My House Mysteriously Flooded During the Pandemic

This picture is of the house I lived in when this experience happened.

Back in 2018, my family had bought a house outside a rural village in the Irish Midlands. After four years of living here, my dad was planning to sell the house and move to the west coast with his partner – whereas I planned to move back to my hometown in Yorkshire, England. 

In the summer of 2021, roughly towards the end of the pandemic, my dad and his partner had gone away for a few days to Galway on the other side of the country – so it was just me, my sister and our dog at home. Waking up early one morning, my sister and I heard the sound of gushing water coming from somewhere in the house. After some investigating, we eventually found the source of the water was coming from the boiler, which was behind a wardrobe in my sister’s room.  

For whatever reason, water was flowing out the boiler at a very rapid pace, and although I tried my best to stop it, there was still no sign that it would. Having no idea if the boiler was broken or even how to fix it, my sister and I quickly began to panic – because now, the water was moving into the living room and beginning to flood the house. 

Unable to solve the problem ourselves, we eventually called our dad and told him what happened. Thankfully, his partner knew of a plumber who lived fairly nearby – and so, she arranged for him to come and fix our boiler problem by the end of the day. 

By late evening, and after the house had been flooding for several hours, the plumber eventually came over to fix the boiler. However, when we brought him into my sister’s room, after looking confused for a few seconds, the plumber then turns the handle on the side of the boiler anticlockwise, and just like that, the water had stopped running. 

According to the plumber, someone had turned the handle completely loose on the side of this boiler, and that’s why water was gushing out the way it was. Although my sister and I were incredibly relieved the house would no longer flood with water, we were now left just as confused. How could someone have turned the boiler’s handle if it was just me and my sister in the house? Obviously, neither of us had done it. So, in that case, how on earth did the handle on the boiler become so loose? 

At the time, my sister and I joked there could be a ghost in our house, and that they tried flooding the place so my dad couldn’t sell it. Neither of us really believed in the paranormal at the time. But when I think back on it now, how the heck could all of that have happened – especially when my sister and I know for a fact no one tampered with that handle? 

Has anyone else ever had an experience like this?