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haunted: What would YOU do if you thought your house was haunted?
what do i do when my house is haunted
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You should exhaust all possible rational explanations before you consider haunting to be a possibility - and then dismiss that too, because it's NOT possible. The most common "manifestations of haunting" are noises, chills, and apparitions, all of which are easily explained by perfectly normal phenomena.
(1) All houses make noises. My own house makes loud popping noises up in the rafters every single morning. I worked out eventually that it always happens about five minutes after the sun comes up - the most likely explanation is that the sun is warming the roof and causing the wood to expand slightly - and every night it cools back down, resetting it for the next morning.
(2) Drafts are likewise to be found in all houses, particularly older ones. A tiny crack can let air in, and all houses have vents to the outside - if they didn't, then the air quality inside would become intolerable. (Speaking of which, the previous responder is right about carbon monoxide - get yourself some detectors if you don't already have them.) The point is that a random chill in the air is just a bit a breeze that made it inside.
(3) If you're seeing things, then it is likely your mind interpreting faces and figures in the shapes of things around you. Our brains are geared to look for faces; we see them even when only the slightest suggestion of a face is there. If you're seeing lights or vague forms drifting through the air, they could be anything from unexpected reflections to random phosphene bursts in your own retinas.
There has never, EVER been one single verified case of a genuine haunting of a house. Not ONE. There are lots of shows on TV about ghost-chasers and whatnot, but they are after RATINGS, not facts. They don't even know what they're looking for; they have equipment which measures ambient temperature and electromagnetic field fluctuations, both of which have a hundred perfectly natural and normal causes - and why would they think that ghosts cause these things anyway? No one has ever actually studied a bona-fide ghost before! It's all sheer speculation and pseudoscience.
Your house is not haunted. Don't look for ghosts; the only ones you find will be the product of your own imagination. If there are strange things happening in your house, look for natural causes instead of supernatural ones.
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I'd remind myself that all the available evidence points to there being no such thing as ghosts, and I'd look for simpler, natural reasons that strange things might appear to be happening.
Like too much carbon monoxide for example, which can cause visual and auditory hallucinations and has often been found in so-called haunted houses.
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