Friendly ghosts

[desertrat]

I was reading on another forum of a guy that had the ghost of a little old lady in his house . I dont know if this the spirit of the little old lady or just some left over energy of her . The guy and his family had no problem with the lady there . I was wondering how many people have a friendly ghost or two and just lived with them . desert rat

[Mato Kinze]

I've never encountered a "friendly" ghost. Confused, lost, angry, grief-stricken, yes. "Friendly", no.

Now, that's not to say they don't exist, it's just that being "friendly" implies a level of comfort, self assurance and peace within one's own Heart that is contrary to the reason a ghost exists in the first place. At least, in my experience that's been the case.

[Midniteshowers]

When I was younger, my aunt and uncle lived in this house that had a very 'weird' feeling in it. We would all here doors closing, toilets flush, footsteps on the steps, but nobody was there. About three years after living in the house, my uncle was sitting in the living room watching t.v one night. He heard footsteps on the stairs, so he looked over at the staircase. There was an older lady descending down the steps, in a light nightgown, kinda just floating down. He seen her often, about twice a week for the next year. It was always late, and he was the only one that seen her. He said that when she got to the end of the steps, she dissapeared. This continued for awhile, until a month before his death, when she started coming more into the living room and would look at him before she vanished. After his death, his children (about 3 and 5 years old, at the time) would talk about an old lady that would come into there room at night and cover them up with there blankets, pick up there dropped stuffed animals, and watch them throughout the night. Later, someone did research on the house and found out that an old lady did indeed die of an illness in the house, she never had any children, but loved them very much and always wanted them. Perhaps her love of have children prompted her spirit to comfort my cousins when they needed it? I remember never being afraid of sleeping, there, either.

[bluestar]

I wonder if some "ghosts" are just tracks in space. Like recordings that play over and over, and are not exactly 'ensouled'. It's us that attribute friendliness to them because they are running on their own track, and either don't appear to take any notice of us, or are engaged in some benign activities. But it's just like a recording.
I know all "ghosts" are not like that. But wondering if some phenomena we call "ghosts" are....?

[Sarinae]

Well, for one, you need to know what manner of "being there" she had. If she was highly repetitive, and you could almost set a clock by her, she wasn't a spirit or a ghost - just a memory. Those tend to be the most common forms of "haunts" and some of the most frightening, as they don't acknowledge anything around them except whatever was in that place at that particular point in their lives. This makes it easy to misinterpret what they're doing, as they might seem to be threatening you, but in reality are only an echo threatening what was once near where you stand.
Some things are "ghosts", in the sense that they are spirits that can't - or won't - leave their former lives and world behind. These are hardly ever friendly, from my experience. The only exception is my friend's father, who passed away some years ago and hangs around to keep an eye on her step-mother, who is gradually deteriorating. I get the feeling he's there to help the woman on her way, in time, and to keep her safe, as she's slowly losing the ability to handle things on her own.
But in the same house, there are "ghosts" attached to some specific things in it. The house is new (he had it built himself), but this man was an avid collector of all things curious, and there are any number of things with rather...special hitch-hikers. Not to mention the things that came along with the land it's on. The "ghosts" of this sort are not friendly; they're either absorbed in being lonely/miserable/etc. or an outright violent pain in the...you get the idea.
Another could be just a "spirit", something that has never had a life in this world, or has already released itself from it, but visits it on occasion "just because". These can be anything in nature, human or not, kind or wicked, and are by far the more entertaining companion. Still, they come and go, not staying long without a very specific purpose (like spying on young ladies in the shower) or having grown attached to someone or something here.
So, for the most part, it's a really difficult question without knowing the particular situation, and I'm sure there are more ways to categorize things than what I have here. Hope this was of interest.

[desertrat]

I had said in my first text that I did not know if it was the spirit of the lady or just some energy left over from her . A lot of hauntings are just left over energy . My point was the family had no problems with her there . desert rat

[Sarinae]

Sorry about that, desertrat, I tend to break things down a bit too far, I suppose. Just letting you know that judging what she is requires knowing a bit more, so I can't say in that particular case. Hopefully the other stuff helped though.

[royster]

Why....OH GOD WHY...has no one presented the obvious joke, here? Are we SO SANCTIMONIOUS that we can't have a little levity?

[JSB]

Because Casper is no laughing matter.

He is obviously a child who wants to make friends and play, but the other ghosts push him around and actively frighten people away.

So we have a children's show about a little boy who died traumatically and is trapped in this world, lonely and desperate for human companionship, surrounded and bullied by low-vibration entities who torment the living.

WTF?

Originally Posted by royster

Why....OH GOD WHY...has no one presented the obvious joke, here? Are we SO SANCTIMONIOUS that we can't have a little levity?

[royster]

most excellent, jsb !!!

[desertrat]

Originally Posted by royster

Why....OH GOD WHY...has no one presented the obvious joke, here? Are we SO SANCTIMONIOUS that we can't have a little levity?

I did think of Casper in making the post , but that was not what I realy meant . I just wondered how many had a little old lady or playful kid ghosts and just lived with them . desert rat

[Sarinae]

X3 That theme song has been popping in and out of my head for the past few days. But I resisted the comment. So proud of myself that I didn't do it first.

[Miia]

Oh this is fun!
About 10 years ago my family bought a really old house. I`m talking hundreds of years here

We didnt live there the first 4 years as it was being renovated and such. But my dad slept there once before we moved in. He had been hunting nearby and decided to sleep at that house since he had had a few drinks and couldnt drive back to the city where we lived back then. So he slept on the old cot in the big old house... and dreamt of a small, hairy old man who told him something like "you take good care of this place!"

One of our family friend`s who is psychic, came over before we moved in and "cleared" the house just in case (it had been a military hospital at some point) and as he was moving through the rooms, he pointed out to a small room and said: "here lives the house spirit.". He said that he`s friendly but a bit sly and likes to pull branks (and he did exactly that the first years we lived there, steps on the stairs, touching your shoulder while you were sleeping etc... I imagine he was quite amused:=)). He also described his looks and it turned out that it was the same man who had talked to my dad in his sleep.

The psychic explained that all houses/places have spirits...they arent human ghosts, they are different from us. He also said that they are emotional beings but not very intelligent... or at least not intelligent in the human sense. He said that they like to mimic what people are doing... said that the one in his country house for an example mirrors his movements when he`s chopping wood

Guess what ours did... a few weeks ago, in the middle of the night, my mom went to bathroom and as she opened the door she saw a short glowing figure turning itself infront of the mirror this way and that way as if checking himself out... So cute! Luckily my mom was very sleepy and just sort of scolded at him for disturbing her bathroom trip. lol. He dissappeared instantly.
My mom contacted our family friend and he said that it was again our house spirit who had been mimicing our behaviour... the male members of our family had a ton of fun teasing us for being vain and setting bad examples (I hope he doesnt know I`m sharing this with you guys since he could be quite embaressed/mad I can imagine...)

The psychic also said that usually people dont see them because they make themselves invisible... my mom saw him because he had been euphoric and forgot to "hide" He also said that they usually dont notice HIM checking them out because they`re used to people NOT seing them. And he also said that its hard to contact them, or enter into a dialogbecause they indeed are THAT different..

Oh and they move. When a house gets pulled down, they find another place. And they are very compatitive and dont like sharing their territory with others alike.

[MasterRishi]

Originally Posted by desertrat

I was reading on another forum of a guy that had the ghost of a little old lady in his house . I dont know if this the spirit of the little old lady or just some left over energy of her . The guy and his family had no problem with the lady there . I was wondering how many people have a friendly ghost or two and just lived with them . desert rat

I've had the pleasure of experiencing many different entities over the course of my life that I could easily categorize as friendly. Of course it's all dependent upon perceptions, friendly would indeed be determined by the person experiencing the entity and their definitions of good and bad. I had an experience once when a friend asked me to come to his house and look into some experiences he'd been having. After a few minutes in the house, I could tell that there were two little girls, sisters, that were there in his house. They were more curious than anything else and before too long, the older one began to play a little game of peek-a-boo with me. Their energy was very friendly and curious, but it was also a very subtle energy. I've found that most people who aren't psychically open are only able to perceive spirits around them when they have a more forceful energy, and the ones that use more force tend to not have the highest good of others in mind.

I agree with Sarinae's post, in that there are some ghosts who are just impressions, like footprints left behind on our realm of reality, while others are intelligent and will communicate with the living in some way. Others still are just spiritual energy as Sarinae said, who have had no human experience but choose to come and interact with us in some way. These of course can be angelic (high energy), demonic (low energy) and anything in between.

In regards to Miia's post, I have a hard time agreeing with any blanket statement when it comes to any form of spiritual entity. There is such a huge degree of variance in the behavior and circumstance surrounding the supernatural that it's very difficult to say that all entities will move with the house if it's torn down, or that all places have spirits but they aren't intelligent like us. I've cleaned some houses where the entities had a great deal more intelligence and experience than the humans living there! I mean, imagine if you said "all people that live in this country are less intelligent and like to mimic the actions of others". You're basically saying the same thing in regards to those who haunt a specific place, their variance in personality and energetic expression is the same as variance with human beings in the same regard. Each has a specific and unique energy, as well as a specific and unique way of expressing it, just like we do. I don't mean to say this to say that your psychic friend was wrong in his assessment, but perhaps just inexperienced in regards to the full spectrum and diversity of existence in the supernatural world.

I can't agree with saying that they always move either. I had a house I looked into once where there was a little girl that was seen there all the time. She was dressed in older style clothing that was all dirty and torn. She wouldn't communicate with anyone, just walked about and then would disappear. The owners looked into the history of the house, but it was a fairly new development and there had been no record of anyone dying in the area. This left the owners quite confused. When I looked into the situation, I found out that the little girl had been part of a wagon train along the Oregon Trail and the little girl had fallen off the wagon and been trampled to death by the horses. She stayed in the exact same area that she died, even when a house was eventually built there. This is just to say that sometimes they stay in one spot, sometimes they move around. You can't say that one or the other happens every single time. I've also been to houses that almost seemed energetically sterile, for lack of a better term. Although it is rare to have a place that has no entities in it at all, it is possible.

[rickrock]

I speak to deceased loved ones and friends, but I believe they were on the 'other side'. Never have I seen an apparition of a spirit on the physical plane without any attempt from me.

[Miia]

In regards to Miia's post, I have a hard time agreeing with any blanket statement when it comes to any form of spiritual entity. There is such a huge degree of variance in the behavior and circumstance surrounding the supernatural that it's very difficult to say that all entities will move with the house if it's torn down, or that all places have spirits but they aren't intelligent like us.

Oh I totally agree with you. Actually my psychic friend didn`t give me many details, just the little bit I shared with you here AND an important sidenote - he didnt give them to me, but to my dad...there might be a lot the friend is not telling (scratch that, there certainly is) and a lot that has been lost in the transition... he usually doesnt bother to share all the tiny details to satisfy the curiosity of some of the non-seers... he`s more into healing and doing his job and less talk.

I personally believe that there is an infinitive spectrum of different spiritual entities... and that there can be many, many different beings in just one house. And that different places have different beings in them... but still I think that my friend described a common trait in that kind of beings (the house/place spirits) just like you`d describe a human being to an alien, saying that they speak and walk on two legs... (I mean the mimicing part here). Apart of walking and speaking we ARE all different...same goes for them (whoever they are )
Maybe places have dozens of "spirits" in them, each for an energy layer or smth... and the beings my friend described happened to belong to just one "energy level" (not sure about the correctness of the term)... do you get what I mean?

About the intelligence - there are different kinds of intelligence. For an example, my dog can`t write and read but I consider her wise. Much wiser than me at times. Same could go /probably does/ for the beings my friend described.

I just realized after re-reading your post that we might not be talking about the same thing here.

When I looked into the situation, I found out that the little girl had been part of a wagon train along the Oregon Trail and the little girl had fallen off the wagon and been trampled to death by the horses. She stayed in the exact same area that she died, even when a house was eventually built there.

This is a HUMAN ghost (or ex-human or whatever you call them). The beings my friend was talking about weren`t human... as I understood it, they take the human form sometimes but what they really look like...I didn`t get that detail maybe they are just "light" (which my mom saw in the bathroom... a soft green glowing light). (then again, aren`t we all)

I've also been to houses that almost seemed energetically sterile, for lack of a better term. Although it is rare to have a place that has no entities in it at all, it is possible.

My friend mentioned that also. some places dont seem to have those place-spirits.

I just wondered about the big houses where there are several apartments on each floor... do they have like a king-master-spirit-of-the-house to whom all the small apartment spirits subject to, or do they have democracy? Or are those houses empty from that kind of beings...I know, I know... "this and that" but it was a fun thought

[desertrat]

An event that I had forgotten about until reading some of the responces . A few years ago I was working on an a evap. cooler , one with a 24 v. thermostat . The relay for the motor stuck on , I wired on a new relay , it stuck on . Neither of my volt meters worked , only when I was on this job . They read -E ( over range ) They lady that owned the house had lived with a guy that died of cancer , they always agrued over the cooler she told me . I found him more amusing or interesting , that he would haunt a cooler . desert rat