[Closed] There’s a ghost in my house

don't tell the kids would be my advice.

beyond that, fit a latch that can't just be lifted to open the door and see what happens.

I suspect it's a dodgy latch and a draft or something is enough to cause the door to open.

Sell up and move out!

Indian burial ground?

I bet your Spider senses are tingling...

Probably just one of the many missing prisoners we keep hearing about. So nothing to worry about.

EDIT: Just one of these guys I expect. They look like a friendly bunch.

[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10910748/Names-of-eight-missing-prisoners-released-including-killer-on-the-run-for-17-years.html ]Lodgers[/url]

House is moving a few millimetres in that area - perhaps due to changes in humidity or temperature, and the door is not quite even.

Do you have any way to measure the shape (angles) of the door accurately?

I am a grown man but I suspect I would sh&^ myself if it happened in my house 😯

Time to call in this bell-end:

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Yes, you have a ghost in your house that likes to open doors. I understand this is very common with your basic apparitions, despite being non corporeal they have a real problem with closed doors and very much like to open them.

I suggest you watch films like the sixth sense, the exorcist and poltergeist as these will reassure you that you have nothing to worry about.

Or adjust the latch.

I'd suggest you fit better latches or even 5 pin locks, perhaps a bar across and a padlock.

All whilst you daughters in bed of course.

Don't thank me. 😉

Houses do strange things. Try and make the latch more secure and see if it stops.

Don't tell the kids, wait for them to tell you if they think there is anything odd going on.

I deal with a lot of old houses. Some people think their house is haunted. The oddest one I have dealt with was the old guy who told me he didn't believe in ghosts but he would never sleep in the bedroom tbe kids thought was haunted. He was the most rational and sceptical ghost reporter I've met but he was scared of that room.

Do you have any way to measure the shape (angles) of the door accurately?

Get a laser pointer, tape it securely to one side of the door and mark a spot where the beam lands. Monitor it throughout the day.

swap doors with [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fridge-door-wont-open ]your man here[/url]

I think we have a ghost in our house also, except this one like to switch lights on but never off.

Actually I think we have three... all girls 😉

The latch has to lift 5mm or more and there isn’t that much play in the door, frame or wall. It has been there for over 200 years and is solid.

It doesn’t bother us to be honest. It doesn’t bother my daughter either. Occasionally, if it wakes her, she will appear in our bedroom and tell us that her door just opened.

Saw this on Reddit yesterday, might be worth not watching this one OP.

I am a grown man but I suspect I would sh&^ myself if it happened in my house

It doesn't bother us.

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"Go and close Em's door... and put the kettle on while you are up."

In my house two females have died (of natural causes) - one 30 of cancer, the other in her 70s heart attack. Both married to the same bloke obviously decades apart.

The room where the 30yr old died- my remote keeps moving from my 'preferred' spot on the chair arm where I sit and usually moved up into the shelves.

I am sceptical though. If ghosts exist why aren't we tripping ove rthem all the time?

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It has been there for over 200 years and is solid.

It can still move though. Timber framed houses move around all the time when the ground under them moves.

If the houses were built in 1810 and bearing in mind the tendency to have lots of kids, how many people do you think have lived in them in their 204 years of existence? If ghosts really do exist (and I'm still looking for proof) the chances of something happening are pretty high.

"Go and close Em's door... and put the kettle on while you are up."

There's the problem. You need to teach them to put the kettle on for you too.

In my house two females have died (of natural causes) - one 30 of cancer, the other in her 70s heart attack. Both married to the same bloke obviously decades apart.

The room where the 30yr old died- my remote keeps moving from my 'preferred' spot on the chair arm where I sit and usually moved up into the shelves.

I wish I had a ghost that would tidy the bloody place up a bit. Does the channel mysteriously change over to Loose Women as well?

Get some video cameras in there.

Suspect there is a draft coupled with a door that doesn't quite fit. Does the temperature change at all?

Used to work in a really old pub with similar goings on, doors opening and closing seemingly on their own. Just put it down to the character of the house!

I wish I had a ghost that would tidy the bloody place up a bit. Does the channel mysteriously change over to Loose Women as well?

For two May's in a row the kitchen used to be 'noisy' at night. Plastic bin lid flapping (solved with a 5lt bottle of water placed ontop).

Mrshora weirdly has forgotten all about these! All shes remembers is the house being very cheap and nothing else mattered.

I used to scoff at this stuff. My grandparents had a bedroom that I hated sleeping in as a kid, I always had nightmares, the window being blown out and basically being grabbed / sucked out the window. Never told anyone about it (I used to not really speak much as a kid...) then my sisters can along and as there was 2 of them I was moved to the box room. No more nightmares.

20 years later at a family Xmas my sisters mentioned they hated that room and used to have bad nightmares every time they slept in it. I'd never discussed that with anyone...no idea if that is 'haunted' but I definitely get a bad feeling about some places / rooms.

I don't see dead people though.

OP

I think you need to try and stop thinking about ghosts.The more you think about them ,the more they will appear.They will then tell all thier ghost mates and really start to wind you up,mostly late at night when you are trying to keep your heartrate down .Not posting on the internet about it should help.

You are Mark E Smith, and I claim my sacking from The Fall 😀

I used to scoff at this stuff. My grandparents had a bedroom that I hated sleeping in as a kid, I always had nightmares, the window being blown out and basically being grabbed / sucked out the window. Never told anyone about it (I used to not really speak much as a kid...) then my sisters can along and as there was 2 of them I was moved to the box room. No more nightmares.

20 years later at a family Xmas my sisters mentioned they hated that room and used to have bad nightmares every time they slept in it. I'd never discussed that with anyone...no idea if that is 'haunted' but I definitely get a bad feeling about some places / rooms.

I don't see dead people though.

Fungal/mould spores in the room can cause such things in children where they sleep..

we have a stair poltergeist in our house.

any item I place on the bottom three steps to 'take up later' mysteriously find their way up stairs and into an appropriate drawer/cupboard.

I reckon it likes my wife more than me though 'cos it only appears when she's in the house regardless of when I put stuff on the stairs.

any item I place on the bottom three steps to 'take up later' mysteriously find their way up stairs and into an appropriate drawer/cupboard.

I suggest watching that BBC Ghos****ch "Live" (should be available on Youtube)

B&Q do a range of doors..

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It's probably Sulley (and co.)

Although some things are inexplicable it's really not ghosts. It's more likely to be Aliens. Aliens are well known for travelling across the galaxy to mess about with peoples doors, barns, light aircraft and then stick things up their bottoms.

It's 100% aliens or ghosts

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/afterlife/ghost1.htm

Stick some bluetac on the latch tonight. May stop the latch from lifting. If it works it may also p*** the ghost off so much you will be sucked into an alternative world.

On anoter note I have always disliked Ghosts.

Much prefer the cube and canyon range of bikes.

I am sceptical though. If ghosts exist why aren't we tripping over them all the time?

Why aren't there caveman ghosts?
Or cow ghosts?
Or ant ghosts?

If ghosts can walk through walls, why don't they fall through the floor boards? Where do they stop falling?
People have probably dies in lots of houses. In fact, the older the house, the more people that have dies. Why aren't all doors opening?

I wonder if ghosts really do exist you know.......

DrP

@DrP - wow that's really got me thinking, so you DON'T beleive in ghosts - thats a mind****erfriday right there! What with you being a man of science an all 😉

Can I ask you another? Why are aliens so obsessed with anal sex?

EDIT - I beat the swearfilter™ 8)

Why are aliens so obsessed with anal sex?

They're probably all blokes I expect... I mean - they seem to do all the long distance driving...

DrP

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old house = draughts and poor insulation.

you don't need much of a temperature differential to get crazy warpage out of a simple wooden door - especially across the grain - easily enough force to pop an old shonky latch.

[is not convinced]

I have quite a back catalogue of seemingly inexplicable phenomena having rented old houses most of my life. These days tend to err on the side of science or at least pop science as opposed to woowoo 🙂

This is interesting: [url= http://www.cracked.com/article_18828_the-creepy-scientific-explanation-behind-ghost-sightings.html ]science behind ghost sightings[/url]

People have probably dies in lots of houses

Nope, my taps and dies are all in my own house.

you don't need much of a temperature differential to get crazy warpage out of a simple wooden door

That, or something much like it. Wood's like this weird stuff that used to be living and what is a bit flexible and moves and so forth, and absorbs water and bends and straightens and doesn't stay [i]quite[/i] where you leave it.

Set up a Go Pro!

When my daughter was very young she would stare past you and look into hall, we had a 12 pane glass door, and watch intensely. Later when she was a bit older she mentioned the man out there.

That was the last house, our current one, there is someone contantly closing the bin in the kitchen and occasionally moves my house keys when lying on floor next to our bed.

Always just say Thanks, never bothers me or family.

You have problems with something/someone opening a door. How about leaving it open, you then don't need to worry about it being opened. If it is a ghost, it wants the door open not closed, why upset it? If the door then starts being closed, then worry, lots... 😯

Sorry to tell you this but..No such thing as ghosts.

You have an ill fitting latch - get thee to B&Q lad

Why aren't there caveman ghosts?
Or cow ghosts?
Or ant ghosts?

Maybe there are. Caveman ghosts would be in caves, cow ghosts would be inthe fields and you probably just can't see the ant ghosts.

So ghosts travel the void between life and death just to open a door or move a remote or knock a cup over?
If they're so pissed off about whatever pain or injustice they've suffered why don't they leave a note saying 'thingy is a ****' or 'I'm really pissed off about wotsisname'
If they can open a door or move things around they can leave something a bit more to the point written in dust or suchlike...
Why not leave a camera running one night and see for yourself?

I'm going to wire the latch up so that whatever it is can go about its business quietly.

The house has a warm feel about it. When we viewed it 5 years ago it was only because we were also looking at one just up the road, yet we both decided that we wanted this one before we got throught the front door.

Also. Things fall off shelves. A lot.

Get a Ouija board...see what happens.

Also. Things fall off shelves. A lot.

Good news is your local diy store will sell a thing called a spirit level.
Now, this wont confirm the number of ghosties in your house but it will almost certainly help with the above.

Spirit level? Does that check how wobbly the ghost is?

As kids we once slept in a tent in the middle of a large graveyard in Halifax.

It was the best nights sleep I'd had for a while- i.e no noise 😆 funnily enough and you'd think there'd be a few spirits wandering round there trying to scare us.

As kids we once slept in a tent in the middle of a large graveyard in Halifax.

It was the best nights sleep I'd had for a while- i.e no noise 😆 funnily enough and you'd think there'd be a few spirits wandering round there trying to scare us.

This may have been very very different though if we had been camping on ancient Red Indian burial grounds..

Also. Things fall off shelves. A lot.

local newsagent had this during the night, owners used to get the right hump & shout at the poltergeist to leave the stock alone

my dad did a couple of exorcisms on some new houses down the road in the late 70's - 13 skeletons from the 4th century had been unearthed during the build

back in my student days I woke up with an eerie feeling to the sound of someone walking towards my bedroom door & rocking the floorboard just outside the door - when I got up in the morning discovered that the only floor board that creaked was just inside my bedroom

quite happy to accept that ghosts do exist & if the OP has a warm feeling about the house then all well & good - hope you manage to keep it/them happy 😉

If you are thinking that you may have ghosts in your house, tonight watch Paranormal Activity. It will put your mind to rest and you will definitely be assured a good nights sleep.

OP I hope you are impressive in bed. You know they are [i][b]watching[/b][/i] you.

I'm pretty sure our garden is haunted. Late at night, our front gate often rattles all by itself, even if there's no wind. Plant pots are often knocked over. Disturbingly, we occasionally find the mutilated bodies of small animals left near the house.

Worst of all, the ghost also shits in the middle of the lawn. Bastard.

I was thinking that, does that mean that if you're roughing up the suspect one evening when the wife and kids are out there's an as yet unknown watcher on the other plane? That would be really embarrassing especially if your porn is a little specialised. Imagine that after you're dead getting abuse for all the handshandy's you've had.

Harry_the_Spider - Member
Any ideas?

Assuming the building is built properly ... then assume other things ...

Nothing you can do if you don't know how to but just keep a close observation on your kids' behaviour or health or the adults in the house.

Checked out the history of the house then find out what it was previously or who passed away there or what the land was used for previously.

If you have death from the result of murder, suicide or fault play whatever they may be then you might have a rather aggressive "being(s)" in your house. You will know they are aggressive when they let you see them or appeared in your dream to ask you to go, that's when you have to decide either to stay and fight or to go.

If they died of natural death or you are on a burial grounds then you may need to move them on. You may need to consult the "experts" whoever they are available.

Essentially what you have is the "energy memory of the past" (make more scientific for the positivists) is attaching to the place or location refusing to go or in confusion ... so moving them on require experts guidance from your religion, shaman, priest etc whatever you have that can communicate with the after world or world beyond us ...

There are plenty of ghosts/spirits around us but they are of no concerns until they make their present felt.

As for the scientifically minded ... 😆
Since you are that clever then do you think there are aliens in the nearby galaxies? HHhmmm ... ? Don't no? Hmmm ... Yes? No? (Stewie Griffins tones toward Brian Griffins)

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[i]they are of no concerns until they make their present felt[/i]

beware restless spirits bearing a gift then?

Wood's like this weird stuff that used to be living ...

Maybe it's the ghost of the tree the door was made from? Cut down in the prime of life well before it's time, so sad...

chewkw - Member

Assuming the building is built properly ...

it isn't.

...originally built in 1810...

now, i'm not suggesting that an old house is necessarily 'bad', but...

there won't be a right-angle anywhere, nor will anything (that you might expect) be vertical/horizontal.

everything will have been built to 'eye' (an eye belonging to someone working in a hurry, getting paid in beer, using materials supplied in a similar fashion.

Maybe it's the ghost of the tree the door was made from? Cut down in the prime of life well before it's time, so sad...

Ssssh lest any Pagans here about this.

As for the scientifically minded ... Since you are that clever then do you think there are aliens in the nearby galaxies?

Lol nice try m8

wwaswas - Member
beware restless spirits bearing a gift then?

Some do some don't while other don't even give a toss about you, after all there is nothing special about you that can impact on them apart from you living in another dimension?

Nope, you are not special which for them may be considered to be a waste of time.

ahwiles - Member

chewkw - Member

Assuming the building is built properly ...

it isn't.

In that case the logical answer is to fix the building first without making other assumptions ... 🙄

the logical answer is to stop worrying about the noises made by an old house at night.

It's an opportunity; tell the kids the house is haunted, get them to listen out for it, then start to add your own flourishes...

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But do be worried if your 2004 Wimpy 3 bed on a cul-de-sac in Tring makes noises in the night.

Rusty Shackleford - Member

It's an opportunity; tell the kids the house is haunted, get them to listen out for it, then start to add your own flourishes...

Not a good technique to scare the kids as I have tried it too many times with my friends, cousins (when they were kids), niece and nephew ... this technique may backfire if not done properly as you will turn them into a more timid person. 😯

It's Pipes.