I here all these stries about haunted houses and ghost or spirits whatever haunting houses and the people are so terrified. I would leave if I knew the ghosts do thingss to hurt or try to break things. What would you all do?

From personal experience, leaving is not always an option.

I would stay. Get as much technical gear in the house as possible and hopefully find out why exactly these things were occuring. For me personally this would be fantastic!

according to many psychics and that, ghosts can be dispelled, especially if you know their name. I would find out who the ghost it, pray it doesn't visit me at night and scare the crap out of me, and find a way to get it back to heaven by blessing the house and talking to the spirit and all that. If it doesn't work, I would determine what the spirit does. If it's violent, I would leave, but if it just hangs around, doesn't try to scare me< I would stay

I would say that 95% of hauntings are not negative, it's just our perception of them and our fear of the unknown which taints the experience into a nightmare.

For example, you hear a bump in the room you're in and think it's a ghost. You have eliminated the other explanations. You can either: A: feel terrified - oh my God, something bumped in the room - it's a ghost - lemme leave!!! or B: realise that it's a simple noise and nothing to be terrified of, then speak to the spirit etc and try to deal with the situation intelligently...

It's the same with most manifestations: smells of flowers, touches, voices, shadows etc. None of these in and of themselves is negative. We just get freaked out because we don't know what it is, or have little experience of them. Fear of the unknown.

Now then, the other 5%.....

Might check my post, called "Three incidents" it kinda has a discussion about that going on. I list a few of my own experiences there, both the ones that seem harmless, and ones that aren't. I'm just too lazy to retype them here

Having been through this myself I can agree that leaving isnt an easy option.

Firstly - the incidents are'nt 24/7......they are small and insideous......something creepy happens, you are scared and on edge for a few weeks but nothing happens again.........not until you are relaxed and not thinking about it.

Secondly - does anyone really think it's easy just to up-sticks and leave your home?
Where can you go?
How long will it take to sell
What if 'it' follows you?

I dont expect anyone who hasn't had this experience to understand.....but try.

Thanks

I think it's more practical to confront the thing that 'haunts' your house. It's got to be cheaper than moving anyhoo.

I never said it would be easy though.

How could any of you guys stay any a haunted house that would be to damn scary for me. Some of yall are crazy!

Maybe it would be hard for you to move, but if I really wanted to move really bad I'd be out just like that! I'm not saying you "all" crazy just some of you. J/K

As long as your not experiencing it alone, then you should be fine. At least it'll calm your fears of whether or not your the only one going insane.

I would try any possible answers it would give me. Why is it still here? What has it not finished (in regards to unfinished business)? What does it want?

If it is a negative experience, I would use prayer, blessings, or any other ritual that dispel the spirit away.

Hm well if they were violent I would definitely find myself a priest - if that dind't work I'd move and if that didn't work - I would let them put me in the psyciatric hospital

I'd turn the place into a Bed and Breakfast. People will always pay good money to be scared, even if it's by something that may or may not be real. I'm reminded of the extremely long lines at every roller-coaster I've ever ridden....

I would find out why the hell they were there and if its a good reason then I would let them stay and if not then I would vanquish them.

And sometimes, only one member of the family is experiencing something. It is really easy for people to dismiss what they do not understand then deal.

Yeah, not everybody experiences anything at all unusual. When me, my mom, and brother lived in the apartment during my parent's divorce (we were there for a year) The "glass ghost" I think I shall call it, was never seen by my mom. She never knew anything had happened till years later when my brother and I told her. Even though it appeared to be a violent one, or a prankster, it never hurt anybody that we know of. both glasses hit only the walls. I do not think it followed us either, since nothing similar has happened since those three incidents.

Well most of yall must be braver than me to say all this crazy stuff.

But it isn't like you see in the movies; it often isn't 24/7. It usually isn't seen by all members of a household, maybe just one. In my case we've been living here 7 years and it's just now been getting really active. I've had experiences in the past, but these are the first ones I've had here. It's been a few weeks now, and I'm waiting to see if it stops.

I would have to leave im a big wimp so i couldnt stay

In the words of the great Derek Acora....

"Say that again Sam"....."What's that Sam?"......"I'm talking B**locks!"


Run like hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess it depends on what type of haunting it was.

If I felt that I or my family were in danger, then I would leave. Nothing is more inportant than my families safety.

But if it were a less threatening haunting, seeing things or items being moved about, I would stay and try to find out how/why these things were happening.

I would investigate the history of the property and the area to see if I could work out who it was, and may-be call a professional paranormal investigator to help.

But realistically, I would probably just run away, as I am a bit of a chicken

I lived in a haunted house for my first 17yrs. It took a little bit of history digging using things like the abstract and local village historian, but it became easy to discover that our ghost was a village founder (where I grew up) and father of 6 children.

Strange thing is... my parents initially didn't believe in ghosts ... but now, at 68yrs and 72yrs, know that they share their home with a ghost. Back in the mid 1970's, after thinking I had discovered the spirits name while living ... I began calling him as such after every instance of tomfoolery. During those first 17yrs, he'd do things like turn off a light here and there while you might be reading or whatever. "John" was never a mean ghost...so he fit in well with my family. Which, btw, ended up being a family of 6 children. Coincidence? Hmmm...

It would be so creepy to kow you are sharing a house with a ghost.

Did he die in your house ?

I don't know the history of my house, but my family have said for years that it's haunted. I never believed it until I was sitting quietly in the dining room once, and suddenly there was a VERY loud bang/crash from the kitchen...as if someone had whacked something off the glass cutting-board thing on the bench.

But it was like 2am and there was NO ONE there. Or even outside. Not a soul.

And then there's the cold spots and the smell of chocolate cake cooking in one corner of the living room (which is quite frequent), but that could just be wishful thinking!

There's loads of other stuff too...and I don't know what to think.

Lene xx

I wonder if every ghost in a house is of a person that use to live there?

the thing you have to do to get rid of one is to just truley not beleive that it exists. if your close minded enough it will disapear. or at lreast in theory it will. beside if you want you could charge it rent if that doesn't work

you could just ignore the ghost. a very large amount of ghosts simply want attention. if you ignore them enough they will often just leave. also, it helps if you tell them that they're being a bother and ask them to leave or at least settle down. if they don't, threaten that you'll ignore them.

If I had to live with one I would charge it rent first, then if it didn't pay try to get rid of it. There's a idea.

Ignore them.

After some... odd experiences with a ouija board, I swore my room was haunted. I think it honestly could've been, but then again, considering how unstable I was at the time it could've just been my wild imagination. Who knows.

Besides that "ghost" though, I'm quite sure my house has been "haunted" by other ghosts. At one point, I think there were around 5 here. Weird thing is, my house is VERY new and not old at all. I think I just attract them or something. I know one followed me home and stuck around for awhile. That one was weird. Stalkerish. *mutters*

Then there was this old lady one who liked to freak me out by putting her handprint on the dust on the tv. Etc, etc.

But I just ignored all of 'em and they eventually went away.

WOW! I don't mess around with those crazy game boards. I won't evan spell that name of the board. To scary for me.

I agree, 50 Cent, I seem to have enough trouble without inviting any in on purpose. I've heard a lot of bad stories about those things so I don't think they're all made-up. Maybe some of them are made-up or exaggerated, but I don't think all of them are. I wouldn't bring Tarot cards into my house, either.

I totally agree with you 100%. I heard many an bad stories about those boards on the internet on the radio and on tv so it must be true.By the way who is the maker of that gamr? I also agree with you about those cards.

I don't know who makes the board, but I know they used to sell it at Toys R Us. A kid's store of all places! I don't know if they still do, though. As far as the tarot cards go, I'm not sure. I've heard stories about people who tried to contact dead loved ones, and bad spirits would at first trick them into believing that they were them.

Chico, have you had any strange things happen? Have you had any kind of response at all? What questions do you ask, and what would you consider stupid ones that would deserve something bad?

If it was a bad enough haunting?............. $20 come to jenks haunted house! Just $20 !

P.S. Happy B-day haunted-one61

well if you ask what you got on a test or if somebody likes you or stuff like that. trivial things, ya know? think of it like, if you were dead, and someone started asking you questions about stuff you didn't care much about, eh? if you do actually make contact with anything, it'll either be a person or something worse, and it's a smart thing not to make them mad.

i've had a strange thing or two happen yeah. however, it'd make for a pretty big post. if a couple more people were interested, i'd tell the story, but if just you are, i'll just send ya an e-mail how bout?

Well some times strange %^$%^ happens at my house shuch as my bedroom door opening and closing on its on accord ( It really freaks me out when that happens and I'm trying to sleep!), but I just kinda ignore it. If it got worse I would most likly try get some high tech stuff in to check it out (I was just kiding about the $20).

One day Chico will find out for himself that it IS real. It's people like him who don't suspect a thing and they end up getting in trouble for it. Don't mess with the unknown Chico!

you apparently didn't read my post 50

i'm aware it's real. i've had me some interesting experiences with the unknown. why WOULDN'T i mess with it, when it chooses to mess with me so often? tit for tat, ya know what i mean?

Jenk, thanks for the birthday wish! and Chico, if you want to e-mail your story I'd be interested in hearing. I guess that's what I should have been doing. All of my posts are way too long. I have this anal need for detail, it seems....

Then if you know it's real then why don't you stop messing with it? Are you 51/50?

hey, no worries, haunted-one61, i'll send it soon as i can.

and 50, i'm not quite sure what ya mean by 51/50 but i'm guessin yer callin me crazy. if so, whatever. like i said, if it messes with me, i mess with it back. more often than not, what i deal with is just dead people and they ARE just people. besides, i'm used to this kinda stuff.

all ya need 50 is stop worrying about what MIGHT happen by messing around with the unknown and just try and find out what does happen. makes for some good stories, good experiences, and occasionally, something new in yer house. makes for a great conversation piece

First I know what can happen with those things and yeah I'm calling you crazy. People don't beleive things happen untill the actually happen. But I'm looking out for your well being so take it as a compliment.

oh well in that case, thanks for the compliment lol

despite what i'd LIKE to do, i usually have a gorup of people telling me it's a stupid idea, so no worried about my gettin myself killed. besides, i usually try to go about what stuff i do as professional as could be done.