In the immortal words of Stan Lee. “It’s a story, it depends on what the writer decides.”
What if they’re haunting the physical location and not just the building? I’ll have to check the ghost handbook.
If the ghosts are of ded contemporary physicists they’re probably haunting the region of space that our solar system occupied in the galaxy when they died.
So mostly floating in space
Moon’s haunted
Depends what reference frame they died in. If it’s inertial, they’ll be in an orbit, and will spend most of their time falling through the Earth’s deep interior. Occasionally, they’ll surface.
Moral: Don’t be a physicist.
Let me know what you find
If you dig the location up enough do they leave or haunt it more? Just sort of angrily floating where the ground used to be?
It depends on how quickly each piece is replaced. It takes some time for the ghost to attach to new boatds and beams. And thats of course not considering haunted indian burial grounds, creepy mirrors or goth chicks moving in, that yhrows the calculations way off.
I mean goth chicks moving in would likely accelerate the attachment rate by 100 fold for horny teenage boy ghosts, but likely increase the attachment time by 1000 fold for old widow ghosts.
New ghost busting method: just keep replacing floorboards one at a time until you find the one that the ghost is attached to, then send it to landfill.
Landfills must be full of angry ghosts from demolished buildings.
Build an entire new home all out of materials from previous haunted houses with ghosts attached to them and have them brawl it out battle royale style. Every nail, Every board, Every strut should come with a ghost.
I actually love this idea as the big boss for a paranormal investigation table top. Have the villain of the story build a haunted mansion out if stollen ghosts.
I heard a ghost story about a college dorm that caught on fire and burned to the ground. The school rebuilt it but the floors were spaced differently so the ghost would appear at the old floor’s level. So half a ghost popping up through the floor or little ghost legs popping down for the ceiling.
It seems to me that ghost location is relative to sea level. Maybe they attach to the closest neat rock in the case of a fire. Anyway, tumbling them for several weeks seems to detach the ghosts because my rock collection shows no signs of apparitions.
It seems to me that ghost location is relative to sea level.
Do you know if they use Swiss or German sea level?
ghosts are like fungus in the timber, sure you can replace every part one-by-one and they go away, but miss one and the smell won’t go out and re-infect the whole house. so it’s not really worth it.
If you give the new pieces enough marinating time for the ghosts to penetrate them, then no. Of course marination time depends on the density of the material you are replacing and potency of the ghost.
For example, a hardwood floor with a benign Casper like presence probably will need a few centuries, whereas insulation foam with something more akin to the demon from the exorcist needs a few weeks. Times and temperatures will also vary by altitude and local climate and alignment to laylines.
Professional ghostbuster right there
No. Ghosts are bound by contract to the
screeningshooting location, not the props.Are they attached to the physical house or to the idea of the house?
And do we see Platonic ghosts themselves, or just their shadow?
Ghost stories are about haunted and damaged people. Not actual ghosts. So no, the individual/s being haunted would still be haunted.
ghost stories are mostly about microorganisms that people couldn’t see before microscopes were invented.
I’m sure some are about carbon monoxide.
Most ghost stories I’ve read have been about haunted places and haunted things
Depends. Did you replace the hidden summoning place or the Indian burial ground, too?
It depends on the type of haunting, and also what’s keeping them there. In my experience they could be attached to anything from an entire room to a single item, like a matchbook. In any case usually a good fire and total demolition of said location would be best.
Please tell us about your experience.
Ohh I don’t like to talk shop off hours. Maybe another time
According to the (more sciencey) haunt investigation shows, most haunty effects are from old plumbing, inappropriately shielded magnetic fields, air pressure, and so on.
So if you fix all the problems in the process of replacing the house, such as modernizing the electrical wiring, then yeah, the venue will become less haunted.
If, however, you fail to remove the bodies, proverbially or otherwise, you’ll just piss off the ghosts.
According to the documentary “Ghosts”, the inhabitants of Button House are unable to leave the area. Despite some of tfem predating the house.
No, they are haunting the location, not just the house.
Does this mean if you die on a moving vehicle, your haunting spot keeps on moving in whatever direction?
I think it actually depends on the ghost. Like if you replace part of the car, it will still haunt it. But if you replace all the parts at once, the car will be significantly less haunted.
Similary, if you rebuild a building to be similar, but not quite same, the place is still haunted. But if you like build a mall, it would be significantly less haunted.
Replace all the parts at once
AKA buying a new one?
Only if you junk the old one in the same place. /s
