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Kaye The spirit probably thought how dare you use my best guest lounge room for a bedroom lol

Sue - the spirit may not have died in the house, just have some sort of affinity/tie with the house. Nobody had died in our old house, but we believe that the spirit was most likely the previous owner who had passed away in a nursing home. Things were worse in one particular room, which we used as a bedroom when we first moved in. Once we changed rooms and that room was no longer used at all then things got better - we found out that the room in question had been this woman's best lounge where she took her guests! We must have seemed very rude! Kaye x

When I lived at home with my mum and dad, the spirit of my nan (my mums mum) use to visit us. My nan had worked in a fish shop all her life, but never ever smelt of fish but after she died we use to get this very strong smell of fish in certain parts of the house, mainly in the front room and always towards the front door. Dad checked the electrics as this can sometimes produce a fishy smell, but there was nothing. Nan use to come on a regular visits, and I use to talk to her, you could even feel her presence in the house, anyway when we were moving house and mum was emptying a cupboard the smell was right by mum I told mum nan knows were moving, then when we went upstairs the smell followed us. After we moved house all was well until one day, mum said can you smell fish, and where I was I couldnt, checked all the rooms but no smell, but when i went by my mum the smell was so strong, Nans here I said come to see how we are and I just told everything that had been going on, sadly mum and dad moved again and that was the last of my nan. Would love to speak to her again, but dont think that will happen anymore. Yvonne

Well I have caught up with my landlord and they have not heard any rumours about the house being haunted. But an old man owned the house before it came into their family. They are not sure if he died in the house or not.

Hi y'all Am reading this fascinating thread quite late and feeling a little spooked! Don't beleive in ghosts at all but might have to sleep with the light on tonight!! Thank you all for your stories, Kaz

Ok Thanks Len. I will have a look.

If you enter 'life after death' or 'ghosts' in the search box at the top of the Message List, then click 'Search' you will get all the threads that previously have covered this subject. Len

Gee Thanks for all the messages. I do love reading about everyone elses experiences. Please keep them coming as a few people sound like they are also enjoying reading the messages.

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

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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

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??

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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