Hi all,

See if anyone can explain this for me....

Sunday morning OH gets up at 5.30am for work, and calls me to ask if I've locked the spare bedroom door.  I reply no, and get up to see what he's on about.  The bedroom door is one that can be locked from either side, but the outside you lock with a key (which we don't have) and the inside you lock by twisting the middle part of the door knob round.  And it was locked - completely locked - from the inside.  There was no window open, so it couldn't have been banged shut and locked (although that's incredibly unlikely anyway), and we live alone, except for the animals.

This was weird enough in itself, but I remembered that a few weeks ago the bathroom door had also done the same thing, but fortunately that was easy to unlock from the outside (must be a safety feature for children or something).  However, the bedroom door, with it needing a key, had to be forced open in the end.

On reading the deeds to the house we read that a previous owner died in 1988 - whether it was actually in the house or not I don't know.  Good job I'm not scared of ghosts!

Any other ideas on how it might have happened?

Keeley....that is spooky, i moved in to this house in November and a few weeks ago i took all the money out of my husbands wallet to put in the bank :-) and left £20 in the wallet for petrol, i didn't do this until around midnight....then i went to bed, woke up that morning and the £20 was gone :-( and we still dont know whats happened to it.....and i know 100% that i left £20 in there

Crikey, that's worse than my story!  A ghost that locks doors I could handle, but a ghost that steals..... that's just cheeky!!  It's so annoying when you just can't figure out how something has happened.  You don't sleep walk do you?  Maybe you popped to your local 24 hour tesco for a midnight treat?!  :D :D :D

LOL @ Keeley....i wish that i had spent it :-D i have searched this house as i have been told that ghosts do move things.....but what would a ghost do with my money :-( it can't spend it, and as far as i know i don't sleep walk :-D

That is weird!  Do you think there could be rational explanations for these happenings then, or do you believe it could be 'spirits of those passed'?!

In our previous house there used to occassionally be a really, really strong fishy smell on the landing and in certain parts of my parents bedroom, its was so bad sometimes but would come and go so wasn't actually fish in the floor boards or anyhting( how weird would that be?!!)
Then I remembered something from when we moved in, in my parents bedroom there was a very old fashioned fitted wardrobe, for want of a better word, with a dressing table fitted in the middle...and not wishing to totally gross anyone out but it was splattered with blood....me and my brother used to joke on that someone had been killed there! But speaking to our neighbour it turns out that the couple who lived there(well the woman sold us the house) the man had died of lung cancer and had spent most of his time in that room. Now, I don't think he died in there but I definatley saw something stood at the top of stairs, I'm convinced it was him to this day. And when we had Mog, our cat, she would sit in the living room and look through into the dining room as if looking at someone but there was no one there.

And its still happening now, we moved out of that house 3 years ago but mny mam is still firends with the neighbour, and the smell is still there and people have seen 'things' ie ghostly figures.

He wasn't a'bad' ghost, never did anything bad but when i researched about the smell I was a bit freaked but it just convinced me even more that there is something in that house!

Spooky indeed!

Emily

Certainly is!!  I'm always quite comforted by the thought of ghosts - nice to know there's something to look forward to after we've 'gone', even if it's just winding people up by locking doors, stealing their cash or leaving behind a fishy smell!!!  :D :D

To be honest Keeley, i'm unsure what to think....but i have been told by the neighbours that most of these houses are haunted :-( and oppersite my house is a church and apparently it's the most haunted building in Britian.....you may find it if you look on google i'm in Backford, Chester :-)

Hi,
I have had  £20.00 £10.00 £5.00 notes just disappear, of the table, and side table.
Thinking how and where has it gone! some times a quick as going
to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee.
Then one evening when my husband put some change on the coffee table,
change from buying a curry.
Guess what!! we caught the colprit, it was our Samoyed dog that just walked past
the notes, and swollowed them.
He is the most expensive Samoyed anyone could ever have.
Regards
Denese

OMG!  I'd have killed it!!!!

I have two stories that have a ghostly feel:

When I was about 12/13, my mum took me and my 4 sisters on holiday to good ol' Skeggy! We stayed in a 'holiday flat' we had two rooms, one was the main living room and kitchenette, with a sofa bed and a double bed, and the second room had a sink and a set of bunk beds and a single bed. On the first night my mum went on the sofa bed and me and my little sister went in the double bed, and my three other sisters went in the second room. The next night we all had to squeeze into the first room (still can't remember how we did it) because the second room was 'damp', so we weren't allowed in there - at all! We spent the week shopping and doing things you do when in cold raining Skeggy!

It was only on the way home that my mum and eldest sister told us why we weren't allowed in there. Apparently on the first night when my three sisters were in the second room, they had all woken at different times in the night to someone knocking on the end of their respective beds, each of them thought it was one of the others knocking and so ignored it and went back to sleep. In the morning they came in the big room, and had breakfast, and went to go back into their room, the door had a key lock that acted as the handle, so my sister put the key in, pushed the door and couldn't, there was something against it on the inside that wouldn't let her open the door, she said it was just as if someone was in there not letting her in. My mum tried to get in and she felt the same thing, and also scratching.

That was the last time anyone went in the room, their things were left in there, hence all of the shopping!

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When I did my work experience at school, my placement was at a recruitment centre in the centre of the town, all very exciting....! Anyway they had had the decorators in painting the offices, before I got there. About a week after the decorators had finished, a blue mark (like spilt ink) appeared on the ceiling above the entrance doors. No one knew how it had got there, and it caused a bit of a do in the managers office. One of the girls that worked there decided she was going to research what the building had been used for in the past to see if that could answer the question of where it had come from. She tracked down loads of pictures and info on what it had been before and in one of the photo's, there was a blue mark, on the ceiling in exactly the same spot as it was now. She learned that shortly after the photo had been taken the building caught fire and nearly everyone who was in it had died. Two weeks later (after I had finished my placement) the building caught fire again, this time everyone got out in time, thank God. But the fire gutted the building, and it got torn down and is now the entrance to a new arcade!

Hi Natalie....your stories are spooky :-D

I have goose bumps

hubby was a caretaker in a very old victorian school and we lived in a very large 5 bed house with two reception rooms, kitchen, and servant quarters, the house was the old headmasters house that was with the old school, now in two of the bedrooms there was walk in wardrobes that had doors at the front of them and the back of them the reason being was the doors lead to the servants quarters when there used to be servants (only skivvy now is me) well the dogs would not go into these rooms they would growl low and slink past the rooms all the heckles where up and they really hated it, then one day my daughter came down stairs in tears and said mam you will have to tell the lady that comes through the wardrobe she is not funny and she really smells weird, well no one could of come through the wardrobe doors as they where blocked off from the bottom, so i said to my daughter next time she comes to you stand your ground and ask her what she wants,the night i heard her say no sorry they don't live hear any more ok then thank you, in the morning my daughter said mam did it she was the mother of one of the young servant girls that lived hear and the old headmaster had made her daughter pregnant and then would have nothing to do with her the town made the girl feel ashamed and she was sent away without letting her mother know she then died giving birth and the mother found out and was looking for the headmaster, daughter explained he no longer lived here and she said thank you and went back through the wardrobe doors and never appeared again.
both my daughters have this gift, they are not frightened by it at all, they quite enjoy it, my eldest says sometimes she can find it quite harrowing, some of the things she sees or finds out many a time we are down librarys council offices birth,marriages,deaths etc finding out things that someone has told my daughters and to check if they are correct and they are.
carol

I too have "the gift" from been about 3 I have had regular visits.  My previous dog (wilam the poodle) used to sleep in my bedroom and he was used to the visitors but when I got Maggie she has trouble settling and now has to sleep in a different room.  Shes getting used to things now but it does take time.  When I met my husband he thought I was just strange as he really didn't believe until my great gran visited one night and would not leave until she had proved to him wrong.  He ended up sitting straight up in bed stating that he now believed and could she go away as she was scaring him.  I couldn't do anything for laughing.  When they are around now he says your mates are back!

I do welcome it as I never feel alone, it can be a bit scary.  I will tell you one story, are you sitting comfy ok I'll begin
On a dark dark night in the woods there lived a  - sorry couldn't resit LOL

Ok I was on holiday in Tenerife when I woke up after a dream,  I was going to the vets taking Wilam and my Nan came along.  At the vets I tried checking in but they kept saying both names Wilam and my nans.  I went throught to see the vet/doctor and turned to look at my nan and her face was disfigured as I had a tumor on it.  Wilam had the same on his throat.  On leaving the vets I received a phone call and someone was saying Monday lunch would not be too late.

Upon waking I rang my mum concered about my nan and Wilam.  My mum was really strange on the phone and I asked if I was too late for nan?  Mum said that nan was in the hospital having tests.  I asked if it was a tumor on the face and mum confirmed that yes they did supect that.  (When I left to go on holiday my nan was fine). She said the Wilam was ok but having trouble eating and they was taking him to vets that day.  I was traveling home the next day and I went straight to the hospital.  We brought her home as she only had a short time left.  Anyway I was at work and a crow was crowing really loud outside my window and I had a feeling, I went straight to my nan who passed away once I was there - it was Monday lunchtime.

Wilam was diagnosed with a tumor in the chest which was restricting his breating and eating so we had to say our goodbyes to him.

I call this part of the gift my early warning system as it gives my family and friends the opportunaty to say there goodbyes.

Not all of it is this sad there is good times as well - like the mischeivous little boy that plays in my office he keeps me amused all day!

That is such a lovely and sad story at the same time.  Sorry for the passing of your dog and nan, but wow, what an experience you had.  It gave me goose bumps reading it.  I don't know if I could cope if I could see 'spirits' around my house, I think that would seriously freak me out!  I do have 'premonitions' and have had quite a few, well loads actually, but I suppose some people would call them 'coincidences'.  For eg, I used to look after two little boys, Daniel and Jonathon,  on a weekend morning, and whilst driving there I had a little 'picture story' in my head, and imagined their mum saying that I only had one of them to look after today, and low and behold when I got there, she said exactly that.  Another eg involves these children again.  We were at Lincoln x-mas fair (which is HUGE and full of people) and I saw a little boy that reminded me of Jonathon, and again in my head I had a sort of picture where I bumped into the boys that night, and again less than 10 minutes later, I did.  That was very weird as I had no idea they went to the x-mas market, and there were literally thousands and thousands of people milling around Lincoln Town - I couldn't have found someone if I'd have been looking for them, that's for sure!!

I went to see a medium a few months ago, who unfortunately didn't turn out to be very good in my case (although she was fantastic for my sister, getting everything spot on), and she told me that I have a good 'sense' of things.

We have a friend who lives in what used to be the vicarage in our village (Elm in Cambs). It is renowned for being haunted by Ignatius the Bellringer - the ghost of a medieval monk who fell asleep whilst on flood watch ( this was in the times when the Fens often flooded) and so did'nt ring the bell to warn the rest of the monks in time and several of them died. He haunts the Vicarage as his penance and the bell can be heard whenever someone in the village dies. He also walks around the upper floor of the house ( I have heard him several times). His story has been published as part of a couple of 'haunted houses of England' books and he has been seen several times by my friend wandering around the rooms on the third floor.

Yvonne

"you live alone apart from the animals"
did the animals knock the doors shut? my dog does this all the time

Hi Clutha.  No, unfortunately it couldn't have been the animals.  It wasn't the fact that the door was shut that was the problem, as I shut them before going to bed, but it was locked, and can only be locked from the inside.  If the animals had anything to do with it they'd have still been inside the room!!

what happend to the other pages i need info from it!!!!!
Fiona

Huh?!

Fiona think's she's seen a ghost and so has her neice.  She want to read the information posted on this thread in order to help her understand....I think! :D

My mums house which I lived in all my life until 1999 is haunted and has been since my parents moved in 1978.
We could write a book about that house.So many different things happened and still do on a very regular basis.
My mum over the years has had a vicar,a priest and spiritualists in to sort it out.All have said there is definately something there and the spiritualists said that he wouldn't pass over as he couldn't accept he was dead (apparently he is only 26 and died in a car accident when he was living in our house.)
Each time a blessing was done we had a few weeks of quiet and then he would return.
Over the years he has appeared loads of times,he moves things,bangs on doors,locks doors from the inside,heavy breaths around us............I'll have to stop or we will be here all night. :o
I remember on one occasion me and my older sister used to share a bedroom (we were about 7 and 15) and she was hanging Jason Donovan posters on our bedroom wall with drawing pins.To our amazement we watched as they slowley popped back out of the wall.All 6 of them 1 after another.Now that was scary

The house we used to live in some odd things happened to me there ...the back bedroom for example was freezing cold but OH always said it was because it had 3 ouside walls and I accepted that!
during the day when I was alone I would hear doors bang and the dogs we had at the time used to stand at the bottom of the stairs and bark continually looking up .
I would wake up in the night and feel as if someone was watching me and would close my eyes tight and hope it was my imagination ...I didnt want to believe their was something not quite right.
The loft opening would lift on its own during the night we would get up and it would have moved but Oh would say that it was the wind I  always believed what Oh told me because I really didnt want to think it was anything else ..lots of different things occured to many to mention here...
We had moved a few months into our own home when a old neighbour who I stayed in touch with rang me up she said that the family who had moved into our old house wanted to leave cause they said our house was haunted!!
I was so shocked I burst into tears immediately because deep down I had always thought that it was too.... apparently during the night they could hear a child running up and down the stairs continually they had a young family and the children had seen a young boy.... strangely enough this old neighbour was the only person who I told about my worries about the house thats why she rang  to tell me  and to let me know that  it wasnt all in my head.

Well our 'spirit' has disappeared since we came back from holiday - pretty much the same time I discovered I was pregnant.  Very strange.  Ah well, I'm happy for it to be staying away!