Haunted House

[RedDuke50]

The house became haunted when I was a baby. Unexplainable things happened like a bell that my grandmother gave us rang while no one was downstairs to ring it. My father heard a knock on the bar when he left for work. My parents would be playing with me when I would suddenly ignore them and laugh at something they couldn’t see.
I was wondering if people’s souls would be allowed to leave Heaven to be with their family since they thought this spirit was my deceased grandfather. He left when my mother walked around the house and told it that they didn’t want it there and that we were safe.

Thanks,
RedDuke50

 

[Monica4316]

I don’t think souls in Heaven could come back to earth.

I’ve read that “haunted” houses are related to souls in Purgatory who come to ask for prayers, (or maybe part of their purgatory involves being on earth? who knows), or demons.

 

[puzzleannie]

I have no opinion and a high degree of skepticism since I think these manifestations all have natural explanations, but if it is causing you and your family concern, see a priest.

 

[CountrySteve]

i seconded monicas answer God bless

 

[ChrisRedfield47]

The following is just my opinion, based on investigation ive made:

Ghosts/Spirits in a haunted house or place, are all in reality demons/devils trying to deceive you to believe that they in reality are a person who lived in the past (family, friend, etc). These beings are able to haunt a place when in such place witchcraft or very evil activities were made. Such as playing with the ouija board, a homicide, or any witchcraft activity. This is just to put it simple.

As far as I know, no one can simply leave heaven for any reason, And I dont think it is the case of those who are in the purgatory. Again its just my opinion, but I do believe all the above for several reasons.

 

[RedDuke50]

Thank you for your answers. I’m glad that I got to have other people say something about this other than my family.

RedDuke50

 

[scoobydoo6v92]

I have no opinion and a high degree of skepticism since I think these manifestations all have natural explanations, but if it is causing you and your family concern, see a priest.

I feel that the paranorma is natural in that it is not man made. and very real. I strongly feel that there is so so much more that is UNseen than seen. What we see is just the tip of the iceberg as to was is out there. The devil is like a roaring lion to devour anyone he can. I do also beleive that haunted houses are either a demonic occurance or souls looking for prayers. St Fuastina had that happen to her. I have had experiences as well . I have heard my name called out when no one was around. Many other things I just can’t explain.

 

[knotanes]

Whatever may happen, I wouldn’t try to engage it in conversation. Prayer is the best answer to most of life’s mysteries.

Demonis or souls in purgatory is what I’ve heard, too.

 

[knotanes]

I feel that the paranorma is natural in that it is not man made. and very real. I strongly feel that there is so so much more that is UNseen than seen. What we see is just the tip of the iceberg as to was is out there. The devil is like a roaring lion to devour anyone he can. I do also beleive that haunted houses are either a demonic occurance or souls looking for prayers. St Fuastina had that happen to her. I have had experiences as well . I have heard my name called out when no one was around. Many other things I just can’t explain.

I’ll second what you said. Although, I’ve been a skeptic in my lifetime, I’m growing less so by the minute. Prayer, best defense against either demons or psychological evil.

 

[Bob_Crowley]

I don’t think souls in Heaven could come back to earth.

I’ve read that “haunted” houses are related to souls in Purgatory who come to ask for prayers, (or maybe part of their purgatory involves being on earth? who knows), or demons.

I’m inclined to agree. It could have been the grandfather or demonic, but since it’s gone away, then it doesn’t matter anyway. It reminds me of the prediction my old pastor made circa 1990/91 that he thought I’d “be doing cleaning. You won’t be doing it long, and you won’t like it much, but I think the Lord will just want you to hear about a ghost.” How’s that for pastoral advice? I knew how accurate he was, but I still thought that was over the top.

But to cut a long story short, in 2006 i did a cleaning job for a short time, didn’t like it much, and heard about a ghost. The ghost was apparently a former manager in the old store where this took place, who committed suicide in the 1960’s (as far as I know). I belatedly got a mass said for him, and when i had doubts about whether this had been done, happened to chance upon an associate priest via this forum who was domiciled no more than 500 meters from the store in question. So I asked him by email to ensure a mass was said (one of those odd coincidences which seem to haunt my spiritual experiences, if you’ll pardon the expression).

I assume this is why the pastor said, “I think the Lord will just want you to hear about a ghost” viz. to get a mass said for a suicide. But it still took 15 years for me to hear about him after the pastor’s prediction, and by that time he’d been stuck in the store for about 40 years (not far from the alleged average of 30 to 40 earth years in Purgatory when you think about it, and which Michael Brown, the Catholic journalist, quoted seemed to be about the average purgatorial time for inmates. Hmmm).

So yes, I think it could well have been the grandfather, asking for prayers from Purgatory.

 

[Telstar]

I’m inclined to agree. It could have been the grandfather or demonic, but since it’s gone away, then it doesn’t matter anyway. It reminds me of the prediction my old pastor made circa 1990/91 that he thought I’d “be doing cleaning. You won’t be doing it long, and you won’t like it much, but I think the Lord will just want you to hear about a ghost.” How’s that for pastoral advice? I knew how accurate he was, but I still thought that was over the top.

But to cut a long story short, in 2006 i did a cleaning job for a short time, didn’t like it much, and heard about a ghost. The ghost was apparently a former manager in the old store where this took place, who committed suicide in the 1960’s (as far as I know). I belatedly got a mass said for him, and when i had doubts about whether this had been done, happened to chance upon an associate priest via this forum who was domiciled no more than 500 meters from the store in question. So I asked him by email to ensure a mass was said (one of those odd coincidences which seem to haunt my spiritual experiences, if you’ll pardon the expression).

I assume this is why the pastor said, “I think the Lord will just want you to hear about a ghost” viz. to get a mass said for a suicide. But it still took 15 years for me to hear about him after the pastor’s prediction, and by that time he’d been stuck in the store for about 40 years (not far from the alleged average of 30 to 40 earth years in Purgatory when you think about it, and which Michael Brown, the Catholic journalist, quoted seemed to be about the average purgatorial time for inmates. Hmmm).

So yes, I think it could well have been the grandfather, asking for prayers from Purgatory.

I agree. I think many times the ghosts that people see are either souls that are in Purgatory, looking for prayers, or, they might even be evil souls that are in hell (demons), that are forced to relive parts of their evil lives, over and over, as a reminder to them of why they’re there. When a soul is in Purgatory and no one has prayed for them, they end up staying there much longer than those who have friends and family praying for them regularly. Since most Protestants don’t think it’s necessary to pray for the dead, I think many of those souls are forgotten, and have to stay until they finish their ‘sentence’ on their own, or the general prayers of Catholics and the Church for the ‘forgotten’ souls in Purgatory, shorten their stay. I think the best thing to do if we have any experiences with ghosts, is to pray for them and all of the other forgotten souls in Purgatory for their relief and/or release.

In cases where the activity includes dark shadow type figures or physical scratching, pushing, etc., it could very well be demons that are drawn to an unholy place where occult practices took place in the past. Those practices can open a ‘doorway’ that allows them to enter. In that case, I would call in a holy Priest to bless the place, or perform an exorcism to ‘close the door’.