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Thought I would put this out, as it might kill some time on the journey to Brizzle today. We have lived in our house for 15 years and there is some weird stuff going on. I am not religious, nor do I have a strong belief in the spiritual, but I am now at a loss as to how to explain the following incidents. Listed in order, any thoughts or possible explanations appreciated.
1. A couple of years after we moved in, we were in bed, suddenly a strong smell of cigarette smoke. Windows shut, we are non smokers, only ones in the house.
2. Footsteps going up and down the stairs, hallway and landing. Kids and wife have heard them, plus my wifes friend who stayed over. She was freaked out by it, but knew nothing about it beforehand.
3. Two months after my Dad died our bedroom lights came on in the middle of night.
4. The night my wife's aunt died 3 years ago our bedroom lights started flashing. We were asleep, and as soon as I opened my eyes they came on full blast.
5. Last month our ensuite bathroom light came on. Wife got up and switched it off, it then it came back on again. It was my wife's long dead Nans birthday.
The lights were not flickering, so I dont think its faulty wiring. The footsteps have been heard on and off for the past 3 years, since we had some building work done.
Any explanations welcome!
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 08:53 - Oct 1 with 4893 views
Your 3rd-last sentence about not 'thinking' it's faulty wiring suggests it might be worth having an electrician looking at it all anyway - considering the number of slightly spooky experiences you've had with lights.
On the footstep stuff, I wonder if it could be reverberations from adjacent houses or similar movement coming through from outside - I know a footstep is a pretty specific sound but you never know.
Either way find out how much those haunted house shows pay and at least try to make a bit of cash out of this suburban terror. Good luck.
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 09:03 - Oct 1 with 4848 views
There is always an unholy stench emanating from the bathroom after my son has been in there. He claims to know nothing about it and cannot explain it. He puts it down to vengeful spirits who also spray piss around like toddler with a fire hose. We have contacted Father Gilhooley O'Malley's Demonbuster Exorcisms Ltd to investigate.
'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 09:33 - Oct 1 with 4767 views
Weird things going on in the house.... on 08:53 - Oct 1 by BklynRanger
You're not living over a pet cemetery are you?
Your 3rd-last sentence about not 'thinking' it's faulty wiring suggests it might be worth having an electrician looking at it all anyway - considering the number of slightly spooky experiences you've had with lights.
On the footstep stuff, I wonder if it could be reverberations from adjacent houses or similar movement coming through from outside - I know a footstep is a pretty specific sound but you never know.
Either way find out how much those haunted house shows pay and at least try to make a bit of cash out of this suburban terror. Good luck.
Alternatively this visitor could be the original sparky testing his work...
Top pranksters you have there matey - which is more likely, the kids or the wife?
Of corse it COULD bd a ghost, but that's up to you to decide how likely that is. I doubt that as there is always a logical explanation when ALL facts are out there, but I have not witnessed any of the events. You decide...
Weird things going on in the house.... on 09:34 - Oct 1 by davman
Alternatively this visitor could be the original sparky testing his work...
Top pranksters you have there matey - which is more likely, the kids or the wife?
Of corse it COULD bd a ghost, but that's up to you to decide how likely that is. I doubt that as there is always a logical explanation when ALL facts are out there, but I have not witnessed any of the events. You decide...
Definitely not the kids mucking about, my daughter is terrified going to bed because of the footsteps. My wife, who believes in the 'other side' asked whoever it was to stop as it was scaring the kids, it then stopped for a while, but started up again.
I'm in total agreement that there must be a logical explanation as I dont believe in all of that, but I'm stumped. The stairs are against the outside wall, so can't be hearing the neighbours.
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 11:10 - Oct 1 with 4601 views
Smell ..Burnt Squirrel from eating wiring Footsteps ..Squirrel on the move Lights... hungry suicidal squirrel (see 1) Building work ... Squirrel entry point
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 12:33 - Oct 1 with 4460 views
Occasional leakage from a parallel universe through a rift in the space/time continuum. Just because you don't smoke in this universe doesn't mean that your doppelgänger doesn't have the occasional puff
Somewhere in the multiverse Dykes gets a Hat-trick today
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 12:40 - Oct 1 with 4445 views
Weird things going on in the house.... on 12:40 - Oct 1 by stevec
Take it you’ve checked your attic and any adjoining walls?
Dont have an attic as that's now the bedroom where the lights keep going on and off. And those that say it's a squirrel, it must be f@%#ing big to make footsteps you can hear in the other room !!! Haven't checked the wall, but it's not coming from there.
Might call 555-2368.
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 13:02 - Oct 1 with 4398 views
Weird things going on in the house.... on 12:13 - Oct 1 by essextaxiboy
Squirrels ... or rats
Smell ..Burnt Squirrel from eating wiring Footsteps ..Squirrel on the move Lights... hungry suicidal squirrel (see 1) Building work ... Squirrel entry point
Burnt squirrels smelling like cigarettes. It’s plausible.
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 13:13 - Oct 1 with 4370 views
Thinking outside the box, perhaps this is some form of spectral retribution for the careful planning and restraint you have here-to-fore applied in the area of your personal finances? The dead/undead can be a churlish bunch.
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 13:27 - Oct 1 with 4322 views
Weird things going on in the house.... on 12:55 - Oct 1 by Wilkinswatercarrier
Dont have an attic as that's now the bedroom where the lights keep going on and off. And those that say it's a squirrel, it must be f@%#ing big to make footsteps you can hear in the other room !!! Haven't checked the wall, but it's not coming from there.
Might call 555-2368.
We get squirrels on the flat roofs all the time, they are noisy f**ckers and the roof skin acts like a drum. One got into the roof void through a hole in the soffit once and until we got it fixed was in and out almost every night bouncing about like several drunk and wired uncles at a wedding dancing to breakbeat psy-trance.
I grew up in a house with stuff like this happening over a five year period. The best explanation given was that my sister and I were going through puberty at the same time as my parents were going through a marriage crises.
We all saw the man who appeared regularly wearing a brown checked zoot suit. He would appear whilst friiends were around too.
I hope this helps.
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 14:12 - Oct 1 with 4223 views
Weird things going on in the house.... on 12:55 - Oct 1 by Wilkinswatercarrier
Dont have an attic as that's now the bedroom where the lights keep going on and off. And those that say it's a squirrel, it must be f@%#ing big to make footsteps you can hear in the other room !!! Haven't checked the wall, but it's not coming from there.
Might call 555-2368.
This builder, what did he look like? …
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Weird things going on in the house.... on 14:45 - Oct 1 with 4127 views
House I live in has really old wiring. We have a couple lights go on and off randomly pretty often. I wonder if wifi and cellphones n such interfere with old lectrics as they aren’t shielded the same as modern stuff. Some of our wiring is pretty frayed and crumbly. With the footsteps deal that might be from plumbing. A pipe moving and banging on a joist as it expands or contracts from the central heating. I don’t believe it ghosts n ghouls at all. Total rubbish.
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