I just recently moved into a rent house that is probaly 50 years old. The first night there I was sitting in my living room and saw something in the corner of my eye by the door the hallway. I don't get a bad feeling but I can tell something is there. My wife to be said told me she gets the same feeling in the hallway, and I didn't mention my expierence until after she said something. Does anyone else believe?
I lived in a rent house in Oak Forest. When moving things into my bedroom, the door kept closing. I figured that it was hung improperly, but it never did it again. I then find out from the owner that the previous owner died in my bedroom. Seems he didn't want me moving in. Then I kept waking up to the door to the garage being open. My housemates and I would lock it and in the morning it would be open again. Looks like the ghost was visiting the beer fridge which was still in use in the garage. Then there was the sounds of the wooden floor creaking as if someone was walking in the house. You could just sit there and here the boards creak along just as if someone was walking on them, yet you could plainly see that no one was there. That ghost saw some crazy stuff the year we lived in that house. So far the ghost hasn't talked to the press yet.
Yep! I lived in an old house in college that had some seriously messed up things going on. - turning lights out in closets and shutting the doors at night only to wake up in the morning with all the lights on again and the doors wide open. - Bedrooms being freezing cold in the middle of summer (the house had no ac) - Really bad vibes in certain rooms (to the point where you didn't want to be in them) - having people who have never been in the house refuse to come in after stepping up on the porch
the house i grew up in had some of this. i've posted some stories here before. my parents still live in that home, and i was over there the other night taking care of some things for my parents since they were out of town. it's the home i grew up in, and i'm still very uneasy there. never comfortable. hard to explain, really.
This is actually a fairly easy one to explain - the ground heats during the day and cools at night. When things heat and cool they expand and contract. This causes the creaking.
I've heard spirits/ghosts of animals. For example, I was at this 100 year old hotel in the middle of the Ozarks, and I was walking down the hall to get some ice around 10PM, and I hear a dog barking. Then I can hear it running down the hall. Needless to say I hauled my sorry self, out of the hotel the next day. Screw the historical aspect of it. Another time, I was visiting my friends who had a house built on what was a supposed Indian settlement in the Virginia region. We heard horses running outside, although they don't have horses or neighbors anywhere in a 5 mile radius of them. I wasn't that spooked out, since the home owners said it was a common occurence. Another time in Glasgow, I was with my family. I was told I woke up in the middle of the night, and started sleepwalking, and shouting the words "let me out of here." We later found out we were staying in a haunted building which was converted out of an old debtors prison. I never had a sleepwalking incident before that or even after that, so come to your own conclusions. When I bought my place, I had a ghost hunter come and check out the place first. I do that before I buy any property these days.
True, but the sound would progress down the hallway like if I started walking at my bedroom all the down the hall to the living room. My housemates and I did some tests and I swear it just didn't sound like a hot/cold situation. Oh, I forgot the night I was out and my friend and his fiance had a fight. I come home and my bedroom door is locked. The door would only lock if someone was on the inside. I ended up having to kick my bedroom door in so I could go to bed.
Me too, but they had nothing to do with ghosts! Seriously, my parents used to live in a house off of Braeswood. A few months after my step-grandfather died, we had a hair raising experience. He used to watch the Home Shopping Network and he was hard of hearing so the volume was always on full blast. He was always hot, so the air was always on real low. One night, we came home from a Rocket game and we heard a noise from the back bedroom. We went in and found the TV (which was in the closet) on full blast and tuned into, you guessed it, the Home Shopping Network. The closet door was closed and the ceiling fan was on high.
My fiance had a place in the country, and they could feel a bad spirit at night. It was by an old mesquite tree and if they parked my it they could feel something walking behind them. I hated going out there.
I'm pretty skeptical about these kinds of things only because I'VE never seen anything. I hope I can experience something like that in my lifetime and have the piece of mind not to take off in the other direction. People are so afraid in general of the supernatural but if you think about it logically, you'll never see any reports of ghost attacks on the news. I bought the Unsolved Mysteries DVDs that have all the ghost episodes on them and love them. They really get my imagination going, which is refreshing thinking about those sorts of things when you're basically an atheist. I was a huge Ghostbusters fan growing up and hell still am. The parapsychology field seems incredibly interesting to me but having never seen anything, I can only think there's nothing to it. Of course, I'd love for that to change. I want to be a Ghostbuster dammit.
My old house in Inwood West was haunted. Thats where I lived growing up. There would always be strange knocking sounds near the back door, and whenever I would get up to investigate, it would always stop. More strange things: - Lights going on and off - Power going off when I was alone - Something similar to Mr Brightside's sleepwalking incident - Strange scratching noises downstairs, followed by an earpiercing lady's scream (happened at exactly midnight) of course i was young, and it could've been my imagination. Ive moved into 2 different houses after that and nothing strange ever happened again.
Who says there aren't? Most people don't live in caves anymore, so the caveman ghosts have nobody to haunt.
LOL I know you went to Sam, may have been the same time as me (1979-80) but we used to take girls to this old house, i forget what street it was on, and we all kind of stuff set up to scare the crap out of them.
I'm a skeptic on such things, but a few years back I lived in an old house a cross from a lake where the previous family was running a meth lab. They had all sorts of problems and fights during their stay in this house. My experience in the house wasn't as bad, but a few things happened that spooked me pretty good. Once I woke up in the middle of the night and realized I was being slowly pulled from the bed. I was looking at the back of my wife's head at first and by the time it was over I was down by the middle of her back. During this episode I was unable to move or speak, but my eyes were open the whole time. My wife said she could here me screaming her name but from a great distance away. My sister had a bad experience in the house also. She was sleeping on the coach and she said something began to choke her. I was awake in the bedroom when it happened and she came into the room with a horrified look on her face and told me what happened. I got up to investigate to see if someone had broken in to the house. I put the lights on and checked all the rooms and no one was there, so I went back to the bedroom and told my sister she could sleep with me for the night. We left the lights on and got into bed and a moment later I heard a loud thump from the living room as if someone had angrily stomped the floor. I went back expecting to see something that had fallen on the floor and there was nothing.
