How can a house become haunted

Or do you just have a faulty ventilation system? Find out what classic signs of a haunted house are actually caused by ventilation problems, and how you can fix them.

A cold spot in your home is a sure sign of a ghost—or is it? This means cold air can be leaked into one area of the house, or not make it through the ducts to reach another area.

Ghost hunters will look for EMF spikes as a sign of a ghost. EMF stands for Electric or Magnetic Field, and these fields can be caused by a wide variety of reasons.

An EMF reader can detect a spike near any electrical appliance, such as a microwave or television. This is not harmful and not proof of a ghost—it just means your appliances are working.

Once Stambovsky got wind of all this, he wanted out of the purchase. He took the seller and real estate agent to court, claiming fraudulent misrepresentation. The lower court was not sympathetic and ruled that the seller and agent had no obligation to disclose ghostly presences. But a New York appellate court made the astonishing ruling that the house was haunted:.

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Grow Your Legal Practice. Meet the Editors. How to find out if your dream house is haunted before you buy. Helen Ackley: The ghosts periodically left gifts of baby rings for the owner's grandchildren and then took them back. One ghost woke the owner's daughter every morning by shaking her bed until the girl loudly informed the poltergeists that she wanted to sleep in because it was spring break. While painting the home, Mrs.

Ackley according to what she told The New York Times saw a ghost sitting in midair, rocking and back forth. I asked if he approved of what we were doing to the house, if the colors were to his liking.

He smiled and he nodded his head. As science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke put it, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The night my lights took on a life of their own I sat on the sofa, paralysed with fear.

There was no one else in the house except for the cat and the dog. My husband had left a few hours earlier on a work trip.

With Ben flying to Norway, my psychological backup was 35, feet up. My phone pinged. I paused. They continued to flash and change hue.

The realisation slowly dawned. Ben was manipulating the internet-enabled devices in our house, messing with my personal space from the sky. And with that, the sheet was pulled off the ghost in the machine.

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