#ghost experiences

This has always worked for me, at least. Spirits typically need energy in order to thrive and be able to interact in the physical realm more. It’s why most (assuming a good portion of them are true, which I do have my doubts) haunted house accounts progressively amp up in severity of what the spirit does.

The spirit starts out doing things that are small that it can manage to do (scratching noises, footsteps, moving small things here and there) but that are enough to get your attention and get you to notice. Once it has your attention, and therefore you’re devoting more energy to it being frightened by it or reaching out to it or just thinking about it, the more you feed it your energy and make it stronger and the more it can and will do to get more of that energy.

So really, if you wanna fight a ghost off, once you notice odd things going on but you don’t wanna deal with a spirit you just need to tell them to leave. Like, seriously. Stop devoting your energy to them and they’re not going to be an issue for you. It’s why I think a lot of people who are Christian will say they feel like the house or whatever felt safe after having a priest bless their home or the fact that herbs can help you cleanse a space of other energies.

If you believe telling the ghost to get out of your house will get the ghost to leave you alone, it’s going to so long as you actually resolve yourself to not pay attention to it any longer.

You can have the most amazing experience at the Dennis Severs’ house in London. He lived as if it was the 18th cent. (No electric, etc.) and called the experience a “still life drama.” You are a time traveler, in a cat & mouse game. The deal is that you interrupt a family of silk weavers- there’re unmade beds, half-eaten meals, and you hear them, but you never see them. They move to another room, as you enter. (You do see their black cat.) It’s the weirdest thing- like you’re chasing ghosts. The home is just as Severs left it, (deteriorated), and is curated according to his original plot. You even get to sit by the fire in the room of your choice.

Deseret Book. Riverton, Utah. Two of the most unassuming, Mormon places to exist. Riverton bordering Bluffdale is full of Mormons and full of nice pretty horses and older but quite nice homes. Most houses have fields or large yards. Many are very expensive.

Anyway. This Deseret Book stands between a clothing department store and an empty place that used to be a Staples and now hosts Spirit Halloween every so often. I work there part time. And I swear we have ghosts.

I’ll be walking down the middle aisle and see somebody standing in one looking at a book. I’ll back up to go talk to them or get a better look, and they’ll be gone.

Or I’ll turn my head quickly and see somebody out of the corner of my eye, only to look again and not see anybody.

The iPods playing our background music will plug themselves in after we’ve turned the music off, especially in the back area where we sell temple clothes and garments and stuff. It will often come on louder than it’s ever turned up.

When we’re the last two or three people to leave the store, sometimes we’ll hear things crash or move. But as long as we ignore it, it’ll all be fine come morning.

I’ve talked to a few of my coworkers and they’ve said they experience similar things. When I said “we have ghosts” to one of the girls she was all “oh yeah”. She took it for granted.

I’m pretty sure they’re harmless though. Nobody’s been attacked or scared too badly, though I’ve felt eyes occasionally on me. Some of the people I see are shadows and others seem a lot lighter. I don’t know where they come from, though. I’m not sure if Spirit Halloween has a strong enough pull, especially for seemingly benign ghosts like these.