TYPES of HAUNTINGS

True Hauntings - There are a variety of hauntings that people generally experience. Some are "true" hauntings, while others are not. A "true" haunting is the classification of when an intelligent spirit is present at a specific location. For whatever reason, when the person died they remained at a certain place, and will often make themselves known to anyone else who intrudes on their space.

Sometimes the ghost is angry that others are invading their space, while other ghosts are not angry, yet evidence of their coexistence at a location is seen, heard or felt by the living.

Another type of true haunting can be the attachment of a non-human spirit to a place or person. At times these spirits may have been conjured by dabblers in magic, and at other times they may be non-human spirits connected to the land.

Hagging - Many people experience this phenomena, yet are afraid to admit it to anyone partly due to fear of the situation, and partly due to fear of ridicule from family, friends, and church. Hagging is the term used when a person is awakened from sleep feeling pressure on their chest or throat. Generally a spirit form of some sort is seen on top of them. Sometimes the spirit is seen as an old woman, hence the term "hag".

Haunted Objects - Just as a place can be haunted, at times an object will be haunted. Sometimes a person will have been so attached to a specific belonging of theirs that they remain with it after death. This can happen with just about any object; beds, dolls, clocks, pianos, a piece of jewelry, etc.

Residual Hauntings - One type of phenomena that may be considered a haunting of a sort, but is not a true haunting is the place memory, which is a residual energy or imprint from a very emotional or traumatic experience. An event will replay over and over, yet the spirits associated will not be aware of, nor interact with the living. Apparitons and/or sounds are heard, and they are always the same.

Ghost lights - Ghost lights are unexplained lights which seem to have no physical source. They can be a wide variety of things from swamp gas, ball lightening, earth lights created by the earth's electromagetic field, or even actual ghosts.

Poltergeists - Although the word poltergeist means "noisy ghost", a poltergeist is generally the result of telekinetic activity coming from a pubuscent child (who is usually female) in the house. Although this may sound strange, some children when going through puberty can cause all sorts of physical effects in their environment. The child is generally as clueless as the adults that they are the cause of the phenomena. But in these rare cases the combination of heightened emotions along with raging hormones can produce poltergeist activity. This activity includes objects moving about or being thrown, things slamming, lights flashing or suddenly all going out at once.

At times this phenomena can last into adulthood, especially if the child had a traumatized past. This phenomena will disappear as suddenly as it appeared.

This phenomena is not limited to the living, and could also be the result of a true ghost.

Visitations - Visitations are not actual hauntings, but are the result of a loved one who has passed on visiting. They do not remain earthbound as ghosts are, but are simply dropping in to say "hello". They will try to make their presence known in a wide variety of ways. Usually it will be something that meant something to them and the one who they are visiting. For instance finding a feather in a strange place could be a visitation from someone who loved birds or angels. A phone call may come in with what seems to be no one on the other end with a caller I.D. of someone who had passed on. That would be a visitation.