Surrey mum claims house is haunted after 'petrified' son heard 'gasp' in his ear

-Credit: (Image: Help! My House is Haunted)
-Credit: (Image: Help! My House is Haunted)


A Surrey mum is facing an unsettling situation after moving her young family into her childhood home in Chaldon. Danielle, who grew up in the 1920s timber cottage, claims she is experiencing eerie paranormal activity - leaving her kids ''petrified'

"I want to enjoy living here, but I just feel I can't because of the activity in the house," Danielle explains. The property, which has been in her family for over 35 years, holds significant sentimental value for her, and mother Elaine. However, the joy of returning to her roots has been overshadowed by ghostly encounters.

Danielle recalls feeling watched as a child, and her sister once reported seeing a spirit resembling a nurse. She said: "When I lived here as a child, I did feel like I was always being watched. My sister had seen a spirit in what was her bedroom, she thought that the lady was a nurse. She said she looked at her and then she disappeared. I never actually experienced seeing a ghost until I moved back recently,”

Danielle turns to a show’s team of paranormal investigators -Credit:Really
Danielle turns to a show’s team of paranormal investigators -Credit:Really

Now, her own children are having frightening experiences. "I know my son has seen her, as he described her to me. He said he'd seen a lady in the toy room. I said to him, 'is she a happy ghost?' He said 'oh no mummy, she's angry'," Danielle recounts.

In a particularly distressing incident, Danielle's four-year-old son ran to her bedroom in hysterics, claiming to have heard a deep gasping voice in his ear. She said: "He was hysterical and he said to me that there was a voice in his ear that had taken a deep ‘gasp’. My children are petrified. As a mother, I just want to protect my children,".

Despite her attempts to rationalize these occurrences, Danielle is finding it difficult to ignore the paranormal activity. "I try to brush it off and say to him 'it's your imagination', 'it's a dream', but I know that that's not the truth," she admits.

The situation has become so concerning that Danielle is contemplating moving house. "This house is my absolute life, but if it did get even worse or carry on, then we would have to consider moving," she said.

In a desperate attempt to resolve the haunting and keep her family in their beloved home, Danielle has turned to a team of paranormal investigators for help.

Paranormal investigators Barri, Ian and Jayne
Paranormal investigators Barri, Ian and Jayne -Credit:Really

In the eighth episode of the new sixth series of Help! My House is Haunted, airiedon Really on Friday 27 th September at 10pm (also available to stream on discovery+), in a desperate effort to protect her family and remain living in the house she loves, Danielle turns to the show’s team of paranormal investigators Barri, Ian and Jayne for help.

Local historian Penny Griffith Morgan tells Jayne that during the Second World War, a bomb took out a local hospital in Chaldon, where a young nurse called Pauline died, trapped in the rubble. She claims this could be the nurse that Danielle has seen as a spirit.

Watch Episode 8 of the new sixth series of Help! My House is Haunted on Really on Friday at 10pm, also available to stream on discovery+