I think my house is haunted..

[omega3]

Several people have died in the house I currently live at but I haven't noticed anything too strange (temperature differences, etc but then again this house has no ventilation or heating/cooling). My grandmother's house on the otherhand everyone always saw this 'phantom' figure at 3AM every night and stuff would float around beforehand. My grandmother had a religious figure come and take care of the phantom, I haven't stayed overnight (IDk) but she says she thinks it's gone.

[jonabong]

I've visited this one haunted house many times. It was made back in the 50's I believe. Many times being in there, strange things have happened. Part of the ceiling collapsed in, noises of people walking on broken glass in a closet, scrating behind doors. All of our friends get way scared going into the house so we always get a kick out of it

[Tomas]

I lived in a 100 year old wodden house during most of my childhood, and nothing strange happened other than things that could be explained by my active child imagination.

[somerandomguy]

a large area taking up about 3 or 4 streets is built on where a coal mine once collapsed.
my friend said he has a ghost in his house...obviosly i didnt believe him.....then we saw it and the moron (reffering to the ghost) gave ME one as well..allthough i havnt seen it since a couple days after that.
he has a ragged black dude (were black people allowed to do that in those days?)
and now i have..or rather had...a small girl.
thankfully we havnt seen them since then.

and no we weren't scared.......*eyes dart fearfully*

[rad]

I still don't know if I believe in ghosts..My sister is dead-set on the notion that they do exist. She reports that they have moved her while she was sitting on her bed, talked to her, oh and she claimed to wake up every night at the same time and see our dead grandfather in the reflection of the mirror in her room. I it's happened in the two places we have lived in the past 7-8 years but one of the houses was built in the 30's and the other is brand new so either she is imagining things (she's turning 21 BTW) or ghosts are following her. I have yet to see one or witness any physical proof/encounters.

[chambered_nautilus]

[~Ed~]

I don't really know what to believe with ghosts, I live in a 231 year old house, and there has never been anything happen that couldn't be put down to the imagination...

As for your alarm clock, in my bedroom my computer speakers play the radio (FM band) every night when they're not plugged in, but I think it is because they are really old and are not shielded from EM radiation, so they pick it up somehow. It absoluely terrified me the first night they were there . It's a mystery to me however how they manage to play a mix of Radio 1 and Classic FM, it is very annoying! Anyway, perhaps it is something to do with this?

[Lexa Corvin]

Sounds like you live in a neat old house Area 51...double bonus if it's haunted too! I'm packing my sleeping bag, I want to come visit. Maybe we should have a ghost-busters get together Weird phenomena can happen to use at certain times and places in our lives. I used to have a typewritter that would run even when unplugged, it happened a few times. I thought I was losing it or maybe LDing but I wasn't dreaming. So I did a silly thing - I took took the typewritter back! My friend said I should have kept it so we could have experimented with it Oh well, there's always the TV that likes to come on in the middle of the night...

[Childhood]

[ina]

When I was studying in Coventry I lived in a house that I think was haunted. Whatever was in there never really bothered us. It just did some strange things happen. Once me and my housemate were in the kitchen chating when the kettle started boiling itself. Another time I went into the kitchen to take something. Everything was normal. I went to my room and came back literally 5 seconds later(my room was right next to the kitchen) to find half of the kitchen cupboards wide open.This was 8 in the morning and I was the only one awake in the house. But even if I wasn't, there is no way that someone did it and got out of the kitchen in 5 seconds, they would have to pass infront of my room to get to the kitchen so I would have seen them. Other times I would hear footsteps in the room above me when the girl that lived there was not in.All of us that lived in that house saw, heard or felt strange things. But we were not threatened by it. It didn't seem like it had bad intentions. I think it just wanted to make its existence felt. It might sound weird but one night all of the housemates sat down and talked to it.Of course it didn't reply. We just said that we know it's there, we are not afraid of it and the only thing we want is that it doesn't disturb us as we don't disturb it. Since we all (us and it) had to live there we shouldn't cause eachother problems. Nothing bad ever happened. It just liked to remind us every now and then that it was there.So I agree with you chambered_nautilus.If it's not bothering you might as well just live it there.

[StEvE21]

A 231 year-old house? Do they last that long in UK? (I thought it had a bad climate for a house to last that long)
Anyway, I haven't experienced anything like this.

[Sepultura123]

[Mizukane]

I agree that usually you don't need to worry about ghosts. I share my room with 4 of the buggers. Occassionally it makes me uncomfortable to sense them watching me all the time, but they never relly bother me.
If you actually manage to talk to them, it can actually be quite interesting.
Kevin, the one I'm most familiar with as he followed me from my old house, is an American Star Wars fan who died in a car crash. He's been around me for at least five years now and I don't think I could get rid of him.

[Childhood]

A friend of mine had a really scary experience with a ghost in her house. The ghost was an old lady, and the family who lived there had kind of gotten used to sounds, and other weird happenings in the house. They even sometimes saw a person walk by, when not looking directly in that direction. My friend also experienced frequently that she would hear someone open the door into her room at the middle of the night while she was sleeping, and then walk in and sit in a chair. Yes kind of creepy, but it`s getting worse...

One night, the same thing happens. She was so used to this, so the didn`t even bother about it. But this time, the person opens, and she would hear the sound of the door going up, but she didn`t hear any sound the person sitting down in the chair. So she opened her eyes, and a old lady was leaning down into her face, starring at her, next to the bed! My friend was terrified by this occurance, and didn`t sleep in that room for a while.

[Iluminada]

Sylvan: How much research did you do on the actual indentities of these ghosts? Or how did you get them to disclose their identities?


Childhood: That totally sucks for your friend. I totally know what it is to wake up with something in your face like that. It isn't funny and the feeling of anxiety is incredible, let alone the fear.