Do you think that certain places have "bad juju" or negative energy?

Question

There is a certain street in my city that I will no longer shop or work on... it just seems that every business on this particular street is shady and negative. (Even though it looks very beautiful and rich tourists love it).

There are also rooms in my house that feel better than others at certain times...

Is this valid or is it just me being crazy again?

Answer 1

Although I too am a scientist and I think that in situations like this, oftentimes we are subconsciously cuing in to things that put us at unease (maybe a lot of shadows, a bad smell, something that reminds you of a previous bad experience, etc) without realizing it, so that it seems like a bad vibe but is really one part of your mind picking up on stuff,
I have undoubtedly experienced negative energy myself.
I was in Berlin, Germany, visiting a friend and while walking around I went to look at the underground Gestapo prison cell block-turned-outdoor museum on Prinz-Albrechtstrasse (former site of the SS headquarters).
The museum was very informative, with all sorts of details and reproduced photographs and newpapers talking about what used to go on in these prison cells (murder, torture, etc).
And then I stepped down into the cell, and it was horrible. I'd never felt someone else's terror and sickness before, but I did then. I could see the markings of bullet sprays on the crumbling tiled walls, and stains on the broken-up floor, and I was cold from the inside out, even though it was late May.
It was a tangible presence. I have no doubt that those prison cells remember. I have no idea how, but every inch of them emanated wrongness.
The worst part, though, was after I shook myself out and walked on down the street, not two blocks away I saw that someone had recently spray-painted on a building wall some anti-Semitic and anti-Turkish sayings with an anarchy symbol.

Although negative energy does seem to haunt some places, truly evil energy is generated not by past memories, but by the actions of the living.

Answer 2

yes, in fact. I live in Hawaii, and I don't know if you know anything about night marchers, but I can always tell when they're nearby. i get this odd sense of foreboding like I need to run and hide. That is the reason why I stopped watching "Most Haunted" because on the show, they invite the spirits, or jab at the spirits to interact with them, and I always have some wierd things happen after I watch that show, with a negative atmosphere in the house. I happen to believe that whatever spirits or demons or whatever are nearby hear it, and want to interact. Mind you, spirits are energy, therefore can move um I don't know how fast, but really fast. According to one website, at the speed of thought.

So to answer your question, if there is shady business, it'll attract shady energy, or if you belive in God, God hates evil, so he won't dwell in a place where people hate him. The bad vibes could be the absence of God. It could stem from things that happened in the fast, Ask the residents of Savannah Georgia (travel Channel)

Answer 3

Yes I do believe that certain places and people have negative energy. It's like having bad vibes.... it sounds like you are listening to yours. As far as your home is concerned... you may want to bless it and smudge with sage to remove what you call "bad juju" from the rooms where you feel it. Check the history of your home.. find out if anything bad happened in it... like a murder or death (sounds extreme) but realtors don't always report this info. when trying to sale a property. Some folks call it residual energy left behind.

Answer 4

Although I am scientist, I agree with you. Some places just feel wrong, and others have a great energy to them eg places of worship. I recently saw an egyptian exhibition and the sarcophagus there had a feeling of radiating power...

I think that perhaps when very strong emotions are present at a place it can leave a sort of psychic imprint but i have no evidence to back it up!

Answer 5

*Negative energy is very real. Rooms and houses can retain the negative energy of depressed people or bad events. If a place has negative people chances are that energy will build up over time and remain ther until it is replaced with positive energy.

That is one reason for cleansing space with sage to get rid of the negative energy in a place, but I would not recommend walking down a city street with lit sage in my hands. But in your own place of residence you can get rid of negative energy by burning sage.*

Answer 6

It might have to do with Feng Shui.

That is, bad Feng Shui = negative place, maybe.
It might be a coincidence, but stores that face directly with the temple gates my town, Vientiane, in Laos, never prosper. My dad pointed that out to us one day.

My aunt also kind of did better in business when she had bamboo trees to block the negative things you get from being directly across the temple gate.

This is one of the examples of Fengshui. Or at least I think it is. Some places might be more negative than others because of it.

(Some people even have fengshui specialists to look at houses before it is built or before they move in, including our family)

Answer 7

"So there is positive and negative energy, you know like on a battery." No, there isn't. Energy is just energy. The "positive" and "negative" on a battery just indicate which way electric current flows, not what "kind" of energy there is. There's no such thing as either positive or negative energy. Period. Please go get some basic physics education. Peace.

Answer 8

There are just certain places on Earth where the spirits are restless, and they don;t like people around.

You need to make peace with the spirits.

You can do this by mentally asking permission when you go there, or you could leave gifts of tobacco or something similar.

Answer 9

you are not crazy
there are spirits that can hang around or entities or something that we cant see but can feel in some places
its paranormal phenomena, we cant explain it

yes very valid that sometms yo u mayn ot feel comfortable in one room while in another one you are
that happens to me, i can sense badjuju (thanks for the word :-) when there is ...and when there is...the place feels ...not comfortable.
one wants to leave that place

however there is also places that have positive energy and lots of it
special places
they are around the world
as well as there are worldwide negative potholes on earth
th emiddle east is one
big portal of bad energy

Answer 10

What I state is not from my own experiance but I beleave it.

In this "flow", might be energy of good or bad. If u have opportunity, see where the dog lie, it's a good spot where
u can rest. Where the cat lie... avoid that spot...

My English is to poor to express what I want to say but trust
thy feelings, u are NOT crazy.