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Have you ever felt a 'haunted' resonance from an item in your home?

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MaryTheBookeeper Fri 14-Aug-20 10:30:36

This is the most bizarre experience for me. I have this very pretty Staffordshire vase I bought at a vintage fair. But every time I look at it I get a cold feeling. It's like the vase isn't happy. Such a weird thing to say. I've never had this with anything else in my house. I've tried moving it around, putting it in different positions but the feeling doesn't go away. It's like it exudes unhappiness. I'm going to have to get rid of it. Have you ever had an experience like this?

Craftycat Sun 16-Aug-20 10:51:09

When I was a child our next door neighbour was a Spiritualist.
Another neighbour- an old lady - died in the house across the road. The house was sold to a young couple with a 3 year old child- my Mum got friendly with the mother.
A few weeks after the had moved in she told my Mum that the little girl had terrible sleeping problems since they moved in & woke crying about the lady in her bedroom.
They though it was just a phase. Mum mentioned it in passing to our other neighbour who asked if they would let her go into the room by herself for a while & she would'see what she could do'.
She spent about half an hour there & came out very happy saying the poor woman was upset as there was a strange child in 'her 'bedroom but she had now passed on & there would be no more problems.
She was quite right & the child was happy after that- far too young to know about what had happened.
Strange but true.

craftyone Sun 16-Aug-20 10:44:54

Me a teenager, I had the most intense experience one night, I saw two `dead` relatives, they spoke to me and I have never been afraid of dying since then

A hotel in cowbridge, my husband and I and 3 children stayed in one room on the top floor. The radiators were full on but it was intensely cold in the night, chilly cold down my back. We mentioned that to the receptionist in the morning, oh yes she said, that room is haunted

One time we were sent a present of 2 strange carved heads, like shrunken heads, from a relative in south africa. They went straight out, something very bad surrounded them

I never buy second hand furniture, auras cling to things like that. Same as in houses, some houses have very bad vibes and bad things repeat through time

Dillonsgranma Sun 16-Aug-20 10:39:57

Many years ago I drove over an ancient narrow bridge in Derbyshire countryside on a darkly stormy night and Nearly hit an old woman in long clothes. I ran back but saw no one. Asked at the pub nearby when we got there and apparently many moons ago an old lady was killed on the bridge by a horse drawn carriage. Lots of people had seen her apparently!

Neilspurgeon0 Sun 16-Aug-20 10:32:17

Me too Bathsheba spookily DaisyMae’s tree sounds utterly intriguing

TwinLolly Sun 16-Aug-20 10:30:31

Hubby had a clock in the dining room that stopped working. The battery was changed, the clock cleaned, but it still didn't work.

3 years later he decided to get rid of it because, although it looked nice, it still didn't work. But before he took it away my grandmother's wooden sewing cabinet arrived, which I inherited. It was put in the dining room until we could find a suitable place for it. Strangely enough the clock started working again and it has been going ever since. Nana worked her magic!

Scottiebear Sun 16-Aug-20 10:27:45

I had an opposite experience. My dad was in the armed forces and we moved around a bit when I was young. We came back from our final posting in Germany when I was 12. My parents had loved it there. I married a Forces man myself and we were posted to the same camp when I was in my early 30s by which time my parents had died. We arrived there on a cold, miserable day in winter just after a big storm. From the moment I arrived I had an incredible feeling of contentment and felt totally at home, despite the fact I could barely remember the place. And it was my first posting abroad so far away from the rest of my family that I had been apprehensive prior to our arrival. Someone looking down on me?

Gingster Sun 16-Aug-20 10:27:25

I was moving house and my DD was helping me pack. Little GD aged 3 was in another bedroom, jumping on the bed and chatting and giggling. I asked her who she was talking to and she replied ‘ I’m playing with the lovely lady. She had white hair and a silk scarf. ‘ I’m sure it was my mums spirit , come to do a bit of babysitting while we packed.

Pinkrinse Sun 16-Aug-20 10:27:19

There was a hall I used to go to weekly and had a one room upstairs, and a cupboard where we kept the things we needed for our meeting. Anyway every time I went up there I felt really scared and uncomfortable, and eventually refused to go up there. Mentioned it to someone who had lived in the village for years who calmly said oh it’s haunted I still won’t go up there and I’m a rational scientific type of person but there’s something not right up there.

Gwenisgreat1 Sun 16-Aug-20 10:24:45

I was sharing a room in a house in London in the 60s. One night the other girl screamed. Then we both heard doors slamming and I heard some squeaking. After a pretty bad night we found out it was rumoured a maid had hung herself on the pulley in the basement.

Tibbs Sun 16-Aug-20 10:22:09

I worked with a lady who went to a holiday camp & mentioned to someone in the shower block that she couldn’t sleep for all the planes going over. It turned out it was a RAF station in the war.

Liz46 Sun 16-Aug-20 10:13:14

When I am standing at the sink I often 'feel' someone near me. A previous owner died of a heart attack in the house but I have not asked the neighbours if she was standing at the sink!

Dorsetcupcake61 Sun 16-Aug-20 10:11:29

I think there are many things we cant explain, some places or things just have a feel about them.
My friend is quite sensitive to such things. One day she was having coffee at my home and we were sat at the table in lounge opposite each other with my friend sat looking in the kitchen. She calmly said she didnt want to upset me but there was a lady stood in the kitchen. She went on to describe the lady in great detail from height,hair colour to clothes she was wearing. I was a bit bemused as well as unnerved. I'm at an age where I have lost a lot of relatives etc.
I went upstairs and got my wedding album which is at the back of top part of wardrobe. I got married in 1985 and my wedding photos were the last occasion the whole family was together. I'm divorced and so no wedding photos are on display in house. At that time I wasnt on Facebook so there were no photos there. I had known my friend for about 5 years. No one has seen those photos since the turn of the century. My daughters haven't seen them. They were just tucked away and forgotten. So basically my friend wasnt aware of the photos and there was no one who would of shown them to her.
There in the photos was my Aunt,my dads sister who was also my Godmother. I always felt very close to her and she to me as she had twins a few years before I was born but the little girl died. My Aunt died in 1986.
In the photos she was exactly as my friend described, right down to the clothes and the colour of her hair. I certainly had forgotten what she was wearing on that day and also the fact that at that time she had dyed her hair blonde.
It did seem a bit random at the time. My aunt hadn't even visited this house. My friend felt my Aunt just wanted to show support and that I wasnt alone. At the time that also seemed quite random. Within three months my mother had been diagnosed and died of cancer,it was very unexpected and a rare type. My father who had dementia moved in with us. It was certainly a time of grief and upheaval that couldn't have predicted!

Blossoming Sun 16-Aug-20 10:08:42

quizqueen

A Honda car, I used to own, used to 'moo' for a while as the engine was cooling down, so it must have been a cow in a former life. No other car, I've ever owned, has ever done that.

Did you call the car Daisy? smile

GrumpyGran8 Sun 16-Aug-20 10:07:28

I'm 70 and I've yet to encounter a ghost, or anything like it.The last house I lived in certainly should have been haunted, as it was over 300 years old, but I never felt a thing.
The last person to die there, in the 1970s, had accidently drunk from a bottle of paraquat herbicide. He was a nasty alcoholic who was a known wifebeater and the police actually investigated his wife for possible poisoning (she was never charged). While I was living there, I had a visitor who claimed to be a psychic medium. She sat in my kitchen and told me that I was lucky to live in such a peaceful, warm and welcoming house. I didn't tell her that she was sitting in the room where that poor man had expired!

Bijou Sun 16-Aug-20 10:06:48

When I was 15 our family went to stay with my mother’s cousin who lived in an old Manor House in Suffolk. My mother said that the bedroom that they stayed in had two doors each at opposite sides of the room. In the night one door opened and closed and then after a while the other door opened and closed. A few years later on a visit I was in the same room and the same thing happened in the night.

inishowen Sun 16-Aug-20 10:02:21

There is one corner of our garden which makes me uneasy. I avoid it completely.

timetogo2016 Sun 16-Aug-20 09:57:24

Many years ago i was cleaning a house and had a feeling i was being watched.
I turned around and without doubt a large grey figure stood there looking at me.
I did a runner and told the owners sorry but i won`t be coming back.
They asked why so i hesitantly told them feeling rather foolish.
They said not to worry as it`s a relative from many years ago
who lived in a farm house where they also lived and when they moved he came with them.
I still didn`t go back.

Jaxie Sun 16-Aug-20 09:56:06

There are many unexplained things in this world. I sat next to a university professor at a lunch who tried to explain his area of research to me. Forgive me for my nutty version. He said that every organ in the body sent out electrical impulses that travelled to infinity and communicated outside conventional time constraints. Last year, visiting Chambercombe Manor near Ilfracombe I mentioned to the guide that there was a very distinctive smell in one bedroom. She asked what it was. “ Urine” I replied. “ Ah, this room is haunted by a maid who carries a chamber pot.” She said. I have seen ghosts, as have members of my family, in an old vicarage we used to live in. They were benign, but rather startling.

lovebeigecardigans1955 Sun 16-Aug-20 09:47:48

When I was a child I found a small charm, a bit like a pixie, on the street. I put it in my purse for supposed good luck. Subsequently all sorts of silly little things seemed to go wrong which I put it down to the pixie being bad luck so I threw it away. Things then got better so I resolved not to be superstitious about 'things.'

I've been told that I have a strong 'aura' which could be developed if I wished. I've had a few odd dreams (rarely) but I've never felt anything haunted which is good as I would be scared.

Moggycuddler Sun 16-Aug-20 09:41:48

Never had experiences like this myself, and am generally sceptical. But years ago a nice young couple moved into the (rented) house next door and then out again within the week. They thought it was haunted because the young woman had felt a hand touching her shoulders and back several times when nobody else was in the room, and they thought there was something sinister about the tree in the back garden. Oddly, none of the people who have moved into that house over 20+ years have stayed more than a few months.

Ladyleftfieldlover Sun 16-Aug-20 09:40:49

I bought a second hand book of Fairy Tales. It made me feel very uneasy. I thought something bad must have happened to a previous owner. In the end I threw it away.

Coconut Sun 16-Aug-20 09:34:09

I have always felt a “presence” in this big old house we live in, didn’t mention it to anyone, but this was confirmed when my small GS told us that a lady goes in his bedroom sometimes with a white bag ! He was totally nonplussed with this !
Last week my daughters work colleague visited, Jo, and she often sees and hears unexplainable things. We were sitting in the garden and spoke about a friend of mine who was brutally killed in February. She asked me if my friend had been a petite blonde lady, I said yes, and she said she is standing right behind you ! I became upset then felt this weird pressure on my shoulders, and Jo then said, she is now hugging you and saying what a dear friend you’ve always been. Jo also said there’s another lady here, with a white bag ! And she used to live here !
Many, many unexplained things in this world.

Gelisajams Sun 16-Aug-20 09:32:46

I bought a Celtic pendant and associated that with bad luck! Everything that could go wrong went wrong and I sensed It was the pendant! I sent it back to the shop I bought it from and said no I didn’t want a refund I just didn’t want the pendant anymore.
My suspicion of it probably came from tails from my mother who believed a ‘lucky’ pixie she had bought on holiday brought bad luck!

Nagmad2016 Sun 16-Aug-20 09:27:01

We had a few unexplained events at a house we used to live in and the previous owner later said that she thought it was haunted. I inadvertently mentioned this to some very interested buyers, just to make it sound a bit special and seal the deal, as it were. You guessed it, agent rang the next day and said that the interested party had experienced ghostly events in the past and that he was worried that the ghost may be following......no sale. Best keep these things to yourself.

TerryM Sun 16-Aug-20 09:23:43

Two houses that we were looking at buying. Both just had major cold spots in them . One would have been a wonderful buy but I just flatly refused
Fremantle Jail in western Australia. The top level was cold and feelings of lots of youths there . Alcatraz on the other hand...no creeping feelings at all