I have a ghost story to tell

[Dominus]

One of my properties is a house I bought from a church. The old pastor used to live there with his wife. When they died of old age, the church committee voted to cut up the property and sold.it to me.

I've had 2 tenants there since I bought it. First tenant was a young couple. 2nd tenant was also a young couple with a toddler. Those couples did not know each other. And yet they both insisted the house was haunted. Why? They both said things would get moved around while they're not home. Nothing scary. Just that things always got moved around all the time.

The 2nd tenant just moved out and the 3rd tenant (also another young couple with a couple of dogs) will move in this weekend. So for the last few days my bf and I have been doing some light work there. Nothing major. Just some stuff I've been wanting to do to that place for a while now.

We are both atheists. And skeptics. My bf way way way more so than me.

Earlier today, while there he commented "why is it that every time we step outside and back in some stuff got moved around?" He said when he started noticing it he experimented by making mental notes of where things were and then go outside and come back in and some stuff would be in different places.

I just started laughing because I never told him what my tenants told me about that and somehow he came to that conclusion all by himself.

What do you think? Should I set up cameras or should I just treat it like it's nothing? No doubt, the 3rd tenant will also report stuff getting moved around lol.

 

[pornoboy]

Just rent the house to an older lady...​

 

[MusicMan321]

That would be little scared knowing things getting moved around without you doing it yourself

 

[rareboy]

 

[Rickrock]

Some relatives of mine have seen or felt and/or communicated with dead relatives or people, but they didn't do any harm. I haven't heard of anything being moved. I would go ahead and rent the house. Although you could pre-warn the new tenants, I don't think that I would. It will be interesting to see how the dogs react.

I don't know why those ghosts are moving things around so I hate to suggest this, but one cousin of mine had an old chair next to her bed that wobbled and squeaked when sat on. One night a deceased old neighbor woman sat on it and kept fidgeting and it kept squeaking so she couldn't fall asleep, so she asked her deceased mother to come help this woman, and the chair stopped squeaking.

 

[NotHardUp1]

If there is a poltergeist, there is no reason to believe it woud be visible, especially since none of your tenants reported seeing one. And it's unlikely to Matthew McConaughey this time, so there's that.

As far as a landlord goes, you probably have an ethical obligation, if not a legal one, to report the alleged events to your prospective tenants. lest they have a legal basis for breaking lease. It will be important to declare whether your prior tenants moved because of their claims, or not.

I guess it goes without saying that you need to have changed the locks and secured your house to ensure no former person has had access.

I've lived alone and have had several incidents happen in the past seven years to make me wonder if anyone came in while I was gone. My house is not usually locked, as I have nothing of value to steal, and burglars here simply don't back up trucks and steal TVs, furniture, and the like. Our neighborhood is a dead-end street so no through traffic and neighbors would know if someone were moving in or out or not, so would likely see and stop any such burglary.

But, there are occasionally stray teens walking the street, or even cutting through the woods, so I'm not certain my house hasn't been visited by them while I am at work.

It just doesn't bother me if that has happened, as nothing has gone missing, and I mentally made peace back in Albuquerque when my house was broken into twice and I thwarted a third burglar when I happened to be home. Life is just too short to go around feeling violated and unsafe. We're never completely safe, even when locked in. And it's unhealthy to worry about losing your stuff. Hold it lightly.

 

[rareboy]

When I was very young, I would see 'ghosts' at my grandparent's house...a classic grey lady.

And when we bought our farm, during the time we only went out to it on weekends...we could sense the memory of a man...who we subsequently learned had died in his early 20's in a car accident about a mile away back in the 1920's

Once we moved out to the country full time, his presence seemed to fade over the years.

 

[pornoboy]

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