Do haunted houses actually exist?
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.
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.
679458
My favorite is that my house is haunted because 3 people have died here in last 4 years! I have only lived here for 5 months & have seen nothing but our ghosts told me it was huanted & they were moving out!
197202
I like www.ghosts.org/stories/n.html for ghost stories, it is a ohio page, but its got some good ones on it, and for crime stories(serial killers) try crimelibrary.com, for true ones that is, its very interesting atcually, they got all sorts of weird crime stories. including the amityville horror story, with orignal pictures of the house.
861967
I do. I'm very spiritually aware, I once lived in haunted house. She was about 8 or 9 years old when she died. I was a little older than her about 11 at the time.Most ghost would come to you if have strong energy, or if they just like you.
15911
I think the idea is really, really interesting.  I read a LOT about ghosts and hauntings when I was a kid.  And you can't prove that they don't exist because you can't prove a negative.\n\nHowever, as much as I would love for ghosts to exist, the more I know the more I realize that evidence for ghostly manifestations is probably explainable by non-ghostly, real, but ephemeral phenomena.\n\nFor example, I had a book on ghostly hauntings in England.  There were more scent "hauntings" than any other type, meaning that you would experience the haunting by getting a whiff of pipe smoke or bacon.   This can be explained by the fact that scents can be absorbed by porous materials such as wood and plaster.  After they are absorbed, they will disappear until meteorological conditions,  like high humidity, cause the scent to become airborne and be smellable again.  Given a very porous wall and a long-standing habit like pipe-smoking and you can get whiffs of smoke for geneartions.
1155758
I don't think most people "see" ghosts per se; they experience them. When most people tell you about their encounter with a ghost or the supernatural, the things you will hear most often are tales of cabinets falling over, doors and windows opening themselves, toilets flushing, floating cats, ect.
243582
Ghosts don't exist. So, all you have to do is find a way to capture things which don't exist. I suggest you capture it in your imagination, as that's the easiest way to capture things which don't exist. You can use this same method to capture other nonexistent things like leprauchans, fairies, gods, demons, the loch ness monster, bigfoot (the supposed creature, not the monster truck), godzilla, and so forth.
773946
"Believe in" leaves wiggle room for doubt. I have no doubt: ghosts exist. Ghosts are simply discarnate beings whose energies have shifted to another dimension that overlaps and connects with our own.
277918
Go to your library or the county annex and get help looking up property deeds and find out. I would say being built on a cemetary usually doesn't make it haunted as spirts like to hang around the people they know and their old homes, unless they are lost.
504442
There have been a number of strange events reported at the totally unique Winchester House for many years and they still continue to be reported today. This Haunting makes the top ten in the USA , Number 4 Haunted House in America.\n\nIn 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. \n\nSarah Winchester built a home that is an architectural marvel. Unlike most homes of its era, this 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail.\n\n\nMany many psychics have visited the Haunted house, most have come away actually convinced, that Sarah Winchester and many other tormented spirits still wander the Great maze of rooms. \n\nIn the years that the house has been open to the public, employees and visitors alike have had one to many unusual encounters with ghost. There have been the sounds of haunted footsteps; etheral music and many a banging doors; too often one hears mysterious echoing ghostly voices; several unexplainable cold spots; strange moving lights and orbs in ghost photos; witnesses have seen doorknobs that turn by themselves... and don’t forget the scores of people who have their own claims of phenomena to report but just are to afraid to do it.\n\nTour through 110 of the 160 rooms and look for the bizarre phenomena that gave the mansion its name; a window built into the floor, staircases leading to nowhere, a chimney that rises four floors, doors that open onto blank walls, and upside down posts! No one has been able to explain the mysteries that exist within the Winchester Mansion, or why Sarah Winchester kept the carpenters' hammers pounding 24 hours a day for 38 years. It is believed that after the untimely deaths of her baby daughter and husband, son of the Winchester Rifle manufacturer, Mrs. Winchester was convinced by a medium that continuous building would appease the evil spirits of those killed by the famous "Gun that Won the West" and help her attain eternal life. Certainly her $20,000,000 inheritance was sufficient to support her obsession until her death at 82!\n\nThe Behind-the-Scenes Tour is a guided tour which takes guests into areas which had been unexplored for over 75 years. On tour you will learn how Mrs. Winchester's 160-acre estate functioned. You will go into the stables, dehydrator, Plumber's workshop, the unfinished Ballroom, and one of the basements.\n\n\nYou will also learn about Victorian architecture as your guide points out the many features used in the building of the Winchester mansion. Safety hats will be worn on the tour. The Behind-the-Scenes Tour is limited to those 10 and older. Sorry, due to safety concerns, children 9 and under and babies are not permitted.\n\n\n\nThe Winchester Firearms Museum\n\nThe "Gun that Won the West" is the main attraction in the Firearms Museum, one of the largest Winchester Rifle collections on the West Coast. See the collection of guns that preceded the famous Winchester Rifle, including B. Tyler Henry's 1860 repeating rifle that Oliver Winchester adapted and improved upon to produce his first repeating rifle, the Winchester Model 1866. Learn about the Model 1873 which came to be called the "Gun that Won the West." See a collection of the Limited Edition Winchester Commemorative Rifles including the Centennial '66, the Theodore Roosev
441976
http://hauntedhouses.com/states/ny/index.htm
432440
I don't know about getting nasty, but perhaps it is something connected to the land, rather than the home.  Pretty drastic action anyhow.  If in theory a house was haunted, would it not be a good idea to get a specialist in to see if they could do anything?  I'm not necessarily talking a priest and exorcism here, but a medium or something?
669706
I have read documented accounts of "ghosts" appearing in photographs that weren't visible when the pictures were\ntaken,and being recognized as dead family members and the like. Also,recordings have been made in houses reputed to be haunted,and voices were heard on the tape that weren't\naudible at the time. I can't believe all such cases are fraud,there's too many of them.\n \n Maybe ghosts only appear to certain people who have the ability to detect them,unlike most of us. Most people who claim to be psychics are frauds,but there are people with\ngenuine psychic abilities in the world. Also,maybe some ghosts have unfinished business with certain people. \nAs we are the living,there's no way to know.
715991
a ghost that can interact with the living is called an intelligent haunting and yes they do exist.\n\nI've heard stories of ghosts asking the living owners to "Get Out" or say "Help me"\n\nI read one encounter where a person was knocking on the door of a house waiting on the owner when a female voice said "Just a second, I'll be right there" just as the owners of the house pulled into the driveway.  (the voice was coming from the empty house).\n\nSo yes ghosts can interact with the living, but i think its very limited.\n\nhere's a really good example thats been documented\nhttp://www.paranormalsoup.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22950\n\nPlay the evp link.
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!
406431
Well, I have had ghosts in my house - so yeah I do believe you - and seriously, I thought I was losing my mind about the whole thing cause I tried not to believe it myself...  Anyway, its kinda retarded, but like they used to keep me up all night at times until well, I got married - I think my wife scared the ghosts away - no no in all seriousness, from all the research I have done, I have found that the supernatural like quiet secluded places and they dont go to places where there is a lot of people around - I dont know what your situation is though, do you live alone? Contact me if you need more advice:\ntungi@yahoo.com