I have ghosts living in the attic. They sound a lot like squirrels. In fact they probably are squirrels. Or maybe GHOST SQUIRRELS.
/image ghost squirrel
/giphy spooky
@hchavers So let me tell you about my very psychic mother… Her husband is from Turkey and his parents did not speak any English. My mother had met them when visiting there a few times. About 10 years ago his mother was very sick and they knew she didn’t have long to live. A bit before that, my step-father had been diagnosed with Parkinsons. One night around 4 am my mother awoke to see her mother-in-law standing next to her bed. She asked my mother to promise she would always take care of my step-father (her son) to which my mother agreed. His mother dissipated and my own mother went back to sleep. They had communicated although his mother didn’t speak English and my mother doesn’t speak Turkish. Around 7 am my step-father’s nephew called. He informed my mother he hadn’t wanted to wake her up but about 3 hours earlier he got a phone call saying my step-father’s mother had just passed away. Yep, true story and just one of the many interesting experiences my mother has shared.
I used to live in an apartment in a building that used to be a hospital in the 1840s. You could tell where the individual hospital rooms were (my kitchen, bathroom and bedroom/living room were all exactly the same size)
So I imagine lots of people died there. And yet, no ghosts.
Although I did have a bat fly into my apartment once.
My family and I once lived in a house that seemed haunted… Shadows, cabinets opened after being close earlier, our pets acting strange, movement in the attic when no one was present there and many traps set for possible vermin but never activated, house popping abnormally always giving us chills on our necks… all this and more occurred to the point where we eventually moved out… Even our neighbors mentioned that when someone rented the place, within a couple months they would leave… They said we have been the only family that endured for two years… Later we would drive by the house after a couple months and notice that there would be different cars in the driveway suggesting new renters. Never saw one but did from time to time feel cold breezes in secluded areas (could have been an a/c pocket though). The area did have a history but too long for any details.
It is haunted by the debt collectors of my ex, who ran up a credit card after we split. I’m not sure why they do that since I have moved four times since we were together.
I bought a house a year ago and hired my friend to clean it before I moved in. She also did a ‘cleanse’ to make sure no ghosts were living there. Well, apparently it attracted them. Stuff I put away or even leave out for easy access seems to disappear randomly then reappear months later in a totally different spot that I know I wouldn’t have put that item.
@hchavers@looseneck or kids. Although my swore that when all the kids left home then things would stay put and be returned to where they belonged. NOT. LOL
Definitely. I know at least 3 people died there. Not sure the history before the gf and her family had bought it. My computer sits exactly where my gf’s father died of a massive myocardial infarction (heart attack) and our bed is in the master which used to be her grandmother’s until she died in that spot. Her grandfather died in a third of the 4 bedrooms. I hear and feel things occasionally. When our cat was alive he most definitely followed things around the house that only he could see. Photos always show mysterious orbs.
@cinoclav Those “orbs” are motes of dust caught by the camera’s flash.
Nothing mysterious at all.
Don’t believe me? Check your examples - I’d wager quite a bit that every photo with an “orb” is one where the flash fired.
Or are ghosts and spirits somehow only visible via flash photography?
@DennisG2014 Well thank you for that wikipedia explanation. But no, I rarely use the flash when taking pictures around the house. Believe what you want, I know what I and my family have experienced.
@sammydog01 Actually, I one found a missing pot with tiny bits of leftover Kraft Mac & Cheese, and a fork in the linen closet outside my son’s bedroom. Asked the kids for an explanation and son replied “OH! THAT’S where it went!”
I just started watching Cold justice. Was surprised most houses where a brutal murder occurred new owners had no problem living in after. At first I’m thinkin no way.but then I’m like a bargain is a bargain.plus u might get a free ghost included for fun .
@kodojr3 Every day I pass a house near me where some years ago the man of the house shot and killed his family (3 people) and then committed suicide. After all was settled the house went on the market for a really good price. That was a common discussion point, whether we would live in a house like that knowing what occurred there. I always said, for that price, absolutely.
I built my house - I know exactly what’s in the walls, attic and basement. No ghosts, just plumbing, wires, ducts and insulation. Of course, there is that ancient Indian burial ground it’s built on…
I believe in life after death but not sure I believe in ghosts. That being said, my youngest has had some experiences that make me wonder. Most noteable, she bought a house that once belonged to my friend. Said friend remodeled her grandparents house into a lovely modern home. Beth’s dog acted strangely in the back rooms of the house, growling or acting defensive at times. Beth finally told me she often caught sight of an older man wearing a white tee shirt, shuffling around, lost in his thoughts. I mentioned it to Cindy who asked for the description. She sent a picture and asked Beth if it looked like the man. Yes, it did, right down to the tee shirt. Cindy and dad were not speaking when he passed. She asked Beth to tell him “Cindy says she sorry and she loves you”. No more sightings. Daughter is level headed, educated, Christian, show-me-proof kind of person. I don’t believe Tyler Henry but I do believe her.
@tngrannyd I mean, as a Christian, you kinda have to believe in ghosts. Between warnings not to summon them, and then the bit where the witch of Endor summons up Samuel’s ghost for Saul, it’s built into the religion. Of course, belief in ghosts doesn’t require belief in every claim of ghosts.
There is a “haunted” house down the street from me. It was one of those houses featured on ghostbusters. So halloween I paid the $10 to see it (one of the students who served as a guide told us they cleared about $25,000 at halloween doing this - neighbor talked me in to going with them). So in one bedroom they had some receiver on the bed that allegedly went off when ghosts were near by. Opps bluetooth sets it off too (the guide said put your cell phone away you are activating this box - so secret number one from that show is BUSTED). Then downstairs they showed something moved. Um yup. I lingered and step on the floor board in just the right way and it sure does move. LOL. Oh and they had a photo of alleged orbs. Um that would be the reflection on the glass of the spotlight they were using to light the scene (they had needed to crop the photo a bit - photoshop would have helped too).
Never seen a ghost, but my cousin did when he was visiting me. He was 7, I was 17,and he came by my high school because it is an American castle. We took him on a tour, and we passed through the auditorium. He was asking who the guy on the balcony was, with the weird hat. We couldn’t see the guy. He got mad, thinking we were just teasing him, finally went to move on, ran into a janitor who heard him. Janitor had my cousin sketch the man, laughed afterward. Cousin had seen one of the resident ghost, wearing one of the wide-brim hats that you always see in pictures of quakers. Now I’m think the janitor is teasing us all, until he points us to the librarian, who had a massive photo album of ghost pics and stories for the school, including multiple for the wide brim hat. Cousin didn’t really have an obvious way to learn all this back then, maybe overheard something while we were walking around, but I doubt it.
How am I supposed to know if your house is haunted?!
@PlacidPenguin I don’t believe in ghosts/hauntings. I can say that his house isn’t haunted.
@evilstan60
Then how do you explain these?
@PlacidPenguin Your proof is bulletproof. I’m convinced.
My girlfriend believes it is, but I don’t.
I have ghosts living in the attic. They sound a lot like squirrels. In fact they probably are squirrels. Or maybe GHOST SQUIRRELS.
/image ghost squirrel
/giphy spooky
@awk This would explain how the mice in my attic can eat the food off the mousetraps and not trigger them. They’re spectral mice!
Do in-laws count?
@phendrick scariest thing you could possibly have in a house
I came here for a good Ghost Story, and all I got was one clever wit and a hokey animation.
@hchavers welcome to meh
@hchavers So let me tell you about my very psychic mother… Her husband is from Turkey and his parents did not speak any English. My mother had met them when visiting there a few times. About 10 years ago his mother was very sick and they knew she didn’t have long to live. A bit before that, my step-father had been diagnosed with Parkinsons. One night around 4 am my mother awoke to see her mother-in-law standing next to her bed. She asked my mother to promise she would always take care of my step-father (her son) to which my mother agreed. His mother dissipated and my own mother went back to sleep. They had communicated although his mother didn’t speak English and my mother doesn’t speak Turkish. Around 7 am my step-father’s nephew called. He informed my mother he hadn’t wanted to wake her up but about 3 hours earlier he got a phone call saying my step-father’s mother had just passed away. Yep, true story and just one of the many interesting experiences my mother has shared.
I used to live in an apartment in a building that used to be a hospital in the 1840s. You could tell where the individual hospital rooms were (my kitchen, bathroom and bedroom/living room were all exactly the same size)
So I imagine lots of people died there. And yet, no ghosts.
Although I did have a bat fly into my apartment once.
@christinerenee was a full 1000-lumen?
@hchavers thanks for the chuckle
My family and I once lived in a house that seemed haunted… Shadows, cabinets opened after being close earlier, our pets acting strange, movement in the attic when no one was present there and many traps set for possible vermin but never activated, house popping abnormally always giving us chills on our necks… all this and more occurred to the point where we eventually moved out… Even our neighbors mentioned that when someone rented the place, within a couple months they would leave… They said we have been the only family that endured for two years… Later we would drive by the house after a couple months and notice that there would be different cars in the driveway suggesting new renters. Never saw one but did from time to time feel cold breezes in secluded areas (could have been an a/c pocket though). The area did have a history but too long for any details.
I wish my house was haunted. We need a little excitement, around here.
It is haunted by the debt collectors of my ex, who ran up a credit card after we split. I’m not sure why they do that since I have moved four times since we were together.
My house is haunted by cats.
Or rather poltercats. They destroy everything and silently knock everything off the shelves whilst we sleep.
@OnionSoup but they do it with love
I bought a house a year ago and hired my friend to clean it before I moved in. She also did a ‘cleanse’ to make sure no ghosts were living there. Well, apparently it attracted them. Stuff I put away or even leave out for easy access seems to disappear randomly then reappear months later in a totally different spot that I know I wouldn’t have put that item.
@looseneck sounds like you have a spouse, not a ghost
@hchavers I have both. I don’t think he took my spare glasses out of my pocketbook and stuck them in the glovebox of my Jeep
@hchavers @looseneck or kids. Although my swore that when all the kids left home then things would stay put and be returned to where they belonged. NOT. LOL
@hchavers @Kidsandliz Nope, no kids. BUT - there is a digital lock on the front door that just about everybody knows the combo.
Definitely. I know at least 3 people died there. Not sure the history before the gf and her family had bought it. My computer sits exactly where my gf’s father died of a massive myocardial infarction (heart attack) and our bed is in the master which used to be her grandmother’s until she died in that spot. Her grandfather died in a third of the 4 bedrooms. I hear and feel things occasionally. When our cat was alive he most definitely followed things around the house that only he could see. Photos always show mysterious orbs.
@cinoclav Those “orbs” are motes of dust caught by the camera’s flash.
Nothing mysterious at all.
Don’t believe me? Check your examples - I’d wager quite a bit that every photo with an “orb” is one where the flash fired.
Or are ghosts and spirits somehow only visible via flash photography?
@DennisG2014 Well thank you for that wikipedia explanation. But no, I rarely use the flash when taking pictures around the house. Believe what you want, I know what I and my family have experienced.
Food mysteriously disappears, and dishes magically appear in our kitchen sink.
You tell me.
@LaVikinga If dishes appear in the sink instead of under the sofa your ghosts are more considerate than mine.
@LaVikinga you must have a considerate teenager, the worst of all hauntings
@sammydog01 Actually, I one found a missing pot with tiny bits of leftover Kraft Mac & Cheese, and a fork in the linen closet outside my son’s bedroom. Asked the kids for an explanation and son replied “OH! THAT’S where it went!”
@LaVikinga sounds like you have a teenager…
/youtube Jumpin’ Gene Simmons - Haunted House
I just started watching Cold justice. Was surprised most houses where a brutal murder occurred new owners had no problem living in after. At first I’m thinkin no way.but then I’m like a bargain is a bargain.plus u might get a free ghost included for fun .
@kodojr3 Every day I pass a house near me where some years ago the man of the house shot and killed his family (3 people) and then committed suicide. After all was settled the house went on the market for a really good price. That was a common discussion point, whether we would live in a house like that knowing what occurred there. I always said, for that price, absolutely.
I haunt my house.
/giphy ghost
I built my house - I know exactly what’s in the walls, attic and basement. No ghosts, just plumbing, wires, ducts and insulation. Of course, there is that ancient Indian burial ground it’s built on…
I submit that Mediocrebot’s house cannot be haunted, on account of Mediocrebot not owning a house at all.
I believe in life after death but not sure I believe in ghosts. That being said, my youngest has had some experiences that make me wonder. Most noteable, she bought a house that once belonged to my friend. Said friend remodeled her grandparents house into a lovely modern home. Beth’s dog acted strangely in the back rooms of the house, growling or acting defensive at times. Beth finally told me she often caught sight of an older man wearing a white tee shirt, shuffling around, lost in his thoughts. I mentioned it to Cindy who asked for the description. She sent a picture and asked Beth if it looked like the man. Yes, it did, right down to the tee shirt. Cindy and dad were not speaking when he passed. She asked Beth to tell him “Cindy says she sorry and she loves you”. No more sightings. Daughter is level headed, educated, Christian, show-me-proof kind of person. I don’t believe Tyler Henry but I do believe her.
@tngrannyd I mean, as a Christian, you kinda have to believe in ghosts. Between warnings not to summon them, and then the bit where the witch of Endor summons up Samuel’s ghost for Saul, it’s built into the religion. Of course, belief in ghosts doesn’t require belief in every claim of ghosts.
@simplersimon @tngrannyd nonsense. Everyone knows the witches are on Dathomir. Endor just has the teddy bears.
There is a “haunted” house down the street from me. It was one of those houses featured on ghostbusters. So halloween I paid the $10 to see it (one of the students who served as a guide told us they cleared about $25,000 at halloween doing this - neighbor talked me in to going with them). So in one bedroom they had some receiver on the bed that allegedly went off when ghosts were near by. Opps bluetooth sets it off too (the guide said put your cell phone away you are activating this box - so secret number one from that show is BUSTED). Then downstairs they showed something moved. Um yup. I lingered and step on the floor board in just the right way and it sure does move. LOL. Oh and they had a photo of alleged orbs. Um that would be the reflection on the glass of the spotlight they were using to light the scene (they had needed to crop the photo a bit - photoshop would have helped too).
Many cats stare down the hallway at night.
What the hell are they looking at? There’s nothing there.
@lisaviolet mouse check. Just doing their job.
@unksol We have older cats with bad teeth (siblings, genetic pre-disposition). I found a mouse last week gummed to death in front of the garage door.
Nice.
@lisaviolet @unksol gotta admire that dedication
I just moved into a 110 year old house in an old town in So Cal. The house is definitely haunted by cockroaches.
@Fuzzalini better not kill them then or you will be haunted by cockroach ghosts - and those will never die.
Never seen a ghost, but my cousin did when he was visiting me. He was 7, I was 17,and he came by my high school because it is an American castle. We took him on a tour, and we passed through the auditorium. He was asking who the guy on the balcony was, with the weird hat. We couldn’t see the guy. He got mad, thinking we were just teasing him, finally went to move on, ran into a janitor who heard him. Janitor had my cousin sketch the man, laughed afterward. Cousin had seen one of the resident ghost, wearing one of the wide-brim hats that you always see in pictures of quakers. Now I’m think the janitor is teasing us all, until he points us to the librarian, who had a massive photo album of ghost pics and stories for the school, including multiple for the wide brim hat. Cousin didn’t really have an obvious way to learn all this back then, maybe overheard something while we were walking around, but I doubt it.