Alicia's British Case: A Ghost Family in a New Home and Negotiating Shared Space

1. About This Article

This article presents a remote consultation in Britain described by Alicia. After a family moved into a newly built home in a city in northern England, they began experiencing lights turning on and off, objects disappearing and reappearing, dark figures, footsteps, and toys suspended in midair. Because there were young children in the home, the homeowner worried about their safety and was under considerable stress.

Using video of the home for what she calls remote perception, Alicia interpreted the presences inside as a mother and child and a dark figure she could not see clearly. She then recommended dividing the living space between the two sides. Every identity, era, dream communication, and causal relationship involving spirits in this article is Alicia's or the homeowner's subjective understanding. The client and her family have been anonymized.

2. Key Points

• The homeowner said that unexplained incidents involving lights, objects, dark figures, footsteps, and toys had persisted in the new home. The safety of her young children was her greatest concern.
• Alicia says she perceived a mother and child and an elusive dark figure from video of the home, and inferred that the pair's memories related to an eighteenth-century farm.
• Because she believed the presences intended no harm, Alicia did not advocate forcibly driving them away. Instead, she suggested providing a playhouse and toys and assigning separate times and spaces for activity.
• After sprinkling holy water, the homeowner dreamed of a woman, a child, and an indistinct figure. Alicia interpreted the dream as the child explaining that he only wanted to play with the children in the house.
• Alicia eventually inferred that the dark figure was the woman's husband and the child's father, and interpreted the three remaining together over time as the continuation of familial attachment. There is no independent evidence for that identification.

3. A Series of Unusual Events in a New Home (00:00–06:00)

The story takes place in northern England. The homeowner was the first occupant of a newly developed property. After moving into the two-story house, the toilet light would sometimes turn on by itself. Items known to have been placed in the kitchen could not be found when the family looked for them, only to reappear after everyone went out and returned.

The homeowner also said that family members had seen a dark figure near the toilet. In the most dramatic incident, an adult opened one child's bedroom door and saw Lego or another toy suspended in the air. The adults, concerned about frightening the child, said only that everyone must have imagined it. When working at home alone, the homeowner also heard sounds from a box of loose change and footsteps upstairs.

After the events continued for some time, the homeowner became suspicious of everything and approached an emotional breaking point. She had originally invited Alicia to visit the house, but because the journey was long, they first tried to address the situation online.

4. The Mother and Child, the Dark Figure, and the Old-Farm Hypothesis (06:00–09:00)

After viewing video of the home, Alicia says she perceived a mother and child as well as a male dark figure who continually evaded her and would not show his face. She also says an elderly woman seemed to reside in the neighbor's house and occasionally appeared to wander through the wall into the homeowner's property, though she did not belong to this house.

The homeowner had previously asked a family member to consult another religious practitioner, who likewise believed that the mother and child meant no harm and had remained in the area for a long time. Alicia regarded the similarity between the two accounts as mutual corroboration. She further says that in the pair's memories she saw eighteenth-century-style clothing, animals, and an open farm.

The homeowner, however, lived in a new development, and the video did not disclose an address, historic map, or land records. The alleged eighteenth-century farm and the spirits' identities remain inferences Alicia drew from what she perceived.

5. Exchanging a Playhouse for Boundaries in Daily Life (09:00–12:00)

According to Alicia, the mother and child did not want to leave because they regarded the place as their home; the child only wanted to communicate and play with the homeowner's children. Alicia therefore did not recommend eliminating their presence entirely. Instead, she proposed a negotiated arrangement: place a playhouse outside or in the garden and provide some toys and gifts so that they would have a designated space.

More importantly, she advised setting boundaries. The presences should not appear while the human family was active, bedrooms should remain private, and no one should approach sleeping people at night. The homeowner accepted this direction and ordered paper mobile phones, toys, and other items from overseas. Alicia also suggested that food prepared at Christmas could be understood as a gesture of goodwill.

While waiting for the items to arrive, Alicia asked the homeowner to obtain holy water from a church, but recommended applying it only to bedrooms and other areas requiring protection, rather than sprinkling it throughout the house and, within her belief system, leaving the presences nowhere to go. This was a religious response to one particular case, not a validated home-safety procedure.

6. The Dream After the Holy Water (12:00–15:00)

After using the holy water, the homeowner had a dream she still remembered clearly on waking. In a grassy or farm-like setting, she saw a woman, a child, and a third figure whose sex she could not discern. In the dream, the child explained that he did not want to harm the homeowner's children and only wished to play with them.

After hearing the homeowner's voice message, Alicia believed that the child in the dream was apologizing for intruding into the family's living space. The woman, child, indistinct figure, and grass also broadly corresponded to the mother and child, dark figure, and farm scene that Alicia had previously perceived. She described this as communication in a subconscious state, rather than an ordinary dream.

Dreams can absorb concerns, people, and scenes repeatedly discussed while awake, so correspondence in content does not prove communication outside the dream. For the homeowner, the dream may have carried a reassuring meaning; readers should nevertheless distinguish subjective meaning from external evidence.

7. Why the Dark Figure Was Understood as the Father (15:00–18:00)

At first, Alicia could not read clear memories from the dark figure and did not know his relationship to the mother and child. After hearing the homeowner's recording about the dream, she suddenly formed a conclusion: the figure might be the woman's husband and the child's father.

She speculated that he might have been unwilling to show himself because his appearance at death was frightening and he did not want to scare the living. The homeowner likewise could not discern the third person's sex in the dream, but Alicia says that from their first contact she had felt the figure was male.

The story thus shifts from “three presences in a new home” to “a family who remained together after dying at different times.” This is Alicia's synthesis of the clues, not a conclusion confirmed by archives, identity records, or an independent investigation.

8. A Family Together for a Century (18:00–23:44)

Alicia says that the mother and child wore clothing resembling that of the seventeenth or eighteenth century and that the child appeared eight or nine years old. Even after remaining there for more than a century, they did not want to be separated. In her view, this bond between family members was more worth telling than the paranormal phenomena themselves, and prompted her to consider whether affection might endure across death and long spans of time.

From this she summarizes her approach to cases: if the entities respect the living space and show no intent to attack, one can first communicate and agree on boundaries for the living room, garden, or nighttime activity. If the person involved continues to lose sleep, grows physically weak, experiences serious disruption to daily life, or if the other presence is aggressive within Alicia's understanding, the situation cannot be handled in the same way.

At the end of the video, she also mentions a younger schoolmate said to have the ability to see spirits. The schoolmate's unusual experiences frequently disrupted her student life, to the point that she fell asleep in class and during exams. This aside reinforces Alicia's point that “every case is different.” It also shows that whatever belief-based explanation is adopted, impairment of learning, sleep, or everyday functioning calls for practical, professional support.

9. Boundaries for Reading and Safety

When unusual events occur in a home with young children, doors and windows, security cameras, electrical wiring, how objects are secured, sources of noise, fuel-burning appliances, and carbon-monoxide risks should be checked first. Sleep deprivation, stress, and health should also be considered. Religious rituals or negotiations over space cannot replace a building inspection, medical assessment, or necessary child-safety measures.

The story's value lies in the ethics of Alicia's approach: within her spiritual framework, an unknown presence need not automatically be treated as an enemy. Whether “peaceful coexistence” is appropriate for a real family, however, cannot be decided solely through remote perception, and people who already feel afraid or unsafe should never be required to continue enduring the situation.

Source

• Original video: Alicia Tells a Ghost Story — Casework with an Eighteenth-Century British Ghost