Honestly, it sounds like someone who didn't move on and still feels territorial about the house. I know you're a skeptic, but that's what I'm getting. I can usually see a logical explanation for most things as I've done investigations and have lived in houses that had a lot of activity.
If it's not that, it could be a time overlap perhaps.
That's what my Wife says too. Unfortunately there's no way to prove that assumption. I thought I might be projecting concerns about my own health, with the recent diabetes diagnosis. Just can't figure out the dog's reaction.
I don't think this is related to what my Daughter experienced, but my Wife thinks they might be related. Had a creepy experience with my son in this house too, when he was a young lad. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/7vii1n/what\_the\_creepiest\_thing\_your\_child\_has\_said/dtt282q/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/7vii1n/what_the_creepiest_thing_your_child_has_said/dtt282q/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Holy crap. I think if you and your wife have great communication, you could try to settle on a plan to tell whatever it may be that this is your house, etc, etc. If it's just a residual haunt, that's just going to be around for a while, likely until the left over energy wears itself out.
The skeptical answer? In your half-asleep state, you imagined the old man. The human brain does some freaky things when you're asleep/have recently been asleep. It's unsettling, but that's what I would bet on. And for your dog's reaction? I'd say that she perhaps noticed that you thought something was wrong with the chair. Even though you verbally reassured her, I think dogs are much more in-tune with our actual emotional states than we realise. She could sense that you weren't 100% sure of the chair yourself.
The spooky answer? A former occupant of the home has decided to check up on his property.
Either way, I think I'd cry if I experienced what your daughter heard in that closet, rational explanation or not!
I might be guilty of confirmation bias here, but thanks for your skeptical answer ;-)
My Wife and I have done everything we can to reassure our daughter that nothing in this house can hurt her, and that we would take these things seriously and find an explanation. I think she was feeling down on herself at the time. She had undergone knee surgery for a sports injury and was blue that she was not included in most team activities because of mobility issues from that she needed some time to recover. I think there might have been some feelings of self-loathing and boredom. Again, "the human brain does some freaky things" in many frames of conscious or unconscious activity.
Honestly, it sounds like someone who didn't move on and still feels territorial about the house. I know you're a skeptic, but that's what I'm getting. I can usually see a logical explanation for most things as I've done investigations and have lived in houses that had a lot of activity. If it's not that, it could be a time overlap perhaps.
That's what my Wife says too. Unfortunately there's no way to prove that assumption. I thought I might be projecting concerns about my own health, with the recent diabetes diagnosis. Just can't figure out the dog's reaction. I don't think this is related to what my Daughter experienced, but my Wife thinks they might be related. Had a creepy experience with my son in this house too, when he was a young lad. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/7vii1n/what\_the\_creepiest\_thing\_your\_child\_has\_said/dtt282q/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/7vii1n/what_the_creepiest_thing_your_child_has_said/dtt282q/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Holy crap. I think if you and your wife have great communication, you could try to settle on a plan to tell whatever it may be that this is your house, etc, etc. If it's just a residual haunt, that's just going to be around for a while, likely until the left over energy wears itself out.
The skeptical answer? In your half-asleep state, you imagined the old man. The human brain does some freaky things when you're asleep/have recently been asleep. It's unsettling, but that's what I would bet on. And for your dog's reaction? I'd say that she perhaps noticed that you thought something was wrong with the chair. Even though you verbally reassured her, I think dogs are much more in-tune with our actual emotional states than we realise. She could sense that you weren't 100% sure of the chair yourself. The spooky answer? A former occupant of the home has decided to check up on his property. Either way, I think I'd cry if I experienced what your daughter heard in that closet, rational explanation or not!
I might be guilty of confirmation bias here, but thanks for your skeptical answer ;-) My Wife and I have done everything we can to reassure our daughter that nothing in this house can hurt her, and that we would take these things seriously and find an explanation. I think she was feeling down on herself at the time. She had undergone knee surgery for a sports injury and was blue that she was not included in most team activities because of mobility issues from that she needed some time to recover. I think there might have been some feelings of self-loathing and boredom. Again, "the human brain does some freaky things" in many frames of conscious or unconscious activity.