If you are not sure whether your house is haunted, keep calm. It’s easy to find out, and timely with Halloween just round the corner.
Before you recruit a paranormal investigator or a religious person, there are three things you can do at home to document and confirm that you are currently entertaining unwanted ‘guests’.
Powder:
If you’re used to waking up at night and hearing strange shuffling coming from somewhere in the house, it may mean your neighbours are up. You hear it clearly because sound travels.
Then again, there could really be someone walking around in your living room. One way to be sure is to pour some powder on the floor in those ‘hotspots’ and leave them overnight. If you find footprints in the morning, then you’ve either got a security problem or a ghost problem.
Recorder:
It’s been shown many times that recording electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are very useful in verifying the existence of a spirit in a location and identifying if it’s an intelligent type of haunting.
If you don’t have a tape recorder, use your phone’s recorder. It may not be as sensitive but it may pick up strange sounds. You may find that you talk in your sleep or there is another voice there whispering sweet nothings in a growly voice.
Photographs:
A picture paints a thousand words and in the case of a haunting, you may end up with actual proof. Take as many photographs of the hotspots in your house at night. It’s alright to take numerous pictures of the same location as this will help verify the photos if one out of 10 show something strange.
This way you can rule out camera malfunctions. Send the photographs to a paranormal investigator afterwards to get them checked.
Perform these three things over several days consecutively. This is to ensure that whatever evidence you collect can be substantiated with consistency as opposed to being considered a fluke.
Once you have proof that there really is something strange going on at home and it’s not just the result of a hyper active imagination or paranoid mind, you can now take the necessary steps to remove your unwanted ‘guests’.
Author Christopher Chitty is Senior Content Producer at PropertyGuru Group.
