Weird & Unusual Stories

LOL!

People will believe anything... except for the truth these days! Sometimes the truth is stranger, though..

a little creepiness for your day.

haunted houses

When we moved to NL we bought a house in a village. It was an ex blacksmiths shop and cottage dating from 1845 although there had been a house on that site since 1600.

Right from the start OH would hear me call I would hear him call and we would end up meeting in the hallway .. Later people would swear they had seen someone pass the living room door and go down the hall to the WC only to find no one there when they went to look..

We would have strange smells every night as we went to bed the smell of an extinguished candle. OH stripped all the walls back to bare brick installed all new electrics and plumbing and dry walled the whole place.
Yet the smell continued and worse the tv would switch itself on and off (this was when you still had a physical on off button) the radio did the same. the sound would increase or decrease on its own. We just naturally talked to whatever it was.. if the channel changed we would say 'hey I was watching that'.. Or Do you mind?
I lost crockery and in a house with three children that shouldnt be weird but on more that one occasion something would go missing , we would go out and on our return in the middle of the table or laying on the kitchen floor would be the missing item .. raised eyebrows but I just said thank you and put the dish away.

If I heard banging about in the bedrooms I would shout up the stairs , if youre up there would you mind dusting?
Similarly if I heard noise in the kitchen I would shout yes Id love a cup of tea.. Nothing every happened but it became a standard reaction.


One scary incident wasnt even us it was my FIL on new years eve , he offered to babysit while we went to the local pub but he phoned us in a panic that things were flying... He had been in the kitchen when a cupbpard had opened and a frying pan had flown at his head, then the spice rack emptyied itself with jars shooting across the kitchen like guided missiles. He was terrified.

Eventually we decided it was time for us to move on but the house didnt want us to go. We gave the walls a fresh coat of paint and as the paint dried the word help remained..
Then every time we had a viewing weird things would happen. Huge wet patches would appear on walls that had no plumbing in under or over them, these patches dried instantly without staining when the viewer left. Doors without locks would appear to be bolted from the inside and windows would remain tight shut..Lights wouldnt work or the doorbell would stick ringing away like a fire bell..

eventually we did sell although the estate agent phoned us on the day of signing to say the new people wouldnt sign until we sorted the massive leak in the kitchen ceiling he said he had popped in to give the place a last look over and water was pouring in from above the light fitting , he told us he had put a bucket under it but we needed to get there quickly. We shot off to repair it and found..... nothing the bucket was bone dry the light fitting contained nothing but dust and a dead fly.
We told him we had sorted it out and signed over the house..

The new people stayed for a year, they never slept in the newly refurbished bedrooms instead they left their bed in the garage and slept there..

It's the demonic activity I can't do. It's like a slithery, slimy, black hand caressing you in the vilest manner.

@marci NL is short for The Netherlands which us where Im from and WC is water closet or bathroom.

Water Closet  Never heard of that before. Funny but cool! Sounds odd yet at the same time nicer than saying bathroom. 

Marci, I am not sure if I missed this but are you still living there?

Probably being haunted too....

That was interesting. \i used to be a big hendrix fan. But most of his stuff has aged badly.

This though:

OMG!


Upon her first questionings from New York City Health officials in 1907, Mallon admitted she didn't see the point in washing her hands. Germ theory was still fairly new, and she didn't seem to believe sickness could be transferred through physical contact or lack of proper washing.

I can guarantee it K. I see it daily at work. People who have been raised to wash their hands and who care are ok. But they let too many people in who refuse to abide by sanitary rules. And they do nothing to stop it. Nothing.

Pretty much