Haunted Houses and Spirit Energy

Happy Halloween!

It is that time of year when I get the most requests to do house clearings.  Whether it is due to the thinning of the veil or the spookiness of the season, the calls come in.  I do not personally work with calls to help with “poltergeist”, “demons” or attached “entities”.  I save these ones for Hollywood or those who are looking for the scare or party trick.

I do however help out with Spirit activity, Spirit being departed loved ones or Spirit that has experienced a human lifetime.  My goal is always for the highest and best for all and to help healing to be achieved.  When we seek understanding with Spirit and energy, we are able to call forward healing.

Spirit activity is all about communication.  When you come in for a reading, we are receiving messages primarily through mental mediumship.  Mental Mediumship is when the medium receives messages through the various senses and knowing.  Often, when we think of haunted houses, the messages come through physical phenomenon.  This could be through rapping, footsteps, doors slamming, chairs moving and more.  There may be temperature changes, disembodied sounds and even visions.

Adrenaline is a thing and during the season of Halloween, and beyond, people love a good scare.  However, when alone or when not looking for a connection, “hauntings” can be frightening and unwanted.  When I visit these sites, I usually take as little information as possible.  This is so that when I visit I can create a baseline of unbiased experiences and interactions with Spirit.  Following a walkthrough, I will sit with the homeowner and share what I have learned.  We are able to validate common experiences, gain understanding of the who and maybe even the why.  I find that whether doing readings for a sitter or readings in a location, there is always some information that I share that can not be validated in the moment.  Most often, I receive a call or email later to share that the message is validated after further research.  I trust Spirit, and part of that is being okay with not getting immediate validation.  This is totally okay, as it is about the Spirit and their living connections, not me.

I find these three scenarios most often when I visit these locations.

Residual Energy

This one is actually the most common.  Yes, I can validate footsteps or knocking, but it is not coming through as a “trapped soul” or “ghost”.  Let’s say that you inherit your Nanny and Grandpa’s house.  They loved there for many years and you wonder if they are “stuck” because every night at 10pm you hear steps on the stairs.  If Grandpa went up those stairs to bed every night at 10pm, each time he left his energetic footprint, and that energy continues on a loop.  This is not actually a Spirit visitation, however it can be an invitation to call Spirit forward.  By getting a vision of Grandpa in your mind, remembering the smell of his after shave and hearing his laugh within your memory, and acknowledging his residual energy, it can call his spirit forward for a hello.  I always encourage my clients to say “Hi Grandpa!” out loud.  Spirit wants to communicate!

You will know if it is him because you will receive some form of validation.  These may be in goosebumps or just a sense of happiness or peace.  Messages through your senses and you do not need to be a trained medium to have your own experience.  Trust what you get!  And, sometimes the validation is additional activity.  When it is not in the routine of the energetic loop like in the case of Grandpa being on the stairs consistency.

If you do not have a heart connection to the residual energy, one way to stop the pattern is to interrupt it.  If you feel or hear pacing in the bedroom, by rearranging the furniture, the energetic loop is interrupted and will dissipate.

Residual Spirit

This is when the messages or happenings are more random and come from a source of intelligence.  Spirit may knock on the wall, but they are for communication rather than routine.  You may see flickering lights, moved objects or hear disembodied voices.  During readings, I have had Spirit tell me “I have tried to get her attention but she is ignoring me.”  They will then show me the flickering light or the room.  Once I share this and the sitter validates the experience, Spirit is excited to have been validated.  They want us to know that they are with us.  Say hello, or thank you or even “I am trying to sleep, come back tomorrow.”  They want you to communicate back,  These experiences are rarely seen as frightening and are often comforting to families and loved ones.

Calls for Help or Healing

The third most common experience is from a Spirit that does not realize they have passed, or had some trauma around their passing.  There can be confusion or even feelings of anger, pain and sadness.  These are the visitations that people do not enjoy.  If you could imagine that a couple gets divorced.  Each member of that family unit, goes through periods of anger, sadness, resentment, confusion and they feel stuck.  They are not stuck literally, but they feel that way until they learn how to go over, under or around the situations that they have attached the emotions.  Dying is a transition.  Just like divorce is a transition.

In these cases, the visitation is much like a counselling or coaching session.  We explore the reason for the visit, what the problem is and see what solutions fit best.  I have noticed that the Spirit is not usually there for the person so much as they are there for the location.  It may have been their home or a place they frequented in the living.  It may be the location of where they passed away, or “graduated” to the Spirit side of life.

Spirit energy matches our energy.  So, if we are in a stage of life that is angry or sad, we may attract Spirit energy that is angry or sad.  This is not the same thing as “demonic” or “evil”.  I step into the space with compassion and boundaries.  My boundaries could include not showing me something that could be upsetting or gory, not coming in too close or a time frame that I will be there.  We set boundaries with the Spirit people much like we do with the living.

Once the Spirit feels heard, they may stop visiting, or they may continue.  If it continues, I find that it is done with more understanding and harmony.  One thing that I hear is “Oh, that is just Mr. So and So playing with the lights.  He is just saying hi.”  When we meet with love over fear, it may not make great television, but it does make for wonderful relationships with the living and the dead.

Sam Black
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