Is It Like In the Movies?
When you have unwanted spiritual interference (haunting) in your home, what is it actually like? Is it all Nuns and skinny blue demons called George?
No two hauntings are the same because no two circumstances are the same.
I have resolved cases where the occupants simply felt watched, suffered persistent nightmares and occasionally felt something breathing on their neck.
I have also dealt with the opposite end of the spectrum, where women were violently assaulted, people lost periods of time and children were no longer safe even at the family dinner table.
There is no ‘one size fits all’.
The Circumstances
The cause of the disturbance usually determines the speed at which events develop, the type of spirit involved and how the activity presents itself.
The following scenarios will bring different symptoms:
Your spouse picked up something at the prison they work at
Insulted a supernatural when you visited some ruins and didn’t announce yourself
Gifted ancestry that is beginning to surface in you or your children
Live in the forest/next to hospital/in old doctors office
Moved House
Traumatic event has occurred to a member of the household.
If vengeance is the motive (aggrieved supernatural) there is going to be a very rapid onset and severe signs as they want to scare you and they want you to know they are there. These tend to be the short and sharp hauntings where you go from being a normal household to there being something in the mirror staring back at you whilst you clean your teeth.
Those with an accelerated onset are absolutely like the movies - alongside those that are near specific locations know as ‘places of power’ - as these locations act as attractors to spirits. Just like the watering hole on the plains.
Like Carbon Monoxide
The ones that actually do the most damage long term, and are incredibly frequent in the United States are the silent ones.
The homes where it always feels a little darker than it should, a particular room might feel off, familial relations are strained and there are varying degrees of anxiety and depression with every member of the household. No one in the home can quite put their finger on it, but no one is happy, successful or really wants to go home after work or school.
Your instincts are screaming, you just aren’t aware why.
This type of interference often leads to varying types of self harm, mood disorders, complete relationship breakdown, job loss and personality change. School grades suffer, sleep is awful, no one wants to talk to each other, there may be a chronic illness diagnosis and you are constantly made to not feel good enough by your own home.
The one place that is supposed to be your safe haven.
The Warrens
One phrase I hear time and time again when resolving these situations is:
“I know I’m just being silly but…”
No. The person who recognises there is a problem and responds by either getting help from an external source or cleansing their house themselves is that households hero. They aren’t being ‘silly’ or ‘dramatic’ or ‘seeing things’, they are protecting everyone from what is happening now, and what it might accelerate into in the future.
The Warrens were only called to those cases where people thought they were ‘being silly’ for far too long. The sooner you nip it in the bud, the easier it is to resolve and the less impact it will have on your family.
So is it like in the movies? Worse actually, but don’t let it get that far.
I am incredibly aware that this all sounds very sensational and rare, but it isn’t at all. It’s ordinary. Just like an illness some people have to deal with it and others don’t. It isn’t far fetched- it simply hasn’t happened to you yet.
Education is always easier than resolution. Applications for the House Cleansing Intensive are now open.
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