How can I find out if I have a ghost in my house?

Question

I moved into my current home this summer, and one of the first days I woke up to see a red headed boy looking at me in a confused way. I thought I might have been dreaming, so I didn't think much of it until a few days ago my boyfriend said that he woke up because there was a little boy covering his eyes--he could actually feel someone's hand on his face. When he looked, he could see a playful little boy laughing and running out of the room. Neither one of us felt scared or like this boy wanted to harm us, and my boyfriend can't remember the color of the hair but did say that it was a caucasion child. How can I find out if this is a ghost?

Answer 1

Are you sure it wasn't your mother in law in disguise?

Answer 2

find out the previous owners of your house. If you can find them, ask them if they ever had these experiences too. Keep a lookout for things being moved from where you left them. Get a digital recorder and ask the child some questions, it seems he is most active in the morning so this would be a good time to try this Keep a camera near your bed if this feeling happens again, snap some quick pics around the room. This boy may need some help in moving on.

Answer 3

ghosts are white, human shaped, see through mists. maybe a kid got in your rooms

Answer 4

probably the easiest thing to do without getting alot of equipment is to get a tape recorder or a digital voice recorder and start to record and just ask simple questions, you can also just leave the recorder recording and go to sleep or whatnot but try to place in somewhere where this is alot of noise. when you listen to the tape listen for any voices or sounds that werent there at the time of recording. One way that people also try to communicate with a spirit is by using a ouija board or other forms and to me that is not a very good option because you could invite in a spirit that isnt so friendly. i hope this helps you

Answer 5

You both just woke up.  If you both see something when you're fully awake then you may be on to something.  Until then I would just trust your initial instinct that this was a dream.

Answer 6

E.V.P. is another way of communicating with spirits ..... here is the list of E.V.P. questions we tend to use most of the time , we sometimes ask more but heres some basic :

*TO Do an E.V.P. Session or recording session 101*

----Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP): An EVP is the attempt to capture a ghost or spirits voice on audio recording tapes. Typically there is no voice heard to the people present at the recording but after playing back the tapes there are sometimes strange voice recordings.

what we do is explain what a recorder is

*Please speak loudly into the device with the red dot on it, it helps us hear your voice.*

- we usually record for like 15 - 20 mins. a session and give about 15- 40 secs in between each question we ask :)

It takes time for them to reply, their voice isn’t as quick as ours in replying.

Ask Questions with a digital recorder like :

1. Is any one here.

2. Is there any one who would like to make their presence known?

3. Can you give us a sign your here.

4. Can you give us a sign your here by making a noise or moving some thing.

5. What is your age or how old are you?

6. What year is it or do you know what year it is?

7. Can we help you?

8. Do you need help?

9. Are you lost?

10. Are you upset we’re here?

11. Would you like us to leave?

12. Are you upset the home owners are here.

13. Is this your home / business?

14. If you have any thing to say speak loudly into the tape recorder. (Explain what the tape recorder is).

15. We’re here to try and help you; we’re not here to harm you. Please let us know what we can do.

you can also bring a 3 mega pixel camera or lower usually the higher the mega pixel drowns out spirit formation and may cause Matrixes *which is what many people Misinterpret certain things in photos to be evidence of paranormal*

after you do that with the photos and E.V.P.s i have programs where i can analyze them for you :) you can email me privately again for this just attach them....

Ryan ~Paranormal Investigator/Researcher~

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Email me for further questions :)

I HOPE I HAVE HELPED :)

Answer 7

I say call in a ghost hunter to see if its haunted or not.

Before you do so, I advise you to learn the history of the house to see who has lived thier and have a good idea on who you saw, (if it is a real person.)

I know how shocked you must be by this. So take this slow.

Good Luck,

~#1 New York Yankees Fan~

Answer 8

"I thought I might have been dreaming"

I think you might have been.

Answer 9

well go to ur local libray and look up the history on ur house and find out if there was a little boy that died that lived in that house and find out his name and call him by name and tell him go home go into the light and he will cross to the other side

Answer 10

If this happens again, try to talk to the child.  You may have an opportunity to help him.  EVP's are also good.  Read Teamhunter's response carefully, it explains everything in full detail.

You may want to consider setting up a camcorder in your room.  This may not be the most practical, but may yield good results.  

There may also be a paranormal group nearby to help you out.  You can check the forums or do a search online.  Hope this helps!

Answer 11

It sure sounds like a ghost.  Try this:  keep a simple compass on the nightstand.  When your little visitor makes another appearance, check the compass.  The needle will probably be moving all by itself.  I've used a compass in investigating for years, and it's never failed me.  You could also try making an evp, as another poster suggested.  Try talking to the little guy; he may answer.

Answer 12

Next time when it happens again, speak to the child in a nice way and learn more about him. Ask him what he needs and try your best to help him. Once you have resolve the issue for the boy, he will leave you in peace.

Answer 13

"Dreams" occur in the brain, when it is cleaning out unwanted items from the memory banks and re-arranges essential items. We still do not know how the brain actually stores images, sounds and retrieves them ! All we know is 'brain activity' in selected parts of the brain.

There are no Ghosts, either. Dead folks do not return to earth or talk to any one. But if someone very close to you dies - dad, mom, friend or even a pet, your brain has still those images in storage and creates these in your dreams. As time passes, these images will be replaced by your brain with new images.  You would then stop dreaming of those dearest ones after a few years... Remeber the expression 'Time heals everything'.

Here is something that would interest you.

I moved here from another country about 30 years ago. All my  dreams used to have scenes of my home country at first and I will suddenly wake up not knowing where I was! For the last 15 years or so, all my dreams are scenes of this country - TV's, pictures, books, cars etc.

Remember as a kid, you used to dream of toys.. now as grown up you are dreaming of boyfriend  and kids...Sweet dreams!

Answer 14

You've been given a lot of good advice.

If you need any further help feel free to contact me

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