No. As a matter of fact, my husband tends to be sensitive to this kind of thing and I would never choose a place to live without him along.

Ghosts are everywhere in SF - I have one who sits on my bed and taps my foot at night while I try to sleep: Houseguests have felt him too.

Then there was the ghost of the old guy who died a few cabins down from us aboard the m/s Noordam: The entire rest of the cruise, we would feel tapping on our shoulders (ice-y cold), hear whispering in our ears and my cruise-buddy would see shimmery images in the mirror over the desk. We figured he was looking for his family who got off the ship w/ his body in St Thomas to return to New York...
...but he didn't seem to be aboard the next time we were on that ship - and we had a cabin in the same area on the same deck.

I did- I never really saw any anything- but for 18 years I wouldn't go in the backyard after dark- no matter WHAT..... my Mom and brother (very NON-believers) did see and hear things though...the house was built around 1800 so we figured it had plenty of time to become haunted....nothing every happened to us-but it was odd...

Simple answer: NO.

You could not pay me enough. I hate scary things. I don't believe in ghosts because I'm too afraid of them.

i wouldn't mind as long as they didn't break my tiki mugs! ..oh and scare away jehova's witnesses and salesmen!

I love haunted places and am very intrigued by those stories.

I went to visit my grandmother after grandpa had passed away. I was put to sleep in his room that first night. As I got ready for bed and laid down, I heard a slow, but heavy breathing noise right next to my right ear. Even though I knew this could my grandpa, I still slept with all the lights on for the rest of the night.

Yes, yes, yes! I'm mildly obsessed with the paranormal and have been ever since I was a little girl. Yeah, a bit strange. I grew up in a home that was certainly haunted, but by a couple relatives of mine who had passed away there. And also, what I would assume was the spirit of the person who had perished in a fire there in the late 40's. I also babysat as a teenager in a very haunted house where a women had hung herself during the civil war. I saw and felt a lot there, as has every family who's ever lived there. Our last apartment was haunted, but I actually didn't enjoy that much as it had a very negative vibe to it. But I would live in a house with a nice ghost for sure.

This makes me smile and reminds me of a sweet memory.

Growing up, my best friend had a problematic family. So he had spent a LOT of his childhood at our house, and my parents called him their "bonus" child and took him on family vacations with us. In 6th grade, he helped me lay new carpet in my dollhouse. In 8th grade, we loved to hang out at some decrepit vacation cottages that had been abandoned in the '40s after a hurricane damaged them. In high school, he and I helped my mom with a lot of home improvement projects.

As adults, we live far apart and don't talk as much as we should. But he's still like a brother, and we tend to call each other at weird times when no one else would understand us.

So a few years after college, I got a voicemail from him. "You are going to be so jealous. I'm standing in the middle of a house that's up for auction next week! I think I'm gonna buy it. Sure, the interior walls are covered in vines, and there are a couple of animal families. But you should see heart pine floors and the back porch. I am in LOVE! It's so cool, I think it's haunted."

He was right, I was instantly jealous. I called him back and we laughed about how he was turning into my mom (she was the Don Quixote of home restorers). Since then we've used "haunted" as shorthand for a place that we love.

To answer the question, I once worked the night shift as a security guard in a rest home that was rumored to be haunted by children. I didn't know about the haunting story until several unexplained things happened (candy appearing when my back was turned, apples being thrown around the locked and empty cafeteria. Unless the cook staff or Exec. Dir. had come in at 2 in the morning, the only person with the key to the cafeteria was me). When I mentioned it the head nurse the next morning, she told me that several kids had died in a fire in the 1800's when the building was a school. So I still wonder about that place, and sometimes I felt like I was being watched, but I never did feel creeped out there. So I'd have to say I'd be okay with a haunted house if the ghosts were friendly ghosts :-)

It gets a little creepy when they start waking you up at night and the bruises are just weird...or wait...was that the Aliens?
:)

I think the "energy" of a place is extremely important. I certainly believe that places can retain the feelings of what happened in them, whether that be a city or a house or an apartment. People often say that they choose a place because it just "feels" right, even people who otherwise claim they don't believe in things like ghosts/haunting. So I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that if something extremely sad (or happy) has happened in a place, you'll get that feeling from it, regardless of whether an individual spirit is present. And if you disregard a linear perception of time, it's easier to imagine that things which we conceive of as happening in the past are really always occurring, all at once in different planes of reality, and particularly strong occurrences can be felt on the other planes. I would not want to live someplace where I didn't feel happy and safe, so if a place had a bad feeling or seemed like it was a place where lots of sad things had occurred, it wouldn't appeal to me. That said, I've lived in places where I felt like there were benign energies protecting me, too.

My realtor asked me the same question and I said it was no problem becuase ghosts don't exist.

I chose my 101 year old house partially because it looks spooky and has an odd, unlit walk-in closet with scribblings all over the walls. My partner and I call it "The Children's Closet". We both work closely with a non-profit haunted house so our place is partially decorated with costumes and props.

If you could find me a real, honest-to-goodness haunted house, I would live in it in a heartbeat.

Too bad no one ever has been able to prove the existence of the paranormal. And there's no indication they ever will.

Only if the house were up to my standards anyhow. There ARE no ghosts except in your imagination, and MY imagination doesn't run to that, so there is NOTHING about a "haunted house" to prevent me from living there. Unless the reason people think it's haunted is bad plumbing, rickety structure, or some other real-life hazard I don't want to deal with.

Heck no! I don't like DREAMING about them, so i really wouldn't want to LIVE one ;)

But i do love hearing stories about them.

I tend to be really sensitive to that sort of...energy, I guess, and growing up in New England, there were always plenty of opportunities to have unsettling encounters. The feeling is never something I could get used to (a weird, chilly pressure on my neck and back, kind of like when you can sense someone is staring at you), so I know I could never comfortably live in a house that is truly haunted.

Ghost story time!

The building where my kindergarten was located was VERY haunted; home to phantom knockings, freezing drafts (even in hot weather), and multiple sightings of a little boy with bluish skin who perpetually wore an old fashioned sailor suit and was found squating in various corners (the reports were usually made by very freaked-out children. I, apparently, made one such report, but I have no memory of it).

My mother (who worked as a kindergarten teacher there) always had an incredibly difficult time entering the basement. We found out much later that during the 1920's the family who lived in the building met a terrible demise; A man brutally beat his wife before tossing her down the basement stairs (where she died), and suffocated his young son before taking his own life (though I'm not sure of the method there).

The building is now home to a coffee shop and, from what I've heard, most of the weird activity has ceased. I still get the shivers whenever I drive by, though.

No, nope, and no freaking way. I believe in the possibility that ghosts exist, but I've thankfully never seen proof.

rottenartist beat me to it - ghosts and the supernatural do not exist. Ergo, no such thing as a haunted house.

Honestly, it depends on the ghost!

I went to a college where most of the older campus buildings had ghost or two, including my dorm, a place where I lived for two years, and my mother had lived twenty years before me. Most of the campus ghosts were nuns, though, and were more about us being good girls and completing our studies than getting us to leave their house.

I'd love to live with a helpful and kind, Casper-like ghost.

there's no such thing as a haunted house

Lol...I grew up in a haunted house. Sometimes it was fun, other times scary, but mainly just weird.
It didn't help either that I just had to move my bedroom to the basement when I became a teenager, so I could have complete privacy. I heard more noises and sounds down there than I did upstairs.

I didn't like being home alone, since I had a terrifying experience while my parents were at church. I heard someone walking up the basement stairs into the hall! Those stairs made loud creaks in such a way that you could hear anyone coming upstairs from down the hall. The footsteps were heavy, I immediately thought burglar. I pushed a table in front of the door in panic and grabbed the phone and a knife. There I stood outside for 20 min. waiting on the cops to arrive, with a knife in my hand! Long story short, they searched the house, no person, no signs of forced entry, no nothing. They all thought I went crazy! My parents knew that I heard something, and they kept the basement door closed from then on.

Sometimes I heard footsteps upstairs when no one was home, other times I would leave my room and come back to my books and cds all strewn across the floor. My closet door had a way of always being open, no matter how many times I made sure it was closed. My stuff would go missing at times, and later I would find them in a weird corner in the basement, or in the bathroom drawer upstairs. I found etchings in my closet, and would come home from school some days to find my tv turned on and my bed messed up.

So I definitely believe in haunted houses, I haven't lived in one since, thank god, and I don't think I'll ever want to.

Tsk tsk to the nay sayers...just because you've never had an experience don't say it's not possible.

I wonder if this post was "Could you live in a church?" would the same folks be saying "Yes because God has never been proven to exist"? I'm an aethiest and even I wouldn't make that kind of a judgement.

Anyway, I have and could live in a haunted house(s). I've heard my name called, seen objects move, feel something touch me, see shadows of people that didn't belong to anyone and even see fog indoors but the only time I've ever seen a full fledged ghost was outside in the middle of the day and thankfully I wasn't the only one to see it.

Most of my encounters have been 'pleasant' but two were very unpleasant and I was so glad when I was out of those homes!

I would NEVER use a Ouija board. That's just asking for trouble.

i like bodicegodess's response. it does depend on the ghost. i've lived in a lot of places and run into ghosts [full on apparitions, voices, noises and cold spots] in seattle, london, san francisco. mostly they've been benign. but that bastard in london was scary.

@davidsl, share your bastard story!!

No. I don't believe in ghosts, that is, spirits of dead people. But I do believe in demons and if they've chosen to hang around a certain house, I want to be as far away as possible!

Wow, I don't really consider myself a believer, but I read these comments and I don't NOT believe them. Family friends used to have a gorgeous, supposedly haunted, home up on the Peak in Hong Kong, and every now and then, in one of their rooms, the temperature would suddenly drop several degrees and their dog would start barking and growling. Just like that the dog would be quiet and it would come back up to normal. I guess I'm pretty content to have no first hand knowledge.

I do know that, when selling a house here, you're required by law to disclose whether someone (maybe just the previous owner?) died in it, and I think how. The non-squeamish can get substantial deals that way. Is that the case everywhere, or just in woo-woo California?

I grew up in a haunted old mansion in Memphis... It generally wasn't very creepy, but I did have sightings of floating lights in the basement, weirdly frigid cold spots in places even in the middle of 100-degree weather. I never felt scared of these things, just fascinated.
However, my mom was less-than-thrilled the 2 times that whatever-was-there managed to knock expensive paintings off the wall (with picture wire & hook still intact) and smash one straight thru the center on an anitque rocking chair and with the other obliterate a French mantle clock below it.

I lived in a haunted house years ago...not sure if I want to do it again. It was a creepy looking Victorian era mansion that had been converted into apartments. I used to see a woman in one of the upper floors looking out the window thinking it was my neighbor, only to find that she was walking through the door minutes later. I asked her who was staying at her place, and she said no one. My neighbor eventually nicknamed her "Mary" since she was seen so often. Another neighbor was in the bathroom and saw an angry looking workman standing in the doorway. He said that the room immediately got cold and the workman just stood there and stared at him angrily...then disappeared! If I had seen that I think I would have moved! The only thing I ever encountered was objects being moved from one room to another during the night, and doorknobs twisting and turning, but when I opened the door, no one was there. I would also hear footsteps out in the foyer at 2:15 am each night, which sounded like a little girl playing hopscotch.

"Guests never want to stay the night" - Some people might consider this a pro rather than a con!

1 to @davidsl to sharing his bastard in London story!

We had something in our house, maybe a ghost. There was a cold spot on the staircase, and doors used to close on their own. We just felt something, like a presence. It wasn't a bad feeling, it was just a feeling. We used to tell people we had a ghost. But then we had a colicky baby and--I'M NOT KIDDING--our baby cried so much he scared the ghost away. Now, we tell our kids about the ghost, try to describe to them what it was like, but they just tell us they don't believe in ghosts! Crazy kids.

But I wouldn't knowingly move to a house with a ghost. It's a little creepy.

Nooooo way.
I have lived in a haunted house before, and just seeing things (not anything scary, just unnatural) was too much for me.
When my mother was married to her first husband (my brother's father), they lived in a haunted house and once, my brother tried opening the bathroom door, but his father was showering and slammed the door on my brother's hand.
he told my mom and showed her his red hand, and she told him his father wasn't home.
And he wasn't.
His father came home later on that evening.
In the same house, both of my brothers would see the reflection of eyes in their bedroom window at night.

NO WAY would I live in a haunted house!

I recognized the house in the picture immediately! I used to see it when I'd go camping and hiking at McCormicks Creek State Park in Indiana.

I didn't know the story about a family of albinos living there. Pretty cool.

Like others have said, I'd have no problem due to the fact that there are no such things as ghosts, therefore there can be no hauntings.

Well I don't believe that ghosts exist but all of your stories are giving me chills! I've never lived in a supposedly haunted house and I don't think I would mind... as long as they were nice!

Tasterspoon: All information about a house needs to be disclosed to potential buyers, and this includes things like grow-ops and deaths. At least this is the case in Canada!

I spent the majority of my childhood TERRIFIED of the house that I grew up in. As far as my memory serves me, the ghost that haunted our house was named Frank, and he actually built and was the first occupant of our country ranch home. Frank never made his presence known when I was very little. However, my parents decided to add on a big, window-filled room that overlooked the three acres of woods in our backyard when I was around 12. Once the renovations were complete, BOY was Frank not pleased about them.

Frank was never malicious, but he would do things like go around the house to the lights that had dimmer switches on them and, after my mother had turned them all the way down for the night, he'd turn them on just a touch so that we awoke to a lot of the lights in the house just slightly on the next morning.

One particularly frightening run-in with Frank happened when my sister and I were sitting in the new, aforementioned window-filled room. We were sitting on the couch and watching a movie, when all of a sudden the sound of the movie turned off and the overhead lights violently flickered on and off no less than twenty times. Then, when Frank had finished flicking the lights, the sound on the movie resumed. I could never be alone in that house again after that.

I had a few experiences with a ghost in my apartment in New York City. When I moved in to this new apt. four years ago my dog Stella would NOT go in the bedroom at all for the first two weeks....later she got used to it, but she was very cautious of it and avoided it at all costs. I often got chills while walking through the apartment at different times of the night and in fact one time I experienced getting up at 2am and walking through the apartment to go to the bathroom and when I walked back to the bedroom I ended up walking through a large cobweb...although I'm doubtful it was a real cobweb.....because a spider can not weave a web that fast.
Months later an older gentleman who lived directly under me died suddenly and strangely the occurences stopped happening....
My feeling is that whoever was attached to him, ended up "moving on" with him.....

These little reminders that we're still not a very evolved species are kind of disturbing.

Absolutely not. I consider myself sensitive to that stuff and would rather avoid it as while yes, there are ok spirits/energy, there are also very negative spirits/energy. And I agree that ouija boards are not something to be played with.

I believe spirits are with us all the time but the difference is whether we are open to accepting these experiences or "frequencies". Most of the time these spirits/energy are not "evil" but because it feels strange to us we think of it as somehing to avoid....
In fact, several years ago, while my grandfather was near death and very sick and just before he passed he would tell us he would literally see previously dead relatives sitting at the dining room table with us, or sometimes look outside the house in the yard...he would point outside "look, look..." but we could not easily communicate with him (as he was too sick) to know what he meant, but my feeling was that these other deceased family members were gathering to meet him just before he passed on...Also, when he did finally pass on, the clock in his hospital room stopped (although it was still plugged in) at the exact time he used to leave my moms house after every Sunday dinner .... Strange.

@lagacej, I have also heard that when someone is about to pass, he/she can see previous passed people.

My grandaunt never believed in this type of thing. My grandma was battling with pancreatic cancer and near the end of her life. Grandaunt would go to the hospital everyday to visit her, except for this one day. She was at home (I forget exactly what she was doing), she looked up and saw her own mom who had passed many years ago walking pass by her window along with my grandma. Not long after, she received a call from my mom who had been at the hospital, that grandma had passed at around the same time when she saw the figures. That was odd..

I think it would be interesting to live in a house with such a history, but I'm not sure I would believe the stories. As much as I love horror movies and books I haven't seen enough in my life to convince me that there's any truth to ghost stories.

I grew up in a slave house in the French Quarter on Bourbon Street. It was eerie and fascinating. It became a pattern to seek out living quarters in old historical places...an old civil war prison converted into apartments in Atlanta. An old dance hall above Delmonicos Restaurant on Pearl Street in New York. An antique schoolhouse on an abandoned farm in Cornwall, Connecticut. And finally, a huge old Victorian in Minnneapolis that used to be a brewery flophouse built in 1910.

Old places have footprints left behind and residual energy. Ghosts? Well, let's just put it this way...we've heard whole parties happening on our second floor that we had to have a ghostbuster break up. She said she sent 11 old hobos into the light.

We sleep much better now.

The two different comment camps are cracking me up!

In one corner, the 'Ghosts don't exist.' commenters.

In the other corner, the 'I'm...sensitive to energies, and, once had lunch with a ghost...' commenters.

I do believe in ghosts, but I also know which school of belief sounds a lot more sane! ;)

But, as I said, I do believe in ghosts (though I do *not* believe a lot of experiences people recount are paranormal, more like paranoia or the fact that they *want* to believe), so I'm loving reading these stories!

Davidsl I want to hear about the London ghost, too! :)

Our last house was haunted, but aside from the basement, it wasn't really spooky. We used to hear someone walking up and down the stairs and our cats would sit at the bottom of the stairs and stare up at them. I always wondered what they were seeing. One time my mother-in-law was staying in one of the upstairs bedrooms and said she heard someone walk up the stairs and into the other room. She waited for one of us to come out, but no one ever did. She asked us about it later, but none of us had gone upstairs.

The only spot that really creeped us out was the furnace room in the basement. There were two small rooms with raised floors that I think used to hold coal. We would find strange objects in there, some that didn't belong to us and we had never seen before. The last time I was in there before we moved, there were pieces of broken glass on the floor, but no glass around there that it could have come from.

So to answer the question, I would, but not if it gave me a bad vibe.

Oh hell yes.

Depends on the ghosts haunting it! My husband is a "ghost-hunter," as-in he and associates wander around reportedly haunted places with cameras, digitial thermometers, tape recorders, etc looking for proof of ghost activity. I've been dragged along to a LOT of haunted places. Some were fine, others I couldn't get out of fast enough. And the weird photo images or voices on tape he's gotten are seriously freaky!!

My Dad grew up in a house built in the 1800's. He said he'd be lulled off to sleep by the 'voices' in the house, which never bothered him. I didn't believe him so he took me to the house the next night (I was in my teens,1980-ish)
We are friends with the owner, know she is only down on the weekends & doesn't care if we walk around the grounds. Dad, Mom & I kicked back on the front porch and could hear "them" chatting away on the inside. It is a nice house, exudes the charm of an old Southern plantation but I don't think I could live there with the current "tenants"!

We once lived in a house that was... just... wrong. I couldn't stand to be in the bedroom unless my husband was home, there were strange noises in the walls, I often had the feeling I was being watched. Heck, the CATS wouldn't even come inside unless we had food.

I never thought "ghost" but after we moved out, the next tenant called us and asked if we had had "trouble". I told her I never liked being in the house alone for some reason, but had never seen a ghost. Apparently whatever it was hated women, because she lived there alone and it just wouldn't let her be. She told me the day a lit candle flew across the room at her was the day she broke the lease.

Of course we then had the opportunity to buy a house next to a cemetery and I was all for it. I figured at least we'd have quiet neighbors...

I lived in a house where there had been a double murder just a few years before. We had heard about the murder in the news but didn't realize it was the same house until after we had moved in and been there a while (it was a rental - needless to say our landlady didn't mention it.) We probably wouldn't have taken it if we knew, but by the time we found out we were pretty well settled so we ended up staying for seven years. The first few weeks my husband had crazy recurring nightmares about being chased out, I just had a general uneasy feeling at first - both of which we had dismissed as new-place jitters. Oh also, we later found out that there had been a little boy in the house who had somehow survived the murder - inside the door frame of the stairway leading to the attic, where I assume he must have hid, were the words "help me" scratched into the paint. I painted over it and burned a lot of incense in that stairwell, but it never lost its creepiness. Um, and there were some mysterious red blotches on the living room floor. Yep. We were in complete denial and tried to fill the place with happy vibes, including having our daughter born there, I think the young couple who died there must have recognized that and left us alone after a while. Our cat on the other hand had continual nighttime crazies running around and suddenly stopping and staring at random places above our heads - then again, cats do that...

Hell ya!

I work with these young kids who don't mind staying in haunted houses, one is a stoner though. They always bring their dog. The geeky girl is pretty good finding out the root of the mysterious squeaks and sounds. The other two just hang around for looks, they don't do much. The one down side is they are always meddling in where they shouldn't. But on the plus, they work for free.

Do they take a large dog with them? Cuz I think you just described Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred.

Btw, I just got back from New Orleans, and went on a Ghost Tour, which in spite of the insane heat, was great fun.

And if there is EVER a place to believe in ghosts, that city has GOT to be it.

Absolutely! I would love to live in a haunted house. I already go all out for Halloween each year. An authentic haunted house would only add to the display.
Plus, who's to say that the ghosts haunting the house would be evil? Maybe they would be nice ghosts who protect the home's occupants.

To the "Oh, poo poo, there's no such thing as ghosts/spirits/etc..." people:

Are you saying that a large number of the commenters on this post (including myself) are, well, insane?

I don't 'believe' spiritual/residual energy exists...I know it. I've felt it and I know PLENTY of very rational people who have as well.

Some of your condescending comments are borderline offensive. But just so you know, to those who are aware of and/or have experienced the types of phenomenon mentioned in the above posts, you're actually the group that comes off as ignorant.

*big smile*

I grew up in a 1741 farmhouse, we had the birth and death records for the property. As in all old houses we had strange drafts, cold spots, flickering lights, noises in the attic, the cat went beserk for no reason. Most of the things can be explained away logically; bad insulation, old faulty electric, squirrels in the roof, cats being cats. When we couldn't explain the occasional happening we'd blame Benjamin, the original builder.

I never felt scared or creeped out. On the contrary, I liked the thought of Benjamin looking out for us and the house. Part of the draw for old properties is the feeling of the people who lived there before and the continuity with the past. Its important not to psych yourself out.

If a bad thing has happened, chances are people are to blame, not the structure. Any "negative" energy, like any bad 80's design scheme, can be overcome with enough care and attention to the building. Why shun an "innocent" property and deprive yourself from enjoying a beautiful, meaningful potential home?

What ekg0123 said. I had perfectly sensible, stable, intelligent, good-hearted friends who accepted such things matter-of-factly. One had had numerous experiences in her haunted childhood home. I believe that they're weren't lying, yet can't believe that they were telling the truth.

I personally believe in ghosts/spirits/energy whatever but I don't get offended by those who don't believe or even state they don't exist. I happen to believe in god/a creator/whatever but even if people state matter-of-factly that (they believe) there isn't one, it doesn't bother me because I'm not that insecure about my beliefs.

Anyways, to answer the question, I personally wouldn't live in a haunted house. I thought maybe I would if the ghost was friendly but honestly, it would just creep me out anyways (I mean, what if it sees me poop?!). Besides, I would always be paranoid about other spirits/energies coming in or existing in the home.

I used to be unsure of my beliefs in ghosts until I worked in a haunted B&B and I quickly changed my mind; I could feel that electricity in the air feeling and when I challenged the alleged ghost to prove he existed, he turned the TV on (to some random static channel) and when I ran to get a coworker to see the room, the TV was turned off and someone had moved the remotes onto the floor. I was the ONLY person with a key to the room at the time and it hadn't been stayed in for a couple of days. Freaked me out!

Me, I don't know what to think. I lived in one house for 8 years that started out with a clock flying off the wall and crashing across the room as I was moving in. After a couple of weeks of things like that, though, nothing more happened, and I never could find any record of anything happening in the house to account for spirits and the like.

On the other hand, many years earlier, I lived in an apartment where absolutely nothing occurred only to discover when I was moving out that a rather grisly murder had happened there about a year before I'd moved in (a newspaper photographer who was helping me move took a look around and said, "I've been here before!" -- then wouldn't tell ME why till the move was done!).

I lived in a house were the original owner had died (not sure if he actually died IN the house or not) and lots of unexplained things occurred. However, I never felt scared. But I have been in places that just felt BAD, and I couldn't wait to leave. If I lived in a place like that I would definitely move out.

my mom passed away 4 yrs. ago, my nephew saw something in a window staring him down, my sister had ghost busters over and said there is an evil energy there and a couple of children, and some rude teenagers. which explains the growling noise i once heard in my bedroom, and things flying off the walls, and children talking and crying. i have always felt scared in the house. my sister owns it and is working on getting rid of all that energy or she will not be able to sell it. ugh!!! i have nothing to do with it.

Lived in a house that was haunted, but not badly. Would I again? It depends on how haunted.

When my female coworker walks down the aisle, I can smell her perfume and know it's her that's walked down the aisle. When my husband leaves our bed, I can still see his head imprint on his pillow and his residual body heat. When you walk into a room where two folks are debating/arguing/fighting, there is a tenseness that is not physical, but you can still feel the energy even after they walk out. I believe we all leave physical "imprints" of sorts when we leave a room, situation, even a house. Why couldn't we leave a spiritual imprint as well that's maybe a little longer lasting, yanno?

My father was very abusive growing up. I've often wondered about the current "energy" in my childhood home. When I go to that town, I can't even get myself to drive by it. Too many terrible memories. But I wonder...is that negative energy still there and do the current residents ever experience it? I wish I had the courage to stop by and ask, but that would just seem weird, I think.

MonkeyMomma - you bring up a very interesting concept. I too believe in the spiritual life and wonder how long "energy" resides at a location.

Ever notice how no one ever hears of a ghost in NYC like in a Brooklyn or Bronx apt? Maybe our rents are too high even for ghosts?

GhostFish88-
I lived in the Bronx and I had a ghost and NYC is plenty haunted.

I'll have to save these posts for Halloween. With all joking aside, I do believe in spirits. Like Monkeymomma, I believe energy is a constant in our world. That's science. So, why not energy from humans? There's a Army Reserve Center in a near by town that's haunted by a ghost they've named "Andy". There are grown men (soldiers) that won't stay in that building over night. The people I hear the stories from are not the type to make things up. In answer to your question Marcia, I would definately NOT live in a haunted house. I want to feel at peace in my home, not scared. But I would love to experience a haunt house with a large group of people by my side for support.