Room Haunted?

I have a belief that either my room or my house is haunted. It's a relatively old house with a lot of old pieces of furniture. I've had a few strange instances here, like earlier on when I came in and something fell off my set of drawers on to the ground. I'm pretty sure I didn't cause it to fall and there's no strong enough breeze.

I've tried asking whoever it is to knock over something else, but with no such luck. Any ideas?

6th

How about trying to record some EVP or setting up a video camera? What ever you do dont look at this youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmQPWndFlM

Dave!

Try reverse psychology:

"Okay, don't knock something else over......"

If something else gets knocked over, then you know you've got a ghost, and that it is susceptible to psychological manipulation. That can lead to all sorts of hilarious scenarios.

Havermeyer

What ever you do dont look at this youtube video:

Is that an actual movie or a youtube pisstake?

6th

nummnutts wrote: »

Is that an actual movie or a youtube pisstake?

Its an actual movie la the blair witch.

Anyway OT, boney, you've been on this forum long enough to know the type of stuff people (skeptics/believers) will say. Imo, try a bit of audio recording or if you have access to a video camera try that?

Havermeyer

Sabotage wrote: »

Its an actual movie la the blair witch.

Anyway OT

My apologies. Just wondering. You never know with youtube.

Sabotage

Sabotage wrote: »

Its an actual movie la the blair witch.

Anyway OT, boney, you've been on this forum long enough to know the type of stuff people (skeptics/believers) will say. Imo, try a bit of audio recording or if you have access to a video camera try that?

Oh I know there'll be skeptics. I'm a bit off doing anything like that because at the moment I can be ignorant to the existence of a ghost. If it turns out there's one here, it might make me feel weird, if that makes sense?

6th

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh I know there'll be skeptics. I'm a bit off doing anything like that because at the moment I can be ignorant to the existence of a ghost. If it turns out there's one here, it might make me feel weird, if that makes sense?

Makes perfect sense, if we dont "know" its there then we can live with it. The idea of having a ghost is alot better than actually having one

ChocolateSauce

Or maybe something just fell off for some natural reason?

I live in a new house, and every now and then things fall from a high position to a low position. I usually blame gravity.

Havermeyer

Sabotage wrote: »

The idea of having a ghost is alot better than actually having one

No it's not.

I'm a serious skeptic, as you may have guessed from reading any of my previous posts on this forum, but I would love to be proven wrong. The ideas of ghosts existing and life beyond our normal realm is fascinating. I just haven't seen any evidence yet.

Back to that movie When is it released . IMDB is saying 2007 but i heard that this one is actually a re-make. Is it out soon ?

6th

nummnutts wrote: »

No it's not.

Tell that to the people who are living with unexplained happenings in their houses.

???

Sabotage wrote: »

Tell that to the people who are living with unexplained happenings in their houses.

There's plenty of unexplained happenings in everyone's house. I still can't explain why my socks go missing all the time or why chocolate dissapears from the fridge! Just because it's unexplained doesn't mean its a ghost and if it is a ghost its better to know. You might have Casper or you might have a ghostly sex predator. I'd prefer to know which one rather than live in ignorance until I am abused by a ghost!!! That's all assuming ghosts are real... but sure, evidence scmevidence!!!

Havermeyer

Sabotage wrote: »

Tell that to the people who are living with unexplained happenings in their houses.

From experience, there's not much use in talking to people who would be freaked out by any unexplained happenings in their houses. They are usually in the mindset that anything slightly out of the ordinary is due to some sort of paranormal activity, and refute any logical explanation given to them. So, I think I'll save my breath on that one.

Oryx

??? wrote: »

There's plenty of unexplained happenings in everyone's house. I still can't explain why my socks go missing all the time or why chocolate dissapears from the fridge! Just because it's unexplained doesn't mean its a ghost and if it is a ghost its better to know. You might have Casper or you might have a ghostly sex predator. I'd prefer to know which one rather than live in ignorance until I am abused by a ghost!!! That's all assuming ghosts are real... but sure, evidence scmevidence!!!

The sock thing is the sock monster, which every house has. It can also live on bic biros, in the absence of a dirty sock.

The chocolate is you, sleep-eating.

I read on another forum of a guy who believed he had a ghost raping him every night. And he had a PROBLEM with that.*

*I dont mind mocking him, the guy was weird, and used every opportunity to bring the subject matter around to sex.

Which means I now have to go back on topic...

OP, Is it always physical phenomena or is there something else that makes you feel creeped out at home. And a ghost in the house is actually not the worst thing. Ill take one over bad plumbing.

ChocolateSauce

6th wrote: »

Tell that to the people who are living with unexplained happenings in their houses.

I think that's just what happened.

I tell now every man woman and child in the world who has strange and unexplainable happenings in their homes: It is not paranormal. Just normal. Possibly mysterious, probably not, but explainable without the need for goulies.

To all these people: If you believe you have had an "encounter", I'm not calling you a liar, I'm just saying you are incorrect to think it is something from beyond the grave.

Oryx

theozster wrote: »

To all these people: If you believe you have had an "encounter", I'm not calling you a liar, I'm just saying you are incorrect to think it is something from beyond the grave.

I agree with you, most of the time. But I leave room for the 0.1% of times when there is most definitely something weird going on.

???

Overstating the odds a little there. 1 in 1000 are a lot more common than the paranormal is.

Oryx

??? wrote: »

Overstating the odds a little there. 1 in 1000 are a lot more common than the paranormal is.

Oh cmon. Give me a break. This is a conversation, not a strict scientific analysis.

I always try and look for a rational explanation behind things but sometimes there really isn't. I don't always jump to conclusions with regards things.

As stated in the thread about Mirrors. Most nights I would picture a woman looking back at he from the mirror. Then, one night, on the phone to my girlfriend, she pauses and asks who is with me. I say nobody, which there wasn't. She then informs me that she heard a woman laughing. I ask her if it could have been on her end and she says no.

stevenmu

theozster please read the forum charter if you wish to continue posting on this forum.

ChocolateSauce

I've always thought it more likely for a human brain to tempoararily malfunction and send an incorrect signal (or a sense to do the same) than it is for something to be real which cannot be measured, assumes there is life after death and generally defies the laws of physics. The brain is massively complicated and every now and then it doesn't work perfectly. I know I've heard things that couldn't possibly have happened. It's called hearing things.

And over the phone it is even more uncertain! It opens up the possibility that something interfered with the signal. Maybe a woman might ask if her boyfriend had an other woman over not because she heard something, but because she's a bit paranoid and is trying to catch him out?

The possibilities are large, to say the least. Why do people not consider them, or consider that there may be possibilities they wouldn't conceive of? Why assume automatically it's a ghost or something paranormal?

Hm. Something weird happened last night. At 6 in the morning I was woken up by the cat clawing at my door to be let in. So I get out of bed and lift him on to my bed when I start tickling his neck. So far so good, he's purring and whatnot.

I have a sheet draped over my window that doubles as a curtain. About 10 seconds after the cat getting on my bed, the sheet drops on one side. My window is open so this would have enabled the cat to jump out. There was no wind and the sheet is very stable.

The timing just seemed a little odd.