By Joy Naylor
We can never make a blanket statement about the activities of spirits. They are all individuals. We seldom worry about whether or not the people we meet will follow us home. The same conditions can usually be applied to ghosts.
Ghosts have to be approached one by one. They are all different and as such most ghosts have a reason to be wherever they happen to be. Sometimes it is unfinished business from when they were alive. Sometimes they haunt a given area because of a traumatic event or a sudden un-expected death. Some are afraid of moving on and stay where they feel the most comfortable. In a nutshell, they all have a different reason to be where we run across them.
So taking each haunting one by one and evaluating it carefully before doing an investigation can often answer the question before hand as to whether or not a spirit will follow us anywhere. Each site is different as each ghost is different, so follow some common sense and plan each investigation before starting. After all, there are no "givens" in paranormal investigating.
So generally speaking it is doubtful a ghost will follow you home. As I mentioned before they are all different. Some have different abilities then others and can go wherever they choose. Some are stuck at the location they haunt and couldn't follow you if they wanted. But most are at the location they haunt for a reason, and we the living are not it. Follow some basic common sense, and all will be well.
Joy Naylor is also the founder of the ParaResearch Foundation (http://www.pararesearch.org), co-director of Cincinnati Area Paranormal Existence Research (http://www.caper.pararesearch.org), an Inner Circle member with IGHS, a fellow at the American Society for Psychical Research, Ohio researcher for Neuropsychiatric Institute, and a freelance writer for numerous parapsychology magazines.
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Although we probably differ on what we consider spirits to be and what we consider them capable (if they exist), going on the premise that a ghost is a disembodied soul, there would technically be no limits to where they could travel; however, the bigger question would be whether we are ghosts to them. If spirits had the capability of seeing and hearing us, their contact with us would be much more frequent. Perhaps the glimpses we catch of them when we hear a sound or smell something, they also catch a glimpse of us and feel haunted. If a spirit could attach to a person, I think we'd all be incredibly haunted by overprotective mothers and curious grandparents and lonely cousins. So, if someone's worried about attachment by a ghost, I'd be more worried about deceased loved ones than strangers.
ReplyDeleteLOL, that is true.... A ghost that nags you to wear your jacket or to get you to eat right would have to go. Thanx for the comment Autumforest, this has given me a new blog idea....
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