Are you living with ghosts? Most people who’ve lived in older homes, or stayed in a vintage hotel or inn, have encountered a ghost or two.
For many of us, the ghost becomes a companion or–after awhile–seems like a member of the family. The ghost leaves the family alone, and they leave him or her alone. Except for the occasional fleeting glimpse of the ghost, or something slightly odd reminding you that the ghost is there, living with a ghost becomes “normal.”
As long as the ghost isn’t territorial or malicious, or prankish (waking people up at night), you can probably share your home with him or her, comfortably.
At Hollow Hill, we talk out loud to the ghosts. They’ll usually respond favorably to requests that are made in a normal tone of voice, talking to them as if they’re a friend who’s visiting your home and needs to know the “house rules.”
Before doing anything else, talk to your ghosts. You may have to remind them of the rules more than once. But, most spirits respond to polite (but firm) requests.
After awhile, you’ll probably forget that your home is haunted.
If that’s not enough – short-term help for hauntings
Some places are too haunted to live in. The Myrtles Plantation is one of them.
On a recent visit, the only way that I could document The Myrtles’ hauntings without interruptions, was to put my shoes side by side, pointing in opposite directions. (See photo at right)
That successfully paused the manifestations for a few minutes, so that I could jot a few notes about what was happening.
(I have no idea why such a silly folk remedy works, but it does.)
That can solve a short-term problem at an inn or hotel.
But, if you want to continue living in a house that’s “too haunted,” that may not be enough.
Space clearing in haunted houses
For problem cases, we recommend space clearing. It’s a very simple process.
If you’re going to try this on your own, I recommend a book like Space Clearing A-Z : How to Use Feng Shui to Purify and Bless Your Home
I use Lillian Too’s Feng Shui Space Clearing Kit
(You can use Feng Shui tools without believing in the spiritual aspects, the same as you can benefit from yoga as exercise, without practicing an Eastern religion.)
However, in a pinch, you could vacuum (hoover) your entire home. Be sure to vacuum every corner, especially near the ceilings, whether they’re dusty or not. According to space clearing experts, the noise plus the electrical energy seem to banish ghosts.
Likewise, any incense can work, as long as it gets into every corner in every haunted room.
If you’re afraid of ghosts
Generally, ghosts don’t hurt people. Poltergeists can cause mischief. They may throw things at you, or push you when you’re walking. However, there is no real evidence of a ghost killing someone.
However, if you are truly frightened, don’t stay in the house. Visit friends or family, or check in to a local hotel for a couple of days.
(After a few good nights’ sleep, the situation may look much better.)
If none of these remedies help, we recommend John Zaffis, author of “Shadows of the Dark.” He’s had years of experience with frightening hauntings, and he knows how to work with malicious spirits such as demons.
(We get nothing for referring people to John Zaffis. He’s a friend, and we’d trust him if we had problems beyond our expertise.)
Or, if you’ve recently moved into a house that’s too haunted, you may have legal options. See our article, Buying or selling a haunted house – When to see a lawyer.
Tell us about your encounter with a ghost!
If you have lived in a haunted house, or if you’ve encountered a ghost at a restaurant or hotel, or on a ghost tour, we’d like to hear from you. Use our contact link, above.
I’ve had several encounter with ghosts. I have never told anyone for the fear of being ridiculed. I have told my niece Samantha recently.
My very fist encounter was when I rented a three story home from my aunt (who bought it but never looked at it) She lives in California and the house is in Washington. I just turned 17. After a week after moving in, on a nice summer day I went down to the basement where I had my band equipment set up. There were two rooms I have never been in. there doors were closed and wasn’t that curious yet. anyway, I noticed tiny wet footprints trailing from the outside door to one of the rooms. Now, my curiosity hit it’s peak. Why would a child be in my house. I went to the door and listened through the wood of the door. Nothing. I then quickly swung the door open. I said loudly, “Who’s in here?” With no response, I flicked my lighter looking for a light switch. After locating a switch I found the light had no bulb. The room was pretty small with nothing in it, not even a child. I looked at the concrete floor where I first saw the footprints. They were still visible but evaperating quickly. I checked the outside door and found it was locked from the inside. I have never been outside that door let alone the overgrown back yard.
Evreything was quiet and saw nothing else like that for a couple days. Then when I came home from working as a dishwasher at a caf’e, I noticed my T.V. was on. I checked the house and noone was there, nothing was taken so I didn’t report it to the police. That night while sleeping, I was awoke by the beating on my drums in the basement. As I approched the basement door off the kitchen Someone was definatly beating on my drum set. I quietly opened the door and creaped down the stairs. The stairs were walled so I couldn’t see anything until I got to the bottom and around the corner. Once I reached the bottom step, the drums stopped beating. I looked everywhere and noone was there.
I’ve talked to a few people about the past people that lived in that house. Never about a ghost ar anything like that. Someone told me that the last people that owned the house lost there 7 year old daughter to a drowning in the pool that was in the back yard. and moved out a few months later and sold it years later.
I didn’t even know there was a pool in the back yard. It was so overgrown I didn’t really see anything.
Ok…Now I know there was a ghost of a child named “Katline” in my house. Now when something happened that I didn’t do, I’d tell Katline to knock it off. or something like that. Not everything she did. If beating on the drums wasn’t bothering me I’d just let her have a blast. Or let her watch TV of whatever she changed the channel to.
The ghost never hurt noone or anything. I didn’t see any reason to excerise my home or have a priest bless it. Living alone would be pretty lonely toward the evenings, so I’d talk to her as if she was right there and as a living person. “Katline, how was your day?” I’d tell her about my day. Maybe tell her some corny joke I heard that day.
Anyway, that was my first Ghost encounter.
Rich
i get woke up frequently and see a shape in my room most of the time it is next to me or coming closer to me, sometimes i see it as a white cobweby form in the shape of a being a few other times i have seen what looks like lights and they are over me or coming closer to me, i also see dark figures in fact i had a dark figer staring at me last night, i always wake, now i dont take drugs or drink so it cant be to do with anything like that, now as i see several different sort of shapes etc is it possible that the house is not haunted it is me attracting them, over twenty years ago a medium did tell me that my mother who she didnt know had died had said that i should be trained to be a medium as i have it in me, do you think i might just be mad or am i actually seeing things, i must admit it does scare me as i wake and see things.
Tina, The first thing to do is talk with someone in your town who is a priest or minister. It doesn’t matter if you go to that church (or even believe in it), you must rule out the possibility of something spiritual and dangerous.
I’m hearing far too many reports that sound troubling. I’m not sure what’s going on, but it’s smart to check with a professional and be sure nothing dangerous is in progress.
He or she may refer you to a doctor, to rule out medical issues, too. That’s normal. A lot of this begins with a “process of elimination” approach.
The sooner you get answers, the sooner you’ll be able to sleep without worrying.
Sincerely,
Fiona
Tina I’m not a phsyic-but I lived in haunted house (or haunted area) in the 80′s for almost 3 years. Not knowing much about ghosts or the paranormal-I was pretty much overconfident as far as not worrying about anything. Everybody in the household saw or heard or smelled something. I agree, to make sure its not a harmful situation-I would seek the help of some professional who is familar with the paranormal to help you out. True, everybody is safe-now-but the house and others-the whole community-we lived in a rental-is now gone. It took me about 10 years to get up the courage to learn about ghosts,etc. Hope you will do the same. Sharon
This comment is for Tina. Hi I am Melissa, reading your comment I was some what relieved to hear someone else with the same problem. I would have thought I was going Mad as well, which is why I record a lot with my ipod. In doing this I have been able to prove I am not going crazy. lol It is very bothersome though. I also hear them talking. Just like you sometimes it is white lights and other times a dark shadow. I prefer the white light. It helps me to read the Bible out loud. Try Psalms 91-94 that usually gets rid of them for a short time. Also pray and tell them In the name of Jesus Christ you can not stay here you must leave. Good luck also stay away from tarot cards and Quiji boards it’s an open invitation.
Don’t worry, I would guess! You might just be a little bit psychic. But haunted houses are another story altogether in my experience and should be avoided. Those ghosts are not sticking around because they are friendly and want your roses to bloom! Or your relationships/families. They are destructive. Who has ever seen a non-destructive ghost? A spirit or entity is another thing, and that is my confusion, and my problem.
Hi all,
I once lived in an apartment on the south side of Chicago that had a ghost in it. I was home alone, round about the time I was 17 years old, and laying on the floor in the front room. The way the apartment was laid out I could see all the way through the apartment into the kitchen. While watching t.v. I caught a glimpse of movement out of the corner of my eye, I turned my head and saw a man standing in the kitchen doorway. He was wearing a red plaid shirt, with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, jeans, and a baseball type cap that said “Caterpillar” on it. I could not see his feet, because there were none. He took two steps forward and disappeared. Needless to say I was frightened, being home alone, I thought that some one had broken in through the back door, or window. I grabbed a baseball bat from by the front door (this was the south side) and stalked through the apartment, the back door was locked up tight, as was the kitchen window, there was no way any one could have gotten in that way, because we lived on the second floor.
Needless to say I found no living thing, other than myself in the apartment. I was not the only one to see the ghost either. My mother saw him on several occasions, my then girlfriend saw him sitting in the family room, and my step father saw him once. He, my step father saw him and thought as I did the first time I saw him, and went looking for the intruder. My mother and I told him that there was no one else in the apartment, and that all the doors were locked up tight.
“Pete” (a name I gave the ghost) never bothered us at all, except for the first encounter with him.
Hi Mike,
I lived in a house like that. It was such a cute cottage, I thought. But as soon as my boyfriend and I moved in, on the first night we heard these heavy footsteps up the back stairs, and so he went for a baseball bat and yelled Who’s There? And the next night. And the next. We finally realized that no one was messing with us, that every night about 2 am there were these footsteps up the back stairs. We kind of got used to it, but there were other things wrong with the house. I was kind of stubborn but he couldn’t stand it, and we ended up leaving ‘on the run’, packing up overnight and getting out of there. And he wasn’t there while I was doing our final packing, putting tape on boxes, and I heard someone walk up to the front door–and I thought, well, its not the landlady it must be her husband bc so loud, like boots. I gave a month notice, and I opened the door ready to say all this and: no one was there. So wierd. On the last day, the heavy footsteps right up to the front door, in broad daylight. It scared me a little bit, that’s for sure.
I spent last weekend with a friend & her daughter. They are renting an old house and recently moved in. On a Saturday night at 10 pm, my friend was washing her hair in the kitchen sink. Within a short time, she felt someone tap her on the shoulder and stopped what she was doing, thinking it was her daughter. Then it happend a second time, when she started to get annoyed. She looked around and there was no one there. Soon she heard a soft, low woman’s voice asking ‘where’s Paul?’ My friend told the woman to ‘go to the light’ at which time she felt a cold breeze behind her.
While I was there, the timer on eye level oven went off at 4 a.m. Everyone was asleep. My friend nor her daughter nor me used that timer. The noise woke my friend & I up and she went to the kitchen, taking a few minutes to figure out how to turn it off.
Then my friend tried relentlessly to get her daughter up for school. Nothing worked until her daughter & I heard three low knocks on the bedroom wall or door and it wasn’t any of us doing the knocking.
Sarah is the unseen person who used to live in that old house. Her husband Paul is in a nursing home with Altzheimers. The house has a warm feeling to it with a picture of Jesus or some other spiritual inspiration in every room with inspirational messages on the kitchen bulletin board.
My friend nor her daughter are afraid to live in this old house of many memories. I was very intrigued by my experience with Sarah since I had always wanted to know what it was like to feel the presence of a spirit and now I know!
Hey
so listen to this im sitten at home playin games alon and a dull yell or really deep exhale was heard directly in my ear. Im also seeing movments out of the corner of my eye.
Jake,
That sounds fairly normal for a haunted house, but there are other explanations, too.
I’m not sure if you have a question, or you’re just noting what you’ve encountered.
Sincerely,
Fiona
I have had a problem where I live for two years. It is not ‘haunted’ but is really really something. I got attacked today, so badly. I had cleaned out this shed in the back and repaired it and had climbed up a ladder to do some work, and this dark thing overcame me and pulled me so hard–I tried not to fall by getting back on the stepladder and it pushed me so hard into it, and in a humiliating way. That stepladder is completely smashed and there is no way my tailbone could do that–I got up and walked away in pain and tears but felt so compelled to go back, I guess defiant? Or I just wanted to see? That thing was smashed, and there is no way a 300 lb guy could do that to that thing. What on earth? The thing is: when I cleaned out that shed, there was something really scary, that the guy I hired to haul away the trash would NOT enter there (he wouldn’t) but I just thought bc of leakage and mold and fungus growing, but I ended up screaming and running out of there too. And so many months later, it felt like getting attacked–as real as someone grabbing and attacking me and then laughing. It feels like: something was mad at me for cleaning up where it lived. I don’t know!
sorry i was rushed befor these things havent happend in a long time but im not sure if the ghost is planning somthing or has just sayin hi like a brother because ive had hauntings or what i presume to be hauntings since i was little so if there is somthing there do you think its looking out for me and checkin in on me because I think he/she resides in my garrage and i tryed to contact the spiret if its there but nothin sollide. am i goin crazy im freekin out if there is somthin there its not in a hurry to communicate any more. Sorry if it sounds like im rambaling.
Jake,
It’s okay to ramble. An experience like that would alarm anyone.
Speak with someone who works in a spiritual field — a priest or minister — for advice. You need someone on-site to evaluate what’s going on.
In the meantime, I think it’s a mistake to try to contact the spirit.
It may be just a spirit that checks on you now & then. However, it might be something else. Get a second opinion from someone in your area, like a priest or minister.
Sincerely,
Fiona
Ok thanks ummm i dont know any preists but i know a ghost hunter do you think that would be good or should i just ask a holey man
Jake,
Every community has a priest or a minister.
Just because someone calls him or herself a ghost hunter does not make that person qualified for… well, anything.
See a priest or a minister.
Sincerely,
Fiona Broome
ok i will try i think the ghost if ther is one is becoming aware that im looking for them because when i wake up leave my room and come back my gut tells me “hurry up it knows were you are” and im seeing somthimg at like 7:30 some nights peering around the corner i dont wann kick this spirit out it was here first but i dont think it wants my help i fear its getting angry with me i feel an angry energy at home im tarrafied realy im gonna try to get a preist to help but what do you think i should do untill i get the preist?
Jake,
Don’t delay at all. Contact a priest today. If you’re genuinely in danger, either stay in someone else’s flat or otherwise stay away from the location. There isn’t anything else you can do until you’ve talked with people who understand the various aspects of what might be going on.
In haste,
Fiona
Fiona.
I know this is an old article. Lately I have been having everyone that enters my home, friends, team members, ect, tell me that they have seen a ghost either in the kitchen or in the wallway between two bedrooms. Everyone whoes seen the ghost discribes it as a small boy with dark brown hair wearing overalls. Samantha, our co-founder, Kevin our Video tech, and Mona our hunter has heard him speak.
Our team did an investigation and came up with no evidence of the boy even haunting my home. The claims started comming in just a few days after Valentines Day 2010.
A spirit or spirits will show it self to one person, but not the next, even though the two people are standing next to each other. It’s not up to us as the living to see and hear spirits. It’s up to the spirit. I beleive that is why I had never seen or hear this entity.
Is it possible that he is comming and going at his leasure? If so, how many other places have this problem.
Rich
Hi Rich,
It’s always good to hear from you.
What you’re describing is very normal. I couldn’t even guess how many places have a similar problem… it’d be a lot. (That’s one reason why some teams find evidence of a haunting… and five other teams visit the site and detect nothing at all.)
It sounds like Valentines Day triggered something, possibly residual energy, that’s either strong enough for some people to perceive (or it resonates with them, specifically), and/or that residual energy is acting like a beacon for a spirit.
Either way, I wouldn’t be very concerned about it. Like you, I believe that much of this is controlled by the spirit, not by us.
It sounds to me like this isn’t a “trapped” spirit or anything needing your attention. Sure, you can say hello to him, so he doesn’t feel ignored, but you may just be talking to very vivid residual energy.
I’d definitely keep a diary noting what people observed and when it happened, to see if there’s any pattern.
Other than that, I’d accept that something’s going on, but it’s low-level… like a bird building a nest outside your home, just for one season. It may go away as quickly as it started.
Cheerfully,
Fiona
Thanks, Fiona.
I thought about residual energy at first. However, it responds to Samantha and Kevin at seperate times. It will follow samantha to the bathroom and when she stops at the door and turn around, the boy will giggle and fade away. He has spoken the word “Hi,” or “Hello.” He once reached out and touched Samantha’s skirt. So, he is interacting. No body had mentioned this spirit for almost a month now. Maybe he’s gone for good.
My GF and I just bought a 1800 farm house that has been in the same family since the year it was built and we are the 1st non family member to ever own the house. We closed on the house on October 29th and slow started to work on the house , changing wallpaper adding lights , etc. Well one night I was there sanding the walls and I thought someone was standing behind me so I turned around and found nothing so I just forgot about it, then the night before we moved in 2 friends and I went over to the house to hang the TV on the wall and we had to make some cuts in the basement so 2 of us went downstairs and one stayed up stairs well we were down there my friend yells down to me that someone was just banging on the front door but when he went there no one was there, we passed it off to the wind. About a week after we move in my GF comes up stairs to bed where I was already a sleep and tells me that her and the dog swear they heard something banging in the kitchen, I told her that I had to be the heater turning on or off and not to worry about it. Well this Sunday at 4:35 am I wake up suddenly to the sound of what I think is footsteps walking downstairs toward the hallway stairs, I looked to the Dog really quick and notice that she hears it to so I get out of bed grab the billy club I keep next to the bed and listen to the footsteps coming closer to the bedroom waiting to have to fight off a robber. My GF then wakes up and says that it sounds like someone is walking in the hall. I wait next to the door and listen to the foot steps walk up to then by the bedroom door stop and then head back down stairs and at this point I called 911 so as we waited in our bedroom for the police to show up we continue to hear the foot steps down stairs. The police show up with in 10-12 mins of my phone call and we check the whole house and not one sign of a break in , Not one thing to show that anyone had been in the house. The cops talk me into thinking its the wind or the house stellted . I know what I heard it was not the wind. So the next night after the foot steps in the hall I decide to shut the door that I had been newly installed at the bottom of the hallway just for the hell of it to see if it helps clam me down at all and I would be able to sleep better. Well that night I had a very restless night sleep and was awake most of the night and around 2:35 I swear I heard the door knob on that door being played with but after I got out of bed to listen better it stopped and I fell back to sleep. So this takes us to last night 2:35 am we are woken up to the smoke alarm going off , we check to make sure the house isn’t on fire and we run down the stairs as we get to the alarm that’s going off there is no smoke, no dust etc and the alarm stops , it was going off for not reason that i can see and none of the other ones are going off or there is nothing going on that would cause any of them to go off.
I guess I have a few questions,
1. Do you think I have a ghost?
2. Should I do anything?
3. Should I be worried?
look forward to what everyone thinks
Brian
Brian,
Great descriptions, and a very level-headed & normal attitude towards the phenomena. You’re approaching this sensibly.
My answers to your questions:
1. You’re describing a lot of phenomena, and that probably means the house is actively haunted, or someone’s playing a prank, or this is a remarkable set of coincidences.
However, there’s one other possibility that I need to mention: You’re describing a noisy ghost; literally, that’s a poltergeist. Paranormal researchers have conflicting opinions about poltergeists. Some say they’re just psychokinesis (aka PK) created by someone very alive (usually female, usually on a slight emotional or hormonal roller coaster).
2. In terms of doing anything, I recommend keeping a journal. I talk about that in my free book, Is Your House Haunted?. Other than that, I’d just wait and see whether this winds down on its own.
3. You’re not describing anything that I’d be worried about, except the impact of the stress and loss of sleep. If it’s actually a poltergeist and the energy is coming from one of you two, tiredness and stress can make things worse.
However, I don’t think either of you are at risk (except for being the short-term subject of gossip, perhaps, after the 911 call *grin*) so at this point, I’d just keep a record of the activity and see if the disturbances quiet down.
If they don’t, I’d probably start with a series of space clearings. Though I use a singing bowl (that’s a Feng Shui tool) and others use sage smudges, I’ve also had success by simply vacuuming (the noisier the better) in the most active area/s of the house. Really. Be especially careful to vacuum every remote corner, even up by the ceiling. For some reason, these sensory approaches seem to work.
Cheerfully,
Fiona
Fiona,
Thank you for the quick replay, it has been a pretty stressful last few nights and I have been feeling very uncomfortable in my new home and your advice and this web site have helped me feel a little bit better. I am currently reading your book and it is full of lots of useful information and I was going to try some of the tips but before I did should I be worried that I could do something wrong and make things worst?
Thanks again
Brian
Brian,
The level of activity that you’re describing isn’t dangerous. I understand that it can be troubling, disturbing and even scary, and that’s made worse when your sleep is interrupted.
However, even if the activity increases, as long as it’s not a lot of alarming physical phenomena, it’s okay. (Alarming physical phenomena would be something like someone getting scratched or shoved, hard.)
You could be dealing with a ghost. It could be a poltergeist. Or, it could be really intense residual energy that’s been reactivated by the work you’re doing in your home.
I’m betting that it’s a ghost. Just one, and it’s probably the ghost of someone who lived in your home in the past.
Ghosts are just people. They can be annoyed when new people move in, change things around, etc. Think of them as petulant toddlers or teens, or cranky old ladies. The goal is to reach the point where the ghost/s settle down and make the best of the situation, or they go somewhere else.
However, they’re still people. Generally, they may be rude (waking you up) but they aren’t dangerous.
I didn’t see anything in your description that even hints of a risky situation. You’re talking about things that often happen when people move into — and redecorate — a home that’s lightly haunted. Or, it could be poltergeist activity.
Either way, unlike what they show in movies and on TV, ghosts don’t usually attack people, and there are no documented cases of anyone being killed by a ghost. (The Bell Witch case was probably created by the married schoolteacher who wanted to marry his student, the Bell’s daughter.)
Unless things take a dramatic turn, you have nothing to worry about. However, if things don’t settle down quickly and your nerves are frayed due to loss of sleep, consider staying at a friend’s house for a couple of nights. That’s not about the ghost… it’s about keeping your sense of humor while this is getting sorted out.
Cheerfully,
Fiona
Just to give a update , I asked the ghost to be quite or leave and then I put up a blessed cross that I had at my old house and everything has stopped. No more walking noise, the dog is more relaxed and the house seems lighter less stuffy.
Thanks again for all the help and advice if anything happens again I will make sure to keep you posted.
Brian
Brian, thanks for the update!
I live across the street from our main plaza that holds the veterans memorial wall and eternal flame. I use the ghost meter pro with dialog now and I was at the flame. I felt a heavy presence and I did contact a ghost.However, I said “I know there are more here.” My meter flashed 7 times! wow! I was honored they chose to contact me. They did not stay there but came to visit. Some were young and easier to hear.The older ones were a bit harder to hear but hear I did. Maybe, their energy was fading. Can you imagine 7 talking at one time? There have been violent deaths at this plaza in the past but it’s quiet now. Have suggested it to our local paranormal group for their upcoming Ghost walks.Maybe, those who come along on the walks will meet some of their loved ones at that wall. That woulld be so nice.
I have had the pleasure in the last 2 days to discover I had a ghost living with me. I had occasionally felt a presence but so what? a very nice person. I invited he/she to the plaza with me. I was finally able to separate my ghost from the others. I haven’t checked to see if I am alone here. If not, we’re happy campers.
Excuse me, I have a question.
So, there’s this house down the street from me that I have confirmed facts that its haunted, and I’ll explain why in a second. But there’s a new family moving in, and I was wondering if I should warn them about their house. And I know it’s haunted because;
1) The first family who lived there has two dogs and a cat die in the middle of their basement, all at a relaively young age.
2) Even when the house is abandoned, a black figure of a cat can be seen in the windows.
3) a few years ago, when the house was abandoned, a few of my friends went with me and my brother to the front of the house to play. Well, one kid was able to pull up the garage slightly, just enough to see under the garage. But he dropped it quickly after a few seconds, saying something poked him. We thought it was a joke, but we kept having people pull it up and see if they could have it happen to them, while the rest of us looked under the garage to see if we could see whatever it was. But when my little brother did it (he was 9 at the time) we heard a hissing sound and my brother screamed, and there was a huge gash on his leg.
4) The two most recent families to live there only lasted a few weeks before they left.
5) My father, a painter, was hired to paint the house for the second family. I went to help him for a little while, and I had to go down to the basement to get something. And once i got down there, i saw a pentagram on the wall. I ran upstairs, and i heard growling on my way up.
Well, that’s all the evidence I have. This history has all been over the course of about 7 years, because that’s when the house was made. What do you think?
Damen,
I think you’re describing an interesting location, but it doesn’t sound haunted.
Weird..? Maybe. But not haunted.
You’d need more consistently, ghostly evidence to say that it’s haunted.
Sincerely,
Fiona
Do you think that I should try to get evidence? Ive been studying the paranormal for years now, and my two cousins and I are planning on starting a Ghost Hunting team. We don’t have any real fancy equipment, but i know that we have certain devices that can record EVP’s. I would like to finally learn the truth about this house.
Damen,
If you have frequent access to that site, it might be worth documenting.
If not, I recommend starting with something more likely to have a lengthy (and ghostly) history.
Cheerfully,
Fiona
Thank you for your help. If we do investigate the house, I will let you know how it turns out.
Fiona’
Im worried about myself. I feel that im being watched and really wierd things our happening.
im seeing things run across the room really fast. im petrafied in my on home. i think it all started when i was 8, my dream job was to be a ghost hunter. so my parents bought me a ojie bored and i used it i also tried to talk to my mother i belive she is still here and i just wanted to talk to her but i think i messed up when i used the ojie bored. It brought in some thing else i think. I need your opinion please email me.
Amber
p.s. should i get rid of the ojie bored?
Amber, it’s a good idea to bury the Ouija board somewhere. Don’t burn it. Don’t give it away. Bury it, preferably at the foot of a tree.
Once you’ve done that, wait a week or two and see if things improve. If they don’t, follow my advice about possessions: See a local priest or minister and tell him or her what’s going on. You need someone local who is experienced with full-time spiritual studies… not just ghosts and demons, but a wide view of spiritual (and non-spiritual) effects, in general. (http://hollowhill.com/possessed-need-help/)
Sincerely, Fiona
Fiona’
Thank you for the advice. I’ll bury the ouija board. I’ll tell you how things go after a week or 2. I think that the ouija board is causing the problems. It all started when i first used it. Then weird stuff happened. After awhile of being scared to death. I got fed up and started yelling at it. It reacted by hiding and moving my stuff when i wasnt looking. One time i was having a party and i had a table and i put some napkins and silverwear on it well i went to my room to get something when i got back they had been put up. I dont think their going to hurt me because they havnt yet, but i dont want to take my chances. or stretch this to far. i know their is something here. Think you so much for all you have done for me.
Amber.
Fiona’
Think you for all you have done. I will follow your advice.
Amber’
When I was 15 (1975) my mother and two brothers and I moved into a different home. My father had recently died and we decided to move. The ‘new’ home was built in the late 1940s so wasn’t what I considered as old. Anyway, before we moved to the new home my mother used to go there during the day to paint and then return to our old home in the evening. One day she returned earlier than normal and stated that something in the house scared her. She sensed a presence and felt something was watching her. My mother is a sensible woman but this was enough to really scare her and make her leave the house. She returned to the new home several times to finish painting but never encountered this presence again. After we moved in to the new home we experience other strange things. Late one evening my younger brother and I returned to the house after work (We worked at the same place). My mother and older brother were not home. I thought I heard voices in the den but assumed it was the TV left on and I didn’t mention it my brother. We both walked to the den and I noticed that the TV was not on. When we got there my brother asked me if I had heard voices because he had. Again, I heard the voices but never mentioned them to him so we both heard the same thing. I told him I had heard them and thought it was the TV and he had thought the same thing. SO there were voices in the house we both heard, it was just him and I in the house, and it wasn’t the TV.
In my bedroom I had two twin beds that were positioned 90 degrees to one another; one was lenthways along the back wall and the other had its end against the opposite wall. One night a friend spent the night and slept in the bed that was lengthways against the back wall. He woke up in the middle of the night scared to death and woke me up. He said something or some presence had been leaning over him with its face very close to his and was like growling at him. He couldn’t see it but he could sense it and hear it. I never saw or heard a thing. We shook it off as a bad dream and went back to sleep. Not long after that, we had family visiting and my female cousins slept in my older brother’s bedroom. He slept in my room in the same bed as my friend. That night, he experienced the same exact thing as my friend; some presence leaning over him growling. I doubt two people could have the same exact dream. Although, I never encountered this thing and I slept in my room many, many nights albeit in the other bed. Maybe it was just that part of the room.
But over the years we’d hear things, pictures would fall off the wall for no apparent reason, things would move, etc. It wasn’t real frequent, no one was ever harmed and after a while we got used to it.
My brothers and I went off to college and my mother remarried and sold the place. What was really strange was the lady that bought the house came to my mother’s new home (where she lived with her newly wed husband) one day. She told my mother that the house my mother sold her was haunted and she was going to have a priest bless it to get the ghost or whatever was there out!!!! I was always convinced the place was haunted but this clinched it.
That’s my ‘old’ ghost story. I’ll post my experiences I have in my 100-year-old house in a separate posting.
Chuck
Hello again Fiona!
I did not get around to sleeping inside the house down the street from me, but the people seem to be doing fine.
However, there’s another serious issue that seems to be becoming more and more apparent. I spent the night at my friend Kyle’s about two weeks ago, with two friend, Chris and Jeremy. It was all good up until about midnight when Kyle told us that his mother uses an Ouija board, and that his brother draws demon symbols. Kyle sleeps with a cross over his bed (a second one, as the first one was “broken” when no one was home, and he never stays at his house alone.
After he said that, we heard footsteps(and although it was an old house, the footsteps were distinctly different from the creaking of the house)and at one point there was a static discharge that made our hair stand up, yet it wasn’t storming. We stayed up all night(with the exception of Jeremy), but I laid down by the door at 6 in the morning for a moment, when something whispered i my ear, from the doorway, where no one was at.
We all went home, and nothing happened for a few days (Kyle said that was the most that ever happened in one night), but then things started happening in my house, and in my friend Chris’s. Both of us had basement doors slam. Then, this past Saturday, Chris and I spent the night at our friend Cody’s house. Nothing happened, but the next night at ten, my basement door flew open,(scaring my pants off, since I was five feet away from it) and my friend Cody had a major gash on his leg, and his mom said she heard footsteps all night.
Whatever is going on, I know it’s a demon, but I’m not sure how to handle the situation. I don’t want to wait it out, since it usually progresses, so what do you think I should do?