The fear of a Haunted House

It is the time of the year. The time all the ghouls and demons of wood. Time for the children dress in costumes and imagination go to their quarters, to get medical treatment. Yes, it is gratifying that the annual holiday: Halloween. During this holiday, a popular tradition, for many, to local houses obsessed. These common creepy, people delighted in the entertainment primales their fears. We are many who have their foot on a small fright.

Of course, it is not surprising that houses obsessed wrong. Annual events of the smoke and mirrors kind of frights. They are entertaining, because everyone plays along. The Demons are the actors, the Ghost, the accessories. These houses are amusing been because the two spook spooked and know that nobody is really bad to be in the process. So, what about real houses?

Here are the rules change. This time the warnings are real, and the safety of the victim in question. Now you face to face with the supernatural. It is, provided there is no such thing as a "scary".

Most districts in many parts of the industrial and post-industrial world, houses seem to have one or two places frequented. After Dennis William Hauck by the National Register of Haunted Houses, there are more than 2000 varieties have been alone in the United States. This should not be surprises, taking into account the fact that the only real criteria for a ghost house is a creepy atmosphere, a history rich enough, and some eyewitnesses.

Where some of the best places to visit to see a "real" ghost? What is it with two of the more frequented places on earth:

• Whaley House - with offices in San Diego, California, is the realm of the current champion of the nation more ghost house. The residence was partly due to an old cemetery, and some of San Diego's first gallows. The residence, it has evolved over 148 years old. Placement of the house, he has a first scene of many cruel acts during the last century. For this reason extensive tables with wonderful observations have this characteristic. It is in particular to the spirit of a young girl, even accidentally hung everything with a cloth, in a hill. A thief attends Jim Robinson and was 5 years ago the house was built. The place of death is now between lounge and music. The visitors reported a feeling of coldness and narrowing of the neck when the arc between these areas. Parallel to these two spirits, there are many accounts fragrances spirit in some rooms, the crying baby does not exist, in other rooms, and the various appearances were seen in the house of mirrors and windows.

• Borley Rectory - not in the rest of the United States, England, is also the host of a number of places. The ghost realm, which is, apparently, Borley Rectory, in the small town of Borley, in Essex. The Presbytery (accommodation for priests) was founded in 1863, at the site of a former monastery. Interestingly, it was extended to an area that was already known to host a ghost (a nun was bricked of life, in a cellar of the monastic community). The presbytery had many comments from the religion, as well as numerous activities Poltergeist, where various objects would be broken, or moved. Strange sounds, smells and cold are all known varieties occur here as well.

Although these two agencies the right to have been obsessed, one must ask whether it is one thing, tormented by real, or simply a phenomenon, Psychosomatics. Ghosts are real, or just figments of our imagination? This remains a controversial issue in public. A Harris poll last (February 2003) has revealed that a huge 51% of respondents believed in ghosts.

Of course, the belief in something, and the reality of, are not always the same thing. Finally, it was a time when a large part of the world believes that the earth was flat and the disease was through the influence of the stars. Although many debate on the validity of the ghost "in the public, there is little or no debate between the scientific community. So far there has been no concrete evidence to suggest the validity of ghosts, preternatural and other events.

Well then, what people see? With each applicant in mind there, there are also a handful of ghost busters. Playing the various reports this fellow, has shown that the spirits of the encounters are the result of one of two things.

1st Hallucinations
2nd Hoaxes

The first word is clinically insane, is not it? Not really. The hallucinations are more frequently by the public that one could believe. A hallucination is quite simply a moment in which the brain, is a mistake, sounds or smelling, for something that is not. Most hallucinations occur, while "dizzy" moments. In other words, moments in which the person in a state quite relaxed. The two most popular are, if you will, or from sleeping, or by a relaxed, fairly monotonous.

Hallucinations that occur when you look at the item to sleep, or, if a straight from sleep, are called Hypnopompic hallucinations, or "Waking Dreams." The brain is not completely rule out "standby mode" when you wake up, and therefore moments of the dream, in reality escape. The hallucinations may also occur during monotonous activities such as cleaning. When one is in a state of nature dreamer, appearances have a tendency to produce. Many people see something report of the corner of their eyes. It is often the result of their eyes registering movement of some small things (such as a fly, their eyelashes, or the title of issues driving inside the eye itself), their brains and the integration into a larger cause. Sometimes they are in the form of a person who is standing or sitting. The extent of the information contained in the hallucination, has a lot with how sensitive / hallucinator the imagination. The result is always the same. The second person who looks away, the "appearance" disappears.

Regarding the reason why so many people to the same report, which is much with the power of the proposal. The people who in the course of the stories associated with a particular place, often the inclination to see objects in question. Most of the time, hallucination receives part of the history of the person May have heard (often get in shape to the scenario after the fact). Other times, hallucination, is quite violently to a new story eerily. This is usually the result of a person with a "fantasy" type of personality. In other words, a person who is particularly good to fantasize. Many people like these, go to write fantastic / science-fiction books, or claim that the mental abilities. They also have slightly hypnotized. Cases in which objects are moved, or traveling, often exaggerations of what really happened. Sometimes the person himself unconsciously, about the things in an effort to their imagination to life.

Who, then leads us to our second major frequent type: hoaxes. In many places have been, throughout the world, are in this way to stimulate the feeling of paranormal activity. In many places, a story to have been obsessed, probably a hand-held game of owners and employees who try to life, the legends. This may be the small things, such as strengthening the synchronized sound in a certain part of the night, intentionally flicking in and outside lighting, the creation of phantom images, and the stories side effects.

Often these houses hocus-pocus "are simply ferreted. From time to time, however, a ghost house retains its air paranormal for much longer and more resistant to attempts to debunking. Take, for example the case of the infamous Amityville Horror. The Amityville Horror took place in Amityville, New York 1975. The house was the scene of the terrible murder of the DeFeo family member of the family Ronald "Butch" Jr. a year ago. The house was purchased George and Kathy Lutz and their three children. Shortly after the trip, the Lutzes announced owned by the demons in her house and gave a bit of a detailed report on this product, over the course of their 28 day stay.

The story was written in a book by Jay Anson authour, in the year 1977. This was in 1979 by a film based on the book, and now a remake of 2005. The three characteristics of the motto: A true story. However, this is by far not the case. Since the first story was in the audience's attention, there were opponents. But despite the collection was found by the researchers Rick Moran & Peter Jordan, more than 100 errors are detected, is the book of history and reality (as the alleged demonic hoof print found in the snow, n 'could do would not like there was no snow this evening), despite the facts, the legend.

In the end, it has finally, the confession by William Weber (DeFeo's lawyer), and the Lutzes themselves, and finally in this legend. The Amityville Horror was finally debunked, but the damage was already done. All subsequent owners of the old domain DeFeo must now with a variety of gawkers and the paranormal investigators, based on the Tracks the sick condemned home.

This Halloween, if someone dares you for the night at the local level "real" ghost house, it's enough to recall the famous phrase of the inquiry committee authours Robert Baker and Joe Nickell:

"There is no place was frequented only persons."