What causes a house to be haunted?

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A simple question.

What exactly causes a house to become haunted?
 
In these types of circumstances where an evil spirit finds dominion in a physical place or object, it is usually the case that demonic and evil events have taken a place in that place/object. Events such as playing with an ouiji board, satanic practices, or even a murder may casue a place to be possesed.
 
I’ve done some research on the topic of exorcisms and the possesion of a household falls in this category so I know a few thing relating to it:)
 
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What exactly causes a house to become haunted?
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The Church doesn’t endorse the secular belief in wandering/lost souls, imprints, or the colloquial terminology surrounding “paranormal hauntings”.

Specifically, these places are referred to as “infested” and it’s assumed by demonic entities.

How a building or place becomes haunted is not always known. However, it’s usually due to dabbling in the occult and invoking unclean spirits.

In the case of my parents house, we have no idea how it became infested. But there was something lurking and Thank God it’s gone now!

If you would like to learn more, I would suggest reading An Exorcist Tells His Story https://www.amazon.com/dp/0898707102/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_7YmMFb3X1S6Q1
 
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MasterHaster said:
Define haunted
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I don’t know how you or anyone else interprets “haunted”. But I take it that it relates to demonic possession. Of course it could also relate to non demonic entities like ghosts if you want to call it which are not demonic but neutral. The Church cannot really explain these ‘ghosts’. They have vague explanations theorizing it could be connected to those in purgatory but the church is still rather unsure.
 
Some of these so-called hauntings have natural explanations, noises are not often supernatural. If a strong feeling of a presence that is evil or negative persists, then it is the work of the devil. The good news is the devil is powerless against the faithful.
 
Haha, yes. I remember when two years back I used to be scared out of my pants about ghosts and whether they would somehow kill me. But now that I have become a more devout Catholic, I find that if a evil entity here to ‘haunt’ me, I would just tell it to go away or pray the rosary. I think the devils are better off trying to tempt me rather than make me scared of them lol
 
I could definitely understand that haha. Before I became devout, I was set on the career if joing the Army Special Forces and becoming a fearless warrior. So personally with that background, something about me wants to cast out demons with St. Michael by my side like some epic battle scen haha
 
Here’s a haunted house story from early America.
A Catholic died in a Lutheran house without last sacraments.

One of the priests mentioned, Fr Gallitzin, has a cause opened for sainthood ATM

 
Is this Catholic teaching? That those judged to hell dont actually get sent there by God, but are free to haunt on earth?
This makes little sense to me, after all, that would mean those judged to heaven or purgatory are also free to hang around on earth.
 
My question is very clear because we do not want to misrepresent the Church and its teachings. Church teaching is that immediately upon death we are subject to our first judgement, Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.
Then at the end of time we are subject to our second judgement, which is the same as the first, we just get our bodies back then after they are resurrected.

We cannot make an argument on church teaching, we must stick to what the church teaches. If someone is a mystic and seeing the Virgin Mary or one of the old saints, or Jesus or another member of the Holy Family, the church must investigate and approve it. Even then the Church does not teach those souls judged to hell are able to haunt people on earth.
Exorcists will say its demonic, and these so called ‘hauntings’ have a demonic cause.
 
Give yourself more credit, in Christ, brother!

This did make me chuckle though 😝
 
I have said this in other threads and I will say it again (sorry):

Why would a soul needing prayers appear as a scary, silent ghost?

Wouldn’t it be more productive to appear “naturally” and ask a relative for prayers? Or better, appear in a dream?

These kind of “paranormal” apparitions seem more likely to come from demons than from a near-saint in Purgatory.
 
I think there’s no peace within that household, and through that, the evil possesses the home.
 
That doesnt change church teaching though. Private revelation is just that private revelation and does not change Public Revelation.

Whether Judas has been counted amongst the occupants of hell, or not, the church will not say. Judas appearing at possession cases does not mean he is haunting the living.
 
AlbMagno said:
I have said this in other threads and I will say it again (sorry):

Why would a soul needing prayers appear as a scary, silent ghost?

Wouldn’t it be more productive to appear “naturally” and ask a relative for prayers? Or better, appear in a dream?

These kind of “paranormal” apparitions seem more likely to come from demons than from a near-saint in Purgatory.
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It’s up to God if, and how, he lets a soul in Purgatory speak to people.

I find that I myself am more likely to “dream dreams” but that doesn’t mean that God couldn’t let another person see an apparition.

I used to wish that God would send me some Holy Souls in person to ask me for prayers, but God seems to prefer to use the Internet or other means to let me know. Like one time I was praying at the cemetery and happened to see a big decorated gravestone with the last name of an elderly priest I knew. No relation as it was two states away from where the priest lived, but just same last name. I immediately thought, “I wonder if Fr. Samelastname passed away” and I Googled and sure enough he had passed about 2 months before, so I knew to say prayers for him.
 
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My point is and I said it in my first thread post to you, the Catholic Church does not teach that damned souls are let loose to wander earth and haunt people. It teaches the judgement and shipping the soul off to its judgement straight after death.
I cannot answer as to why I am being read as argumentative nor can I see it as trivial. Especially when we are trying to teach what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

Demons , false gods, fallen angels, satan, are as taught by the Church. It teaches that satan is the prince of this world.
The Church does not acknowledge hauntings by damned souls. It acknowledges demonic interference. Again private revelation is very different ot public revelation and we are not obliged to subscribe to it. The devil and his cohort of demons are free to wander around on earth and try to ruin souls. That is Church teaching.

The more the point is driven home that its not a haunting , its demonic activity, what did the person do to open the door, or its not a haunting there is a perfectly logical explanation for it, the more that point might sink in.
 
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I know and I never said you did.

I totally agree that demons , as taught by the Church, are quite capable of getting the permission from God, to give us the cow manures.

I agree completely with the demon issue.
The devil , and this is Church teaching, is the prince of this world.

I enjoy Fr. Ripperger and a few other Internet Priests and Bishops. I respect his particular brand of exorcism and his Church teaching, especially since he came out and said a certain section of the trads could be going off on a false path. I also enjoy his teaching on how to avoid opening the door to the demonic.

The Church says we have no idea who is in hell and who isnt. So these private revelations, that would have to also be the same. The rich man who had Lazarus try to get him water and try to warn his brothers, even that story does not state that soul was damned.

🙂 here so you know I am not being argumentative and am quite genuine about all this.
 
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My wife and I came under a severe demonic attack in our home back in 2010. My wife, who had no faith background at all saw things that began occurring months before the attack as secular, aka “haunted” and someone from "other side"needing help. Although I was as far away from the faith as I could be then, I had that inner instinct that she was messing with what should be left alone. I had seen a priest and several men dragging a possessed girl into the Church when I was maybe 12 yes old, and I never forgot the sounds coming out of her or the way she was stronger than those grown men trying to drag her. So I warned my wife, don’t mess with the so called “ghost.” She didn’t listen, her curiosity got the best of her, then one night the full on attack occurred. Only by the grace of God did we survive.

From our experience we now both very much dislike the watered down secular terms “haunted” or “ghost.” Those terms do not do justice for the reality of the spiritual warfare that exists. It is real and it is VERY dangerous. All I can say is that anyone who has survived a real attack, they know exactly what I’m talking about. Never underestimate or take lightly the presence of evil. Do not just brush off warning signs within your home as just a “haunting,” because it can become a very dangerous situation.

God bless.
 
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