Everyone is intrigued by ghost stories at some point in this life. Maybe it's thinking about the after-life or watching a horror movie that give you thrills.
There's a collection of haunted homes, restaurants, hotels, jails, ghost towns, medieval castles, insane asylums and cornfields. Some people travel from home to home with the worst reputations just to experience a variety of frightening situations, such as hearing noises and howls.
Home haunting dates back to the first century A.D. with ghost stories about rattling chains in the Roman and Greek Empires. The concept of a haunted house was capitalized on in 1915 in England. Based on a true story, the Orton and Spooner house became a popular attraction when Disneyland opened their haunted mansion in 1969.

Haunted homes
A haunting is defined as mysterious and odd occurrences. Like inexplicable movement of paintings from one room to the next, the random slamming of windows, doors and a range of ghost sightings.
A census by Statistics Canada in 2021 provided general data on the country's religious composition.
63.2 % percent of the population identified as Christian while 32% percent stated no religion or did not believe in religion. In another poll 40% of Canadian women and 25% of Canadian men stated they believed in haunted houses.
Knowing this, we can safely assume believing in ghost stories requires a little effort.
Haunted house 101
Albert Donnay is a toxicologist who believes that chronic exposure to substances such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and pesticide can lead to auditory hallucinations and disturbing symptoms. Shadowy figures, cold spots on walls, creaking or knocking sounds, were common in these homes. Screaming, doors slamming by themselves, creepy whispers, voices asking to “get out !, even pressure on the chest. '' Donnay says that carbon monoxide poisoning has been linked to haunted houses since the 1920's.
No evidence
Benjamin Radford wrote in his book Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits, that almost every town and city has at least one "haunted" place and that, despite over 100 years of investigation, there has not been a "single verifiable fact about ghosts having been established."
The author is not trying to diminish people's experience here with the outerworld but what he's saying is that it was probably just faulty light switches, maybe hair-raising legends they heard or unpleasant discoveries in the home. To rationalize what we, as humans cannot explain is the civilized thing to do, rather than fall for alleged curses, vengeful spirits or bad karma.
A seller should disclose that a house has a reputation for being haunted, because such a reputation may impair the value of a house. In Canada it seems only Quebec courts have ordered sellers to compensate buyers for hiding the truth about macabre events or “the presence of an unexplained phenomenon”.

Secret passages and attics
Historic homes come with remarkable architecturally complex elements.
Secret hallways was a way to flee in times of war or staircases leading directly into the ceiling and windows.
Gothic is a decor style developed between the 12th and 16th centuries. An architectural practice popularised across Europe. Think eclectic, like The Addams family. It's an appreciation for everything vintage, bold, dramatic, edgy, dark and moody colour palettes. Elements like gargoyles and iron-studded doors were used when constructing cathedrals and castles.
Restoring these old homes involves massive work to install plumbing, fix electricity surges and creaking overhead.

In this article the views are widely held beliefs, common culture in the Western world. It was written for educational purposes only, to share information about the topic. Not to promote the occult, paranormal, spiritism or things of that nature.
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