Any Of You Ever lived In A Haunted House?

[raroo]

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Now I can't help but wonder what the room is used for now.

Is it a guest room? A kid's room? Office? I don't think I'd want to use the blood room for anything!

Lets just say I have a goth child who loves the room

Macabre I know, but true

Plus the activity was laid to rest years before she moved in with us!

Oh yeah, I can definitely see a teenager being into the blood room!

 

[kagedgoddess]

i have lived in one house that was haunted. i Used to think the house i grew up in was haunted, i d wake up in the middle of the night and feel like Someone was in the room watching me, Really creeped me out . my room had no windows either so it was Pitch black. well turns out 20 yrs later my mom admits my stepdad used to come in my room at night to make sure i was sleeping. So here my ghost was a creepy middle aged man. ... and alive.
the house i lived in that Was for real haunted was by an old man. i never Saw him, but a nieghbor told me her dad died in the house, i figure it was him. Acouple times i put my daughter to bed and "felt" like my dh had come in the room, i d even start to talk to him, before looking over my shoulder and realizing no one was there. that was the extent of it, except that my daughter wouldnt sleep in her room for long cuz the man would bother her.
my best friends house was haunted by civil war soldier. and my dh grew up in a haunted house. the stories he tells are VERY scarey and this Goob saw it up for sale about 2-3yrs ago and tried to convince me we should BUY IT????!!!! uh No Way!


Boyd, your nuts. 1, id a been in that room Before closing, and 2 no Way i m living in a house with ghosts that do more than sneek up behind me peacefully. .... unless maybe i had LOTS of cats i could blame everything on, lol.

 

[Shannon's Chix]

I grew up in a house in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio that had been part of the underground railroad. Actually tunnels from the railroad run all under that town. A small room in the basement had a window in it. You look through the window and it was where people could come in and out from the tunnels.

Anyway, don't know if it had to do with the URR or not, but we often heard banjo playing...yes, banjo playing coming from the basement. You would open the door and it would stop.

I got to go into that house about a year ago, NOTHING had changed in all those years and it was so creepy! The window and tunnel were still there!

 

[raroo]

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OK now THAT is creepy! Makes me wonder if every feeling of "being watched" when no one seems to be there means that someone really IS there... unseen. I tend to get that feeling in my backyard, there are woods at the back of it. I always attributed it to being paranoid, but maybe there's really someone back there watching me... LOL I'm good at freaking myself out sometimes!

I think in truth I just really hate it when strangers knock on the door or drop by for whatever reason and for that I am always wary when I'm outside alone.

 

[SarahFair]

Its weird to see everyone one say 'When I grew up' meaning when they were a child.
Children seem to be more "open" to things

 

[michickenwrangler]

My grandfather lives in a creepy old house in Detroit that is haunted. Family is pretty sure that the ghost is "Polish Mike" the bachelor that used to rent their basement flat.

My mother and I think my dad (her ex-husband)'s house is haunted by a ghost that doesn't like women. Lots of weird noises and appliances that go on for no reason. Heavy breathing coming from empty rooms, stuff like that, but only if a woman stays in the house alone.

I also used to work in a used book store that may have been haunted. The building was built in 1842 and again, lots of footstep noises, doors opening on their own.

 

[Rosalind]

Sure do. The ghosts and I get along though.

Most common ghostly thing is hearing the front door open, then close, and someone walking across the parlor while wearing heavy boots and talking to someone (one-sided conversation, sounds a bit like someone talking on their cellphone), then the back door opening/closing as they walk out. Always on a Tuesday, Weds. or Thurs. night around 7:30-8:30, generally in the spring.

Second most common is odd smells of things I know I didn't cook. Ham, for instance--I think I've made ham only once in this house, ever, in the years we've lived here, and we don't eat bacon, but some evenings it really, really smells like a baked ham in the house. It's not the neighbors cooking either. Cookies, like those anise-flavored Xmas cookies, are another smell when the ghosts are happy. I don't make those anise-flavored cookies ever, I don't really like them. Greenbeans on days when I haven't cooked any greenbeans for weeks.

Much rarer, seeing a man wearing knickers or those long "shorts" that are popular with the young people these days, and a sort of soft-brimmed hat (like a fishing/hiking hat) and dark shirt walking across the backyard, from the east gate to the north end of the property, past my clothesline. First time I saw it, I thought it was DH, and I yelled at him to come help me with the laundry, was annoyed as all get-out when nobody came to help me. Freaks the dogs out something awful, they bark all night when they see that one.

 

[Boyd]

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me and the wife were talking about this.....

if kids were held to the same standards as adults in regards to sanity, they'd all be in rubber rooms

They have imaginary friends, they see things that aren't there, talk to purple elephants and even the dog tells them to put the peanut butter and jelly sandwich into the vcr............ sigh.........

But what if they were right.....

 

[mylittlezoo]

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me and the wife were talking about this.....

if kids were held to the same standards as adults in regards to sanity, they'd all be in rubber rooms

They have imaginary friends, they see things that aren't there, talk to purple elephants and even the dog tells them to put the peanut butter and jelly sandwich into the vcr............ sigh.........

But what if they were right.....

 

[McCord6]

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me and the wife were talking about this.....

if kids were held to the same standards as adults in regards to sanity, they'd all be in rubber rooms

They have imaginary friends, they see things that aren't there, talk to purple elephants and even the dog tells them to put the peanut butter and jelly sandwich into the vcr............ sigh.........

But what if they were right.....

Good question, what if they are right but we, as adults, just don't want to believe it, which is why we dont see it....hhhhmmmm