Some folks believe that no self-respecting spirit will stay for very long in a home where he is not encouraged to do so. Others are convinced a ghost has little choice in the matter. Either way, residing in a home that happens to be occupied by a ghost can be unsettling at best.
Marie and her husband moved into her Victorian two days before Halloween. When they started hearing eerie noises they thought it was children in the neighborhood having some fun at the new folks' expense. But the noises continued well into December. Determined to find the cause of the strange weeping sounds, the young couple brought in a psychic who told them she felt that a young woman had lost her life very violently in the house a century before. The psychic gently coaxed the spirit to leave the premises and go toward the light.
Building homes upon sacred burial grounds can be ruinous to the tranquility of those who reside in them. Unfortunately there are probably many neighborhoods built upon just such grounds. This could be the cause of more than one strange haunting. Years ago a friend told me of a childhood home that was haunted by the spirits of two old Native American men. "Every night soon as I started to drift off to sleep. There they'd be. These two old men standing over the bed and scowling down at me. I was scared to death the first time I saw them. I may have been a young kid but I knew they weren't of this world. When I told my parents they put it down to a bad nightmare. Until the night my mom saw them. There was no more talk of nightmares after that and we moved shortly afterwards."
Barking dogs can shatter the quiet of any neighborhood, and rattle even the soundest of sleepers awake. A friendly chat with the dogs' owners will usually solve the problem. But what if the dogs are of the ghostly sort. A friend moved into an old duplex and was quickly beset with barking dogs. The problem was that no one within earshot owned a dog. Still the barking persisted. Finally one morning her elderly neighbor knocked on the door and confessed that the barking was the ghosts her two little dogs who'd been ran over and killed in front of the duplex years before.
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