Going Ghost Hunting on Halloween!

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Sir Knight:
Demons PRETENDING to be the spirits (ghosts) of departed ones.
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Maybe she’s going demon hunting then… Even angel hunting, if I may be so bold.
 
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TreeHugger:
I’d recommend the book ‘An Exorcist Tells His Story’ to anyone interested in learning about demons. It explains a lot of things, including that there is no such thing as ‘white magic’, and gives accounts of Fr. Gabriel Amorth’s experiences. There is another book he wrote…I read them both, but I can’t remember the name of the other. They helped me better understand that we should be wary of Satan, and the many ways he tries to influence us without our knowing.
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Didn’t Fr. Armoth say in his book that ghosts are not what we think they are, but are in reality, demons?
 
Let me give you a thought. Tonight, I’m going to dinner and a concert. I don’t feel that there are prayers needed in case I unintentionally invite a spirit into my home by doing this.

When you asked for prayers before going - it seems that somewhere in your mind there was a suspicion that you might be opening the door - just a crack - to things that are evil.

If there is a question in your heart, listen to that voice. Take the money that you would spend on this, get tickets to a play or concert or spend it on a great relaxing massage!
 
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TarAshly:
good morning to you to dear sweet Barrister. how did i know you were gonna total misinterpret this whole thing.i AM a catholic so why would i mock it. i dont know what to expect like i said it will be my first time doing something like this, thats why i asked for the prayer.
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I’m only trying to help, my dear. I think my points are valid. You **knew ** that you would be seeking after things against which you wanted to have a prayer at hand to use to ward off any ill or evil effect. Either that, or you were mocking us and our beliefs.

You don’t seem to conprehend the danger inherent in playing around with things you don’t understand. The struggle between good and evil is not just an allegory for what’s happening in the world today - there really IS a struggle going on, right now, for your soul and for the world itself. It is a spiritual warfare, a raging battle, and one that someone unfamiliar with the ways of the enemy should not stick her head into. What seems like harmless fun and turn harmful in a split second.

If you “don’t know what to expect,” then you ought not pursue it.
 
but Barrister how will i ever KNOW anything unless i investigate it for myself?
 
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TarAshly:
but Barrister how will i ever KNOW anything unless i investigate it for myself?
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Is this a trick question? 🙂

What if I told you that sticking bamboo shoots under your fingernails is very painful. Would you have to submit to a demonstration to see for yourself?

How about cocaine - would you need to snort some or freebase it to see whether it would harm you?

Of course not. So why put God to the test by intentionally exposing yourself to spirits? The only difference between playing with cocaine and playing with spirits is that spirits are not visible to your eye - but they’re just as harmful, if not more so.

Read your Bible - spirits here on earth aren’t here to do good.

Fr. Auman: *If you want to get your head screwed on crooked, continue with your ghost business. Little boys and girls like to play with matches; big boys and girls like to dabble in spiritism - with the same results. *

Mother Angelica: The statement “How will I know unless I try,” has been the cause of great evil in our lives.

I’m just trying to help you avoid a huge mistake.
 
i appreciate the help, but its just a night out with my guy on halloween.
 
Tar, just go have some fun.

God will NOT condemn you to hell for walking around a town late at night with a group of people and a guide telling you ghost stories!

About the spirits, if you really believe, there’s nothing that can shake your faith.
 
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TarAshly:
i appreciate the help, but its just a night out with my guy on halloween.
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No. It isn’t.
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UKStudent:
God will NOT condemn you to hell for walking around a town late at night with a group of people and a guide telling you ghost stories!
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First off, no one said anything about “condemning her to hell.” Don’t twist what I or anyone else said on here.

Second, what you just said is not what she described would be happening.

Lastly, TA came here looking not for advice, but for someone to validate what she wanted to do. She now has her validation.

Yup, go have fun. Say “Hi” to Casper for me.
 
Getting scared can actually be fun. I try not to do it too often. The only thing I find wrong with this is paying for it. Is this marketed as a spoof or is an actual encounter with a real Ghost being sold?
 
If you’re seeing things running through your head
Who can you call?
Ghostbusters!
An invisible man sleeping in your bed
Oh, who you gonna call?
Ghostbusters!

I ain’t afraid of no ghost
Sorry just had to do it man.👋
 
Barrister, who said anything about validation, i dont need anyones permission or validation to do anything. i asked simply for a prayer if youll read my original post. i never said anything about “is this ok” or “is this wrong” or anything like that. all i asked for was a prayer thats all.
 
Michael C:
Getting scared can actually be fun. I try not to do it too often. The only thing I find wrong with this is paying for it. Is this marketed as a spoof or is an actual encounter with a real Ghost being sold?
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no its not marketed as a spoof they advertise the real thing, you just ride on a bus to the most haunted sites in houston, use actual tools ghost hunters use and take pictures! its just something fun to do on Halloween. they have really cool pictures at this website. Gallery 3 is the most impressive. highspiritstours.com/
 
this pic is pretty cool to! ghostsincorporated.com/Ghosts/FaceLight.jpg
can you see the womans face in the window!?

this picture was taken at the Jeff Davis Hospital, it was built in like 1926 over a grave yard where they buried “undesirables and victims of the plague” it shut down only 10 years later because “strange” things were happening, and then opened up again in the early eighties and almost immediatley shut down. now theyre gonna tear it down next month and turn it into affordable apartment housing, its believed to be the most haunted building in Houston! you couldnt pay me to live there! even though i dont really believe in all this stuff but its fun anyway. my friend drove down to the hospital at midnight last halloween with her boyfriend, they said smoke was coming out of the crematorium stack and that there was a light in one of the windows, she freaked out when she hear a woman scream and then heard glass break, and this place has been shut down and borded up for over 20 years! needless to say, they took off! its probably just another silly ghost story every towns got one, but its kinda neat.
 
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UKStudent:
Tar, just go have some fun.

God will NOT condemn you to hell for walking around a town late at night with a group of people and a guide telling you ghost stories!

About the spirits, if you really believe, there’s nothing that can shake your faith.
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I agree. This sounds really interesting. I’ve been interested in ghosts/spirits since I was a kid. Of all the things my mother (who was a strict Catholic) told me were evil, my interest in ghosts was never one of them (although she did get pissed when I was 7 and wrote a letter to her dead father that I had never met).

People need to stop looking for the evil in things. Not ever unexplainable thing is a demon in disguise (or an angel necessarily). I don’t see how one can believe in the evil incarnate, and not in spirits of deceased people. The concept of Satan seems more unbelieveable to me. Besides, do you know that all souls have gone to heaven/hell/purgatory already? Just because the Catholic Church says so doesn’t make it true.
 
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BlessedBe13:
Besides, do you know that all souls have gone to heaven/hell/purgatory already? Just because the Catholic Church says so doesn’t make it true.
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Yes I do KNOW all souls have gone to heavan/hell/purgatory because the Church teaches it and the Church is the bride of Christ. If you want to call the bride of Christ a liar you only prove my point. If you call Christ’s church a liar than that your source of this information is the father of lies. TarAshley is a Catholic, I don’t think a professed wiccan should be giving her advice on Catholic doctrine.You have already bought into the lie.

I have no problem with haunted houses put up for halloween because we all know they’re not real. TarAshley was asking for Catholic prayers to protect her from real spirits. She mentioned she had real experiences. That is dangerous territory. If you put hand in a fire it gets burned whether you believe the fire will hurt you or not.
 
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BlessedBe13:
I agree. This sounds really interesting. I’ve been interested in ghosts/spirits since I was a kid. Of all the things my mother (who was a strict Catholic) told me were evil, my interest in ghosts was never one of them (although she did get pissed when I was 7 and wrote a letter to her dead father that I had never met).

People need to stop looking for the evil in things. Not ever unexplainable thing is a demon in disguise (or an angel necessarily). I don’t see how one can believe in the evil incarnate, and not in spirits of deceased people. The concept of Satan seems more unbelieveable to me. Besides, do you know that all souls have gone to heaven/hell/purgatory already? Just because the Catholic Church says so doesn’t make it true.
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“Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” The Usual Suspects, 1995

Shalom, amen.
 
I actually did some reasearch on this some years ago. On the internet I found a Ghost Hunting group that claimed to be Catholic, so I actually clicked on their page. Their investigations were fascinating…and they backed up Catholic teaching. They stated that people think “ghosts” are harmless…but then come to learn later the evil ghosts they call “poltergeists” are actually demons. They really emphasized this. They helped exorcize homes, people…etc., as a result of demonic oppression, possession, all that.

I used to live in a “haunted” house…and I can tell you right now there was nothing fascinating or intriguing about it. The fact is that the only :“ghost” story I ever read was a fictional account about “The House over the Hell-Crack” that seemed a little too similar to my experiences to be comfortable. I have been places since where I felt “presences.”

They may disguise themselves as “good” but they are not. They are evil demons playing with your mind. They are evil.

If you go, pray, bring Holy Water, wear your crucifix or miraculous medal to remind you of God’s protection and power over these principalities. Use the St. Michael prayer and please do order Father Aamoth’s books on exorcism. The stories are fascinating, the theology sound and illuminating…and the advice solid.
 
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