Is There A Room In Your Home That Makes You "Uneasy"?

[inaminute]

We have a raised ranch with a closet under the stairs on the bottom (basement) level. Not sure why, but it makes me uncomfortable, and I don't open it unless I absolutely have to. Our cat used to sit in the hallway and stare at the front of the closet door like he was waiting for it to open. Very creepy.

 

[piglet too]

I am fine here but have had rooms that I avoided.

At our old place, it was the common basement that ran the length of the building. I refused to go down there at night, and I was not the only one. It was a six unit building, and at least one person from each unit felt the same as I did. We dog-sat for my parents one time and the big male was petrified to even walk by the door leading down there. All of us swear that something bad had happened, and maybe more than once. The stairs is where I felt the most discomfort, the open area was just "wrong" and at times the storage area felt like we were being watched. Again, I was not the only one who felt this, and having talked to others who lived there before and after us .....

At my parents house it is the downstairs bathroom. When we still lived there, my DS left his fake snake behind the door one night. I got up to go to the bathroom, closed the door, and then saw the snake. I tried telling myself that it was DS's toy, but ran out of there with my pants still down. To this day I can not go in there, and close the door.

At my grandparent's, it is the basement. I am just now able to go down there by myself, but I am still nervous. My uncles (they are only 10 and 12 years older) loved to play tricks on me down there when I was little.

My in-laws it is the upstairs north bedroom. I swear there is a ghost, and I say "hi" to it everytime. Usually I feel safe but there have been times that I feel threatened up there. I ALWAYS say goodbye before going down the stairs, as I almost fell once (felt like I was pushed) and my nephew fell too. He was only 3, but told us that someone pushed him, when there was no one else up there.

 

[Disney Doll]

Funny you should say that about your cat.

We bought our house as an estate from the nieces of the man who built and owned the house for about 40 or so years. He and his wife lived here, no children.

Well, every once in a while, the dog will stare at an area of the house...not always the same area...and bark. Sometimes he's staring up at the counter in the kitchen, and not the counter where we keep the doggie cookies. Sometimes he'll run into the livingroom and bark at the fireplace(no fire going). Just recently, he stopped in the hallway on the main level, looked into the corner, as if someone were leaning on the wall, and just started barking.

The funny part about this is that he seems to do this when we are renovating. A couple of years ago we did a rather big renovation involving putting a bathroom upstairs, finishing those bedrooms, putting in a new stairwell etc. and the dog was always running around barking at nothing, or so it seemed. He settled down until just recently, and we are currently renovating the main level bathroom , as it was original to the house, and the tiles are cracked, there was some water getting behind the shower walls etc. I often wonder if the previous owner Stanley comes back to check on what we are doing to "his" house????? He hasn't bothered us though, so he must like our changes so far!!!!!! Funny part about it is if I say "Who do you see Ted?? Is Stanley there??" all of a sudden the dog stops barking and walks away, as if whatever he was barking at is now gone.

I haven't gotten an "ominous" feeling though, so I guess all is well.

I will tell you though that I have walked into houses where I got a very ominous feeling.

 

[grinningghost]

Such fun stories.

The weird thing is our house was built in 1981. Not exactly ancient, yet I still get that ominous feeling that some people get in very old homes. Not in the upper level, and not even in my DD's room, which is downstairs - just in the family room area of the downstairs.

Don't know if anyone ever died in there, but there's definitely a "heaviness" in the air in that room that makes me avoid it.

 

[Chicago526]

Wow! I inspired a thread! I think it's a first!

Other than my basement, the only other room that bugs me is the upstairs bathroom, but that's because we haven't had a chance to take down the previous owner's wall paper yet, and they had VERY odd taste in decorating!

 

[Rajah]

In this house, no.

In my mom's house, to some degree but not really.

In our previous house, there were times when I couldn't go in the basement. Other times I had no trouble at all.

And in the first house I lived in, I was terrified of the long window next to the front door.

 

[Sleepy]

My house has 2 bathrooms upstairs......side by side in the hallway. (strange I know). I hate the one at the end of the hall. It just seems creepy to me.

 

[allie&mattsmom]

We have a walk in attic that you can get to off of my walk in closet. It's big and scary and HOT!! I don't like going in there at all!

 

[hucifer]

DH and I were house-hunting in February and we stopped in one home that was built in 1920. The basement was obviously not built for comfort back then, it was just rough cement. But it was so creepy...we were all at the top of the stairs looking down...DH, the real estate agent, and me kept telling everyone else to go first.

DH finally leads the way, and it was even creepier being down there. There was a small door to the right that had holes on the bottom of it. There was a long room that stretched out in front of us...I could totally picture Mike from the Blair Witch Project standing at the end of it and facing the wall. I couldn't wait to leave.

 

[Laurajean1014]

My DH's office/playroom. Prettiest room and view in the house and he has it looking like Oscar Madison's bedroom!