Have you ever heard things you shouldn't be hearing?

[Murphy Slaw]

I'm a believer.

In what I don't know, but I've seen and heard some weird things in my 59+ years hanging around.

[mtcross]

Years ago the ex and I shared a house with a ghost, we could hear her walking around in the the living room and kitchen in the middle of the night. Once we had misplaced a set of binoculars, looked everywhere for them for a few months. Then a few days before we were heading out on vacation, we wanted to take the binoculars, they appeared on the bed.

On a side note a year or so after we bought the house I ran into the previous owner and he asked if we had met the ghost yet.

So yes I have heard things I shouldn't have heard.

[AX17609]

I live in a 200-year-old house with 275 feet of cast iron, hot water radiators. Pipe expansion and contraction thru the walls make it sound like someone's walking around. When the weather turns cold, the noises freak me out every year.

[Wrighty]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

We have always had a cat in the house, and the last four were Burmese, but our last beloved male - a rescue cat that needed rehoming because it had become violent after its last owner died suddenly was a great friend and comfort to me.
A sudden onset of kidney failure hit him last April as I started my cancer treatment and he was a very sad loss.
I suppose it is only once or twice a day that i catch him trotting by in the corner of my eye.

I also know if my old Dad has come to visit. Jane and I both smell his tobacco smell (no-one has smoked in this house since he died in 1985).

I used to live in a very creepy flat (apartment) on London - AndrewG will remember it. Most evenings there were very easily heard footsteps from the basement to the top floor - and more than once they passed right through me if I was on the steps.

Our little moggy cat used to sit with us in the lounge and watch ... something we couldn't see walking across the lounge almost every night.

The building was only a couple of hundred years old but there was talk of there being a fire once that killed someone and some cats.

Of course I don't really believe in ghosts but I suspect that us mere humans may have something in our large but largely useless brains that can recreate a faint memory somehow.


There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

Must get another cat.

I used to live in an old house in a Lake District village called Allonby. Our cat used to see things on the stairway to the top floor. One time I had a good friend and his Mother stay over on the top floor and in the morning she told me she had been visited by an old man in a seaman’s uniform. It transpired a sea captain had lived in the house when it was first built..

[Long Jon]

Originally Posted by Wrighty

One time I had a good friend and his Mother stay over on the top floor and in the morning she told me she had been visited by an old man in a seaman’s uniform. It transpired a sea captain had lived in the house when it was first built..

Ah c’mon Wrighty, I think we all know what really happened there.

Who among us can honestly say they have never dressed up as a ghost and “visited” sleeping ladies ?

What ? So just me ?

[imwjl]

What about hearing things you don't want to hear? That was meant as a parent or IT admin joke.

Interesting to catch tinnitus mentioned here. This is getting worse and it's time to find out if it's another element of age that's no fun or something that can be helped.

Maybe that tinnitus is stopping me from hearing the ghosts?

[ThermiteTermite]

I don't believe in Ghosts. I wish I did/they existed and I wish my dad would come back and haunt me sometimes. I'll take anything I can get.

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by marty bradbury

Yep, I've had the same ringing for many years. Different octaves at times.

Strangely my tinnitus largely disappeared while I was really ill from my cancer treatment but it has now returned - C# (which I never sing/play in!)

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by Bob Womack

My last cat, Oreo, died rather suddenly six years ago after being with us for seventeen years. It took several years before I quit seeing movement out of the corner of my eyes. It's a funny thing: I don't know whether it is a familiar comfort thing the mind just expects to see and therefore supplies or what.

Bob

So,Bob and Jon - it surely seems a common phenomenonmin and on!

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by Julian Mount

Sometimes I hear voices.
They tell me what to do.
Sometimes I hear laughter.
I don't know from who.

I hear voices in my head too - but I ignore them and carry on killing ! Bwahahaha!

[TBman]

I used to totally believe in ghosts, until I realized that if they really existed we would be literally going nuts from all the hauntings given the number of people that have passed (uncountable?). Now, not so much.

But then again, maybe most "go to the light"

Anyway, stuff like this can still give you the chills, if you let it....

[DupleMeter]

Just because the voices aren’t real doesn’t mean they don’t have some good ideas! [emoji12]

[RustyAxe]

Yeah, but after I take my meds things quiet down.

[ghostnote]

More than once I've heard people saying things that I wish I hadn't heard. These things were in 2 categories: 1) embarrassing; 2) incriminating. In both types of situations, I try to remain unseen, and move slowly out range...

[PorkPieGuy]

My parents' house has solid oak slabs for their sub-floor as opposed to plywood. When the weather changes, it sounds like someone taking about 2-3 steps down the hall.

Also, the house I'm in now does a weird thing too. Overnight, something in the floors settles. Just about every morning, I walk into the kitchen. When I step in the same area, the stairs creak...although they are about 15 feet away. Always freaks me out a little.