By Lois Grant-Holland
Haunted House.
Do you hear unexplained noises? Whether subtle or loud enough to wake the dead, if you hear footsteps, knocking, banging, rapping, scratching at the walls or floors, or the sound of some invisible something being dropped, you may be a ghost host.
Do your doors, cabinets, and cupboards seem to have a mind of their own? You may be a ghost host if you walk back into a room to find the door open when you know darn well that you closed it, or vice versa.
Does your furniture hop, skip, and jump when you’re gone? If your chairs, tables, and lamps are in a different position when you come back into a room than when you left it, you may be a ghost host.
Are you in and out of the light? If your electric lights are on when you know you switched them off or are off when you left the light on, you may be a ghost host.
Is your electronic equipment self-willed? If your television sets, radios, and computers go off and on, the volume goes up and down, or the channel changes without your help, you may be a ghost host.
Do household items disappear and reappear where you thought you’d left them? If something you always keep in the same spot isn’t there, and you search high and low and can’t find it, and sometime later, it shows up exactly where you thought you’d put it in the first place, you may be a ghost host.
Are you living in the shadows? If you see unexplained fleeting shapes and shadows out of the corner of your eye (whether the shadows have vaguely human forms or not), you may be a ghost host.
Do your animals sense something that you can’t see? Suppose your dog or cat behaves strangely (dogs barking at something that you can’t see, cowering for no apparent reason, refusing to enter a room they’re usually comfortable in, or cats appearing to be watching something across the room that you can’t see). In that case, you may be a ghost host.
Do you feel like someone is watching you? If you sense someone watching you in a room alone, especially in specific rooms at specific times, you may be a ghost host.
These occurrences are relatively common and happen all the time to ghost hosts. Most people learn to live with it. Sometimes, even stranger things can happen, making it even more probable that you’re a ghost host.
Do you see it with your own eyes? Finding a door open is one thing; seeing it open for no apparent reason is another. Suppose you’ve witnessed the lights going on and off by themselves. In that case, the television and radio change channels without the benefit of the remote control, or watching window and door locks change position with no help from you, and you can almost bet you’re a ghost host.
Have you experienced the touch? It’s one thing to feel like someone is watching you, but something else altogether when you feel like you’re being touched and there’s no one in the room but you. You can almost bet you’re a ghost host if you feel something brushing past you, something touching your hair, or an invisible hand on your shoulder.
Are you hearing things? If you’ve listened to cries and whispers from unknown sources, muffled voices, your name being said, or music from some unknown source, you can almost bet you’re a ghost host.
Is the heat on? If you experience cold or hot spots in your house for no obvious reason or the temperature changes without apparent cause, you can almost bet you’re a ghost host.
Does the nose know? If unexplained smells (especially the distinct fragrance of a perfume you’ve never used or a foul odor with no discernable source) come and go without apparent cause, you can almost bet you’re a ghost host.
These symptoms of ghost hosting can be disconcerting, to say the least, but don’t put anyone in danger. Some hauntings, however, are much more serious and require the help of trained professionals to remove the offending ghost from the premises.
Do objects in your home move or levitate? If you’ve experienced dinner planes sliding across the table, pictures flying off the walls, doors slamming shut with great force, or furniture sliding across the floor, you might want to call the ghost-busters.
Ghost Image.
Have you been physically assaulted? You might want to call the ghost-busters if you’ve experienced scratches, slaps, and hard shoves from an invisible force (it’s rare, but it happens!).
Have you been given a message? If you’ve experienced unexplained writing on papers or the walls or see handprints and/or footprints that don’t belong to anyone in the house, you might want to call the ghost-busters.
Are you seeing things? Suppose you’ve seen an apparition (the physical manifestation of a spirit or entity), be it a human-shaped mist or transparent human forms that disappear quickly, or human forms that look as real and solid as any living person you’ve ever met but disappear before your very eyes). In that case, you might want to call the ghost-busters.
There are logical explanations for a lot that happens in our lives; don’t jump to the conclusion that you’re a ghost host without checking out all of the ‘rational’ reasons things are happening the way they are. Make every possible effort to prove to yourself that your house is not haunted before you come to the conclusion that it is. And remember—the vast majority of houses are NOT haunted.
If you’ve ruled out any rational explanation for the phenomena you’ve experienced and are convinced that your house is genuinely haunted, ask for help. There are hundreds of paranormal investigation organizations nationwide; contact one in your area to help you discover what kind of ghost you’ve been hosting.
©Lois Grant-Holland, March 2005, updated March 2025. About the Author: Lois Grant-Holland is a Life Path Focus Counselor offering Life Path Focus Sessions, Karmic Astrology Charts, Channeled Guidance, Intuitive Readings, and Classes and Workshops to spiritual seekers on all positive paths, and is the site facilitator at The A.N.S.W.E.R. – (The Seeker’s Resource Guide to Alternative, New Thought, Spiritual Growth, Wellness and Enlightenment Resources.)
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