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Can I move a ghost?
There's a building here on campus that was once a dorm--4 stories, brick, built in a U shape with a courtyard in 1926. It has been closed since the mid 80's because of "safety reasons", and I have heard of asbestos, suicides, hauntings, and molestations that have occured there.
The first time I went there, with friends, at night, they went in a window and I kept watch. Not ten minutes later they came tearing back out saying "did you hear that? Did you hear that?" but I had heard nothing but silence--apparently they heard a wailing squeal and thumps and the sounds of pipes striking pipes as they wandered around--but I, just outside the brick wall, heard nothing.
I was suitably weirded out.
When I went again, some time later with a pagan (and grandson of a shamaness) friend, we stood on the walkway that connects the two arms of the building (somewhat raised, hollow and full of pipes, apparently) and something underneath us began to clang, crash, scrape and raise a horrendously loud and erratic noise on the pipes under the walkway--not rhythmic, not explainable. The hairs on my body stood up and I felt energies spiking and swirling all around me. We left pretty quickly.
I was somewhat put off, but I went back--each time feeling the energies very very strongly--the feeling was as if you were walking into the high security prison and up to the cell where Hannibal Lecter is kept. My heart raced and my pupils dilated and I moved silently, respectfully, on a hair trigger.
Each time I came, the kicking would begin in the pipes--hollow, clanging, loud--day or night, no matter what time it was. Sometimes it was forceful, sometimes just a thoughtful tapping.
Over the course of about 4 months, I have frequented that building and become extremely comfortable with it. I named the pipe-kicker Daniel--and I go there after classes to sit on the steps, lean back, and meditate and just be with his energies (it helps me to think of it as 'he'). It has become a powerfully cleansing place, and many philosophical thoughts have come to me since I began to spend time there. Once, in a meditative state, I felt hands touch me ever so gently on my back, and a weight near my shoulder, as if someone had placed their hands on me to look over my shoulder and was leaning close. It was a bizarre but emotionally strong moment.
Here comes the crux, if you've stayed with me this far. The college is tearing down Daniel's (as I think of it) building in order to build a library on top of it. They won't say when they're building it, but they've started digging huge trenches and tearing up and laying in new pipes. There are small backhoes and piles of dirt and stacks of pipes--they have begun to rope off some areas--I can still get to Daniel's walkway, but the stillness of the place is beginning to spoil.
I don't want to lose my connection with the spirit I now think of as my friend. There is another walkway, in a more active dorm (built on the same blueprint, but still open), that I would like to move him to--but how do you move a spirit that may or may not be irrevocably attached to his area?
I know almost nothing about spirits and don't know if he's a manifestation of the building, an aura, a person, or what. Does anyone know if I can safely move him somehow--preserve him--so that I can still feel his presence? It would break my heart to lose Daniel.
I am quite serious about this--any constructive ideas you can give will be appreciated.
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Sneak in, and say "Whoever you are; they will tear this place down, so you can either stay here in the library when it gets built, or you can come to another building--your choice. Just PLEASE don't go away!"
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Wow...that must be a wonderful experience. (and don't listen to Advice1300), because I think there is such a thing as a spirit still lingering after years and years. Just because bad things have happened in that building, does not mean Daniel is a bad spirit. It mnust be great to have a companion like that who watches over you.
As for Daniel's building being knocked down, I'm not quite sure what can be done. Maybe Daniel will reside in the Library once it's put up...I don't know for sure though. You should talk to him...I know he may not respond, but tell him that he has to stay for you. Tell him how you think of him as a friend, not an "It". Tell him unless he passes over you want to keep in touch with his spirit. Also see if he will give you a sign as to how he feels about this. Put three things in front of him and say "move this object if you're upset about this" or "move this object if you don't care" or "move this object if you're still not sure about the situation."
Do you get what I mean by that?
Tell him to move the objects to get his response across.
It kind of sounds idiotic or whatever...but I think it's a great idea to communicate with Daniel.
~GL WiTh ThAt~
If you need any more help email me and tell me. Okay? Good luck. I hope my idea works for you...
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There are a lot of books out there about ghosts, and I vaguely remember reading, or hearing about, other people trying to do this. It may have been a TV program on the Discovery Channel. Sometimes relocating a ghost worked, sometimes not.
If you are really serious about this, go to your library and start to read about ghosts. At the back of most non-fiction books is a list of sources and references, and you can request those books inter-library loan at the reference desk of most libraries. Eventually you will find information on this kind of thing. You could also start with a search at on-line book stores like amazon.com.
An interesting but very scary book on ghosts is "The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren" by Gerald Brittle. I recommended this book in an answer to a previous advice question. The Warren's have a theory that there are different kinds of haunting spirits. Some are ghosts, and some are not, but are more evil. The book gives several accounts of hauntings.
My personal feeling is that you should not become extremely attached to any haunting spirit like this. It isn't good for you. You are alive, he isn't. If he is a ghost, he needs to resolve his conflict and move on. You would not help him by trying to "keep" him like a pet. If he is not a ghost, but another kind of haunting spirit, then you are in danger.
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