If someone has died in my house, does that naturally mean it's haunted?
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No, I don't think so. Many people, especially with a long term illness choose to die at home. I know of many who have and the surviving spouse or relative hasn't mentioned anything. It's sad, maybe, and uncomfortable to be in a house where someone you love has died, but it's not haunted. I think people are naturally afraid to live in a house where a tragedy may have occurred, but it's not haunted, just creepy!
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I have the same problem. Not so much anymore but I used to. If you think your house is haunted just know that ghosts can't hurt you. Have you tried using a nightlight, or if you have a TV in your room, put it on sleep timer so it shuts off after you fall asleep.
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it may b a ghost u shud check if theres ne1 hoo died where u live or places u go alot things like that happen 2 me cause this girl got murdered at my old scool and ppl wud allways hear noises in ther even wen they r alon and after i realized som 1 died ther i heard noises alot more.
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yes once I stayed in a house that had a strange tale that a child ghost appeared and enticed a member of the family to a deep pit and hence drowned...this had happened once only in the late 1800s. The inquest into the death was inclonclusive as to whether it was suicide or accidental death - due to sleepwalking. The story gained added credence because another member of the family 20 years later was nearly enticed by the same apparition but came to his senses before walking into the pit. The pit is actually an open well at the end of the estate.\n\nI was alone in this house one weekend, because I was planning to stay a week studying in the house by myself. I need solitude to study. Well the first night I heard a noise in the corridor and whilst trying to investigate it I managed to lock myself out in the dark corridor\n\nit was quite spooky but I kept telling myself that this is so funny and tried to see the humour in this, and tried to find the proverbial black cat in the dark corridor. \n\nThe light switches are on the other side of the corridor...so in the darkness I finally broke a side door and got out of the corridor and by doing that I bruised my shoulder quite badly. \n\nI guess the noise and locking myself out separately can be excluded as mundane events, but in that corridor I just felt so confined and at the same time it was quite chilly despite it being such a warm evening.\n\nThree years later, a priest visiting this house announced that there was a spirit and said he would exorcise it. He moved about the house and starting digging at a place in the garden. The strangest thing is this was the first time he had come to the house, well he found deep (about a feet deep) a doll with steel pins in it and also a small vial of what looked like ash and blood.\n\nIt was quite old - so maybe the voodoo doll was buried by an enemy against someone living in the house decades ago. Anyway, the place they found it was near the corridor...so it was quite freaky...\n\nand I was completely lucid the whole time, that is I hadn't taken any substance...\n\nLast year I visited another house, and felt a lot of disquiet or evil whenever I passed one particular room in the house. Apparently this was the room where the gentleman of the house kept his videos and entertained his friends. Who knows what else he did in that room...\n\nNow, I never disregard these feelings and act on it.\n\nI even feel it sometimes from people...
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I know my mom and dad's house is haunted and I think mine is occasionally. The other night my husband went to work and about ten minutes after he left I heard a door close (no one else was home) that we normally keep open. Then our dog actually got up thinking my husband returned when he heard the door shut. I could not see the door from where I was so I did not get up from the kitchen table. Our dog looked down the hallway toward the door and just stared for about three minutes. I called my husband to make sure he did not come back in and he was already at work. We also have a light in our family room that constantly flickers- our house is not that old so I wonder. \nBut at my parents house when I was 15 my mom called up to me that dinner was ready- I was napping in my bed but could not get up -a force held me down and would not let me answer her. My bedroom was once my grandmother's master bedroom where she gave birth to 12 children 2 of whom died at birth in that room. I also had and uncle who died in the house a the age of 26 from black lung (coal in his lungs (something like that)This experience came after I painted the walls of the bedroom and took off layers of old wallpaper. I never told anyone right away about being held down but it scared the crap out of me. I told my neice who comes to visit about it and last year she stayed in the same room with her boyfriend. She asked to stay at my house after the first night because her boyfriend got up in the middle of the night hungry. My mom left some chicken for him in an upstairs kitchen that is no longer used(was once an apt.) He could not find a trash can in the upstairs kitchen because it is not longer used as a kitchen. He left the plate (with some bones still on it on a counter so as not to disturb anyone by walking downstairs with it. When he walked out the door slammed behind him as he reached the bedroom down the hall. He was so frightened he woke up my neice and the two of them could not sleep the rest of the night. \nI believe in ghosts after hearing other stories from relatives and co-workers and have thought about having a group of local ghost researchers go to my mom's house. Nothing done yet though.
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I worked in a nursing home for the past 6 years so I have seen many, and had to clean many up.  I've had many patients die right in front of me.  I cant really say that that has affected me much, because you kind of get used to it.  But the thing that really affected me was how many of them in their last hours lie in their beds and talk to their loved ones who have already died years ago.  They think that the person is right there in the room and they are literally having conversations with them.  It happens so much that you really cant call it a coincidence.  That is the only thing that makes me believe in any kind of soul that lives on after death.  It is amazing how many of them do this right before they die. \n\nI really believe that there is a ghost in there or something, because the dying person never has these "hallucinations" about a person who is still alive.
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It is possible that the house is haunted. But then it is also possible that there is some kind of energy leak (electrical) and the cat is responding to that. But if you are hearing and seeing things, then I would say it is haunted. Let them know that this is now your home and they are welcome to share the home as long as they behave and possibly the "bad" things will stop.
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I have never "met" a ghost but I know I have "experienced" one. My mother inlaw died and I was at a babyshower of a woman she knew well.  After most the guest left, the four remaining women were sitting at a table when a box of detergent flew off the laundry shelf onto the floor....powder went everywhere.  All the women were standing in the kitchen while the hostess cleaned up the powder and when we returned to the living room their were footprints on the carpet!  Nobody had left the kitchen and there weren't any other people in the home at the time....We all knew at once who had come to the party.
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I know you must disclose if a death occurred in your home.....You need to check with an agent to make sure exactly how much you must disclose......I don't think you have to disclose this.....However, you should consider at least installing a security system to avoid this from happening you again....Best of luck
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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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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!
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I tend to distinguish between ghosts and spirits. When people think of haunted houses, they tend to think of ghosts (I tend to think of them as psychic echoes), whereas my house is filled with spirits. I love my household spirits. They're my kind of spirits. Very wonderful to have around. So I don't really have many stories about them because they're just so darned good. Mostly, everything in this house works better and lasts longer than normal, like the 27 year old water heater I just replaced. \n\nBut I imagine that what you really want are some good stories, so here are a few of mine.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nI rarely ever actually see ghosts, but one time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a Pagan festival, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
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YEs, I think so. I think my sister's house may have high levels of a cetain type of energy; haunted? I'm not sur.\nLights, kettles, the radio, the t.v., all switch themselves on and off; sometimes in the middle of the night.\nItems have disappeared for months at a time; a watch, rings; and reappeared without warning in the place they had been left in.\nThe main bedroom at times turns icy cold , especially if something electrical has come on.\nHer landlord has suggested that the house is built on ley lines, which is interesting; it would explain the energy levels going up and down. \nHowever, it have to be a meeting or junction of ley lines in order for this to happen.\nI have been in the house when the tv came on of it's own accord.\nIt felt a bit spooky. she has got used to it, but haunted?\nStill not sure.
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You mean recently?  The archives of the local newspaper would be the place.  If it's not too small a town, they probably have an on-line edition.  If not, you'll have to go look at their archives (called "morgue" in most newspapers) and see what you can find.\n\nI suspect you are concerned that there might be a ghost.  I wouldn't worry about it.  Contrary to Hollywood hype, ghosts are seldom hostile, and even more rarely toward strangers.  The usual thing is that they have not quite grasped that they are dead, and that it is time to move on.  Sometimes it's just that there's unfinished business, or that they were taken by surprise.  Sometimes it's fear of what comes next.  If you encounter a ghost, don't panic, but just talk to him or her calmly and quietly.
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I had a ghost in my house and it used to call our names (no lies!) i used to think it was my mum calling me all the time... until one night i was at home and felt someone climb up my bed as if they were on all fours... my mum was in bed and my dog was in his kennal! i turned on the light and no1 was there,
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Most of the time, poltergeist activity is a temporary problem.  If you leave it alone it will go away.  Some people believe that prayer, meditation, spell casting or seance can encourage or force a spirit to leave the area.  The truth is, there is no tried and true method of removing spirits from a place.  In your case, if this presence is excessively frightening, or if you beleive it to be intolerably dangerous to you in some way, your best bet is to move to a new house.  If, however, you are truly interested in exorcising a poltergeist from your home, you may contact me via my profile and I will do what I can to help you with further information.
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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