Question:
why do places become haunted?
castiel424
2008-11-24 17:44:19 UTC
why do ghosts or spirits haunt certain places and don't haunt others? Can a ghost haunt a new house?
Sixteen answers:
2008-11-24 17:49:46 UTC
Spirits sometimes go some place that they don't want to leave behind. Or, if a tragic accident happened, spirits might stay in that area as well. And they can be in new houses. Sometimes they follow people. Spirits can also be conjured.
Silverwren
2008-11-24 18:22:27 UTC
My sister-in-law's house is haunted. She said there are three ghosts, an old woman, a little girl and an angry man. The old woman she has seen walk down the hall and through a wall, this wall used to be open from one room to another. This shows that ghost view the house as it was and don't always recognize renovations. The young ones often don't know they are dead and may not realize how to move on. The angry man shows how some low emotions (anger, envy, hate) can cause spirits to remain earthbound. These spirits have to be pushed to move on. The children usually need a helper spirit to see them across and some remain because they choose too. If a spirit is not causing any problems and is old enough to realize what is going on no reason to push it. We have an elderly lady in the store I work who is happy with the store and happy she is recognized and served a small shot glass of wine regularly. Ghosts are cool and if they are not upset by their situation I think it's great to have them around. In the work I do I here more about troublesome spirits instead of calm ones. The ghost that haunts the store lived there before. The ghost in my sister-in-law's house lived there, and I have heard of spirits haunting places where they are buried so could haunt a house near their grave. A new house being haunted is rare. I have heard of hotels being built on burial sites and being haunted by the desecrated dead spirits causing accidents and scaring folk. Sometimes shutting down the site because of their actions. This has happened on Hawaii on several sites. Blessed be.
yaknow
2008-11-24 18:10:00 UTC
Places become haunted when a person or animal dies while experiencing deep bouts of emotion and frustration. That emotion creates a spectral fingerprint or ghostly emission. Such frustration and emotion is usually one track-minded and plays out over and over at the point of peak frustration. Sort of like a scene from a movie stuck on repeat. Within the replayed scene there is a chance to free the tortured soul from haunting.



Houses and buildings have strong foundations laid by masons, brick masons. The longevity of a built structure adds to the potential torture of souls who have died within the threshholds of such well-founded structures. Spectral haunters can be freed from a haunt if the building they haunt is demolished yet if some one builds a new structure over the haunted land, the structure will tie or bind the spectre to that structure.



Some places become haunted when one dies there and is not properly buried and their spirit can not rest in peace for eternity or until reincarnation. A proper burial is sacred and sometimes consists of but a few handfuls of dirt tossed over a deceased body.



Peace.
♈ Amayah. <3
2008-11-24 17:51:28 UTC
If someone died at a house and was not at peace before they died they will haunt the house. Some kids also don't know that they're dead and want "go into the light"

If there was an old house on the same land before the new one was built it is likely the new house could be haunted by old ghosts.

And some spirits get attached too real people and will start to believe they're not dead.
♥Mesomene&hearts
2008-11-24 19:30:49 UTC
I've always thought that ghosts are a psychological and spiritual imprint of people. I don't think it's their soul, it's kind of like the essence of their mind. The reason why ghosts haunt certain places are usually because they feel an attachment. That's why the ghosts can be positive and negative spirits. It depends on why they were imprinted there. If it was because they like the space, and wanted to stay, they're usually pleasant. If it was because their death was caused by a tragic accident, they usually aren't too chipper.



Yes, ghosts can haunt a new house...it just kind of depends. It doesn't have to be an old house for a person to have imprinted there, but it's less likely in a new house.
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2016-12-16 22:22:29 UTC
Why Are Houses Haunted
2016-03-13 15:20:41 UTC
There's no such thing as ghosts, but I'm a big fan of Ghost Hunters, the Sci-Fi channel TV series where a bunch of plumbers run around houses at night looking for scientific evidence of ghosts. Sometimes they seem to find evidence, most commonly "electronic voice prints" - recordings of disembodied voices; and bizarre behavior by furniture (such as sliding deck chairs and picture frames.) Only once or twice have they captured anything interesting on camera - and even then the images are shadowy and non-specific. They never seem to capture any incontrovertible evidence, but it always seems like just enough to make you go "hmmm..." They theorize that there are two kinds of ghosts - one is kind of just a recording of a long dead human caught in a loop. These ghosts don't interact, they simple go about a routine completely unaware that things have changes. The other kind is aware of its surroundings, and interacts with people. They seem to favor the theory that these ghosts were created through traumatic lives and/or deaths, and so they like to find places where there was a lot of suffering and death (former battlefield hospitals, mental hospitals, and the like.) Now, here's what I think explains the evidence these guys find: they manufacture it to keep viewers interested. Sorry Grant and Rob, but I think you guys are faking it. Anyway, I hope I answered your question.
2008-11-24 17:54:27 UTC
Ghosts usually haunt places because when they die they may be ashamed of what they did and they are afraid to go to the light, some don't know how to get to the light, they may not know that they are dead and others just want to stay earth bound and watch over their loved ones.

A new house can have ghosts- it may not be the house it may be the land, ghost see what they want to see, so to them they are in the same place, same house, just in another dimension, so depending on how old the land is and what was on it before your home was built, you can investigate and see what the land was used for before a house was built on it if you are interested in doing so.
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2016-04-03 05:36:51 UTC
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No it is not always where someone died a horrific death. It can be for any number of reasons. A spirit could stay in a place because they feel they are not really dead or that they have a special connection to the place in which they died. They could also stay in a place because they feel they are not ready and that they must help someone who is still in the land of the living.
2008-11-24 17:51:14 UTC
WHen people die their spiritsstay in that certain area which usually has a reason, like my great grandmother was really sick and she was about to die and she hadnt seen my papaw in like 16 years and some college kid aksed who lived upstairs because he seen an old man in blue pajamas looking out the window and my cousins bf told my uncle he said those were the clothes he died in. I think he was waiting for my mamaw to cross over. I dont really understand all that stuff though.
Insomniatic M3At
2014-02-15 21:01:52 UTC
Not very many human spirits stick around like people like to believe. Think about it, if it were really a matter of not being able to let go wouldn't there be ghosts practically everywhere? People die in car accidents, disease, drugs and crime in the USA alone. With all the gang warfare going on in the streets, the ghettos and projects should be burning white hotspots for paranormal activity. It's not; this misconception that spirits of unfortunate tragic individuals hang on to a place and can't move on is all Hollywood fiction and the result of people wanting to tell a good story to get attention. Every ghost hunting show I have ever seen has always involved the cast acting dramatic in every episode and pretending to overreact to things that simply aren't there, to the point it's obvious they are making up scenarios just to keep their ratings. That being said I am not a skeptic in the fact that there are dislocated spirits, or even malevolent entities and forces wandering aimlessly. There are also beings able to visit loved ones from higher realms and watch over them. And there are beings that simply can't pass on until certain conditions have been met to purify their souls of grievous character traits and misdeeds committed in the lifetime. There are also parasitic entities whom can also be non-human which are looking for a host of life force to latch onto, or in places where they can take up residence mostly because they have been allowed to enter or called/invited to enter; otherwise they will float around until they can find something else to latch onto.



Don't worry, your natural spiritual energies keep them at bay most of the time. Just don't give into hatred, jealousy, or other lower spectrum emotions, or they weaken your barriers and allow them to creep in a little closer to do their parasitic activities. Also watch how you treat other people and animals...this can weaken barriers as well.



Stay away from people who actively like to use, befriend, and conjure spirits. They mess with elements that is common for everyone else to respect, such as the afterlife, and life itself for a reason because they have absolutely no respect for these things; therefore, they pollute their spiritual environment and yours as well. They are filled with negative feelings on the lower emotional spectrum. They are presenting themselves and their surroundings as an open buffet for these things, and as such will be emotionally unstable due to the depletion of mental and vital energies they put themselves through with these entities. Stay away from such peoples houses as well or anywhere else they reside because the spirits that follow them are able to latch on and establish themselves in said areas. They'll hang out there looking for a new mark to latch onto and feed off of. Other natural places for shadow beings and ghosts to hang out are abandoned buildings and sometimes very isolated places.



To recant some things I have said, some spirits may actually stick around if they have an unfinished message or business they still need to take care; it's not like how the TV portrays them as being fixed or helplessly stuck to an area, especially if they are not dark souls in charge of correcting misdeed these spirits move back and forth from their resting place in the higher realm. So Spirits can come and visit many places, however they will not interact as apparitions do in the TV shows with their surroundings. Keep in mind if there are places with consistent activity,you should stay away because that means that there is something seriously wrong with whatever is there, this activity can not be explained by a dead person with a grudge who was supposedly granted the liberty to stick around and make a ruckus. The explanation could be demonic even, with no human spirits there no matter what history the place might have.
2008-11-24 17:49:10 UTC
Mainly because they don't realise they are dead.



Imagine you are in a house; you leave and return a week later to find someone else living it in, and all your valuables were gone. How would you feel? That's a simplistic way of how the 'ghost' sees it.
2008-11-24 19:08:33 UTC
its called a territorial stronghold, soemthign bad happens there and demons haunt the place and take th eform of the person to which the bad thing happened to, ghosts are demons, sorry.
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2008-11-24 17:52:45 UTC
if the new house is /was built on a certain landmark that the "ghost" considered valuable to them, ex: their old house, their death, their parents house, etc etc. its all depending on what YOU believe.
2008-11-24 17:53:27 UTC
i guess it must be the place that they died and were not at peace. they want somebody to help them actually to go over to the other side i guess so that they can be at peace with themselves.
2008-11-24 17:47:06 UTC
Ghosts don't exist. People just tell stories and the gullible believe it.


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