logical explanation?or a ghost!

[dgo1212]

A while ago we had a few weird things happening in our house,which suddenly stopped,and have now started again.Now not being one to believe in the paranormal and all that crap I thought I'd found logical explanations for it all,only the logical explanations are highly unlikely!

Have lived in the same house for about 4 year now,in the first week an ashtray fell off the coffee table,only it was in the middle of the table so it can't have actually fell without being pushed,was a bit weird and made me jump but after that all was good,until last year.

Had the bath running and could hear it from the living room(bathroom is downstairs),few minutes later the noise stopped and I just assumed the pressure had dropped,when it didn't pick up again I decided to go have a look,bizzarely the tap was turned off,and was tight.Turned it back on and thought no more of it.
Not long after the missus was hoovering the stairs,hoover stops and missus comes down and tells me to stop pissing about,I say "wtf you on about",she says "turning the hoover off at the wall",I didn't.
The hoover thing happened a few times even when nobody else was home,I simply suggested a faulty switch,only it happened wherever it was plugged in.
Had a new bathroom suite stored in the spare bedroom and the pedastal was on the floor,all of a sudden there'd be a bang,the pedastal would be the opposite end of the room,happened 4 times in 3 days.After about a month it all stopped and we just laughed about it as it wasn't so much scary,just annoying!

Well today it seems to have started again,missus is trying to calm our 4 month old son who is constantly jumpy and screaming,when the kitchen tap turns on fully and she struggled to turn it back off,and because there were dishes in the sink water sprayed everywhere,and now I'm sat downstairs on my own wondering why everytime I go to the batroom the lights turned off(we never turn lights off till we go to bed)

There must be logical explanations for taps and switches turning themselves on and off,I just can't think of any so if anybody has any ideas would be great to hear them

[ButcherofBiel...]

Sounds like a lot of coincidences to pass off as normal really.

I have had what i consider to be unexplainable events in the past.

I had a feeling that my brother was watching over my shoulder at our families 300 year old cottage could almost feel a chin on my shoulder , he tends to do that to be
annoying so i said do you mind?

Turned around and no-one there, and have had a few other bits happen but not as physical sounding as yours.

Sounds like poltergeist activity at yours , after a while you can't explain it all .

The sockets , yeah ok but if the switch is actually pushed in that takes some force.

Taps i know can have pressure issues , but normally that ends up turning them on , not tight off.

The pedestal thing just can't be explained can it?. Sounds like you have some residents, but like you said more annoying than scary.

They are normally triggered by renovation (not liking the new bathroom so moving it about?) and dislike noise/being disturbed so the hoover noise and water running could be annoying them .

Same with leaving lights on , they like dark and calm.

Your probably upstaging them in a way.

Not sure what you can do except put up with it or move which after 4 years you won't want i'm sure. Exorcisms i don't know if i believe in but maybe risk it and get the local priest round.

The pet store my grandad did the accounts for had poltergeists in the cellar in town , they'd just chat to the owners when they went down .

My grandparents are C of E preachers for 50 years and so closed minded but they will casually say yep they were there and couldn't deny them.

The key is that their friendly , they sound very playful but not mischievous, not putting any of you at serious risk.

I think for now try and co-exist and laugh it off , think of all the most haunted watchers who'd love to live there and just see how it goes.

If it escalates or gets dangerous, cooker switched on , water round electrics etc then i'd ask them to leave and go down the church route.

I'm sure there are sceptics and i am of most things but not paranormal and psychic areas.

The time i got a free reading from a to shut my mum up and moaned i'd missed fish and chips all the way there then get told i was being offered them as i missed out changed that.

Had 2 names and a date predicted with 'Driving' written on a bit of paper , turns out after 3 years on and off with lessons me and my best mate had our tests same time , day and place.

Got home and my mum said for a laugh see what the woman wrote exactly , it had driving, the exact date of the test , my mates surname of Stockwin which isn't common and the name Greenfield.

Couldn't work it out what it meant as it didn't relate to anything , so my mum said i can't believe she got all those things so right , probably turn out Greenfield was your examiner and checked the certificate and yep E.Greenfield.

So i think its fully possible you have poltergeist goings on but see how it goes before taking any action .

[GhostRider]

I;d recommened avoiding watching the film "Paranormal Activity" that is out currently.

As for the rest.......dunno, I'd say that theres far too many coincidences for there to be any doubt.

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[Dragonfly]

Indeed to many to pass off as coincidence. I had similar experiences in a flat I used to live in. I know who died there and it was an old man no one liked and was in the room where I kept my tumble dryer and my bike. I must say I grabbed my mates cam corder one night and we caught the scariest crap ever moving around in there and lights hovering around my bike. Even left the camera on the shelf in the bathroom and the shelf was shaking minutes after we left and lights zooming everywhere The ghosty used to unplug the tumble on me and I could hear it in the living room and it would annoy me as of course once I didnt hear it and my bed sheets didnt get dried. Footsteps up the tiled hall also and my other half who didnt want to believe any of that was even freaked.
Clouds of cigarette smoke and smell of whisky when me and my friend came back from shopping, no one was in there and there was no smoking or even alcohol just this cloud of smoke by the window we stared at and even walked around it. It was a split level so high up at the back and only one way in and out unless you want to jump out of a window into a river.

I couldnt find logical for the sofa moving when my friend where bad mouthing the bad guy as they knew him to and he was an alcoholic , no one found him for days in there. Soon as they I left the room I heard the wooden legs of the sofa scape the floor and everyone ran out of my flat

I found shouting at it worked, as stupid as it sounded I lost my head one day with getting up to turn on the tumble dryer which the plug had been pulled out of the socket and heard that again hitting the floor. I just said bloody well stop it and it did. I got sleep paralyzes first and last time ever in that flat!. I heard the new people that lived there where calling priests in. I felt he wasnt that bad of a man and he didnt scare me at all I found it funny.

Well if you cant find any logic have a shout at it, your the one with the body remember! nothing to loose by looking a bit silly talking and not actually knowing what to. But sounds like a classic case of attention seeking from spirit.

Take some pics see what you get, if you want to sometimes thats not a great idea Just dont start messing with oiji boards and asking things in, wouldnt mess about with things like that.
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When i was a kid we grew up in a pub and in the cellar there were a couple of old bottle stores and our family dog would just stand facing the the stores and growl for everything he was worth.So we stayed well away from them as they scared the crap out of us.
Years later When me and the missus got our first place together in a really old flat in a place called Louth within weeks strange things started to happen but like you said annoying not scary. And in the end we just accepted it.Never actually saw anything but plenty of unexplainable goings on.

So accept it if you can.Can also help get rid of unwelcome visitors of the living kind.My sister wouldn't even visit the flat.

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[smegballs]

When I used to live in a cottage in the middle of a load of woods some strange things happened:

All the push bikes were a little way in the woods resting into the trees and we were all working outside at dusk time when we noticed that one of the flashing led lights one a bike had been turned on. No-one had turned it on and we would have noticed it flashing before hand if it had been left on... Possibly could have been water leaking and turning it on but I doubt it.

My dad was walking to the house one day when he sees a shadow walk round the other side of the house. He thinks it's me coming to sneak up on him and make him jump (did that a lot!) so he runs round the other side of the house to catch me out. Then he looks through the window and I'm asleep on the sofa..... This might be a trick of the light or "corner of the eye" sort of thing, but clear enough to actually make him run around the house?

A few other times he was working on the PV panels a few days in a row, the PV's were in a clearing with a hedge behind and then a ride running along the hedge. With no-one else there (this is in the middle of 16 acres of woods tucked into a cornish valley) he hears heavy footsteps walking along the ride behind him.... He goes off lump hammer in hand but there is nothing there and no footsteps in the mud (it was a horrible wet place always muddy!). Same thing happened the next day at the same time. Now it may well have been a big dear as we did have them about, but you would expect anything walking that heavily to leave a trail in the mud......

All of these things are pretty obscure to be honest so I can't conclusively say "oh yes there must be ghosts", I would be pretty happen to say "theres plenty of things without a logical explanation" though!

[Carl_steveo]

I wouldn't suggest shouting at it lol. When I lived with my mam there was something in the house. We called it Gary. Things would move and go missing all the time. Tv's, radios, lights and sockets would turn on and off.

Many a time i've been sitting in my bedroom and the xbox has turned itself on. I just turn it back off but it will do it again and again until it gets bored.

Been woke up at stupid times in the morning because the tv has turned on and the volume is full blast.

All these are explainable the tv could have been turned on by another tv remote it intercepted. The xbox the same.

I was thinking all this was plausible until one morning I was awoken by the tv again at full blast I shouted "fuck off man" and then there was banging on the bed. Needless to say I pure shit my self and apologised. I only ever saw two things in that house. First was a white cat on the landing when I was walking out of one room. I followed it into another room and it had gone.

The second time was when I was staying in the house by my self for two weeks while the family was on holiday. About a week in I was sitting watching tv in the living room. There was a right bang from the kitchen and I went to look. A plate was lieing on the floor of the dining room. It had come out of the cupboard in the kitchen and across the floor about ten metres into the dining room.

About 30 minutes after that I heard the kettle boiling but I don't drink tea or coffee so hadn't used the kettle in a week. Then I went for a tab down the side of the house out the way of the wind. I looked up at the sitting room window and saw a shadow on the blinds. It got bigger as if someone was walking towards the window with the light behind them. I stood there for about an hour just smoking because I couldn't go back in.

It had it's plus side though. If you couldn't find something you just had to ask gary. It would turn up on the mantlepiece even though you had checked there a million times.

I've moved out now and nothing is happening here (touch wood) but I would just learn to live with it unless it gets worse.
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[ms51ves3]

There's some fucking nutters on this forum.

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Was just reading this when someone knocked on my door. Will be changing my pants.

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[Flip]

I love the fact that people can have more unexplained phenomena is their home than the most haunted team can find in an entire series.

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[The Artist]

You basically just described the film paranormal activity which I saw the other night.

Just to warn you your missus might have a history of these things and if she ever goes into the hallway at night, don't follow

[Bat]

I'd also say shouting is probably not a good idea. Politely but firmly asking them to leave is a better tactic. Be reassuring and say it's ok to go.

[Dragonfly]

Think everyone is getting that shouting thing off me there, I do mean just firmly not like roaring into thin air and busting vains in the forhead and all.
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