House Gremlins???

[Warhorse]

We have lived in our present house for 42 years with remarkably few significant equipment or structural problems the entire time, with the single exception of substantial flooding due to a broken dishwasher hose 15 years ago (a story in itself) there was nothing I couldn't easily handle.

Recently, we made the decision to build and move to a new house that is all on one level because of my wife's knee problems making it painful for her to negotiate the stairs in this house.

Within a two month period from that decision, item after item began to fail as we were trying to get the house cleared out and presentable for sale. The 11-month old refrigerator had the fan bearings start to seize and the fan unit had to be replaced. The 9-month old microwave had the latch disintegrate, making it inoperative unitl I replaced it. The 2-year old oven igniter quit and had to be replaced. Five 12" square kitchen tiles cracked and the tiles were no longer made, requiring an innovative work-around. Two (2) windows in different parts of the house cracked and had to be repaired. One car quit, requiring some assorted engine/drive train repairs. Several other small items went haywire requiring repairs. Then, I found that at least three plywood sheets under our roof shingles were disintegrating and bowed down, requiring the whole bloody roof to be replaced (next week).

It doesn't seem to be stopping. It's as if something there is that doesn't want us to sell the house and move!

Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing? I am rapidly going nuts trying to get the house on the market.

I am beginning to believe that Murphy was an optimist!

  Warhorse

[Fjolnirsson]

Elves, fairies, gremlins, house wights...
Lots of cultures have them, and all it costs me to keep them happy is a bowl of milk and honey set out every so often. Superstitious? You betcha. But, most folks have an invisible friend in the sky or two already, so, in for a penny, in for a pound, I say...

Of course, it could be you've just been lucky until now...

[Thor]

Maybe the house is telling you NOT to move ?!?!?!?!

[Brad Johnson]

Watch Poltergeist and get back to us in the morning...

Brad

[BrokenPaw]

In all seriousness, it's been my experience that places can and do have personalities and inhabitants.  My own house has a ghost-kitty that wanders around it at night and sometimes curls up on the bed with BrokenMa and me.  There is...something...that lives in the woods at the north end of our property, and it has taken exception to certain people in the past, messing with them in various ways.

I believe it's entirely possible that people form connections with things and places that we've had or lived in for a long time.

Do you have any particularly strong emotions about letting the place go?  Or does your wife?  Reports of poltergeists have often been tied to emotionally-distraught teenagers in a home, but if either of you are upset about leaving, your emotional state may be contributing to what's going on.

-BP

[Warhorse]

Broken Paw:

That's an interesting concept. You very well may have something there. I'll have to think about it.

Thanks

     Warhorse

[RoadKingLarry]

Like Amityville only in reverse..


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