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Post by cwsims on Jan 4, 2019 1:02:23 GMT
or would you even want to?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2019 3:54:26 GMT
Grew up in a haunted house... Our parents just kept all the goings on as everyday normal, didn't make a thing of it.
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Post by cwsims on Jan 4, 2019 15:23:41 GMT
Grew up in a haunted house... Our parents just kept all the goings on as everyday normal, didn't make a thing of it. cool |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2019 16:35:39 GMT
Grew up in a haunted house... Our parents just kept all the goings on as everyday normal, didn't make a thing of it. cool Not really... There's a lot of story to it, and still a lot of hangover and unanswered questions from it, over 40 years later. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 5, 2019 18:38:01 GMT
Not really... There's a lot of story to it, and still a lot of hangover and unanswered questions from it, over 40 years later. Would you be willing to share some stories? You don’t exactly strike me as the kind of person who’d believe in ghosts or haunted houses. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 11:05:29 GMT
Not really... There's a lot of story to it, and still a lot of hangover and unanswered questions from it, over 40 years later. Would you be willing to share some stories? You don’t exactly strike me as the kind of person who’d believe in ghosts or haunted houses. Well, to start... The house I grew up in was a pretty standard looking mid 20th century urban semi-detached in a part of a large town, with a population of about 100,000. It was only in my late teens, early twenties, when looking at the title deeds, that I discovered that our house was different. It was the only detached house in the area... Sure it looked like the other semis in many ways, but the adjoining wall was fake, to blend in. It was also much older than those around. The title deeds show it dated from at least 1733, when it was an isolated cottage in open countryside. We knew it as No XX, XXXX Crescent... It was originally called Brook Cottage, and was a lonely house in fields called Strawberry Plain (Those places now only exist as records in the title deeds for that one house. I even checked the local library and records... Not a thing could be found, lost in history, now all that remains of Strawberry Plain is that one house, in an urban neighbourhood in a large town). Another thing that gave away it's age, was a vehicle garage at the bottom of the garden. Large enough for two cars, or a tractor etc, there was no way you could actually drive a vehicle to it. Behind it was more houses and somebody else's back garden. It was obviously added when the house stood alone, before the town swallowed up all the surrounding land... My dad converted this in to a workshop. It was home to unimaginably huge cobwebs, and the largest giant house spiders you ever saw. Of the brook the cottage used to sit near, hence the building's original name... I can only assume it was diverted elsewhere or underground when the area was developed. There is a stream that still runs about a kilometre away from the house. Guess that is it. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 7, 2019 15:12:03 GMT
Would you be willing to share some stories? You don’t exactly strike me as the kind of person who’d believe in ghosts or haunted houses. Well, to start... The house I grew up in was a pretty standard looking mid 20th century urban semi-detached in a part of a large town, with a population of about 100,000. It was only in my late teens, early twenties, when looking at the title deeds, that I discovered that our house was different. It was the only detached house in the area... Sure it looked like the other semis in many ways, but the adjoining wall was fake, to blend in. It was also much older than those around. The title deeds show it dated from at least 1733, when it was an isolated cottage in open countryside. We knew it as No XX, XXXX Crescent... It was originally called Brook Cottage, and was a lonely house in fields called Strawberry Plain (Those places now only exist as records in the title deeds for that one house. I even checked the local library and records... Not a thing could be found, lost in history, now all that remains of Strawberry Plain is that one house, in an urban neighbourhood in a large town). Another thing that gave away it's age, was a vehicle garage at the bottom of the garden. Large enough for two cars, or a tractor etc, there was no way you could actually drive a vehicle to it. Behind it was more houses and somebody else's back garden. It was obviously added when the house stood alone, before the town swallowed up all the surrounding land... My dad converted this in to a workshop. It was home to unimaginably huge cobwebs, and the largest giant house spiders you ever saw. Of the brook the cottage used to sit near, hence the building's original name... I can only assume it was diverted elsewhere or underground when the area was developed. There is a stream that still runs about a kilometre away from the house. Guess that is it. But it was haunted? Things moving and sounds in the night and the smell of long-dead Capt. Munro’s pipe tobacco, that sort of thing? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 15:29:50 GMT
Well, to start... The house I grew up in was a pretty standard looking mid 20th century urban semi-detached in a part of a large town, with a population of about 100,000. It was only in my late teens, early twenties, when looking at the title deeds, that I discovered that our house was different. It was the only detached house in the area... Sure it looked like the other semis in many ways, but the adjoining wall was fake, to blend in. It was also much older than those around. The title deeds show it dated from at least 1733, when it was an isolated cottage in open countryside. We knew it as No XX, XXXX Crescent... It was originally called Brook Cottage, and was a lonely house in fields called Strawberry Plain (Those places now only exist as records in the title deeds for that one house. I even checked the local library and records... Not a thing could be found, lost in history, now all that remains of Strawberry Plain is that one house, in an urban neighbourhood in a large town). Another thing that gave away it's age, was a vehicle garage at the bottom of the garden. Large enough for two cars, or a tractor etc, there was no way you could actually drive a vehicle to it. Behind it was more houses and somebody else's back garden. It was obviously added when the house stood alone, before the town swallowed up all the surrounding land... My dad converted this in to a workshop. It was home to unimaginably huge cobwebs, and the largest giant house spiders you ever saw. Of the brook the cottage used to sit near, hence the building's original name... I can only assume it was diverted elsewhere or underground when the area was developed. There is a stream that still runs about a kilometre away from the house. Guess that is it. But it was haunted? Things moving and sounds in the night and the smell of long-dead Capt. Munro’s pipe tobacco, that sort of thing? Patience... this is gonna be an instalments kind of thing. Putting the pieces all together. Take it or leave it🤷 |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 7, 2019 15:36:08 GMT
But it was haunted? Things moving and sounds in the night and the smell of long-dead Capt. Munro’s pipe tobacco, that sort of thing? Patience... this is gonna be an instalments kind of thing. Putting the pieces all together. Take it or leave it🤷 No, I’ll gladly take it, and I meant no offense. It’s just that when you wrote, “Guess that is it,” I assumed you were finished with the story. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 15:39:59 GMT
Patience... this is gonna be an instalments kind of thing. Putting the pieces all together. Take it or leave it🤷 No, I’ll gladly take it, and I meant no offense. It’s just that when you wrote, “Guess that is it,” I assumed you were finished with the story. Ah no... I meant guess that was the rerouted brook. |
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Post by hi224 on Jan 13, 2019 7:11:26 GMT
perhaps fun to see.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 17, 2019 18:44:47 GMT
If there was $$$ to be had, probably.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 18, 2019 18:20:43 GMT
As for the question in the OP, certainly. I’m always game for such things.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 13, 2019 17:55:25 GMT
Now, I don’t mean to rush you, @fjh, but it has been three months since you posted about growing up in a haunted house.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 7:54:24 GMT
Now, I don’t mean to rush you, @fjh, but it has been three months since you posted about growing up in a haunted house. I forgot all about this... Will write next piece soon 👍 |
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Post by hi224 on Mar 17, 2019 20:41:00 GMT
lol.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 18, 2019 2:35:58 GMT
Indeed. Bye to @fjh and his haunted house. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 19, 2019 16:19:31 GMT
OK, so apparently @fjh is back, under the name @nedkelly, and I’d still love to hear the growing-up-in-haunted-house story!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 16:21:36 GMT
OK, so apparently @fjh is back, under the name @nedkelly, and I’d still love to hear the growing-up-in-haunted-house story! We'll get there my friend... Not today, I've to walk the dogs, then evening Mass. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 16:25:04 GMT
OK, so apparently @fjh is back, under the name @nedkelly, and I’d still love to hear the growing-up-in-haunted-house story! We'll get there my friend... Not today, I've to walk the dogs, then evening Mass. I will post the next part tomorrow... It involves a 'car of death', a murder, a bloody coat and axe discovered under floorboards, and parts of a corpse dredged up from a river... You'll like it, worth the wait. Patience is a virtue 👍 |
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