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.”
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June 24th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
“… luminous, misty balls…”
Once I saw that, I stopped reading and started laughing. The rest of the article is uninteresting.
Ghosts = fiction
June 25th, 2009 at 7:20 am
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
June 25th, 2009 at 8:59 am
i have a ghost in my house me and my sis talk to it it is a nice ghost
June 25th, 2009 at 10:59 am
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.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
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.
July 8th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
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.
July 10th, 2009 at 4:54 am
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
July 10th, 2009 at 4:58 am
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
July 14th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I've seen true imiages that looked like my friend
February 21st, 2010 at 6:28 pm
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
May 1st, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Right. Let me get this through…
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!
June 6th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
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
June 7th, 2010 at 1:16 am
i feel the ghosts around me some times i even see them .
it happens wid me only in my family