Issue with house being................ "haunted"????

[LwnmwnMan2]

Here's the situation.

I've lived in the house that my wife and I bought from my parents for going on 30 years, it was built in 1976.

It's in a wooded area, near a wildlife management area.

Anyways, we have 2 kids, a 5 year old (Feb. 14) and one that'll be 2 on May 19th.

Usually, once / month or more, a toy will just randomly start playing. It might be by other toys, it might be all by itself in the middle of the floor, usually in the middle of the night, like always, right??

It's hardly ever the same toy, nor do we hardly ever replace the batteries in the toy that plays by itself, so we're not addressing an issue if it's a low battery thing. However, the kids keep playing with these toys and they don't show signs of dead batteries.

When our oldest was about 1, he was in his crib one night, and the music box above his crib started playing. It's on a shelf, about 3 feet above his crib, quite high, so he could not reach it if he stood up. I went in to check on him, he was still sleeping. However, I noticed that when I had put him in his crib earlier in the evening, I had forgotten to raise the front of the crib, and if he'd woke up, he easily could have fallen out of his crib.

I'll be honest. Over the years, I always have a feeling like there's someone else here, and I mean ALWAYS. You walk into a room, and you swear someone is sitting in the rocking chair in the corner, but when you look, it's empty. Or you're in the bathroom doing whatever, and you turn, because you "see" someone walk by the doorway out of the corner of your eye. My wife and I have both heard sounds in the past that you would absolutely swear there's someone else in the house.

My point to this post was, and the reason that I'm typing it now, is because about 5 minutes ago, another toy had triggered and played its musical tune, and then stopped.

I'm hoping that someone else here can back me up, tell me I'm not paranoid and say yes, for whatever reason, these toys will do that, because pretty soon, it's getting to the point that we're going to have to call Ghostbusters, someone that deals with preminitions, or Maury Povich at least.

Anyone??

Thanks,

Jeremy.

[anyfishwilldo]

We have had the same issues with toys also. We had one particular toy that caused us more grief than the rest. It was a toy cell phone. This toy would not work when the kids were playing with it, but would work at all hours of the night. My wife would wake up, freak out, and make me go find the "noise". After a couple of months with this one particular toy; on one of my midnight missions to find it, I brought a hammer and smashed the cr@p out of it. I really felt bad after that, because for some reason the kids liked this toy(even though it didn't work). Anyways, to make a long story short, in my uneducated opinion, you are not crazy. Just start carring around a hammer, and the toys will behave.

[Black_Bay]

I have a few suggestions:

1) Take the batteries out of the toys and see if they play on their own again.

2) Set up a video camera and document everything.

3) If the toys do play without the batteries get rid of them.

4) This is the most important: If REDRUM is written any where in the house run away and never come back.

[BobT]

I rented the lower floor of a home with a walkout basement for a few months. While there, I don't recall any paranormal experiences however, a coworker bought the home shortly after I moved out.

One time his wife was using the vacuum cleaner in a room on the lower level. She stopped the unit and was standing just a few feet away talking with her husband when all of a sudden the vacuum cleaner turned on for a while then shut off again. At first he just dismissed it as a fluke, possibly because the unit was warm or perhaps hot from being used.

Some time later in an evening they had decided to go downstairs to watch some television. There was a pull-string on a light fixture at the top of the stairway leading down to the lower level. My coworker had made it a point to turn off the light as he went down the stairs. After they had been down there for a while, at least a half hour or more, he decided to go upstairs for some reason. When he got upstairs the light was on and the pull string was swinging at least a 1' amount. Finding this curious he held the string out at least a couple feet to one side and released it. It stopped swinging within about a half-dozen swings. To this day, they do not know how these events occurred. He hasn't had any new experiences for quite some time but it was spooky.

Bob

[Dan Thiem]

Quote:

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) This is the most important: If REDRUM is written any where in the house run away and never come back.

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LOL Black Bay!

[koonie]

It's not Elvis because I just saw him in Walmart.

If nothing is happening around or to the kids I wouldn't worry about it.

If it would make you feel better just have a priest come over and bless the place.

[sparcebag]

Have you tried talking and asking whatever to stop.?

[Bigsmitty]

Hey Lwnmwnman, Any more problems? Id be interested in hearing if there is. I might be able to shed a little light on the situation.

[Esoxmn]

This type of thing happens in my house all the time, my wife referse to it as "our Ghost"

[FlyingV]

Sounds like a good reason to invite that hottie, Jennifer Love Hewitt over!

[bottomdweller]

Buy some more toys for the ghost to play with. If it is still bothering you, do what one other said and get a priest to bless the house.

[Papa Grump]

By all means call a priest and have the house blessed from top to bottom. Years ago we had the same problem, doors opening at night, lights going on for no reason. My younger sisters claimed to be visited by a ghost sometimes at night. Found out that the previous owner shot himself in the pig barn because he couldn't have children. After we had the house blessed, we had no more issues till later on in the years he would show up for a couple of weeks around the time he did himself in. While cleaning out one of the bedrooms, we found a Oija board that one of my sisters had, burned it and there hasn't been any weirdness since.

[eyepatrol]

We have toys go off in our house too. So does my sister and her household. It's just a normal thing that some toys will just go off on their own. Sometimes, it's because the toy is stacked under other toys, and the other toys must be pressing against it just enough to ocassionally make it go off. Other times, the batteries are getting low. It's happened to others I know of that have kids.

If you have further concerns, take the batteries out as mentioned previously and see what happens. If the toys go off with the batteries out, then you might have something. If the toys do not go off without the batteries in, then I'd say "problem solved".

[SCUMFROG]

I've had my share of "things" happening to me. You say you got the house from your parents? Are they still alive? It might be them try to play with the grandkids. My mom has been gone for 10 years now and I still feel her around me and some times when I'm upset I get chills, I know it's her giving me a hug to say it's going to be ok.

[LwnmwnMan2]

Both parents are still alive, live right behind my wife and I. I suppose some people would say that's being haunted all in itself.

I know the history of the house, since I've lived in it all my life, my parents built it new in 1978 when I was 6.

I asked my parents the other day if there were any bones or anything found when they dug the basement, but they said no.

[united jigsticker]

The toys going off....Normal....but annoying.

[SCUMFROG]

You might want to research the land. Could be an Indian war site, or a burial ground. There also is a HSOforum that might help you out. It's shadow lands, one word, you know the rest.

[Bassboy1645]

Intersting topic.....Its funny I thought that I was a little crazy. Just yesterday we got back to our place in ely from a long weekend back home. A light that we all swore we shut off was on in the tools shed. we looked over everythign and nothign was stolen. It had also snowed recently and theres no foot prints or tire tracks anywhere in our yard indicating someone might have been there. Our cubourd was open and the cups were missing. And out of the blue our water dosent work. Go ahead and give me your explanations, but this isnt the only things in this house even. I hear noises at night sometimes exactly like footsteps! I also get the feeling that someone is always "there" As we dicussed the Ghost possibility my roomies and I were laying in our beds when all of our cell phones which were turned off turned on one at a time by themselves. Im not too worried about it but i have to admit it is a little freaky at times. Our house was built in the 1800's and there has been a huge history there. everthing from drug labs, prohibiton distlilleries, and mining deaths. I cant help but to say its a ghost even though I try to explain everything logically!!

[outdoor ran]

Lwnmwnman2, havnt you seen the cartoon Toy Story . My wife and I were convinced we had a ghost at our old house. She even named the thing Harold. It dosen't appear that he moved with us to the new home

[capmorgan]

After seeing Ghost Hunters on Sci Fi, theres ways to tell if theres a ghost in there. I would put a camera and a tape recorder in the room and try to speak to it and see if you can hear it on the tape. EVP's are often too low for a person to hear but can be picked up on a tape recorder. I would try this at night because the ghost might show itself .

[Markley]

I would try what captmorgan said. Use a video camera and voice recorder and maybe watch Ghost Hunters for some ideas. Maybe we should start are own ghost hunters group in Minnesota.

[SCUMFROG]

There all ready is on here in Minnesota.

[Sandmannd]

Hey capmorgan, not to give you dump, but it's EVP and not EBP. OK, It was to give ya dump hehehehehe.