Anonymous wrote:Use olives and salt water and cheerios... Place them strategically around the house and then chant leave now. i command you to leave now!

Not cheerios. Lucky Charms. Also works better if you do the chant in Latin or another dead language.

Anonymous wrote:OP, funny, but I have occasionally joked that my house might be haunted. 1940's cape in Arlington, and random stuff happens just often enough to make me wonder. A couple of times, i've woken up and felt like my bed was shaking. (which might have occurred on nights when i put stuff in the dryer before bed. the dryer is one floor below my room.) One night a picture fell off the wall and shattered with no warning. Things disappear and i can't find them. And last, we put our cat in the basement at night (otherwise she wakes us up constantly) and she has repeatedly gotten out of the basement and I have no idea how, as I can't get out of the locked basement.

Ha, ha--we pen our cats in a downstairs bedroom at night for the very same reason. Several mornings recently I've woken up to them meowing right outside our bedroom door. For the life of me I can't figure out how they're getting the damn door open. My husband swears up and down that he makes sure it's latched when he puts them to bed.

Time for a cat camera, PP!

The only thing similar I can think of that has happened to me was when we lived in Fairlington. Our dog would go to one particular spot in the back of the houses ( a big grassy common area ) and bark at it. There was nothing there, no tree, no shadows, nothing. But she would always pick that same spot. It was FREAKY. I hated taking her out at night and have to drag her away from the "creepy" spot.

23:34 here - if we don't put the cat in the finished basement rec room (where her food, water and litter box are) from 11-6 nightly, she keeps us awake all night by coming into our rooms and batting stuff around, playing with the metal mini-blinds next to my bed, etc. (If I close my bedroom door i can't hear my daughter in her room.) We didn't start locking the door to the basement until we figured out that she could somehow open the unlocked door. And even then, she's somehow gotten out of the basement when the door was locked. No idea how, especially since the door sticks and she's only 12 lbs.

If your husband is anything like me, he's just screwing with you.

OP here again. No more incidents since that night. contact lens case never recovered. maybe i threw it out by accident? no idea.

i told my husband about a spiritual cleansing and after laughing for about 4 minutes told me to get a grip.

will let you all know if something else scary happens! in the mean time i have taken to making my dog come upstairs with me and turning on every damn light and loudly singing christmas carols.

Probably other reasons for your issues.

I grew up in ( and parents still live in) a house where one of the owners committed suicide on the deck off the master bedroom. The bullet hole is still in the siding. No ghosts.

My current house- both owners died recently- 1 from a fall off a ladder and 1 from cancer. They were married in their 80's and their kids were feuding and separated them by taking the sick woman to another state in final days. Very sad- no ghosts.

I suspect you have many more ghostly incidents ahead of you with. 2yr old.

Anonymous wrote:DC is two.
how the hell do I do a cleansing????

like get it cleaned? We definitely did that via merry maids!

OP, I wanted to thank you sincerely - this is THE funniest thread! Some of the comments of the PPs... and then this ^^^ Made my day - I mean I laughed out so loud I woke up my sleeping baby - twice since your first post.

That you are asking about the cleansing for a haunted house that PPs recommended, and say that you already had the Merry Maids there!
The Merry Maids Ghostbusters so to speak... who knew?

But on a serious note: I hope you guys are OK. It doesn't sound alarming to me... after a move, and with a two year old, a lot of things are misplaced, and the call - it's not much to go on.
You could chat to the neighbors about the house, previous owners, etc, if you become concerned, but you shouldn't be at this point. And this cleansing - yes, I'm sure you know by now, is of the spiritual kind...

this thread is awesome!

OP, if your biggest problems are a missing contact lens case and a hang-up call, God Bless you.

OP, unless you bought the murder house in Silver Spring (see other thred on that), you'll be fine.

Anonymous wrote:OP, funny, but I have occasionally joked that my house might be haunted. 1940's cape in Arlington, and random stuff happens just often enough to make me wonder. A couple of times, i've woken up and felt like my bed was shaking. (which might have occurred on nights when i put stuff in the dryer before bed. the dryer is one floor below my room.) One night a picture fell off the wall and shattered with no warning. Things disappear and i can't find them. And last, we put our cat in the basement at night (otherwise she wakes us up constantly) and she has repeatedly gotten out of the basement and I have no idea how, as I can't get out of the locked basement.

maybe your cat is simply smarter than you

Anonymous wrote:OP, funny, but I have occasionally joked that my house might be haunted. 1940's cape in Arlington, and random stuff happens just often enough to make me wonder. A couple of times, i've woken up and felt like my bed was shaking. (which might have occurred on nights when i put stuff in the dryer before bed. the dryer is one floor below my room.) One night a picture fell off the wall and shattered with no warning. Things disappear and i can't find them. And last, we put our cat in the basement at night (otherwise she wakes us up constantly) and she has repeatedly gotten out of the basement and I have no idea how, as I can't get out of the locked basement.

Why do you LOCK your cat in the basement?

OP, funny, but I have occasionally joked that my house might be haunted. 1940's cape in Arlington, and random stuff happens just often enough to make me wonder. A couple of times, i've woken up and felt like my bed was shaking. (which might have occurred on nights when i put stuff in the dryer before bed. the dryer is one floor below my room.) One night a picture fell off the wall and shattered with no warning. Things disappear and i can't find them. And last, we put our cat in the basement at night (otherwise she wakes us up constantly) and she has repeatedly gotten out of the basement and I have no idea how, as I can't get out of the locked basement.

Anonymous wrote:DC is two.
how the hell do I do a cleansing????

like get it cleaned? We definitely did that via merry maids!

There's your ghost right there.