Ghost Hunting / Paranormal Investigation Query

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I mean, are you going to be exploring and recording at the beach, or a nature spot? Or are you going to be exploring at midnight at an old house / cemetery / “haunted” location?
Maybe you can give us an example of a place where you would be exploring / recording? That might tell us all a lot. : )
 
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Maybe by finding a new thing to be passionate for or a hobby will make you forget about this and the dilemma wil solve itself.
 
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DeSales111 said:
My wife’s curiosity into paranormal activity in our house led to a full on demonic attack.
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I’m particularly interested in this statement, because we had a couple possibly paranormal occurrences in our home.
Two experienced by only one person (ie no witnesses).
One that may have been the result of a sleepwalking episode (several of us somnambulate).
A third that we simply can’t explain.

Furthermore, several family members claim to have lived in a house that was actively haunted by strange experiences.

I’ve wondered if this was connected with some persistent family issues (addiction, mental health), ie a generational “curse”.

Paranormal stuff is interesting, but it’s certainly not worth the risk of inviting something into your family you may not be able to eradicate.
 
Here’s a comparison that might provide some perspective. Suppose I decided to look at old photos. I didn’t take the photos other than to capture memories, and I don’t know all the people in the back ground of the photos, but I begin to pour over them seeking any immodesty, nudity or sexual content that might be lurking in the background of the photos.

Would it be appropriate and healthy for me to spend time looking for such content, even if I didn’t take the photos specifically seeking such content?

Is that a healthy and appropriate focus? Would I not be culpable for seeking immodesty, simply because it was not the original purpose for taking the photos? If we try hard enough, we might be able to find a technical loophole, but I still need to be honest about my intention NOW.

Either I steer clear of immodesty or I don’t. Either you are seeking the paranormal or you aren’t. Seeking it after the fact is still seeking it.The Church teaches that its members must steer clear of any of that.

Perhaps you could turn your curiosity towards the various miraculous visions and miracles that take place within the bounds of and have been approved by the Church. Lots of material there.
 
We were only going to explore local exploration places e.g. Forests, Landmarks, Castles, may be a few buildings such as Hotels etc that are still running a current business for the public. We didn’t want to do any derelict buildings as they would be considered too dangerous due to them falling apart and rotting away.

We even thought about going along with tour guides to these exploration areas as they are considered a tourist attraction.

That’s why I was trying to explain about comparing these places to any other tourist spots.

Some places are “speculated” to be haunted but this could be an old Irish folk tale to attract tourists to Ireland.
 
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Do you understand ‘haunted’ is not a Catholic thing. We dont believe ghosts of the souls of the dead hang around here on earth
 
I understand completely what it says in the Bible about people passing on only end up in one of 3 places in the after life, however I sill saw a shadowy figure in our house when I was 16, it didn’t frighten me as it didn’t feel threatening when I saw it, it just made me wonder what it was and why it showed itself to me which makes me think that theres alot out there that we don’t know the reasoning for.

I guess it was that experience that sparked my curiosity in the first place.
 
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Wildy84 said:
I understand completely what it says in the Bible about people passing on only end up in one of 3 places in the after life, however I sill saw a shadowy figure in our house when I was 16, it didn’t frighten me as it didn’t feel threatening when I saw it, it just made me wonder what it was and why it showed itself to me which makes me think that theres alot out there that we don’t know the reasoning for.

I guess it was that experience that sparked my curiosity in the first place.
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That shadowey figure, from a Catholic perspective is either trick of the light, trick of the mind, intruder, demon.

Have you heard of the study where things wont be noticed because either we do or we dont expect them to be there. That is the mind choosing how to process an object.
 
I’ve heard that before also but my parents were able to back it up as they saw it too.

It was a shadowy figure with what looked like a top hat he was wearing and it wasn’t a second glance either, it stood there behind the door frame for about 4 seconds peeking from behind it as if it was seeing what I was up to before moving it’s head away and disapeared.

The guy who owned the house before we bought it in 1993 and moved in, died of old age in that house and we thought it was him watching us every now and then wondering what we were doing in his house as we had no other explination for it.
 
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Wildy84 said:
I’ve heard that before also but my parents were able to back it up as they saw it too.

It was a shadowy figure with what looked like a top hat he was wearing and it wasn’t a second glance either, it stood there behind the door frame for about 4 seconds peeking from behind it as if it was seeing what I was up to before moving it’s head away and disapeared.

The guy who owned the house before we bought it in 1993 and moved in, died of old age in that house and we thought it was him watching us every now and then wondering what we were doing in his house as we had no other explination for it.
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Your parents were able to back what up exactly?

Living on a house where someone has died or even been murdered does not equate to them haunting a house.
 
Talk with your priest, seriously. When I first moved in our current home suddenly we noticed very strange things happening, so strange that even my atheist husband grew very concerned since he couldn’t find a reasonable physical explanation (and he is a very worldly, no nonsense type of guy). We were intrigued and scared at the same time. Several months later, for a totally unrelated reason, a parish priest visited our home and asked if he could bless us and our home (we didn’t tell him anything about what was going on). We accepted and now we have been free from these weird phenomena for few years. We found out through the grapevine that the priest is probably one of the diocese exorcist so this confirmed my fears that there was some kind of demonic activity involved in what we were seeing.
 
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I’ve always wanted to explore allegedly haunted locations, but I ultimately decide against it. While there is no official Catholic teaching on ghosts and specters, I tend to believe they are either the souls of the dead in purgatory that are in need of prayers or demons. Not willing to take that chance and end up the play-thing of a devil.
 
They were able to back up what I saw because they saw it as well on other days and the description matched what the shape of the figure looked like to their own experience of it. So if 3 people saw the exact same shape of figure on different occasions would that not be too much of a coincidence?
 
A lot of people assume that ghostly phenomena means dealing with the souls of the departed. The way that I see Scripture, those who die go into eternity and don’t hang around interacting with the living.

The only spirit we as Christian believers should have anything to do with is God, the Holy Spirit. I firmly believe that anything paranormal is demonic and should therefore be avoided.

Just my two cents.
 
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They were able to back up what I saw because they saw it as well on other days and the description matched what the shape of the figure looked like to their own experience of it. So if 3 people saw the exact same shape of figure on different occasions would that not be too much of a coincidence?
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That still doesnt make it a ghost of a dead soul
 
My only concern is that this is a possible occasion of sin. Even if you are not sinning in what you are doing, could it somehow lead there some day?

Once you find out it exists, there may well be a temptation later on to try to make contact. The line can be easy to cross once you are on it.
 
True but then what was it? This is what I meant about us not knowing enough out there to verify what it was.
 
I recommend you to read Father Amorth book before taking any step further. You may find your answer there.
 
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True but then what was it? This is what I meant about us not knowing enough out there to verify what it was.
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The Catholic church would say human construct, and if that is discounted then supernatural of demonic origins. You wanting to go looking for ‘proof’ is inviting an open door to the supernatural that wont be of a good wholesome kind.

Do you attend Mass? Weekly? With your family?
 
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