Do houses have atmospheres?

I am fairly sure ghosts are nonsenses and I think all that new age stuff is silly, but have you ever been in a house that had an atmosphere.

When I was looking at buying a house after I separated I went to see this house that had hedge at least 7 or 8ft tall, a 6 high foot wooden gate and a monitored alarm the house was lovely but you could almost feel the waves of paranoia from the house and the occupants must have been a nightmares as neighbours.

Anyone else ever get a negative vibe from a house.

4leto

Yep otherwise you die.

mackg

your basing this on a hedge, a gate and an alarm?

cml387

Well, there was this castle I was invited to once in Transyvania, by the local Count no less.

It had a strange atmosphere,but I put it down to the bats.

stupidusername

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Bobby Baccala

your a bit mad in the head aren't ye

Mike 1972

Some people claim they can sense the presence of evil.

I kinda got that feeling for a brief moment when I was down in the punishment cells during a tour of Auschwitz.

Then logic kicked in and I decided it must be the combination of cold/dampness one gets from thick stone walls underground.

ToddyDoody

Picking up on things like a house's 'atmosphere' is a right-hemisphere (of the brain) activity... I remember at about age 10 my neighbour of the same age had an old relative staying for a few days. We were completely terrified one evening when going into his house. The door was open but the lights were off. It was like as if something bad had happened (the place had a weird *atmosphere*). We called 'anyone here?' a few times to no answer. Eventually the old relative came out of one of the rooms.

Ruu_Old

A gateway to hell in the basement but nothing else unusual.

Temptamperu

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Some people claim they can sense the presence of evil.

I kinda got that feeling for a brief moment when I was down in the punishment cells during a tour of Auschwitz.

Then logic kicked in and I decided it must be the combination of cold/dampness one gets from thick stone walls underground.

I can sense the presance of evil in my house, then she goes to the shop and i get a few minutes restbite

Fremen

My house used to have atmosfear, but then we lost most of the pieces.

Temptamperu

^^Best game EVER!!

x_Ellie_x

There's a house on my road thats abandoned. The old lady that lived there died about 3 years ago and her kids live in the country (Leitrim and Waterford, I think) and don't come up to Dublin to check on the house. Apparently they don't want to sell the house until the economy gets better or so I've been told. Because no one's living there the house it is in ruins now... the garden is overgrown, full of weeds, the net curtains on the windows are absolutely black, paint peeling off the walls, the roof on the kitchen extension collapsed last winter when we had the snow. The house has been broken into a few times. The back door has been broken and stray cats are living in the house (I actually had to go into it to get my own cat out of that house after he followed a stray in). I hate that house. Wish her family would do something about it but none of the neighbours have contact details for her kids. The little kids in the neighbourhood think its haunted. I admit it does give me the creeps too but mostly because I'm afraid some kids will break into it again & will try to burn it down or something.

The house was completable surrounded by the hedge and the gate it was as if they were trying to hide the house, it wasn't a mansion or anything, the hedges were hugely out of proportion to the neighbours houses.

landsleaving

Some people like their privacy. I'm not entirely sure why that would be considered evil, but a healthy dose of paranoia does a neighbourhood good

Kevin Duffy

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Picking up on things like a house's 'atmosphere' is a right-hemisphere (of the brain) activity... I remember at about age 10 my neighbour of the same age had an old relative staying for a few days. We were completely terrified one evening when going into his house. The door was open but the lights were off. It was like as if something bad had happened (the place had a weird *atmosphere*). We called 'anyone here?' a few times to no answer. Eventually the old relative came out of one of the rooms.

Is this story "An old relative that was expected to be in the house, was in the house, as expected. Nothing unexpected happened."? Or is the end of the story gone missing?

gozunda

mariaalice wrote: »

I am fairly sure ghosts are nonsenses and I think all that new age stuff is silly, but have you ever been in a house that had an atmosphere.

When I was looking at buying a house after I separated I went to see this house that had hedge at least 7 or 8ft tall, a 6 high foot wooden gate and a monitored alarm the house was lovely but you could almost feel the waves of paranoia from the house and the occupants must have been a nightmares as neighbours.

Anyone else ever get a negative vibe from a house.

Walk into aroom where there's just been a fight - and you can feel it for sure

There is a theory that violent emotions have a time lag in time and place. With such activity going on for years it can be picked up afterwards as a vibe - in similar case a bad one

Bit like a tape recoder - except this recording is linked to a location

I have walked into a room and had the hair on my head stand on end - dont know what caused it though.....

FloatingVoter

If the house has steel-shuttered doors and windows - with a sliding slot on the door....we have an atmosphere. You can buy it cheap (cash only) and don't be surprised if junkies show up on a regular basis.

ToddyDoody

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Is this story "An old relative that was expected to be in the house, was in the house, as expected. Nothing unexpected happened."? Or is the end of the story gone missing?

The end of the story went missing. (what a ****e poster i am)

Ditch

Try entering a home that's been repossessed. I have, plenty of times. God, it's Awful! Ye can 'hear' the crying and the stress and misery are running down the walls

Horrible experience.

Jaxxy

I know exactly what you mean OP. My nanny's house has an "atmosphere" and I frequently got the heebies when I was staying there. My cousin stayed there a few weeks ago because he was on nights but he got no sleep at all. He says the house is just "creepy".

I don't know what it is, the house isn't that old and it's been maintained, but quite a few of us in the family get an odd feeling when we go in.

Solnskaya

I think it depends on the person wether they sense an atmosphere or not- much the same as some people are totally oblivious to the emotions of others or of just what a cnut they are themselves. Other people pick up on emotions around them, are more empathetic and can sense atmospheres. At on end of the spectrum you have your Brian Cowens, at the other end you have Alison Dubois. Some people wouldn't pick up a sad atmosphere at their own ma's funeral.

Big Nasty

cml387 wrote: »

Well, there was this castle I was invited to once in Transyvania, by the local Count no less.

It had a strange atmosphere,but I put it down to the bats.

I've been there - cool place!

Big Nasty

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

There's a house on my road thats abandoned. The old lady that lived there died about 3 years ago and her kids live in the country (Leitrim and Waterford, I think) and don't come up to Dublin to check on the house.

Must be haunted - they couldn't have picked two worse sh1tholes to escape to! :eek:

Big Nasty

I've just done a Vampire Of Kilmainham on this thread - how fitting! :eek::eek::eek:

easyeason3

If you stayed in my grandmothers house in one of the front bedrooms you could hear someone walking gravel/ stones during the night. The front of the house had neither gravel or stone, it had tarmac.

I was about seven the last time I stayed there so I honestly dont know if it's true.

skylight1987

Houses definately have atmospheres both good and bad, one house i rented had such a lonely feel to it.It was a stunning house with the best of furniture but by god the sadness and loneliness was palpible . A woman killed herself in the house she couldnt have children .I didnt find out this till we were living there about six months. Got a mass said for her and even now years later i still sometimes think of her I like to think the fact that my kids and i lived there we brought some joy to the house .it has been idle since we left .

JerryHandbag

Stayed in a rural guesthouse in Spain recently, didnt look anything like it did from its webpage, remote old-fashioned and ****ing creepy as hell. I'm convinced I was the only one staying there too that night. Every time I turned the light off to sleep I could hear a tapping noise in the walls, turn the light on again and it would stop. Only time I've ever really got a bad "vibe" from a house.

Jake Rugby Walrus666

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Or is the end of the story gone missing?

Did it go missing? Or did someone or something make it go missing.

I'm not sure what's going on here. But I know there's no earthly explanation for what we've seen here today.

denhaagenite

Definitely got a vibe at Aushwitz- what a horrible, desolate place. Especially the rooms full of clothes and hair. Wish I'd never been there.

Also de Heilig Bloed Basiliek in Brugge definitely gives me a strange feeling.

I think for me it's medieval buildings and places where atrocities have happened, I think if people have very strong feelings in a place that hangs around.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

My granny's house is quite scary. It's quite big, fairly old and a few people have died there, not always of natural causes either, so I think that's what makes people feel like that rather than anything in the actual house itself. It's also freezing, full of old stuff- broken kids toys, old photos, creepy sacred heart/clown pictures god love the woman, she's some hoarder-and generally does look a bit like a house from a scary movie. And for me it's where me and my sister used to get farmed out to when our parents went away anywhere, so it's extra scary, I'd say 90% of the nightmares I have to this day are set there.

My uncle (granny's son-in-law) was minding it on his own once while she was away. Sleeping in the master bedroom, which is biiiiiiiiig with the bed right in the centre of it so lots of dark corners and what not, not to mention the creepy pictures. Wife rang him to say goodnight and knowing he was a bit creeped out by the house right before she hung up she said "Oh, and don't look at the little priest".