How do you get rid of a ghost?

Question

I am writing a ghost story for work and I need to know the most commonly told theorys for getting rid of a ghost.

Answer 1

you could steal somthing sacred from a grave in the book qand put it back when weird things happen

Answer 2

Are you sure you want to come up with the most common way of getting rid of a Ghost?

How about giving your story a unique twist and come up with a whole new way?

How about sending it back in time with a time machine?

Answer 3

The most commonly told theories are

1. Having the house blessed or some other religious ceremony that either forces the ghost (demon) out of the house or puts the ghosts at peace (proper burial, etc.)

2. The living do something that completes the ghosts unfinished business (like a priest having his uncompleted masses completed by another (living) priest).

3. Getting the ghost to realize that he or she is actually dead and moving into the light (on the heaven, etc.)

Answer 4

Flea bombs will do the trick.  They hate that.

Answer 5

Watch 'Ghost Whispers' on Friday night at 8 pm. Most of the ghost have unfinished business of one kind or another to take care of before they cross over into the light (or dark).

Answer 6

Exorcism. Or the main character could just stop believing....

Answer 7

i am a very paranormal and superstitious person. if you think the ghost is intruding on you or your family and you want it gone. i would go to your nearest church and talk to a minister or priest or somebody like that. Then, ask them for help and be sincere so they take you seriously.  Many religious people don't believe in the paranormal so you might have to look up paranormal in the phone book. you should find somebody. if not then go to ask.com and you can get someones number. they'll probably sprinkle holy water around your house and say many payers. Good luck if you really have a ghost problem and if not, its cool that ur interested (like me) :)

Answer 8

Forcefully tell it to go to the light, and enter the light. Tell it there is nothing more for it here

Answer 9

First you get 2 proton accelerators, then you capture the ghost  in the 2 proton beams. Once you have him you slide a magnetic force field trap under him and guide the ghost in to the trap and close the trap.

Answer 10

Ignore it till it gets bored and gives up. Or endulge it till you find it's weakness or need and can satisfy that.

Answer 11

It depends on what kind of ghost you're writing about. People are the same dead or alive, so there are not so good spirits out there as well as good. The good spirits outweigh the bad though, and don't want to hurt anyone. A lot of them are lost and don't know where to go. 7 out of ten of the spirits I've helped to pass I simply had to call in the angels to guide to the light. A few I've had to convince that it was all right to cross over (some people simply weren't told what it going to be like, they don't know what to expect or even understand where they're at). One I actually had to tell him that he WAS dead.

Answer 12

One way is by asking for a trained professional to "cleanse" the space of residual energy of past lives/events.

OR

if you look into Kabbahlaism (Wiccans have also pinched this method)

You could cast the "Banishment of the Lesser Pentagram"

which is  a three part ritual drawing the four elemental pentagrams and the four archangels and then fixing the two together and expanding the pentagrams till it fills teh affected area like a web which will catch and help the residual energy to move on.

Answer 13

Best way I know to possibly get rid of a ghost is to tell it is dead and that all it really wants is on the Other Side. You can communicate to it.... and tell it to go be with God.

Answer 14

You put down the crack pipe.

Answer 15

I hear that they prey on fear...so I guess if you weren't afraid of them, they would get bored and go away. However, I think some of them like to just hang around and watch people. (kind of like those perverts that put video cameras in people's houses etc. to watch them).Also, there are people who have learned how to astral travel and they're perverts too. I don't think they have any right to go into someone's house etc. anymore than they would if they went in their physical body without permission. Of course, when people do ouiga board etc..they are giving spirits permission to come in..just as if you'd give a stranger permission to come into your house. So I don't know if there's really any way to get rid of a ghost. Too bad there's not a law that makes them leave..then you could get a "restraining order" against them, I guess. IOW...IDK.

EDIT I think 'hislady" has a good idea. I've always thought  that "exorcists" shouldn't  always be so mean. Sometimes it's not what they think it is..it's just a spirit who wants a place to stay and somebody to be with .I could be wrong..just an idea.

Answer 16

Usually you figure out why they haven't crossed over.Make things right and off they go.

Answer 17

Since you said you're working on fiction, I'm not going to bother explaining that ghosts don't exist.  It IS fiction, after all.

There are several ways you can get rid of a ghost, according to stories, and it all depends on what kind of ghost you have.  For example, many ghosts cannot cross running water.  If you're being pursued by a ghost outdoors, all you have to do is cross a stream.  If you're trying to get rid of a haunting ghost, I suppose you could conduct an exorcism.  But first, I'd probably try to contact the ghost and find out what it wants.  After all, maybe it's not an evil spirit at all, but a deceased person with some unfinished business.  Maybe the ghost will point you to the location of a lost fortune, for example.  If your ghost is simply an unintelligent remnant of a once-living being, you might not be able to get rid of it.  It may simply be attached to a location and will continue to appear until whatever residual energy that's creating it has dissipated.

Good luck with your story!

Answer 18

having the place blessed is a way they say works.

Answer 19

holy water & salt & burning sage

Answer 20

Remember that ghosts are entirely fictitious - so anything you invent will work.

Answer 21

There is only one way--prayer.  Only God can stop a ghost, or demons, from bothering you.  You can try all kinds of other ways, but it will only be entertaining to the demon, and perhaps it will bring others in on the fun.

Answer 22

You could have your protagonist come to his senses.  This sounds like a smarty pants answer, but I am being honest when I say the only "cure" I know of for ghosts is not believing in them to begin with.  That's why I say there are no such things as haunted places, only haunted people.

Answer 23

Normally, ghost remain at their place of accident and at the place of their death. They remain in limbo because they are not sure if they are dead. they think that they are still alive, and as such they keep on doing their usual routines, although, they are dead. They exist in the parallel world to ours.

Ghost feed on human FEAR. What is FEAR? FEAR is False Expectation Appearing Real.

Human fear gives off energy to the ghost for them to absorb as they need the energy to manifest themself. The human energy "connects them" to human. Therefore, if one can control our fear, they will not disturb human beings.