Not all places believed to have paranormal activity are haunted. For those that do have at least some level of non-natural activity they can and should be categorized by being either a residual haunting or a true intelligent haunting.
A Residual Haunting
In the terminolgy of what is regarded as a residual haunting, it is best described as repeated playbacks of auditory, visual, olfactory and other sensory phenomena that are attributed to a place for where a person has died.
It's likely more noticeable for longer periods of time due to a traumatic event, life-altering event, or a routine event of a person or place, like an echo or a replay of a video-tape of past events.
These types of hauntings are more common in areas where something highly emotional or traumatic occurred. It is the most common of all hauntings that may be experienced.
Paranormal Investigators and related paranormal television programs say that a residual haunting, unlike an intelligent haunting, does not directly involve a spiritual entity aware of the living world and cannot interact or respond to us in the living world.
In a residual haunting situation, no matter how frightening it feels, the footsteps, the smells sights or other sounds, it is residual and cannot physically harm us.
In a residual haunting, such as a ‘high residual’ situation where even an apparition may be sighted, it will have no knowledge of your presence and will not interact with you, it simply cannot. They could be thought of as simply like a hologram and without interactions with us in our living world.
A residual spirit could walk right into you and never know you were there. It can’t, there is nothing left of the person whom once felt the emotions that caused the event to stay imprinted in a time or place. The spirit that caused the residual imprint may be even centuries dead, but still the residual imprint continues on.
While this type of haunting may appear to be very real, it does not have a conscious level like an intelligent haunting does. It’s believed by many paranormal investigators whom research the histories of sites and old buildings that these residual hauntings typically are created by the energy of a certain location. Some beliefs also that the composition of some building materials may sustain the residual effects.
Certain smells, sights and sounds may be experienced with this type of haunting. It’s common to notice that the same events, smells, sights, sounds, footsteps, musical tunes, or musical instruments may be experienced in a repetitive manner. Eventually, the haunting may simply go away on its own because it loses the energy that helped to create it with the passage of time.
An Intelligent Haunting
In the
terminology of paranormal investigating, an intelligent haunting (also known as
a classic or true haunting) differs significantly from a residual haunting.
An intelligent haunting is a haunting in which a spiritual entity is aware of you and the surroundings. The haunting that is considered to be “Intelligent” can be experienced in any location at any time.
Many paranormal investigators may refer to these types of spirits as “smart” or “smart ghosts”, they may even call them “real ghosts”.
This type of haunting is believed to have some level of consciousness about it. This basically means that they are able to interact with individuals on the physical plane, such as you and me.
If you experience this type of haunting, the following may be experienced;
You may witness an apparition. This may appear as a full body, half body, a mist, a shadow figure or something similar. It is possible to hear voices, or whispers with your own hearing and not just on audio recording devices.
Many have actually been physically touched in an intelligent haunting situation. Objects close-by may be moved, knocked over, opened, closed and similar other events may be experienced. It is not uncommon to smell certain scents - this can be virtually any type of scent. You may smell a floral scent, cigars, perfume, talc, or even a very strong odour that is displeasing.
In an intelligent haunting these effects of smell, sounds and certain sights can be similar or even misinterpreted as simply residual effects, however, certain differences are quite clear such as interactions are very possible, but as stated above, they are not at all possible in a residual haunting.
An intelligent haunting is a haunting in which a spiritual entity is aware of you and the surroundings. The haunting that is considered to be “Intelligent” can be experienced in any location at any time.
Many paranormal investigators may refer to these types of spirits as “smart” or “smart ghosts”, they may even call them “real ghosts”.
This type of haunting is believed to have some level of consciousness about it. This basically means that they are able to interact with individuals on the physical plane, such as you and me.
If you experience this type of haunting, the following may be experienced;
You may witness an apparition. This may appear as a full body, half body, a mist, a shadow figure or something similar. It is possible to hear voices, or whispers with your own hearing and not just on audio recording devices.
Many have actually been physically touched in an intelligent haunting situation. Objects close-by may be moved, knocked over, opened, closed and similar other events may be experienced. It is not uncommon to smell certain scents - this can be virtually any type of scent. You may smell a floral scent, cigars, perfume, talc, or even a very strong odour that is displeasing.
In an intelligent haunting these effects of smell, sounds and certain sights can be similar or even misinterpreted as simply residual effects, however, certain differences are quite clear such as interactions are very possible, but as stated above, they are not at all possible in a residual haunting.
Differentiating between Residual and Intelligent
During an investigation any actions received in a timely and consistent manner to variable requests may likely be part of an intelligent and true haunting. This could include items or objects being moved or real time audio interaction.
Voice interaction by an intelligent spirit may likely answer questions that are in a timely and consistent manner to a question being asked. Those may be audible in real time hearing, or by the later review of audio recordings.
Some audio recorders designed for paranormal investigations allow for real time interaction with spirits such as the (ITC) Intercontinental Communications; RT-EVP digital audio recorder. Others continue to be developed and then tested.
If a door or window is opened or closed (unassisted by natural or man-made factors) or maybe a banging on a door or wall could be repeated, then it’s likely to be part of an intelligent haunting. If investigation trigger objects such as a static EMF-REM Pod can be set off, and by request(s) be repeated to activate the audio alarm and/or its lights, then it’s likely to be part of an intelligent haunting.
Portable spirit box devices such as the P-SB7 or Ghost Shack were designed for such integration being able to connect with intelligent spirits, but any connection will be more by chance while automatically scanning radio frequencies in reverse. That could easily come with errors of judgement due to the crossing of radio frequencies.
The manufacturer of one earlier device, the ITC ovilus; stated by trials and tests that it has a less than 10% accuracy, and similar can be said for other digital phonetic devices that are often marked at their place of sale “for entertainment purposes only”. The RT-EVP digital audio recorder has become a more useful popular item among equipment used by many investigators.
An intelligent haunting “interacts”, a residual haunting will not, it cannot. In an intelligent haunting we could be physically harmed, as stated above, in a residual haunting no physical harm can be inflicted by a residual spirit.
An Intelligent Haunting may include repeated interactions as a way to confirm such a difference from being simply residual, so long as interfering factors and/or mistakes are not inclusive towards any determination.
For any building site, we, Paranormal Paratek (if there is any signs of activity taking place) we have always focused on the differentiation between either residual or by the greater less than average chance an intelligent haunting is present to determine what level of haunting is occurring.
From low residual we may include familiar scents, mild random footsteps, certain low level odd sounds recorded on audio. Temperature changes are noticeable.
A moderate residual haunting may have more frequent effects taking place such as those smells sights and sounds although not necessarily stronger effects may occur.
For a high level residual haunting we may even see a part or full bodies apparition, but one that cannot, does not interact with us or any equipment no matter how much effort one tries. Temperature changes are common and loud footsteps may be heard quite frequently.
A high level residual haunting may seem very similar to that of a true 'intelligent' haunting but it will be without interactions of any kind, it will always be no more than just a residual haunting.
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