Exorcism needed by a friend near me

Our daughter and SIL bought a 16th century moated that had been a safe house during the English civil war.

It was a spooky old pile that had been empty for 18 months, there was a reasonable amount of activity.

3 years of children dogs and friends and everything has settled done.

They could ask to have the house blessed by a minister who would go into each room and sprinkle water that's been blessed while praying CariadAgain

Yes, the house needs to be blessed CariadAgain

Church minister here: every C of E diocese has a trained Anglican priest who specialises in deliverance ministry. Ask your local vicar to give you their contact details. They will be able to carry out a cleansing or blessing for the house, as appropriate.

My daughter and family moved into a house haunted by a young man. The stone it's built from was robbed from the castle that no longer exists, so the ghost is centuries old.
To being with he was a bit of a nuisance, poking the boys when they were trying to sleep. They took no notice of him and he has stopped bothering them.
His footsteps can still be heard running along the landing, particularly when there is a storm blowing.
My advice to the family would be to respectfully ask the egg thrower/pusher to please stop. She probably will.

That's what I was wondering about - having had a bit of Anglican background myself many years ago from one of my parents. I'd say, at the least, it couldnt do any harm to get an Anglican minister in to do that. Things are obviously a bit different here in Wales - but, as far as I can make out, the "Church in Wales" is the Anglican church renamed and all will be much the same basically.

I think I've found their house on a map too - and, if I've identified the right house, it has a broken public footpath going through their land and I think I ought to visit it myself and see just how that pans out on the ground and whether it would seem a good idea energetically to find a way to "reconnect" the break in that footpath...thinking of general Feng Shui principles (which I know very little about) but it wouldnt do any harm to "heal" that break at any rate.

This is a fascinating post and I hope you are successful in helping your friends. I bet a lot of people are sceptical about the existence of spirits (and my DH is currently laughing his socks off!) but I remain open-minded cos I've had a few "odd" experiences myself in the past.

Mmm- two human ghosts and one dog ghost that doesn't bother them?

What about burning sage? Isn't that supposed to help?

My first suggestion when they told me about their unwelcome house guests was to contact the local Catholic church and ask for an exorcism

A Catholic exorcism must be carried out by a priest trained in exorcism and with the specific permission of the Bishop of that Diocese. Very few ordained priests have that training.

They are a rare occurance and usually carried out on a person, not a building to the best of my knowledge.

Madmeg

This is a fascinating post and I hope you are successful in helping your friends. I bet a lot of people are sceptical about the existence of spirits (and my DH is currently laughing his socks off!) but I remain open-minded cos I've had a few "odd" experiences myself in the past.

I'm open-minded myself - as there's "more things in heaven and earth" indeed. The nearest I've come to a ghost was at "second hand" - when I was phoning up my mother one time and she gasped whilst talking to me. Followed subsequently by asking if I'd heard her gasp and saying that their (dead) dog had poked her nose round the door whilst she was talking to me (ie an internal door only 1'-2' from where she sat to do her phonecalls). That's something the dog used to do whilst she was alive - and so I guess it's not that surprising she still did so after she died.

I've had a few unnerving things happen myself - of the non-ghostly variety. Mine were more of the "I could do without black helicopters hovering over my last house at midnight waking me up and then just staying there for some time" or "I could do without hearing factory machine noise in one alcove only of one bedroom only in my last house and going on for some time" (there was no factory anywhere nearby and those Victorian houses had been built on an area that was formerly green fields). I could reel off a fairly long list of "the inexplicable" - though my own don't include ghosts.

Some years ago we had a strange person or persons in our pre war house. We all felt things, the footsteps upstairs, a sense of someone standing behind my daughter when she was doing something in the kitchen, wake up in the night to smell bacon cooking. My dh worked nights and kept feeling something. Then one night I heard an enormous crash from the kitchen - first thought it was a big kitchen cupboard crashing to the ground. Not a thing out of place. After that about 11 every evening something would make a sound out there. I walked around making the sign of the cross and asking them to leave. My dh kept saying, and it was true, the lady who lived there and her parents from the time it was built were very decent people. So couldn’t be bad he said. Anyway one night I stood up and in a very firm voice told them to go as they were really upsetting me. I made it quite clear I didn’t want them there anymore because of the distress they were causing me. I went from room to room saying this. Well they actually went. It was awhile before I could believe it. Then my daughters
Confirmed this when they visited me.

Ps the loud sounds were not when my dh was at work at night but he heard the footsteps and was certainly aware that we were not alone.

I guess it depends on the person/ghost concerned as to whether they go if asked to - or "stronger" measures have to be taken.

My house was built in the 1970s and, unnervingly, I think all 3 previous occupants (all women on their own - widows I think?) must have died here - despite it being a modern era house.

Cue for when a good friend of mine drove me over to Wales on the day I was moving in and then stayed around for a couple of days to help me unpack etc. So we stood in the hallway together that first day and we both clearly heard a loud bang type noise inside my house. We both looked at each other alarmed, but I could see we'd both promptly decided there was no "earthly" explanation for the noise.

I just assumed it was probably the last owner of this house checking out the new owner of her erstwhile home (though I may be wrong on that). I turned round and firmly said "It's MY house now. Will you please leave" and that was the end of that. Whoever/whatever it was stopped and there's been no reoccurrence since.

I think Mrs Previous Owner was probably being curious and/or I did discover clues over time that she'd been pushed around and bullied rather by a couple of the neighbours and might have been assessing whether I could cope with them okay/"put them back in their box" when they started up. It became clear what she'd done to try and protect herself and my house from them - so I think she was forming her own judgement on how well I'd cope with them or otherwise. I think the firm request to leave that I made probably told her I'd manage to stop the neighbours mucking me around like they obviously had been used to doing to the occupant of my house.

Is this for real? Everyone seems to be taking it very seriously, yet it doesn’t seem right to me.

Perfectly for real crossstitch.

Some people never have anything happen that cant be explained with their standard 5 senses - but many people also experience "other" stuff of the more inexplicable variety.

I'm quite prepared to believe my friend - because of the number of inexplicable things that have happened to me over the course of my life to date (albeit of a different nature). I've got my own list in my head of things I've known I had no logical way of knowing/of things that have happened that couldnt have - but they did.

I was most annoyed one time back in my last house that it took months before a kitchen item of mine returned to its rightful place in the kitchen. A thing of a very different nature to ghosts in the place - but it's still pretty annoying when you know one of your measuring jugs is at that place on that shelf in that cupboard and so you look for it there next time you want it and it isnt there (I lived on my own - so no-one else in the house would have moved at - as there was no-one else). Cue for I looked and looked everywhere in my kitchen for that darn jug and no sign of it.

I can be quite stubborn sometimes and so every time I wished to use that jug I opened that cupboard and looked for it on that shelf - and it was never ever there (or anywhere else in my house). Until several months later and I did the same again - and there it was....back in its normal place as usual. I couldnt say for the life of me why it vanished and then why it reappeared again - but just stayed firm that I wanted my jug back and it reappeared. Shades of "Are they right that there are parallel universes around?".

Inexplicable things do happen - ghostly visitors, vanishing items, noises that have no obvious cause....that's just the way it is.

Marydoll

^My first suggestion when they told me about their unwelcome house guests was to contact the local Catholic church and ask for an exorcism^

A Catholic exorcism must be carried out by a priest trained in exorcism and with the specific permission of the Bishop of that Diocese. Very few ordained priests have that training.

They are a rare occurance and usually carried out on a person, not a building to the best of my knowledge.

There also has to be a thorough investigation to check out the legitimacy of the situation.

I'm surprised that the priest didn't offer a blessing to be honest though VelvetVinyl

Priests are very busy people these days. Sometimes they have multiple churches to care for in one single parish. She was lucky to get a reply to the e-mail which probably was not from the priest but his secretary.

I could have believed some aspects of this until mention of egg throwing and the dog ghost.

As a fan of the podcast and the show 'Uncanny' I am thinking this person just wants to get some publicity about the haunting and maybe get on TV.

If I am wrong (not unknown!) and this is a serious manifestation then maybe she could contact the Bishop as every diocese will have a priest who deals with these things.

Otherwise I recommend this person has a chat with the local GP.

Tell them they have to leave. Worth a try.

It is not my assessment of them that they are publicity-hungry. Re the dog - they've seen it on the one hand and felt the dog brushing up against their legs as it walks past on the other hand. I've heard a noticeable number of reports of dead dogs visiting and, as stated, my parents were visited by their own dead dog. I remember a work colleague some time back telling me that her own dog had quite a distinctive sound as she trotted across her bedroom floor and then leapt up onto the bed - and she heard that several times after her dog had died.

I can see they are intelligent people and I can see they are frightened by what is happening in their home.

I've been checking round in my circle of people here and I'm friendly with the daughter of a retired Anglican vicar - and so I told her about it and asked her fathers position. I've met him before and he seems an intelligent, decent sort of person. She told me he has dealt with this sort of thing before he retired and she'll ask him whether he still does and, if not, to point them in the right direction to whoever has taken over his duties in that respect. So I'm hoping he does still cover this and I can see he's a decent person with interests in common with them and they'll get on together if they meet. I'm thinking/hoping this is something that interests him enough he'd have a break from retirement to check it out.

VelvetVinyl

Marydoll

My first suggestion when they told me about their unwelcome house guests was to contact the local Catholic church and ask for an exorcism

A Catholic exorcism must be carried out by a priest trained in exorcism and with the specific permission of the Bishop of that Diocese. Very few ordained priests have that training.

They are a rare occurance and usually carried out on a person, not a building to the best of my knowledge.

There also has to be a thorough investigation to check out the legitimacy of the situation.

There is also a responsibility to rule out mental illness, That is the protocol.

It’s a tricky one, when we had a ghost we just communicated with her and that seemed to keep her happy.
If we were going away we would tell he4 and ask her to look after the house, when we returned we said hallo etc.

We think she was a girl of about 16, she was naughty and played lots of tricks on us, she spoke lots but only appeared twice.

She scared the bejesus out of our daughter who arrived when we were out she moved her car keys and then threw a grill pan onto the kitchen floor.

There is no mental illness in my assessment and I think that's quite rude to suggest there is. You name it and I've come across it in recent years and by now think I'm probably not bad at spotting it in people. I see no signs of it here. I've spotted quite a variety of stuff in people years before it became apparent all round and I think I'd probably have realised if they were mentally ill and this is a whole family we are talking of here - not one individual person - and they've all noticed this going on.

The parents are just yer standard average, sane and intelligent people in the street.