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The haunted house story!

Okay so ya'll were so interested in my haunted house story. This is actually a lot less exciting than it sounds so for once my story is gonna be lame. I'm a total stickler for things like making sure my pantry is closed before I leave the house, making sure lights are turned off, TV is turned off. Mainly because I'm a mom so I am detail oriented by forced nurture and also because my dog will get into the pantry and eat all the things. 

So yesterday when I let to go to that lunch I did my sweep of the house. Shut the pantry, turned off the TV, blah blah blah. When I came home hours later the pantry was open with the light on and all the lights in my house were on, even upstairs. I NEVER go upstairs. Even the TV was on. However my dog was just sitting on the couch as if nothing was odd. We've been burglarized in the past so he is pretty in tune to intruders. Also he didn't eat "all the things" like he usually would have. The entire situation was fishy and terrifying.

Then that evening my mother in law stopped by to get clothes for my kids. She was keeping them overnight because I was a mess due to the car accident. She brought my 6 year old (Spencer) along. We were in my front room first chit chatting and Spencer was in the living room playing with his Legos. My MIL and I walked into my kitchen to grab a water bottle for my Spencer's lunch the next day and we walked back into my front room and my end table was moved completely into the foyer. 

I immediately yelled at Spencer for moving it although I did think it was pretty impossible for him to move our super heavy end table across the front room in less than one minute. He quickly said he didn't do it and he had been playing with his Legos the entire time. I told him to come move it back and he complained he really didn't do it and said he couldn't even move it and came and showed me that it was far too heavy for him to even move. It took me and my MIL to move it back.

So yep, I have a poltergeist, the unhappy kind that moves furniture.
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Re: The haunted house story!

  • Holy shit.
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  • arrippaarrippa member
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    edited May 2014

    Why did I read this? I am a wuss when it comes to scary things.

    Since I did read this, it doesn't sound like your ghost is unhappy, just mischievous. If he/she/it was truly unhappy, I would imagine it would end up like one of the many movies I do not watch.

  • How creepy! I love spooky stuff like that, but I'm a total weirdo. I hope your ghost doesn't do anything serious. 
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  • I think that would be awesome!  :D
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  • Try talking to him/her.  :)
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  • So creepy! I miss my ghost. FI and I used to live in an apt on the back of a B&B and there was a ghost that decided to hang around in our space. Nothing huge ever happened, but once in a while things would go missing, or the ceiling fan we never used would be turned on. One time the ghost unplugged our crockpot in the middle of making chili so our dinner was ruined. Never moved any furniture though. FI's mom used to live in a house when she was a child that was overrun with ghosts. She's got some of the best stories.
  • That's pretty scary.  Hopefully nothing escalates into anything bad.

    If you want to try a sage cleansing here's some info on it - not sure if it's right because I've never done one but have talked to spiritual people about it (they believe you should bury it in the back yard after your have cleansed):
    http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/freshliving/2009/07/how-to-cleanse-your-home-with-sage.html


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  • ElcaBElcaB member
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    edited May 2014
    Zillow.com, darling, zillow.com. 

    ETA: Also, SAGE STICKS. 
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  • Oh I love ghost stories!  I don't have any of my own, but when BF was little (like 4 years old or so) he would play in the basement and his mom would come downstairs sometimes and he'd be talking to someone.  When she asked who, he said, "The man with the scary face" (but I guess he wasn't scared of him). 

    Well one day one of his relatives was showing his mom a picture of some man and BF said, "That's the man that I've been playing with!"  Turns out it was some man that used to hang out near a bar across the street from his house, and had recently died.  I got the chills the first time BF told me that story.
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  • Light a candle (midday will be ok too, no need for some The Craft kind of shit), just calmly say out loud that you are not trying to disturb anyone, and you hope that anyone who hears you will do the same.

    That's all you need to do. Might work, might not do anything, but being nice certainly won't hurt.

    I'm not into any woowoo shit* but just saying things nicely is not the worst thing in the world.

    *I have a friend who is. Someone recommended that she cleanse her house with some sage and my friend said it pissed off whatever was staying there. They ended up moving shortly after that.
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  • I LOVE ghost stories! As long as FI is home at the night to calm me down when I'm freaking out because I'm scared lol.

    My parent's house is definitely haunted. There is a little boy that sits on my mom's dresser and cries.  We've all seen him. And the light in the hallway flickers whenever someone dies.
  • edited May 2014
    Thank you for the stories. I have one. 

    When I was eighteen, my family moved to CT to an old Victorian house. It was beautiful, but odd and a little creepy. It had a beautiful winding staircase which led to an attic bedroom. My brother was the lucky one who got that bedroom. Soon after we moved in he told us that his bedroom light- a set of bronze wall sconces would turn on every time he entered the room. He's a joker, so we had to see it to believe it. We all climbed the stairs, opened the door and the sconces went on. Left the door open, and tried again - the lights went on. The lights went on randomly. My brother would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to find them on. So we were thinking there was something weird going on there. 

     One night my brother, mother and I were sitting around the dining table trying to figure out the light situation, the creepy basement and why our dog's back hair would stand up and he would 'follow' something around the house. We were really into our discussion when the table and the chairs we were sitting in moved in the same direction enough to startle us. We were totally freaked out. My father started laughing hysterically. He had noticed the oriental carpet that they had bought with the house was off center and squatted down and gave it a hard tug to set it right. We had been so involved in our creepy conversation about the light that we hadn't noticed Dad was making an adjustment. We laughed so hard that I pissed my pants. For a while, we called Dad 'Houdini' and we still laugh whenever someone brings up the story.

     We never figured out the lights. They just stopped turning on by themselves after a while. The dog settled in and stopped his weird behaviour, too. My Dad doesn't believe in any of this supernatural stuff, so he was never convinced that there was anything strange about the house and likes to remind us that the rest of us are wacky, as evidenced by his carpet trick.
                       
  • I come home to find cabinets open, drawers open, things knocked off of shelves, all that kind of stuff....nothing supernatural though...I have two rambunctious cats. 

    Now, the house I lived in as a kid....that's another story!  There was definitely "something" hanging out in my attic, and it gave me the creeps! 

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