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I live in an old house, and we have had a few strange happenings. First we have an old wooden veranda that goes along 2 sides of the house that stop with a dead end and about a 15 foot jump off the veranda to the ground below, we was sitting in the kitchen and heard what sounded like someone walking along the veranda. But when we opened the door from the kitchen to the veranda there was no one there. Secondly I had a Christmas card hanger in the lounge room at Christmas time, it was one that if you pressed a spot on the hanger it played Christmas tunes, well it went off a couple of times. At first I blamed the children, but then it happened when I was in the house alone. Lastly we have a wireless doorbell that runs on batteries. It is the type that you can move the inside section into different rooms or if you want you can take it to the clothesline etc so you can hear it if someone is at the door. It also suggests checking if your neighbours have one the same as it could affect each other’s, so if one person gets a visitor and presses the doorbell it could ring in both houses. Well it has gone off on its own accord on 3 occasions. I have checked with the neighbours and they haven’t got that type of doorbell. I have charged the batteries and it still happened. It went off for the 3rd time last night at 12.20 am so we jumped up out of bed, and I looked out the bedroom window to the driveway and the front of the house, while my partner went to the back door and turned the outside light on, we saw no movement from anywhere. What do you think have we got ghosts????

Wow.... apparently if you stand in a room in the centre of your house and ask the spirit to identify itself it will knock something off that either belonged to them or reminds you of them if you know the spirit. If not then just ask it to leave as its making you uncomforatable and it should stop.

Kaye, I have thought about trying to look into the past with the house. It is an old house and the council are trying to make it a heritage listed house. If there is a ghost I think he is a friendly one... but annoying lol.

Asregards the doorbell, I had a similar problem with a neighbour's car alarm. Every time he switched the damn thing on or off, I was going to the front door and swearing at the non-existent kids!

Jim, That is what we thought that something may be intefering with it as in a neighbour with the same type of doorbell, but they havent and we are the only one with a car that has an alarm on it....

Seriously I believe that my old house was haunted. It wasn't an old Victorian house or anything like that, in fact it was a bungalow built (and decorated) in the 60's/70's - all swirly carpets and slightly psychadelic wallpaper! The day we moved in there my Husband said it felt unlucky, I didn't feel that, but it never did feel like home. I noticed that a particular object in the Kitchen was always slightly out of place, but at first I thought I was just knocking it. Then one day my Husband confessed that he thought the place was haunted - he kept hearing doors shut in the middle of the night and would get up thinking we had burglars, but there was never anyone there. A lot of the electrical items in the house went wrong, which I suppose you could say was dodgy wiring. But one thing was odd - we got a brand new microwave and within a week it had packed up completely, an engineer came out and fixed it and then a couple of days later it packed up again, the same engineer came out again and couldn't understand why it had gone wrong again - he fixed it and left. A few days later it went again and this time we demanded a replacement thinking it was faulty. The replacement worked fine, but the digital clock was fast - about 12 hours ahead. This was a minor problem that we lived with. About a year later we moved again and my Husband set up the microwave, I told him not to bother with the clock as it was fast, but he set it anyway - it worked fine! We kept for a few years until it started to go wrong, but the clock always kept time. There were other things that made us believe it was haunted, but it's too long a story to go into on here. They do say that you should ask the spirt or ghost or whatever to stop playing trick on you - supposed to help? Kaye x

Kaye LaLa. Sounds like you have had your share of eerie experiences as well. I think I might do as Diana and you have mentioned and stand in the middle of the room and ask them to stop their games and leave. Not that they are causing any harm like they did with you and your microwave, but it is getting annoying when the doorbell rings in the early hours of the morning. Kaye.. if it gets more eerie or any worse I might think about moving.

Kaye.. I got a laugh out of your last message, so yes I am keeping my spirits up hehe. I dont think the ghost has caught me in the shower otherwise it would have run a mile by now lol.

good luck sweetie and let us know how you get on!! Diana xx

Try taking the batteries out of the doorbell at night,If it still rings thats when you need worry. Deborah

I'm quite sure their was a ghost in a house my parents lived in years ago. We would hear someone walking around the house, and when we would get up to check, their was never anyone there. Things would disappear or you would find them in another room. One night my mother turned on the lamp and it flickered and went out, thinking she needed a new light bulb, she took the bulb out, put a new one in, and turned on the lamp, but it wouldn't go on, she happened to look down, and noticed that the lamp wasn't even plugged in, yet it had flickered when she first tried to put it on. That really gave us the creeps. They say children and animals can sometimes see things we can't. There were a few occassions where my daughter (who was 2 at the time) would walk into the livingroom and scream hysterically pointing at the ceiling. She couldn't really talk at that time, so we never knew what she saw that we didn't. I could go on, as alot of creepy things happened in that house, eventually they moved from that house.

sue, my wireless door bell(s) go off on their own all the time. at first , thought it was kids, then thought about neighbouring door bell, found the problem in the end............ everytime i switched an electrical appliance on or turned lights on/off, the bells would ring.. lynnxx

We definately have spirits in our present house and have had them in at least two of our other houses. We had a littl old lady who sat by the fire in the front room of our present house. When we had our farm in the depths of the Dorset heartland,we had a very active house. One of our sons came to stay and when we asked him if he had slept well he decsribed his room as 'busy'. It wa a lovely farmhouse.Our nearest neighbours were half a mile away but every Sunday morning the house smalled of apple tart cooking. In Stevenage we lived in a new house on the site of an old one.We heard heavy footsteps across the upper floor and on the stairs and heavy drawers of a chest of drawers being opened. We sometimes saw an old man in the kitchen and at the bottom of the stairs. My mother thought he was my grandfather. At first I used to see him,but I thought that I was alone in this.Then one day in the kitchen my son was plugging in the chrome kettle when he started. I realised what had happened and I said'Do you see him too?' It was then we realised that there were three of us seeing him. We were going through a very difficult time emotionally as my then husband was having an affair and life was pretty fraught - I think my grandfather was there to watch over us. Rose,back to Ramblin'again

Someone mentioned the sensitivity of animals. Our present cat watches someone cross a room and she talks for hours to someone we cannot see if she is in a room on her own.I have watched her through a crack in the door and she is definately responding to someone. When we moved into our present house twenty years ago we were often woken at night by a thump on the bed as what felt like a small animal leaped onto it and settled down.When we asked neighbours if an animal had lived in the house they said the old lady had had a little dog. The cats that we have had in that time which have died here are often seen out of the corner of the eye skittering through a doorway. My Mum was around for about a month here after she died.I saw her often and my husband saw her twice.She used to sit beside the cat on the settee.

Yes I do believe that something remains behind when we depart this life. I certainly don't believe in eveil spirits or poltergeists though. My friend had a definate 'presence' in her house. Moving things, kids toys switching on ect. She found that the person who had lived and died in the house before them was the architect who designed it and they were planning alterations. One day she was in the kitchen and the TV came on by itself. She said nicely but firmly. 'Thank you for designing us such a lovely house, but we need to make some alterations for our family as WE are living here now. Please feel free to visit to see how we are getting on, but don't frighten the children' or something to that effect. She now says that strange things have stopped happening but occasionally she 'feels' someone is around and just says 'hello Fred'. and he doesn't bother her......... Strange but true. I wouldn't mind sharing with a friendly presence as long as we all know where we stand. ;o) Claire xx

Don't know about your other problems but I've had the same problem with a doorbell - it kept going off at all crazy times - turned out that whenever a plane went overhead it would go off. The shop I work in was built as a private house in the 1800's (used to be a butchers at one time), if I'm ever on my own in there I have felt on several occasions that there was someone behind me. Turned around and nothing. If I'm busy serving a customer there have been a few times that I thought I saw someone going out the back into the stockroom and kitchen - have even left customer to go and check - nothing. Never said a word to this to any of the other staff - but the other day one of them mentioned the same things as I had been feeling/seeing. Who knows for sure??

My wife moved into the house we bought nine months before I got a transfer ..but when I arrived I did not feel comfortable in the living room we made a different room into the living room.. learned later that the previouse occupant had died in that room............this is Wales and I had brought some old drawings of Saddleworth and hung them up... but quite a few times one was on the floor in the morning .. the srting was not broken and the hook still in place...........I have three border collies and many nights the oldest one emits a low growl towards the window which in the old days was where the kitchen sink would have been................the house was built around 1885 so will have had many occupants........whatever happens is more odd than scary........... no sense of menace oh by the way when I changed the pictures of England and hung mirrors instead they stayed secure

Well I really loved reading all the ghostly activities that are about. The doorbell has been quiet since I left the message but who knows its just a matter of waiting to see what he will do next. I am positive that he/she is a friendly ghost and means no harm. I dont mind if they stay around, but I do which that they can refrain from ringing doorbells in the middle of the night lol.

Firstly what a good thread!!!! I use to be a security guard and I had to look after a 65 bedroomed nursing home I was sat there one day filling in my sheets and I heard a window break I contacted the control and told them we had had a break in checked all windows and checked every room and NOTHING The house that I was brought up in was haunted and had many of occasions when different things happened too many to list so I am a definate believer and its been lovely reading all the threads Oh by the way this website must be haunted cause from time to time we get bumps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have lived in a couple of houses with experiences, nothing menacing. First one an old man went to my son he was 2 at the time told him stop crying your mummy is coming. this was in a room that had been used as a hobby room only one family lived there before. You often heard footsteps but it had the nicest feeling . At the moment (not seen for a while) we have a visitor that comes to the back door never knocks a lot of people have seen this and it is never mentioned so they don't know but still look to see who is coming in. My son had a strange one in his house. His dog often sits looking up in the corner where the chair is one day he said has Joe been. No, well on the chair in the corner in what looks like felt tip is JO, Joe couldn't even write then and no felt tips in the house. I think the strangest one was one my Mum and Dad told me. Before my sister was killed she took a kitten home my parents knew it was dying but nursed it. 2 weeks later Pat got killed a few weeks later Mum and Dad sat in the kitchen and a cat came in and ran up the stairs Dad went after it no where to be seen and no way it could have got out. My Mum always said it was telling her Pat was OK. My dad said no way were they imaging this they both saw it. Could go on. think this is an interesting thread. Germaine x