I think my house is haunted

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My wife and I collect miniature Garden gnomes and have them at various spots throughout the house. My family and I left for vacation, and when we retuned the gnomes had all completely changed places. My wife was last to leave the house and first to enter it when we got back. Some of the gnomes have been glued into place in their new position. At first we were freaked out and thought someone had broken in, but nothing was stolen and there were no signs of forced entry.

Two days later, the story became stranger. In our living room, we have several toy blocks with letters on them arranged on our shelf. My wife and I sleep right next to the living room, and my wife is a very light sleeper, so no one could have been in the living room without us hearing. However one morning we walked into the living room, and the blocks had been rearranged into two profane words (fg and dck). My husband and I thought at first that one of our older children had done it as a misguided joke, but after seeing their reactions it was apparent that none of them had done it. However that was not the end.

The next morning, by two year old son ran into my room (before my wife and I got up) and said “mommy there’s a man making strange noises in the kitchen.” My wife and I ran into the kitchen but found no one. Our son repeated the sentence two more times, and then pointed onto the back porch and said “there’s the man.” However there was no one there. The child can give a very vivid description of the man, and reproduce a strange grunting sound that the man supposedly made. Additionally, the family dog has begun behaving very strangely, and often refuses to go into particular rooms of the house, and on occasion attempts to climb into my bed at night. He had never done this before the past two weeks.

One day ago, my wife and I were not at home, and my 15 and 13 year old sons were at home with our two year old. My 15 year old was in his room when he heard a deep male voice coming from the opposite room. He immediately ran downstairs to his siblings and locked them in our bedroom before (stupidly) returning upstairs to look for the intruder. He heard more voices, but could not find anyone physically present.

Is this even possible that a house can be haunted? Should I call a priest? Or move? Or what? My family is all very visibly shaken.
 
You had the same question on your last thread, I answered it. 🙂
 
These things do happen. Since your young son was pointing to someone you could not see and since he is too young to practice deception, I would not think this is another human being gas lighting you, but something paranormal. The dog might be responding to everyone else’s stress, but I’d be less inclined to think the 2 year old was trying to talk you into believing that someone was standing there when they weren’t there. It is possible he was having a fantasy that fit the weirdness you’ve talked about, as your house has been upset over this, but it is also rational and reasonable to conclude that the “explaining away” you’re asking yourself to do is getting to be excessive.

Sure, I’d call my priest, and to be honest I’d feel OK with using the number for someone who needs an anointing of the sick, explaining that you felt a call to the pastoral “9-11” line was in order. Make yourself a list of what happened on what days, so you can relate the evidence behind your concerns in a calm and orderly fashion. If he will not believe you at all, call a different priest. In my experience, however, priests do know and believe in this kind of thing, and many who have had any time in the priesthood at all have some experience or have a classmate from seminary who has. IOW, they’ve either seen such things with their own eyes or have heard these stories from sources they believe.

I’d also calmly ask my teens if they have been dabbling in anything related to the occult, such as Ouija boards, tarot cards, methods for seeing into the future or increasing their personal spiritual “power,” or anything of that nature. If so, find the offending items and get rid of them. I’d take them to a remote location and burn them, personally. (OTOH, if I had anything like that in my house, I’d do the same even if I didn’t have any paranormal experiences. Divination is strictly forbidden; you cannot go wrong by getting rid of stuff like that.)

This daily prayer to St. Michael is good for anyone. We used to say it daily when I was a child:

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the malice and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God,
cast into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen


The Memorare also suits the situation:

*THE MEMORARE

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known that anyone who
fled to thy protection, implored thy help,
or sought thy intercession was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come,
before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.*

All in all, if there is an intelligent being behind these things that is an enemy of God, then running confidently into the arms of God and those defenders God has appointed for you are likely to be a deterrent, since in these cases what the evil spirits seem to want is to terrorize their victims or lure their victims into hand-to-hand spiritual combat. As when dealing with any other bully, do not give them what they want, but play instead into the hands of your protectors.
 
I am trying for the SECOND time with a response. I had been signed in. My computer went bananas while I was typing, and then I was told I wasn’t signed in. Seems like every time I try to do anything my computer gets a mind of its own. (I lost the other message.)

My daughter and her friends told me they had been playing a game that has been around a long time. You get in front of a mirror, twirl around in a circle, and keep saying “Mary Worth” three times. She is supposed to appear in the mirror. If she likes you, she will tell you your future husband. If she doesn’t like you, she’ll scratch your eyes out or something.

One night my daughter saw an apparition of a woman in a long black dress. In the middle of the night, she woke up and saw this Morticia Adams type of figure, and it scared the living daylights out of her. My daughter then brought her slumber bag and went to sleep on the floor by me. I had to bless the room and put holy pictures around before she would sleep there again.
 
There is definitely something going on there. Dogs and young children in a way have higher sensitivity to these things, I have no idea why. But our culture believes that you should not just shrug off these warnings from them.

Here are some things that you can do:

-Another post said to ask the teens if they have been playing any occult games such as a Ouija board, this is exactly correct as these things can open a portal in the house. If they are not doing it in the house, ask them if they have been doing such things with friends in another house, these spirits follow everyone who engages in such acts.
-Inspect every room for any item that has resemblance of the occult, Halloween stuff, statues, pictures, posters, or music.
-Play Catholic/Christian music around the house.
-Have your priest bless the house and the family. Ask the priest to consecrate the household to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate heart. I have heard stories of how amazing the Twin hearts protect the house itself as well as the family in it.
-Place statues or crucifixes on every entry way and make a small altar in a prominent place in the house. (Of course these articles have to be blessed)
-Teach your kids that in times that they feel, see or hear something, they should start praying. Particularly asking St. Michael and our Blessed Mother for protection
-It will be a good idea to have everyone enrolled to the Brown Scapulars for protection

A couple that we know had to do all these things because the wife has had attacks and has seen things in the house. We were present during their house blessing and consecration. It is a scary sight to see a home being not safe to anyone. The husband mentioned that when they were clearing out the basement of things like Halloween stuff, their dog who is by the way the most gentle lab I have ever met started to bark and growl upon seeing these things. Their home is safe now, the wife is in the process of recovery from this attacks.

God bless and may He protect you and your family.
 
There is definitely something going on there. Dogs and young children in a way have higher sensitivity to these things, I have no idea why. But our culture believes that you should not just shrug off these warnings from them.

Here are some things that you can do:

-Another post said to ask the teens if they have been playing any occult games such as a Ouija board, this is exactly correct as these things can open a portal in the house. If they are not doing it in the house, ask them if they have been doing such things with friends in another house, these spirits follow everyone who engages in such acts.
-Inspect every room for any item that has resemblance of the occult, Halloween stuff, statues, pictures, posters, or music.
-Play Catholic/Christian music around the house.
-Have your priest bless the house and the family. Ask the priest to consecrate the household to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate heart. I have heard stories of how amazing the Twin hearts protect the house itself as well as the family in it.
-Place statues or crucifixes on every entry way and make a small altar in a prominent place in the house. (Of course these articles have to be blessed)
-Teach your kids that in times that they feel, see or hear something, they should start praying. Particularly asking St. Michael and our Blessed Mother for protection
-It will be a good idea to have everyone enrolled to the Brown Scapulars for protection

A couple that we know had to do all these things because the wife has had attacks and has seen things in the house. We were present during their house blessing and consecration. It is a scary sight to see a home being not safe to anyone. The husband mentioned that when they were clearing out the basement of things like Halloween stuff, their dog who is by the way the most gentle lab I have ever met started to bark and growl upon seeing these things. Their home is safe now, the wife is in the process of recovery from this attacks.

God bless and may He protect you and your family.
Could you describe these attacks? Can a spirit physically harm my family?
 
I am trying for the SECOND time with a response. I had been signed in. My computer went bananas while I was typing, and then I was told I wasn’t signed in. Seems like every time I try to do anything my computer gets a mind of its own. (I lost the other message.)
CAF automatically logs u off after, I think, 15 minutes of inactivity. So if it takes u 15 minutes or so to compose a post, u will get logged off. The way to avoid that is when u log-in, make sure to check the “Remember Me” checkbox.
Could you describe these attacks? Can a spirit physically harm my family?
Yes, demons can physically harm people. St. Pio used to get beat up by demons all the time.

Anyway, please contact your parish priest about all this. The sooner the better.
 
Could you describe these attacks? Can a spirit physically harm my family?
When it began, she would wake up in the middle of the night and see two eyes by her bed, or feel a heavy pressure on her that she felt drowning or choking, the smell of smoke or sulfur in the house. Her early attacks were of less gravity than what you would see in movies or an actual exorcisms as she was still able to tell us to pray for her particular prayers such as the Magnificat or the St. Michael prayer, prayed every decade of the rosary and she still responded to prayers (she was yelling the prayers in authority and I applaud her for her bravery), she was still able to keep a rosary close to her and was receptive to holy water and oil. But it was really scary, four men had to pin her down because she was like having seizures.

Thankfully the group that we are in and they are a member of are very supportive and had to do a prayer over session with her when this happened to help her at least get a decent night sleep, she as she was not able to sleep for almost a week that time. Ultimately we told her to get a priest’s guidance after that incident. I personally told her to go to Mass daily and take Communion, go to confession as often as she can…this is her protection.

If we did not tell them to go to a priest after she had settled down, who knows what physical things would have happened to her. Our intercessory prayers can only do so much as we are not ordained and its not our expertise. We still pray for her during her healing sessions.

St. Pio of Pietrlecina was physically attacked by demons, St. Catherine was attacked too. Theres multiple accounts of saints that have been attacked.

You are lucky you caught it way early before it goes worse, I would say start protecting everyone. Keep a stock of holy water and oil in the house.
 
When it began, she would wake up in the middle of the night and see two eyes by her bed, or feel a heavy pressure on her that she felt drowning or choking, the smell of smoke or sulfur in the house. Her early attacks were of less gravity than what you would see in movies or an actual exorcisms as she was still able to tell us to pray for her particular prayers such as the Magnificat or the St. Michael prayer, prayed every decade of the rosary and she still responded to prayers (she was yelling the prayers in authority and I applaud her for her bravery), she was still able to keep a rosary close to her and was receptive to holy water and oil. But it was really scary, four men had to pin her down because she was like having seizures.

Thankfully the group that we are in and they are a member of are very supportive and had to do a prayer over session with her when this happened to help her at least get a decent night sleep, she as she was not able to sleep for almost a week that time. Ultimately we told her to get a priest’s guidance after that incident. I personally told her to go to Mass daily and take Communion, go to confession as often as she can…this is her protection.

If we did not tell them to go to a priest after she had settled down, who knows what physical things would have happened to her. Our intercessory prayers can only do so much as we are not ordained and its not our expertise. We still pray for her during her healing sessions.

St. Pio of Pietrlecina was physically attacked by demons, St. Catherine was attacked too. Theres multiple accounts of saints that have been attacked.

You are lucky you caught it way early before it goes worse, I would say start protecting everyone. Keep a stock of holy water and oil in the house.
Could you send me a link or provide me with a resource to learn more about St. Catherine and St. Pio? I am unfamiliar with them. I will approach my parish priest soon and I would like to thank everyone for their advice.
 
Could you send me a link or provide me with a resource to learn more about St. Catherine and St. Pio? I am unfamiliar with them. I will approach my parish priest soon and I would like to thank everyone for their advice.
Heres one from EWTN on St. Pio:
ewtn.com/padrepio/man/biography.htm

I also suggest to watch the movie about him, its very long though like 4 hours long but its very well put. Its titled: Padre Pio. You can get clips on youtube on the movie especially the attacks.

Heres a link about St. Catherine of Siena:
catholicism.org/saint-catherine-of-siena.html

Do not be engulfed in fear and despair as the devil will use these against you, remember God is more powerful than him. “If our God is for us, then who can be against us!”

God bless!
 
I would make an appointment to talk to the priest who confirmed what your son saw at adoration-i didn’t see this part posted here-it must have been edited from spirituality forum, but that part is not there either anymore. Any way I would talk to this priest.
 
Could you describe these attacks? Can a spirit physically harm my family?
It has been known to happen, but even among paranormal phenomenon, it is very rare. If you are feeling terrified, I would not wait to call your pastor. Go ahead and use the call line given for anointing of the sick, and ask for what you ought to do, even if it a “priest on call.” (Sometimes priests in smaller parishes join together to cover calls for anointing of the sick.)

Keep in mind that a priest needs permission from his bishop to do an exorcism and has to do other preparation. No one is going to drop what they’re doing and come over and do the Rite of Exorcism on your house. I mean that you might do much better if you had someone with a protective pastoral office over you to give you advice, instead of us.

Write out everything that has you concerned, with dates and who was there. It will make a difference that this isn’t just one person (delusions that might have a physical cause in a single brain) and isn’t just one odd unexplainable event. If your two year old is seeing someone that you can’t see, that is the last straw. Call the spiritual cops.
 
Speaking of calling the spiritual cops, your family might recite the Litany of the Saints, as well (from ourcatholicprayers.com/litany-of-the-saints.html)

"The Litany of the saints is one of the oldest Catholic prayers still in use. It was prayed in earlier forms in the procession of St. Mamertus, the Bishop of Vienna, in the fifth century, and in St. Gregory the Great’s Litania Septiformis (“sevenfold procession”) of the clergy and the faithful, which followed a terrible spate of floods and disease in Rome in 590. Its stature is such that it is one of only six litanies authorized for use in public services by the Holy See.

The Litany of the Saints is often recited or sung in a shorter form than the one given below (which is itself an abridged version!) on All Saints Day (naturally enough!). It is a moving appeal for help from many of our greatest saints, as well as for divine protection.

The Litany of the Saints is also often a special part of both the Easter Vigil (the mass in which those who have received instruction in our faith are baptized) and Ordination Masses for priests, deacons, and bishops, as well.

It can be prayed alone or in a group setting. (As in a church service, the group responds to a leader with the italicized words below. Each response in the Litany of the Saints is repeated after each line until a change appears.) "

*Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us. (repeat after each line)
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
God the Holy Ghost,
Holy Trinity, one God,
Holy Mary, pray for us (repeat after each line)
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of virgins,
St. Michael,
St. Gabriel,
St. Raphael,
All you holy angels and archangels,
All you holy orders of blessed spirits,
St. John the Baptist,
St. Joseph,
All you holy patriarchs and prophets,
St. Peter,
St. Paul,
St. Andrew,
St. James,
St. John,
St. Thomas,
St. James,
St. Philip,
St. Bartholomew,
St. Matthew,
St. Simon,
St. Thaddeus,
St. Matthias,
St. Barnabas,
St. Luke,
St. Mark,
All you holy apostles and evangelists,
All you holy disciples of our Lord,
All you holy innocents,
St. Stephen,
St. Lawrence,
St. Vincent,
SS. Fabian and Sebastian,
SS. John and Paul,
SS. Cosmas and Damian,
SS. Gervase and Protase,
All you holy Martyrs,
St. Sylvester,
St. Gregory,
St. Ambrose,
St. Augustine,
St. Jerome,
St. Martin,
St. Nicholas,
All you holy bishops and confessors,
All you holy doctors,
St. Anthony,
St. Benedict,
St. Bernard,
St. Dominic,
St. Francis,
All you holy priests and levites,
All you holy monks and hermits,
St. Mary Magdalen,
St. Agatha,
St. Lucy,
St. Agnes,
St. Cecilia,
St. Catherine,
St. Anastasia,
All you holy virgins and widows,
All you holy men and women, saints of God, intercede for us.
Be merciful, spare us, O Lord.
Be merciful, graciously hear us, O Lord.
From all evil, deliver us, O Lord. (repeat after each line)
From all sin,
From Thy wrath,
From a sudden and unprovided death,
From the deciets of the devil,
From anger, and hatred, and all ill-will,
From the spirit of fornication,
From lightning and tempest,
From the scourge of earthquakes,
From plague, famine and war,
From everlasting death,
By the mystery of Thy holy incarnation,
By Thy coming,
By Thy nativity,
By Thy baptism and holy fasting,
By Thy Cross and Passion,
By Thy Death and burial,
By Thy holy Resurrection,
By Thine admirable Ascension,
By the coming of the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete.
On the day of judgment.
We sinners, we beseech Thee, hear us (repeat after each line)
That Thou wouldst spare us,
That Thou wouldst pardon us,
That Thou wouldst bring us to true penance,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to govern and preserve Thy Holy Church,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to preserve our Apostolic Prelate, and all ecclesiastical orders in holy religion,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to humble the enemies of holy Church,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to give peace and true concord to Christian kings and princes,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to grant peace and unity to all Christian peoples,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to ring back to the unity of the Church all who have strayed away, and lead to the light of the Gospel all unbelievers,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to confirm and preserve us in Thy holy service,
That Thou wouldst lift up our minds to heavenly desires,
That Thou wouldst render eternal blessings to all our benefactors,
That Thou wouldst deliver our souls, and the souls of our brethren, relatives, and benefactors from eternal damnation,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to give and preserve the fruits of the earth,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed,
That Thou wouldst vouchsafe graciously to hear us, Son of God,
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.

Our Father, etc. (inaudibly)

V. And lead us not into temptation
R. But deliver us from evil.*

“The Litany of the Saints reminds us of a moving line about them from one of the Eucharistic prayers to God the Father said at Mass: “May their merits and prayers gain us Your constant help and protection.””
 
You’ve gotten some good advice in both threads.

I second the following advice from other posters:**

Ask your children if they have dabbled in the occult or new age practices

Install a camera or voice recorder. Evidence is crucial!

Pray. Make frequent use of the sacraments.

Tell your priest and get him in to do a blessing.

Stay away from “ghost hunters” or psychics

Keep close with your family. Demons will try to tear your family apart.**

I lived in a haunted house as a child so I understand.
*Also, next time make a new account or just state in your post you are using your son’s account so you won’t get mistaken for a 17 year old! *
 
Why are we afraid of ghosts if we trust Jesus? Any demonic or dangerous possibility they have once we tell the devil to be gone in Jesus’ name. You need to truly believe in Jesus to be protected. At the slightest mention of His name by the faithful the devil will coward and vanish.
 
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