Can a house be haunted?
957781
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.
518692
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."
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 ; )
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.
658092
In Coupeville Washington there is a haunted house.  I used to know the woman that lived there.\n\nYears ago an old woman lived there, two sailors broke into her home and found her there and killed her.\n\nThe woman I know who lived in it until recently said there were strange things that went on like she would hear footsteps and doors opening and closing.  There are pictures taken in the house that have typical blurry figures and faces in the fireplace.  The creepiest thing I think about the house is that there is a spot on one of the walls that looks like a scarry face.  This woman wisely put up a picture over the face to hide it (she has two young boys).  After a little while though the same creepy face appeared IN THE PICTURE she hung over the wall!\n\nThe Captain Whidbey Inn near Coupeville is also haunted, as is my parent's house and the houses of two of my good friends.  It's a cute but creepy town (a friend of mine who moved up there from LA said it looked like a town from a horror movie or that show Small Town X... Practical Magic and The Ring were filmed there).  \n\nIf you visit and are looking to get the willies, also head out to the forts at Camp Casey... they can be a little creepy at times, winding corrodors in pitch black and everything echos.  Now I think they are pretty fun but as a kid I got really spooked by them.
1132289
I never heard of it being haunted.
1050486
Some places are haunted because the people who lived (or died) there are not ready to accept that the time has come for them to move on.  Others are not because the people who lived (or died) there are not as attached to their earthly lives, and are ready to move on.  Haunted places:  St. Augustine, FL lighthouse; Sarah Winchester's mansion in San Jose, CA; the Tower of London; most of the town of Salem, MA; the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, AR, to name a few.  Try watching Travel Channel on Friday nights, but if you decide to sit through Most Haunted, take the "investigations" with a grain of salt.
275072
I have had a similar experience.  In the house I grew up in, we had a ghost that we called Casper.  He didn't do anything bad, just relocted items to new places temporarily.  He always put them back eventually.  I do beleive that spirits linger here with us.
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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!
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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.
754974
I chickened out of going in there. From the outside, it certainly fits the part of a strange and spooky house with paranormal events. However, it might not necessarily be haunted.
82073
Most likely your ghost lady was buried under the house.  You should dig it up under there.
342456
I don't believe that GHOST haunt houses or people and I do believe in the Bible and am a Christian. Spirits...yes I do believe there are spirits......they are know as Angels that gaurd, NOT HAUNT, people and keep them safe. The Spirit of God is also around your everyday life!
90009
Yes there is. Ghosts were tracked down in the basement of the White House. You might want to type in White House Ghosts and it will give you plenty of info. I learned that they found a few ghosts that inhabits the basement who were presidents, and other people.
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.
77976
I lived in a haunted house for about four years. A guest who stayed the night in a room on the third floor said she woke up in the middle of the night and saw this white shadow that slowly changed shaped into a skeleton. That room always gives me the creeps.
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I refer to the "ghosts" as Spirits, first of all.\nAbout 14 years ago, my family moved into a newly renovated duplex.  It was just perfect for us, and we were planning on staying for a long time.  One evening I was napping upstairs when for no apparent reason the bedroom door closed.  Slowly and quietly.  In hind-sight, I think the Spirit was trying not to disturb me, but to shut out the noise from down stairs.  On several occasions my Wife and I have seen a little boy, (Spirit), playing hide-and-go-seek. He would invite us to play by darting in and out from behind furniture and smiling at us, as to say "come on and play, it's fun!"  He was about 7 years old with blond hair, dressed in a tee-shirt and blue jeans.  We had to move suddenly due to a death in the family to care for a house that was left to us.\nI will never forget the little boy.  He will be in my heart forever.  I just hope he finds someone else to play with...\nThere was an evil Spirit in the house also.  This was a man that demanded respect with his presents.  We didn't speak of him at home, we waited to discuss the sightings of him while we were away because we didn't want to get him mad at us.  We are a peaceful family and didn't want to get on the wrong side of him.\nI'm glad you ask this question.  Thank you!