Things That Go Bump

A little corner of the internet to dump my knowledge of the paranormal and supernatural. Feel free to ask anything.

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I love this blog, are you no longer active?

I have a million asks to answer so I thought I would start with this one. No I am not dead. Adult stuff happened. 

I know I promised to post more this year but right after I said that I landed a very demanding job and bought an abandoned house that took months to make habitable.

 I have free time now that things have calmed down, and plan to go back to casually posting. I also now have a 10 week old kitten who is a bit of a handful. She likes to bite laptop wires so be patient with me. 

So Yes, I am still here. I am not dead. I see and read all of your messages. I will try to post again and answer all of your asks. 

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Bravo! Your blog successfully made me terrified of sleeping, which is what i was hoping for :) I keep feeling cold hands all over me... totally in my head but still freaky! Any tips to relieve this feeling and get some sleep?

Thank you, I dont set out to give people a sleepless night but it is always nice to hear when I do. 

I recommend reading something that isn't scary to take your mind off it so you can get some sleep. Novels are my go-to thing to distract me from scary things. Or silly internet videos. 

Have a kitten gif to lighten your mood a little. 

Sorry it took me so long to get to your message. 

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O’Hare Mansion - 

The O’Hare Mansion once stood in Greencastle, Indiana. It has since been demolished but has left behind a legacy of some of the best pieces of paranormal photography every captured. 

A man called Guy Winters was convinced by some friends to join them in exploring the ruins of old mansion. The building, which had been built by the O’Hare family in the 1800s, had been out of use and had fallen into disrepair. During his exploration of the house Guy took many photos of the building and when he had those pictures developed he was shocked to see ghostly apparitions in the finished photographs. Upon further examination he also found that the spirits appeared on the orginal negatives for the images. 

These ghosts have been nicknamed the Pink and Gold Ladies. Guy sent the photos to a tv station who tacked down the surviving members of the O’Hare family. He met with Mary O’Hare who recognised the Pink Lady in the photos as her mother, Irene O’Hare, and told him that the room the Pink Lady is standing in was once her mother’s bedroom. 

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The Japanese Noppera-Bo goes in for mimicry too.

Yes! I forgot about that, this is what happens when you answer questions off the top of your head instead of thinking about all the potential creatures. 

Bake neko  are prone to posing as their owners too. 

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do you think spirits can take the form of a person? not possess, but pretending to be someone

Yes they can. There is a spirit in English and Irish folklore called a Fetch. They are usually seen as a death omen. 

http://they-hide-in-the-dark.tumblr.com/post/113779652630/fetch-an-apparition-of-a-living-person-from

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Anonymity is one thing, & I understand completely about being disinclined to do the You Tube thing. However,..An individual such as yourself, being rather, well read, on the subject of cryptids, would be beyond valuable, to a "serious" expedition. One whose motives were NOT ratings, marketability, or profit. To find, to verify the truth, the existence of cryptids, or, as of yet, mysterious creatures completely unknown to science. Would you be consider participating or advising such a project?

Oh I am not anonymous at all. I am a blogger, not spider-man. And yes I would be interested in doing a project like that or advising on one. It is just all of the invitations I get from Youtubers is to sit in on their spooky themed vlogs, especially around Halloween. I have no interest in doing that whole cheesy thing for views. If someone approached me with something interesting, non-cheesy and was something I could actually take part in geographically, I would consider it. Not being a Halloween prop for a cheesy Youtube vlog. 

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I Dont Do YouTube

Well this is a post I never thought I would have to make in my dizziest day dreams. This is just a little post to say that I don’t do YouTube appearances. I have had quite a few people ask me to guest or co-host on their channels or be part of their podcasts to talk about spooky things so I want to make an overall post to tell people that I don’t do that. I have never made a vlog before so I am not used to talking to cameras etc. So I am generally not comfortable with the whole thing. Also I live in Ireland, it is kinda a rock in the middle of nowhere. So let me remain a social recluse who lives on a rock and posts scary things. 

Also I promise to post more in 2017, it is one of my resolutions. 2016 has been a bit of a hodgepodge of horribleness and misery for me so that messed blogging up a tiny bit. See you all in the new year! 

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Christmas Monsters (aka reasons to be good this year)

Yes, even on Christmas something wants to have you for their roast dinner, especially if you are a small badly behaved child. 

Kallikantzaroi

Krampus

Grýla

Yule Cat

Perchta

Père Fouettard

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Père Fouettard - 

The French and Belgian anti-Santa, Père Fouettard’s name means “Whipping Father” as he carries a whip to beat naughty children around Christmas. He is usually described as having a sinister face with a long unkempt beard and hair. He wears long dark robes and carries a whip or stick to carry out his work. In some stories he has a wicker backpack, which he uses to carry bad children away. Some versions of  Père Fouettard dress identically to Saint Nicholas except his suit is black instead of red. 

When he was a mortal man Père Fouettard was a butcher who kidnapped three little boys who were on their way to school. The boys were wealthy so he robbed them off their belongings before murdering them. He slit their throats, chopped them into small pieces and placed the body parts into a barrel to stew. His crime was discovered by Saint Nicholas, who brought the boys back to life. Saint Nicholas decided to punish Père Fouettard by making him his assistant for all eternity. 

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Your post on the nameless thing has some typing errors. Just thought you might want to fix it :)

Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I usually try to proof read all of my posts carefully so I have no idea how I didn't notice those mistakes. They are fixed now.

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Happy Halloween Everyone!

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hmmm, stories for Washington perhaps? If it wouldn't be too much trouble, of course

It isnt any trouble at all, that is why I have an open ask box after all. Surprisingly I havent written anything on Washington yet, which is odd because they have some really interesting haunted buildings. I will get right on it for you. 

FYI: The White House is haunted. 

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Hello! I'm new to your blog and you have a very nice one!! Though I've had some experiences in my old house and my current one in the past they were sorta minor, though recently it started up again? I was taking care of my baby cousin and I swear I heard a baby crying but when I checked on him he was fast asleep. And another night I thought I heard my new puppy yelping in the kitchen to get out her pen, so I went to check but she had already been put in her cage sleeping.

Thank you. I am glad you are enjoying it :)

Could someone else have moved the puppy into its cage? 

The answer to your question is, yes, hauntings can start up again. Haunted places can go for weeks, months and sometimes years between activity. The fact that these things have happened in two different houses interests me though. Either you have some odd luck with houses or it could be a poltergeist. They like to haunt people, especially young people, so they have been known to follow people sometimes. 

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have any stories for southern california?

I dont know about southern California exactly, but I have a California tag of all of my current posts from there: 

http://they-hide-in-the-dark.tumblr.com/search/california

Enjoy! 

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Just casually reading through your blog when I stumbled across a reply to one of your asks. "Highly literate goldfish." It's safe to say now that I love you

Thank you, Anon. That is what you get when I answer questions a bit too late at night after a lot of caffeine. 

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7,000 Followers?!

Thank you so much! As always the ask box is open.

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Thomas Busby’s Chair - 

A pub in North Yorkshire has a killer chair. Thomas Busby was a petty thief who enjoyed a drink so much that he had claimed a favourite seat in his local pub. In the summer of 1702 Busby got into a blazing row with his father in law who sat in the chair to annoy him. Later that night Busby broke into his father in law’s house and murdered him. It didn't take long for the police to connect Busby to the crime and he was arrested, tried and found guilty. He was sentenced to death and his final request was a last drink in his favourite chair. Shortly before being taken to his execution he declared that “death shall come swiftly to anyone who dares to sit in my chair”. 

The first recorded victim of the chair was a chimney sweep who sat in the seat years after Busby was executed. Several minutes after finishing his drink and returning to work to fell off a roof and died. Over the next couple of centuries people dared each other to use the chair. Most refused but during World War 2 numerous Air Force officers accepted the challenge and none of them returned from battle. in 1967 a pair of pilots sat in the chair and died moments later when their car hit a tree on their way home. After their deaths the landlord decided that the chair should be removed from public display and he placed it in the pub basement where it stayed for several years. 

The chair still managed to kill people while in the basement. A bricklayer who was working on the pub found the chair in the corner of the basement and decided to rest in it. That afternoon when he went back to work he fell from the pub roof to his death. Other deaths included a roofer who used the chair and had a roof collapse beneath him afterward, a cleaning woman who stumbled into the chair and later suffered from an aneurysm, and a delivery driver who crashed his van an hour after sitting in the chair. 

The landlord finally had enough of the chair and its body count so he contacted the Thirsk Museum and asked them to take the chair. The museum agreed and after making careful arrangements to transport the chair they placed it on display in their museum, hanging six foot off the floor so no one can sit in it.