I stayed in a house in England once that was supposedly haunted, and though I didn't see anything and nothing moved around on it's own, there were a couple of rooms I basically refused to go it, just because they felt creepy inside.
This house was about 800 years old, and had once been a nunnery. The walls were about 4 feet thick, which meant two things: one, there was essentially a short hallway between each separate room because the concept of a "doorway" had to accomodate 4 feet of stone, and two, it meant that the walls were thick enough that people could be buried alive in them as a punishment. Turns out being "walled in" was actually a pretty common punishment for nuns who who got in trouble, judging by the number of skeletons they'd found in the walls during various recent remodles.
Anyway, they ("they" is the family who owned the house) had also found a mass grave in their back yard, which they discovered when they wanted to expand their kitchen. Apparently hundreds of bodies from some long forgotten battle were basically dumped there, probably when the house was still a functioning nunnery.
Sooo, the point is: you talk about family ghosts. Well, this family had many of them, and they'd been in that house for generations -- the family and the ghosts. What your post reminded me of was one of their ghosts who had the habit of waking up whomever slept in one particular room. Over the years, the room and many occupants, and they all had essentially the same story of being woken up by a kindly old woman in a old-fashioned nun's habit. When my family stayed there briefly, my sister spent the first night in that room, and she never said anything about it other than that the next day, she announced she'd be changing to a different room.
there were apparently other less friendly ghosts in the past, but apparently most of them had left, after a round of several exorcisms, long before we ever stayed there.
wow that is really creepy!! I don't think I would want to live in a place where people were burried alive. That's so cool that a family owns it and still lets you sleep there.
It was a house trade actually... we stayed at their place while we were on vacation in England, and they stayed in ours at the same time while they were on vacation in California. They didn't tell us about the history of the house and the ghosts until *after* we came home. "Oh... that explains it..."
This house was about 800 years old, and had once been a nunnery. The walls were about 4 feet thick, which meant two things: one, there was essentially a short hallway between each separate room because the concept of a "doorway" had to accomodate 4 feet of stone, and two, it meant that the walls were thick enough that people could be buried alive in them as a punishment. Turns out being "walled in" was actually a pretty common punishment for nuns who who got in trouble, judging by the number of skeletons they'd found in the walls during various recent remodles.
Anyway, they ("they" is the family who owned the house) had also found a mass grave in their back yard, which they discovered when they wanted to expand their kitchen. Apparently hundreds of bodies from some long forgotten battle were basically dumped there, probably when the house was still a functioning nunnery.
Sooo, the point is: you talk about family ghosts. Well, this family had many of them, and they'd been in that house for generations -- the family and the ghosts. What your post reminded me of was one of their ghosts who had the habit of waking up whomever slept in one particular room. Over the years, the room and many occupants, and they all had essentially the same story of being woken up by a kindly old woman in a old-fashioned nun's habit. When my family stayed there briefly, my sister spent the first night in that room, and she never said anything about it other than that the next day, she announced she'd be changing to a different room.
there were apparently other less friendly ghosts in the past, but apparently most of them had left, after a round of several exorcisms, long before we ever stayed there.
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