How can you tell if a house is haunted?
442731
you hear strange voices and sounds at odd hours of the day.you also have eerie feeling from time to time.
431268
Honest to God!  On the night of 4-21 (just two nights ago) I went to a local cemetary to record EVP and take some pictures.  Towards the end of the investigation I asked for someone to show themselves.  Either as a mist or super charged orb or to touch me on the arm, back or hair.  Just a moment later I felt someone messing with my ponytail.  It was the coolest thing!  I gasped because I didn't really expect anything to happen but I wasn't at all frightened.  I can't wait to go back.  I also have a bunch of ghostly voices recorded from previous investigations in cemetaries.  So far, I haven't experienced any evil entities.  Let's hope it stays that way.  Also, my house has several spirits in it.  I've witnessed some interesting things.  Pretty soon I'll have the chance to investigate the haunted house of my boyfriend's aunt.
104780
I have experienced ghosts.  In one home I was in w/ my oldest daughter, we had been experiencing things.  She stayed home one day and we went into the basement.  The dead center of it.  There were no boxes around us and no one else in the house w/ us.  We said the Lord's Prayer and held hands.  Then we said out loud "ok we know you are here.  Show us!"  The next thing we knew, a box was kicked on the other side of the room.  Showed a footprint and all.  Quite freaky.
743388
Any building can end up haunted.\nNo one needs to have died there or anything like that.\nSpirits wander, and often they decide to take up abode\n(either temporary or permanent) in people's homes.\nMost often, they stick to family or friends, but it is fairly\ncommon too that they'll wander until they find someone \nthey like, and/or someone they feel they can communicate \nwith ~ someone with some Psychic Giftedness.\nBy the sounds of things it's a fairly new spirit \n(knows how to work a TV), and probably harmless.\nIf it can turn things on and off and open/close doors\nit would technically be a poltergheist.\nSome poltergheists are friendly and even helpful,\nI recommend your aunt try to befriend it.\nTry buying a Witch Board (aka Spirit Board) or some\nother divinatory/communication tool and talking with it.\nhttp://cgi.ebay.com/Pendulum-Board-CRYPTIC-PORTAL-Divination-Dowsing-Witch_W0QQitemZ140051740037QQihZ004QQcategoryZ19270QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem is an example (round boards are considered safer), but you can find one on ebay or through an internet search.\nBest of Luck!
925591
I saw the ghost of a little boy. I was staying in my friend's house in France (the house was four hundred years old), and one night after my friend was asleep, I saw a white face suspended over me. It was a little boy, probably about eight years old and he looked mischievous.\n\nThe next night my friend was asleep and snoring. There was a very long and solid bureau between us that was at least six feet long and very solid. We had a couple of books on it, and she had a few knick knacks on it in the middle. None of these items could have fallen off by themselves. I suddenly heard this sound almost like wind but there was no wind outside. Suddenly everything on the bureau was on the ground as if an arm had gone along the bureau and knocked everything off. I can tell you that my friend was asleep and I had not been moving, and none of those things were touching each other or on the edge of the bureau. It was very creepy!
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The phenomena of ghosts is not so easily explained away; there are many explanations. For example, most cases of poltergeist activity are actually caused by someone in the household with latent (often unknown) telekinetic (and possibly telepathic) abilities, reaching out subconsciously. Only very rarely is a poltergeist a true haunt of any kind.\n\nPhantoms (or phantasms) are images of past events (some say they may be glimpses into other dimensions). These psychic echoes are not real. They cannot interact with people who are present because they aren't really there. Because they are simply echoes, neither can they be photographed or recorded. They exist only in the minds of those who see them.\n\nHaunts are typically the energy that remains after death (some might call this the soul) of a being that is attached to a particular place for a particular reason. It might be the spot that they died and wish to warn others, they might be unable to find their rest until their body is located, or they might be seeking to lure others to the same fate that befell them. Usually, a haunt is tied the the location it is associated with and cannot go more than a certain distance from that locale. A kindly and devoted grandparent might manifest as a haunt in the home where he or she lived and was loved.\n\nFree spirits tend to wander a bit more, sometimes getting around remarkably well. There is some debate about the nature of free spirits. Some may also be unaware that they have died. I have read a couple of cases where a person has died and gone about their daily routine until they suddenly saw something (or someone) who told them they were dead. Others may have been strong-willed enough to remain behind to complete a specific task, or just because they were too stubborn to die.\n\nAstral forms (the energy signatures of astrally-projecting individuals) are often perceived to be ghosts, but they are not such (at least, not in the sense that they are dead).\n\nThis is getting a bit long in the tooth, so if you'd like to discuss it further, feel free to contact me.
64727
Yes. I lived with a ghost for about 9 months..All sorts of things happend during that period. \nThings would disappear and then end up in weird places.. or be placed right where I would have stepped on them had they been there "while " I was was looking for the items. \nThings would be all moved around and messed up..when they werent 5 min before. \nLights turning on by themselves then turning off again (a constant occuring thing)...doors opening up by themselves and closing. \nOnce I was reading a book and the ghost kept opening my bedroom door..I would get up and close it..and sit back down..a few minutes later the door would open once again..I got tired of playing after a while and left the door open and kept reading..then all of a sudden BAM! The door slammed shut...\nThere were flags in the house that were flapping like being in a strong wind..yet they were in a room without a breath of wind..\nThe list is endless...but eventually it became more agressive.. to the point of violence..There damage was being done to the house..inside.  It wasnt long after that part of it began, that I moved very far away, a different part of the country.. \nI have ended up back there three times since..none of which was my on doings but the way things turned out...\nSo yeah I have come across some strange things..That was just one incident of many that I have experienced in this life time ....so far ; )
448079
That's Scary, When I was little we use to live in a house that was HAUNTED and I was scared to death. That "THING" was out to scare us fo real. I was so gald when my parents moved us out of that house. It sounds interesting, just keep looking at it and look for clues in your home or on the internet. The History of the house that you live in and what events has happened around your area. Maybe it's a spirit that has a connection with your home or an area that is around your home.
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I do and I have come across MANY haunted place in my life. There was my grandma's house, my moms house, the local hospital, an old house I used to work at and a community building, 2 of my uncles houses, my aunts house and every house one of my aunts ever lived in lol, I think they just followed her around. \nBut I just posted on another question that asked about ghost the place I spent most of my childhood and probably has the most ghost stories in one place that I know of so I will just repost it here. \n\nI didn't actually LIVE in the house but I spent most of my time there. It was the whole location actually. See my great grandparents had this piece of land that they put a house on and later other family put houses up there to so at one point there were 4 houses with people living in them.\nAnd the whole area is spooky between there and over on the other side of the hill where another family had the same kind of set up. \nJust a few of the stories....\nMy great grandparents had 10 kids, one was killed when she was 17 by her younger brother who was playing with a gun he didn't know was loaded and shot her. 1 year to the day after she died the new rocking chair that was put in the place she had died in started to rock on its own, and the piano that she used to play started to play her fav song by itself, you could even see the keys moving. \nI also had an uncle that died when he was 17, he died in a house fire and he had a car that some of the boys from town used to try and steal so my grandma brought it up there so that her dad could keep on eye on it. When my cousin and aunty were walking from the main house to the house they lived in they passed that car, and inside they saw my uncle and he waved at them. \nMy aunt used to watch the neighbors little boy, he was 4 yrs old and would walk over by himself through, and one time he said that a group of braves followed him and another time he got to my aunts crying and said this little old lady followed him and said he was going to be a chief, he said she was still there and tried to point her out to my aunt. My aunt even got down on her hands and knees to look down his arm and didn't see anything.\nShortly after that the boy was killed when he was riding on the hood of his moms car and fell off. \nShortly after that my cousin was sitting at her moms, the one that used to babysit him, and she heard his little cowboy boots walking up the stairs and heard him knocking on the door crying for my aunt. \nThere are a lot of other things that go on there, noises, shadows going from room to room, my brother thinks he saw my great grandpa once because he looked out and could see the outline of a tall man with a crew cut but him and one of my other aunts were the only ones in the house. There are also pounding on walls and doors and my mom heard someone walking around the kitchen while she knew everyone was sleeping.
231866
Fact... ive seen plenty of things in my lifetime. balls of floating light,doors shutting when there is no breeze, noises when nobody but me is here.. other people in my family have heard these things too.. ghostly sights in my house...
367331
Ghosts and the paranormal?
725807
You could have a ghost in your house, but it's nothing to be afraid of.  Many ghosts simply want to be noticed.  Next time you find your lamp on, just say something like "Please don't turn my lamp on again."  It sounds silly, but if you just acknowledge a ghost's presence, they usually stop bothering you.
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My house is haunted. Not in a scary, eerie way, just that there is a parallel world going on here. I have actually seen a young boy in the house (not my kid!) who was floating in my daughter's room/doorway. I just happened to look that direction and he was looking right back at me. He seemed sad, or maybe he was in trouble. I looked right into his eyes. And I got this feeling that he was trying to communicate with me. My ex-husband was in the same room and didn't see or feel anything, though he thought I was nuts when my jaw dropped and I couldn't get any words out. My ex was in another part of the room and didn't see him. The ghost just faded out after a second or two, but as my brain was trying to process it, he was gone. He was a good-looking kid, shorter blond hair, brown eyes, white button-down, long-sleeved shirt, beige pants. No shoes or whatever--he looked like he was floating in the doorway. I think he didn't want my ex-husband to see him. The boy generally only makes himself known when I am alone. My present husband saw a glowing orb zooming and zig-zagging across that bedroom one night, 4 or 5 swipes, all the way across the room, over the bed where our daughters were sleeping. Needless to say, he was pretty freaked out by it. He has come to recognize the haunting as a necessary fact of living in this house. \n\nNo I am not a freak. I don't go out and look for strange things to happen. I saw this kid, I know I did. One night, I have heard footsteps come down the basement stairs and call, "Mom?" while I was doing laundry, and I yelled at my son to go back upstairs, that I already tucked him in for the night. NOBODY WAS THERE. I wasn't really paying attention to the kid coming down the stairs, just heard that familiar, "tha-dump dump" coming down the stairs and the "Mom?" It didn't really sound like my son but I was busy sorting laundry, not doing voice analysis. Anyway, I stopped sorting and went up the stairs, thinking my son was up at the top of the stairs. He wasn't. I was pretty upset as it had been a long day and the kids weren't minding and my husband was gone on a business trip. We live in an 80 year old house and the floors squeak. If my son had been out of bed, I would have heard him go up the stairs directly overhead. I called out for him and HE ANSWERED FROM HIS BED. I swear I heard somebody call me and jump down the stairs. That's when the hair stood up on the back of my neck. HE had visited me again. I sure wish I knew what he wanted.\n\nI have been advised to tell the boy to "go towards the light." I usually do this when he freaks me out. Sometimes things disappear and reappear right before my eyes. The house was built by a young couple in the late 1920s and they lived here until they died (she in 1964; he in 1974). There weren't any deaths in the house that I know of (they both died at the hospital). However, I do know their son had a serious car accident in 1965 and the wife and children were seriously injured--the one boy died. I suspect that is who I've seen. \n\nThis haunting is specific to our home. The people who lived here and played here may still be here. I think they like it here and (especially the old grandpa) are here protecting and taking care of the place. I like sharing the house with them, and I've told them so. The stove one time turned on by itself overnight. I let them know that is NOT acceptable. Sometimes in the morning on the weekends we smell food like pancakes, bacon, sausage. Just in the morning before we get up. Strange. That's okay--it smells good. They can make breakfast--just as long as they don't turn on the appliances again!
143060
Ofcourse they do. I lived in a supposedly haunted house for 4yrs. and I saw a ghost or two. I'm not being sarcastic. I too belive in the paranormal.
443389
Good question! I think that ghosts can be around because i always thought that they were not finished with something  here on earth and they want to finish it. Poltergeist are evil and i am hoping they don't exist but if they did i guess they are just angry souls that need to express themselves.
531980
Oh' yes there are, if not ghost, then there must be a lot of bad spirits around.\nYou probably can't see them, but they are everywhere at every house, including yours.\nIf you want to see them I always can tell you how.\nBut if you do, just don't go fooling around with them, as the minute they notice you are seeing them, they all will be asking you to accept them in your body.\nSo pretend as usual not able to see them, if by mistake they talk to you, with a sarcastic voice, just keep cool as nothing is happening. OK.
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There is a haunted resteraunt in the town I grew up in called carousel Gardens...many people say they have seen a "ghost" there When I was 14 my friend and I went with her uncle to the resteraunt..which used to be the house of the womwn who aupposedly haunts it today, since my friend's uncle new the people who owned the place we were allowed to visit the attic part of the house where the woman's belongings where. We started to take photographs and later had them developed at the local pharmacy\nIn one of the pictures you can clearly see a white mass behind us, there were no mirrors in the room, only a velvet curtain hanging up...we were featured in the local paper, and the picture still hangs in the resteraunt...we were also contacted by the warrens, and they use our photo in some of their shows\n\nClick this link...we are the photo in the upper left hand corner\nhttp://www.carouselgardens.com/paranormal.html#firstrow