Why are some places haunted while others aren’t?

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Maybe one place has better dinners than the other, it’s maid service might be up to snuff and ghosts might be friendlier.
 
Francis said:
As God selects certain places , like Rome ,Lourdes ,Fatima ,Jerusalem, they are holy place ,like wise satan likes certain places ,where there is sin there is satan ,like the tombs and desearted places and houses
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I don’t mean to offend, I’m just curious. Your commas and periods are consistently placed on the other side of the space. Is that a local custom?
 
Scripture and the doctrine of the Church lets us say with certainity when one dies, their soul goes to purgatory, heaven or hell. No one’s soul goes to a hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas or Moundsville Penitentiary in W Va or to your uncle’s attic.
 
I don’t think we have the slightest idea what spiritual persons are where or if a manifestation that we believe we can sense even indicates a physical presence of a spirit rather than contact by a spirit. More to the point, we can’t tell one spirit from another except by whether the content of what the spirit communicates (if anything) is in keeping with revelations we already know are true.

I do think there are places where people are more open to communications from spirits they know nothing about and that places that have gained a reputation for being "haunted"are among those places.

Having said that, I do know someone who lived in a house in which strange things happened, both when he was there and when he was not. He was a priest, and other priests believed that strange things went on there that had no natural explanation and yet did not seem to be demonic in nature. His attitude and theirs was to avoid getting too much of an interest in those things. They happen, but what is most important was to allow them to lead you only to doing good things (such as offering prayers for the dead) and not forbidden things (such as trying to initiate communication with spirits you really know nothing about, rather than sticking with prayer).
 
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I’m extremely dubious about ghostly appearances. It usually doesn’t take that much investigation, or more than an overnight stay or two from a skeptical inquirer for it to turn out to be an entirely natural phenomenon.
 
Whatever it is, natural or supernatural, a prayer to St. Michael the Archangel is never a bad idea.
 
Francis, there is no validation in that biblical quote for assuming it discusses damned souls of dead humans.

As stated, when we die, we are judged and our soul sent to heaven, purgatory or hell.
 
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This is a whole 'nother thread, about the “famous internet” exorcists.

Even a demonic “infestation” is not a haunting. Demons never were human.
 
Most people equate haunting with paranormal activity. Then we must educate them about the particulars.
 
leonhardprintz said:
I’m extremely dubious about ghostly appearances. It usually doesn’t take that much investigation, or more than an overnight stay or two from a skeptical inquirer for it to turn out to be an entirely natural phenomenon.
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Well, that’s the thing. In the case I know about it was seminarians using a parish house that had previously housed several priests but had only one in residence. That was the pastor, who was on vacation at the time. This priest had been a witness to strange things at that house since he had arrived, but the other priests knew about them and didn’t make much of them. They pretty much chalked them up to those who’d had last rites checking out, as these things had a way of happening between last rites and the call from the family to make funeral arrangements. This is fairly remote place, so they had an idea who they’d be hearing from.
At any rate, the seminarians picked up the keys from the priest at a neighboring parish. The next morning they came back and reported to the priest that they’d gotten up out of their beds each wanting to know what the other had been thinking making that kind of noise in the middle of the night. When the group came to the conclusion that honest-to-goodness none of them had been making those noises, they turned on the stereo, waiting out the night, and decided against going back for additional nights. Having interviewed them and knowing other stories from the priest who lived there, the priest in the neighboring parish absolutely believed there wasn’t a natural explanation.
Mind you, they did not see apparitions. For instance, the priest who lived there said his first experience was the door of his room opening and the clear sound of footsteps coming in and pausing at the foot of his bed, but without a doubt nobody was there. When he told the other priests the next morning, they were utterly unconcerned, saying that this kind of thing happened from time to time and not to worry about it. He found this was true. Other things were along the lines of a book falling off a shelf, seemingly of its own accord, and being found to have a forgotten Mass stipend tucked inside it. There were a lot of different things like that, but I don’t remember ever hearing there were any apparitions.
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None of these are doctrine.
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No, and the priests I know who knew about these kind of things all thought it was best to avoid dwelling on them. Maybe they were something real, maybe not, but other than remembering to pray for the dead (which was not a bad idea, in any case), that was a realm best left to itself. They all thought an unhealthy interest or even undue fear was just leaving an opening for the One who peddles in glamour and false pretenses.
 
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Getting back on Topic, While those anecdotes may not be doctrine, haunting/infestations do occur and are real. Semantically speaking, most people equate haunting with paranormal activity. We Catholics would call it an infestation. My personal opinion is that souls in Purgatory will not bother the living and/or cause issues.
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Decades ago, before I was born, My family’s house experienced several years of demonic activity. It started with the birth of my parents second child, my eldest brother, and it escalated over the course of five years. First it was a voice talking over the baby monitor then temperature changes and frost on the furniture. Howling and the rattling of chains also occurred. A part of the wall got hot to the touch even though nothing was inside or near it. Finally, it revealed itself as a misty figur…
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
Father Gallitzin
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
Not entirely correct.
One of the Priests in this account, Father Gallitzin, is being investigated for sainthood.
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Am I missing something here? Cause for sainthood starts after someone is dead and alleged miracles happen through intercession to that person so I see nothing in that article that has any relevance. I notice the first header in that article is LEGEND.
 
His cause isn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article.

However, he has his own wiki article. (That you can read if you click his name in blue in the article I posted)
There’s also a website dedicated to his cause, if you google his name.
 
0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
His cause isn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article.

However, he has his own wiki article. (That you can read if you click his name in blue in the article I posted)
There’s also a website dedicated to his cause, if you google his name.
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I know there is a cause for his sainthood. What I am saying it has nothing to do with the story you posted.
 
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