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A: There are different signs that can indicate that your house is haunted.
Of course any of these can be caused by other reasons. Before you declare your house haunted make sure that you rule out any possible rational explanation for these signs. Some of these can be caused by an electrical fault, hallucinations due to drugs or the like, exhaustion,mental distress, an onset of mental illness,a very overactive imagination due to someone alerting you to the haunted nature of the house, a family of possums, rats or other creatures, a cat that takes a liking to your roof cavity, pigeons on the roof and many many more. Below is a guide only and these (depending the length, nature and severity of hauntings) can be different to each individual experiencing it.
All these signs can be observed or felt without any instruments.
Common evidence:
- Auditory: Hearing of strange noises from afar, rustling, phantom footsteps, soft music etc.
- Psychic alert: The feeling of being watched, or not being alone, of being followed, the strange feeling of someone sharing your bed etc. There are also individuals who can be physically sensitive to a paranormal presence. At the Fremantle prison in WA (now can be toured as a museum strictly with guides) many babies "throw up" or start crying while tagging along as their parents visit the place. Or one of us for example has the lil "gift" of having a cold chill climbing up the passage of the nose, and the tightening of the base of the nose just between the two eyebrows. From experience we learned that is not always the indication of a very friendly presence.)
- Strange animal behavior: Cats are especially sensitive to energies and in haunted locations observed to be avoiding a certain place or other times staring or hissing at it. Dogs may bark or growl at an"invisible intruder" and at times horses refuse to enter at locations.
- Dreams :Reoccurring dreams or vivid dreams with sometimes a peculiar smell accompanying it.
- Mild Psycho kinetic Phenomena : Doors or cabinets or draws opening and closing without any physical reason
- "Borrowing" Phenomena: items that you are sure you left at one location cannot be found then "reappearing", or being placed at different locations
- Mild olfactory Phenomena: A certain stubborn smell peculiar to a location that does not want to go away or a smell of something alien to your household faintly appearing then disappearing
- Mild tactile: Feelings of being faintly touched, "brushed by", a breeze without no reason, certain "cold spots" in the house where temperature drops slightly at times.
- Visual: Seeing faint shadows from the corner of your eye moving around
- Electrical disturbance: Often light globes blowing or light flickering, or electrical items malfunctioning, computer monitors crackling or slightly flickering.
- Psychological: without any reason you at times feel depressed or acting out of character though there is no distress or reason behind it. These feelings usually occur at times some other phenomena present.
Stronger evidence:
- Severe Auditory :Unexplainable thumps, knocks and strong determined footsteps, cries, hearing doors slam, people talking, giggles, music, or (this one gives anyone the goosebumps) someone calling your name
- Severe Psycho kinetic Phenomena :Actually seeing doors closing and/or opening, curtains moving though there is no window open,items shaking, etc. electrical gadgets eg. toys starting to run or operate, television or radio turning on on their own lights seen being turned on and off
- Severe Tactile phenomena: Actual feeling of being touched or held, pushed or in most severe cases assaulted, the feeling of a severe temperature drop often with visible exhaled breath
- Severe Psycho kinetic phenomena: Doors slam violently, furniture or dishes move around, levitating items, writings or marks appearing on walls or surfaces, footprints appearing
- Severe olfactory Phenomena: A definite alien smell to you or to the area, eg. a perfume that noone you know uses yet it appears at the time any of the other phenomena occurs, other smell can also be of tobacco smoke, decay, coffee, a severe BO that was an unpleasant "mark " of a passed away person, smoke, burning material, and the possibilities are almost limitless.
- Visual : Fog appearing and moving around, a ghostly shade or shadow appearing and often moving, orbs or lights seen "dancing around" without any other light source, a hazy shape of a person seen, or a full blown apparition of a person or animal appearing that can at times resemble a flesh and blood individual.
- Witnesses:Any of the above events have been witnessed by a "skeptic" or a child claims to have seen someone or even communicated with someone in the house without you disclosing any of your experiences or feelings regarding the events. Even more chilling is the time when they actually point at the location while you experience any of these phenomena.
- Severe Psychological: Acting out of character or angry or devastated as if taking on the mood or distress of the person responsible for the haunting. The strange and sometimes frightening feeling of selecting people such as visitors to the house or residents or worse, family members who you think should not be around as the "house would not like their presence" and acting distant, suspicious or even hostile towards them.In severe cases this feeling can be backed up by certain hostile events happening around them only as if trying to "chase them away". Sadly at this point it is possible that some Psycho kinetic events are happening when you are around and it can be devastating both to you and to loved ones to think that you act as an "extension" of the haunting or the house and that your anger or bad mood can cause things moving around.Constant fear or onset of more severe depression. The strong feeling that despite you are a "person of reason" you meant to "guard" the house. The strange acquiring of some psychic abilities or skills that you did not possess before events started. The strong feeling of being "drained" at times or waking up exhausted. The feeling that you are being "abandoned" by people who would not understand these events taking place.
At this point I would like to reassure you that it is NEVER too late to ask for help and that some of the events described here are not that common. Yet I am sure that if you go through some of these severe psychological effects you are not the only one experiencing them. Most hauntings are harmless recordings of energies played back to us and if we believe in ghosts then we should know the approximate "dead to living ratio" and of course the dead is always greater. Most of us can live or have been living unknowingly in harmony with the paranormal and this guide is only an example of events from the mildest to the most extreme.
A: A Ghost is like an "imprint" of an event, a person, an animal or a place (including objects) that are no longer in the material world.
Everything that is around has an energy and sometimes a certain event, stress, trauma or other factors can amplify that energy and it can stay around in a place for many a year even centuries. For example a person who takes the same path to work doing the same "ritualistic" moves for a long time (eg. a night watchman walking down the street closing and opening doors always at the same time) can be seen or felt walking around at the same time doing the same moves in the same area.A battle field is the most common example where centuries after confrontation battle cries can be heard, people charging and moaning just like a record replaying events as they were when the most amount of energy (no greater energy than pain and dying and passion) was released. These ghosts are not out there to make contact with the living and most of the time they are not even aware of any presence and harmless. These recordings or imprints if you wish can fade away in time and there is nothing to be alarmed of. It's like watching a mirage or other natural events that people and science more readily recognize than hauntings. Not everyone can witness such phenomena and perhaps the reason most of us are scared of it is because we know so little of them nor we were taught the difference between these and other less friendly entities. In this age of science and reasoning we can still not deny or "extinguish" other events just because we cannot explain them.( Noone told that to a ghost anyway.) Like anything these ghosts comprise of energy and taken that away or replacing it with newer or stronger ones (eg. another event at the same place) can make them fade or entirely disappear.
A spirit is however a very strong energy or spiritual or subconscious existence of a person that is passed away. Unlike the ghostly imprints these spirits don't always "attach" themselves or exist in one area only. There are times they can or trying to communicate with the living and respond accordingly. There can be many types of spirits and just like the human nature they are very complex. They could have an unfinished business, they could try to seek justice or even unaware that they are dead. One of the most common of these is the last visit of a relative or loved one at the time of or shortly after their death or regular visit of someone close at the time of need or to warn of upcoming events. However again, we strongly advice against trying to communicate with spirits as unless you know what you are doing and exactly what you are dealing with you can invite a great deal of trouble (and at times even if you know what you are dealing with)
An elemental is something more open to imagination. Every tradition and folk magic from ancient cultures to modern Animalism and Neo-Paganism has them, call them different names and summon or keep them away with a wide variety of rituals. But they all agree on one thing, they are there and only those highly trained should address them, only a handful special if that can have power over them and that they should be respected or entirely be left undisturbed. They are lesser nature spirits who not unlike humans have personalities but not a "soul" as such.( Old folktales say that some elementals are envious of humans and want to obtain a part of their life. In the case of an "incubus" they can obtain their own soul by sleeping with a mortal female and in the form of the fruit of that unnatural union, a newborn child. So that is the folk tale. )Some folklore consider elves, gnomes, mermaids elementals as well but we have nothing to worry about those on this website.
Elementals like to attach themselves to human energies and can be seen or sensed in a person's aura by those who sensitive to it.
Some are mischievous and some can cause trouble and series of bad luck or tragedies and illness. They can appear alluring at times granting the host special psychic abilities then play nasty lil tricks and mind games or frighten a human. Just like anything that feeds on energy elementals are searching for similar energies in a host or for those who are vulnerable to psychic attack.( eg. sick, very frightened, ridden with guilt or complexes, depressed, an addict, those who believe that "lil people" are sent by their enemies to harm them, though this last comment can be interpreted in two ways)
And as for demons....They are again, nature spirits with a predatory nature to live off human energies like a parasite almost always causing havoc. Many a civilisation believed that they can attack humans through the mouth, hence the origin of the tradition of covering your mouth when yawning. And that's all I have to say about THAT. And I am content
A: Now, that's an interesting question we have heard many times. First of all let me ask you a question as well:
If the cross and Christianity was the "cure all" for all "spooks" and hauntings then why churches, cemeteries, chapels (and for example Australia's only monastic town, New Norcia with Benedictine monks as residents) have been reported as a common site for paranormal activity . They all display the cross, they all have clergy regularly visiting it or living around, they all a place of deep meditation or prayers for many devoted and well wishing folk.
Without explaining too much about parapsychology when we talk about paranormal we describe a certain type of energy. If everything was as simple as black and white or good and evil life and afterlife would indeed be like a comic book. But it isn't.
Before Christianity there were other religions and there are still a great deal many. That's why researching folklore is so interesting. A long time ago people would be scared of the idea of a round world until they found out it is round after all. Same with religion and belief, presuming that one religion would "fix" all paranormal activities would be underestimating the works of shamans, medicine men, elders etc.
Talking about energies, the rules of "magic" says that whatever you reflect you will attract.
If you are really expecting bad things happening to you then chances are....they will happen.
For a cross to be able to work it has to be used by someone of great faith and an extreme knowledge of what he is dealing with. Also it is that energy that an entity has to recognize in order to cleanse something restless or less friendly. You can make a home or place friendlier by many ways. Chinese use "Feng Shui"
pagans "smudge" or "sweep" away bad energies, Catholics swing the "censers" , Buddhists meditate or chant, Zulus dance it away, Islam uses the cleansing power of fire....the list goes on and on.
So in a nutshell: Make yourself and your loved ones safe and comfortable by feeling well and confident, by showing respect when due and establishing your own boundaries in your life and in your home. If to achieve that a cross helps you then be it. If it's needed get someone who is well trained to deal with the situation.
A: No, we don't run a traveling circus nor we run around advertising if we see one or two (dead people).
We don't do this for financial gain, attention or medical reasons. We are also a lil too old to dress as goths or bogans, anyway we don't think his clothes make a man (or woman) anyway.
We do not belong to any particular religious group though as I said one of us is a born pagan and the other a born Christian. But as with everything, wearing black clothes and donning chunky religious icons is not necessary to prove one's faith it's like me presuming that a devote Christian would carry a huge cross around his neck and dress in white. We both wear hats though. 'Cause we can :]
A: We very strongly advise AGAINST the use of Ouija boards or any other divination aids.
There is an old folk wisdom that refers to this and it says that when you light a candle it won't just give you light but will attract the moths.
First of all despite calling ourselves "Ghost Hunters" the best description would be more like "Paranormal Observers and Folklore Collectors". There is nothing "Hunt" like when you deal with the dead. I suggest the out most respect and caution. If you believe in ghosts and spirits you should not challenge or disturb something that you do not fully comprehend for the sake of a thrill.
Secondly an inexperienced (after decades of observing we are still learning) person is an open target for other less friendly entities who ( just like the moths with the candle) would respond to the energies of the Ouija board operator or any curious bystander. Imagine living in a large city (presuming we believe that there are more dead and spiritual beings than living it is a fair example) and to find a person you would post a sign on your door saying "C ome in, you are all welcome" It would be naive to say the least to think that someone wouldn't come in and cause damage. Some elementals and spirits especially demons can be deceitful and searching for a "host" or energies they can feed on. First they can appear very friendly or alluring. (eg. answering questions or granting special skills and energies then causing havoc.)
A: First I suggest that you post your experience without any names or location address on our Noticeboard. You can find this site by following the link on your right side here. At occasions you will find that there could be a harmless and logical explanation to events. We will answer at the first convenient time and may ask to email us where we can exchange more details. If you are sure and genuinely need help you can send us an email to agidrew@bigpond.com.au We will reply as soon as possible.
We do not charge for advice or investigation nor we give out confidential details without permission of individuals involved. Please consider that we both have "daytime jobs" and that at the moment we travel to Western Australia only. In any case we will assist you with contacts, advice and if you live in WA an investigation is possible on location.
