Probably, by the twenty-first century, many people will no longer be surprised by the words: "Ghost", "Poltergeist", "Astral entities", "Spirits". For many, these are just words ... But not for those in whose apartments something supernatural has settled. For example, like in my apartment. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a minefield. You never know if it's a cat rustling in the next room, or something else. Opening doors, strange sounds are just a few of all the oddities of my life. (If someone is interested, I can make a separate post about my encounters with similar phenomena, because now there is not much about it.) So, a few signs that uninvited guests have appeared in your house / apartment / room.

1. Perfect realism.

This category includes turning on / off the light, opening and closing doors, the movement of any objects in front of your eyes, or during your absence, as well as the spontaneous movement of children's wind-up toys. By the way, frequent flashing of the light can also be attributed to this category.

2. Tactile contact.

Many people feel like someone is touching them either in their sleep or just before bed. At the same time, touches are light and soothing, but they are quite rough, like slaps in the face. Also, "entities" can barely perceptibly push you.

3. Sound confusion and strange smells.

There are times when people, left alone with themselves in an apartment, hear inexplicable rustles, sounds, steps, clatter ... Many even hear snippets of phrases and their names. The same is true with smells. The room itself smells of perfumes that you have never had, etc. At the same time, these smells disappear very quickly, as if they were not there. For example, I very often feel the smell of wet plaster in the apartment. And when I call someone, this smell is gone.

4. Black shadows

Very often, out of the corner of my eye, I notice a dark figure leaking past me. At the same time, when I look at this place, it is already empty ....

5. Loss of things and their subsequent return.

I think a lot of people have experienced this. Things are constantly someone takes "loan" and then politely returns.

6. Unexplained animal behavior

In houses in which various entities are present, animals behave very restlessly. Cats can look at one point for an hour, hiss into the void, frightenedly run away from an empty corridor. And dogs can growl and rush into the void, thus showing their courage.

7. "Inhospitable apartment"

I have had cases when it seems the apartment itself refused to let me go home. You insert the key into the keyhole, and you realize that it does not turn. One time, second. I took out the spare key and tried again. Same result. Looked like, poisterila minutes 10, decided to try again. And lo and behold, the apartment deigned to let me in....

Do things happen in your life that terribly scare you, or at least make you wary?

All these may be signs that otherworldly tenants have wound up in your house. True ghosts are rare and it can be difficult to determine if the strange things you see in your house are related to ghosts. On the one hand, no one can know exactly what makes them settle in certain places. But if you think your home has been spared, is there anything you can do about it?

Common Signs of a Ghost Appearance

First, you need to determine, and no one can do it better than you, whether you have had cases worthy of attention. Not everyone behaves the same, they can create many inexplicable phenomena. Some ghosts produce a single phenomenon - for example, a peculiar slamming of a closed door that occurs repeatedly - while other ghosts in full bloom create many many different phenomena, ranging from barely audible noises to constant appearances.

Here is a list of the most common phenomena that may indicate that ghosts are interested in your home:

- unexplained noises- Steps; blows, knocking, tapping; scratching; falling sounds. Sometimes these noises can be barely audible and infrequent, at times they can be quite loud.

- opening and closing doors, cupboards and cupboards- most often, these phenomena are usually not noticed. Anyone can hear the characteristic sounds of opening or closing doors (homeowners will recognize the sounds of opening doors in their own home), but the evidence of the appearance of ghosts will be indisputable only if you remember that you left an open door closed. Sometimes furniture, such as kitchen chairs, can be moved from one place to another. Very rarely, such phenomena occur in front of witnesses.

- turning the light on and off- as in the previous paragraph, it is very rare to pay attention to such phenomena, but if the light is on, and you know for sure that it was turned off, this can also be a clear sign of intruders. The same can happen with televisions, radios, and other household appliances.

- the disappearance of objects and their subsequent appearance is a phenomenon that we have called the 'LOA Effect' (The Appearance of a Missing Object. Also called a 'loan' phenomenon, and this is a familiar situation where you can't find what you often use - for example, car keys - you think that they put them where they usually are. But they are gone, and you waste time searching for them unsuccessfully. And then, the keys are found - exactly in the place where you usually put them. As if someone took the thing for a while, and then he put it back in. Sometimes things disappear for several days or even weeks, but then they appear in the exact place that you cannot miss when looking for them.

- inexplicable shadows- random shadows, usually seen with peripheral vision. The frequent appearance of shadows with obvious human forms, sometimes good, sometimes not very distinguishable.

- strange animal behavior- dogs, cats or other pets behave strangely. Dogs may bark at something invisible to the human eye, cower for no apparent reason, or refuse to enter the room for unexplained reasons. Cats can "watch" something cross the room. Animals have more developed senses than humans, and many researchers believe that their psychic abilities can be better tuned.

- the feeling of being watched- this unusual feeling can be caused by anything, but it has an inexplicable source if this feeling occurs in a certain part of the house at a certain time.

Here are some of the most common events that can happen in any haunted house. But sometimes even more inexplicable things happen...

Stronger Evidence

The following phenomena are rare, but they become serious evidence of the appearance of a ghost:

- psychokinetic phenomena- the sound of a door opening or something like that is an example of such phenomena. In fact, this time it's happening in front of you. Switching on and off the light, which can be repeated or is a single phenomenon, becomes evidence that something inexplicable is happening. Do you see the television or radio turning on by itself? Or perhaps you're in a nursery and you see your child's clockwork toy starting to work on its own. Doors and windows are closed or opened. Some people report that when they are in bed, they can feel and/or hear someone sitting up on the bed.

- the feeling of being touched- if you feel being watched, that is one thing, and quite another if you feel that something has touched you. Some people feel that something has swept past them, something has touched their hair, they feel a "hand" on their shoulder. Sometimes something can gently nudge or push you.

- screams and whispers- muffled voices, whispers and screams that can be heard. Sometimes, music is heard from nowhere. People hear their names spoken by someone. This phenomenon, like all the above, gains more weight if several people hear or see the same thing at the same time.

- cold or hot items- unexplained coldness is a classic sign of a cast, but, in principle, any case of a significant increase or decrease in temperature for no reason can be evidence of the appearance of a ghost.

- unexplained odors- the smell of perfume or cologne that you have never had. This phenomenon occurs for no apparent reason and may be accompanied by other phenomena such as shadows, voices, or psychokinetic phenomena. In addition, various repulsive odors may occur.

irrefutable evidence

There are even rarer and more unusual phenomena, some of them are called poltergeists, and they can be very convincing evidence of the truth of the appearance of ghosts:

- Moving or lifting objects (serious psychokinetic events)- plates sliding on the table; paintings flying off the wall; slamming doors; furniture moving across the floor.

- physical attack- scratches, bumps and strong shocks. This sign of personal attack is extremely rare.

- another physical proof- inexplicable writing on paper or walls; hand and foot prints.

- phenomena- the physical manifestation of a spirit or object. These phenomena are also very rare and can take many forms: fog in the form of a person or an indeterminate form; transparent human figures that disappear almost immediately; and most rare, human figures that look as real as real people, but walk into the room through the walls and disappear when seen.

Eliminate rational explanations

A person who has discovered several of these phenomena has reason to believe that his or her home is haunted. But here you can be wrong. According to most experts, the human mind and human senses (any magician will tell you) are easily fooled. And people can easily confuse the explainable things happening in their homes with the paranormal.

Before you think your house is haunted and panic, do your best to find a rational explanation for what you've experienced. Almost all of the phenomena listed above could have completely natural causes:

Opening and closing doors may be due to defective hinges or incorrect installation;

The effect of PPO is the most common negligence and forgetfulness;

The shadows are possibly caused by the headlights of a passing car;

Perhaps some of the phenomena you have discovered are just a product of your imagination.

Of course, the more inexplicable the phenomena, the harder it is to refute their existence. And, as noted above, if there are many witnesses who have experienced these phenomena, they are likely to be taken more seriously.

Try to get help in discovering rational explanations for phenomena. A plumber could help you find the cause of that knock. A carpenter can save that door from self-closing. A friend or neighbor could look at your specific experience and offer a reasonable explanation for what you noticed. In short, make every effort to understand that your house is not haunted.

Keep a diary

If you have provided all the rational explanations for the phenomena that occur in your home and they still occur more or less frequently, write them down. Keep a diary in which you will describe the events. For example:

June 2, 2002; 10:30 p.m. - Sitting watching TV when the bathroom light turned on by itself. Went and turned it off again.

June 10, 2002; 21:14 - Was in the kitchen and again heard footsteps in the hallway. There was no one there. Went to have a look, couldn't find the reason.

A diary like this one can help experts in any study of these phenomena.

If you hear unexplained noises, try recording with a portable tape recorder. If physical appearances of ghosts occur, take photographs of or with them. Keep your diary, camera, and camcorders not too far away so that you can record the time when unusual things appear.

Call the Experts

When should you call the bizarre investigator? Only when you have ruled out any rational explanations for the phenomena, and you feel and are completely sure that your house is indeed haunted, can you contact the experts. Of course, if the events are extreme and you feel that you and your family are in danger of being physically or psychologically affected, you should call for help right away.

Who are these experts? There are hundreds of organizations that deal with such cases. Of course, they differ in terms of having practical experience, so you should be careful in your choice. Troy Taylor, in his article, "What to do for someone who has a haunted house," gives some good advice for those who choose to explore the unidentified, including the qualities that they should have, and questions that you should ask them before you invite them to check your house.

Despite the oddities you've discovered, your home is unlikely to be inhabited by otherworldly tenants. Also, it can be a good spirit or a phenomenon with which you can coexist. Usually, these phenomena do not portend anything dangerous.

Stephen Wagner

The translation of the article was made specifically for

I decided to tell you some strange stories from my life. My sister at that time was 1.5-2 years old, I was about six years old. At that time, we lived in our private house, where I spent my childhood, after which we moved to another city.

My sister and I slept in the same room, the beds were against each other, when we fell asleep, after a while my sister began to cry, it was not always and not every night. I, the site, of course, woke up, jumped up to her and asked what happened and why she was crying, she only pointed to a certain place in the room and said: “He is there!”, I didn’t see anything. By this time, my parents had already come running, turned on the lights everywhere, calmed my sister, and we calmly continued our dream. The next morning, she said that she saw a “black uncle with wings” - in her words, he just stands nearby, but this is only a dark silhouette (no face is visible, no evil eyes, etc.). But it also happened that a “white uncle in flowers” ​​appeared, who flew over her, she, apparently, was not afraid of him, because when she described, there was no obvious fear. We did not attach much importance to this, because everything didn't last long.

My parents told me that for some not very long time, I jumped out of bed at exactly 00:00 and the site started running around the house screaming, they even set an alarm for this time to catch me later, they were afraid that I could run out to the street. In the morning, however, I could not remember anything at all. I only have one moment in my memory, how I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm terribly scared, I grab a blanket and run to the kitchen, under the table, from there I see something floating past the table, someone's figure, until morning I slept under the table. What it was, I don't know. Now I remember, it seems pretty funny, but I don't think it was a dream or anything, I saw This and me it scarecrow.

Mom said that once she had a fight with dad, and he went to bed in another room. At night she woke up because she did not have enough air, opening her eyes, she saw the site of a translucent face in front of her, it was an old man with a beard, she jumped out of bed and ran to her dad, when she lay down to him, she saw how this grandfather was swimming past rooms. She said he was wearing a coat and he looked angry.

I know that the house was not inhabited before our settlement, that there was a fire in it, but no one died there. Then my parents bought it, made repairs and we lived in it for exactly 10 years, the next owners lived in it for the same amount and sold it, now there are new tenants.

I often dream that we are living in it again, for me it was somehow special, dear, and even now it remains so.

This story happened to me. We recently moved into a house where an old woman died, my parents divorced. We have three children in our family, it was very difficult for our mother.

We go to bed late. Mom drove us to sleep, it was already more than eleven in the evening. My brother and sister fell asleep, but I didn't. Then, in the window of my room, someone looked at me and began to scrape on the glass. I was so scared that I couldn't move. It turns out that the site was the beginning.

Then I plucked up the courage and got out of bed. My goal was simple - to run without looking back into the hall. Mom, in turn, yelled at me.

- One o'clock in the morning, and you are running around!

She looked at my face - it was all in tears. Naturally, she asked what happened. I didn’t say anything to her, I just asked her to go to bed with her in the same room. She allowed.

At night I got up to drink water. For some reason, I looked sharply in the mirror and could not tear my eyes away. I went back to bed, but this time I crawled under the mirror.

As I mentioned, my parents got divorced. Father and mother slept on different beds, but in the same room. Today my father was at work, on the night shift. I slept in his place.

I heard someone walk the site across the yard. Someone slammed the door. I was scared, because this all started happening when she put out the light.

Then I slowly looked into the passage of the kitchen. At first I saw a black silhouette, but then I thought it was my father, his silhouette immediately appeared. When I yelled and woke my mom up, he vanished.

Guys, I don't know what it was. This happened to me two years ago, but I'm still scared. I've searched millions of sites and nothing. Who knows what it was, please write in the comments, do not be shy. Many people say that it was my imagination that broke out, but no. I have another mystical story related to this one, I will publish it somehow.



Comments (5 ) to the terrible story "Unexplained phenomena in our house":

A branch from a tree could have scratched through the window, the mirror didn’t understand at all what scared it, just looked and couldn’t turn away? Well, at night, if you look in the mirror in the dark, it will really be creepy ... A silhouette, if it was just human, maybe some kind of drunk or drug addict got into it, although why climb into a house full of people? Was there anything else after this incident? Does this silhouette bother you? It would be necessary to consecrate the house and get rid of all the things of the old tenants, especially if they are deceased tenants and you are not any relatives.

Who can tell you exactly what it is. Whatever is mystical here, it is probably connected with the death of that old woman, and you have nothing to do with it.

Do not be afraid! Back in the 10th grade, when preparing for exams, it was like that. Somewhere at 12 o'clock at night, in the summer, I sat teaching biology in a room with my grandmother. Suddenly I hear on the wall outside literally something crawling along the house. “Ranged” like a stick - first on the bricks, then on the glass of the hall, then again on the bricks and then on the glass of the room directly opposite me and further along the bricks of the house. Grandma was worried. Jumped out into the street - no one! I ran to the next entrance - silence, no one climbs the stairs and no one is visible in the windows of the entrance. In the next entrance again silence. Previously, the front doors were not closed at night if it was very hot. So he quickly ran out into the street. I returned to the room, worked out a little more, then drank tea with my grandmother and discussed what had happened.
Grandmother suggested that there would be very bad news.
And I thought then that it was just a werewolf climbing the wall.
So do not be afraid of anything, especially the "mystical".
The only thing is, do not follow a calling voice or sound, for example, “meow” - it will lead either to a swamp or to a pit with liquid bitumen. I checked myself.

Published: May 22, 2012

How to explain inexplicable phenomena?

Translated from German, poltergeist means "noisy spirit."

Cases when objects suddenly began to move in houses, strange fires occurred, inscriptions appeared on the walls from nowhere, and the inhabitants of a bad dwelling suddenly heard otherworldly voices, were described back in the Middle Ages.

Then all the manifestations of the poltergeist were associated with the activity of evil spirits. People who found themselves at the epicenter of events were considered obsessed, and the most effective way to deal with an incomprehensible phenomenon was considered reading a prayer and consecrating a home. Over time, the poltergeist has acquired a wide variety of theories, scientific and pseudo-scientific explanations.

Case in Baltimore

One of the most detailed poltergeist cases occurred in 1960 in Baltimore. The family of retired policeman Edgar Jones became the victims of the naughty spirit. In addition to the head of the family, his wife, his parents, 17-year-old son Ted and daughter and husband lived in the house. All of a sudden, strange things began to happen in the house. Crockery and soda bottles exploded, flower pots fell, furniture moved by itself. To understand what is happening, a psychologist and researcher of unusual phenomena, Nantor Fodor, came to the Jones family home.

According to the scientist, young Ted was the cause of what was happening. At the age of 16, the boy was expelled from school for poor progress, although, according to teachers, Ted was superior in intelligence to his peers. However, the child did not want to learn at all - his only interest was reading fantastic books and writing equally fantastic stories. Ted had no friends, the family also did not approve of a teenager who fancied himself an outstanding writer and at the same time abandoned his studies. According to Fodor, Ted had accumulated so much negative energy that it "splashed" outward, causing household items to explode. After the psychologist managed to convince the boy that he was really a great writer and that he had a great future, the mysterious phenomena in the house stopped.

However, skeptics claimed that the evil spirit was pacified not at all by a psychologist, but by a plumber who visited the Joneses' house shortly before the dish disasters stopped. The plumber assured that the reason for everything was the chimney. He convinced the Joneses to plug all the outside openings and keep the dining room window open to equalize the pressure. But it was not possible to find out which of the versions was correct.

People are still trying to find explanations for the poltergeist phenomenon. Some theories seem like science fiction, others are based only on scientific facts.

Who is behind the door?

According to one version, which esoteric fans insist on, the poltergeist appears in the apartment at the behest of an evil sorcerer. Let's say a family quarreled with neighbors, or just someone wants to harm the inhabitants of the apartment. To force people to leave their homes, ill-wishers seek help from a magician. Allegedly, people with paranormal abilities can hypnotize the inhabitants of a bad apartment so much that they stop noticing the sorcerer who has settled in their house. As a rule, everything starts with a knock or a ring at the door. But the stairwell is empty.

This sorcerer checks which of the inhabitants of the apartment will most sensitively respond to hypnosis. Having chosen an object through which one can act, with the help of an “intermediary”, the sorcerer enters the apartment, where after that mysterious phenomena begin to occur. The hypnotist makes his victim unknowingly move objects or set fire to things in the apartment. It is no coincidence that in apartments where the poltergeist is raging, as a rule, there are children or teenagers - they are more responsive to hypnosis than adults.

It is the penetration of the sorcerer that is usually explained by the fact that domestic animals, before a poltergeist occurs, begin to behave strangely - they show aggression or begin to hide. Allegedly, animals that do not succumb to hypnosis see an outsider in the apartment.

Are you to blame?

A more plausible explanation for the poltergeist is the presence of people with an unbalanced psyche among the inhabitants of the dwelling. According to statistics, most cases of poltergeist occur where one of the family members suffers from epilepsy, some other nervous or mental disorder, and is under severe stress. Poltergeist very rarely visits wealthy families. Usually mysterious phenomena are preceded by conflicts or sad events.

In these cases, poltergeist phenomena occur either at night, when the inhabitants of the house are sleeping, or in their absence, when only one of the family members is in the apartment. Usually a child or teenager. Unconsciously, he begins to damage property or draw threatening graffiti on the walls and at the same time does not remember anything about his actions. For a child or an unbalanced person, this is a way to get rid of accumulated stress. Several cases of poltergeist after the installation of video cameras in apartments received just such an explanation.

Resonance and underground workshops

There is an even more mundane explanation for the poltergeist. The largest number of reports about the mysterious phenomenon occurred in the 90s, when the whole country was suddenly carried away by the search for shells and hunting for ghosts. Perhaps some of these cases can be attributed to mass hysteria, when not too balanced people who had read scary stories about evil spirits began to think that similar phenomena were happening in their own home. But still, part of the manifestations of paranormal activity had a completely material basis.

In those years, underground workshops and production flourished. It was quite expensive and excessively troublesome to legally rent a room, to ensure all sanitary requirements and standards for small firms and private entrepreneurs. So "secret workshops" were opened right in the basements and attics of residential houses. To prevent residents from complaining and not knowing about such a neighborhood, work was carried out mainly at night, and various fragrances were added to the ventilation to drown out the smell of underground production. This is how “bad apartments” arose, in which strange smells and sounds appeared from nowhere, and people fell into depression for no reason. One of these cases was described in detail at one time.

One of the apartments, where residents complained about the poltergeist, was examined by experts. Substances very unhealthy were found in the house - carbon monoxide compounds, phenol and a whole bunch of toxins that not only have a depressing effect on the psyche, but can also cause hallucinations. It turned out that in the basement, right under this apartment, there was an underground car battery repair shop.

Another case of poltergeist, when movements and falls of heavy objects were recorded, experts explained by the phenomenon of resonance. The machines were working in the basement of the house.

From: Alexandra Tyrlova, www.aif.ru,  2090 views

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