I thought sellers had to disclose any deaths in the house? Or maybe there's a statute of limitations on that disclosure?
I was curious about Michigan, so I looked it up:
While some states have specifically addressed whether sellers must disclose whether a property is “stigmatized” (by death, murder, infectious disease, and so forth), Michigan has not yet specifically addressed this issue. The disclosure statement does not include this information, and instead generally limits disclosures to the physical condition of the property.
I mean, we know that someone died in our house, and have felt her presence, but she's kind. We knew her before she passed and her family (they live next door) tells us all the time she would love what we've done to the house and would be happy that we are there.
my motion sensor under my dresser kept going off at like 3-4am.
I keep reading this over and over and can't figure out what it means or what it might be an autocorrect for. Why do you have a motion sensor under your dresser?
Maybe a motion sensor nightlight and the plug in just happens to be under/behind the dresser?
Ok, this post reminded me of a house we lived in a for a few years when I was a kid that was probably definitely haunted. So I just looked it up on Zillow. It was sold last year after a pretty extensive renovation. But there's something super weird that they didn't change.
From the side of the house (that faced a busy street), there was a window in the master bedroom. Inside the MB, there was no window there. Someone (a long time ago) bricked and wallpapered over that window. Not an unreasonable thing to do with a window that faces a busy street. What always creeped me out though was that they left curtains in the window when they did it. They didn't touch it when they renovated. So from the outside of the house there's still a creepy window with really old curtains in it.
You'd think they would have wanted to get rid of that eyesore, right? Adding to the creepiness was that when we lived there, the wallpaper in that bedroom was super busy pink floral nonsense. But under the window that faces the backyard, there was a decent-sized (maybe 2.5" long) blood splatter. Very. Obviously. Blood. I can see it in pictures because I know where to look. It's unmistakable. And it makes the window thing even creepier, IMO.
I'm just now catching up but liked your comment Bernadine not only because I agree, but because I didn't feel right leaving the first response to this post with THIRTEEN likes!😌
We're getting rid of our Alexa because she has creeped us out beyond belief, even though I don't believe in ghosts/spirits/hauntings. A few nights ago, I thought I had dreamed her say "now connected to LaRhonda's iPhone". Weird, especially since that's my neighbor's name. But two days later, out of the blue she says it again, twice, and my son hears her. Then, I step in the closet to get a pair of shoes and hear a camera shutter go off twice. My son runs in and says Alexa just took his picture (we only have an Amazon Dot, so not possible). I ask my neighbor, and she doesn't even have an Amazon account, but she does have an iPhone. The icing on the cake was when I was folding laundry and heard children screaming and giggling in my room. I have a video of Alexa going in and out on a radio song (you can hear people in the background talking), police or air traffic control chatter, children yelling on a playground, and freaking clown laughter. No commands spoken to her, the noise would only last for a few seconds, she'd turn off, and then play again. NOT TODAY SATAN!
Alex and has a wifi signal and people are obviously connecting to her, probably inadvertently. You need to change a privacy setting or something.
So a little more info on the door- I was laying in bed and H was standing there and he was pushing on the door and then he says WTF? and I ask what's going on and he's like Well this is weird, then all of a sudden the door shuts. So I ask him what the heck and he tells me that when he pushes on the door to close it, it was resisting / pushing back. So he opens the door to show me and of course then it shuts perfectly normally without issue. No problem with it since. Like I said, no windows open, no A/C running.
Is it humidity that would cause a swollen door jamb? I live in the Desert.
This sounds like a sock under the door. Our laundry basket is behind our door and I've closed it over a sock or a washcloth many times (the laundry basket is RIGHT THERE, DH!) and that's what it's like. Resistance and then it gives.
We have a friendly ghost in the group home where I work a couple nights a month overnight. They think they're funny by turning the lights off and on in the middle of the night when I'm sleeping. Locked room. One night when they did it like 4 times I finally said "Listen, I don't care if you stay here, but I'm not very fun to be around if I don't get any sleep, so knock it off". It didn't happen to me again for a few months.
Ok, this post reminded me of a house we lived in a for a few years when I was a kid that was probably definitely haunted. So I just looked it up on Zillow. It was sold last year after a pretty extensive renovation. But there's something super weird that they didn't change.
From the side of the house (that faced a busy street), there was a window in the master bedroom. Inside the MB, there was no window there. Someone (a long time ago) bricked and wallpapered over that window. Not an unreasonable thing to do with a window that faces a busy street. What always creeped me out though was that they left curtains in the window when they did it. They didn't touch it when they renovated. So from the outside of the house there's still a creepy window with really old curtains in it.
You'd think they would have wanted to get rid of that eyesore, right? Adding to the creepiness was that when we lived there, the wallpaper in that bedroom was super busy pink floral nonsense. But under the window that faces the backyard, there was a decent-sized (maybe 2.5" long) blood splatter. Very. Obviously. Blood. I can see it in pictures because I know where to look. It's unmistakable. And it makes the window thing even creepier, IMO.
Now I really want to see the listing on this house! I would have to tear that out, wonder if someone was killed in the spot?
Ok, this post reminded me of a house we lived in a for a few years when I was a kid that was probably definitely haunted. So I just looked it up on Zillow. It was sold last year after a pretty extensive renovation. But there's something super weird that they didn't change.
From the side of the house (that faced a busy street), there was a window in the master bedroom. Inside the MB, there was no window there. Someone (a long time ago) bricked and wallpapered over that window. Not an unreasonable thing to do with a window that faces a busy street. What always creeped me out though was that they left curtains in the window when they did it. They didn't touch it when they renovated. So from the outside of the house there's still a creepy window with really old curtains in it.
You'd think they would have wanted to get rid of that eyesore, right? Adding to the creepiness was that when we lived there, the wallpaper in that bedroom was super busy pink floral nonsense. But under the window that faces the backyard, there was a decent-sized (maybe 2.5" long) blood splatter. Very. Obviously. Blood. I can see it in pictures because I know where to look. It's unmistakable. And it makes the window thing even creepier, IMO.
Now I really want to see the listing on this house! I would have to tear that out, wonder if someone was killed in the spot?
I doubt there will be anything interesting. You can look it up though! Let me know if you find anything - 8100 Bright Meadows Lane Dunn Loring, VA 22027
I lived in this house from '89-92. The window was like that then, so whatever happened in that house, it was quite a while ago. The house was SOOO 70s/80s when we lived there. Wood paneling throughout the basement, pink track lighting on the walls... The kitchen is ALLLL NEW.
But FUCK that window still creeps me the hell out.
The story behind why I think it's haunted: I used to always hear footsteps when I was home alone. Whether I was on the 1st floor or in the basement, they were always above me. And they were distinctively heavy, human footsteps. Like someone wearing work boots, walking across the house. It always creeped me out, but not enough to say anything. There were a few other random things, like others have described in this thread: things turning on and off by themselves, doors opening or being left open when they definitely weren't before, rustling noises for which a source was never found, etc.
YEARS later, like when I was in my 20s, I mentioned something casually to my mom about the haunted house we lived in when we first moved to VA. Her face DROPPED. Now keep in mind, my mom is a PhD-holding molecular biologist. She doesn't believe in the supernatural. At. All. But when I said something about the house being haunted, she made me tell her everything that made me think that. And then she admitted to hearing the footsteps as well, the the point of calling the police to search the house when she was home alone one time. She admitted that it was one of the reasons we moved. Not the only reason, but it was a factor.
Lol that 1) someone though Alexa was your kid And 2) people think a shushing sound from the baby monitor is anything other than...the sound of a baby monitor
I'm gonna defend my baby monitor shushing sound. We use a white noise machine in DS's room. So the monitor makes a ton of random shushing noises. When he was 6-9 months old though, we were sleep training and would let him whine/cry for 15 minutes before we would go check on him. After 10 minutes of him crying, I would hear the shushing noise. It was a distinct female voice too. And a shh-shh-shh rhythm to it that would continue for about 15-30 second until DS would go to sleep! The times when I didn't hear the shushing noise, I would have to go in at the 15 minute mark.
It hasn't made that same shushing noise since he was sleep trained. I made sure to tell it thank you on those nights. Lol
I feel like these things sound crazy, but I'm really not crazy. I've had many creepy things happen, mostly in the house I grew up in and I felt that a lot of it was my dad. My mom and I would occasionally experience things together--like sitting at the dining table and hearing the water turn on full force in the powder room for no reason. And the stereo in my bedroom changing (it had a dial) to my dad's radio station when I would leave it on my station, leave my room and come back. I blamed my mother--after several times I was all pissy at her and said something and she told me she never touched my radio.
In more recent years--maybe a month after my stepdad died I was alone in my old apartment. It had a galley style kitchen and the sink was at the end so that if you were washing dishes, your back faced the entry of the kitchen. I heard the front door open/close and someone walk across the apartment. I stopped washing dishes to run out and say hi to J. Except he wasn't home. I was alone. My cats were sitting and staring at "nothing" in the living room. Then it was gone. When J got home I was really creeped out.
I'm not sure I even believe in ghosts, but if I heard a voice in the nursery, not one single thing would ever get me to step foot in the house ever again. I would grab the baby and run straight for a hotel, and a moving service would be arriving the following morning. I would be terrified.
Post by picksthemusic on May 1, 2017 22:29:24 GMT -5
I've seen orbs flying around DS on his monitor before. We've also had baby toys go off (battery operated, in a separate room) when we were trying to make tough decisions.
Ok this will sound really dumb. I don't actuslky believe in ghosts, but I think we have a ghost (if that makes sense, lol). Our house is very old and when we moved in about 3 years ago DS2 started having very consistent nightmares in his room and was always pointing to one corner of his room when scared. Once he told me someone was sitting there (he was 2 at the time). One night over the monitor when DS2 was crying (I was ignoring to see if he would chill on his own) I distinctly heard someone going "shhhhh! Shhhhhh!" over the monitor as well. Then DS1 told me he saw a ghost on our back stairs (that go down from the kids' rooms) in the middle of the night.
Sooo.....I don't know if I really believe in ghosts, but my friend sent me an article on what to do with a ghost and it says something to the effect of "speak calmly and firmly to it" lol. So one day I went into DS2's room and asked the ghost to please stop scaring the kids. ....And the nightmares almost went away (he still has night terrors when sick and still points into that corner when he's in the middle of one, but it's way less).
So, go speak calmly to the ghost.
(I'm not crazy, I swear)
My aunt died 1 week after my first son was born. She hadn't been able to meet him before she died, but she did call me the day he was born, excited that I'd had my first child. A few weeks after her death, I noticed my son kept intently staring at the same spot in his bedroom. I always felt spooked when he stared at it, so one day I said out loud "I'm glad you're here to visit and make him happy, but you're scaring me. Please don't haunt us anymore." After that, my son completely stopped staring at that spot in his room. I totally think it was my aunt coming to see him, but once I let her spirit know that it was scaring me, she left.
Post by RexManningDay on May 1, 2017 22:47:24 GMT -5
I'd be so freaking pumped. If it was a nice ghost. I'd love to believe in the supernatural but have no reason to thus far. This house is almost 100 years old so come onnnnnn, haunting. Someone had to have died here.
Disclaimer: sorry if this feels disrespectful or flippant to anyone who has been scared by these things. But I'm very into it.
We're getting rid of our Alexa because she has creeped us out beyond belief, even though I don't believe in ghosts/spirits/hauntings. A few nights ago, I thought I had dreamed her say "now connected to LaRhonda's iPhone". Weird, especially since that's my neighbor's name. But two days later, out of the blue she says it again, twice, and my son hears her. Then, I step in the closet to get a pair of shoes and hear a camera shutter go off twice. My son runs in and says Alexa just took his picture (we only have an Amazon Dot, so not possible). I ask my neighbor, and she doesn't even have an Amazon account, but she does have an iPhone. The icing on the cake was when I was folding laundry and heard children screaming and giggling in my room. I have a video of Alexa going in and out on a radio song (you can hear people in the background talking), police or air traffic control chatter, children yelling on a playground, and freaking clown laughter. No commands spoken to her, the noise would only last for a few seconds, she'd turn off, and then play again. NOT TODAY SATAN!
I have no idea what is going on with the rest of this, but connecting to your neighbor's phone is probably happening via Bluetooth. Alexa connects to wireless speakers & such that way, and it's a different wireless technology -- the devices don't need to be on the same Wi-Fi network or connected via an Amazon account for that to happen.
We have a smoke detector that has twice gone off either just before or just after someone has passed away.
A few weeks ago one of DD's toys went off with no one near it (baby was asleep, cat was on the couch with us). I called out to the air that it was cool to have a ghost here, and if they wanted a beer, just make a sign and I would open one and leave it for them. Nothing else happened, so maybe my spirit doesn't like Liquid Bliss Porter? Had *anything* happened, I absolutely would have just opened a beer and left it.
We have a smoke detector that has twice gone off either just before or just after someone has passed away.
A few weeks ago one of DD's toys went off with no one near it (baby was asleep, cat was on the couch with us). I called out to the air that it was cool to have a ghost here, and if they wanted a beer, just make a sign and I would open one and leave it for them. Nothing else happened, so maybe my spirit doesn't like Liquid Bliss Porter? Had *anything* happened, I absolutely would have just opened a beer and left it.
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A couple of hours before my mother in law died I was in the kitchen late at night because I couldn't sleep and the smoke detector right above my head went off. I pressed the reset and it hasn't done it in the 7 months since so not the battery. I yelled at the kitchen ceiling that I would take care of her son, LOL.
my motion sensor under my dresser kept going off at like 3-4am.
I keep reading this over and over and can't figure out what it means or what it might be an autocorrect for. Why do you have a motion sensor under your dresser?
Duh I probably should have explained more....It's a motion sensor for a string of lights under the dresser so at night if I need to get up I have a little light for walking to/from the bathroom. It stays on for like 20 seconds maybe. So the lights kept going on and my cat wasn't in the room walking to set it off.
Does anybody remember the show Unsolved Mysteries? They always did the best reenactment of ghost stories. This thread is making me think of that show. They used to show old episodes on lifetime. <side tracked>
Does anybody remember the show Unsolved Mysteries? They always did the best reenactment of ghost stories. This thread is making me think of that show. They used to show old episodes on lifetime. <side tracked>
All these stories are creeping me out.
Yes! They still do, every day! I am watching now, lol.
Does anybody remember the show Unsolved Mysteries? They always did the best reenactment of ghost stories. This thread is making me think of that show. They used to show old episodes on lifetime. <side tracked>
All these stories are creeping me out.
Yes! They still do, every day! I am watching now, lol.
I always wished they would bring it back. Just like it was. I haven't seen an equivalent ghost story show. Most are super cheesy. Just thinking about some of the episodes gives me goose bumps.
Does anybody remember the show Unsolved Mysteries? They always did the best reenactment of ghost stories. This thread is making me think of that show. They used to show old episodes on lifetime. <side tracked>
All these stories are creeping me out.
I loved that show! I used to watch it with my dad. He'd tell me to go to bed after it was over, and I remember standing at the bottom of the stairs looking up into the dark hallway being totally freaked out and dreading going up. In particular the show once said Bigfoot lived on Pikes Peak. We lived at the base of the mountain and I was convinced Bigfoot was in my room.
I don't know why my parents let me watch it. One episode was about a horribly violent crime that had always stayed with me to this day.