The concept of a vengeful ghost seeking retribution for the harm that it endured as a living person goes back to ancient times and is part of many cultures. According to such legends and beliefs, they roam the world of the living as restless spirits, seeking to have their grievances redressed, and may not be satisfied until they have succeeded in punishing either their murderers or their tormentors
Scripture states: “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun goes down upon your wrath: neither gives place to the devil. . . . Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:26–27, 30–32).
What are the visible signs of an angry spirit?
Evidence of Anger
Signals of an inner struggle with wrath
Anger is hard to hide. A person who struggles with unresolved anger and wrath will demonstrate a variety of behaviors that indicate his inner battle. Even though an angry person might deny having a “problem” with anger, those closest to him or her—spouse, children, and coworkers—will attest to seeing the evidence of anger in his or her behavior.
As you read the following list, consider your own life and discern if you often demonstrate a wrathful spirit.
- Irritability
Anger causes a person to become irritated with situations and circumstances that would not bother him otherwise.
- Impatience
Anger reduces tolerance for the weaknesses and limitations of others. An angry person often demands an instant response to his instructions, and he becomes upset if his instructions are not understood and applied.
- Raised Voice
Angry impatience is usually expressed by a harsh, loud voice.
- Glaring Eyes
Anger affects the facial features and empowers a penetrating glare, pronounced frown, furrowed brows, tense facial muscles, flushed complexion, prominent veins, and enlarged pupils.
- Hurtful Words
An angry heart will spew out unkind words of complaint, hatred, ridicule, and rejection.
- Explosive Actions
Anger puts extra force into simple actions like closing a door or setting something down. Haphazardly throwing things or pushing things around often indicates unresolved anger.
- Relational Breakdown
An angry person will usually close his heart to those who offend or hurt him. This rejection is demonstrated by silence, poor eye contact, or avoidance, revenge thought, curse and ill wishes, stress and some depression, and it might affect your blood pressure and causes heart attack and in turn, you become an entity who want revenge
- Attitudes of Superiority
Wounded pride can stir up contentious anger that motivates a person to challenge the opinions, ideas, or instructions of others, especially of those in authority.
- Physical Tension
Anger causes the jaw muscles to tighten, which brings great pressure on the teeth when they come together and leads to clenching or grinding one’s teeth. Anger also causes a more rapid heartbeat, thus requiring more oxygen through heavy breathing. Anger’s release of adrenaline causes the heart to pump faster and veins to become enlarged.
Wrath and bitterness are not pleasing to God, and the presence of anger should serve as an alarm that something is wrong. Feelings of anger should lead us to respond to a situation or offense with wisdom and forgiveness so that we do not develop an angry, vengeful spirit. Of course, a psychologist will tell you that all about the human behavior, interaction, survival, skill of communication and the way you had been raised as a child all that can affect the fact that you are easy to get angry and they will suggest anger management’s classes. Some people who killed other they said that someone told them to do it and it is not the entity but it is the personal behavior is responsible.
Scripture states: “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun goes down upon your wrath: neither gives place to the devil. . . . Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:26–27, 30–32).
What is the root cause of a spirit of anger?
Recognizing and resolving hurts and guilt
Anger is a universal problem. It is not limited to one age group, culture, race, economic level, social status, educational background, or any other classification.
Unresolved anger is one of the chief contributing factors to the destruction of marriages, the breakdown of families, and the weakening of communities. It is a major cause of health problems and lack of productivity in the workplace, and it is a common denominator among juvenile delinquents.
Identify the Root Cause of Anger
Anger is a serious problem. What causes it? The root cause of a spirit of anger is tension from past hurts and guilt. This mixture of pain and guilt is cumulative and it erupts in anger when new offenses remind us of past experiences.
Most people assume that hurtful events in the past will be forgotten and will have no effect on the future. That is not true. Past hurts do not just go away, nor does guilt simply disappear after a wrong response to a situation. Unless these experiences are resolved through repentance and forgiveness, we will continue to experience bouts of anger when our tension points are triggered.
Recognize Pain from the Past
The following situations often lead us into bitterness, where we typically lash out in wrath, revenge, or other hurtful responses.
- The pain of rejection
The pain of rejection is one of the strongest factors in a person’s life, especially in childhood. A child forms strong attachments to parents, friends, and relatives and finds security in these relationships. When those who are trusted to communicate rejection, the child’s secure world collapses and he faces a host of fears. The pain of rejection and the torment of fears can cause the child to develop deep bitterness toward the one who is responsible for his pain. When parents get divorced, their children typically experience the pain of rejection.
- The reaction to unchangeable features of our lives
One of the greatest challenges facing every young person is that of accepting unchangeable features, such as physical appearance, mental capabilities, birth order, race, brothers and sisters, and parents. When someone mocks or ridicules a child who is already insecure, it is a devastating blow to his self-esteem. Ridicule does not just attack a child’s actions—it mocks him as a person. One who experiences ridicule will be extremely sensitive to anyone else who ridicules him or others. The anger he feels is motivated by a desire for the just punishment of anyone who mocks others.
- The grief of favoritism
When parents favor one child over another, they are not only damaging the self-worth of the child who is less appreciated, but they are also encouraging him or her to react toward the one who is favored. Favoritism to one will be seen as a rejection by the other. The Biblical example of Jacob’s favor of Joseph over the rest of his sons is a classic example of this situation. Joseph’s brothers resented the favor Joseph received, and they sold him into slavery. Then they led Jacob to believe that Joseph had died. ( Genesis 39.)
- The anguish of false accusations
A person’s reputation has great worth. Solomon wrote, “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold”(Proverbs 22:1). A false accusation not only damages the one who is accused, but it also stirs up indignation and a desire to see the false accuser brought to justice.
The mixture of guilt and pain that surrounds the memory of these experiences triggers anger when we hear of or face similar situations. Can you recall a past experience that deeply hurt you? How do similar situations cause you to express anger now?
Pinpoint Sinful Attitudes and Actions
Along with painful experiences, our own tendencies toward sin foster a spirit of anger. The following attitudes and actions lead to guilt and anger:
- Pride
Pride is assuming authority that does not belong to us. Many conflicts arise simply because we step into another’s jurisdiction with efforts to control. No wonder others react to us in this situation. In turn, the rejection we experience as a result can then lead to more expressions of anger, which are often accompanied by bitterness.
- Personal faults
When we fail in specific areas, we tend to be very alert to other people who fail in the same areas. Unfortunately, the frustration we have for ourselves is often redirected to them through harsh judgment. Also, when someone hurts or offends us, his or her actions may be partially justified, which can trigger an explosive combination of guilt and bitterness.
- Generalizations
If someone who represents another group or race hurts us, we tend to project the misbehavior of one onto the entire group and often develop a general animosity toward everyone who is associated with that group.
- Expectations
When people make promises and fail to keep them, we tend to hold that against them and become resentful of their failure to fulfill our expectations. When we expect certain behavior or benefits from others—especially those who are closest to us—and they do not act as we expect, this resentment can also occur.
- Envy
Envy is bitterness toward another person who has received something we want and we think we deserve. Envy is a form of anger that might not be obvious to others until something triggers an angry outburst or reaction by the envious person.
- Taking up offenses
One of the most entangling causes of bitterness occurs when a person who was not directly involved in an offensive situation takes up an offense on behalf of the one who was offended. This kind of bitterness is deep-seated and often endures even after the one who was offended forgives the offender.
When we become angry, we should identify the past experiences and personal failures that are contributing to our current frustration and seek to resolve them. Often, situations that are similar to ones in which we were hurt or in which we failed to do the right thing will trigger our anger. Usually the stronger the anger, the more pain, and guilt there are from the past.
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:31–32).
There are a few signs that you’ve spirit or entity attachment when you started to realize that things in your life are off. You feel as though you’re being watched within your own home. Maybe you’ve heard footsteps or whispers while home alone. It’s finally sinking in that you might be dealing with a ghost and you are not alone. So first things first, we have to understand why ghost is haunting you?
There are several different types of haunting, and understanding which one is plaguing your home should be your first step.
1- An intelligent haunting is one that can interact with you or objects around your home. The happenings may vary from visual things, like apparitions, to audible oddities, like strange voices caught on camera.
2- Then there is a residual haunting, or one that happens on repeat — like, for example, the same knocking sound that happens at the same time each day. These types of haunting cannot interact with you and probably don’t even know you’re there.
3- Other more invasive types of haunting are poltergeists and demonic entities. Poltergeists cause chaos by moving objects, turning lights on and off, throwing open cabinets, etc. And demonic entities are just bad news for obvious reasons.
So once you’ve nailed down which ghost has invited itself into your home to stay, we then have to figure out how it got there. Below, I’ve listed the reasons why ghosts haunt so you can better determine how to go about living with them or helping them move on.
A- You invited the spirit in.
Ouija boards are not a toy. If you decide to play the game (which you shouldn’t because they are not a toy!) acquaint yourself with the rules and risks first. That’s including all other electronic magic and spell games and books of witchcraft and the dark magic.
But if the damage has already been done, and you invited a spirit in and then didn’t close out the spirit board session properly, or you treated the spirits with disrespect, then the odd phenomenon’s you’re experiencing now may be connected to that session.
B- There are also other ways a person can invite a spirit in by ritual. So if you are planning on going through with something that will connect you to the “other side,” prepare yourself for the possible consequences. Spirits invited in by occult practices may prove difficult to get rid of. That’s happened to me personally back in 1988 in Indio, California when I started reading and evolving with black magic and witchcraft books and was trying to summon a demon or a jinn using all kind of methods and asking the entity to appear and allow it with a permission to metalized and sure enough in one of the Friday night it did and it was the scariest night of my life when I saw the worse and the ugliest demon appeared in my bedroom and float so fast over my chest and started chanting with very strange language that I didn’t understand at all and only with prayers he let me go and float back from the room. I left the apartment and slept somewhere else and asked the compound manager to change my apartment and put me as far away from this apartment as possible, burned the books and stopped the black magic activities,
C- A tragedy happened in the home.
Before you even stepped foot into your current haunted home, something tragic may have happened there. That lingering sadness may be what you’re experiencing. Unexpected death and tragic events can be the cause of residual haunting. According to the Atlantic Paranormal Society, residual haunting occurs in patterns, meaning that you may notice the paranormal activity happening over and over again.
D- Residual haunting can also be attached to an object that holds significance. The energy of a child who suddenly died could be attached to a favorite toy; a weapon that was used in battle may still hold the energy of its previous owner. Luckily, objects can be removed; therefore the haunting can be removed from a location. Unfortunately, residual haunting connected to a house is difficult to remove but are usually not a threat. That’s why you have to be careful when you buy relics, antiques or any items from a thrift shop, garage sale, or moving sale s sometimes some of those items you might buy belonging to a dead person who is attached to this item, I call it a hot object. You can still buy but you need to pray and bless each item wash with holy water or salt and water if possible and dont damage the item .
E- A loved one is visiting you.
When we lose a family member or loved one, they sometimes return to visit and are often considered “intelligent” or “interactive” spirits. Their personality still comes through if they are able to make contact. For example, if your grandfather loved collecting pennies during life, his spirit may leave pennies for you to find all over your house.
You may also smell certain scents that remind you of your loved one. Perfume, cologne, or cigar smoke is common scents people smell when their loved one pays them a visit. Feel free to reach out to them and ask for signs that they are there. It could also be your pet who passed away. Try not to replace your pet right away after the death of your previous pet.I used to see my Cat Samira visiting my by the window in Brunei back in 1998.I buried her in the garden after she passed away in my house from kidney failure.I loved that cat so much.
F- A spirit has unfinished business.
“Unfinished business” REVANGVUL spirit, a spirit looking for a lost item, is often used as the number one explanation for a haunt and is a general blanket term. Spirits with unfinished business are usually intelligent and can interact with those residing in the home or apartment. They may be unsettled because of their untimely or unjust death, or as previously stated, they may be protecting a loved one.
Unfortunately, this business may never be finished, thus leaving a spirit to roam the same halls forever. Then again, those of us living humans can help these spirits find peace. Try to connect with the ghost with professional help to figure out what you can do to help them rest. It can also visit your dreams as it happened to me when my brother got killed by an Iranian thief in Baghdad at age 28. I saw him in my dream asking me about his wallet after a few days the same dream repeated itself and he kept asking for his wallet that he hid in the car that was stolen by the killer. The killer stile the tires and some items from the car and the police found the car and put it in the police crime station. I called my other brother and told him to go look under the seat deep and find his wallet as he wanted to pass the money to my mother he used to help her all the time and he wanted to give her the money and give the ring inside the wallet to his fiancé. My brother went to the car and found the wallet in the same place and found the USA dollars inside the wallet that he exchanged, and the diamond ring with a letter addressed to his girlfriend asking her he will marry her and he will bring my parents to her house to ask for her hand in marriage. I cried allot when they found the wallet and gave the ring to his fiancé and the money to my mother, my mother took the money and bought lots of food and meat and gave it to the poor.
G- A spirit or energy is attached to you.
If you invited a spirit into your space or if you taunted an angry spirit that was already lingering in your home, it might attach itself to you and follow you outside of the location. Spirits may also sense when a person is extremely sensitive to the paranormal, therefore making them an easy target to drain energy, scare, or possess (if it’s a darker entity).
Always be respectful of the energy in a location, especially if you’re unsure what kind of entity it is you’re working with. You don’t have to be respectful to the devil and your only solution is your faith and prayers, but if you can’t just don’t revoke it. If you’re in need of help, contact paranormal investigators, mediums, or paranormal experts to help you cleanse a space or learn more about your haunting.
Steve Ramsey, PhD – Calgary -Canada