Thread: please don't consider me crazy.. but i think i'm haunted.

like i said guys.. you may consider me nuts after reading this.. so here goes.. when i quit my last job i ended up traveling up north to stay with an old friend from high school.. the first night i was there some odd stuff started happening.. stuff like the porch light would turn itself on or off whenever it felt like.. or some of the kids' toys would turn on and make noise.. a small play guitar for example would start playing at random.. my friend's mom just said.. "yeah.. there's a ghost in this house"..

whether i or you choose to believe this.. other events happened while i was there.. it seemed to be in the back room mostly.. this was the children's play room.. a small jungle playset would often turn on and make it's usual jungle sounds.. also the door to the walk in closet was always left open and occasionally i'd notice the hangers swinging back and forth when no one was in or around the closet..

my most significant experience occured while shaving.. i was taking my time having a noon shave when the toys in the next room went crazy.. just about every toy that could turn on or make noise did.. seeing as how i take my shaving serious.. i looked straight in the direction of the room and slapped my hand against the counter.. i didn't say anything.. but all the noise stopped immediately.. i finished my shave without a further distraction.. however.. once finished i took no more than 3 steps out of the restroom when i hear the small glass i use to soak my brush in, shatter.. it was honestly sitting just perfectly stable on the countertop and when i go back in it's in the sink.. in pieces.. i was ****ed.. but didn't say anything.. i simply cleaned the glass and left..

other events happened while i was there.. but mostly just small stuff.. things like the cold chills throughout the house or the feeling of 'presence' when i was the only one in the room.. things like that..

anyway.. my friend was offered a great job in the bay area.. she asked me to move with her and be the full time stay at home nanny/houseman.. i accepted and everything was fine.. we moved down, found a place, and everything has been good.. the kids are with us and everything is good.. we had been down here for a few weeks and living with just the basics till we could move everything down..

on christmas weekend i went up to spend the holiday with her parents and we packed all our stuff up and drove a uhaul back down..

well.. it's happening down here now..

toys are turning on at random, my friend jessica witnessed a can of soda fly right off the dinner table and all over the floor, a bottle of old spice magically poured half of itself into the toilet and placed it's cap back in and went back to it's stop on the shelf, and today as i'm doing the laundry.. the washing machine lid keeps opening itself up midwash..

basically i feel like this spirit or whatever the heck it could be is doing whatever it can to mess with us.. did it follow the kids' toys here? are there such things as hauntings? does it have something against me?

do i attempt to ignore these odd events? what do i do?


thank you guys for keeping an open mind on this and putting up with my lack of grammar, punctuation, or syntax.

Well, given that these things happened only when you were up at the previous house, and then after you brought some stuff to the current house, the correlation is not with you but with something in the content of that U-Haul.

Of course, correlation doesn't mean causation either.

I don't know what else to say, I've not seen anything like that myself. The closest was a chip magically appearing on one of my best razors, but that I think was a direct result from a friend visiting.

well.. i had never experienced anything really like that before.. but the 6 weeks i spent in that house really opened up my eyes.. my friends family had experienced it since moving in to the place.. and to further drive the nail home.. some research found that the house was built 20 years ago.. the first tenent lived there for 14 and then moved.. after that the house had been rented out every 2 years since.. which really made me feel like something was up..

but i feel like maybe if this is a spirit or whatever.. it has attached itself to something from that back room.. namely the children's toys.. one or all of them.. i don't know.. i'd feel bad if i just getting rid of their stuff at random though.. i mean.. the boy is only 2 years old and the girl is going to be 1 on the 8th.. it would be kinda mean to start taking their stuff away.

Cant say for certain as i have never experienced anything like you describe but if it were me I would rid myself of everything that came from the back room and replace it with new stuff and see what happens from there.

Originally Posted by JMS

Cant say for certain as i have never experienced anything like you describe but if it were me I would rid myself of everything that came from the back room and replace it with new stuff and see what happens from there.

yeah.. i'd like that.. but it would be way too costly.. it's tons of toys.. i mean.. these kids are spoiled.. and to be honest.. i'd rather spend money on a dirtybird scuttle and some more creams.

At least make believe that you're being haunted by a hot woman ghost.

To me, that would make it much more tolerable.

being serious here Vic.........Maybe it's time to have a talk with said spirit.I wouldn't be antagonistic but hash it out.If it's a child then maybe instead of being stern and ticking it off,you might try a softer approach.I believe in spare the rod and spoil the child and all,but we are talking about a spirit...they have the advantage here. Case in point,when you slapped your hand down,what you got was a broken glass...gettin m'drift here ?Maybe it's a little lonely or maybe even a little scared.I am being totally serious here.

i appreciate that.. i have wanted to avoid talking to it so i didn't show it any attention and encourage it.. but i am also thinking it's a child.. or maybe an elderly.. i'm unsure.. but i remember seeing something on the tele about treating spirits like they were burglars and yelling at them.. but i for some reason don't want to do that.

Now this is most interesting yet i do not know what to say really. If it is really happening then it is just something we don't understand.

In the old days people thought it was normal that there were 'haltijas' -elfs, gnomes or spirits. Some places like water or forest had their own, fire and iron had their own, and even most women had either evil or good spirits (lol i think this might be true). Some elfs were good and some were bad.
People still keep horseshoes above their front door and branch of spruce on their front porch, and in the old days it was to keep evil spirits out.

Back 25 years ago in the house of my friends sister happened similar things. She was about to get married for three times but every time her groom died before the weddings. With the last she had a daughter. Every people who visited there said that there happened strange things in her house. My wife was a friend of her and while visiting there she saw doors opening by itself, lights going on and off, toys changing places by itself, someone walking upstairs when there wasn't anyone. Once she felt a cold breeze and then the little daughter touched her cheek and said that daddy kissed.

I never visited there and never took it seriously yet it was strange that so many people witnessed these things.

Originally Posted by JMS

I would rid myself of everything that came from the back room and replace it with new stuff and see what happens from there.

No! If it's an item, or items, the correct way to do it is to identify which one(s), and replace these only. That's a standard search algorithm. You could try a bisection search as it's pretty simple and fool-proof to implement, it only scales linearly, but is guaranteed to succeed, as long as

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f(all toys in)=haunt

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f(all toys out)=nohaunt