Things that go bump in the night

[Riff Raff]

Ok another thread following on from the Memories thread, and prompted by Stonechuckers mention of experiencing spirits, who else has had ghostly experiences?

For me it was when I was living in Dover. The house was really spooky at night and I hated being there alone. My bedroom was split into two rooms and I often heard strange noises in the other part - sort of shuffling noises - and the room always got really cold and darker when that happened. One night I was sound asleep and my stereo turned on at 1.30am. I got up and turned it off, and it turned on again at 3.30am. This time I unplugged it. But it turned on again which freaked me out. Then the shuffling noises started and it got freezing cold and really dark. I lay there with my head under the duvet, absolutely petrified. I heard the shuffling right beside the bed and then a really gravelly laugh. And then it was gone and the room warmed up again. Not long after that I moved to New Zealand. I always meant to see if there was any history attached to the house.

[riffer]

Not as uncommon as you might think...

[Paul in NZ]

Yeah.. I had an out of body experience and my body got taken over by the spirit of this fat ugly middle aged guy that rides like a girl (a slow one too) when really I'm a studly mid twenties millionaire movie star with amazing bedside manners and super cool knee down abilities on a bike.. It's really very disturbing...

But seriously... Yes I lived in a haunted house... Our flatmate blew his head off with a shotgun in the lounge and we had some pretty fricking strange goings on after that... Some were very funny and some... less so (this is a true story btw)

However... Spirits seem to be attracted by the smell of burning hemp, grain alcohol and Bob Marley music.. No idea why! Probably an old charter or a council by law or something.

[Jonty]

Yeah.. I had an out of body experience and my body got taken over by the spirit of this fat ugly middle aged guy that rides like a girl (a slow one too) when really I'm a studly mid twenties millionaire movie star with amazing bedside manners and super cool knee down abilities on a bike.. It's really very disturbing...

But seriously... Yes I lived in a haunted house... Our flatmate blew his head off with a shotgun in the lounge and we had some pretty fricking strange goings on after that... Some were very funny and some... less so (this is a true story btw)

However... Spirits seem to be attracted by the smell of burning hemp, grain alcohol and Bob Marley music.. No idea why! Probably an old charter or a council by law or something.

OMG! that is horrible

[dveus]

Our house has a spirirt/ghost. Not uncommon to here footsteps. I used to have an internal window between my room and the laundry, have seen the silhouette of a person through the curtain. You also get the feeling when walking around a corner and someone is coming the other way you sorta feel/know they are there before you see them, get that quite a lot going into the kitchen, makes you stop in your tracks, never really knowing why.

I'll try to dig up the photo we have of the house where you can see a face in the window, tis quite weird.

[Paul in NZ]

OMG! that is horrible

Yes it was actually.. Nice guy and I was gutted for his family! Gut wrenching helping them pack up his stuff. His dad was bloody heartbroken over it... (long story)

The police were bloody fantastic at helping clean up because there was a fair bit to clean up! (You gain a certain respect for people helping you in situations like that when technically they don't need to)

I was gutted for our elderly landlady as well. I helped clean up after the cleaners had gone but we had to totally redecorate and while i midssed the guy, my most vivid memory was taking down the venetian blinds with our 80 year old landlady and a blob of missed brain matter landed on my shoulder.

I was freaking out but didn't want to upset her.. but mentally I was doing the get it off get it off thing... Bleugh!

Nasty business....

NEVER DO THIS... OK! NEVER EVER EVER. It's just not a nice thing for the people you leave behind.

[placidfemme]

Such a common thing people say is "there is a ghost in MY house" when really if you think about it... they/it was proberly already there when you moved in so you are actually in THIER house...

When I was a kid, my sister had a friend named Ruth who she played with every afternoon after school, and they never used to play with me, used to upset me so bad, and of-course being like 6 I'd tittle tale to my mom about my sister and her friend always ignoring me and not playing with me, and one afternoon my mom came home at lunchtime from work, and I started complining about my sister and her friend, and asked my mom to go shout at them... and my mom came out the back garden with me and stood there watching my sister playing and said something along the lines of "shout at them mommy" and I remember my mom looking down at me and saying "It's just Natalie... she's alone".

And I could see this so called "Ruth" sitting next to her laughing... I didn't understand it at the time... but talking with my sister about it when we were older made me realise why mom had got the house blessed and why we had moved shortly after that... and that was just the first weird experience I've had...

We're not alone... thats for sure

[Sniper]

Watch a movie called The Grudge. That gives you a reason to check your house!!

I have never seen a ghost BTW

[Mr Skid]

Such a common thing people say is "there is a ghost in MY house" when really if you think about it... they/it was proberly already there when you moved in so you are actually in THIER house...

But if you've paid for the house isn't it YOUR house? Any ghosts would simply be squatters, based upon Euro-centric concepts property rights.

However if it was a Tangata Whenua ghost, a strong argument could be made for customary rights, in which case you'd better get out of it's house, whitey.

[vifferman]

But seriously... Yes I lived in a haunted house... Our flatmate blew his head off with a shotgun in the lounge and we had some pretty fricking strange goings on after that...

A guy I worked with in Christchurch (Bob) said his flatmate did that. Same guy?

My sisters and Mum are all a bit weird, and they all saw my Dad at my middle sister's wedding (he'd died a few months before that). I didn't see him there (I was busy playing photographer), but I woke up the exact instant he died, even though I'd had only three hours sleep, and I was several hundred kms away.

Whenever I'm unconscious (fainted, or anaesthetised), I have strange time travel adventures, usually forward in time. I inherited this from my mother, who hates the experience so much (she remembers more vividly than me what she's 'experienced') that she is almost paranoid about ever needing another operation. When Dad died, she dreamed about it: some angels came to see her and said "Drink this - you'll need to be strong". When Dad went, she felt like he didn't want to go, and was trying to take her with him. She woke up, exhausted, and then the phone rang (the hospital saying he'd died).

My sister's house in Grafton was haunted - my mother told us one of the rooms had a horrible cold patch in it, so she'd never sleep in that room again.

[Sparky Bills]

Often when im riding, I have things like walls, traffic islands, and people suddenly chucked in front of me!!
Some kind of weird force or just me??
Theres some weird shite going on in this world today.

[placidfemme]

But if you've paid for the house isn't it YOUR house? Any ghosts would simply be squatters, based upon Euro-centric concepts property rights.

However if it was a Tangata Whenua ghost, a strong argument could be made for customary rights, in which case you'd better get out of it's house, whitey.

That is true...

I think some people are born lucky and can't see/hear/feel abnormal forces around them... my family has a history of knowing weird shit... my aunt, granmother, my sister and myself can see things sometimes...

Most of my family are now born-again Christians and believe that knowing the future, seeing ghosts (they now call them demons) and the like is wrong and against all thinsg good... with me when I see things... just ignore them... my partner thinks I'm crazy sometimes when I see things and ask her if she saw it too... her familys house up north is haunted more than any other house I've been in... I tried telling her folks... and now they think I'm even crazier then they already thought I was lol... they have an old man and two younger men wondering around thier home, usually in the kicthen and bathroom (which is freaky showering and knowing someone/thing is watching you).

[bugjuice]

I get 'bumps' in the night.. I just wake the gf up and she sorts me out..

have seen The Grudge btw, that's a touch scary. A few friends and I used to drive for hours to go find 'haunted' places in the UK.. Not sure if I believe in all that stuff. But it's hellishly good fun to play with those who do

[Lou Girardin]

There's some entity in our house that hides keys, remotes etc.
Seems to be active when I have a wine or five.

[placidfemme]

There's some entity in our house that hides keys, remotes etc.
Seems to be active when I have a wine or five.

yes that one told me that they like to play tricks on your when your slightly dis-advantaged... they make bets on how long it will take before you start blaming the missus of hiding the keys/remote e.t.c... the one named Bob usually wins