"I don't understand the Holy Spirit thing. Is it a bird?"
i lived in a house in CT built in 1773. Had a small grave yard out back of many of the residents buried there. Weird, spooky house. Was a murder there in the 1930’s and the body was stashed in the cellar for a week. Never saw a ‘ghost’ but weird things definitely happened in that house.
I heard on Coast to Coast am that people get mad at the house seller who neglected to tell them the house was haunted.
One caller said most documentation for the house sale include disclosure of ghosts before signing. Is that true?
Does anybody know about this?
I heard earlier there is at least one website for Who Died Here which lists any place where someone died. NOT if it is haunted. “Psychological impact” statement.
Apparently state by state rules vary:
Do you have to disclose if a house is haunted in Texas?
So check with your state first to see if you need to say if your house is haunted or not. In case you’re wondering... Texas is NOT one of those states. However, other states will require you disclose that there is a “psychological impact” on the house.
Just found here....
only California requires realtors to mention any recent death on a property, while states like South Dakota and Alaska require realtors to mention any violent deaths on the property. Most states don’t require realtors to mention previous property deaths at all—but they aren’t allowed to lie or cover up the home’s history if you ask about it.[2]
“Has anyone died on the property recently?” or “Are there any deaths associated with the property?” are good questions to ask.
https://www.wikihow.com/Find-Out-if-Someone-Died-in-Your-House
Found the death one (not about ghosts):
“In Most states, a death in a home, no matter how it occurred, is not considered a “Material Fact” and it’s not required to be disclosed. A murder could have occurred days ago and the seller does not have to let you know.
A death in a home, especially a violent death, can decrease the home’s value by 25% and increase its time to sell by up to 50% longer than comparable homes.”
I see ghosts all the time. They are the speaking images of Movie stars long since dead. I also hear them in music as well. When I hear Micheal Jackson singing ‘ I’m Bad ‘ I’m thinking He’s dead , He’s dead , you know it.
I have an ex from almost 40 years ago who haunts me to this day.
I always remember something my dad told me sixty eight years ago when we visited friends who lived near a grave yard.
“The dead can’t hurt you. It is the living you have to watch out for.”
At the age of 77 I have found that to be true.
is it Biblical?
Do I believe in Spirits? I am a Christian, so it is kind of required. Do I believe that the spirits of the dead hang around after death? Maybe, for a bit. Plenty of people have had messages from their dead loved ones who they did not even know were dead. So perhaps on your way out you are allowed to tidy up a few bits.
Do I believe that spirits of the dead haunt people or places? No.
Now having said that I do believe it is possible that impressions of events and people hang around. They have done studies and have determined that if quarrelsome or bitterly unhappy people live in a space there is a "feeling" that hangs around even after the people are no longer there. Think of the impression you leave in a cushion after sitting there. The longer you sit, the more of an impression you leave.
So you might have a place where a traumatic event occurred and all that emotion seeps into the physical items and people might see or feel some bits of that past event.
I don’t think Arizona requires realtors to mention any ghosts on a property but I did find this out when looking to buy a house here in Phoenix.
As I said I was looking to buy a house in Phoenix and originally I had this idea I wanted something with a large amount of property. I lived in a home with an acre when growing up and don’t like it when neighbors are on either side of you. It feels cramped to me.
So I asked a realtor to show me properties with an acre of land and I visited 3. It was the third one I liked the best, it was in the heart of town and was kind of a pretty house with a huge front lawn, most of the property in fact.
They took me for a look inside the house and when we went to check out the bedrooms the master bedroom was down a long and twisty kind of a hall at the end. As we walked down this hall I swear it seemed very narrow, like the walls were closing in on me and when we got to the bedroom I stood halfway in it thinking ‘gee, it feels like I’m trapped back here’ and had the distinct uncomfortable feeling the previous owner had been murdered in that room.
As we wer driving away the realtor and her partner were asking, ‘well, did you like this house’? Meanwhile I was already thinking of my husband balking at mowing that 2/3 acre of lawn. I knew he would not be happy about that but I also thought of the uncomfortable feeling in that back bedroom and I asked them, ‘is it true you have to tell people if a house has a ghost in it or not’? They looked a little surprised by my question and then one turned to me to say, ‘no, we actually don’t have a law like that here but we do have to tell you if there was a violent death. The owner of this property had three men break in and attempt to rob him. He ran and they chased him down the hall to his bedroom and they shot him in the head in there. Murdered him’.
Well, my husband is happy not to have to mow THAT lawn.
Ghosts (spirits) are Biblical.
Demonic spirits yes. Ghost of dead people, no.
It’s demonic activity with them posing as dead relatives or people.
Well, even if you don’t believe this show is pretty interesting.
Art Bell/Ghost to Ghost - Best of 1994 & 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVQOi97OZY&list=PLoncfqygz8A1-H1xuLMqoxUuEoSXbdNuC
No.
"I don't understand the Holy Spirit thing. Is it a bird?"
Bump for later ghost stories... 👻
A classmate of mine and his family rented an older house for a few months while construction on their new house was finishing up. His dad was in real estate. This house was supposed to be haunted, but none of us, parents included, believed in the nether world. A few months later, I over heard my mom telling someone on the phone that the family was having problems in the house. I asked what it was about but mom told me it was nothing. Then a few weeks later I heard her talking to my grandmother about it. Noises and something with the temperature. The family had heard something fall, went down stairs and nothing was broken except a rocking chair was moving - like someone got up from it. My friends sister was a basket case and stayed with another family for the rest of the time. They eventually got into their new house but it creeped him out for a bit. Years later, after it was all over, I was in Jr High and one of our teachers brought up the place with another teacher while we were at a school function. Poltergeist came out a few years after this and all I could think about when I watched it was that house.
He only talked about it once in high school and said his dad thought it was raccoons.
Antietam Battlefield Park is haunted for sure.
The wife and I saw a ghost in our house. It was a female, wearing a robe and slippers. She walked about 10 feet and turned into the bedroom of her Mother who was 94 at the time. It was so real, no frontal view, but the bottom on the slippers were real as reality. We thought it was her mom, but we opened the door and she was out like a light. Who knows what it is, but it happened 3 years ago and never again.