When a Residual Ghost Shares Your Home

sgone31 · Orb Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 8

A residual ghost appears at the same time and place over and over. It may appear nightly, weekly, or even yearly; but whenever it appears it repeats the same patterns observed on previous sightings. It is believed that residual hauntings make up the vast majority of reported experiences.

A residual ghost is the stuff legends are made of. When generation after generation reports apparitions and ghostly behavior that repeats the same tasks each time, they are undoubtedly experiencing visits from a residual ghost.

If you are experiencing repeated appearances of a ghost at regular intervals, chances are it is a residual ghost. You may hear footsteps creaking up the stairs every night at midnight or hear laughter every Friday at dawn. You may see an apparition that walks the seashore mournfully searching for her long lost love during the full moon.

The residual ghost does not interact with those around it. It seems to be oblivious to your presence and continues with its nightly travels whether or not you are there to observe it.

Generally, a residual haunting is associated with a traumatic event that replays the exact sequence of events at the same place to many different observers. The theory is that a traumatic event can somehow etch itself into the fabric of time and attach itself to the setting in which it occurred.

It is not known how the image of this event is able to be recorded and be replayed at a later time. There are certain conditions that appear to be conducive to a residual haunting.

Most residual hauntings occur in locations that have been built over limestone, quartz, or water. It is believed that natural rock formations play a major role in the formation of a residual image. Buildings made of bricks and stones are also known to harbor residual ghosts.

Many ghost hunters believe that the release of intense energy from the original event is somehow imprinted on the area in which it occurred. The weather conditions at the time of the event may be connected to the imprinting of the image and the resulting residual haunting.

A residual ghost may appear as an apparition or it may simply be the repeated sounds of a door opening and closing, footsteps, or even voices. You may hear some unknown person singing a mournfully or crying in the night> You may hear the quiet sounds of laughter coming from the hallway. There are many reports of hearing children playing when there are no children in the home.

The reports of sightings of soldiers on a battlefield or a lone woman walking with a lantern are undoubtedly cases of a residual hauntings.

Whatever the cause, a residual ghost always repeats the same actions as though it were a movie being replayed. Residual hauntings do not always replay the a traumatic event. Often these actions are whatever the person who left the energy behind did the most often or something that was strongly tied to their life. A sea captain's wife may be seen watching the sea for her husbands return. Children may be heard laughing and playing in the hallway.

What you are observing is simply a recording of the energy left behind. There is no real entity present. It is more like a distant memory of events long ago that has somehow managed to imprint itself on the environment.

From standpoint of paranormal researchers, residual ghosts are completely harmless and are nothing to be afraid of. Because there is no real entity involved, a residual ghost can not interact with you or harm you in any way.

If you find the presence of a residual ghost in your home frightening you may want to consider moving. It does not appear that a cleansing or an exorcism will have any effect on a residual ghost.

Nannette Richford

sharon · Mist Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 64 Location: Casula, NSW

That's exactly what we did.

We tried a native "smoking ceremony" to cleanse the area of spirits, but it did no good.

azure · Orb Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 15

Hi, Sharon have you tried other things since June ?

AbbeyGal · Mist Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 117

I wonder if something like an industrial grade demagnetizer might work. Of course, you'd have to stay far away from all of your electronics with it.

cayen · Mist Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 58

EMP blast might take care of the problem. However I'm not so certain what one of those would actually do until people ran an experiment on it.

wiccan08 · Orb Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 11

My daughter told me today that she put her 6mth old baby to bed last night and left the baby monitor on while they went downstairs. A little while later she heard noises coming from the baby's room, she said she could hear talking and faint music but what really freaked her out was hearing heavy breathing!
My daughter has also seen the baby gargling and trying to talk whilst being transfixed to a corner of the room!
I remember my daughter doing that when she was a baby, about the same age. Do you think she is just being watched and cared for by an unknown spirit until she reaches a certain age? or is this something to worry about?
I myself have had many wierd unexplained things happen over the years but tend not to tell many people as they assume you are psycic and ask you to prove it by doing silly things for their entertainment.

AbbeyGal · Mist Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 117

With a baby monitor, my first assumption would be that it may be picking up radio waves from something else, not that there's necessarily anything haunting the house. I would try leaving a recorder running up there. Then if she gets the same noises on that, something may be up.

The baby talking to something unseen is more likely to be a spirit. People freak out over that sort of thing, but as long as the baby isn't, I would take it as a good sign. How bad could it be for someone else to be keeping an eye out for your kid?

curiosity · Orb Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 15

I remember when my daughter was about the same age, and did something very similar ....... except she used to look towards a clock and break out into baby-gurgle.

My great-grandfather passed on when I was a toddler, but I have no memory of him. My grandmother told me I used to sit on his lap and he would read to me daily, and I would always fiddle with his pocket watch.

When my daughter was born, she was sleeping through the night after only six days...used to scare me half to death and I would go in and check on her several times during the night. Being a new mom, I had always heard about getting up in the middle of the night, so I was genuinely concerned with her being so peaceful.

*I would always like to believe it was my great-grandfather's spirit watching over her, just dropping in to admire my little one.

sharon · Mist Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 64 Location: Casula, NSW