Queen of The Haunts
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(4/29/03 7:31 pm) Reply
Get to Know your Ghosts - Residual Haunt
The most common style of a human haunting is a residual haunting. A residual haunting is like having an impression made in time. The entity may seem to be lost in a time warp. The spirit really isn't even there, only the energy is.
In most cases people may here screaming or crying due to the violence factor that may have caused this traumatic event to happen. People may also hear the sounds of footsteps walking on the stairs or through hallways.
Typically the repeated event is whatever the person who left the energy behind did often or an significant event that they remember happening to them. It is almost like it the energy has become part of the dwelling that they once occupied on an every day basis. These haunting styles always seem to happen in the same place every time.
There is usually very little you can do on this style of a haunting except make the family who is having these problems understand what is going on and explain to them that they are in no danger due to the energy not being controlled by the person who left it behind.
There is no actual entity present in this style of haunting, and the energy that was left behind is just like a video playing the same scene over and over again. Eventhough it is not aware that people are there, it can still be a scary and emotional situation to the people who have to deal with it happening in their home.
It may happen every night or every week or even every year. It is the most frequent haunting investigators will come across in their cases. An investigator will tell you there is nothing they can do about this style haunting and they are correct. People need to either except what happens and learn to deal with it, or move on.
Research Specialist
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(4/30/03 8:22 am) Reply
Re: Get to Know your Ghosts - Residual Haunt
Hmmm...I didn't know that. Not really a ghost or spirit, just their energy, kind of like an essence left behind not knowing where to go or what else to do. Thanks GB!
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(4/30/03 9:00 am) Reply
Re: Get to Know your Ghosts - Residual Haunt
Out of the different types of Hauntings I do find this one to be the most intriquing. "Energy" such an extensive and curious thing isn't it. When you think that "energy" can be trapped like that in some way for all that time, really starts the wheels turning for me. Very very interesting indeed. Thanks for the info GB.
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(4/30/03 9:44 am) Reply
Re: Get to Know your Ghosts - Residual Haunt
See... I always kind of felt sorry for spirits that were caught in the loop of a residual haunting. Now I know it's not the spirit that's caught, it's the energy.
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