Get Out Ghosts!

[gossamerfaery]

Are ghosts ever successfully evicted from beautiful old Victorian Houses? After watching dozens of episodes of "A Haunting", they lead me to believe no. It's so sad to see them abandoned! I'd like to say I'm watching all these shows for tips on defending my gorgeous old dream home! (Operative word: dream! LOL) Instead of abandoning these haunted

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[memnet]

Cool pic. :) I'm of the say hello and co-exist line of thought; I figure the spirits in those houses were there first and the living shouldn't try to evict them. Then again, I do have a slightly different slant on things, lol.

I did get scratched by a spirit (cannot think of how else it happened). We were at Wilson Castle (an old mansion) in Vermont. I made a bit of a snarky remark about the grounds; it is a beautiful house and the grounds were probably nice at one time but both the house and grounds have fallen into disrepair. I really think that Vermont should step up and take care of the place. At any rate, as we (Ray and I...and Douglas) were entering the house Ray commented that I had a scratch on my face. I heard a voice which turned out to be a tour guide say that she had just a few days ago, been scratched too. Same general area of the face as my scratch; she said she'd been giving a tour when the people she was guiding through the house told her that her face was bleeding. I eventually had a pretty good discussion on both the scratching incidents with the tour guide, but first we sat in the dining room to watch a video about the history of the house. I wasn't really paying attention as I was thinking about how my face could have gotten scratched. I never felt a thing and it was a pretty good scratch...on the right side of my face, on the jawbone area. It was sort of a crescent shaped scratch which had welled blood a bit. I suddenly thought to Douglas (yeah, he can hear my thoughts and when I figured that out I was sort of...embarrassed, lol, but no big deal)..."make her stop!". Her? I don't know but that is what went through my mind (my impression is of a female spirit that doesn't care much for other females...we have been in that house before and it has always felt heavy and a bit sinister to me, whereas Ray finds it comforting and light). Douglas had been fairly active, keeping in physical contact to let me know he was with us but after that thought I didn't feel anything from him until we left and I called to him. I'm guessing he went after the other spirit and I hope he kicked the bitch's ass. ;)

[gossamerfaery]

After reading about Douglas, yes, you do have a different worldview regarding ghostly co-habitation! LOL I feel I could co-exist if the spirit wasn't harmful. I absolutely draw the line at scratching, pinching, pushing, etc. If the animals start getting sick or scared, it's time to evict. I don't believe I would be affected simply because I have been alone in many places that have been haunted, and I don't seem to attract them. My cousin and I played the Ouija when we were younger. We had some fairly coherent conversations, but we never had anything manifest. What I worry about though is I have had a boyfriend or two that I think would be completely affected by a spirit's emotional state. My ex, he was greatly affected by the living. He has to be careful how living people around him affect his energy. He lived in a house with a ghost (before me), and it messed with him. The ghost would have to be a pretty tame one (unless I were living alone.) In my mind, they forfeit the right to their house after they die! If I have to pay the mortgage, then my rules! LOL Plus, I am happily introverted. (I am a highly functioning extrovert in that everyone thinks I'm a people person, but I secretly cannot wait for it to be over.) So if there was a spirit that was needy or hung around a lot, it would get on my nerves. It would feel too much like a roommate. I find animals to be overbearing at times. Of course, all those TV shows focus on the ghosts that are harmful. So I was thinking more long those lines -- the harmful ghosts. If they just nicked my stuff and left it in a pile somewhere or moved stuff around, I'd get used to it.

A lot of haunted places have more than one ghost. A lot of times there is a peaceful ghost that seems to be a buffer against a nastier one. Then of course when the residents sage the house, the nice one moves on, and they are left with the mean one who won't go! Then things get twice as nasty! So it's funny to think of Douglas chasing after the Mansion Ghost!