Haunted Possessions- Steve Ramsey
A house or other buildings are thought to be haunted because the place was either important to the person in life, or they suffered some great loss or tragedy there and cannot let it go.
There have been many claims and cases in which people say that items they have either bought, inherited or found might be possessed or haunted. Paranormal researcher John Zaffis has a large collection of such items in his Museum of the Paranormal. (John also currently has a show on SyFy called The Haunted Collector.)
Haunted Objects and Remedies
Possessed possessions. Demon dolls. Haunted objects. You never know what you bring home with you from an antique store or yard sale. Learn how to break the ghostly bond with your possessions.
We’ve all heard the stories about demon dolls and other haunted objects. In most cases, a family member buys an antique that just happens to have something paranormal attached to it. Now, you have to think twice about that item you buy from eBay.
2 Kinds of Haunted Objects
Haunted objects come in 2 general versions:
1. They absorb the energy of their previous owner
2. They’re cursed by a magical ritual
Unfortunately, Ghostly Activities isn’t a subject matter expert on magic systems. However, we did find a reputable site with information on breaking curses.
Now, back to breaking the ghostly bond with a haunted object.
Most Common Haunted Objects
Haunted objects can be anything. The most common possessed possessions include:
- Dolls
- Jewelry
- Antique bed frames and headboards
- Paintings (especially self portraits)
- Mirrors
- Clothing (especially gowns)
- Chairs
It’s obvious why these objects absorb energy. They either have a great deal of contact with their owner (i.e., jewelry), or they capture the image of the owner (i.e., mirrors). An untimely death could also give the energy to charge the object. For example, a bride who dies on her wedding night could definitely charge her gown and wedding ring with enough essence to become haunted. Always ask about the item’s history before buying it.
If needed, you could ask a psychic, gifted with psychometry, to test the objects before you bring them home. The psychic can pick up the ‘vibes’ on the object and tell you if it’s good or bad energy. If you experience any ghostly activities, we strongly recommend you call someone to test the object right away.
Haunted Object Dormancy and Activity
Many objects remain dormant until there’s a change in its environment. Usually, that means a new owner takes it to a new home, or you move into someone’s home. That change in energy can activate the object.
We had one client with a haunted object in her wall. It was a cooking utensil used during the Civil War. Her home was a field clinic during a battle in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Renovators knocked down a wall and exposed the clinic’s kitchen and the haunting activity began. Once she donated the kitchen remnants and utensils to a local museum, the activity stopped.
If you do have a haunted object, the following ghostly activities happen:
- Your possessions move on their own (not necessarily the haunted object)
- Apparitions and shadow people manifest
- Nightmares become frequent (3x per week or more)
- Bad luck happens around the home (minor injuries or plumbing/electrical problems)
- Illnesses become more frequent like colds, flu and food poisoning
The timing varies on these activities. Usually, they start within the first 2 weeks, but it can happen on the anniversary of the previous owner’s death.
Haunted Object Solutions
There are 5 ways to break the bond with the haunted object.
- Spiritual cleansing of the object and home
- Cleanse the object with salt
- Return it to its original place
- Bury it in a graveyard
- Burn it
Burning always works, but then you’ve lost your money. Plus, you could burn down the block, so we say don’t burn anything. We recommend using salt cleansing and spiritual cleansing before doing anything too drastic.
Burning Haunted Objects
Burning is a last resort. If the object continues to appear at your home and you’ve tried the first 4 solutions, then seek a paranormal specialist to burn it for you. Destroying a haunted object can cause the evil attached to it to ‘jump’ out. If you haven’t mastered protection techniques, it could attach to you or someone who was at the place you burned it. Then, you’ll definitely need a pro to destroy the object, break the attachment and clear your home. In every case I’ve encountered, you shouldn’t need to go beyond the 4th solution listed above.
TRUE STORIES OF HAUNTED POSSESSIONS
THE HAUNTED BED
When Styles was about 11 years old, he lived with his family in an adobe-style homethat was built in the early 1900s. Styles had some older brothers, and when their dad bought some new bed mattresses for them, Styles, being the youngest, inherited one of the old mattresses.
Styles had never heard his brother make any complaints about the old mattress, and Styles found it comfortable and relaxing… yet he began to experience restless, sleepless nights.
“It started off with this weird night I was in my bed trying to go to sleep,” he says. “I had the blanket over my head when I felt something rubbing the cover with its hand. Because the cover was thin, I could make out what it looked like. It was a small man about two feet in height trying to get the cover off me!”
Styles says he also felt a sharp poking in his ribs by unseen hands, the pain of which he still felt in the morning.
Why did Styles experience this haunted mattress when his brother did not? Was it something about Styles that awakened the ghost?
THE HAUNTED DOOR
Back in the early 1960s, Connie remembers, her father brought home an old door that he found in a pile of debris from a recently demolished house. The door was in good condition, so her father thought it would make a good addition to their house since he was in the midst of renovating the second floor. He used it to close of the parents’ bedroom from the upstairs hallway.
Connie describes the upstairs as having a crawl space that ran behind both her parents’ room and the room that she shared with her sister. The night after her father hung that strange old door, weird things began to happen.
“Around 3:00 a.m.,” Connie says, “we were all awakened by loud pounding coming from the crawlspace.
Everyone jumped out of bed! My father ran into our room with a flashlight and removed the access panel. We were petrified, but when he shone the light inside the crawl space, he saw nothing. He was even brave enough to enter the crawlspace, but didn’t find anything out of place.”
Reasoning that the noise might have been caused by an outside tree branch hitting the house, Connie’s dad replaced the access panel and they all went back to bed.
A half hour later, the fierce pounding began again. This time Connie’s dad even checked outside but could find nothing that would cause the noise. “Now we were really scared,” Connie admits. “And for the next week, every night the pounding happened. We were all exhausted.”
Finally, Connie’s mom insisted that the old door be removed. “She said she thought it was haunted!
We all laughed, but she was serious.” Connie’s dad reluctantly took the old door out, chopped it into splinters and burned it. Sure enough, the pounding stopped and never returned.
THE HAUNTED PIANO
Vicki had always wanted a piano. Her wish came true one day when her son brought her an old upright piano that he had discovered working his salvage and hauling service. It seemed to be in good working order, so Vicki cleaned it up, polished it and set it on the enclosed front porch of her old farmhouse, where it quickly became one of her prized possessions.
Several years passed without incident. Then one October night Vicki was babysitting her granddaughter when she began to hear the sound of the piano from the porch. “It was random notes with no particular tune,” she says. “Groggy, I listened to the piano for at least fifteen minutes. Deciding that it must be nice, I got up and opened the door. The piano was silent.”
Weeks went by until one night at about 2 a.m., Vicki was awakened by the haunting notes on the piano. She again suspected mice, but then… “Suddenly, a tune floated through the house,” she remembers. “It stopped and started several times, but it was definitely a tune – like someone practicing a song.”
This phenomenon happened on a regular basis. Vicki’s daughter even heard it. “I almost cried from relief and told her that I had been hearing the same thing for months,” Vicki says. Her daughter-in-law also came to Vicki in tears, saying that she, too, heard the ghost at the piano.
Eventually, Vicki put the piano outside with a “FREE” sign on it – not because of the ghost, but because the weight of it was beginning to make the porch sag. An old couple came along and adopted the instrument. “I often wonder,” Vicki says, “if they have experienced any late night concerts courtesy of the old piano.”
Steve Ramsey- Calgary