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When you’re ghost hunting, residual energy solutions may be important.
Lately, many people have asked me about hauntings that aren’t exactly ghostly.
In fact, they seem like residual energy issues. They’re more common than you might expect.
What’s lingering at that kind of “haunted” site is actually a memory, perhaps imprinted on the physical location.
That energy residue can manifest as an odd feeling, or an overpowering emotional flood, and it can even trigger EMF spikes.
These hauntings can be triggered by certain personalities.
They can also happen on anniversaries (such as when a battle happened) or even on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. (For example, Gilson Road Cemetery in NH seems to become active every day starting at about 11:30 a.m.)
Here are some tips:
Residual energy hauntings don’t always involve ghosts.
I’m not sure that residual energy hauntings can cause EVPs, but if the voice is always the same and saying the same things over & over again, it might be residual energy.
Most residual energy hauntings fade over time.
That time period may be days, months, years or hundreds of years. It all depends on the original event that left energy there, and how much the energy has been recharged.
However, if you’d like to disperse the energy sooner, ghost hunters like me seem to have the best luck using alternative sensory approaches.
Sensory tools can help.
- I use a “singing bowl” or a calming chime.
- Others like sage smudges or incense.
If that’s too weird or woo-woo for you, try a vacuum cleaner instead. Really.
- The louder the vacuum, the better.
- Vacuum every part of the room, especially the corners that are often overlooked, including the corners of the ceiling.
Or, play music you like, and turn up the volume so it’s really loud, and seems to fill the space. (But see my warning, below.)
Experiment with this, as different sensory tools seem to work better in different environments.
In addition, your initial results may not be permanent, so you may have to repeat the vacuuming (or whatever), several times.
Important warning
If you use sensory tools and and the haunting gets dramatically worse, you might be dealing with an actual entity such as a ghost.
So…
If the problem gets worse, do NOT repeat the sensory approach.
Leave immediately.
Do NOT risk dealing with a furious ghost, or some other entity (perhaps malicious or evil) that you’ve enraged!