It has come to my attention recently that many of the popular shows today promote using antagonism as a paranormal tool and I thought it worth noting that I have specifically asked a few ghosts about this way of getting a reaction: their response, none too pleased.

Going into haunted homes or other areas known as excellent locations to see spirits is a wonderful way to engage in some contact, but if you should happen to arrive and find that all is quiet there may be some very good reasons for this. Making the assumption that just because a place is haunted that there are ghosts who want to interact with you is just plain foolish. If a person showed up on your doorstep and incessantly rang your bell until they got a reaction would you pleased about this?

Spirits aren’t puppets, or dolls or any other play toy simply plopped down for the amusement of the living and not only is it rude, it can also be dangerous to provoke a being that in all honesty, we really don’t fully understand.

If a spirit is capable of picking up an object and moving it, what makes people think that they can’t use that same force to harm people? It honestly shocks me that so many people would be willing to chance angering something that might be capable of harm so great that physical damage could be the least of your concerns.

I spoke with one of my regular visitors about this recently, I asked him to watch one of these ghost shows and let me know what he thought of it. Afterward when we spoke he told me that he understood why the living continue to be so fascinated with death, after all we are all headed there eventually. What seemed to disturb him more than anything is the desperate tactics some are willing to use in order to get a reaction as simple as verbal response or flash of an image.

He went on to explain that while certain ghosts may very well be confused and trying to live out portions of their old lives, many are otherwise occupied and simply don’t interact with our side of things on a regular basis. Furthermore, he also explained that sometimes these encounters are complete accidents and the spirits really have no interest in communicating at all, but are actually looking to accomplish other goals that simply happened to cross paths with the world we know.

The truth is that these reasons are only the tip of the iceberg. In some cases the “haunting” people perceive aren’t even ghosts at all. Some are caused by living people, though the subjects are often unaware of their abilities. Other events are caused by supernatural beings, but these have had little or nothing to do with living humans at all.

The bottom line is that when people set out to make contact it is important that their only focus should not just be to do that at any cost. Now I’m not exactly campaigning here for “ghost rights” or anything like that, but I will say that those who cross that line may be unwise to do so. It has often struck me as funny that those who go out into the world to seek ghosts assume that once they have experienced an event at a haunted location they are free to return to their normal lives where they feel safe. I can confirm that once you have made something aware of your presence, finding you is not all that difficult for many of them and the safety of your home may present no more an obstacle than butter to a steak knife.

Fellow paranormal seekers, I urge you to consider this when looking to have your experiences, it may be the very key to eliminating some of the barriers so many find frustrating and allowing for a more advanced level of communication between living people and what lies beyond.

Goodbye for now, another end.
Until a time we meet again.

-Seline