The ghostly encounter is, after all, a matter of justice. It means coming to terms with how the past animates the present. It is about reworking the past and establishing our relationship to it. It is about making claims on the past that implicate us in profound and enduring ways. As such, engaging with ghosts has transformative potential—it has the capacity to transform action, affect, and politics. As a form of memory work, engaging ghosts is an act of the imagination, an interpretive labor, and a moral practice all at once.
It is at once a deeply personal exercise and always more-than-personal, an engagement within and beyond ourselves. We want something from ghosts, and our engagement with them has stakes ; our presents and futures are tied up with their pasts. Haunting is the way ghosts make their desires known. This means acknowledging two things. These demands are always specific to the ghost. Sometimes these demands are satisfied through acknowledgment, but sometimes they demand action.
We must also entertain the possibility that sometimes ghosts just like to haunt—that the act of haunting is satisfying in itself. A translucent, hooded figure stands beside a desk. A light glows from behind the desk and from the screens of the laptop and computer monitor on the desk.
The entire scene is shrouded in an eerie mist. Their very form indexes that which they represent. Ghosts trouble, inhabit, and mediate the borderlands between life and death, past and present. As transient beings, they signal to the living that the boundaries we draw—and which we then naturalize—are unsettled as well. To accommodate ghosts, we must make ourselves accountable to the pasts they bring into the present, even when those pasts are painful, and even when they threaten to unsettle our present and futures.
They are endlessly elusive, flashing up for brief moments as a whisper, a tap on the shoulder, a hazy specter, a rumor, a scent, or an uncanny feeling, only to disappear again. The circular shape they take on makes it easier for them to move around and is often the first state they appear in before they become a full-bodied apparition. In photographs they are usually white but can be blue as well. Most often spotted in homes or old historical buildings, the funnel ghost or vortex is frequently associated with a cold spot.
They usually take on the shape of a swirling funnel and most paranormal experts believe they are a loved one returning for a visit or even a former resident of the home. Appearing as a wisp of light or a swirling spiral of light, they are often caught in photographs or on video. The Interactive Personality The most common of all ghosts spotted is usually of a deceased person, someone you know, a family member or perhaps even a historical figure. Orbs Orbs are probably the most photographed type of anomaly.
Funnel Ghosts Most often spotted in homes or old historical buildings, the funnel ghost or vortex is frequently associated with a cold spot. Click here to sign up for Scary Good Offers. Traveling in the next 7 days? Murder — especially those that remain unsolved. Sometimes the ghost will not move on until the murder is solved. Accidents — Sudden death from accidents such as car wrecks, drownings, falls, and fires.
Hauntings are far more prevalent from accidental deaths than those caused naturally. Suicide — The pain and torment that a suicide victim feels will often cause them to remain here in ghostly form. Broken hearts — Much like suicide, the pain and torment felt by someone who dies while mourning a lost love or a family member may cause them to remain earthbound.
Desecration of a grave — While these spirits may have initially passed on, they will often return if vandalism, tombstone theft or other desecration of the grave occurs. Greed — Sometimes humans carry a preoccupation with land or money which can create hauntings when the ghost is unable to let go of its earthly possessions.
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