Hi, I'm new to this website...found it through a search engine while looking up information about what might be happening at our house. By posting to this site, I was hoping someone might have some helpful information about what might be going on and what we can do about it. A little background first...

My fiancee and I moved into a townhouse in February of this year. I have a 15 year old daughter and 10 year old son from a previous marriage that live with us. We are both 30-something professionals and I'm a little skeptical about mentioning this problem to anyone I know very well in fear of sounding like a flake or that I'm making this up.

About a month after we moved in, I noticed something odd out of the corner of my eye on several occasions. It was grayish-black, looked like it might be "hairy," moves extremely fast, and is usually about 3 feet off the ground. I'd seen it several times, but thought I might have a "floatie" in my eye. That's until my fiancee mentioned that he had seen it also and asked me about it one night right after he had seen it. It kind of freaked us out a little bit, but we didn't feel threatened or anything and blew it off.

Then one night, my daughter was away and my fiancee and I were both downstairs. My son comes down (it's about 1 am) and says he keeps hearing a tapping noise in his room. We told him that it was probably nothing, but he comes downstairs again and complained. The third time, my fiancee and I walked around the outside of the house and didn't see anything, but my son brought down his sling-shot and slept on the couch. I should also mention that we have had things disappear around the house from time to time, spent quite awhile looking for these things to no avail, and then have them turn up hours or days later in obvious places that we pass several times a day. I had this happen a few days ago before I left town. I was looking for a pair of earrings that belonged to my mom. Couldn't find them in the place I always keep them, and didn't have any luck finding them anywhere. About an hour before I was to leave on my trip, I walking into the kitchen and they were sitting right in the middle of the bar. I said "thank you" to whatever it was and went on my trip.

At first, we would only see this "thing" once or twice a month, but we've started to see it more often and my daughter has seen it several times now and then about two weeks ago, my fiancee heard a noise, got out of bed and went into the living room. He had his contacts out, so couldn't see that well, but he said that something came at him from the shadows next to the front window. He literally had to move out of the way, and when it passed, he said that the air temperature dropped about 20 degrees and chilled him. We are starting to get a little scared by the whole thing...At first, we also thought that it might be one of our pets. I have a small cat, and a very small dog (about 4 pounds), but we don't understand how either one of them could be that far off the ground and moving that fast. Besides, our pets get pretty spooked if they are with us when we see this thing. In fact, the night that the thing came at him, the cat was asleep on our bed and the dog stays in my daughter's room at night.

I should add that our townhouse is only about 7 years old, but is built on a hill in our town that was totally undeveloped until a few years ago. The land was part of a large farm on the edge of town, but most of it has been sold to developers and we are surrounded by homes and businesses now.

I guess what I'm asking is: Does anyone have any idea what this might be? I've read a little on the subject lately, but have nothing I can put my finger on. Something I read said something about the differences between poltergeists, demons and actual ghosts. And that some of the activity that we are witnessing is more common in homes with teenagers (which I have). Also, is their anything that can be done? Would moving help? Somethings I have read suggest that certain "entities" can actually move with you, so would I gain anything be moving?

I guess the ironic thing in all of this is that I've always considered myself to be an iron-clad skeptic, but now I'm not so sure, and quite frankly, have no clue what's happening in my house.

Can anyone help us?????????

Steph

First of all, welcome here.
I am not actually an expert when it comes to these kind of things, but I just wanted to welcome you and say thanks for sharing with us.
I am sure someone will have something that may be of help

Greetings Orgirl69,

Welcome to UM,
I'm afraid I have not had this particular type of experience, but I know there are many threads dealing with this here. So you've come to the right place.
My negative experience with the paranormal, happened after playing with a ouija board, but some advice I received from that experience might be useful, so I will share.

I was told by my friend that always gets visited by negative entities, that not to take it too personally. These entities are just hungry and they feed off negative energy and fear, so they will do stuff to get a rise out of you just because they are hungry. So rule number 1 face your fear, and they might go somewhere else for a meal.

You could also bless the room. You could create a ritual if it is happening in a certain part of the room. For example, you can burn sage and say a prayer. If you chose to do this, it works best if you keep your "ritual" steps the same everytime. Consistancisy is the key. Pick an old prayer, mantra, chant, that has been used for hundreds of years. They have lots of energy.

first of all welcome orgirl69

have to agree with sarkypi,try making contact with 'it'.from that you could understand more of its intentions and maybe try to deal with it in the proper way.since this spirit doesn't do crazy things like poltergeist stuff or disturbing you then i guess it's not so bad (although it is bad to have a spirit dwelling with you and your family).but still never underestimate any spirit,they may show thier 'bad' side anytime.so referring to what sarkypi said,never ever let your fear consume you if this happens.face it bravely and be strong always.

best of luck orgirl and keep us updated,we'll be praying for you too

first of all, DO NOT tamper with chants and prayers your not familiar with. that could be what caused this "ghost" in the first place. personaly i dont play around with things i know nothing about, especially when u dont know what your up against. we (my mother, father and myself) have had very similar experiances in our home as well. we have never felt threatened before either, but it still creeps us out. we have also heard strange noises including cuppord doors being opened and closed, footsteps and a loud tinny-sounding television in the attic. also, i have numourusly seen a bright blue light in the corner of my eye, dismissed it, but know what i saw was real. however, we have never been physialy threatened by it.

i believe that by taking things and them placing them in obvios places, the "ghost" is making its presance known. in your case, the attack on your husband could have been a statement that it isnt happy sharing its house with you. im not an expert in ghosts mysef but this seems very apparent, since moving has occured to you also. i dont think it will follow you because it seems that it wants you to leave. this ghost is presently getting more violent or obviose with its presence and i think thats because the less severe ways of letting u know your not welcome have been ignored. hope this helps.

i forgot to mention that talking to the spirit is a good idea. obviosly its not a "good" ghost and it could show its bad side at any moment, like engulf said. and it is a possiblility that the spirit is feeding off your fear of it because the occurences are severe enough to spook you but not to make u run away or harm you. i think if u ask what it wants and come up with a sighn it can show you if it wants you to leave, that could give you some answers, but dont try seonces or ouigi* boards, because like i mentioned that can be very dangerous. you can comunicate simply by talking aloud and directing the comment to the entity. we have tried the same thing when asking for missing things to be retured or to ask that it not make loud footsteps because it is frighteneing and the spirit has obeyed, strangly enough, so u may not even have to move, depending on the spitits intent. good luck and keep us posted.

Thank you everyone...

I do have a few things to add that makes some sense now that I've heard from some of you:

1. We have had some serious financial difficulties since we moved here. My fiancee seriously injured his back in June and was out of work for over a month. Not sure if that's the cause of what's going on or the result. Anyway, that's kind of undermined our positive attitudes around here.

2. My fiancee has had several deaths in his family in the last few months, mostly weird and sudden accidents, like a 40 year old cousin that was electrocuted at his place of business.

3. My son lived with his dad until March and moved here under strained circumstances (his dad was leaving him at home alone for several hours per night at his home in the country). We are thrilled to have him here, but I know things are strained between my son and his dad and he's had a hard time adjusting to life in the city.

Any one or all of these might be causing us to put off some negative energy. We've tried prayer, but haven't done the burning of the sage. BUT, I'm not sure it would work since we see this thing in several places. Also, on a whim, I bought a Kokopeli statue in Phoenix when we flew out there for one of the funerals. We keep a bible open in the house too, but nothing seems to have gotten rid of whatever is "haunting" us.

Looking forward to hearing from everyone and thank you!

Orgirl

PS: I appreciate the nice welcome messages from everyone too! Thanks!

nice to hear from you again orgirl69

anyway i have to agree with wilber,try not to use those ouija boards.i've heard lots of bad stuff occurring from this,so i think it'd be wise not to try it.reading your updates,well i think i'll have to consult a medium if i were you.ask them for the help because they're prepared with the experience.see if a ritual is needed for any dispelling.

Welcome aboard Orgirl69 ,
Thank - you for posting your story , It sounds like (allthough I'm not the expert ), that you have a classic haunting with a lean towards possible poltergiest activity . As you said you have teenagers in the house ,Do you mind if I ask you if the activity is centered around either of your children especially ?

It appears to be quite common for people to live in homes that are haunted for years with little harm done .. I don't think you should shift , but I do think you should investigate it , perhaps you should not only try to comunicate with the entity but you should try and take photo's and keep a diary you may be able to spot patterns in these occurances that help you understand whats going on .
I hope you do hang around for a little while and keep us posted , I think you'll like it here

Orgirl69,

I just had a thought. I read this in a book. There was this woman who signed a lease to a loft, but due to the construction workers fighting she could not move in when planned. When she finally moved in, there was lots of negative energy.
The solution she had a huge party. Lots of food, drink, and laughter. It filled every corner of the house.
What ever was in her loft packed its bags and left.


I also wanted to clear something up, that I said in my first post. When I said pick any prayer. For the last few years, I have seen a few psychics on a regular basis.
One of them told me that to rid myself of some negative energy to start my day with a prayer, chant, mantra. She said it could be the lords prayer if I was christian, or a buddhist chant if I believed in buddha. One was not better than the other. She explained to me, that if I was buddhist and not christian, saying the Lord's prayer might not be as effective. I did not mean to just dabble in the unfamiliar. Also people that are Christian having been using the Lord's prayer for 100's of years, so it has lots of positive energy built up. Same goes for a Buddhist chant. Those words mean something to the people that use them.

Also when I said create a ritual, I feel the need to explain what I meant. When I open up to channel, reiki, tarot, etc... I do a ritual. My ritual is different from everyone else's ritual. Everyone else's ritual is different from mine. One person I know has certain crystals on the table. Another burns incense, another has holy water. When I was learning, the psychic's I went to said, one way is not better than another. It was a hard lesson to learn, because when you are having a problem, well you want 10 easy steps. My father uses holy water when he has negative energy in his home, some of my friends use sage.

Hi orgirl69, welcome to the forum.

I'd like to focus on this:

Hello everyone...

Yes, my fiancee,Jim, and his cousin were very close until he moved out here (Missouri). Jim's aunt passed away at an early age, the uncle remarried fairly quickly, and since the step-mom really didn't want to raise the 4 kids, Jim's mom all but raised them as her own. So, growing up, Jim's four cousins were like brothers and sisters.

As far as I know, his cousin knew about Jim moving out here, but had no idea where. The cousin had some turmoil in his life: His wife had left him, his daughter wouldn't speak to him and his business was going under--one that he had inherited from his father. In fact, the electric utility had shut off the juice to his business and he was electrocuted while trying to hook it back up. At least that's the story I've been able to glean from the family, they are pretty tight-lipped about the whole thing...

BUT, I will say that we were seeing our "ghost" long before this cousin died, and the other two deaths were also pretty recent (2 in July, 1 in August).

Daring: we don't know much about the particular area that our townhouse is built on, other than what I've told you. I'm not even sure who the previous owners were, or who's farm this was built on. Been trying to find out, but haven't had much luck...

Sarkypi: Jim and I both were raised in a Christian environment, he was raised Mormon, and I, Methodist/Catholic. I have to say he is a little more spiritually inclined and church-going than I am, and he's asked whatever-it-is to leave on more than one occasion. But I will take your advice and try the Lord's Prayer. I hope that is something that will help. I would imagine that my grandmother would be more than happy to pick me up some holy-water too.

Thank you for your advice and keep it coming!

Orgirl69

Human beings are composed of positive and negative energy, right? I'm wondering if your 'visitor' isn't anything but a compiled mix of all the negative energy that has been generated within the family there?

I'm not sure that you answered this question, so I'll pose it again; Have you kindly asked the spirit to leave? If so, what response did you get regarding actions or sightings?

I support the idea of the house party made earlier. I think it might go a long way in helping to generate more good. Don't get into a personal situation where your family and friends are asking you (or anyone else in your immediate family) what "the ghost" has been up to. I'm of the opinion that this isn't a "ghost" so much as congieled negative energy. Continued good luck!