It’s easy to tell if your house is home to a ghost, say real-life ghostbusters Ron and Nancy Stallings.
“Any one of these things can be a sure sign of a haunting. Often if you have one, you have more than one,” said Mrs. Stallings, who’s investigated hundreds of hauntings with her husband since 1965.
Here’s what she says you should look for in your house:
1. STRANGE FEELINGS.
“Sometimes the house feels very depressing, or the atmosphere in the house feels very thick and heavy. Often people feel that they’re not alone.
“They feel like they’re being watched, but they don’t see anything,” said Mrs. Stallings.
If you have these feelings you may be sensing a ghost.
2. WEIRD SOUNDS.
“Often there are raps or knocks on the walls in series of threes – like three, six or nine raps. People hear walking, like footsteps,” she added.
“A lot of people hear kitchen cabinets or cupboard doors opening and closing. Some people hear music, glass breaking or bells ringing.”
3. UNUSUAL SMELLS.
“These odors can be like perfumes or flowers – very sweet smelling. Some ghosts seem to be accompanied by a terrible stench. Usually, these are negative ghosts and they’re pretty nasty,” she said.
4. STRANGE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.
Sometimes objects, like silverware, will drop from nowhere or stones will fly around the house. “Lights go off and on. The house and furniture shake violently, as if you’re having your own personal earthquake.”
5. STRANGE BEHAVIOR BY PETS, ESPECIALLY DOGS.
If it’s an unfriendly ghost, dogs will growl or seem to cower at nothing.
If a friendly ghost appears, “the dog will start wagging its tail and sit there calmly like someone is petting it.”
6. GHOSTLY IMAGES.
Sometimes you can actually see the ghost – luminous, misty balls or figures that seem to float through the air.
Some people see twinkling lights in blue, orange or amber. Some people see parts of a ghost, like an arm or leg, materialize.
“It will appear solid, like flesh,” said Mrs. Stallings.
The most conclusive evidence that your house is haunted is if you can snap a photograph of the ghost – or even tape-record it.
“Use a brand-new tape and put your recorder on record,” Mrs. Stallings suggested. “Play it back and you’ll be surprised. A lot of times you’ll get voices.”
“… luminous, misty balls…”
Once I saw that, I stopped reading and started laughing. The rest of the article is uninteresting.
Ghosts = fiction
actually in my native town .. this incidents seems normal to us . so there is ghost everywhere but if you're lucky … or really unlucky .. you'll get to met them
i have a ghost in my house me and my sis talk to it it is a nice ghost
i av light that cum on locked doors open n door bell ring n no 1 is there n strange noises do u think my house cud b haunted plus pc came on with out being touched
llook i have knocks at the door n no one is there too i know this is not normal
uh, sorry, i live in indonesia, Bali, ghost is true, once theres a ritual to call the dead to posses someoene's body, in this case, when my grandfather's dead, we want to call his spirit back by possesing it to the shaman that do the ceremony, u all might think that the shaman can just fake the stuff about my grandpa, but when he was possesed, i can feel the way he talk as usual in the way the shaman's talk, he knows all of our details that other ppl dont know, i can feel his warmth, so ghost is true, they are exist. by the way if u "sarah" wanted to see ghost, try come to indonesia and ask ppl to guide u to haunted places at indonesia,u will experience it by urself, ghost is exist.
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there are real ghosts. i live in a hostel in Porirua which is in Wellington nz it used to be the old lunatic asylum which had first opened in the first world war. all the original buildings apart from three at least had been demolishd. there is a grave yard tht is next to th one i live in. i went for a walk thru th grave yard with a few friends and i had seen a pitch black figure behind us. this was at night of course and another friend tht wasnt there had seen tht exact same figure in th building tht they live in and it stands outside her window. she was possesd and then cleansd soon after. we hear noises in the room next to us and an electric noise comming from somewhere and havent found it. i have been quite ill since we been here. so you guys that avent experiencd such activity take a look in the mirror run around the house with a camera and you will see for your selves.
there are ghosts in my house the picture started banging against the wall and here was absolutely no wind, and several times now i've been trying to go to sleep, and feel them touch me like there sitting on me, and I can't move, and I looked up, and there he was, and then after that another one came to me about 5 min. later, and tried to push me out of the bed. So ghosts are real I have been able to sense and see ghosts my whole life. But now am able to hear them, and talk to them.
hi me and my friend have been able to see them all our lives as well and we have ghosts in our houses we belive that every hous has a ghost in it people dont see them or belive in them
me and my mum saw a ghost and the ghost came rite up to our faces and scared the living daylights out of us and it hids things on us oh and it is my old nana
I've seen true imiages that looked like my friend
My 77-78 year old neighbor has moved in about 4 or 5 years ago and has just claimed that he has seen a civil war carrage full of civil war people going through our back yards. however i have lived here for over 10 years and have seen or noticed nothing.i did some research and saw that there was a clinic for wounded vets relitively close to our house there is now a wes anlan grill. he has just now came out and told us this. i think its realy interesting and i would like to see and even have a word with them so if any one has any advice please post here or email me at PaulWilson103193@yahoo.com
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Ghosts, are not real, they are fiction. When someone dies they go into a coffin and STAY in their coffin. It makes me laugh some of the things the some people say!
MY SISTER AND I SAW A GHOST ONCE , I WAS AROUND 12 , IT SCARED US NEARLY TO DEATH. IT LOOK LIKE A BLACK THING WITH A CAPE , IT EVEN CAME STOMPING UP OUR STAIR STEPS AND THEN CAME TO THE SIDE OF OUR BED , I WAS SO SCARED I COULDNT MOVE ,SHE GRABED THE LIGHT STRING , AND THERE WS NOTHING THERE , I AM NOW 50 AND STILL REMEMBEER IT LIKE IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY , MY SISTER AND I STILL GET CHILLS WHEN WE REMEMBER THIS
i have heard my doors opening slowly and my cat meowing outside but it was dead. in my closet i heard help help help whispering it sounded like a ring tone but i didn't hear a vibration and my friend Damian has the same feelings. my body feels like in a pool and waves pushing me when i am in my bed
i feel the ghosts around me some times i even see them .
it happens wid me only in my family
I’m terrified right now! I was sitting alone in the dark trying to sleep when I heard heavy breathing. So I opened my eyes and my door was opening dramaticallydlowly. But Boone was there. So I closed it. But I’m feeling tingels on my body. And still hearing breathing. And it’s like 30 degrees celcius out but there’s a breeze coming from the cracks of my door that’s like -20 celcius. I wanna go sleep on the couch but I’m terrified to open the door! Please help me!!!!
hey man I was sleeping and I think i have a ghost in my house its my grandma that died when my mom was 3 im a 14 year old boy and something tried to push me out of bed when I was half asleep im scared to
smudge your house and stand your ground and tell it to leave or call TAPS for help in rhode island .
Julie
If you want REAL ghosts, go to http://www.prairieghosts.com.
Just last night my daughter came to me and said she had a bad dream. So I told her to sleep with me. I had dozed off on the sofa. So I told her to lay on the other end. So I closed my eyes and for some reason I just looked up and there was a white wisp headed toward the kitchen. It was about four feet in the air. No bodily form or anything. I didn't say anything because I wasn't sure if my daughter had seen it. I was hoping she hadn't. She was like Ma I just saw a shadow.
So I told her talk to God because he had her back..I allowed her to cuddle up next to me and I turned the tv onto the gospel station. I didn't ask her what it looked like at the time. When I got up this morning I told my Sister what I saw. I waited until my daughter came into the room and asked her what the shadow looked like. She said it was white and headed toward the kitchen. I know what I saw and I know my daughter saw it too. I had to keep my cool as not to freak her out. I was shaken.
There is not a person that can tell me that ghosts aren't real. It's not my first time seeing one. I was about 20 yrs old. I was at my aunt's house. I opened the front door to go in and I saw something white going down the hallway. I figured it was my cousin since it was headed to her room. So I'm calling her name Keisha Keisha Keisha. She never answered. So I went back there and there wasn't even anybody in the house. I turned on all the lights. I was scared. I sat outside until my aunt made it home. And I told her. I was like um I opened the door and saw something going down your hallway.
And she acted as if it was no big deal. She was like o that was that woman. Im like what woman? She said Button's mom. She got killed her like 25 yrs ago. Her husband killed her. I was like okay as long as she don't bother me I'm not going to bother her.