Types of Hauntings

There are many types of hauntings, and here is a brief overview.

Place Memories or Imprints

These hauntings are not true hauntings, but are like tapes of an event happening over and over again. The spirits involved are not aware of the living around them, but the traumatic event lives on as residue. One theory is that the energy or magnetic field of the certain place absorbed and imprinted the event. Sometimes they play more or less daily, or sometimes only on the anniversary of the event.

Visitations

Visitations are when deceased loved ones or family members drop in to visit. The visits don't last long, and they may ring a phone, create a smell of their favorite scent or cologne, gently touch their loved one, send animals to you, specific songs to you, leave coins or feathers, or visit you in your sleep. They are not earthbound and do not haunt a place, but simply drop in from time to time.

Hagging

Hagging is done by a vampiric type of spirit while a person sleeps. Victims will wake up feeling paralyzed, and with a weight on their chest. An old hag is often seen leaning over the sleeper. At times people get this paralyzed feeling when they are actually ready to astral project. The astral projection paralysis is generally accompanied by a rushing, roaring sound, and no hag will be seen.

Poltergeist Phenomena

Poltergeist phenomena usually stems from living persons rather than spirits of the deceased. They usually have repressed childhood traumas which their subconscious releases by telekinetically throwing objects, making loud sounds, and breaking things. This generally happens to pubescent children, although it can happen a little later in life too. The person causing the activity is usually clueless that it is caused by him or her, and is as afraid of it as anyone else in the household. Poltergeist phenomena usually disappears with age, or counseling about the child's issues, both past and present.

The word poltergeist means noisy ghost, and can be the spirit of the deceased although the above mentioned is believed to be more common.

True Hauntings

True hauntings are caused by earthbound spirits. They may be here due to a fear of going to hell, or they may have unfinished business. They could feel that there was injustice involved in their death, and want the truth known. They may not even realize that they're dead if it happened suddenly. They may even love their home so much that they don't want to leave it.

These are the spirits that are aware of the presence of the living, and will interact with them. If they are angry spirits, they may produce poltergeist-like activity. Otherwise, you may hear footsteps, or have things move, smell aromas, see shadow people or apparitions, ect. If you talk to them, they may respond to you. For instance, if you ask them to speak to you into a microphone, you may get an evp from them. Some may want to communicate with you to settle the issue that is holding them here so that they can move on.

Portal Hauntings

Every now and then, a person may build a house over a portal. A portal is like a doorway which many spirits pass back and forth through. Portals occur naturally, and may not be noticed until a house is plopped on them. Portals will fairly consistently produce phenomena in pictures, be it orbs, ectoplasm, or vortexes. Someone living with a portal may have problems with some of the spirits that have passed through it.

Fairy Woods

This goes along with the subject of portals, but in a different way. This portal is one that the living may accidently cross into, and find themselves in a realm in which fairies are one type of inhabitant.

If you enter a fairy woods portal, you may see dancing lights, or a glow that's like a fairy ring circle. If you follow the lights, you will never catch up with them, because they tend to keep a certain distance. It's wisest not to follow the lights, and instead quickly return the way that you came, because you may find yourself lost forever.

A hint to knowing whether you have entered a portal is that the scenery will change. If you could see a road, the road may be gone. If you were in thick forest, you may find yourself in a field. Moving portals may appear as mist, but if you shine a light on it, the mist will disappear, unlike normal mist, which will reflect the light.