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31st Oct 2017

8 signs your house is haunted, and how NOT to run away terrified

Niamh Maher

Little girl ghosts are the ACTUAL worst.

Luckily we don’t believe in ghosts here at Her, but we all seem to have some pretty spooky tales to tell nonetheless.

After a particularly terrifying encounter with a disgruntled ghost who would NOT let us watch Netflix, we decided to compile a list of ways to tell if your current abode is haunted, and more importantly what to do if it is.

So if you’ve experienced;

  1. Unexplained noises (what goes bump in the night, we actually would like to know)
  2. Things disappearing and reappearing, with no explanation (we can’t be THAT forgetful)
  3. Feelings of being watched (the less said about this the better)
  4. Random shadows (that ABSOLUTELY don’t match your design aesthetic)
  5. Your pooch is acting up (animals can always tell)
  6. Cold or hot spots (and not just because it’s Ireland)
  7. Weird unexplained smells (that can’t be down to your housemate’s juice cleanse)
  8. Cries or muffled sounds (ok we’re stopping through sheer terror)

If you’ve experienced any of these things, you probably have a ghost and you should GET OUT NOW.

If, for example, you have a long term lease and you can’t just run for the hills, here’s a few things to get you through your haunting.

  1. Turn on the lights, everything is terrifying in the dark, and the mind loves a trick
  2. Try and find a reasonable reason for the noise you heard (mice, pipes, neighbors, youths)
  3. Keep a list of terrifying things that happen, videos are better but ghosts hate cameras
  4. Remember, there’s no such thing as ghosts

And our final tip, if you AT ANY POINT, see a little girl in victorian garb, leg it!

 

 

 

 

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ghosts,haunted