Haunted wardrobe ??

beer enigma

Now, maybe I'm just a bit spooked having read all ofthe threads on this board, but I could have a strange problem at home.

Two weeks ago we were offered a very old wardrobe, originally came out of the old Imperial Hotel in Killarney. It had been dry stored in a barn for donkey's years & when the relations wanted the barn pulled down, they offered us the wardrobe. My missus has had her eyes on it for ages as it's a fabulous piece of furniture - cloth lining inside & solid rosewood on the outside.

A few things have happened over the past week - nothing to write home about, but stuff misplaced in the room - one of the doors open with the clothes from the bottom shelf on the floor - could easily have fallen out & pushed the door.

BUT, last night I was in the bath, next door to the bedroom when I heard someone calling me - plain as day, two or three times. Thinking it was one of the kids awake (it was 9pm) I got out of the bath & went in. Nobody there except the doors of this flippin wardrobe wide open and every piece of clothing soead acros the room as though someone had thrown a bomb in there !!. The kids are only 3 & 1, so no chance they coul be behind it & its unlikely the wife would try it.

Spooked the hell out of me. I put the stuff back in & nothing since...but I must admit to being a little bit on edge this morning. anyone had similar experience - anything I can try or do ???

Gillo

did you answer the calls??

Sounds a bit weird alright, although I don't know if an object can be haunted. Always thought it was just a location.

Ever read the lion, the witch and the wardrobe??? Funny things can happen.

Jak

Maybe your wife came back looking for a top and called you three times asking where her fking new dress was and threw everything everywhere while looking for it then stormed out in disgust.

That or an untidy closet spirit for sure.

malico

Objects can be haunted. In fact peoples jewlery that they have worn all their lives can share the same "aura" of the person. (If you believe in Auras etc)
The theory of haunting is also that an object absorbs the energy of the person or event, so, in theroy at least, the wardrobe could in fact be haunted.

Ian

beer enigma

Its a strange one - there's only myself, wife & two kids in the house & the kids are too young to do it (they could'nt reach the hanging section anyway). My wife was downstairs & definitely hadn't come up stairs, so it kinda limits options.

I'm not a great believer in paranormal, I have to admit & would always look for the scientific option - mini cyclone perhaps - I dunno - just an odd one

Sleipnir

Lock the door to the room and see what happen.

beer enigma

There's no lock on it unfortunately, best I can do is keep it closed - everything peaceful in the house now, so hopefully it was a one off.

beer enigma

Ok - just for those interested in an update on this posting..........

It transpires that although we have a 'presence' in the house, it's not the wardrobe that is directly at the centre of the problem, although it seems to ave been the catalyst. It is now under control.

We purchased the house a couple of years ago & un-beknown to us, there had been a tragic death in the house during the late 50's. Apparently, the previous owner had a daughter suffering both from diabetes & bulimia - obviously bulimia was not recognised in those days. The daughter, aged late 20's locked herself in her room with a stash of chocolate and was found dead a few hours later.

The room in question was divided into three rooms in those days because of the size of the family, that particular daughters room being in the corner where the wardrobe had been placed. It would seem, post investigation, that the placing of the wardrobe may have 'disturbed' a place familiar to the daughters presence.

Having spoken with the neighbours, we now find that the room in question has never really been used since the early 60's (which explains the decor) because of the things that have supposedly happened.

Anyways, to cut a long story short - we have moved the wardrobe & things seem to have returned to normal. We get the occasional thing moved, although with three young kids in the house, this happens anyway. The spirit we feel is still very much part of the house, but no longer causes problems & we are happy to co-exist.

Incidentally - we've just finished converting the attic & amongs the few things found up there was a photo album of the daughter which we have re-patriated with her mother who is still alive in a nursing home aged 95.

If anyone has questions, please feel free to PM me on it

Andi

Zillah

[maximum emphasis]SET UP A CAMERA, OH MY GOD[/maximum emphasis]

beer enigma

phlematic wrote:

[maximum emphasis]SET UP A CAMERA, OH MY GOD[/maximum emphasis]

But thats exactly the point - just live with it, dont provoke it.......

Zillah

Damn you sir! You'll not waste an opportunity for scientific study for the sake of your families well being!! Provoke it I say!

stormkeeper

One shouldn't (attempt to) disturb or annoy a spirit... It can have bad consequinces....

[Jackass]

Man...i have GOT TO STOP reading this forum at 4.25am, on my own in my house with all the lights off, and laptop on my lap....i heard a a very loud creak from MY wardrope when reading that (the heater is on, and i had just opend the window to have a smoke...wood contracting with temprature and all that....;)), but you should have seen me jump! lol! What a great story though Andip! I personally would also like you to experiment with it...not anything to annoy it, but leaving a camcorder running in a room can't be offensive...and im not being smart here, but what if you left a single chocolate bar in the line of view of the camera for example. There is a much greater oppertunity than most to catch something spectacular on tape...like it moving, been thrown for example. Imagine how amasing it would have been to see the cloths toss on tape? Out of curiosity, where abouts is your house? It's all well and good me saying that, because i honestly would not be able to live in a house with an active spirit and history like that out of pure fear All the same, i would love to see something on tape. How did the mother react to your visit? and did you mention any of the events? Also, do you know the significance of the place where the wardrope was placed? was that the spot where she died?

Zillah

Kennett wrote:

It can have bad consequinces

Exactly! It will produce dangerous terrible consequences but at least you might get them on tape!!

beer enigma

DubGuy22 wrote:

Man...i have GOT TO STOP reading this forum at 4.25am, on my own in my house with all the lights off, and laptop on my lap....i heard a a very loud creak from MY wardrope when reading that (the heater is on, and i had just opend the window to have a smoke...wood contracting with temprature and all that....;)), but you should have seen me jump! lol! What a great story though Andip! I personally would also like you to experiment with it...not anything to annoy it, but leaving a camcorder running in a room can't be offensive...and im not being smart here, but what if you left a single chocolate bar in the line of view of the camera for example. There is a much greater oppertunity than most to catch something spectacular on tape...like it moving, been thrown for example. Imagine how amasing it would have been to see the cloths toss on tape? Out of curiosity, where abouts is your house? It's all well and good me saying that, because i honestly would not be able to live in a house with an active spirit and history like that out of pure fear All the same, i would love to see something on tape. How did the mother react to your visit? and did you mention any of the events? Also, do you know the significance of the place where the wardrope was placed? was that the spot where she died?

Unfortunately I'm just not willing to take a chance on this - I'm as fascinated by the whole thing as all of you, but with three children under the age of 4yrs in the house, its just way too risky. Anyways, its quiet now which makes life much easier for us.

I think to place a bar of chocolate in the room with a camera could have disasterous consequences ! - it could be seen as the ultimate provocation. Even the use of cameras have been known to provoke a 'private' presence. I think the action of putting the wardrobe in that particular corner was the catalyst that brought our resident into play. Her room was a small 6ft x 6ft area located in the corner of the room that we chose for the wardrobe - lines on the ceiling clearly show where the false partitions used to be.

So....I'm leaving well alone.

To be honest, if my spirit finds happiness living in a particular spot somewhere, I'd be pretty unhappy at someone dumping a wardbrobe on top of me. Wardrobe moved = happy spirit.

logic1

I also may have a possessed wardrobe. In my case I fear a demonic spirit.

When I first moved into my house I had some laundry that I needed done so I dropped it off at the native laundry establishment and collected it the next day. I then placed it in my wardrobe pants on shelf one, blazers and sweaters on padded hangers, socks and undergarments on the bottom shelf.

When I went to remove a pair of chinos and my gucci loafers I noticed that a red sock had been placed in the leg of my chinos. Now I do not own any socks of this variety so simply put it down to an error at the laundromats and made a mental note to berate them on my next visit.

However after I put my chinos on and prepared to zip up I caught my scrotal region rather painfully in the zip. Recoiling in pain I tripped on my loafers which I was sure were not placed in my direct path when I removed them from the wardrobe, and spiralling forward I knocked my head quite severly on the wardrobe shelf.

At this point I am 100% certain I saw several small orbs zipping around my room coupled with the excrutiating groin pain this made for an extremly eerie experience.

Can I get my wardrobe excercised? What would I need? Aldi are doing a special on cross trainers this week, do wardrobes use those or would they prefer a treadmill?

Any help greatly appreciated.

.logic.

Lex_Diamonds

To Logic1...

GET OUT! GET OUT OF THE HOUSE NOW!

To the original poster...

Throw loads of chocolate into the room (Cadburys giant bars are preferable), actively talk to the spirit and use Ouija etc to make contact.
Open the ****ing gates of hell man. Far more interesting than co-existing with it. Pfft.

79cortinaz

ive found that these things dont react when you want them to.. theres been a few things happen round our house - like radios going on - on their own, voices etc etc etc but they only happen when they want too - not when I have a tape recorder and video camera running, hunting about with an emf metre. it'll happen at 3.30am when im in bed, or asleep, or basically just not in a position to record it anyway.

and its fine saying to provoke such things - if it were your house and you were living there, i doubt you would like to provoke anything

beer enigma

Well I for one am going to leave well alone while things are quiet - its a bit like putting your hand into a box full of snakes.....you may not get bitten, BUT.

House has returned to normal & there's no 'atmosphere' around the place which we definitely felt when things were happening. The only thong we do get is a smell of sweet 'old style' perfume around the place - nothing to connect this at all to the previous occurrances - the girl herself had an allergy to almost everything, so I doubt that she's have worn perfume.

Funny how many of the neighbours ask loaded questions though, like 'everything ok in there' or 'did you ever do anything with that upstairs room ??'

magnumlady

Its all fascinating stuff. I also had an 'experience' with a wardrobe. Although nothing like yours. My neighbour gave me two wardrobes that used to belong to her mother. The night we got them I woke up to a really strong smell of roast chicken (strange I know!)
Anyway a couple of days later I was telling my neighbour and she went very pale and said her mother died at a family meal of roast chicken (wheres the twilight zone music!)

Zillah

logic1 wrote:

I also may have a possessed wardrobe. In my case I fear a demonic spirit.

When I first moved into my house I had some laundry that I needed done so I dropped it off at the native laundry establishment and collected it the next day. I then placed it in my wardrobe pants on shelf one, blazers and sweaters on padded hangers, socks and undergarments on the bottom shelf.

When I went to remove a pair of chinos and my gucci loafers I noticed that a red sock had been placed in the leg of my chinos. Now I do not own any socks of this variety so simply put it down to an error at the laundromats and made a mental note to berate them on my next visit.

However after I put my chinos on and prepared to zip up I caught my scrotal region rather painfully in the zip. Recoiling in pain I tripped on my loafers which I was sure were not placed in my direct path when I removed them from the wardrobe, and spiralling forward I knocked my head quite severly on the wardrobe shelf.

At this point I am 100% certain I saw several small orbs zipping around my room coupled with the excrutiating groin pain this made for an extremly eerie experience.

Can I get my wardrobe excercised? What would I need? Aldi are doing a special on cross trainers this week, do wardrobes use those or would they prefer a treadmill?

Any help greatly appreciated.

.logic.

Look I'm sorry but its kinda ludicrous to leap to the assumption that your wardrobe is possessed by a demonic force because you had a clumsy disastrous fall. The red sock was quite possible a mix up at the laundromat, the zipper catching could happen to anyone and it's not unusual for someone to trip over stuff while trying to move after searing pain in the groin...

As for the orbs, the way you explain it you saw them after hitting your head. Ever seen those cartoons where someone gets hit on the head and then stars fly around their head? Thats because when you get hit in the head, neurons in your visual cortex can misfire, causing you to see bright spots spinning in the air.

TBH, I really don't see how any of this is paranormal.

EDIT: Typos.

LegacyUser

Oh FFS are you stupid? I really think he is joking phlematic.

logic1

cheesedude wrote:

Oh FFS are you stupid? I really think he is joking phlematic.

And I really think he is stupid.

.logic.

Berger

Haha phlegmatic dum dums

Zillah

I've learned (after several threats of being banned) to take people's opinions very seriously, regardless of how utterly moronic they are. Forgive me for assuming you weren't a complete tard.

GuanYin

Logic1 banned.

Kernel

I would imagine that a person could imprint an object, bearing in mind that many police psychics have a high success rate in locating suspects or victims through 'reading' a personal object. There are also cases of hauntings and poltergeist activity after an object was brought into a house. Kinda puts me off buying any antiques in the near future!

It reminds me of what Stephen King said in his short story "Riding the Bullet" about staying in motel rooms. You have absolutely no idea who stayed there before you, or what they did... he gives the example of a guy hanging himself in the closet... so true.. likewise, you have no idea who owned the item of furniture or whatever, before you obtained it.

Hobbes

Kernel wrote:

I would imagine that a person could imprint an object

Maybe its the ghost of the tree coming to exact its revenge for being brutally cut up.

echomadman

phlematic wrote:

I've learned (after several threats of being banned) to take people's opinions very seriously, regardless of how utterly moronic they are. Forgive me for assuming you weren't a complete tard.

Shouldn't that be "Forgive me for assuming you were a complete tard."?

Zillah

echomadman wrote:

Shouldn't that be "Forgive me for assuming you were a complete tard."?

I realised that that sentence didn't really make much sense afterwards but wasn't bothered editing. Oh the loss of face. Could someone lend me their wakizashi? I'll also need someone to act as second.

stevenmu

Oooh, Seppeku, count me in. We can always turn it into a scientific test to see if you communicate from the other side


(edit: btw, I thought your sentance made perfect sense)