Why is a house called "a haunted house"?

Question

So I hear many people say, "this house is haunted." Ppl are scared to enter the house..I wonder..what makes it haunted? Why is it haunted? Does it always involved somone died in the house? Is it always involved death in the house?

Answer 1

It doesn't mean that someone died in the house itself, spirits can remain in the plane or area where a death occurred. If a grave or land is disturbed where a death occur ed, or where they were laid to "rest" can cause the spirits to awaken. There are many things that make people think a house is haunted; objects move or get rearranged, noises, cold drafts, shadows, electromagnetic occurrences, there are many more I could I name. Some people are scared of a "haunted" house, but they are scared of the unknown not the house itself. I just moved from a house that some would consider haunted, but it was just inhabited by more then one spirit. Without knowing the history of a particular location it is difficult to answer.

Answer 2

Actually I do NOT believe in ghosts. However, I do believe in haunted houses. I think that bad feelings can be echoed through the house for many years. With that being said if someone were to die a painful death in a house those feelings could be left to be felt by another. Houses eventually take on a personality. Such as when you meet some one you sometimes know instantly if they are nice or not. It is just something they put off. I think this is why different things are felt in some houses.

Answer 3

When a house is empty of living occupants over long periods, whatever might be seen or heard in the area of such a house can not be easily explained away as a foible or action of a living occupant.

Answer 4

I don't think that's necessarily the case. Somebody died in my old house, I was with him at the time actually, it didn't make the house haunted though

Answer 5

i have spent the night in a "haunted house." i prefer now not to refer to it as such, but i know that is the accepted term.

i had a friend explain that energies are left in lpaces that things occur. (i.e. murders, death, even if natural, etc...)

i definitely had that when i spent the night in the Villisca Axe Murder House last month.

Hope that helps!

Answer 6

it's not always about death.....sometimes if the house is abandoned for too long something else will start moving in...when i say something i really mean something other than mice or cockroach or ants or whatever....

Answer 7

Ghosties.

Answer 8

Well so its suppose to mean.But do they really hear those sounds and scary stuff.I think it's just imagination.

Answer 9

ghosts