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The original was posted on /r/ghoststories by /u/Gaddie83 on 2025-07-04 20:18:30+00:00.
During a good portion of my teens, the house I used to live in was haunted. Not by one but several different entities.
And not all of them were nice.
I wouldn't blame you for thinking that our house in Ealing (London) had a long history with people dying in the home. And not wanting to move on to the otherside.
Yet this was not the case. As far as I know, nobody who lived in that house ever died there. Instead the entities can be said to have been invited in.
This was done by my brother (who was only a few years older) thought it would be fun to dabble with the ouija board. Of course this was done in private, away from the eyes of myself or my parents.
During the time it was haunted, small things like keys, TV remote control, etc would go missing. Only to return in a place where they are not only obvious to see but in a place they shouldn't be.
For example, the TV control would disappear from the front room, only to appear upstairs in the middle of one of the beds. No way none of us would have moved it up there.
On top of this, there would be areas around the house where the temperature would suddenly drop. And I don't mean like the temperature in the whole room would suddenly feel colder. I mean like one small corner of the room.
Weirder still, the location where the temperature was colder would remain fixed for periods at a time. So it certainly wasn't a brief, one off phenomenon.
My mum seemed to have more paranormal encounters in that house than I did. And after a few years of this, she called in a psychic to communicate and remove any ghosts.
Apparently there were 4 entities in the house. 3 were good natured but had somehow remained trapped by the fourth one. This one being a nasty, aggressive man who enjoyed causing mischief.
During the time the psychic was at our house, she managed to free the three harmless entities who purportedly went happily into the light. The fourth one, (the nasty man) obviously was not happy with this.
Yet after some struggle between the psychic and this final entity, it was expelled from the house. And literally the next day, the energy in that house returned to a more positive one.
I am not sure if this is what you mean by a ghostly encounter but it is the truest one that I have.