Remember “Poltergeist” the movie and its premise of building a nice neat housing development overtop of a cemetery that wasn’t fully moved as the builders promised it would be? What ensued was a very chilling movie plot.
Is it true? Can new homes be haunted?
Yes!
Before we get too excited, here's some possible explanations to consider:
Sacred ground
Burial site
Site of a previous building that was burned down or saw some kind of horrible event
Antique objects within the home
Reuse of vintage doorknobs or repurposed wood from old sites
Recently dug up geology creating a “mining community” effect
There is a visitation by a lost loved one
The layout of the house is conducive to attracting spirit energy
A person within the home is haunted, not the home
The land has memories of something traumatic such as a stagecoach holdup
New home buyer remorse
Toxic outgassing of chemicals in new materials and paints causing cognitive issues
More WiFi, cable line, higher baseline EMF from high-tech support causing sensitivity
A lot of things can come together to make a new home haunted. I know, it seems impossible, but it's not. We’ve always been told only old historic places have spirits walking the halls. Admittedly, the amount of older homes with ghosts is much much higher than that of new homes. That probably has more to do with cumulative history.
As a psychic, I think that homes can be haunted by the people who have lived there—even while they are still alive. Houses hold memories, release sounds and events (residual) and touching parts of the house, you can feel cumulative events and their lingering emotions. The more families, the more “body” the house has accrued. Should there be arguments, abuse, sickness, pain, murder, death and more, the house captures that in its very fiber. So, older homes do have more hauntings but they don’t have the market cornered.