Ghost Houses

I think there's more to homes than bricks an mortar.

That is so interesting a read! And I agree about houses degrading with no one living in it. When we were house hunting, we went to look at this one house that seemed to have really pleasant energy at first, but once we got inside, it was really run down and had some serious structural issues. On the second floor, the energy turned into sad, lonely vibes. I felt that the house missed having people in it, but it would have been too much work for an aging couple like us!

Houses seem to absorb and reflect the energy of those living in them.

A friend of my brother's who served in SEA during the war told a weird story about a guy he served with. Guy was hitchhiking, in uniform, and wound up getting stuck in some little town in the midwest (Iowa?) overnight. He met an elderly couple who invited him to their home for dinner, telling him they would hope someone would do same for their their son who was also serving in the Army.

He thought the house, and it's contents, looked dated, but the old couple were most gracious and served him a wonderful home cooked meal. He also noted a photo on a table of a young man in uniform, and assumed it was their son, although they never mentioned it.

He spent the night at the YMCA, and next morning decided to stop by and thank the couple again for the kindness, but there was no house. He retraced his steps to make sure he was at the right place, and convinced himself he was. To went to a nearby house, and was told there had been a house there, and it had been owned a older couple who both died in the early 50s, not long after their only child, a son, had been killed in Korea.

garnetsilver said:

That is so interesting a read! And I agree about houses degrading with no one living in it. When we were house hunting, we went to look at this one house that seemed to have really pleasant energy at first, but once we got inside, it was really run down and had some serious structural issues. On the second floor, the energy turned into sad, lonely vibes. I felt that the house missed having people in it, but it would have been too much work for an aging couple like us!

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Your post made me somehow recall this horror movie from the 1970s...

Burnt Offerings (1976) - IMDb

WitchAndShaman said:

Your post made me somehow recall this horror movie from the 1970s...

Burnt Offerings (1976) - IMDb

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I don't think I've ever seen it. But the old movies seemed better at capturing the dark occult or paranormal atmosphere than the lifeless junk films that pass for 'horror' today. Perhaps it is the style of filming or because there was real experimentation in the occult and Satanism among the Hollywood crowd in those days. I suspect the latter is completely absent today.

WitchAndShaman said:

Your post made me somehow recall this horror movie from the 1970s...

Burnt Offerings (1976) - IMDb

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Oh, I have seen that movie! I can see why my remarks made you think of it.