Comments on: Residual Hauntings Explained – Ghosts in an Old Farmhouse

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:16:39 +0000

Nikole, sometimes moving furniture or construction can disturb a spirit or even confuse them. As old as your home is, it is quite possible this is the case. However, moving things and construction can also disturb the rodent world. I'm not saying that's all it is but ive had a little mouse knock things off the top of the fridge and go bump in the walls at night! Check for droppings in and around cabinets, stove and fridge and have an electrician check for faulty wiring because the house is turn of the century. I did these things in my own home and it helped a lot but I still have several entity's. I explained to them that it is my home and if they don't bother me I wont bother them but the second they become a problem I WiLL tell them leave. So far so good!!

By: Nickole

Nickole — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:41:23 +0000

I have a question. We seem to have an intelligent haunting. Every time we do construction on our house or I clean or move the furniture around upstairs we hear loud banging on the floor while we are downstairs. Knocking on the walls in the middle of the night. Last night it knocked something off the top of the refrigerator which knocked the corkboard off the wall and the recycling onto the floor. It seems to get more frequent and evident when we do things to the house. Our house was built in 1900. I have had the tv turn on by itself. Heard a little kid talking in the middle of the night and the volume on the tv turn up on it's own. Help me to understand. It's getting scary.

By: Blair Jett

Blair Jett — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:24:26 +0000

Heavenly Creature, I agree that sometimes being loud or sarcastic may possibly make a spirit shy away, but in some cases may even give the spirit more reason to "show itself".

To your second question. No, I have no reason to believe that any commands to "show yourself" on a tv show will cause something to do so.

By: Heavenly Creature

Heavenly Creature — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:50:17 +0000

I enjoy watching Ghost Hunters and have two questions:

1. Could there possibly be a huge disconnect in communicating with departed intelligent spirits because we don't "talk" the same way they are accustomed to? I mean our modern vernacular might seem completely foreign to them? Young investigators who are so "forward" might frighten or confuse the spirits?

2. If I have the tv turned up loud while I'm watching the show, and they are loudly calling for the entity to show itself or make a noise, could that draw an entity in MY vicinity into action?

By: Jeff Stewart

Jeff Stewart — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:53:45 +0000

I have been investigating for 8 years with groups. Orion and PI-NE I founded in 2004. I have worked on a few cases just like this. No matter what we say or do, they don't leave and don't want to! We are NOT Ghostbusters. (lol)

But here in Vermont, we get so many of them. We also get Native American spirits and can understand us but we can't understand them! Anyone know of a good site to use with their Language? didn't find any "Native for dummies" j/k :)

By: randall

randall — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:17:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing. The water thing might have been pressure build up , it being an older house. But who knows, and the footsteps sounds residual. Pretty cool. The lamp dont know, lol. Always good to hear of these things. Thanks again.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:32:41 +0000

When I was nine years old my family moved into a house that was fifty-four years old. Perhaps it was made of older materials. My bedroom was located at the top of the staircase, just inches away from it. I awoke the very next morning after we moved in, hearing footsteps constantly ascending the staircase. It never went down and never proceeded to enter the hallway. It just kept going up. It would stop at the top of the stairs and then start again from the bottom. It did this over and over again. I ran and got my sister out of her room, told her what I was hearing and she came into my room and heard it aswell (refuting a hallucination theory). We learned that the woman who lived there before us died of an illness. Also, we had other strange things occur in that house, so I am thinking that there may have been more of a residual ghost there. I remember the faucet in the kitchen turning on by itself, a lamp in the living room turned on when no one was there, and one of my sisters saw a ghostly apparition of a little witch in the living room (however my sister was taking drugs at the time). I think the stove turned on by itself too.

By: randall

randall — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:42:10 +0000

A residual haunting happens at the same time every day, month, week, year,and i do not believe it would open doors, as a residual is like a tape player playing over and over again. do you keep a log of when and what time this happens? please tell me more and keep the log of activity. have you done any remodeling to the house? do you feel threatened? thanks so much for sharing here. Randall

By: diane

diane — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:24:54 +0000

I also have purchased an older farm house about 10 yrs ago. Though not as often as when I first moved in, I still hear sounds. I can hear a radio playing in another room. The door to my bedroom would open @ night. I've had objects moved around. My dog would turn his head as if following a person around my bedroom. One night while sitting at the dinner table with a friend and telling him about these occurances, a deer antler flew off of a hutch(I have a collection of them) and landed at his feet. Later, while talking with neighbors I found out that the man who lived here died in the house. Would this be a residual haunting?

By: littlebit

littlebit — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:58:36 +0000

my husband just passed away in our home 2 mos ago and I believe I have an intelligent ghost in my home by my husband. I'll be lying in bed at nights crying and then my bed will start shaking for no reason. I catch glimpses of shadows in my hallway towards the bedroom, and my dog attends to be playing as they played or stare into the hallway for no reason. Would you see this as an intelligent haunting by my husband?