A strange occurrence....

Apparently, if you deliberately take a rounders bat, cricket bat or other "weapon" with you to investigate a possible break-in, you can be prosecuted by the police. If you use it, you will be prosecuted by the police. Watch out Anya. P.s. I don't think there is a possibility of prosecution if the weapon you take is your DH.

My DS is popping into a friend's house while he is on holiday to feed the cat and the rabbits. Last night he found the recliner chair fully reclined which it hadn't been the day before. He jokingly texted his friend to tell him he had a ghost. He replied, 'It's OK. It'll just be my mum.' It used to be her house and her ashes are in the attic.

I've tried to think of explanations but none are very convincing

I'm happy to accept that as an explanation roses

Anya if the house is a semi or in a terrace, sound travels, and it may have come from the house next door?

I had a key for my Step-Mum's house when she was away. Got the fright of my life with my Step-Brother came down the stairs. He'd slept there instead of driving home because he'd been drinking. Idiot thought it was fun to give me a scare.

Did go and check J52 and no one / nothing there ..didn't like to look in their wardrobes though ....

Anya yes! Years ago I was feeding friends cats and the burglars were getting in the back door as I was locking up the front! Long story, but they got away with nothing!

Next door are away and I have a spare key so I can look after their guinea pigs, open and close their curtains and water their plants.

Just come back from there now and thought I heard footsteps coming from their bedrooms. Yesterday I thought I heard a bumping noise too, from upstairs. Didn't like to go and look, just shor through to their back forever and out to the garden and exited via their back gate.

Should I go back with DH and a rounders bat?

Jalima I knew what you meant and just thought I'd give Google a try. Maybe all will be revealed tomorrow.

Bez1989 mentioned the body in the attic in the 1950s and whitewave said ?Delabole? and I assumed that whitewave had heard the story before and was asking if it was in Delabole.

I think I added 2 + 2 and made 7 and thought it was Delabole
Please ignore, my mind was racing ahead and making connections that weren't there, never assume anything is a good motto.

Thank you for the tip about the clingfilm judypark

Had to pop back on to this thread to find out how on earth the discussion had turned to heating up cling film!

Anybody else hoping like hell the trainers belong to the blind man?

PS I looked on Google, but can't find anything about a woman's dismembered body in the loft in Delabole.

Yes, if you wrap cling film around something and apply gentle heat it will cause it to contract so giving it a professional touch ?

I was once working alone in the primary school where I taught. It was the holidays and no one else was in. I glanced up to see a man in a grey suit going past my classroom in the corridor. Surprisingly I wasn't frightened but looked out and no one was there. When I mentioned it later to the caretaker and school secretary, my description matched the previous head teacher who had died in post. No one ever did lone working in the school again!

A friend of mine found a photo on the floor in her bedroom. It was of people she had never seen before and no-one else in her family knew who the people were. She had had no recent visitors and to this day has never found out how it got there.

Also we had a strange smell in our house for ages and couldn't think what it was. It was driving me crazy not being able to find out where it came from. Eventually we discovered it was coming from a cannabis factory in the house door!!

Lots of mysterious tales come out of Cornwall (

Ah! Perhaps that's it.

Perhaps the body in the attic was in Delabole rosesarered

I must have done, harrigran! I hope you didn't leave a tip for the chambermaid if it's been there all this time

I used to live near Delabole (Cornwall) but what about it ww? A bit enigmatic of you, ( but it is a mysterious thread.)

My hubbys ex marital home was definately "haunted" whuch they all accepted. But one day a Roman coin appearwd on the hall floor. I dont know what he did with it.

?Delabole?

On the subject of toilets flushing, for a short while I was the cleaner at our village primary school; just me on my own in an old Victorian school. I'll never forget the first night when I walked past the door to the boys toilets and I heard a flushing sound. Of course, they were urinals that flushed periodically but I didn't realise that. Like most old schools it had two entrances, one for girls and one for boys; I always kept both doors unlocked so I could run in either direction if I needed to. Needless to say, I didn't do the job for long...

Oh this is Lovely Thread !!
But....I have a Real Dark Story to tell.
It was in the 50s when friends of my sister in law got married and moved into an oldish terrace house that theyd bought for a good price and a quick sale.
After a few weeks they began to notice an unpleasent smell in the house. They called in all sorts of people to try to idendify the cause, with no result.
Eventually someone called in the local bobby....we had them in those days....and he sent the couple to a hotel. In the loft the police found numerous black bags tied up.
The previous owner had killed his wife, cut her up, bagged the peices and lodged the bags into the rafters in the loft ! Hence the quick sale at a reasonable price.
The poor couple never went back to the house and the young girl could never go into a butchers shop or eat meat again.
I dont know the outcome of it all. It was just the effect that it had on the young friend of my sister in law that wed been
discussing at the time. And then of course there was no such thing as "trauma counselling" so the poor girl had to live with the memory of that awful smell.
Sorry to dampen the tone of this good thread. Please carry on....Its like the TV series....Tales of the Unexpected !

getting more and more scared ...

ps I didn't know you could shrink-wrap clingfilm with a hairdrier.