I was just curious as to whether any of you folks have heard of or had a haunted apartment experince. I'm often scared and get my hair standing up on end in the apartments I've lived in, but I could just be odd. Never actually SEEN anything though, thank God! They've got plenty of haunted house shows on TV, and all everybody talks about on here since I've joined has been they're scary houses, bridges, yards and darn near everything except an apartment.

Is it possible for an apartment to be haunted? I mean, and if so, wouldn't everybody in the building end up haunted b/c to a ghost that would be it's house wouldn't it? Lol. Maybe I'm taking it too far, but perhaps this is why you folks don't discuss it.

However, I still wanna know!

I think you can read into 'houses' that the definition includes 'apartments'. It's really a living space that the entities are interested in.

My mom lives in an apartment that seems haunted. Ive told the story on here before.

My brother and his wife lived in a haunted apartment after they first were married. They complained a lot of the water turning on and filling the kitchen floor while they were gone, or have the dishes swapped out of the cabinets. Their pet birds died, and bangings came from areas like in the middle of the room... they broke their lease, nevertheless, and only stayed a month or so, & they were gone.

Don't see why an apartment couldn't be haunted. But as above if one apt is haunted chances are there's activity all over.

Also, with all the other people and human activity in an apartment setting it might be hard to decern between normal and paranormal events.

I've lived in a haunted apartment. And yes other tenants experinced things. Two of them I know of was a apparation walking from apartment to apartment through the walls. And another was one of my freinds that lived in one four doors down would have a rocking chair move on its own and heavy cold spots in the room the chair was in. My story if your interested reading it is on Ghost-mysteries.com under my forum name.

Theres this apartment complex across the street from where I live that was abandoned half a year to a year ago. Ive been wanting to go there to see it inside because it seems like it could be haunted because there have been many murders that have occured there and at night, if you just look at the building, it gives you an eerie feeling. Like I said, I want to go there to see if it is haunted, but the police have people watching the place for trespassers.

I have a friend in Wisconsin that says her apartment is haunted. I haven't ever lived in one so I can't say from any first hand expierence. And I have to agree, with the way apartments are built it would be difficult to discern a normal noise from next door and anything that might be paranormal in nature.

While I was staying in a hoilday appartment resort in Spain a couple of years ago, I saw the spirit of a young girl several times out the corner of my eye in this other appartment which we looked on to A few weeks later she appeared to me during a meditation and I helped her move on.

When I was about 13 or 14 we lived in a run down apartment building that had been the original hospital in the small town. I had heard that it was the hospital around 1900. Later after the new hospital was built it was converted into apartments. Well you can imagine how many people have died in that place. This apartment was 3 bedrooms, one down and two upstairs. My room actually had a short cabinette with a none functioning sink in it. My grandmother told us numerous times that when she was babysitting (my mom worked nights and didn't want a teenager in charge) that she would hear someone walk up the stairs, down the hall, into my room and into the large walk-in closet.

Also in that place my mom decided to have a seance (she was into those as I was growing up) and using a ouija board at the same time. We (just mom and I) were in the middle of it, using the board and we had a cat walk into the room stop dead, arch it's back, puff up it's tail and start hissing like a steam kettle. He was staring at the coffee table we had the board on, very, very upset with non-stop hissing. Right about that moment my little sister who was asleep upstairs started screaming, my mom ran up and she said that a freezing hand had touched her face (one she couldn't see, could only feel). I think one of the nurse or doctors was still making their rounds, as it never felt threatening.

Hey that's a cool account Jewels

Thank you. Another thing about that apartment, there was stairs down to an earth floored basement. There was also an outside door that opened to the backyard without steps (the ground sloped down in the back). No one in the family liked to go down there, the vibs were really, really creepy. I have thought about it since and wonder if that was the morgue down there. *shiver* lol

could well have been

I know one and I'll go take pictures during lunch of it. They have been removing the graves lately and you can see the apartments too.


Alief Cemetery

SW corner of Bellaire Blvd. @ Dairy Ashford. Having grown-up in Alief, this is one that I am familiar with (I always thought that there was "something" about that cemetery).

A little background:

Alief is a former farm community that was incoroporated into Houston in the 70's. In some areas it has managed to retain that farm community feel. The cemetery is about a century old and is bordered on one side by Bellaire Blvd, on another by Dairy Ashford, and by an apartment complex on the remaining two sides. In the 1980's there was a plan to widen Dairy Ashford at that point, but the plan had to be abandoned when it was discovered that the cemetery extended beyond the marked boundaries. A white cross in front of the entrance marks the location where a previously unmarked grave was discovered. The point is, nobody knows just what the true boundaries of the cemetery are, and the apartment complex has units that are directly outside of the fence. My husband's best friend dated a girl who lived in one of those units, and she experienced nightly poltergeist phenomena, and her neighbors complained of similar problems. A note to ghost hunters: due to the extremely busy nature of Bellaire Blvd. even at 3am, this may not be a very good location for a ghost hunt.
source:
http://www.lonestarspirits.org/haunthouston.html

So I guess ya'll are saying that ghosts haunt wherever they want to. That sucks for me, b/c now I can't rationalize myself out of it anymore b/c I live in apartments.

But say -what if one or a few tentants do a "spirtual cleansing" (or whatever you want to call it). Does that then barricade the spirit or entity from those domains in the building? Or would someone who lives in an apartment be trapped with a presence because all the tentants don't try to get rid of the thing together. Know what I'm saying, since it is all one big building and all.

^^ That is an excellent question.

I'm just going to guess that you'd be protected but the 'entity' could still roam other parts of the building that weren't cleansed.

Just a guess.

Don't think "house or Apartment"... think "history of the land it was built on"... Sometimes that will help. maybe not the apartments but maybe a structure that once stood there. You never know.

For instance, this cemetery below, through time has dissappeared, and since it it's old, no one truly knows the boundaries. Then, 100 years later, an apartment complex is constructed. part of the road is constructed on the cemetery.

Maybe this is why ghost roam throughout the complex.



Alief Cemetery

SW corner of Bellaire Blvd. @ Dairy Ashford. Having grown-up in Alief, this is one that I am familiar with (I always thought that there was "something" about that cemetery).

A little background: Alief is a former farm community that was incoroporated into Houston in the 70's. In some areas it has managed to retain that farm community feel. The cemetery is about a century old and is bordered on one side by Bellaire Blvd, on another by Dairy Ashford, and by an apartment complex on the remaining two sides. In the 1980's there was a plan to widen Dairy Ashford at that point, but the plan had to be abandoned when it was discovered that the cemetery extended beyond the marked boundaries. A white cross in front of the entrance marks the location where a previously unmarked grave was discovered. The point is, nobody knows just what the true boundaries of the cemetery are, and the apartment complex has units that are directly outside of the fence. My husband's best friend dated a girl who lived in one of those units, and she experienced nightly poltergeist phenomena, and her neighbors complained of similar problems.

*APPALLED* I don't know whether I want to say "gross" to the fact that this has happened, or "disrespectful". Furthermore, I hope rent is really cheap there...

^^ I think that was theoretical, not a true story.

What's not a true story? This is the Alief cemetery, and the apartments are built on them. The apartments in the background have reports of spooky stuff.

The cemetery no longer looks like this, but the grass has been stripped away and looks like they are about to build something over the rest of the cemetery. I'll take some pictures of how it looks now. There are some open graves now.

That's just sad... and wrong! But I guess since it's a really old cemetary, no family is around to say anything...

NME, where are they moving the graves to? I'm interested in hearing more about this story if you can keep us posted.

Not all people who die come back as ghosts. And not all graves that are disturbed cause hauntings.

I think it is very disrespectful to disturb a cemetery because it troubles those who are left behind, rather than those whom it contains.

That said, I probably wouldn't want to buy a house or apartment on land that had once been a graveyard. I just think it's tasteless...

Sorry I thought you were providing a theoretical scenario. I didn't realize it was something that really happened. I misunderstood.