Dead People

The traditional view of ghosts is that they are the spirits of dead people that for some reason are "stuck" between this plane of existence and the next, often as a result of some tragedy or trauma. Many ghost hunters and psychics believe that such earth-bound spirits don’t know they are dead. Veteran ghost hunter Hans Holzer says, "A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not aware usually of his true condition. We are all spirits encased in a physical body. At the time of passing, our spirit body continues into the next dimension. A ghost, on the other hand, due to trauma, is stuck in our physical world and needs to be released to go on."

Ghosts exist in a kind of limbo in which they haunt the scenes of their deaths or locations that were pleasant to them in life. Very often, these types of ghosts are able to interact with the living. They are, on some level, aware of the living and react to being seen on the occasions that they materialize. Some psychics claim to be able to communicate with them. And when they do, they often try to help these spirits to understand that they are dead and to move on to the next stage of their existence.

I think the majority of people think that ghosts are something to be frightened of because they exist on another level.  Not all ghosts are the sheet clad, chain rattling menacing entities that the movies would have us believe.  If a human has lead a normal life and didn’t go around pissing people off during their life time, why would they bother to do it when their dead.  Not all ghosts are out to get us.  Actually i don’t believe any really are, except for those few who who stand in the corner of your bedroom stopping you from going to the toilet in the middle of the night, because your too frightened to get out of bed. Joking aside i don’t think a ghost or spirits main aim is to scare the living day lights out of us, so what has us so frightened?  is it the movies? maybe its just a fear of the unknown.  We all have that fear but i think with more research and scientific study the spirit world be less of a mystery.

Imprints or Residual energy

When someone witnesses this kind of haunting and is startled or frightened by it, that energy may refuel the setting so that the manifestations and impressions continue.  This may also account for the phenomena of haunted objects.

Some haunting’s can involve both residual energy and an actual ghost It can be difficult to tell which is which.  Poltergeists for example, some believe that they are not entities at all and could be a form of suppressed human ability such as telekinesis.  Most poltergeist activity is centered around an agent such as an adolescent female, and are dependant on that person being present.  The person who is at the centre of this can fluctuate between being extremely nice and level headed  to being very rude and violent.