BY EMERSON LAYNE

Have you ever gotten that feeling you’re being watched? Have you ever felt like someone else is in the room with you when you’re completely alone? Have you ever had things move on their own or hear voices in the other room when you’re home alone? Well, you might have a ghost. 

The concept of ghosts has been argued over for centuries. While it varies from survey to survey, it is stated that roughly half of the US population believes in ghosts. While it is understandable that a person might not believe in ghosts, sometimes strange events may happen that cannot be explained through logical means. So if you truly believe that a ghost is haunting your house or has a connection to you and you have disproved that anything else is happening, then continue reading to learn how to deal with it.

Ghosts typically are harmless, or at the very least annoying. So, if you don’t want a ghost to haunt you or your house the best possible course of action for a harmless ghost is to ignore it. Ghosts want attention from the living, sometimes through drastic measures. Usually by ignoring a ghost, they will leave or detach itself from you. If ignoring the ghost doesn’t work, setting up a consistent verbal boundary of expressing the ghost to leave can have better results. If the ghost you’re dealing with is a more violent one, like a poltergeist or some sort of a demon, you’ll want to get rid of it by any means necessary. Demons and more violent ghosts want to harm the living and can have extreme negative attachments. So depending on your faith or religious beliefs, it’s best to invite a priest or even a medium to cleanse your home of the demon or violent ghost. Sometimes an expert can help a ghost move on into the afterlife. 

If you do want to have a ghost around or even communicate with it, you’ll need to take careful precautions when doing so. If you give a ghost attention, it’ll keep seeking you to gain more attention. You and everyone else in your home will need to set up a verbal boundary with the ghost(s). You will need to state that a ghost must not harm nor have an attachment to anyone in the home. You can even state that a ghost must stay outdoors so you and the ghost can communicate outside. You will need to state this boundary constantly, during every session of communication, or randomly while indoors. While communicating with the ghost, it is best to stay respectful, calm, and stern with it. Staying respectful with a ghost will make it less likely to become violent, since demanding answers out of it would make anyone upset. A good thing to remember is that when calling out to a specific ghost, you would be calling out to all nearby ghosts, so it’s best to have some protection with you, like a religious item of your faith. 

A good tool for communicating with a ghost would be a good recording device, since a recorder can be able to pick up frequencies that the human ear can’t hear. Another useful tool is an audio editor like Audacity, so you can playback pieces of sound or enhance them. There are other tools like spirit boxes and motion sensors that can be used but for people who are just starting up it’s best to start out with something simpler and cheaper. Another piece of advice is to never use an Ouija board. While an Ouija board is typically a piece of plastic, you would be creating a doorway for any kind of spirit to come through, and it is difficult to close that door once it is open. Another tip is putting salt outside of doorways and windows, which serve as a natural barrier for ghosts and demons to stay out of your home or certain rooms. 

Communicating with ghosts isn’t like they appear on ghost hunting shows, since most of the time you won’t hear or experience anything. Either which way, it’s best to have protection with you and keep up a verbal boundary. You are living and they are not, you, by product, have more power over them.