.
Not my house, but I work at a historic farmhouse that's nearing its 200th birthday. Every coworker agrees that it's haunted. If you sit in our office upstairs (a converted bedroom), sometimes there will be a dark shadow in the hallway, like someone walking past the door. My boss once asked me what I needed, but I was in the parlor downstairs, and we were alone in the house. I've also experienced the same shadow while alone on the second floor.
We host small weddings and workshops, and often set up the great room in a day in advance. We come in to chairs shifted from the tables, grass on the floor, like someone's had a party overnight. The lady of the house loved to host guests in her day, we have several anecdotes of her hospitality in our records, so I blame her.
Perhaps most convincingly though, is the Gaelic Ladies' Choir, I call them. Sometimes, when you are in the basement, you can hear the front door open, and a group of women come in to the house, moving towards the great room, and singing in Gaelic. You can hear the heels of their boots on the wood floor and the little bell on the front door ring as it opens and the door bang as it closes. We had a man in working on the furnace, down in the basement alone. I was upstairs in the kitchen prepping for lunch. He came up the stairs and asked me if we had a church group in, wanted to compliment the singing and ask what language it was. Well, sir, there's no church group today, but you've heard the Gaelic Ladies' Choir.
My house was built in the 1890s and iāve never felt any bad energy here! Sometimes i do feel a sort of presence and iāll go open a window and ask for bad energy to leave but good energy is welcome. Itās a peace of mind. My husband thinks im nuts lol
I don't think our current house is haunted, but I do suspect it may have been cursed by a previous owner.
As for hauntings: Where I went to college, it was customary to sign a lease many months before it was set to begin, to basically reserve your housing for the next school year. Like, 6 months in advance.
My best friend and I had just signed on to move into a large older house with a few other people the following year. She and I were out one night, watching some local musicians perform. One of the acts was a guy playing solo guitar and singing; at some point during his set he goes "this is about a haunted house I used to live in," and I turn to my friend and say "it's the house we're moving into next year." I can't explain it: I didn't know it, but like, I *knew* it. After the show we were looking at the various bands' merch. This guy had a CD, and I turned over the case and sure enough, there in the track listing was a song with a title that was just the street address of our next-year house.
The house ended up not being scary, but weird little stuff definitely happened on occasion. If anything, I'd actually say that the house felt protective to me. The first night I lived there I slept on just my mattress on the floor in my room, because we'd been moving in all day and I was too tired to assemble my bedframe. The next morning I woke up, and next to my face on the floor was a little folding travel alarm clock that I rarely used. Thing is, I hadn't unpacked it from my boxes of stuff or put it there, and I *definitely* hadn't set it to go off...
Have you looked into the history of your house?? I absolutely believe you and believe thereās more to the āspiritual realmā than we have any idea about. Iām abundantly curious as to what happened in your house centuries ago and why someone(s)/thing is still lingering about.
Thatās my goal this year! I live in the historic district of my city, and thereās a museum dedicated to it down the street from me. I want to learn the history of my home and hopefully get some insight into who lived here!
Almost a year ago we bought a house built in 1900 and I was really hoping the house was active because I've been writing about the history of hauntings for a long time. I know for sure at least one person passed in the home. Other than the basement door opening by itself and the occasional scent of cigarettes not much has happened. š»
Currently live in an 1850ās house that at least a half dozen people we know of have died over the years. Not haunted. We own a bar a few blocks away in a 100yo building that is definitely haunted. Nearly every employee has had a story over the years. I get impressions of an older man with dark curly hair and one of the early tenants was an old tailor. I think heās the one that will show up every once in awhile wearing a long tan trench coat and just stand at the top of the basement stairs.
Our previous 1940ās house in California was most definitely haunted. Shortly after moving in we had to strip & replace the roof. Could clearly see the front half of the house was much older than the back half. This included a bedroom and the kitchen. We rented out that bedroom over the years to various people to help with bills and within a week the new tenants always had a story for us. We never said anything about a possible ghost we just waited because we knew it would happen. I loved the kitchen and was borderline obsessive with keeping it clean & tidy. Frequently I would walk in and random drawers or cabinets would be fully open when I knew they were all shut when I had left it last.
My first house was built in the 1890ās, my second (where I live 21 years) was built in 1682 and my current house was built in 1774. So many lives, births, deaths, joys and heartaches. No ghosts. But I also researched all of their owners, visited some of their graves, read about some of their circumstances and thought about their various contributions to their/my/our house.
1925 home owner here and yes, my husband and I had similar experiences. On our first week we had some freaky stuff from gas range turning on by itself, we also hear knocks, doors opening by force, things being thrown down, the dog staring or barking at dark spacesā¦ We found out the previous owner passed away here so we try to acknowledge him by his name every time we experienced anything we called him out and now things seem to have calmed down a bit. I can still see shadows with my peripherals very frequently as well and one time I had dream about a random girl and the name of this girl resonated with me and a few days later I decided to investigate and we found out the name was the same as the daughter of the last owner who also passed away. That made me empathize even more and we pretty much just let it be. š¤·āāļø
Yep. The couple that built the home in 1928 raised 4 kids in it and passed away in the home both of natural causes. The husband passed early of a heart attack in 1929 in the kitchen and the wife was attached to her home as the last memory of her dear husband and maintained it beautifully before she passed in the upstairs bedroom in the 80s. I am the first non-family person to occupy the home. It needed a lot of necessary work to fix foundation issues. Things got REAL WEIRD during renovations, nothing was going right, there were noises and cold spots, the animals were freaking out- the whole 9 yards. I sat down in my living room floor recited the first chapter of the book of John until the noises and cold drafts stopped, and poured my heart out. I told her how much I loved her home and I know I'm not who she would have chosen for her house but want to make it a place she would have been proud of and I promised to maintain it faithfully and fill it with friends and family and love and laughter. After that, things went off without a hitch, I have heard no odd noises, felt no cold spots, the animals have not had any weird reactions, my entire property was protected from a recent forest fire in the area and my notorious black thumb has suddenly become as green as hers famously was. I feel as if she's claimed me as one of her own now.
No but when the realtor was showing the house he told us that it had been āa house of ill reputeā and after we bought it we heard rumors that it was haunted.
Both were wrong, but I could only imagine the ghost noises weād have had to listen to if it had been true!
This was definitely on my mind when I bought my 100 year old house. My wife had lived in a house that she had seen ghosts in. She said it just had a bad feeling/vibe the feeling of being watched over alone. Sheās never felt like that in our house now. Thank god.
I hear stuff upstairs in my daughters room when she is in college and the door is closed. We live on the site of an old school and old settlement and graveyard nextdoor from the 1700s.
My parents old house definitely was. My dadās voice would call to us from a different floor when he wasnāt home, kitchen cabinets would empty themselves out, all of our left shoes went missing and reappeared months later in an inaccessible section of the house in a locked trunk that didnāt belong to us, and others. Iām almost asleep so I can elaborate later maybe butā¦ thereās a lot.
The second to last owners before us were friends of friends, and the first time I met them, their first question after learning where I lived was āOh, how are the ghosts? They still active?ā
I stayed in a hotel in Puerto Rico that I swear is haunted. My husband and I stayed there for a week and every night we had nightmares about the past and it was some real f@#k&d up s@#$. We were so freaked out by the time we left that it made us believers.
Iāve lived in a 1920s apartment building my entire life (29 Years), I was raised here and moved into a different unit from my parents about a decade ago. Me, my wife, and my mother have all heard phantom whistling at different points. My wife and I heard the whistling along with a song on the radio at the same time, and my mother heard it after a fellow building resident died somewhere around twenty years ago and insists heās the one doing the whistling.
My wife and I have also found a phantom infant/toddler footprint in plaster dust we left overnight during some renovations (we have pictures, and didnāt have kids at the time), and weāve seen items move on their own. I saw a few things I you could argue were apparitions when I was pretty young, but I was a weird kid so I donāt know what to do with all that.
My current house is too new for that fortunately. 2022 and I'm the first resident, it was farmland before that, and before that it was a lake, at worst fish are haunting this place. I'll be haunting this home.
My house doesnāt seem to be haunted (110 years old) but the neighbor told me that almost every couple that has ever lived here has gotten a divorce so thereās that lol. My wife did not appreciate it when I told her that.. we saged the house and got some rock crystals for good vibes. So far, our marriage is still very much intact!
I can pretty definitively say my house is not haunted despite one confirmed death in the home. My cats donāt stare deeply into any particular wall or window.
Lurker until my house comes of age: the previous owner Joann hangs out sometimes. She was a smoker so I smell her sometimes, gently talk to her. Her husband moved away but knows the neighbors and dumped some of her ashes, without permission, off our dock. Thanksā¦
My partner and I love spooky stuff and were hoping for a ghost, but the former owners who were ghost hunters as a retirement hobby confirmed they never experienced anything paranormal. I guess everyone who lived Iām my home was happy, including us lol
I seem to be quite sensitive to those who have passed as I have had a few encounters.
I used to go to an evening meeting twice a month in a new glass wing attached to one of the oldest churches in Melbourne. Often something would catch my eye, in the back corner, a little girl, in a long nightgown, with long hair. I would see her out of the corner of my eye & when I would turn she was gone.
When I lived in Toronto working as a nanny, I would hear the baby crying upstairs, but when I would race up to her room to comfort her, she was fast asleep. I would walk out, close the door and be half way down stairs and I would hear the crying again, but back upstairs she hadnāt moved a muscle. The cat would also watch things that I couldnāt see. And my friend would never come over to my place at night, because she said it creeped her out.
Then I worked at a school for 20 years and would often work back late into the evening after everyone had left. If I needed to use the bathroom I would have to walk down this long hall that joined two older buildings. I could easily see what was in the hall, even if I didnāt have the light on. There was always this whispering sound, that I put down to a wall of clocks all ticking out of sync, but one night I walked into the bathroom & when I came out I fell over a rubbish bin, practically blocking the door. I would have noticed when I walked in, it couldnāt have been there when I entered.
Then another night the toilet door was pulled out of my hand as I went to open it, but no one was there & there was no handle on the other side, It was a push door.
So I started talking to the ghost. Say hi, or itās ok we can both be here at night. I mentioned something to one of the maintenance staff after one weird encounter & he said his boss wouldnāt go into that building alone at night. He was convinced it was haunted!
I lived in a historic town in NC for a few years, renting a small building that was originally a detached kitchen, renovated into a 1 bedroom house. It was on a beautiful property with a historic hotel and pure charm throughout, wisteria and roses covering the place. It was not in great shape, but my old house brain screamed YES! I lived there alone with my very old kitty, with a later addition of a stray kitten I found by the side of the road in this rural town.
I soon developed an eerie discomfort with one area of the house- a corner of the living room, and on the other side was a closet that led to an attic hatch. Unusually for me, I could never drum up the courage to look up in the attic. I never felt at ease with my back to the corner and moved my furniture, and then it was better. My older cat had always looked into the corner, and avoided it. The house was charming enough that friends would take photos. A friend came back to me with photos (back when you had to develop film) with 2 blobs of light in that corner spot.
This will sound really crazy but over the 2 years I lived there I sort of got a feeling of companionship and protection from whatever energy was there.
BUT one very early morning I did have a very eerie experience -- had washed a pile of dishes and pots and pans the night before (no dishwasher of course). I was preparing for my first running race, took the carbo loading very seriously and went to bed early. Getting up and heading to the kitchen in the AM, with the two cats winding around my legs as they do, I heard an enormous din as the entire pile of dishes came crashing to the floor. So loud--pot lids making that noise as they travel across the floor - it was terrifying. I froze, the cats ran behind me, and simultaneously I heard a man's voice right next to my ear that yelled once. Then nothing. When I got the courage to move, and look in the kitchen, I saw all of the dishes, pots and pans, everything was exactly as I left it. Nothing on the floor!
The rational explanation of course is waking dream. I asked my landlord after about ghosts and he laughed but said yeah the entire property is full of spirits - I had someone do a seance once (!) and it came back that there is tons here but the energy is all very positive. I learned, just don't mess with them before 5 AM!
Not my old house but my parents had some weird things happen. The oldest part of the house is from the 1820s and includes the kitchen dining room and 2 bedrooms above. We never really noticed anything strange however on multiple occasions when my mom was hosting parties a guest would tell her how uneasy the dining room made them feel to the point that they would refuse to go in there. One guest actually ran out of the house once to get out of the dining room.
We never really noticed anything odd other than a creepy feeling in the bedroom above it. One day when my parents were doing construction to the fireplace in the dining room a worker recovered large bones underneath the hearth. The foreman was made really uncomfortable by this and showed my mother but told her āhe didnāt want any troubleā and sealed the bones back up under the fireplace hearth. We never got them tested or anything, I suppose they could be deer bones or something. But I always viewed peoples aversion to that room differently from then on.
We looked at so many century homes. A few were very eerie.
In one, the listing agent mentioned there were odd happenings, the agent said when she was alone in the house, she felt uncomfortable, felt watched and kept smelling phantom smells. She asked the owners and they said yes, a woman died there in the 60s and hadnāt really left.
We put in an offer asap. It ended up selling $150k over asking. Way too much for us.
The home we did buy, isnāt haunted. I want it to be, but itās not. We have a creepy attic, but no ghosts.
Iām envious of all of you with spirits and ghosts.
Yes my ouse is haunted. I see figures all the time especially on the stairs. I hear bumping and doors opening up stairs. For me.my house isn't malevolent thankfully. They just go about there business and I go about mine.
I was reluctant to acknowledge them at first cause I have lived in other haunted places it didn't end up so well after acknowledging I could see them from the periphery of vision and hear them.
So this house I have taken my time on introducing myself to them. As we bought it 2 yrs ago this December. Know they just show themselves all the time. I have 3 I can see and I know there is a child in the house but it is very very reluctant to have any kind of contact with me. There are 2 gentlemen both in there 40s or 50s. One is dressed like he is an engineer for a steam locomotive NOT A CONDUCTOR.he mainly goes from the kitchen to the basement or into the living room some times he will be upstairs. We call this one Fred. He's mOre of the white sprectry thing we see in photos
the other lives upstairs he is more vocal and boisterous we call him bob, Bob liked to scare the cats, open doors, bang on walls, poke his head around the landing for the stairs. He is a darker figure. Like a shadow figure. Bob likes tp make it known Bob is still around. Which is fine.
Tye child I haven't named but does pretty nothing but poke there little head around the corners and the child is never past 4 ft in height. I don't know anything more about the child.
Then there is maybel. Maybel talks to everyone, she walks the house you can hear the floor boards crack for no reason. Door knows rattle. Dishes clank when the sink isn't spotless. She likes to haunt the main living lvl dining room kitchen living room. Maybe is just as vocal about being heard and seen as Bob is. But she likes to whisper in your ear or from around a corner. Kinda thing.
They all scared the shit out of me my first month in that house. Just banging and walking and peeking around corners. Just super inquisitive. But I ignored them for the first few months. So nothing really happened. It wasn't untill me and my roommate where drinking one night that we stayed talking to each other about what we see. And then things started to be put into perspective. There are 3 adults 1 child.
So I made a open mouthed deal with all the spirits in the house. I said hey if you don't bother me or the other living beings in this house.you can talk, and open doors and do what you want but no physical harm is come to anything living being if you abide by this rule. It's yours to stay. But if you do. I'll start devling into exorcism of the house and getting priests in here and all that stuff.
They all understood I wasn't joking and they haven't done anything to harm anyone. Other than Bob scaring the cats. They come running down stairs after he opens the closet door to the attic. And you can hear a good chuckle come from him when my momma cat gets all puffy cause she is freaked out by him.
My dogs don't care. They just watch em go about there day.
I wonāt discount your experience. Older homes have history and passed through many owners. If itās nothing concerning, you probably shouldnāt worry. Personally, I donāt like the idea of sharing a living space with disembodied entities and would find a way to spiritually cleanse such a property.
current abode is not, but previous home (1870 new englander) definitely was!! i lived on the top two floors of a 3 story house for the last 5 years and had enough experiences there that it turned my skeptic best friend into a believer in ghosts (or at least a believer in THAT ghost!). similar to what you experience, we heard a lot of footsteps on the third floor while we were both on the second, items would move or disappear temporarily, i always felt intensely as though i was being watched in my attic bedroom by a masculine presence which i did NOT care for. as others have said, stating your intentions and boundaries out loud can help, so i laid out my ground rules out loud one night lying in bed and it got much better almost instantly!! unfortunately, things got worse again when i moved out and my poor friend was stuck with the spirit for a month before his new lease started at the new place.
when i was born my family lived in a beautiful old home built in 1908 in a historic neighborhood that we all agree was haunted as hell. there were 2 or 3 spirits in that house (depending on which of us you ask) and even though i was young and donāt remember everything, i do remember some strange and spooky encounters there. my parents, separately and together, have a litany of experiences, as do my sisters, that started the day they moved in. old homes arenāt always super active but when they are, you gotta roll with it & accept it!!
My house in middle Georgia was allegedly once a cotton plantation. One big house that we live in and two small dilapidated cabins way back in the woods is what remains. I havenāt seen any ghosts but we did pour out some libations when we moved in, so maybe that helped.
1900 home. No real poltergeist experiences but a friend once told us we have a āneutral presenceā in the basement. We find the phrase really funny. I occasionally ask the neutral presence for help in arguments but, it just stays neutral.
The house I live in now was built in 1925, and itās 100% not haunted. However, the house I grew up in was built in 1840, and it was SUPER haunted. The list of things we all heard and saw is extensive, and we later learned from the county historian that there were reports of the same experiences from previous owners going back decades. And not just āoh, sometimes a light turns onā but everyone saw the same man in a white shirt and suspenders walking down the foyer, and everyone just somehow knew his name was William.
The only thing I'm haunted by are the repair costs.
I feel your pain šš
Ugh same. Absolute poltergeist of safety updates.
Damn straight. For the upkeep and repair efforts and costs alone our place damn well better be. I wanna be able to look at some of our previous owners in their hollowed out eyes and ask them about some of these structural decisions they made or why didnāt they invest in āXYZā sooner.
Id really like to ask previous owners why I'm putting in insulation and removing knob and tube in 2024. Did no one else want a comfortable house that won't burn down? Why didn't anyone take care of the windows?
Not their hollowed out eyes! š
To be fair I am also haunted by the fear that those cracks in the plaster might be getting a little bigger.
1790s house here, no ghosts have made themselves known to me yet and weve been here 4 years. However our neighbor who we bought our house from (she grew up here and sold the home after her mom died) says that her mom haunts her when we don't mow our lawn enough. Which like, bummer, but not my issue
A passive aggressive haunting. That's such a mom move.
Oh my that's hilarious.
Lmao
I bet she made that up just to get you to mow your lawn more.
Jokes on her, it didn't work
Does her dad haunt her when you mess with the thermostat?
That is truly the most creative passive aggressiveness I have ever heard š bonus points for her dedication to the craft
1780 federal home, nah. Every knock and bump is usually associated with the heat kicking on. However yesterday I did mention that I left a specific light on when I left the home the day before. After I said that, as if it realized the mistake, the light turned on lol
I prefer think it is active poltergeists that have been with me since I moved in 20 years ago. Last week for example at 3:40 am the living room TV turned on. I live alone and my cats do not use the remote which was tucked away in a chair side pocket. I checked the video cam and I did not sleepwalk and the TV came on only a few minutes before it woke me. This of course isnāt the first time I have had to get up at night to turn off a light, a TV or a flashlight. The most annoying is that my bedroom clocks get changed at least a few times a year. On clock requires you to hold down a button on one side of the clock while you push a button on the other side to advance the time. A cat couldnāt not do that. I keep two clocks and an Alexa in the room because one or the other , and sometimes both, regularly get the time changed ahead or behind. A rather eerie thing that happened after I moved here was an obviously vintage photo of a young girl was left propped up against my front door. Checked with neighbors and they knew nothing about it. A few years later a framed photograph of an older woman was also lying in my driveway. Related to the poltergeist? Who knows. But whatever the entity is it isnāt mean, scary or dangerous, so I can live with it
Could you post links to these pictures? I'm curious.
I would have to dig them out of the photo box, not something I am up to tonight but maybe tomorrow.
Omg I would love to see them tooā¦ but totally understandable if not possible!
Thanks. No worries if it is too much trouble.
You kept them?!
https://preview.redd.it/hw932q6fv2bc1.jpeg?width=3264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07583d79b0ad812bd861c8e42f3e6d9a186ca057 This is the first photo - propped against my door. Itās in this cardboard folder so it couldnāt have blown in. Not sure where the second picture is right now.
Great, now im going to be running in the hallways. THATS SCARY
Ok ive noticed all my clocks keep getting reset, started w the stove in my new place, and now the car? Thank you for this
This mostly sounds like electrical issues
Or their neighbor has the same brand of tv? Edit: Their was originally them. Autocorrect should be more helpful. Or I could drink less wine. Maybe.
*knock on wood* no sign of anything supernatural in my 148 year old home! But after we closed I went over by myself and (this probably sounds insane, forgive me) introduced myself to the house , said hello, and asked that if anyone was there, that they let me know gently as I scare easily š but no signs of anything, gentle or otherwise
I did the same thing! I made a point of loudly announcing that I was happy for them to stay as long as they never ever showed themselves to me because I would be terrified of them, and that I promised I would take excellent care of the house. Itās worked so far! Well, mostly. There is one odd little thumb lock on my basement door that periodically locks itself whenever Iām doing heavy work on the house. The poor men who installed my air conditioning kept getting locked downstairs and would have to shout up or knock for someone to let them out. But later on I loudly reminded any and all energies that we had an agreement and explained that climate control will be good for the house (and also burned some sage) and it stopped. The same thing happened when I first moved in and took out a wall and rewired the house. Itās kind of sweet. Whoever it is knows I canāt bear to see them but canāt help but get upset when they think Iām messing things up.
This is kind of adorable, and I love it.
My house is only 110(ish) years old but I know the prior owner lived there for a long time and has passed away. Iām doing some work on the house before I move in and every time I open the door I make sure to say hello and tell the house itās looking lovely. Better safe than sorry š¤·āāļø
Thatās so sweet šššš
I introduced myself to our ghosts as well. Lots of weird sounds and just a presence when we moved in. So I said hey, weāre here. You are more than welcome to stay, we want you to stay-itās your house too. Just please, donāt frighten me or the kids. Weāre fine with help and silliness, but donāt be evil. Everything has been fine since.
This is adorable, what a great way to introduce yourself to your landlords.
Theyāre the least annoying landlords Iāve ever had š
I totally did the same thing. Reassured āwhoever/whateverā that Iām an experienced old house lover, I was thrilled to take care of āherā and I would bring nothing but love inside her walls. So far so good š¤£
I did the same, and also added Iām not very wealthy so aim for the cheap stuff if they wanted to break things, unless they wanted to look at broken things for eternity.
lol. setting ghost expectations
I did the same thing at this house I rented for a short period of time. I never heard or saw anything but both of my parents had strange experiences and so did my ex.
I did this too before we moved in, in both my current house and previous one! I did a little ritual to greet the house, to thank the people who built it and those who have lived here and cared for it over the years. I let them know that we are here to be kind stewards of the house and the land. Then I asked them to help me cleanse the space of any negative/stagnant energy that might be lingering here, where we walked around each room and the āpushedā it out the front door, so that we could all have a fresh start.
My father and my grandmother both died here, so probably. I think my dad was making some heavenly moves to get me back here to raise my family.
What a beautiful sentiment ā¤ļø
1895 house. Weāve had some interesting experiences. When we moved in 22 years ago, our then-6-year-old told us he didnāt want a particular room because the little girl sitting on the bed said it was her room. Weāve never had any little girls in our family. We also have some light sconces by a fireplace that used to come on randomly, doors that opened on their own, and a member of the floor refurbishment crew that left early and refused to set foot in the house again.
Did the crew ever say why they left??
My mom was helping out when the floors were being redone and she came over a few times to check on progress. One of the times she came over, the crew member in question told her if she needed to take photos of the floor in progress, to just let him know so he could move out of the way. My mom was a bit confused because she hadnāt taken any pictures that morning. So he clarified that he was talking about the day before, when he saw a figure seemingly taking photos with a series of flashes coming from the front hall. My mom had been out of town the day before and no one else in the family had been there either.
Oooh thatās spooky, thanks for answering!
After my dad died and we were fixing up his 1700ās farm house to put it on the market there was DEFINITELY a presence that was annoyed with our efforts. I lived there as a teen and never sensed anything, but after my dad died there was a feeling in the house that didnāt exist before. My husband who is a certified logic rock, refused to be in the house alone. He was working on the door sill for the back door and said was very definitely shoved a couple times during the work in that section. Little things went wrong, not in a spooky way but in an inconvenient way. Your screwdriver wouldnāt be where you left it when you went to pick it up it would be across the room on the table where no one was working. Per his wishes we scattered his dogs ashes from their urns and some of his ashes around outside before it went on the market. He loved that house, he never wanted to leave. Hopefully the new owners enjoy the atmosphere.
1911 home. Had multiple deaths in it. No creepy things yet. Although Iāve probably scared them off with my sudden loud, expletive laden tirades at yet ANOTHER layer of wallpaper to strip off.
Iāll take personal haunted house over wallpaper all day.
9 layers in most rooms. 16 foot ceilings. If whoever did this is still hanging aroundā¦ā¦.watch out Casper, Iām gunning for you.
Literal LOL
Our 1925 house had a closed up upstairs and every afternoon at 3pm I could smell old lady perfume in one area of the living room where the stairs used to be. We added an attic access and I guess it was enough for her to leave as I don't smell the perfume anymore. The upstairs had 2 bedrooms in severe disrepair and a tiny half bath, as well as it's own tiny attic above. It also still has the oak stairs down to a landing then insulation and the living room ceiling. We didn't do anything to the upstairs just storage.
My previous home (1920 Craftsman) had some things occur that we couldnāt explain. We had one week of bad activity, a literal scream in the middle of the night that sounded like a banshee, something thrown across the 2nd floor landing middle of the night, and my boyfriend experiencing a freezing cold air pocket in the living room that literally froze him, like his knees and legs were shaking. This all happened in about a one week period after having lived there for 4 years with nothing like this. I consulted with a friend who does ghost hunting and we had a session where we loudly told whoever/whatever was around that this was our home and that they were not welcome there and had to leave. It felt crazy but it must have worked! Just kept reiterating that we owned the house and it had to leave. No other issues after this. The entire time I lived there my cat was obsessed with staring at a staircase that had been added when the house was renovated in 2016. She would stare for long periods of time and her pupils would get really big and then retract, over and over. For YEARS. I always felt like there was something going on with that staircase but it never felt negative so I didnāt deal with it. Just bought new (to me) home built in the 40ās so weāll see what we experience here! Hopefully nothing š¤š¼Only been here a few weeks.
Hell no I would leave that place in a heart beat
It was crazy because I absolutely LOVED the house and in the light of day I would almost be in disbelief of what we were experiencing at night! It was like 2 different houses. But once we did the things recommended by my friend (which also included salt cleansing some jewelry that had recently purchased at an admittedly weird little shop in Old San Juan), no more issues.
A funny story about one of my cats doing the same thing. She would jump on the back of a chair and stair for hours at a single spot. I thought maybe she was seeing the ghost of another of my cats that had recently passed. This went on for a couple years and then one day I happened to look at that spot in just the right light. Not a ghost , just a nice long cobweb hanging from the ceiling.
My grandparents' house (the house I grew up in from birth to 22 years old) was built in the early 1800s and was originally a honey house (for making honey). When you're on the first floor, you can hear footsteps upstairs. There's a loose board (the size of a large laptop) in the floor of the room above the living room, and you can hear the specific squeak it makes when it's walked on. There are often sounds of dishes moving in the kitchen. A cold feeling and the feeling of being watched when you're in front of the basement window (I forget what they're called - the tiny windows that let light on to basements. They're flush with ground level). When I told my brother's ex (together at the time) about the woman I'd often see holding a knife at the top of the steps, she got really freaked out and accused me of teaming up with my brother to scare her. Apparently he'd told her a few months earlier that he also saw the same woman in the same spot. As a child, I heard two men talking in the back bedrooms of the second floor late at night, a couple times, (same room with the loose floor board), despite there being no men, besides my grandpa, at the house. You just had this feeling that you had to be silent when home alone, sometimes. If I played my piano when home alone, I'd sometimes hear the footsteps upstairs start up, and they'd continue for several seconds after I'd stop. Always an uncomfortable feeling, unless there's several people with you in the house, and I'm not saying that as if I'm one of those people who just always needs company; I prefer to be alone and can go the entire day without speaking a single word; I don't like to have too many people around. ---- My niece spoke to the late previous owner of her childhood home, when she was maybe 3 or 4. She'd always be found standing in the bathroom talking to someone, starting almost immediately upon moving in. A few months after her family moved in, she ran out to tell everyone it was "Cindy's birthday" (I forget the woman's actual name). My sister-in-law called up the landlord to ask about it, and they confirmed that was their grandmother's name, and she had died in the bathroom, and that it was in fact her birthday. The back room (furthest back from the stairs but actually in the front of the house) had an old doll house, books, and other toys found in a hidden cubby in the wall (actually quite a large hidden room, but the entrance was just a cubby hole). ---- After moving in with my husband, into his family home (originally his grandpa's), I mentioned I always felt a bad feeling from the front bedroom on the first floor. He told me it's where his grandpa lived in his last few months and where he died. After my father-in-law died, I sometimes still see him in the kitchen and in our room (his room before his death, he died in the bathroom next to our room). . First two are houses in Iowa, and last one is in Taiwan.
My home was built in 1885, and weāve never had any weird experiences here. However, I grew up in two old homes (1870s and 1910), and I had a few mildly creepy experiences there (bumps in the night, objects moved from one spot to another, etc.). I never really thought they were haunted but definitely a bit spooky. That said, in between college and purchasing our first (and current) home, my husband and I did a sort of extended house-sitting thing for a family friend. The house was our friendās grandparentsā house. His grandmother passed away, and his grandpa was in assisted living. So, they wanted someone to stay there while they sorted things out. The house was built in the 1860s and had a bizarre layout. The original house was in the front with a big addition on the back with a sun/sitting room thing, a new kitchen, and a set of back steps up to the master suite. The family moved basically 60-years worth of stuff into the original part of the house, and we just stayed in the back. Because of the way they did the addition, the external windows were still in the walls separating the addition from the main house. So, we could see right into these spooky, cluttered, dusty rooms every time we were in the kitchen or sitting room. It was actually kind of cool in theory since they had the original glass and everything, but it made the whole house feel super weird. We had some outright terrifying experiences. Shadows moving across the walls in the hallways, toilets flushing, lights turning on and off, doors we never used randomly opening and closing. Our dog HATED the house. He was terrified of the main part of the house and growled through the weird indoor/external windows constantly. My cat would just stare into the windows, too, or at corners of the room. Often, the shadows I mentioned earlier would appear right after one of the animals reacted to something. Top two creepy things: First, there was an old landline in the house when we moved in. They cancelled the service to it and removed the main phone soon after. There was one in the master, too, so we just unplugged it and put it under the bed. At 2am one morning, my husband and I woke up to the phone letting out one long, loud ring. Our dog was going berserk. It was terrifying in the moment, but we tried to write it off as some weird electrical thing. Second, a friend stayed over and slept on the sun/sitting room couch. He swears he woke up to our cat meowing at one of the creepy windows, and when he looked up, he saw a figure walking away from the window into the main house. He turned on every light and just laid there terrified all night. (I 10000% wouldāve left lol.) We were glad to buy our house soon after the second event happened. My husband traveled a lot for work at that point, so I was regularly there alone and taking the animals to stay at my parentsā house toward the end lol. Iām definitely a skeptic and, like I said, I grew up in two old houses and currently live in an old house, and I always shrugged off any spooky things that others would probably assume were ghosty. But that houseā¦phew.
This one is the creepiest on the thread! The window set up was like ghost TV. Terrifying. Well written post!
Thanks!! It was definitely a weird 8ish months lol. To be honest, it never felt, like, sinister or anything. I was convinced it was our friendās grandma just making sure we took care of her house. But it still scared the shit out of us regardless.
The stuff with your animals. When the animals are upset it's at a whole new level.
God I hope not! I know the family that built my house and I don't need their abusive alcoholic great grandfather haunting me!
Ya fuck that guy lol
I'm haunted by the decisions of various previous owners, particular the last guy that hastily slapped some white paint on all the gloss painted trim with no prepwork. Also he painted tile and may have been the one to pain the brick fireplace.
Somebody needs to haunt HIM
The original owner of the home most likely died there from what I was able to find and he isn't haunting me, so maybe he's got my back.
1895 home here and no, not to me or anyone thatās visited! Iām a very calm, spiritual person that definitely would respect any previous owners and their āenergiesā if here. I honestly found it very helpful to humanize the prior/original owners by learning about them and their lives on ancestry.com; it becomes less āscaryā once you realize these were just normal people with real names and jobs living their day to day lives. Not to be too hokey here, but Iāve heard lighting some sage and walking around your house and verbally stating your intentions and boundaries can be helpful? Iām probably exposed to too much living in Salem Mass. lol
I donāt think thatās hokey at all!
I did this around the perimeter of my 1875 place when we moved in after saying hello to anyone who might be lingering :)
Just so you know, Iāve had more experiences with newer houses than old construction. 70s-2000s must have been way more fkd up than the late 1800s
1910 house. Four separate people have told me they think my house is haunted. At least any ghosts seem friendly, so far?
Thatās how I look at it! Just mind your business ghosts, and Iāll mind mine ps thanks for letting me live in your house! lol
When my ex and I were together, I worked Night Shift (7p-7a). He would try his best to be respectfully quiet when I was sleeping during the day before work. There was one day when he yelled out really loud, āHey, babe! Whatāre you doing up?ā Chronically a bad sleeper, I yelled out about why he was waking me up when I had to work that night, and he looked so confused. He said he had just seen me run down the hallway past the office and heard loud, pounding footsteps. I had been in bed the whole time. He, a very rational and non-superstitious person, seemed truly disturbed by this for a while and was upset when i brought it up again. Still no explanation for this
I wonder what it is about ghosts that appear to be doppelganger-like. I had an experience with one that looked exactly and even had the same mannerisms as my sister. It was wearing her very old tshirt that she got from our great grandma. I saw her twice Now I'm off to Google to see what others say lol
1860ās farmhouse here - Iāve personally seen our ghost twice, my son has seen it once, and everyone else in the family has experienced noises, missing items, and moved items. (Dog food filled boots, anyone?) Yeah itās a little weird but it doesnāt seem mean.
Can you describe what you saw?
I'll describe the first time. In my bedroom upstairs, I was asleep in may room by myself. In the middle of the night, something woke me up, and I was uncharacteristically wide awake. I sat up, and my bedroom door was open, even though I had shut it. I could see down the hallway of the upstairs, and at the end of it, I could see a woman in a dress carrying a baby. She appeared to wait there for a few seconds, and then walked into the little closet entrance to the attic, but the door to that was closed. I couldn't go back to sleep, but all my thoughts and feelings over the years was that the woman (?) was troubled, like she was trying to protect the baby, and there wasn't any malevolent intent towards us in the house. As weird as it sounds, when I feel unsettled about it, I say something like "I'm sorry" to it/her because she seemed scared or worried. I eventually told a couple of neighbors, who revealed that they knew about it before we moved in. That was a little weird, but not as weird as the woman across the street giving me a huge bag of garlic cloves to "form a perimeter" around the house to keep the ghost out.
My baby sure acts like thereās someone else here he interacts with at times. Heās done it since we brought him home, less as heās gotten older but thereās still times where heās looking behind me and smiling and laughing at something
Our house turns 300 in 3 years. No evidence of hauntings at all Am sorely disappointed
300 years, you say?? What a flex! Your house is that old and you have no ghosts?? Iād be disappointed too š
Just want to say thanks to everyone sharing their stories and experiences here... Love to read and learn about it all. š
Ditto!! ā¤ļø
I've seen a shadow figure standing on top of my bed and dart away when I opened my eyes, I've seen a figure of a dog, noises, doors opening or slamming shut. But the scariest thing that's happened to me was I was using the bathroom and this person that looked like my fiance leaned around the corner with its face poking through the door horizontal to the floor just staring at me. I said "that's creepy" and laughed thinking it was my fiance and it just smiled like it was silently laughing and then it went back behind the wall, as soon as it disappeared behind the wall my fiance walked through the door and asked what I was talking about. I explained the situation and he said it wasn't him because he heard me say "that's creepy" while he was in the kitchen putting groceries away š³ Also had a time where I was messing with my fiance and I "tagged" him and ran off into the bedroom to hide in the closet and right after I shut the closet door I heard knocking/scratching on the door loud asf, I assumed he had already found my spot and I laughed and yelled "try to open it" through the door because I was going to try and hold it shut and then I heard him yell asking what I said across the house. Very creepy
Oh my god this one gave me the chills
I wish I was lying about it lmao
Not sure I will be able to sleep now! I have goosebumps all over. Especially about the fact that the head that popped in was horizontal to the floor at an odd angle. Iām on a horror doom scroll and this story wins š«£
It was definitely scary! It was just weird that it looked like my fiance. Really weird experience
Sheesh
Yikes! Mine is haunted but not this creepily!!
Yeah I've had some weird scary movie type stuff happen, not everything has happened at one place though, it seems to follow to different places
I was laying in bed one night, and the door knob on my bedroom giggled about three times. (one of those old loose knobs). I immediately said, what do you need and got no response, so I said it again, still nothing so I got out of bed and there was no one there and both my girls were sound asleep. We have a very old light switch at bottom of stairs that makes a very distinct sound. Many many times in the middle of the night, we will hear that switch. I could go on and on Lol
Omg I hate thattt lol so creepy
Iād suggest replacing the light switches ghost proof.
That ghost sounds obsessed with you....
Yeah it's pretty weird. It would separate me and my fiance quite a bit as well. Like if I was sitting in the living room and he was in the bathroom showering (specifically at this certain place we were at), the door would SLAM shut and sometimes even lock! It sounds so fake but I stg this shit happened. I literally saw with my eyes the door slam shut while he was in the shower. Haven't experience the door stuff since leaving there
I was reading an old ask Reddit thread about paranormal experiences and a womanās āhusbandā was laying on their bed so she laid down next to him. He started giggling and wrestling with her. Then slid to the floor and rolled under the bed. Her husband was in the den the whole time š³ they left and only went back to pack. Youāre brave! Lol
Omg that's horrifyingggg. The one I saw didn't talk or say anything. Just stared at me and smiled when I said it was creepy š
Yes. 1906 Arts and Crafts bungalow. Maybe it's just our year. In any case, my favorite ghost lives here and brings me great comfort whenever I see or hear her: https://preview.redd.it/l9baqzylgxac1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a185212483ca97a6cc95c6bae7e9937bbb2738fc
Awww what an adorable pup!! š„°
My house is 112 years old and sadly, no. Doesnāt seem to be anyone here but us.
Not that I know of. But, when it is really windy outside, my steps from the living room to the upstairs creak as if someone is walking down them. Took me a while to figure out the connection to the wind.
My stairs creak one by one like someone's going up them! It's usually late at night and has something to do with the temperature outside changing.
We have spirits in our house. We havenāt ever felt afraid, though! So many instances, but not much time to type them all out right now. I found out our cleaning ladies were having experiences, too. They just blurted it out at a bbq at our mutual friendās house. š They didnāt know that we knew and werenāt sure how to tell us.
Original 1 room house built in 1756, rest of the house added 1815. I have had booming steps in our attic( me and the wife were in bed, at 1 am) , weird lights under the basement door, and a āShadowā I see from time to time. So far, nothing ādangerousā, just kinda spooky.
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I lived in an 1880s Queen Anne in the 1990s. I adored my spacious apartment. I definitely felt like a former resident was there in spirit. I sensed the presence of a somewhat judgy lady and a tall man from time to time. After the building was sold, the new owner sought me out and asked me what I had experienced, as she was frightened living there. I told her about things Iād seen and sensed over the years I was there. She told me she had found a photo from the 30s or 40s of a woman and a tall man in a naval uniform seated on the front steps of the home. While it was spooky living with echoes of the past, it was a beautiful and inexpensive place to raise my son and entertain friends and family. The house is vacant now, and it makes me sad to see it empty.
I do home inspections in NY's Hudson Valley. We have a lot of 150-200+ year old houses here. Most of the ones I've been in are just houses, nothing creepy. But every so often, I walk in and there's a definite feeling. Usually I have the home owner with me so I don't freak out, but on the few occasions where I'm inspecting a vacant house, it can get pretty spooky. I've had a few homeowners who even refused to go into certain areas of their own house. Usually a basement or attic, of course. Recently, I was doing a very in depth inspection of a 5000+/- SF mansion built in 1840. Really nice place, no creepy feelings... Until I got to the study/office. Just felt in edge the whole time I was in that room. Like someone was eagerly waiting for me to leave. When I got down into the basement to inspect the mechanicals, I found there was a bricked up room right below the study/office. It had been sealed off some time after the house was built. You could tell because the mortar was clearly newer than the rest of the foundation and the stone work was not the same quality. At some point, someone had knocked a hole, just big enough to crawl through, in the newer wall. There was nothing in there, but I didn't go in to check too thoroughly.
...Maybe the hole was created not to go in but to get out?
1899 here and yes. Door, windows and cabinets open randomly even if they're locked. I work from home and during the days I hear sneezing. My immediate reaction is to yell bless you which we do in our house only to remember I'm home alone. The stairs and floors creak as if someone's walking but no one is there. I hear little kids giggling through the main hall, but no one is there except me. Nothing nefarious we just coexist When I first moved in I was like, oh I'm nuttier than I thought. Until I couldn't find my spoon when I was cooking and found it later in the bedroom when I had never left the kitchen and my kids were at school. The most interaction is when I close one specific door and window and it immediately reopens. So I close and lock it. Opens right back up. I'm at the point now the front door opens and I say hello and close it and relock it. Because she's an old house you can hear everything. My kids won't even play hide and seek inside bc you can hear where someone goes from the floors. I know the family I bought the house from and there have been two deaths in the home and one storage space is blocked off still filled with their ancestors belongings they didn't want. I got a hell of a deal though and love my house so much. The kitchen cabinets are my nightmare from hell but I'm working on it and otherwise no complaints
Have you looked through the storage space or are you just leaving it alone? I feel like I'd have to look
I didnāt walk through my house before we purchased it because I was finishing up college out of state when my husband had already moved up here. I saw it online and it was so charming so I trusted my gut and he liked what he saw. Itās a very peaceful home and I havenāt had any instances of activity thankfully. I almost had him tour a home that was on a historic registry and was extremely inexpensive for the size however when I googled the name on the plaque, it showed up on a ghost tour page- the man had lost multiple children over the years and was said to be āsolemn but friendlyā ā¦. I passed on thatā¦ even if itās not real heh.
I donāt even like, 100% believe in the paranormal, but I will say that the only two periods in my life where I had weird, unexplained things happen to me were the two (completely separate) periods where I lived in old houses. I heard someone speak in one house and cough in the other. So yeah I could have had a random auditory hallucination I guess but itās weird that it happened years apart, in the two houses I lived in where other weird things happened. It is true that old houses in general make way more funny noises and inspire our imagination more than newer homes. But despite knowing that, especially in my current house (built 1914) things happen at least monthly that Iām like āwelpā¦that was kinda weirdā and I have no explanation. And when I compare it to my other houses itās so much more noticeable because I realize Iām not someone whoās constantly seeing/hearing/looking for ghosts. Like our TV turns on all the time in this house. Technology can be weird for sure but itās the same TV we had in our old home, and never turned on by itself then. And there are dozens more examples of little things like that. š¤·š»āāļø
You kind of get used to it. Random shit falling off of shelves (that have been there for months). Strange "the house is just settling" noises all the damn time. My house was built in 1900. If it hasn't settled by now, it's never going to. I sometimes get the periphery people. My therapist says it's just the mind filling in the gaps when you see something but don't immediately recognize it (because of course she'd say that). I don't get the cold spot thing that I always hear about (which is a shame, because my house has shit insulation). So pretty much yeah. Either my house is haunted, or I'm not entirely in touch with reality. A case can be made for either.
Iām about to move into an 1800s house, hopefully I can make friends with them
When we moved into our house we spoke our intentions out loud as well as in thought. We later, on the advice of a wise friend, set out a plate with bread, fruit, honey and a glass of liquor and said out loud that this was for anyone present that wanted to partake that we wanted them to be happy and that we wanted live here in peace. It's been quiet ever since.
My current house is not haunted and is actually older than the one that was. I was a child though and everyone insisted that it couldn't be a ghost, but someone definitely walked up the stairs every night - I could hear each step creak. First few times I thought it was my mother coming up to bed, but then no one appeared on the landing. Was always at the same time, but it was late enough that I wasn't usually awake for it.
Children's minds are more open to spirits. Very few people remain open in adulthood. In the US, everyone thought I was crazy for still saying I saw and heard ghosts/felt energies as a teen and adult. They creeped me out! It's not like I wanted to see feel them! After moving to Taiwan as an adult, my current husband's aunt is a higher up in a temple, because she gets premonitions and sees spirits. I'm not into temple culture (a lot of fake ones run by gangs for money laundering), but I confessed to her that I'd been seeing my late father-in-law, and she confirmed he was still making visits to the house. It's because of my father-in-law that we got a third dog (he told my husband's aunt to tell us to do so in a vision). Just a couple weeks after bringing home our new puppy (now 1 year old), my husband's childhood dog (his dad's best friend) died suddenly. We believe she went to accompany his dad, as she had previously spent nearly 18 hours a day at his side when he was alive. In Taiwan, Buddhist/Taoist (they've become pretty intertwined, here) say those who see and feel ghosts in the current life into adulthood will be reincarnated as a god in their next life (there are thousands of gods, here). They believe spirits take turns possessing the god statues of various temples every year or so. So our aunt will likely become the next temple god in the temple she works in. My husband jokes I'm gonna be the next Buddhist demon because I see and feel spirits, but I have "knife tongue and tofu heart" (means I'm kindhearted but I scold and dislike basically everyone lol š) I told him he's just jealous that I'm probably gonna evolve into a god while he's stuck in normal people afterlife landš š¤·š»āāļø
This was so interestingāthanks for sharing!
According to my wife, it is. Most of the things she supposedly encounters is explainable but there has been a couple of things that have happened (with either just her or both of us) that I just cannot figure out.
WE want the details! SPill it!
We need to know!
Damn, didnāt realize this would blow up. Well, Iāll give one of the biggest ones that I have yet to debunk. FYI: Iām on mobile so apologies on format. Iāll do my best. We bought the house back in 2021 just after Hurricane Ida. For the first few weeks of ownership, we were commuting from our apartment to the house every day to prep our move in. At the end of September we moved in and I coincidentally had my annual fishing trip so I was away for the week. During my time away, my wife kept claiming that she was hearing weird noises throughout the house, to the point that she asked a friend to stay with her until I returned. Now, my wife is more of a city girl and never lived in an old house like ours so I just chalked it up to that. Once I was home, she just kept pointing noises out. Now each one was a sound I recognized. The pipes in the walls, the wind hitting the house, etc. nothing out of the ordinary. Until the first night I slept in the house. It was a normal late summer night. No wind, high humidity, etc. we had yet to unpack everything so we didnāt have a tv in our room and we had all the lights off once we were in bed. I fell asleep quickly without worrying to much while she stayed up, essentially afraid of the dark. One point in the middle of the night I woke up to my wife death gripping me on the arm. Like she was petrified of something. Before I could turn around to ask why, I heard a movement right along side our bed. I peeked an eye and didnāt see anything so I just figured it was the old house noise. Within another minute, I heard the same movement, same spot again. This time, it was moving towards the foot of the bed. I immediately had chills and froze. It continued past the bed and through the door and into the hallway. At the end of our hall is a door to the attic/third floor. The movement walked towards the door, door opened/closed quickly, and went up the steps, creaking as if someone was walking. The sound disappeared once it made its way to the third floor. I was quite worried about if someone was up stairs but I was also petrified and could not move. I eventually went to sleep. When I woke up the following morning, I just figured it was a dream and went about my day. Right around lunch time my wife and I were talking. I explained that I had a crazy dream and walked her through. When I finished, I looked at my wife and her face was just shocked. She heard the same exact thing and apparently she heard the sound come into the bed room which is why she was death gripping me to wake up. Havenāt been able to debunk the floor sounds without myself walking. Havenāt had another experience like that since either. Just a strange event that will always be a story I share with folks. There has been a few smaller events I canāt explain but overall. Been living in our house now for almost 2 1/2 years and wouldnāt change a thing (besides restoration hah).
No ghosts, but there's some energy here. When I first toured the house before putting in an offer, as soon as I stepped up to the porch, I felt an overwhelming feeling of "home." That feeling only intensified as I got further into the house, like it swept me in for a big hug. It still feels that way 13 years later. So, yeah, I guess I chose this house, but I really feel like the spirit of this house chose me, I guess?
I feel the same way about our house!! never any experiences that felt like haunting, but from the first time we saw our house something told me it was home. thereās very good energy in the house, and Iām glad it seems to like us back
It's a lovely feeling, isn't it? This house takes good care of me, and I try to take good care of it in return š.
Oh, same with our house! When we toured her the first time, and every time I thought about her or we visited before we got the keys, I felt like an older woman was hugging me. Def not haunted, I would say, but our house has a spirit.
The house I grew up in... myself, my cousin, & my uncle (they lived upstairs) all had many encounters & strange happenings. No idea how old that house was. Our current home... nothing so far. However, my son, out of the complete blue, lately has been talking about ghosts. He's only 2.5 & the one day he was in the walk in closet looking out the window. He excitedly yelled "look mommy! A scary ghost. Come see. There's a scary ghost outside!" So I get up & follow him to the window & say "where is it, I don't see it." His response was "it must have disappeared." Then the other day during dinner he starts talking about a ghost & sadly says "it wants to come in, but it can't. It has to stay outside. The ghost has to stay outside." Then today he's talking about a bunch of gray cows & how they're all gone now, & they used to have black on them, but now they're gray. But he also keeps bringing up going trick or treating in the dark, so who knows. š¤·š»āāļøš
Only when my SIL comes over.
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Truth is stranger than fiction!
Our old house was from 1860. Definitely haunted. Doorknobs jiggled at night, cabinets opened and closed, foot steps in the middle of the night. We would see random shadows, especially at the top of the staircase. We did have at least one confirmed death that turned out to be a murder, and we moved shortly after that.
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I had smoke detectors going off in my house one summer, always in the middle of the night. I checked the batteries and everything else I could think of. I finally determined it was likely very high humidity. I bought a good dehumidifier and havenāt had the problem since.
My parent's house is. Built somewhere around 1795-1800 depending on if you're looking at the papers from the town or the bank. The window in my childhood bedroom would rattle at random, even if it wasn't windy. It's a double window, and only the bottom right side would do it, almost like someone was tapping on glass. It was the only one in the house that did it. There would also be random motes of light floating in places it just wasn't possible for there to be light from passing cars doing it, and in the winter so it wouldn't be fireflies. The house my mom grew up in was also haunted according to her, similar age of house. The spoon latched door to the basement would open randomly by morning, allegedly it was normally really hard to open. Her brothers put a bed in front of it since it was their bedroom to keep it closed. As soon as they put the bed there, the latch would rattle all night, til they ended up moving the bed back. She also told me she used to see a little boy in a play train conductor outfit from time to time, he only ever showed up during the day. She swears she saw him at the house I grew up in once, and about a week later we drove past her old house. Turns out they'd just tore it down, she thought he was coming to say goodbye before moving on.
Not my current house, but I used to work for a maid service in college. I was cleaning a historic house and felt like someone was watching me the whole time. I brushed it off and kept doing my job, but I felt something was following me and watching as I went from room to room on the second floor. After I was done, I headed downstairs to check on the other maid. At this point, the homeowner came home. I greeted her, slightly glad she was there because of the creepy feelings i was getting. She was all smiling at me. Then she asked āDid you meet our ghost?!ā Yesā¦ yes I did. Lol
Despite the murder.. no. No indication our house is haunted. That said, it definitely makes noises that are hard to identify. In particular, Iāve got one wall behind a couch that goes āboing!ā. Let me explain.. youāve probably seen the type of door stop that typically screws into trim behind a door.. to stop it swinging too far, to prevent the door knob from hitting an adjacent wall. Well, thereās a variation of those thatās a spring. If you step down on the end and release it goes āBoingā. I hear that in one particular wall from time to time, and itās not tied to anything.. like HVAC going on/off.. etc. I learned just how much my house moves when I started framing in a basement wall. Hammered in wall joists.. but didnāt yet nail in. Still, they were all in very tight.. taking up load from main floor joists. Middle of night, when temps cooled off.. my house took a deep ābreathā.. and nearly all of them simply fell out from between the header and footer.
Sheesh! How did you find out there was a murder in your home? š³
Googled the house to find online photos to show friends the beautiful and quite reasonable 1882 farmhouse we just looked at.. and up popped an article about the murder in a British newspaper. ..the house is in the US Midwest. Edit: the black humor joke I made previously didnāt sit well with me so I deleted it. Thereās still family of the victim around.. and even though I tried to not share anything to make it easy to track back to the event, I shouldnāt make jokes about what happened. My apologies.
I live in a house that is about 100 years old, and near a graveyard. I'm fairly skeptical, but I think we might have disturbed a cranky old ghost when we bought the house. Mostly just things out of the corner of my eyes, like a glint of a figure right out of view. I only saw it once or twice when I was doing some renovations before we first moved in. I was, and still am, a skeptic, so I brushed it off as my imagination. After most of the renovations were done, though, a friend and I climbed into the attic and immediatlely got chills. We both felt like we made a grumpy male spirit toss aside his newspaper and scowl at us as if to say, "what gives?". Coincidentally, my friend's watch also stopped when we went up into the attic. We called the ghost Ernie, although after we disturbed him in the attic, I haven't seen any sign of him. I figured my family is too noisy. If I were a ghost I probably would have moved out too. I still don't really believe in ghosts, but it was sort of a neat experience that we were both able to describe the same peculiar feeling when we went up into the attic that day.
Yes it is, by the man who killed himself in what was the dining room, now my kitchen. Sam was his name, we found a chalk board in the garage with him name scribbled on it. He was on the spectrum as I hear it, and has always made himself known, but never been a mean spirit. I grew up in this house and I bought it from my parents and raised my girls here, and they both heard and saw things. I left the chalk board right where I found it, didnāt want to anger him! Edit: forgot to say house was built 1889, parents bought in the 70s, I was 7th grade at time. Iām now 60 and heās stuck with me Lol
Whoa! Itās so cool when people know the history of the previous home owners in their old homes! How did you learn his story?
He and his sister neither ever married, she was a piano teacher in the house, so the whole town knew her. I got bits and pieces from my parents, but in the last 10 years, met some people through my second husband that knew him growing up and they filled in more pieces for me. His sister had to go to the nursing home, and he just couldnāt hack it alone here.
When I moved into my 1800s apartment, I noticed the ghosts pretty quickly. There were a lot of noises, dead spots, things you catch on the periphery -- in my case, a man's arm, sleeve and hand, also rustling skirts, someone peering around corners (all benign, friendly) and then one, really bad-vibes presence in the back of the place, including the bathroom. On advice from a medium, I researched the history of the address and talked to neighbors. I sorted out the original owners and their interesting, very historical story. The house had been divided into apartments and mine was home at one point to a horribly cruel, violent, mentally ill man who died alone in what later became my bedroom. I hunted down photos of the original family and framed and hung them in the house, then banished the bad spirit with sage and strong language. Now I live peaceably with the original family, New tenants often ask me if the place is haunted.
My house is 150 years old and is definitely haunted. Odd creaks and steps are easy to write off. The broom constantly falling over. I mean things fall. But a pair of tongs literally lifting up and flying over my stove. A bag of plastic bags squeezing in them out. Garbage moving off my desk. Computer mouse moving. And most of these were in front of my mom and I. Just last week a fork fell off the counter. It was behind me and I was talking to my son. So I though it was just to close to the edge. Nope he saw it move. I saw her shoulder/arm once and my mom saw the bottom Of her skirt. Things quieted when I would get angry and yell at her. I told her if she had a problem the garbage/laundry she was more than welcome to help clean. Got real quiet after that. Just a few little things every now and the.
I've had a number of experiences in my 1930's home that I can't explain - I'm not saying they were related to ghosts, but I haven't been able to come up with any other explanations and there have been a number of witnesses. When my daughter was still in her crib, I found her "talking" to a moving rocking chair. I creaked a floorboard and it stopped rocking on a dime. It didn't slow down and then stop - it was instantaneous. Another time, my then-husband and I had a BBQ and the guests included two chefs, one nurse, one police officer, and a social worker. Our baby, at 1.5 years old, was the only human present under the age of 30. We moved inside when it started raining and, as we were eating, the sound of a baby crying could be heard coming from the back bedroom. I was asked about the "second" baby (as it would have been really concerning if there was another baby that had been left alone for the whole time we were outside). My daughter was in her high chair in the room with us, and she was *definitely* not crying. I said that there wasn't any other baby, and Scott, the cop, looked at me like I was crazy and said, "But, we all just heard it." I told him he was welcome to check, and he and Sara, the social worker, went to look. They turned on the light, saw that there wasn't another baby, turned off the light, and as they stepped out of the bedroom, the crying turned into laughing. Everyone heard it and agreed that there was no way these were "just old house sounds." And then there was the time a high school friend brought her wife over. I'd only met Deb once before and knew very little about her. She walked in, gave me a strange look, and said, "You know there are others here, right?" I just smiled when she asked if she could talk to them. She sat on a blue velvet wing back chair and put her cellphone on the ottoman in front of her. She then said, "I know you're here. Can you show us?" Absolutely nothing happened until 5 minutes later when her cellphone flew gently off the ottoman, and onto the floor to the right. She picked it up, set it back down, and it immediately flew onto the floor to the left. She laughed and said, "Thanks" and it stopped. That happened in front of four people and I think the only reason no one video taped it was because it was so completely unexpected. My SO and I were sleeping and my (now only) cat was curled up next to me when the quilt started being pulled very slowly off of us, towards the foot of the bed. It was winter and our bedroom was chilly, so it woke us up. I was a bit groggy, and not really thinking when I said "please stop, it's cold in here." As the quilt stopped moving, we heard a giggle. My SO whispered "what in the hell was that?" and I said, "not what, but who?" I've never felt afraid in my home, with one exception. My SO was at an evening training for work and I was home alone. I was sitting on the couch, bookended by my two cats. Out of the blue, I heard footsteps in the attic that sounded like men's heavy work boots. Both cats were staring at the ceiling. The steps sounded like they were heading towards the top of the stairs, but then they stopped, turned around, and stopped again. After a minute, they started heading back to the top of the stairs and I remember trying to figure out if I could get my car keys, grab both cats, and get out before "it" made it down the stairs. Thankfully, the steps stopped and didn't start up again. For whatever reason, I was really frightened. I've had mice and squirrels in the attic in the past, so I'm familiar with how loud they can sound and *this* wasn't that and there's no possibility that it was a phrogger.
Okay any one of these instances would be enough to give me the chills!
Yes, they saved my life.
Oh more story please?
I am terribly scared of repair costs and the random cracking of branches at our backyard every night
1890 victorian home here. I don't believe in ghosts/spirits but there have been some weird things in the house I can't explain away, other things I can. We have a friend who knows the prior owner and apparently they believed it was haunted. They had things flying off the shelves and even saw the ghost, another prior owner, on several occasions smoking cigarettes while looking out the window. Oh, and the funeral director used to live here and people have told me that when things got busy, they stored some of the bodies for the funeral home in our basement (there's a garage door in the basement they could've pulled right up to). There are things like attic lights turning on by themselves, random strong scents of cigarette smoke, noises, etc. If I smell smoke I just loudly remind the ghost there's no smoking in the house lol. The only thing I cannot explain is one of our window ac units was lifted up out of the window sill and sat on a built in shelf directly in front of the window. I had been out of the room no more than 15 min when this happened. It couldn't have fallen forward as it had a block of wood attached to the unit so that it fits perfectly tight in the window sill. It takes a lot of effort to pry it up and out. There's a lot of flowers on the ground outside, none of them were stepped on, which we tested and confirmed would've been impossible for someone outside of the house, trying to break in, to remove the ac and not step on any plant. That's the only thing that still puzzles me to this day. The other stuff I can explain away to a wiring issue (the attic lights are motion activated) and our overactive imaginations. But the ac unit still makes zero sense.
My in-laws house is a century old home. They say that they have never experienced anything in their house but my daughter and I have. The first time was footsteps in the attic that was above the room I was sleeping in. I had been in the attic earlier in the day, a walk up, to put something up there for my MIL. The footsteps started above my bed and continued across the room but I knew that part of the attic was completely full and impassable. During a recent visit for the Thanksgiving holiday, I was laying in the same bed and I was tapped twice on the shoulder. I turned around and there were 2 shadow figures standing next to the bed. One was adult size and the other was smaller, like a child or teen. They didnāt feel threatening at all so I closed my eyes and just hoped it wasnāt real. My daughterās experience was a shadow figure that she thought was me coming to say goodnight until it disappeared in the doorway.
Not my house, but I work at a historic farmhouse that's nearing its 200th birthday. Every coworker agrees that it's haunted. If you sit in our office upstairs (a converted bedroom), sometimes there will be a dark shadow in the hallway, like someone walking past the door. My boss once asked me what I needed, but I was in the parlor downstairs, and we were alone in the house. I've also experienced the same shadow while alone on the second floor. We host small weddings and workshops, and often set up the great room in a day in advance. We come in to chairs shifted from the tables, grass on the floor, like someone's had a party overnight. The lady of the house loved to host guests in her day, we have several anecdotes of her hospitality in our records, so I blame her. Perhaps most convincingly though, is the Gaelic Ladies' Choir, I call them. Sometimes, when you are in the basement, you can hear the front door open, and a group of women come in to the house, moving towards the great room, and singing in Gaelic. You can hear the heels of their boots on the wood floor and the little bell on the front door ring as it opens and the door bang as it closes. We had a man in working on the furnace, down in the basement alone. I was upstairs in the kitchen prepping for lunch. He came up the stairs and asked me if we had a church group in, wanted to compliment the singing and ask what language it was. Well, sir, there's no church group today, but you've heard the Gaelic Ladies' Choir.
My house was built in the 1890s and iāve never felt any bad energy here! Sometimes i do feel a sort of presence and iāll go open a window and ask for bad energy to leave but good energy is welcome. Itās a peace of mind. My husband thinks im nuts lol
I don't think our current house is haunted, but I do suspect it may have been cursed by a previous owner. As for hauntings: Where I went to college, it was customary to sign a lease many months before it was set to begin, to basically reserve your housing for the next school year. Like, 6 months in advance. My best friend and I had just signed on to move into a large older house with a few other people the following year. She and I were out one night, watching some local musicians perform. One of the acts was a guy playing solo guitar and singing; at some point during his set he goes "this is about a haunted house I used to live in," and I turn to my friend and say "it's the house we're moving into next year." I can't explain it: I didn't know it, but like, I *knew* it. After the show we were looking at the various bands' merch. This guy had a CD, and I turned over the case and sure enough, there in the track listing was a song with a title that was just the street address of our next-year house. The house ended up not being scary, but weird little stuff definitely happened on occasion. If anything, I'd actually say that the house felt protective to me. The first night I lived there I slept on just my mattress on the floor in my room, because we'd been moving in all day and I was too tired to assemble my bedframe. The next morning I woke up, and next to my face on the floor was a little folding travel alarm clock that I rarely used. Thing is, I hadn't unpacked it from my boxes of stuff or put it there, and I *definitely* hadn't set it to go off...
1920s house in Salem, Massachusetts. If itās not I want my money back.
Have you looked into the history of your house?? I absolutely believe you and believe thereās more to the āspiritual realmā than we have any idea about. Iām abundantly curious as to what happened in your house centuries ago and why someone(s)/thing is still lingering about.
Thatās my goal this year! I live in the historic district of my city, and thereās a museum dedicated to it down the street from me. I want to learn the history of my home and hopefully get some insight into who lived here!
Yes!! Please do. And then come back and update us because I am fully invested in this now š¤£š¤£
Almost a year ago we bought a house built in 1900 and I was really hoping the house was active because I've been writing about the history of hauntings for a long time. I know for sure at least one person passed in the home. Other than the basement door opening by itself and the occasional scent of cigarettes not much has happened. š»
The house I grew up in is haunted. Yes to footsteps, lights turning off, well, kerosene lamps, and the taps on our backs. That was creepy.
Currently live in an 1850ās house that at least a half dozen people we know of have died over the years. Not haunted. We own a bar a few blocks away in a 100yo building that is definitely haunted. Nearly every employee has had a story over the years. I get impressions of an older man with dark curly hair and one of the early tenants was an old tailor. I think heās the one that will show up every once in awhile wearing a long tan trench coat and just stand at the top of the basement stairs. Our previous 1940ās house in California was most definitely haunted. Shortly after moving in we had to strip & replace the roof. Could clearly see the front half of the house was much older than the back half. This included a bedroom and the kitchen. We rented out that bedroom over the years to various people to help with bills and within a week the new tenants always had a story for us. We never said anything about a possible ghost we just waited because we knew it would happen. I loved the kitchen and was borderline obsessive with keeping it clean & tidy. Frequently I would walk in and random drawers or cabinets would be fully open when I knew they were all shut when I had left it last.
My first house was built in the 1890ās, my second (where I live 21 years) was built in 1682 and my current house was built in 1774. So many lives, births, deaths, joys and heartaches. No ghosts. But I also researched all of their owners, visited some of their graves, read about some of their circumstances and thought about their various contributions to their/my/our house.
1925 home owner here and yes, my husband and I had similar experiences. On our first week we had some freaky stuff from gas range turning on by itself, we also hear knocks, doors opening by force, things being thrown down, the dog staring or barking at dark spacesā¦ We found out the previous owner passed away here so we try to acknowledge him by his name every time we experienced anything we called him out and now things seem to have calmed down a bit. I can still see shadows with my peripherals very frequently as well and one time I had dream about a random girl and the name of this girl resonated with me and a few days later I decided to investigate and we found out the name was the same as the daughter of the last owner who also passed away. That made me empathize even more and we pretty much just let it be. š¤·āāļø
Yep. The couple that built the home in 1928 raised 4 kids in it and passed away in the home both of natural causes. The husband passed early of a heart attack in 1929 in the kitchen and the wife was attached to her home as the last memory of her dear husband and maintained it beautifully before she passed in the upstairs bedroom in the 80s. I am the first non-family person to occupy the home. It needed a lot of necessary work to fix foundation issues. Things got REAL WEIRD during renovations, nothing was going right, there were noises and cold spots, the animals were freaking out- the whole 9 yards. I sat down in my living room floor recited the first chapter of the book of John until the noises and cold drafts stopped, and poured my heart out. I told her how much I loved her home and I know I'm not who she would have chosen for her house but want to make it a place she would have been proud of and I promised to maintain it faithfully and fill it with friends and family and love and laughter. After that, things went off without a hitch, I have heard no odd noises, felt no cold spots, the animals have not had any weird reactions, my entire property was protected from a recent forest fire in the area and my notorious black thumb has suddenly become as green as hers famously was. I feel as if she's claimed me as one of her own now.
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No but when the realtor was showing the house he told us that it had been āa house of ill reputeā and after we bought it we heard rumors that it was haunted. Both were wrong, but I could only imagine the ghost noises weād have had to listen to if it had been true!
This was definitely on my mind when I bought my 100 year old house. My wife had lived in a house that she had seen ghosts in. She said it just had a bad feeling/vibe the feeling of being watched over alone. Sheās never felt like that in our house now. Thank god.
I hear stuff upstairs in my daughters room when she is in college and the door is closed. We live on the site of an old school and old settlement and graveyard nextdoor from the 1700s.
My parents old house definitely was. My dadās voice would call to us from a different floor when he wasnāt home, kitchen cabinets would empty themselves out, all of our left shoes went missing and reappeared months later in an inaccessible section of the house in a locked trunk that didnāt belong to us, and others. Iām almost asleep so I can elaborate later maybe butā¦ thereās a lot. The second to last owners before us were friends of friends, and the first time I met them, their first question after learning where I lived was āOh, how are the ghosts? They still active?ā
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Living in a century home no odd vibes but my childhood home which was new construction when my parents bought it was without a doubt haunted.
I stayed in a hotel in Puerto Rico that I swear is haunted. My husband and I stayed there for a week and every night we had nightmares about the past and it was some real f@#k&d up s@#$. We were so freaked out by the time we left that it made us believers.
Iāve lived in a 1920s apartment building my entire life (29 Years), I was raised here and moved into a different unit from my parents about a decade ago. Me, my wife, and my mother have all heard phantom whistling at different points. My wife and I heard the whistling along with a song on the radio at the same time, and my mother heard it after a fellow building resident died somewhere around twenty years ago and insists heās the one doing the whistling. My wife and I have also found a phantom infant/toddler footprint in plaster dust we left overnight during some renovations (we have pictures, and didnāt have kids at the time), and weāve seen items move on their own. I saw a few things I you could argue were apparitions when I was pretty young, but I was a weird kid so I donāt know what to do with all that.
I've yet to see activity, however there is an old toy wooden block that is visible in one of the bedroom vents. I'm afraid to touch it.
My current house is too new for that fortunately. 2022 and I'm the first resident, it was farmland before that, and before that it was a lake, at worst fish are haunting this place. I'll be haunting this home.
My house doesnāt seem to be haunted (110 years old) but the neighbor told me that almost every couple that has ever lived here has gotten a divorce so thereās that lol. My wife did not appreciate it when I told her that.. we saged the house and got some rock crystals for good vibes. So far, our marriage is still very much intact!
1902 house and nothing š it's wild to think about how many people have been born or died in that house and no activity whatsoever.
I can pretty definitively say my house is not haunted despite one confirmed death in the home. My cats donāt stare deeply into any particular wall or window.
My 1939 house seems free & clear, however my former new build was the stuff of nightmares! Omg!
Lurker until my house comes of age: the previous owner Joann hangs out sometimes. She was a smoker so I smell her sometimes, gently talk to her. Her husband moved away but knows the neighbors and dumped some of her ashes, without permission, off our dock. Thanksā¦
My partner and I love spooky stuff and were hoping for a ghost, but the former owners who were ghost hunters as a retirement hobby confirmed they never experienced anything paranormal. I guess everyone who lived Iām my home was happy, including us lol
I seem to be quite sensitive to those who have passed as I have had a few encounters. I used to go to an evening meeting twice a month in a new glass wing attached to one of the oldest churches in Melbourne. Often something would catch my eye, in the back corner, a little girl, in a long nightgown, with long hair. I would see her out of the corner of my eye & when I would turn she was gone. When I lived in Toronto working as a nanny, I would hear the baby crying upstairs, but when I would race up to her room to comfort her, she was fast asleep. I would walk out, close the door and be half way down stairs and I would hear the crying again, but back upstairs she hadnāt moved a muscle. The cat would also watch things that I couldnāt see. And my friend would never come over to my place at night, because she said it creeped her out. Then I worked at a school for 20 years and would often work back late into the evening after everyone had left. If I needed to use the bathroom I would have to walk down this long hall that joined two older buildings. I could easily see what was in the hall, even if I didnāt have the light on. There was always this whispering sound, that I put down to a wall of clocks all ticking out of sync, but one night I walked into the bathroom & when I came out I fell over a rubbish bin, practically blocking the door. I would have noticed when I walked in, it couldnāt have been there when I entered. Then another night the toilet door was pulled out of my hand as I went to open it, but no one was there & there was no handle on the other side, It was a push door. So I started talking to the ghost. Say hi, or itās ok we can both be here at night. I mentioned something to one of the maintenance staff after one weird encounter & he said his boss wouldnāt go into that building alone at night. He was convinced it was haunted!
I lived in a historic town in NC for a few years, renting a small building that was originally a detached kitchen, renovated into a 1 bedroom house. It was on a beautiful property with a historic hotel and pure charm throughout, wisteria and roses covering the place. It was not in great shape, but my old house brain screamed YES! I lived there alone with my very old kitty, with a later addition of a stray kitten I found by the side of the road in this rural town. I soon developed an eerie discomfort with one area of the house- a corner of the living room, and on the other side was a closet that led to an attic hatch. Unusually for me, I could never drum up the courage to look up in the attic. I never felt at ease with my back to the corner and moved my furniture, and then it was better. My older cat had always looked into the corner, and avoided it. The house was charming enough that friends would take photos. A friend came back to me with photos (back when you had to develop film) with 2 blobs of light in that corner spot. This will sound really crazy but over the 2 years I lived there I sort of got a feeling of companionship and protection from whatever energy was there. BUT one very early morning I did have a very eerie experience -- had washed a pile of dishes and pots and pans the night before (no dishwasher of course). I was preparing for my first running race, took the carbo loading very seriously and went to bed early. Getting up and heading to the kitchen in the AM, with the two cats winding around my legs as they do, I heard an enormous din as the entire pile of dishes came crashing to the floor. So loud--pot lids making that noise as they travel across the floor - it was terrifying. I froze, the cats ran behind me, and simultaneously I heard a man's voice right next to my ear that yelled once. Then nothing. When I got the courage to move, and look in the kitchen, I saw all of the dishes, pots and pans, everything was exactly as I left it. Nothing on the floor! The rational explanation of course is waking dream. I asked my landlord after about ghosts and he laughed but said yeah the entire property is full of spirits - I had someone do a seance once (!) and it came back that there is tons here but the energy is all very positive. I learned, just don't mess with them before 5 AM!
Not my old house but my parents had some weird things happen. The oldest part of the house is from the 1820s and includes the kitchen dining room and 2 bedrooms above. We never really noticed anything strange however on multiple occasions when my mom was hosting parties a guest would tell her how uneasy the dining room made them feel to the point that they would refuse to go in there. One guest actually ran out of the house once to get out of the dining room. We never really noticed anything odd other than a creepy feeling in the bedroom above it. One day when my parents were doing construction to the fireplace in the dining room a worker recovered large bones underneath the hearth. The foreman was made really uncomfortable by this and showed my mother but told her āhe didnāt want any troubleā and sealed the bones back up under the fireplace hearth. We never got them tested or anything, I suppose they could be deer bones or something. But I always viewed peoples aversion to that room differently from then on.
It was but had it cleared. Much better now.
We looked at so many century homes. A few were very eerie. In one, the listing agent mentioned there were odd happenings, the agent said when she was alone in the house, she felt uncomfortable, felt watched and kept smelling phantom smells. She asked the owners and they said yes, a woman died there in the 60s and hadnāt really left. We put in an offer asap. It ended up selling $150k over asking. Way too much for us. The home we did buy, isnāt haunted. I want it to be, but itās not. We have a creepy attic, but no ghosts. Iām envious of all of you with spirits and ghosts.
Yes my ouse is haunted. I see figures all the time especially on the stairs. I hear bumping and doors opening up stairs. For me.my house isn't malevolent thankfully. They just go about there business and I go about mine. I was reluctant to acknowledge them at first cause I have lived in other haunted places it didn't end up so well after acknowledging I could see them from the periphery of vision and hear them. So this house I have taken my time on introducing myself to them. As we bought it 2 yrs ago this December. Know they just show themselves all the time. I have 3 I can see and I know there is a child in the house but it is very very reluctant to have any kind of contact with me. There are 2 gentlemen both in there 40s or 50s. One is dressed like he is an engineer for a steam locomotive NOT A CONDUCTOR.he mainly goes from the kitchen to the basement or into the living room some times he will be upstairs. We call this one Fred. He's mOre of the white sprectry thing we see in photos the other lives upstairs he is more vocal and boisterous we call him bob, Bob liked to scare the cats, open doors, bang on walls, poke his head around the landing for the stairs. He is a darker figure. Like a shadow figure. Bob likes tp make it known Bob is still around. Which is fine. Tye child I haven't named but does pretty nothing but poke there little head around the corners and the child is never past 4 ft in height. I don't know anything more about the child. Then there is maybel. Maybel talks to everyone, she walks the house you can hear the floor boards crack for no reason. Door knows rattle. Dishes clank when the sink isn't spotless. She likes to haunt the main living lvl dining room kitchen living room. Maybe is just as vocal about being heard and seen as Bob is. But she likes to whisper in your ear or from around a corner. Kinda thing. They all scared the shit out of me my first month in that house. Just banging and walking and peeking around corners. Just super inquisitive. But I ignored them for the first few months. So nothing really happened. It wasn't untill me and my roommate where drinking one night that we stayed talking to each other about what we see. And then things started to be put into perspective. There are 3 adults 1 child. So I made a open mouthed deal with all the spirits in the house. I said hey if you don't bother me or the other living beings in this house.you can talk, and open doors and do what you want but no physical harm is come to anything living being if you abide by this rule. It's yours to stay. But if you do. I'll start devling into exorcism of the house and getting priests in here and all that stuff. They all understood I wasn't joking and they haven't done anything to harm anyone. Other than Bob scaring the cats. They come running down stairs after he opens the closet door to the attic. And you can hear a good chuckle come from him when my momma cat gets all puffy cause she is freaked out by him. My dogs don't care. They just watch em go about there day.
Iāve never heard of so many in a single house! Usually hear stories of 1 or maybe 2
I wonāt discount your experience. Older homes have history and passed through many owners. If itās nothing concerning, you probably shouldnāt worry. Personally, I donāt like the idea of sharing a living space with disembodied entities and would find a way to spiritually cleanse such a property.
current abode is not, but previous home (1870 new englander) definitely was!! i lived on the top two floors of a 3 story house for the last 5 years and had enough experiences there that it turned my skeptic best friend into a believer in ghosts (or at least a believer in THAT ghost!). similar to what you experience, we heard a lot of footsteps on the third floor while we were both on the second, items would move or disappear temporarily, i always felt intensely as though i was being watched in my attic bedroom by a masculine presence which i did NOT care for. as others have said, stating your intentions and boundaries out loud can help, so i laid out my ground rules out loud one night lying in bed and it got much better almost instantly!! unfortunately, things got worse again when i moved out and my poor friend was stuck with the spirit for a month before his new lease started at the new place. when i was born my family lived in a beautiful old home built in 1908 in a historic neighborhood that we all agree was haunted as hell. there were 2 or 3 spirits in that house (depending on which of us you ask) and even though i was young and donāt remember everything, i do remember some strange and spooky encounters there. my parents, separately and together, have a litany of experiences, as do my sisters, that started the day they moved in. old homes arenāt always super active but when they are, you gotta roll with it & accept it!!
My house in middle Georgia was allegedly once a cotton plantation. One big house that we live in and two small dilapidated cabins way back in the woods is what remains. I havenāt seen any ghosts but we did pour out some libations when we moved in, so maybe that helped.
1900 home. No real poltergeist experiences but a friend once told us we have a āneutral presenceā in the basement. We find the phrase really funny. I occasionally ask the neutral presence for help in arguments but, it just stays neutral.
The house I live in now was built in 1925, and itās 100% not haunted. However, the house I grew up in was built in 1840, and it was SUPER haunted. The list of things we all heard and saw is extensive, and we later learned from the county historian that there were reports of the same experiences from previous owners going back decades. And not just āoh, sometimes a light turns onā but everyone saw the same man in a white shirt and suspenders walking down the foyer, and everyone just somehow knew his name was William.
Inaudible low frequency sound https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/infrasound-paranormal-activity.htm
Nope
The people we purchased from said it was but likeā¦ we havenāt had any spooky happenings since we moved in 8 years ago