Most of you know that I’ve been working on finding physical commonalities between haunted sites. When we think haunted sites, we usually think they’re haunted because someone died there. Yeah, that’s true, but not always. Some cities, regions of towns, streets, and plots of land seem to be more haunted than those nearby that saw the same action. If death meant hauntings, then everywhere that a Civil War soldier died, there’d be a haunting. But, that’s not true.
So, I began with a simple list of 50 haunted places. From there, I began to study the geology of the land, composition of the building, location in relation to moving water, railroad tracks, age of the building, and history of death/trauma. I’ve also added into that some other factors that can accentuate the haunting, such as being in a round building or near a cemetery.
It breaks down like this:
1 point for being within a mile of running stream/ocean/river
1 point for being constructed with stone/block
1 point for being within a mile of railroad tracks
1 point for being over 50 years old (more inhabitants, more history)
1 point for being the site of death/trauma
1 point for good geology (sedimentary rock, limestone, shale, schist, sandstone, granite, quartz)
A score of 5-6 means the place is haunted
A score of 3-4 means the place could be haunted in the future should something traumatic occur there
A score of 1-2 means it will likely never be haunted
It’s my hope that as I go along with my research and uncover the actual hard proof of hauntings these locations have and rate their “haunted-ness” with a similar scoring, I can compare their conditions to their actual proof of haunting and find “hard haunts” or places that can be so ideal in location and proof of haunting that we can go ahead and mark those down at genuine active spots. I hope, as I’m learning more from this research, that theories can arise and this formula can be punched into any haunted site in the world to decide just how likely the place is to be haunted. Hopefully, too, I can find out if geology is more important than construction of the building or if train tracks do in fact have a strange way of being present near hard hauntings.
Some people have asked about the significance of train tracks and it's one that's puzzling but also undeniable. It's uncertain if train tracks just appear in older developments where there were earlier settlers and more history and hence more hauntings or if train tracks actually can help a region to be more haunted. I can't think of any jump of the imagination as to why that is, but they do seem to show up at a ridiculously high incidence which makes me wonder what their role is. Some people have supposed it's the stretches of iron, others have suggested that in a feng shui way, energy follows tracks and roadways, others believe that they change the energy of the land. Hopefully, I can narrow down just how far from water and a train track a place needs to be to be "hard haunted." Also,what geology seems the most ideal.
I suppose the next question is whether or not these are all conditions related to residual hauntings (history replaying itself in a loop) versus intelligent hauntings. I've often wondered if the play between a person and an intelligent haunting isn't dependent on the person being communicated with (the living person). Some folks seem ideal to make communication a possibility, others not so much.
You can see how the more I learn, the more questions I have, but hopefully you'll be alongside me and helping me to sort it out and see it from many perspectives. If any of you punch in your own information about your home, I'd love to hear your score and whether you have activity or not. I'm actually having a very hard time finding a site that's haunted but doesn't have a high score!
I’ll continue to put more of the sites and their scores on this blog and when I’m done with the research, we might have some very surprising findings. Thanks for keeping up with it.
