Last Night

We had a really weird night last night.

Now, before I start I just want to remind you that I like to keep an open mind, whilst at the same time, looking for the truth, which I know can sometimes be stranger than fiction....

Ghosts.

I'm  not saying I believe in ghosts and I'm sure theres many of you out there that have never had a ghostly inexplicable, unexplainable encounter and will quite easily say " there are no such thing as ghosts" but I have experienced many strange happenings in my time, quite a lot in my childhood, but also in recent years.
I have also heard very interesting stories form very intelligent, down to earth people that I would seriously doubt they made it up or were mistaken.

OK, for a bit of background, I've lived in my house for 6 years now, and I've been places before where I've felt uneasy being there, my mums house where I grew up being one of them, and other places where I've felt perfectly fine. The house I'm in at the moment seems, on the most part, completely fine, BUT, there have been a few strange things happen that I find hard to explain.

There's been a couple of times, a few years ago now, that when coming into the house after being out for a while, just as I step in through the door, I've heard voices coming from upstairs. The first time I heard it, they sounded like a childs voice, that cut off all of a sudden. The second time, it was a mans voice, and I was so convinced it's voice that I thought it was my partner back home early for some reason, I went upstairs to talk to him, and there's no-one there.

That was about 3-4 years ago. Two weeks ago, my mum was with me, we came through the front door, and I didn't hear anything but my mum said "who's that upstairs? is David home?", we had a look round, no-one there, my mum was so convinced she started to think it might've been an intruder and they might've got up into the loft or something! She was quite freaked out about it!

About 4 nights ago, my oldest daughter calls down from her room saying that she was scared and felt that there was someone in the room. remembering all the times that I used to get scared in my room when I was little, I had a proper look around, let her have the light on, told her not to worry, that we're all here, close by, she's safe, and she was ok.

2 nights ago, my oldest is saying again that she's scared, and even with the light on, she's still unhappy about being in there, so she went and slept in her brothers room, leaving her baby sister in there alone.

OK, Last night......my oldest slept in her brothers room again, she didn't even bother going into her room at all. When we had just gone to bed at around midnight, all the children where asleep,  I heard a noise which sounded just like when a child is standing up in the cot and yanking the side around, or jumping up and down in the cot, my 2 year old was asleep, i had just checked in on her before getting into bed. Then about 30 seconds after the sound stopped, she started crying. I went in to see her and she was still lying down with her arm around her favorite toy, I settled her, and she went back to sleep.
I thought it was REALLY weird, but fell asleep anyway.

THEN.....I was woken by my son, crying, calling me in, I had just been having a bad dream, when I got to him he said that he'd had a bad dream too, about the house being lifted up and shaken!!!
Trying not to get freaked out and trying to forget about all the stories about poltergeists I'd heard, I settled my son back to sleep, I went downstairs to the toilet, keeping calm, keeping calm, and went back to bed.
In the morning my partner said he was also woken by a bad dream, the house was making a weird noise in his dream, it woke him and it took a minute or two for him to realise where he was.

WEIRD OR WHAT!?!

next time I'll tell you some other strange things I've encountered........